Trump says Tylen Oil may be bad for pregnant women. Democrat women, some of them pregnant, do mass ingestions in protest.
My wife took no medicines during pregnancy. Religiously. Democrats now trust Big Pharma because Trump doesn't? Do Democrats realize how smart that makes them look? BTW Tylenol does not recommend its use during pregnancy.
100 years of Republican Medical Fascism Republicans started this Medical Fascism in 1914. They were going to end Drug Addiction. They made it worse. Six years later the same kind of law was made to end alcohol addiction. We ended that failed experiment ages ago. The Drug War is now killing 100K a year. Doctor's supervision and pharmacy medicine would end it. Republicans stand in the way.
I'm a Republican from the Milton Friedman wing of the Party. "Socialism for Criminals." is what Milton called Drug Prohibition. Other Republicans actually support the killing (by neglect) of Americans (addicts) and Democrats can't find their voice? "Doubly sexually deviated? - we will protect you. Persecuted for your pain? You are on your own." Why is that? Why don't Democrats make a case for these women? I do daily or oftener and I'm a Fn Republican.: ==>
Dr. Lonny Shavelson in his book "Hooked" said that 70% of female heroin addicts had been sexually abused in childhood.
As I keep saying.
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE?
Update: 26 September 2026 00:15z
Medical Fascism = declaring a medical condition (addiction) illegal.
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100K addicts a year are dying from bad medicine. Who is keeping the war on them going? Democrats and Republicans.
Trump was at one time rational on the subject. Trump said at a Miami Herald 1990 Awards luncheon "Legalize". I'm with him. Where did he go, anyway? Maybe he forgot. Or someone explained to him how profitable it was denying people in pain, medication.
We know how to fix it. Doctor's care and pharmacy medication. Denied by ALL parties. And Democrats who know the problem best? Silent. The ones that aren't cheering.
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE?
Update: 24 September 2025 03:45z
I sent an e-mail out that named the actual culprits. ==> Republicans started this Medical Fascism in 1914. They are using it to kill 100K (mainly apolitical and lefties) a year. And Democrats are too afraid to say a word against it. A REPUBLICAN (me) has to call it out. There is no party fight about killing 100K people in pain every year coming. Why? Even my allies are mostly elsewhere. I see the bodies. No one else does. My vision must be impaired. Crazy old man.
Stop focusing on the smugglers. Focus on the people who need medication. An unfairly reviled minority.
What is so hard about Doctor's supervision and pharmacy medicine?
End the Fucking God Damned War.
Update: 24 September 2025 04:15z
The main evidence:
Drugs fill receptors. Desire for drugs (pain) is caused by empty receptors. "Addicts" are people in pain. Stop the persecutions. Receptor Science - pass it on
Ask your doctor, "Using Receptor Science can you explain how drugs can cause addiction?" I asked mine and wrote it up. (Hint: he couldn't)
Ask your Doctor
Update: 26 September 2025 00:00z Medical Fascism = declaring a medical condition (addiction) illegal.
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Receptor science (100+ years old) says drugs fill receptors. What empties those receptors (injury, PTSD) causes a desire for pain relieving drugs. People take pain relievers to relieve pain. The "recreation" in Recreational Drugs is pain relief.
I just asked my Doctor.
"Show me, using Receptor Science, how Drugs cause addiction." I dared him.
Update: 12:50z 27 August 2025
Added - The "recreation" in Recreational Drugs is pain relief. -
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All doctors know receptor science. Why do any believe drugs (opiates) cause addiction?
Receptor science (100+ years old) says there are NO addictive drugs. Drugs fill receptors. What empties those receptors (injury, PTSD) causes a desire for pain relieving drugs. Drugs CAN'T cause addiction. People take pain relievers to relieve pain. The "recreation" in Recreational Drugs is pain relief.
Supporting evidence ==> Dr. Lonny Shavelson in his book "Hooked" said that 70% of female heroin addicts had been sexually abused in childhood.
...rates of trauma exposure among adults with SUD (Substance Use Disorder) are estimated to be as high as 95% [2, 3]; and among those who report trauma exposure, the prevalence of SUD is three times higher than among non-exposed individuals [4]. Child abuse is often identified as a prominent risk factor for substance use [5,6,7].
