Drug War Quiz: Just Say Know
Dust off your short-term memory and test your drug war knowledge with some tidbits from This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America.
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The Drug War, By the Numbers
Where the money went.
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The Cartels Next Door
Cartels used to neatly divide Mexico. But as they have fractured, the violence has intensified. And moved north.
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This Is Your War on Drugs
Since 1998, the drug czar has been mandated to lie to the American people. So what would a fact-based drug policy look like?
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Actually...
When the final bill went through, the AMA switched sides and supported pot prohibition. Some kind of a deal at the top levels, as I understand it.
1/3 of Mexico's arable land used to grow drugs statistic is bunk
I'm no fan of prohibition, but
Mexico has a two-tiered farm system - big company farms control 88% of the arable land, and graze and animals and grow crops on the land, for export. The remaining 12% of the arable land is farmed by small-scale farmers (who make up 60% of the farmers in Mexico)
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/publication/rg/RGRich.shtml
A figure of even 1/3 of the small-scale farms would be an exaggeration.
“Perhaps coming up with an exaggerated number, Mexican agrarian official Garcia contended that 30 percent of Mexico’s arable land was dedicated to drug production.”
That’s Ricardo Garcia Villalobos, president of Mexico’s agrarian reform court, who might have a vested interest in stretching that number…
Glad to read post by "J Webb"
the only question the quiz ruled me incorrect on. With out any research, but using eyes and common sense tells me 1/30 would be B.S.
Cannabis Prohibition
Actually...
Submitted by serial catowner on July 7, 2009 - 8:59am.
When the final bill went through, the AMA switched sides and supported pot prohibition. Some kind of a deal at the top levels, as I understand it.
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Actually...
What happened was the AMA was against prohibition all throughout the debate and subsequent legislation.
What happened was that the AMA sent one Doctor to testify against the prohibition , but this testimony was only to the SUB-COMMITTEE studying the issue.
What happened was that when the issue went before the full Senate , the leaders of the sub-committee LIED to the full Senate and said that the AMA was for prohibition all along.
This is fully documented in both the minutes of the sub-committee meetings and the full Senate hearings, and in a very good resource book titled "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" , which is itself subtitled "The Great Marijuana Conspiracy".
This book makes for very interesting reading, though it's very long.
This book also documents the REAL reason for the marijuana prohibition in the first place :
In 1935 , the DuPont Chemical Company bought a patent from a German chemical company.This patent was for making a new fiber called Nylon.The question for DuPont became how to get the American public to start using this new fiber.
At that time , hemp fiber was the most widely used fiber ,not only in the U.S. but virtually throughout the world.
A child of the DuPonts was married to Henry Anslinger,the U.S. Drug Czar at that time.
The idea was hatched to use the Federal government to pass a law outlawing the use of Hemp fiber,thus forcing the American public to switch to the new Nylon fiber.
However , such a law was not legal,then or now.
So what to do , what to do.
They devised a plan to outlaw hemp through a back-door method.
The government started warning citizens about a new and very dangerous drug called Marijuana.(Prior to this no one had ever heard of this term.The government with the help of the Hearst newspaper empire , thought this up.)
The government and Hearst newspapers began circulating horrible stories about the effects of this "new" drug called Marijuana.
You've heard of "Reefer Madness",right?
But have you heard about all the newspaper stories,by Hearst, about the people who "smoked only 1 marijuana cigarette and this vile drug caused them to murder their entire family".
Eventually,after enough propaganda had been spread to the citizens , the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 was passed.
This law did not ban possession of cannabis outright, it simply required that a tax be paid to possess it.
But since the tax was hugely exorbinant,no one could afford it.Thus marijuana was effectively removed from the citizens of the U.S.
It wasn't until this law went into effect , that the American people realized what had been done to them.The American people knew all about Hemp,something they had been using for many reasons for many years,but they knew nothing of Marijuana.
All of a sudden,something the people used daily , became illegal.
The prohibition of Cannabis happened this way because of the government's experience with alcohol prohibition.
Both substances involved Freedom of Choice issues.To use or not to use.
Just as it required a Constitutional Amendment to both , ban alcohol and reinstate it, it also would have required a national vote on a Constitutional Amendment to ban Cannabis outright.
Knowing the people would find out that Hemp and Cannabis are/were one and the same , and that the people would not stand for such a law,they went the backdoor route.
As usual with politicians , Money First , People Last.
mrijuana
I agree that the amount of land used in Mexico is jive. I live here and it aint true.
Grades
I got 2 wrong, 80%, like my average in Community College when I was probably most dosed in my whole life.
thc and brain cancer
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THC initiates brain cancer cells to destroy themselves
Posted in Longevity and Age Management, Cancer, Medical Marijuana on Wed May 20, 2009
THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, causes brain cancer cells to undergo a process called autophagy in which cells feed upon themselves, according to a study conducted by Guillermo Velasco and colleagues at Complutense University in Spain. Using mice designed to carry human brain cancer tumors, the researchers found that the growth of the tumors shrank when the animals received THC. The study also involved two patients with glioblastoma multiforme, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer. Both patients had been enrolled in a clinical trial designed to test THC's potential as a cancer therapy. The researchers used electron microscopes to analyze brain tissue taken before and after a 26- to 30-day THC treatment regimen. They found that THC eliminated the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact. In addition, in what they described as a "novel discovery," the specific signalling route by which the autophagy process unfolds was isolated.
"These results may help to design new cancer therapies based on the use of medicines containing the active principle of marijuana and/or in the activation of autophagy," says Velasco. The findings were published in the April 2009 issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
According to Dr. John S. Yu, co-director of the Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program in the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, "The findings were not surprising. There have been previous reports to this effect as well. So this is yet another indication that THC has an anti-cancer effect, which means it's certainly worth further study."
News Release: Marijuana chemical may fight brain cancer www.webmd.com
why are people using there
why are people using there is no need for drugs man people are killing themselves wit this shit they need 2 stop
it's only weed
hello. i salivate reminiscing good one-tokes; i could use one right now for that humongous molar ache i am experiencing. i qualify for a medical prescription in California, and with as many dispensaries as are popping up; i would not doubt the legalization of scary marijuana soon enough. many people would qualify for a driving permit while buzzed: as they are not impaired while intoxicated. others, well human behaviour is a field of contradictions, and individual development. i quantify my personal belief as a freedom of personal choice issue; whereby i do no harm to others. i will smoke in a closed spaceman helmet if you want me to. i just haven't smoked in over a year because it is illegal. it did me no harm, and i enjoyed it.
it is an exaggeration of
it is an exaggeration of what they consider 'arable'.
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I quantify my personal
I quantify my personal belief as a freedom of personal choice issue; whereby i do no harm to others. i will smoke in a closed spaceman helmet if you want me to.
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