Topic: Drugs

Is Boxer so stupid that she doesn't understand that these amendments are opposed to one another? Or is she owned (like the rest of the Senators pretending to be afraid of drugs reimported from Canada) by the pharmaceutical industry and just tyring to hide it? ("Hey, I voted for that amendment"!) http://www.capwiz.com/aarp/issues/votes/?votenum=378&chamber=S&congress=1111 http://www.capwiz.com/aarp/issues/votes/?votenum=377&chamber=S&congress=1111 Hey, 19 Billion in government savings and untold billions in U.S. Citizen savings, that's not important right, not compared to the terrible risk that comes from getting drugs made in.... oh wait, they are made here. Scumbags and Morons. They can't get the simplest, most obvious cases right, and yet you have hope for them fixing the entirety of health care. I'm afraid there is no hope on that front. -t

or legalization. Doesn't seem like a tough choice, but we will clearly not be picking correctly. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/04/16/mexico-drug-shootout.html

At least according to this study, which seems to have been well done: Rats that aren't in such bad environments actually don't like narcotics at all: http://www.metafilter.com/79100/Rat-Park-and-Other-Childrens-Stories

http://www.cato.org/raidmap/

And tell me if there is something that mitigates this craziness. I had to stop reading out of fear for the safety of those around me. http://www.herald-dispatch.com/opinions/x2002510532

Wow, just wow. "Honor roll student with no prior disciplinary problems" strip searched after another female student claims she got, get this, ibuprofen: http://vlex.com/vid/30095402 The dissent (of course) makes for good reading.

This cop definitely passed the IQ test: http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/13291990/index.html "We made brownies and I think we're dead"

This month has brought to my attention two seperate cases supporting my long-standing belief that taking drugs for headaches isn't worth it. First: It seems that what I have always said is now the scientific consensus. I.e. popping a pill when you get a headache makes you more suseptible to headaches

Merry Prohibition Repeal day. (I almost missed it!) Read the new york times article and the "related headlines" from 70 years ago, they're interesting:

"Never attribut to malice, that which can as easily be explained by stupidity", is a truism i'm very fond of. However, it certainly doesn't hold for greed. In fact, i'd say you are safe to not attibute to stupidity that which can just as well be explained by greed. (Though it's not like they are mutually exclusive) Research on Ecstasy Is Clouded by Errors

Hmm, one would think I get all my drug news from the L.P., but it's just that they seem to have made it their #1 (only?) issue. This mesg. isn't really about drugs though, it is about privilege and hypocrisy. The point that the INCREDIBLY STUPID movie _Traffic_ missed, and one of the (many) reasons i hated it so much. Not only was it trite, predictable and preachy, it also failed miserably in regards to its much touted "realism"; in reality rich/politico kids end up well protected from both the police and drug-lord/pimps.

Libertarian Party political director Ron Crickenberger makes the (not terribly surprising) claim that anti-drug advert.s are likely to actually INCREASE drug use among children. Of course the 1 billion wasted on this program is still only about 1/2 a percent of what we will now be spending on Farm subsidies. -tec