The belief that smoking marijuana can lead to gratuitous acts of violence among young adults (18-34) was resurrected in April of this year thanks to a science publication by NIDA director Nora Volkow.
In it Dr. Volkow and her colleagues gathered data from the National Surveys on Drug Use and Health featuring 113,454 participants who revealed increases in associations with violent behavior in women ranging from 1.0 to 1.4-percent when correlated with various levels or categories and frequencies of cannabis use. For men, the increases ranged from 1.2 to 1.4-percent. News of the findings was seized upon by prohibitionist and Smart Approaches to Marijuana founder Kevin Sabet who gleefully announced that the data showed “nearly twice the violent behavior rate of non-users.”
So how did smoking marijuana—the weed that gave rise to popular use of the expression “mellow”—end up getting blamed for causing violence? In Dr. Volkow’s paper it happens because she uses data collected within the category defined as drug abuse with no consideration of any medical use.
With all cannabis use considered an abuse, the NIDA lumps medical users into single categories along with recreational users. Medical cannabis use in the U.S. comprises 50-percent of the total number who medicate with cannabis for anxiety and 34-percent who medicate for depression. Anxiety and/or trauma can trigger PTSD and depression. Unchecked, the maladies can sometimes impair the emotional regulation associated with aggression and violence. Anxiety triggers the fight or flight response. Marijuana in many cases can treat depression and anxiety disorders so its users would include those seeking a medication to cope with depression or being overstressed. They would stand out in studies in which the sole intention is to discover and quantify violent behavior among marijuana consumers. Such behavior facilitates the creation of anti-marijuana propaganda.
That the NIDA functions in many cases as a propaganda mill should come as no surprise to anyone who’s followed its act since the agency was first established in 1974 to advance the science of drug use and addiction. Instead of doing useful research, the NIDA emerged as a toxic brew of politics masquerading as science. By creating and publicizing misleading information and false alarms about cannabis and psychedelics it has succeeded in little more than preserving its own agency while adding to a large commercial and taxpayer-funded cash flow falling into the hands of drug enforcement grifters and profiteers.
Cannabis makes me very violent. You ever heard of the Spagettie Incident? Red everywhere.
speaking of food, who is this famous crepe maker of Gaza you keep hearing about? What an artist watching him make his food–even in a war zone. Chocolate pistaschio bannana crepes? He wears his chef whites and has a very fancy and spectacular set up of his kitchen and daily displays . . . plus all the people waiting in line and just watching their reaction to their requests, “You can do that with crepes?”.
It breaks your heart to see the people of Gaza carry on with normal life under the harshest of circumstaances. We are now seeing mass gasslighting of the public through the media on Gaza in the same way that the war on drugs was conducted through populist/tabloid newspapers for a century. The liars are still in control and dictating the narrative.
By the way, anyone with knowledge of fire arms would know that a round from an AR 15 passing through the ear would result in a massive and fatal head injury due to the shock wave from a bullet travelling at three times the speed of a handgun bullet. We have here yet more gaslighting and altered reality.
No word from the treating hospital on Trump’s ear injury as far as I know. Trump on his social media said he knew he was hit by a bullet. Is the hospital afraid to call it a wound caused by flying debris after Trump’s statement? Cross MAGA and threats of death and violence soon follow.
I know shit about ballistics but it didn’t appear that he was shot. Just another lie to add to the list.
Microdosing appears to be the administrative choice for those interested in using psychedelics for therapy:
A Rap Song I’m making for a local group in my area, dedicated to the DEA and Nora
Don’t you mess with your drug money enemies
Financing War and Terrorism with endless keys
Some real killers selling coca leaves and poppies
Ready to drown and revive/Drown and Revive
Repeat the slippery when wet bathtub process a few dozen times
Just to waterlog your whole family
More dangerous than any troubled YUTE who blew up the school Pep assembly
Your children’s brains al-dente
So Trust Me when I tell You World War Three will be financed by Drug Money.
Shooting up Baghdad and Kabul with a 50cal
Like Doing drive-bys in Southern Cal
Laundering that dope money for Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Dealing on American streets by way of a Slob Blood or a Crabby Crip
Six-hundred and Sixty-six Grams
The Sinaloa Cartel raping mommy and daddy’s little lambs.