Update: 12:00z 17 August 2025
What I have presented is a very simplified view of "Receptor Science" that covers the essentials of the pain reliever case. There is qiute a bit more going on than I have mentioned here. Habituation for instance. Also the body makes receptor fillers, makes receptors, prunes receptors, and empties receptors.
Update: 11:40z 21 August 2025
I asked my doctor to Show Me using Receptor Science, how Drugs Cause Addiction. Ask your doctor.
Update: 00:01z 27 August 2025
A look at Addiction Potential using Receptor Science.
Update: 12:35z 27 August 2025
Added - The "recreation" in Recreational Drugs is pain relief. -
Update: 12:02z 15 September 2025
One of the earliest blogs I did on the subject from 2004. Heroin.
Update: 0109z 30 September 2025
Medical Fascism = declaring a medical condition (addiction) illegal. That is a crime against humanity. The 1914 Republican Harrison Narcotics Act.
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What scares the cartels the most is that America will stop fighting addictive drugs.
Receptor science (100+ years old) says there are NO addictive drugs. Drugs fill receptors. What empties those receptors (injury, PTSD) causes a desire for pain relieving drugs. Drugs CAN'T cause addiction. People take pain relievers to relieve pain.
Another American war based on lies. I hope we get tired of it. Real Soon.
The knowledge is over 100 years old. Why didn't somebody say something? The big pharma case about "addictive drugs" would have been a perfect case to bring this up.
Multiple states have reached a tentative new agreement with the Sackler family, who made billions of dollars marketing OxyContin, the drug that set off the U.S. opioid crisis.
New York State Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement that the Sackler family will pay up to $6.5 billion, while their privately held company, Purdue Pharma, will pay nearly $900 million.
If the deal goes through, the funds will go to the states, local governments, and individuals that have sued Purdue and the Sacklers. State and local governments have spent opioid settlement funds on addressing the harms caused by the opioid crisis.
The U.S. opioid crisis has killed tens of thousands of people each year for more than a decade. There were 81,083 opioid deaths in the U.S. in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The "crisis" assumes drugs cause addiction and that any distribition of them through unauthorized channells or excessive distribution in aurhorized channels is a threat to the community.
The likely actual cause was an uptick in child abuse 15 or 20 years prior. Or it could be Service Connected. Dr. Lonny Shavelson in his book "Hooked" said that 70% of female heroin addicts had been sexually abused in childhood. We are making war on abused children and disabled vets.
You have to ask - why didn't a doctor or nurse object? Why didn't the Sackler family or Purdue Pharma object? They stood to save billions if drugs weren't the cause of the "opiod crisis".
Think of all the publications with doctors and nurses on staff. In 100+ years no one has contradicted "addictive drugs". Why? It will be a very interesting topic for discussion. I could have written "Receptor science....." 50 years ago if I had thought about it and I'm a layman relative to the subject. What actually happened is that I got a message, a voice in my head (the Head Office?? ;-), "Write something about drugs and receptors." About two weeks later I started on the subject with Proof - The Government Is Lying About DRUGS and finished about a week after that with Better Proof - The Government Is Lying About DRUGS.
Somebody ought to sidle up close to Doctor Rand Paul when convenient and ask the Senator what he knows about receptor science. Then give him the whole story and ask why he kept silent. Ask all of the rest of the doctors in Congress as well.
The closest we come to a direct statement on the subject other than mine is Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine Eric Kandel who says in his book, "The Disordered Mind" that addiction is a symptom of PTSD. Which is true but does not really cover the full scope of the evidence.
You want to know how entrenched the war is? No Publication, Left, Middle, Right, MSM, Alt. Media, anyone, has suggested ending it based on it being run on false premises.
Let me add. I notified all my anti-prohibition friends and publications some months back that drugs don't cause addiction. They ALL remain silent. Drug war profits must be good all around, eh?
Update: 8 August 2025 13:50z
PTSD can cause addiction. The PTSD from child abuse is especially prevalent when it comes to addiction. Receptor Science
Update: 0114z 30 September 2025
Medical Fascism = declaring a medical condition (addiction) illegal. That is a crime against humanity. The 1914 Republican Harrison Narcotics Act.
