United Nations Drug Report Disappointing Say Critics
Yesterday (September 23, 2003) the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released its report Ecstasy and Amphetamines - Global Survey 2003. The report estimates that worldwide 7.7 million people used the drug ecstasy from 2000-2001.
This figure is approximately one-half the number of people who used cocaine during that time period, and approximately one-fourth fewer people than used heroin during that same time period.
According to the report, ecstasy users risk suffering the effects of early decline in mental function and memory, or Alzheimer-type symptoms.
The report was released just weeks after scientists at Johns Hopkins University retracted their research findings that suggested that a single evening's use of ecstasy could cause permanent brain damage and Parkinson's disease. The scientists admitted that they utilized the wrong drug in their studies.
The UN report makes no mention of the retracted studies.
According to Richard Glen Boire, legal counsel for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, a US-based law and policy group focused on protecting of freedom of thought, the UN report is also disappointing for its adoption of US government rhetoric.
Its inaccurate to equate any and all use of ecstasy with abuse, said attorney Boire. During Alcohol Prohibition did evening wine drinkers all become abusers? he asked, continuing, prohibition is a political label, not a magic wand that transforms all use into abuse.
According to the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics, equating drug use with drug abuse not only leads to bad social policies, it infringes on the fundamental right of adults to mediate their own mental processes.
It used to be that governments banned books because of how they changed the way that people thought, says Boire. Today its drugs both legal and illegal that are changing the way that people think. Just as it was wrong for the government to censor books, its equally wrong for the government to censor cognition itself by making peaceful people criminals just for taking a drug like ecstasy.
United Nations Drug Report Disappointing Say Critics
(ccle) Top News
For more information: Richard Glen Boire, J.D.
Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethic (ccle)
231 G. Street, No. 7 Davis, CA 95616 Ph & fax: 530-750-7912
e-mail: rgboire@cognitiveliberty.org
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Ecstasy: Are 'Scare Tactics' Valid? March 18, 2002
This is your brain. This is your brain after Ecstasy. The healthy brain fills the skull. It's all there. The Ecstasy brain is clearly damaged -shrunken, chunks of it missing, like the brain of an Alzheimer's victim. It is a disturbing image now being broadcast nationwide to warn young people tempted by the wildly popular "club drug" known as Ecstasy, by far the drug of choice today with fans of the big party scene. But it has set off a firestorm of argument among doctors and drug experts over how real the dangers of Ecstasy - a psychedelic stimulant sometimes called "the love drug" - actually are. Critics are calling the federal government's current anti-Ecstasy campaign overhyped "scare tactics" based on faulty science.
Sentencing Guidelines Toughened for Ecstasy
'Ecstasy' For Agony
Scientists Oppose Punishing 'Ecstasy' More Harshly
Drug labelling error forces retraction...After RAVE Ax Passes
WASHINGTON (AP) - A prestigious scientific journal is retracting a study about the effects of the drug Ecstasy on the brain because the animals used in the research were given a different drug. The researchers blamed the error on a labelling mix-up. Previous studies had reported on the brain hazards of Ecstasy, and the researchers said the problems with their study did not call into question the earlier ones. Continued...
yahooka.com/forum/showthread...52342
Dance Safe!
Report of Ecstasy Drug's Great Risks Is Retracted
It'll kill you -- wait, no it won't
Results Retracted On Ecstasy Study
Report of Ecstasy Drug's Great Risks
SECOND ECSTASY STUDY RETRACTED Mon, 15 Sep 2003
Johns Hopkins scientists find new error involving vial mislabeled in the first experiment.
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have retracted a second study linking the drug Ecstasy to a certain type of brain damage because once again the wrong drug was given to lab animals. Dr. Una D. McCann, a neuroscientist involved in both experiments, said a letter of retraction was sent Thursday to a medical journal, which she declined to identify until editors there decide how to handle the matter.