Dope Money creates endless immigrants and refugees
“Sodomized by barbed-wire”, shouted from the pulpit in their sad funeral elegies.
So Trust Me when I tell You World War Three will be financed by Drug Money.
Thugs selling drugs
Hiding road-side bombs in half-gallon jugs.
An ISIS beheading with a dull blade
The DEA refused to press charges on Cocaine Mitch after a successful Raid.
1993–the WTC and Bailed out banks laundering that big D-money
Go ahead and tell me that 9/11 wasn’t just a little bit funny.
The DOJ telling the bankers they got that A-OKAY
For HSBC and Deutsche Banks to Launder for another Day
So Trust Me when I tell You World War Three will be financed by Drug Money.
Cops and traffickers making it Snow
Watch as another American Embassy in Africa is set to Blow
Cartels and Jihad
Funneling millions into the extremist slums of Beirut, Caracas, and Riyadh
Central American Gangs
Moving product north to Tulsa in some souped up things
That’s okay, because America is getting divorced and estranged.
Poverty, homelessness, and a shrinking middle class is the newest thing
So Trust Me when I tell You World War Three will be financed by Drug Money.
Come and try it—get your spoons and cotton and chop up lines of credit
You read something about this in Reddit
Let’s lose a Twenty Year War to a bunch of Drug Dealing Child Molesting Cavemen
Iraqi Oil Made into American Plastics drained into the Indian and Pacific Ocean
And Afghani Tech minerals found in our Wal-Mart and Amazon shopping spree
Are just mere gifts for You and Me
But that’s how you are $aving A Buck
Because Lady Liberty is strung out and down on her luck.
So Trust Me when I tell You World War Three will be financed by Drug Money.
Acupuncture therapy reduces the methadone maintenance dose and cravings associated with opioid addictions:
I used methadone briefly around 20-years ago as a sub for oral morphine (MS Contin). I discontinued it and went back on morphine due to dysphoria. Methadone sucked and it wasn’t any better for pain.
My physician at the time, Andrew Cunningham, practiced acupuncture and electro-acupuncture and was featured on a PBS special called Chinese Medicine Master. He spent several months in China studying acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
He used acupuncture and electro-acupuncture on me several times and I found the electro-acupuncture superior for relief from joint pain. I got long-term relief from low-back pain and osteoarthritis of hips and knees. Not aware if he was expecting me to quit or reduce my opiate dosing from acupuncture treatments. He did talk to me about replacing morphine with Suboxone but it never happened.
He’s now doing exclusively telemedicine due to narcolepsy. I mentioned this here once about the time he left me alone hooked up to needles with the electric current. I wasn’t
able to maintain position and it became very uncomfortable. However, overall my experience was good. I’d suggest the electro-acupuncture if one has a choice.
A bit of a rant while I’m here. I’m a bibliophile and life-long reader. I lost thousands of dollars worth of leather-bound collectors editions of great literature (a lot translated into English) when my Santa Rosa home was destroyed by fire. After the fire, I lost the ability to concentrate enough to enjoy reading a book for several years.
But last year I started reading again and binged on 13 Iaasc Asimov science fiction novels from the 50’s and 80’s. One of his books — I Robot — pissed me off! It pissed me off because I had seen the movie with Will Smith and enjoyed it a lot. Here’s the thing though, the movie and the book are not even remotely similar in the story line. The movie used the title and the name of two main characters and that was IT.
I call bullshit!
Lately, I’ve been reading non-fiction by geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan of whom I have become a big fan. Geography and Demographics are the basis of every countries destiny and Peter runs down where things are headed in the World. One of the things Peter mentions frequently is that Chinese demographics (and not so great geography) predict a failing nation and economy this decade. He talks about how China even if they invaded and controlled Taiwan, that they don’t have Chinese capable of running or managing Taiwans chip manufacturing plants.
Peter has many YouTube videos of lectures he gives to military and business groups in addition to ten-minute videos pretty much daily. I highly recommend his stuff.
A new technology developed at the University of California, Davis, for understanding opioid signaling in the brain, promises to increase understanding of multiple, individual opioid effects:
Researchers map the critical network brain areas involved in introspective thinking under the influence of psilocybin:
What to know about microdosing psychedelics:
Marijuana Is Too Strong Now
“er mer grd!”
Some familiar names here