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It is why Blacks are flocking to Trump. The Lawfare they are victims of is Nixon's War On Blacks - the Nixon Drug War. It is one of the last vestiges of systemic racism still functioning.
"Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue...that we couldn't resist it."
- John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon on the rationale of the War on Drugs.
"[Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks" Haldeman, his Chief of Staff wrote, "The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to."
And now you know why persecuted Blacks are backing Trump. They have seen Lawfare up close and personal.
Trump will owe them. He has known their issue for over 30 years. The Drug War. He now has a reason in addition to his others to bring the people it finances down. And the backing to do it.
"We're losing badly the war on drugs," he said. "You have to legalize drugs to win that war. You have to take the profit away from these drug czars." - Donald Trump at the Miami Herald 1990 Company of the Year Awards Luncheon
But things are even worse than that. "Drugs cause addiction" is a biologically false statement. Biologically drugs CAN'T cause addiction. A short discussion of the biology in simple layman's terms: Better Proof - The Government Is Lying About DRUGS
The tldr; version ==>
Drugs fill receptors.
Injury empties receptors. PTSD empties receptors.
Empty receptors are painful.
Filling empty receptors makes you feel good.
Empty receptors create a desire for drugs.
Drugs can not create a desire for drugs.
Think of all the Government Agencies dependent on the Drug War. It is very expensive.
Drugs fill receptors. What empties receptors (injury, PTSD) causes a desire for drugs. Drugs CAN'T cause addiction. Pass it on.
If they can get you to ask the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. - Thomas Pynchon.
Update: 24 May 2024 10:56z
Systemic Racisn gets a mention starting at 53 seconds in to the video.
In this video Matt Fogg, a Black DEA agent, explains Drug War Racism policy. And yes. Racism is DEA policy. Matt does introductions for the first minute and a half of the video.
And you also have Joe Biden, the architect of the racist 1994 Crime Bill. People who prefered crack cocaine over powder (Blacks) got punished 100 times more. Congress later reduced that to only 18 times the punishment. Prison quotas need to be maintained.
Update: 25 May 2024 11:45z
I added - Drugs fill receptors. What empties receptors (injury, PTSD) causes a desire for drugs. Drugs CAN'T cause addiction. Pass it on.
Putting so many Black men in prison has ruined the Black family. Which was Nixon's intention. No fathers for Black kids. - 13:25z
I just posted (19 June 2024) - "Potential for Abuse" - about one way Drugs are classified.
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I believe the "Hush Money trial" zeitgeist has changed. The judge today denied a critical prosecution objection At about 11:40 of the video. "Was Davidson extorting Trump" - ordinarily that is an easy "sustained". It was overruled. I think the calculus has changed from "get Trump convicted" to "get Trump away from the cameras".
Here is my thinking: A conviction will require sentencing. The Democrat operatives are now desperate to avoid the bump in the polls that would give Trump. No more 3 times a day press conferences. No more Congressional delegations backing Trump. No appeals - to remind people of the disaster. Shut it down. He can't give a directed verdict - that makes the sham way too obvious. What is left? Jury instructions for the judge. No more witnesses for the prosecution. Costello (Cohen's former lawyer) will be allowed for the defense. The cross examination of Costello will be weak.
i.e. they are on the horns of a dilemma FJB if they do, FJB if they don't. But mainly - stop giving Trump all that free publicity. The trial is over. Totally.
The jury instructions will be key. Who do they favor?
Update: 1 June 2024 0226z
Guilty on all 34 counts and Trump and his supporters are energized. I think we will see a significant boost in the polls by Monday or Tuesday.
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The following discussion is for the endorphin system, whose receptors accept endorphins, opiates, and indirectly alcohol. However there are other routes to dopamine production. But the drugs we have the most trouble with are opiates and alcohol so to keep things simple I'll focus on those.
When it comes to the endorphin system the normal human condition is for the system to have some empty receptors. If the system has all full receptors it grows more. The DEA calls this growth of receptors "addiction". It is not. But we will get to that in a bit. The receptors in the endorphin system are called pain receptors because when enough receptors are empty you feel pain. But it is a continum from bliss - all receptors full, to extreme pain - all receptors empty. The normal human condition is some empty receptors - mild depression - so you can tell if something good happens. More receptors empy causes discomfort and depression. Do something! Then heavy depression. Then pain followed by screaming pain. Do something RIGHT NOW!!! Pain is a continum. And in that vein fillng an empty pain receptor reduces pain - even if it feels like something else (depression).