Scientists discovered the mistake after they checked lab records to see if methamphetamine from a mislabeled vial used in the first experiment had been used elsewhere. "As you might imagine, we systematically went through the books to find out which, if any, of our published studies involved the same [vial]," she said Thursday. "We did find one, and a letter of retraction was sent out to the journal today." [snip] Continues: mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1393/a11.html
What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis
Health officials in Geneva have suppressed the publication of a politically sensitive analysis that confirms what ageing hippies have known for decades: cannabis is safer than alcohol or tobacco. According to a document leaked to New Scientist, the analysis concludes not only that the amount of dope smoked worldwide does less harm to public health than drink and cigarettes, but that the same is likely to hold true even if people consumed dope on the same scale as these legal substances
Marijuana Drug Czar Distorts Report
Say No Way To Drugs and Terrorism Law
***Taking Away More of Our Rights
***New "Drugs and Terrorism" Bill Must Be Stopped
Senators are drafting a "drugs and terrorism" bill that could treat many non-violent drug offenders as terrorists and strip away civil liberties from every American. Unless you tell your Senators "No way!" it could be introduced soon.
Fax your Senators at: actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/ctt.asp?u=3529&l=5288
It was bad enough that the government used tax payer dollars to produce ads calling marijuana users terrorists. Now things are more serious and the government is trying to create new laws to boost their 'drug war' in the name of fighting terrorism.
A draft of the bill obtained by the Drug Policy Alliance
Drug Policy Alliance alerts@actioncenter.drugpolicy.org
The Rave Act stops NORML benefit concert
Well, you may or have not heard by now but the Rave Act has hit very close to home. On the 30th of May the Billings chapter of Montana NORML/SSDP had organized a highly publicized and expensive benefit concert featuring a number of local acts, the proceeds from which would have gone to help the medical marijuana campaign in Montana in 2004. Unfortunately, not only did my probation officer arrest me the day before, but the DEA came and shut things down the day of. The reason being of course that due to the RAVE Act anyone caught on the premisis with marijuana would automatically subjects our generous venue to a fine of $250,000.
Billings NORML/SSDP
RAVE Act Protests Across the Country, May 31, 2003
Have you ever wanted to dance for a good cause? Here's your chance. On Saturday, May 31, protest gatherings will be held in cities across the country to call for repeal of the RAVE Act. Click here to find a protest near you.
The RAVE Act Has Landed
When Holding a Party Is a Crime
whatididinthewar.com
"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it."
Bennito Mussolini
Just Say NO! Nancy Rayguns
Drug Czar Manipulating Data in a Report to Congress
Bill Would Outlaw Internet Drug Information
Meth Bill/Free Speech by Richard Lake
Need for Speed (Meth)
'Go Pills' Tied To Bombing
Military Looks To Drugs for Battle Readiness
U.S. Pilots Stay Up Taking 'Uppers'
The Few, the Proud, the Stoned
Air Force 'Go-Pill' Deemed Hazardous
MEDICAL MARIJUANA DOCTORS AND RELATED ORGANIZATIONS
Stepping Off Hard Drugs With Cannabis
22 Million Americans are Addicts
Cannabis prevents brain damage
Cannabis Blocks Irreversible Brain Damage
Cannabis and Endocannabinoids
CLCIA present Cannabis and the Brain
neuroprotection
cannabis, cannabinoids and the brain
Nerves Need Marijuana-Like Substance
GW Pharmaceuticals Cannabis-based Medicines - Therapeutic Applications
Marijuana Ingredient Helps Head Injuries
Natural Compound May Reduce Brain Trauma Damage
High Times for Alzheimers
The brain of an Alzheimer's sufferer contains abnormal deposits called "tangles" and "plaques." Associated with these deposits are proteins, or bits of them, called tau and amyloid-beta (A) respectively. Healthy tau plays a structural role in brain cells, but there is good evidence that in Alzheimer's disease, it becomes festooned with atoms of phosphorus and oxygen, like lights on a Christmas tree. It is thought to be this that tips tau into tangles. Milton has evidence that something similar happens to A in plaques, and that this, in turn, makes it toxic to brain cells. In research to be published in the journal Neuroscience Letters, and which he will also present at next month's neurobiology of aging conference in Florida, he reports that cannabinoids - cannabis-like compounds that occur naturally in the brain - can stop A killing cells.
