Igor Goldenberg

It was answered about 80 years ago.

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Iconoclast

Yep, it did not work - same as the current "war on (other) drugs."

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The Seeing

The question seemingly remains ;
Who supports the drug war ?

Anyone ?
Come on we know you're out there .
You can extol us with the virtues of "sending the right message" and other such cognitive dissonant bleatings .

Iconoclast

I don't think any are out there in Chessdom. Some things are genuinely stupid and universally eschewed within some circles

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Which really does lend credence to the well worn hypothesis that AC is a complete and utter freak !

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antichrist

all the druggies should be denied social welfare and be quarantined on a prison farm to grow their own food and provided with basic caravans only. now they get pensions and subsidised homes for life - what a joke - without having never to left an arm in effort.

Iconoclast

Agreed. Give everyone a chance to clean up their act. I would willingly pay much more taxes if these people could be "trained" back to "acceptable" social behaviour.

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antichrist

I see them around this town, nothing wrong with them only they have wrecked their brains, now paranoid etc and a risk to be even near. One recently killed his mother who was also paranoid from drugs. They are forever on social security pension from only their twenties with full benefits - not a bad lurk. Cushioned to their grave.

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Ignoring the non-sequituirs and strawmen .
Yes those pharmaceutical drugs are dangerous - 15 Dangerous Drugs Big Pharma Shoves Down Our Throats | Personal Health | AlterNet

By supporting the drug war ac , you are in effect supporting the high profit black market crims , an increase in use and an increase in danger,death and suffering .
Good job ac , you uninformed , fact averse , misanthropic muppet !

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Iconoclast

Dude, this article states "Long studies to truly assess a drug's risks just delay profits after all." What a stupid statement. A major community good is also delayed, to wit, years of preventable disease, pain, distress and death. Frankly I would like to see drugs fast tracked with protections against law suits for pharma for the first few years of the drugs' availability.

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What about the delay on cannabis ?
Not enough profits from a freely growing plant perhaps , too big a threat to the pain killing industry ?
(Note: pharmaceutical companies in uk, canada and elsewhere are currently busy synthesizing the active ingredients for commercial use ! )

A Higher Level of Freedom: Cannabis' 120+ Benefits To Health | GreenMedInfo | Blog entry | Natural Medicine | Alternative Medicine | Integrative Medicine | Consumer Advocacy

129 distinct disease categories that may benefit from this remarkable plant thus far, and new studies are being added on a weekly basis.->Cannabis | GreenMedInfo | Substance | Natural Medicine | Alternative Medicine | Consumer Advocacy

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THC (marijuana) helps cure cancer says Harvard study | NowPublic News Coverage


Regarding chemicals naturally found within cannabis here is a list of 108 scientific abstracts that indicate the major health benefits of cannabis and cancer.

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1. Crosstalk between chemokine receptor CXCR4 and cann... [PLoS One. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
2. Cannabidiol induces programmed cell death in... [Mol Cancer Ther. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
3. Novel hexahydrocannabinol analogs as potenti... [Eur J Pharmacol. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
4. Pathways mediating the effects of ca... [Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
5. Cannabinoids reduce ErbB2-driven breast cancer pr... [Mol Cancer. 2010] - PubMed - NCBI
6. Cannabinoids in the treatment of cancer. [Cancer Lett. 2009] - PubMed - NCBI
7. JunD is involved in the antiproliferative effect of... [Oncogene. 2008] - PubMed - NCBI
8. Cannabidiol as a novel inhibitor of Id-1 gen... [Mol Cancer Ther. 2007] - PubMed - NCBI
9. Antitumor activity of plant cannabinoid... [J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2006] - PubMed - NCBI
10. Cannabinoids and cancer. [Mini Rev Med Chem. 2005] - PubMed - NCBI
11. Control of the cell survival/death decision... [J Mol Med (Berl). 2001] - PubMed - NCBI
12. Cannabinoids for treatment of chronic no... [Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
13. Evaluation of the cyclooxygenase inhibiting ... [Biol Pharm Bull. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
14. Anti-tumoral action of cannabinoids on hep... [Cell Death Differ. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
15. Gemcitabine/cannabinoid combination triggers ... [Cell Death Dis. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
16. Cannabinoids in the treatment of symptoms in c... [J Palliat Med. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
17. The endocannabinoid system and cancer: therap... [Br J Pharmacol. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
18. Antiproliferative mechanism of a cannabinoid ... [J Cell Biochem. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
19. Stimulation of the midkine/ALK axis render... [Cell Death Differ. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI
20. A combined preclinical therapy of cannabinoi... [Mol Cancer Ther. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI

