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Hold up - prohibition WAS the experiment, not the other way around! This article misses the historical use of these substances since humanity began. We know the
by weq 5y ago
Hold up - prohibition WAS the experiment, not the other way around! This article misses the historical use of these substances since humanity began. We know the effects, because they created the modern human. Many other organisms use substances to alter perspections, not just humans of low socio-econimic backgrounds who ran with the wrong crowds at school.
Nora Volkow's is THE agent of DECEPTION who has had the most influence of US Drug Policy in the last 30 years. Her remit is to oppose any loosing of Prohibition and to use any means necessary to tie drug use societies problems. She is the face of the "cherry picked science" used to support these status quo, spending her career blocking access by other scientists to research so she can publish negative research unopposed. She moulds her research outcomes to pre-defined talking points espoused by her sponsors (politicans, BigPharma). Not a single longatudal study she has released about a substance would meet a clinical trails bar. Apparently drug research of a science free zone with such conclusions that "cannabis causes schizophrenia" even when the partipants in the study where using nicotine + cannabis; when controlled for cannabis use only the results failed to prove any association, when controlled for nicotine the association is clear (albielt, correlation doesnt equal causation)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-advances/article/tobacco-smoking-and-schizophrenia-reexamining-the-evidence/F5F0F1E56D6F1B9D2188B1762E0ADE60 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-advances/art...
The laws prohibiting these substances in various treaties have ruined countless more lives then they ever saved. In the context of history, we will look back on Prohibition like we did do the nazi's - Racist Genocide that went against all scientitic recommendations at the time, spawning countless leeches like Nora who made careers "saving the children". Nora is the reason why the DEA still classifies these substances. She is a real piece of work; her studies protected BigPharma, BigBuisness, and prolonged lies that all these substances offered was a deep fryer for your brain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/19/health/conversation-with-nora-volkow-scientist-s-lifetime-study-into-mysteries.html https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/19/health/conversation-with-...
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/204690-nih-expert-warns-against-legalizing-pot/ https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/204690-nih-expert-warn...
With the re-emergence of these substances into mainstream science again, we will see exponential growth in their application across countless ailments back to pre-prohibition levels where most medicines where derrived from cannabis or other "drugs of abuse".
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UNSWLawJl/1997/45.pdf http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UNSWLawJl/1997/45.pdf
- kwatsonafter 5y agoI'm sorry but legalizing drugs under neoliberalism won't be the, "end of prohibition" or a golden era. It's going to be an age where corporations can use psychedelics and pop culture to control people (not that they don't already) and there's going to be little real accountability. You're worshipping a golden calf that died 60 years ago.