PTSD is a disorder that amonts to a continuous leak to the endorphin system. The initial trauma can last a lifetime and that means the receptor leak can be long lasting as well. What do people do who feel depressed? They look for relief. People in chronic pain (empty receptors) chronically take pain relievers (opiates, alcohol). Addiction is not caused by drugs. It is caused by pain. What is caused by drugs is Habituation. If you keep your receptors full by continuous drug taking your body will grow more. But that takes weeks and months. Empty receptors is much faster: milliseconds to minutes for the initial trauma and then hours, days, or weeks for the PTSD leak to have an effect. I do have an example.
Drugs fill receptors.
Injury empties receptors. PTSD empties receptors.
Empty receptors are painful.
Filling empty receptors makes you feel good.
Empty receptors create a desire for drugs.
Drugs can not create a desire for drugs.
In America we have a pain problem. A problem with long term pain (PTSD). A problem with child abuse. A problem with soldier and civilian trauma (PTSD). We don't have a Drug problem. That, like Alcohol Prohibition, is a Government caused problem. Denying pain relief is not viable politically or socially or even morally. People will go to great lenghts including defying government to get pain relief.
Other drugs of abuse seem to work similarly but have different pathways. They all affect the dopamine system ultimately.
A better popular understanding of the biology will help end the war on people in pain. Please pass this around. Help end the persecutions.
Update: 28 February 2025 - 1046z
Drugs CAN'T cause addiction. They can cause Habituation. You have to take them for a while to get the effect.
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Abused child PTSD causes narcissism and displaced rage - the "issues" are not
the issue. It is a mental illness. Hitler was an abused child. Marx was an
abused child. Stalin was an abused child. Putin is an abused child. Their rage from the abuse destroys their morals. The anger is the disease.
Some abused children crave power and control, which is why there are so many in politics. We
are not confronting a political party or a political philosphy, despite there
being so many bad ones. We are facing a mental illness. Abused child PTSD
and the associated displaced rage and narcissism.
Drug abuse and sexual deviance are other possible side effects. Medical schools in America teach - addiction is
a symptom of PTSD. Marx had a drug problem. Hitler was a secret addict.
"Inside Every Progressive Is An Abused Child Screaming To Get Out" - at one time I was both.
From my own personal experience - every gang member I knew, when I was in one, was an abused child.
No one in criminal justice ever remarks on that. Some of them must know.
Long term PTSD (everyone gets it short term) is in part genetic. The other part is the initiating trauma.
Me? I'm no longer an abused child, haven't been for about 50 years, I gave up my anger.
Should you have the problem the simplest advice I can give is ==> The Anger IS
the Disease.
"The Fourth Way" by P.D. Ouspensky helped me a lot. You can
probably skip all the 'magical universes' stuff and stick to the healing
recipes. One of which is "Do Not Express Negative Emotions" because it
reinforces them and you don't want them anymore. That Hitler guy was full of
them.
Update: 8 August 2025 13:39z
PTSD can induce drug abuse. Receptor Science.
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Evidently the merest twitch around police is grounds for immediate execution. And just for you geographically challenged (like me) East Point is in Georgia. Here is the story.
Dwight Person, 54, was shot Thursday afternoon when, according to police, he made a threatening gesture at a female officer “that put her in fear of her safety.” The officer, who has not been identified, fired one shot and hit Person.
He was treated and the scene and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
OK the folks there were running some kind of dope house. Right? Right? Wrong.
"They didn't even know he was shot," Ballard said. "There were policemen saying, ‘Who fired that shot?'"
The search for drugs or a weapon was cut short after the shooting, police said.
“Once the shooting happened, our officers stopped their search and turned their focus to trying to save the man’s life,” Chandler said.
Police arrested seven people, charging them with operating a dive, a violation of a municipal code.
No drugs? No drugs? The article says nothing about drugs. Except that the police were looking for them. Normally if the police kill some one in a drug search everyone present (except the police) is charged with heavy felony drug crimes. Except no drugs were found. The heaviest crime they could find was a misdemeanor.
Seven people arrested during an East Point police drug search in which an officer fatally shot a man have been charged with violating a municipal code.