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-> 108 Scientific Abstracts That Marijuana Heals Cancer Comments on "Does Marijuana Cause Cancer?" | Psychology Today

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» Drug war hypocrisy: drug trafficking’s big money benefits Big Brother and corrupt banksters Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

PF Louis
Natural News
February 1, 2012
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The hypocrisy of the war on drugs is outrageous when compared to the amount of drug trafficking that benefits the CIA and international banking system. The son of a convicted notorious mobster, John Gotti Jr, when asked in court if the family still dealt drugs cracked, “No, we can’t compete with the government.”
Today in Afghanistan, American troops have been seen guarding poppy fields used to make heroin. Those fields were all but wiped out by 2001 when the Taliban destroyed them and forbade that agricultural pursuit. Now they’re flourishing again after the American occupation.
This doesn’t make sense despite all the mainstream reports that American troops are protecting the poppy farmers from the bad guys. Internet sites such as Prison Planet, Info Wars, The Political Coffeehouse and others report otherwise. They connect the CIA and US military to restarting the poppy fields in Afghanistan in 2002, increasing poppy growth by over 650 percent. Who’s telling it like it is?
One way the CIA keeps their drug trafficking hidden from public view
The CIA’s secret operations to influence journalism started in the 1950s by infiltrating the media and bribing journalists to be operatives and assets for the CIA. By 1976, then CIA director William Colby reportedly bragged that the CIA owned the press. Supposedly, this too secret to name operation was coined “Operation Mockingbird” by Deborah Davis in her book Katherine the Great.
Operation Mockingbird worked well against prize winning journalist Gary Webb when his newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, ran his in depth series on CIA drug trafficking that flooded the USA to help finance the CIA backed Nicaraguan Contras during the 1980s.
Journalists all over the USA jumped on the series, claiming Webb’s journalism was shoddy. The newspaper had to recant and fire him, and Gary Webb was black listed from mainstream journalism completely.


Webb retaliated by having his book Dark Alliance published and making the NY Times best seller list, forcing some of his critics to privately eat crow after the fact.
Despite the CIA’s control of the press, a few Mexico and Central America cocaine busts of plane cargoes and discoveries of large cocaine stashes on crashed planes with CIA hired pilots flying them for front companies did hit the mainstream news, albeit briefly.
Remember the movie “Air America?” It was based on an actual CIA owned front company transporting tons of heroin from Southeast Asia’s “Golden Triangle” poppy fields during and after the Vietnam conflicts. Now Afghanistan and the “Golden Crescent” are the featured opium/heroin conduit sources.
Government and big business using drug traffic profits is nothing new
When the U.S. government made deals with the Cosa Nostra mafia to help police ports and harbors during WW II, they breathed life into the heroin trade. Eventually, Marseilles, France was set up by the Corsican mafia to become the “French Connection” for heroin traffic.
But opium trade history goes back further, to colonial times and early America. That’s when American shipping magnates used their fast Clipper Ships to compete with England’s monarch sanctioned dope running East India Company for transporting opium to China.
A few key players created family fortunes from the China opium trade that exist today within some northeast America’s “old money” families.
Among the familiar family names, according to Wikipedia (source below) is Forbes. Another source mentions Astor, a prominently wealthy philanthropic family around New York today (Wiki source below). In those days, trafficking dope was a legitimate business endeavor, immoral but not illegal.
Now it is illegal as well. Ironically, this allows the biggest illicit drug providers to financially benefit the CIA and international banking.
Sources for this article include:
MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA | WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
Forbes family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Jacob Astor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
US Military Guarding Assisting Lucrative Opium Trade In Afghanistan | The Political Coffeehouse
Mask

in the 60′s vietnam was the leading supplier of heroin, guess who is the supplier now…….AFGHANISTAN

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