I'm going to say it again, and again, and again, and again, and ag...

There's a classic book about the fallacy of animal experimentation; (can give title if memory stimulated ;-)
gives example of an experiment to 'prove' that a baby monkey will
'hug' a heat source other than it's mother (a frame is set up
resembling a mother monkey with a heat source inside). Basicly it
'proves' that a cold monkey will use a given heat source. This is
the kind of level these people work on - animals are their
playthings - _animals_, that includes _YOU_! But you already know
all this, dont' you, oh, insightfull cannabis fan?

While i'm here; news items like the above bring to my mind the
way that marijuana is being used as a clinical medicine. This
is very dangerous. Again, my memory mis-serves me, but I beleive
there was another plant where it's medicinal properties were
extracted in isolation. Of course, with the active ingredient
now being in a completely artificial form, it did'nt work! In
fact a few people got hurt, and guess who got blamed -THE F**CKing PLANT! Please email me to jog my memory on this one if you can :-)

R_o_o_o_o_llllll_ing......

They already are forcing drugs on people nowdays.. No wonder many only can grow resentful of others!

In the name of freedom please stop this insanity!

Since you're probably all familiar with detailed examples of all the above cases, we know that all coniderations except the blind obsession of stopping people from enjoying themselves have led to screwing everything beyond the pale.

I'm absolutely positive that this find will totally opaque the reseach in Israel about the function of cannabinoid receptors in our coconuts. Dr. Russo is most probably right, block these and you'll get a dysfunctional body erring towards extremely miserable existence.

This is Fusarium Oxysporum in your head fellows. And you know what? It won't happen to the people of the United States of America, noooooo

Some other third world country led by idiotically conservative leaders *such as my own Chile* will be coopted into trying this out way out of sight of the people who care and could do something, and this extremely sick project will be under way.

What if you take this medicine and don't smoke pot, my guess is that it will actually affect your memory worse than if you were to smoke pot instead.

Translation: "Gee, we don't understand how those cannabinoids thingamagigs work, but we're sure excited that we found a way to block them, and to hell with the negative side effects."

I'm sure glad the people at NIDA work hard both to find new ways of wasting our federal tax dollars and to deliberately perform experiments on human subjects when they admit to not knowing or understanding the potential repurcussions of those experiments. To think that I helped pay for this trash against my will through automatic paycheck deductions.

Sickening.

"there's been some beautiful work showing that marijuana is addictive"

Beautiful--- That must mean that when you purposely addict a simian to cocaine and then claim that the animal's repetitive dosing with THC in an efffort to make itself feel better is proof that cannabis is addictive.

Notice how "use" and "abuse" are equated. This is the same as saying everyone who uses alcohol is an alcoholic, everyone who eats dessert is obese, etc.

see:

Themes in Chemical Prohibition, NIDA, 1979 :

Theme # 4: The Concept of "Controlled" Usage is Destroyed . . .

``. . . The destruction of the concept of controlled drug usage implies that everyone who ever uses heroin will be a "dope fiend," everyone who drinks will be an alcoholic, etc. In general this strategy equates the use and abuse of drugs and implies that it is impossible to use the particular drug or drugs in question without physical, mental, and moral deterioration. Such a view holds that there are powers within the drug over which no one can exert control.''

Themes in Chemical Prohibition, NIDA, 1979

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/ticp.html

. . .squelches the ''high'' . . .

Why are so many, so bent on keeping people from this mental state?

p.98 -

Studies suggest insight as to why conservatives have focused so much of their attention on drugs. One scaled 4-year-old children on an index of creativity and adventure seeking to find that such characteristics are the greatest predictor of recreational use of marijuana in subsequent high-school years. Drug users are perhaps by personality disposed to be the least obedient to orthodoxy and convention just as the orthodox are most disposed to believe that social rules must be reinforced with persecution of the non-conformists. . . .

The creative and gregarious side of drug use was exposed in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood in the 1960s and in the many subsequent little life-style-free zones that spread across the country. With the LSD-based psychedelic revolution, new music, new visual art, new drama in the form of performance art and an array of other expressions exploded into popular culture. Psychological study of the heavily LSD-using population showed that they had changed in what was labeled the means-to-life index, preferring time for reflection and creative self-expression to traditional acquisition of material goods as a life goal.

David Sadofsky Baggins, Drug Hate and the Corruption of American Justice, 1998 pg. 98

http://info.greenwood.com/books/0275959/0275959562.html

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0275959562/

. . . For some portion of Americans drug hate takes on a personally meaningful moral patriotism that must be considered as a sociological event. Psychologists Terry Bulych and Barry Beyerstein consider the pathology of drug war enthusiasts. They find a high need for dogmatism among persons anxious for drug punishment. They want an ordered world of firm right and wrong in which sin is punished for denunciation value. As a personality type, drug war enthusiasts are the people who would have enthusiastically joined in the brooding hunt for deviance during the McCarthy era. These people turn to the War on Drugs to fill a void lost by the end of the cold war. Bulych and Beyerstein conclude that,

respondents who favored the drug war were particularly apt to construe as factually correct the highly sensationalized cinematic portrayal of the drug scene. With the decline of the worldwide Communist threat that was formerly used to justify gratuitous violence in the movies, the industry has turned, with considerable audience approval, to the drug dealer stereotype when in need of an acceptable villain to dismember in living color.50

Drug Hate, p.142

NIDA. . . said the findings help point the way toward possible treatment for people addicted to marijuana. ``It's certainly an issue that is still a little controversial,'' she said of whether marijuana can cause addiction. ``But there's been some beautiful work showing that marijuana is addictive, and that a number of people who utilize the drug on a chronic basis have developed dependence and have a very difficult time stopping taking the drug.''

see:

the Relative Addictiveness of Drugs According to NIDA's Own Researcher

http://www.marijuananews.com/marijuananews/cowan/relative_addictiveness_of_drugs_.htm

(summary: cannabis is less "addictive" than caffeine, nicotine, heroin, cocaine, and alcohol, according to NIDA)

There has been much psychological study of the "addictive personality." In the end that has not proven a fruitful topic, as all cultures at all times are revealed to engage in intoxication which turns out to be a common factor of the human equation.51 Once alcohol, nicotine and caffeine are added as genuine drugs most Americans turn out to be users. Of far more importance is exploration of the essential psychology of the drug war enthusiast. It is comparatively easy to understand why people take drugs as a means of pleasure seeking, an anesthetic against pain and for reasons of community formation, rebellion, revelation and self-exploration. It is comparatively hard to understand why hatred of other people's forbidden acts becomes an obsession of so many. The punishment-craving personality must be added as explanation for this age of celebrated punitive excess.

Drug Hate, p.143