Alzforum Website - Marijuana
Pharmos to Test Cannabis-Like Drug for Memory Loss
Marijuana" used in treating Parkinson's
A marijuana-like chemical in the brain that helps regulate body movement and coordination might be used to treat diseases that produce tics and shaking, such as Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia, researchers said.
cannabinoids and Parkinson
cannabis/dopamine
CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archives
Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
Long-Term Pot-Use Study: No Ill Health Effects
Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Neonatal Outcomes in Jamaica:
An Ethnographic Study
Cannabidiol: The Wonder Drug of the 21st Century?
Cannabis Less Harmful Than Aspirin, Says Scientist
"The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exclusions and incapacitations are removed." Thomas Jefferson, 1776
Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys
Pot Shrinks Tumors - Government Knew in '74
Marijuana May Offer Protection Against Tumors!
"Marijuana" Used to treat Sceizure Disorders
Webster's Dictionary 1952
Bhang-(bang). n [Hind.from Sans.. bhanga,hemp]
An Indian variety of the common hemp, the resin of which is highly narcotic and intoxicant, and a popular Oriental stimulant, otherwise called hashish. Also employed in medicine, for its anodyne, hyponotic, and anti-spasmodic qualities; also spelled bang, beng.
Andrew Weil on medical uses of Ecstasy, MDMA, by Dan Skeen
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From Chocolate to Morphine Dr. Andrew Weil
Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs.
Stoned scientists
No Bad Drugs: The Newservice Interview: Dr. Andrew Weil
Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts
Lester Grinspoon
Tod Mikuriya
Patients Out of Time
Missoula Chronic Cannabis Use Research Study
Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics
CannabisNews Search - Ethan Russo M.D.
The International Cannabinoid Research Society
Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics
Schaffer Library Hemp/Marijuana Medical Information
"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."
Albert Eistein: My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921
Brain Releases Marijuana-Like Substance In Response To Pain, Study Finds
Sci/Tech | Dope hope for stroke victims
Marijuana Ingredient Helps Mice Overcome Arthritis
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Marijuana Doesn't Cause Lung Cancer
Doctors Organization Scales Back Proposal
Yesterday (September 23, 2003) the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released its report Ecstasy and Amphetamines - Global Survey 2003. The report estimates that worldwide 7.7 million people used the drug ecstasy from 2000-2001.
This figure is approximately one-half the number of people who used cocaine during that time period, and approximately one-fourth fewer people than used heroin during that same time period.
According to the report, ecstasy users risk suffering the effects of early decline in mental function and memory, or Alzheimer-type symptoms.
The report was released just weeks after scientists at Johns Hopkins University retracted their research findings that suggested that a single evening's use of ecstasy could cause permanent brain damage and Parkinson's disease. The scientists admitted that they utilized the wrong drug in their studies.
The UN report makes no mention of the retracted studies.
According to Richard Glen Boire, legal counsel for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, a US-based law and policy group focused on protecting of freedom of thought, the UN report is also disappointing for its adoption of US government rhetoric.
Its inaccurate to equate any and all use of ecstasy with abuse, said attorney Boire. During Alcohol Prohibition did evening wine drinkers all become abusers? he asked, continuing, prohibition is a political label, not a magic wand that transforms all use into abuse.
According to the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics, equating drug use with drug abuse not only leads to bad social policies, it infringes on the fundamental right of adults to mediate their own mental processes.
It used to be that governments banned books because of how they changed the way that people thought, says Boire. Today its drugs both legal and illegal that are changing the way that people think. Just as it was wrong for the government to censor books, its equally wrong for the government to censor cognition itself by making peaceful people criminals just for taking a drug like ecstasy.
United Nations Drug Report Disappointing Say Critics
(ccle) Top News
For more information: Richard Glen Boire, J.D.
Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethic (ccle)
231 G. Street, No. 7 Davis, CA 95616 Ph & fax: 530-750-7912
e-mail: rgboire@cognitiveliberty.org
[color=purple]7777777777777777777777777777777777777777[/color]
Ecstasy: Are 'Scare Tactics' Valid? March 18, 2002
This is your brain. This is your brain after Ecstasy. The healthy brain fills the skull. It's all there. The Ecstasy brain is clearly damaged -shrunken, chunks of it missing, like the brain of an Alzheimer's victim. It is a disturbing image now being broadcast nationwide to warn young people tempted by the wildly popular "club drug" known as Ecstasy, by far the drug of choice today with fans of the big party scene. But it has set off a firestorm of argument among doctors and drug experts over how real the dangers of Ecstasy - a psychedelic stimulant sometimes called "the love drug" - actually are. Critics are calling the federal government's current anti-Ecstasy campaign overhyped "scare tactics" based on faulty science.
