XPost: talk.politics.misc, talk.politics.drugs, alt.politics.usa   
   XPost: alt.science   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 11/2/24 23:29, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:   
   > On 11/3/24 1:06 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >> On 11/2/24 20:57, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:   
   >>> https://scitechdaily.com/brain-shrinkage-alert-cannabis-use-in-youth-   
   >>> linked-to-structural-brain-changes/   
   >>>   
   >>> . . .   
   >>>   
   >>>    Ummmmmmm ... doesn't EVERY Puritan-UnApproved substance   
   >>>    either "shrink the brain" and/or cause "chromosome   
   >>>    damage" ???   :-)   
   >>>   
   >>>    Well, hashish use in 'arab' countries has been going   
   >>>    on for thousands of years - yet most of our sciences   
   >>>    and math methods COME from that area - Euros hadn't   
   >>>    a clue, we had to steal the stuff from the Moslems.   
   >>>   
   >>>    Now I'm not going to suggest daily hashish use with   
   >>>    the illusion that it will improve the species ...   
   >>>    seems to make many kinda dull actually ... but even   
   >>>    more stupid are 'news' sources repeating these   
   >>>    endless 'shrinks the brain' warnings from the late   
   >>>    50s on.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>      Caffeine strips the insulation from the nerves   
   >> and causes chromosomal damage. Puritan approved.   
   >> Alcohol kills brain cells and given time liver cells   
   >> while it remains as addictive as other narcotic drugs.   
   >> But the real Puritans preferred to drink as the water   
   >> of the colony was dangerous. Puritan approved for   
   >> hundreds of years.   
   >>   
   >>      So what if it shrinks the brain. Smaller brains   
   >> are more efficient. Unless someone is in a lot of pain   
   >> daily cannabis use is pointless. If someone is taking   
   >> cannabis frequently they do not have to worry about   
   >> interfering with the respiratory reflex as alcohol   
   >> and the opiates do. Medical alcoholic solutions of   
   >> cannabis were on the Formulary before 1937 when   
   >> Harry J.Anslinger decided to stick his spoke in   
   >> the wheel of medicine in the hope of increasing his   
   >> bureaucracy at the pre-DEA, Federal Bureau of Narcotics.   
   >>   
   >>      Oh by the way torture also shrinks the brain   
   >> apparently of the tortured and the torturer who thinks   
   >> that torture gets truth out of the tortured. This   
   >> justification for sadism extends up the hierarchy to   
   >> the approver of such stupid behavior. Maybe the result   
   >> of tortuous up-bringings by controlling parents?   
   >   
   >   
   >    The usual 'Puritan' position is that if it's in   
   >    any way FUN then it's "sin" and DANGEROUS. Good   
   >    little Puritans are ONLY allowed to get a thrill   
   >    from worship of the approved god.   
   >   
   >    Oh, as for the beer -vs- water thing ... THAT was   
   >    a literal survival tactic. Water was often lethal   
   >    before large-scale sanitation systems. Gotta   
   >    make a FEW practical allowances .......   
   >   
   >    I'm not gonna argue the plus/minus aspects of   
   >    reefer -vs- everything else. Such 'studies' are   
   >    way too often corrupted by ideology and/or biased   
   >    stat techniques. Let's just say that a little of   
   >    whatever probably ain't THAT bad and be done   
   >    with it.   
   >   
   >    Ok, today, that 'little' has a higher and higher   
   >    chance of being full of fentanyl or worse ...   
   >    just bear it in mind.   
   >   
   >    My main complaint is the MSM so happily jumping   
   >    on to ANY "science" that makes unapproved dope   
   >    look extra bad. This kinda started with "Reefer   
   >    Madness" and got worse from there.   
      
   	Actually it started with Hearst's racism ans   
   sexism if you read the adverta for Reefer Madness.   
   The idea that Hispanics/Mexicans and Negroes might   
   be using the cheap drug to relax and recreate was   
   enough for the Southern Democrats to whom Harry Anslinger   
   presented his Hemp Tax Act in 1937. That by the way   
   is the year I was born.   
   	   
   	Anslinger was trying to keep his Federal Bureau   
   of Narcotics functional by creating another drug to   
   control since the Prohibition of Alcohol had been repealed   
   but cocaine and heroin were not becoming popular so he   
   needed a new drug to control. He was immensely successful   
   in promoting cannabis and it went from a few hundred thousand   
   users to millions by 25 years later.   
      
   	Each of those represented a potenial drug user to   
   control.   
   	bliss   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)