He was shot for that? And twitching. Fortunately for the police (I guess) he eventually stopped twitching.
It used to be such a nice country. Until some one decided it would be a good idea to start a war in it.
The Department Of Health and Human Services (it has very little to do with health and is into denying services) has denied permission for an FDA approved study of cannabis for treating PTSD.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has blocked a pilot study to examine the benefits of marijuana for veterans with treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The study was sponsored by the nonprofit research organization the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), and would have been conducted by Dr. Sue Sisley of the University of Arizona at Phoenix.
“Hundreds of veterans in medical marijuana states already report using marijuana to control their PTSD symptoms,” MAPS said in a statement. “The growing number of service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with combat-related trauma combined with large numbers of treatment-resistant veterans highlights the pressing need for research into additional treatments for PTSD.”
It seems the Federales have an impenetrable wall to keep this reseach on cannabis from getting done.
The Drug Enforcement Administration has denied researchers requests to obtain licenses to grow marijuana, claiming that the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) — overseen by the HHS — can be the only one to supply marijuana for Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-regulated research.
Clever boys.
It seems like actual veterans are taking matters into their own hands. Green leafy matters.
“My life went downhill from the moment I came back from Iraq,” Begin, now a 31-year-old veteran, tells Danger Room. “Doctors at Bethesda had me on so much, and on such high doses of everything, that I didn’t even know what was a symptom and what was a side effect.”
At one point, Begin, diagnosed with PTSD shortly after coming home, was taking more than 100 pills a day. So many that he would stuff dozens of bottles into a backpack to lug everywhere he went. Now, he’s cut his dependency on prescriptions to zero. Their replacement? Five joints a day.
“Using marijuana balances me out,” he says. “It takes those peaks and valleys of PTSD and it softens them. It makes my life manageable.”
Begin’s now launched an online petition asking the feds to change their course on marijuana as a treatment for PTSD. In September, the first-ever study proposed to evaluate marijuana as a potential treatment for PTSD was blocked by officials at the National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIDA). With an estimated 37 percent of this generation’s vets afflicted with PTSD, and a dearth of effective treatment options available, Begin thinks pot deserves, at the very least, a single study.
He is not the only veteran who thinks that cannabis ought to be an official medicine. I wrote about Jamey Raines recently.
And what do you know? Our friends the Israelis are on the case.
D., a 26-year-old woman from the north of Israel, says she began to suffer from nightmares about seven years ago, after her partner raped her. After undergoing various forms of therapy, she thought she had largely put the trauma behind her. Then, two years ago, she chanced to see the rapist not far from her home. The nightmares came swarming back.
"I fell into a depression that went on until not long ago, during which I hardly slept or ate," she says in a quiet voice. "My whole life turned upside down. I left my job. Everything came to a stop. I went back to taking antidepressants and tranquilizers - Cipralex, Lustral and Prozac; sleeping pills that made me addicted. It was a nightmare. There was no way I could get through the day without those pills. Then I discovered cannabis."
So war trauma is not the only way to get PTSD? Maybe that explains why 70% of female Heroin users report being sexually attacked. When they were children. Too bad no famous sports figures (in so far as we know) are involved. Too bad we can't figure a way to give such kids a pass. Until we figure out better ways to help them heal. Currently a long slow process that is not a sure thing.
The Christian Science Monitor is discussing the medical marijuana situation in California. It seems they have come to a political conclusion on the subject.
Pot smokers are a small minority. They are containable...
Isn't there something wrong with oppressing people because they 'don't matter'? Even one person officially subject to persecution is too many. And since when was it Christian to be oppressing people? Even those that don't matter.
Well, Reform Jews and Orthodox Jews get it. Even if the Christians don't.
About 5 minutes in to the video there is a discussion about society and mind altering substances. Every society has them except for Eskimos. Only one or two though with the rest frowned upon or actively discouraged. There is no universal agreement on which two mind altering substances should prevail. Americans like alcohol (it is traditional), Saudis do not. And so it goes. All around the world.
Some people in Missouri are making an effort to get marijuana legalized. About 3 minutes into the video the pro-legalization guy explains that young people support it and old people are against it. Do the math. He thinks the math is good for 2012.
