If All Science Were Run Like Cannabis Research, Creationists Wld Control Paleontology

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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/20...arch-creationists-would-control-paleontology/

In the face of obstacles to marijuana research from both the Drug Enforcement Administration and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology and one-time MacArthur Fellow is calling out the federal government on its obstruction of science.

During an address before a medical marijuana conference Friday, John H. Schwarz explained how the DEA and NIDA act as a “tag team” to censor science, with NIDA holding a monopoly over legal access to cannabis for research, and the DEA refusing to reconsider the drug’s designation in the Controlled Substances Act as a dangerous substance with no medical value on the basis that sufficient research does not exist. He alleges that the government has blocked research even though it has long been aware of marijuana’s potential to serve many medical benefits including shrink aggressive cancer cells is because it might “send the wrong message to children”:

The most blatant example of this behavior came last year, when NIDA blocked an FDA-approved clinical trial testing marijuana as a remedy for post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD. It’s especially sad to note that the study participants were veterans with PTSD deemed untreatable by other means. After 12 years of war, this is how we treat them. […]

As a physicist, I can assure you that this is not how physics works. … We are all expected to act like grownups and accept it gracefully as experiments prove our favorite theories are false. In physics, unlike marijuana policy, we consider the right message to send to be the message that’s true. […]

Consider what American science might look like if all research were run like marijuana research is being run now. Suppose the Institute for Creation Science were put in charge of approving paleontology digs and the science of human evolution. Imagine what would happen to the environment if we gave coal and oil companies the power to block any climate research they didn’t like.

cont. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/20...arch-creationists-would-control-paleontology/

 

[Captain.Heroin]

^ well said. There's already solid research out there that has taken place outside of the United States, but that aside, the FDA, NIDA, and the DEA all suck ass.

 

[rangrz]

If engineers used science like BL users do cannabis research findings, we'd be putting tums in a bottle of coke and attempting to use it as a lift vehicle for a lunar mission.

 

[Captain.Heroin]

So you think it's good that there is a lack of research due to NIDA and the DEA?

Who needs research when you have conventional beliefs about drugs... 8(

If engineers used science like BL users do cannabis research findings, we'd be putting tums in a bottle of coke and attempting to use it as a lift vehicle for a lunar mission.

So make a thread in Cannabis Discussion about how stoners are stupid as fuck, and you'll likely get a healthy thread about the ignorance within modern-day cannabis culture.

This isn't the thread to do that in though.

 

[SpunkySkunk347]

the government can't be convinced to legalize drugs because people are giving them the wrong reasons for legalizing it. Sure marijuana poses almost no health risks, sure it has medicinal use. Does the government care? No.
The government likes pot being illegal because everybody smokes it anyways, so it gives them a level of police-authority over the population.
Convince the government that a different approach would be more beneficial, and use numbers, like, mathematics. Give them some figures on how much they could make from taxes and how much they could save not having the legal cost of sending pot smokers through court and whatnot, and THEN convince them that this monetary gain outweighs the loss of not being able to snoop on 2/3 of the population and not being able to bury people in fines to keep them in debt indefinitely