Sentencing Guidelines Toughened for Ecstasy
'Ecstasy' For Agony
Scientists Oppose Punishing 'Ecstasy' More Harshly
Drug labelling error forces retraction...After RAVE Ax Passes
WASHINGTON (AP) - A prestigious scientific journal is retracting a study about the effects of the drug Ecstasy on the brain because the animals used in the research were given a different drug. The researchers blamed the error on a labelling mix-up. Previous studies had reported on the brain hazards of Ecstasy, and the researchers said the problems with their study did not call into question the earlier ones. Continued...
yahooka.com/forum/showthread...52342
Dance Safe!
Report of Ecstasy Drug's Great Risks Is Retracted
It'll kill you -- wait, no it won't
Results Retracted On Ecstasy Study
Report of Ecstasy Drug's Great Risks
SECOND ECSTASY STUDY RETRACTED Mon, 15 Sep 2003
Johns Hopkins scientists find new error involving vial mislabeled in the first experiment.
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have retracted a second study linking the drug Ecstasy to a certain type of brain damage because once again the wrong drug was given to lab animals. Dr. Una D. McCann, a neuroscientist involved in both experiments, said a letter of retraction was sent Thursday to a medical journal, which she declined to identify until editors there decide how to handle the matter.
Scientists discovered the mistake after they checked lab records to see if methamphetamine from a mislabeled vial used in the first experiment had been used elsewhere. "As you might imagine, we systematically went through the books to find out which, if any, of our published studies involved the same [vial]," she said Thursday. "We did find one, and a letter of retraction was sent out to the journal today." [snip] Continues: mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1393/a11.html
What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis
Health officials in Geneva have suppressed the publication of a politically sensitive analysis that confirms what ageing hippies have known for decades: cannabis is safer than alcohol or tobacco. According to a document leaked to New Scientist, the analysis concludes not only that the amount of dope smoked worldwide does less harm to public health than drink and cigarettes, but that the same is likely to hold true even if people consumed dope on the same scale as these legal substances
Marijuana Drug Czar Distorts Report
Say No Way To Drugs and Terrorism Law
***Taking Away More of Our Rights
***New "Drugs and Terrorism" Bill Must Be Stopped
Senators are drafting a "drugs and terrorism" bill that could treat many non-violent drug offenders as terrorists and strip away civil liberties from every American. Unless you tell your Senators "No way!" it could be introduced soon.
Fax your Senators at: actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/ctt.asp?u=3529&l=5288
It was bad enough that the government used tax payer dollars to produce ads calling marijuana users terrorists. Now things are more serious and the government is trying to create new laws to boost their 'drug war' in the name of fighting terrorism.
A draft of the bill obtained by the Drug Policy Alliance
Drug Policy Alliance alerts@actioncenter.drugpolicy.org
The Rave Act stops NORML benefit concert
Well, you may or have not heard by now but the Rave Act has hit very close to home. On the 30th of May the Billings chapter of Montana NORML/SSDP had organized a highly publicized and expensive benefit concert featuring a number of local acts, the proceeds from which would have gone to help the medical marijuana campaign in Montana in 2004. Unfortunately, not only did my probation officer arrest me the day before, but the DEA came and shut things down the day of. The reason being of course that due to the RAVE Act anyone caught on the premisis with marijuana would automatically subjects our generous venue to a fine of $250,000.
Billings NORML/SSDP
RAVE Act Protests Across the Country, May 31, 2003
Have you ever wanted to dance for a good cause? Here's your chance. On Saturday, May 31, protest gatherings will be held in cities across the country to call for repeal of the RAVE Act. Click here to find a protest near you.
The RAVE Act Has Landed
When Holding a Party Is a Crime
whatididinthewar.com
"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it."