Drug Plants. No not that kind. It is police officers planting drugs to meet arrest quotas.
Do not watch this video if you can't stand dogs getting shot and a SWAT team terrorizing a Columbia, Missouri family over a few pot pipes. I first blogged this on 10 May 2010. There has been some reaction to that video which I will get to shortly.
In the end the victim pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia in exchange for dropping the charges of misdemeanor marijuana possession and second-degree child endangerment. Yes, you read that right: the police burst into this man's home, shooting weapons in his home and killing his dog with his seven-year-old sleeping in the next room and he's the one who was endangering his child by smoking pot in his own home.
It seems that that was not the only disposition. Here is what Norm Stamper, Seattle’s retired Chief of Police, had to say today about the raid.
As they are forced onto the floor, a young male is brought into the room. He is handcuffed and pushed against a wall.
“What did I do? What did I DO?” he shouts, as the woman and the child cower on the floor nearby.
We then learn the source of the dog’s pained cries.
“You shot my dog, you shot my DOG!” the man suddenly shouts. “Why did you do that? He was a good dog! He was probably trying to play with you!”
He, the woman and the child all break into pitiful sobs.
As of late October, just five months after it was posted, the Columbia police raid video has been viewed nearly two million times on YouTube. The clip quickly ricocheted across cyberspace, generating emotionally charged, outraged calls for the officers to be fired and prosecuted. Or subjected to the same kind of treatment that terrorized their fellow citizens.
Public indignation over the incident intensified when it was learned that the Columbia SWAT team was executing an eight-day-old search warrant, and that the only things seized were a pipe containing a small amount of marijuana residue. Since possession of small amounts of pot had long ago been essentially decriminalized in Columbia, the man was charged with simple possession of drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor.
The reaction of Fox Business Network’s Andrew Napolitano was telling. In a segment about the raid that also found its way onto YouTube, the retired New Jersey Superior Court judge says, “This was America – not East Germany, not Nazi Germany, but middle America!”
Yet as former Cato staffer Radley Balko, who wrote about the Columbia video, has noted, what’s most remarkable about the raid is that it wasn’t remarkable at all. The only thing that made it unusual was that it was videotaped and made public, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Columbia Daily Tribune newspaper.
There are still a few "Americans" around who say the punishments are not near draconian enough. But they are getting fewer each day. And they are getting pariah status as any police state advocates should.
"Distrust anyone in whom the desire to punish is powerful" - Friedrich Nietzsche
Fortunately that distrust is growing every day. And one day it will be over and the folks behind these atrocities will do their best to avoid being connected in any way with their past. Just as after the war it was hard to find many Nazis in Germany. It really is a wonder that America has let things get this far.
But in a way it is not too surprising. It seems every country needs its scape goats. Germany had its Jews. America has its dopers. I just wonder who will be the targets of all that leftover police hardware when dopers are no longer suitable targets? They are going to need a whole new class of scapegoats.
Maybe we can learn from South Pacific.
On the other hand that was 1949. Evidently we have forgotten what was once as plain as the nose on your face. Mass hate leads to mass atrocities. And not even the Shining City on the Hill is immune. Especially when you consider that Jew hatred in America peaked in 1944. Just before the unmasking of the German atrocities. We are now in the process of unmasking a new round of hatred. It can't happen soon enough.
Thanks to Howard Wooldridge of Citizens Opposing Prohibition I have a link to what purports to be a Mexican Drug Cartel PR site. We Are The Cartels. They boast on their current front page: Mexican Drug Cartel Association – Now offering To-Your-Door Service in many cities.
We applaud the efforts of the DEA today, as they destroy the Northstone Organics in Mendocino County. In fact we applaud all efforts of the DEA to destroy these so-called ‘legal, medical marijuana’ gardens.
Drug trafficking helping economy along border: October 17, 2011
This from a newspaper account whereby Marin “Gordo” Herrera, a former associate of the MDCA, was able to take the money he earned and develop a successful housing area in a suburb near McAllen, Texas.
Although now serving 20 years in a federal prison, the houses remain as testimony of the positive impact of his employment with us.
I wonder if this is for real or if it is a way of making fun of Drug Prohibition? Either way.....
BTW Howard, a retired police detective, educates Congress on the evils of Drug Prohibition. If you can - send him a few bucks.