Bennito Mussolini
Just Say NO! Nancy Rayguns
Drug Czar Manipulating Data in a Report to Congress
Bill Would Outlaw Internet Drug Information
Meth Bill/Free Speech by Richard Lake
Need for Speed (Meth)
'Go Pills' Tied To Bombing
Military Looks To Drugs for Battle Readiness
U.S. Pilots Stay Up Taking 'Uppers'
The Few, the Proud, the Stoned
Air Force 'Go-Pill' Deemed Hazardous
MEDICAL MARIJUANA DOCTORS AND RELATED ORGANIZATIONS
Stepping Off Hard Drugs With Cannabis
22 Million Americans are Addicts
Cannabis prevents brain damage
Cannabis Blocks Irreversible Brain Damage
Cannabis and Endocannabinoids
CLCIA present Cannabis and the Brain
neuroprotection
cannabis, cannabinoids and the brain
Nerves Need Marijuana-Like Substance
GW Pharmaceuticals Cannabis-based Medicines - Therapeutic Applications
Marijuana Ingredient Helps Head Injuries
Natural Compound May Reduce Brain Trauma Damage
High Times for Alzheimers
The brain of an Alzheimer's sufferer contains abnormal deposits called "tangles" and "plaques." Associated with these deposits are proteins, or bits of them, called tau and amyloid-beta (A) respectively. Healthy tau plays a structural role in brain cells, but there is good evidence that in Alzheimer's disease, it becomes festooned with atoms of phosphorus and oxygen, like lights on a Christmas tree. It is thought to be this that tips tau into tangles. Milton has evidence that something similar happens to A in plaques, and that this, in turn, makes it toxic to brain cells. In research to be published in the journal Neuroscience Letters, and which he will also present at next month's neurobiology of aging conference in Florida, he reports that cannabinoids - cannabis-like compounds that occur naturally in the brain - can stop A killing cells.
Alzforum Website - Marijuana
Pharmos to Test Cannabis-Like Drug for Memory Loss
Marijuana" used in treating Parkinson's
A marijuana-like chemical in the brain that helps regulate body movement and coordination might be used to treat diseases that produce tics and shaking, such as Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia, researchers said.
cannabinoids and Parkinson
cannabis/dopamine
CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archives
Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
Long-Term Pot-Use Study: No Ill Health Effects
Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Neonatal Outcomes in Jamaica:
An Ethnographic Study
Cannabidiol: The Wonder Drug of the 21st Century?
Cannabis Less Harmful Than Aspirin, Says Scientist
"The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exclusions and incapacitations are removed." Thomas Jefferson, 1776
Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys
Pot Shrinks Tumors - Government Knew in '74
Marijuana May Offer Protection Against Tumors!
"Marijuana" Used to treat Sceizure Disorders
Webster's Dictionary 1952
Bhang-(bang). n [Hind.from Sans.. bhanga,hemp]
An Indian variety of the common hemp, the resin of which is highly narcotic and intoxicant, and a popular Oriental stimulant, otherwise called hashish. Also employed in medicine, for its anodyne, hyponotic, and anti-spasmodic qualities; also spelled bang, beng.
Andrew Weil on medical uses of Ecstasy, MDMA, by Dan Skeen
Weil Says LSD Cured His Allergy
From Chocolate to Morphine Dr. Andrew Weil
Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs.
Stoned scientists
No Bad Drugs: The Newservice Interview: Dr. Andrew Weil
Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts
Lester Grinspoon
Tod Mikuriya
Patients Out of Time
Missoula Chronic Cannabis Use Research Study
Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics
CannabisNews Search - Ethan Russo M.D.
The International Cannabinoid Research Society
Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics
Schaffer Library Hemp/Marijuana Medical Information
"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."
Albert Eistein: My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921
Brain Releases Marijuana-Like Substance In Response To Pain, Study Finds
Sci/Tech | Dope hope for stroke victims
Marijuana Ingredient Helps Mice Overcome Arthritis
Feds wage war on cancer patients Dr. Andrew Weil Commentary
Marijuana Doesn't Cause Lung Cancer
Doctors Organization Scales Back Proposal