It appears that industries powered by brains, commonly referred to as high tech, are also powered by marijuana.
Almost 92% of the people that work in the technology and telecommunications industries answered "yes" to the survey's question asking if they had ever smoked cannabis.
"Obviously, cannabis users work in a variety of professions," said James Malach, creative director at technology firm TongueWag, which commissioned the survey, "but the high proportion of users in the IT sector is considerably higher than we suspected."
The study says nothing much about current use in high tech. But even so. Think about what would happen to our high tech industries (the engines of our current prosperity such as it is) if a significant fraction of those folks had wound up with a pot conviction after trying the herb in their youth.
In my own experience in high tech, I would estimate that between 1/4 and 1/2 of the engineers I worked with were regular users. Of course there is no way for me to tell for certain (thus the wide variance in numbers) because no one with a job is going to admit to pot use and thus lose their job.
Update: I found a site which discusses the anecdotal evidence of pot use in high tech. Here is a bit from the site:
Several heavy pot smokers I’ve known have also been some of the smartest and most productive I’ve worked with. People seem to use these drugs to unwind, to blow off steam, and I’ve never seen anyone have trouble keeping it out of the workplace. If people have substance problems it’s more likely alcoholism.
Eric is discussing my post Prevention Methods, and looks at the harms that making things illegal causes. A commenter chimes in with this bit of wisdom.
...many of these “illegal drug” like Marijuana can be produced without a good means of tax revenue – another reason to outlaw them
You can make quite a bit of your own booze (200 gal a year I believe) without paying any taxes (a permit may be required). I wonder if we should be making alcohol illegal to recover that lost revenue. Oh. Wait. If they make alcohol illegal there is zero revenue. Only enforcement costs. Barring the usual theft pardon me "asset forfeiture" by police of anything people own that they cannot account for. Like cash. This is sometimes referred to as highway robbery.
So I'm having an ongoing discussion with a guy and he has me pegged.
MSimon believes that it is every individual's right to consume whatever drugs in whatever quantities that an individual so chooses.
What is your plan to prevent that? Because that is exactly the nature of current reality. The legality or otherwise makes no difference except for determining the distribution channels. For a lot of people "distributed by criminals" seems to be a very solid preference. I don't know why but there you have it. And quite a few of those claim to be conservative. But since when did conservatives support criminals? It is a paradox. Unless you understand Baptist/bootlegger coalitions. Prevalent everywhere but especially virulent in America. We LOVE our moral panics in the Good 'Ole USA.
I know. Facing reality puts me way out on a limb. It has been a life long curse. I rather enjoy it.
We now know why Rick Perry thinks making pot legal may not be the best idea for Texas. The Texas economy is dependent on the dope trade.
Before a federal judge sentenced him to 20 years in prison earlier this year, prosecutors established that between 2006 and 2010 Herrera had been a conduit for more than 660 pounds of cocaine flowing from Mexico’s Gulf Cartel into the United States, a key link on a smuggling chain that distributed drugs to Houston, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago and beyond.
For better or worse Herrera pumped a fair amount of money into the Texas economy, which is getting renewed attention because of Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign for the GOP presidential nomination and his proud declaration that his low-tax and low-regulation policies have enabled Texas to weather hard times — the “Texas Miracle.’’
Clearly, drugs were flowing across the Texas border with Mexico long before Perry became governor and will continue long after he’s gone. And drugs do not have the same level of economic impact on Texas as oil and gas, farming and ranching or legitimate trans-border commerce.
But experts who have studied the impact of drug money say it is undeniable that in a tough economy, trafficking has helped boost employment and economic growth in the state’s border regions, from the Rio Grande Valley to Laredo to El Paso.
As William Burroughs is reputed to have said, "Dealing is harder to kick than using".
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If you pay me enough and promise to cover my lawyers fees I may say something nice about you. Or I may not. Enough is generally more than you can afford. Unless you have a a really really big bank account or more that a few large gold bars under the mattress.
If you do pay I expect to be transported to a country with no extradition treaty with the US.
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If some one employs me I will probably say good things about them as long as the money keeps coming. Or I may say nothing. To keep out of trouble with their lawyers.
That covers most of what I can think of. I'm getting old and sometimes I don't think of everything.
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