The Huff Post’s drug problem

[neversickanymore]

The Huff Post’s drug problem
By Eliyahu Federman
December 21, 2014

The Huffington Post, through its widely viewed video service HuffPost Live, is promoting recreational use of marijuana as well as even more troubling nonsense about the medicinal value of hard drugs like ecstasy, acid and other Schedule I substances.

When Miley Cyrus smoked a joint on stage at the European Music Awards and at the Art Basel Miami Beach festival, most saw it as reflecting the ills of celebrity culture.

But the danger of public acceptance and misuse is much greater when a significant media outlet promotes illicit drugs.

The most recent example was just this month in a HuffPost Live segment on the benefits of psychedelic drugs, like mushrooms, to treat depression. In the intro, host Josh Zepps talks up his own personal and seemingly positive “holistic loving majesty” recreational experiences with hallucinogen use.

Tellingly, the panel consisted of two authors on books defending LSD, mushrooms, acid and ecstasy, plus one libertarian presenting the pro-drug-legalization side.

There wasn’t a single MD to defend (let alone challenge) the claim that psychedelics have legitimate medicinal value.

A network that has had guests like Jimmy Carter, Elizabeth Warren, Bill Gates, Bill de Blasio, Cory Booker and others should’ve had no trouble finding an expert physician to discuss this.

Was someone too high to realize that having a doctor on the panel might be relevant to a segment on the power of “magic mushrooms” to treat depression? Or maybe HuffPo couldn’t find a doctor to endorse that view?

In a similar segment earlier this year, HuffPost Live host Alyona Minkovski joined author Tom Schroder to discuss how ecstasy can supposedly help heal illnesses like PTSD.

The problem’s not just that the government classifies ecstasy as a dangerous drug with “no recognized medical use.”

A scientific review of the drug found that even if it has therapeutic effects in some patients, it’s still unsafe medically because of its “lasting neurotoxic and cognition impairing effects in humans.”

The rest of this can be found here http://nypost.com/2014/12/21/the-huff-posts-drug-problem/

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Love the hypocrisy of a theologian talking scientific proof... o yeah religion and its nonsense is excused under "faith." 8)

Well im pretty sure we can enlighten this poor ignorant person to more than a few things..

Eli Federman..
He earned his B.A. from Marquette University and graduated law school from City University of New York School of law where he served as executive editor of the law review and interned for civil rights lawyer Ron Kuby. He received his theological training at Mayanot and the Rabbinical College of America.

He is also a community activist and writer whose work has been published in USA Today the NY Times, The Forward, Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Press and elsewhere on issues pertaining to sexual abuse awareness, gender equality, civil rights and improving police-community relations.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eliyahu-federman/

 

[AlphaMethylPhenyl]

Well sure, MDMA (assuming it's pure) is neurotoxic even in high recreational doses, but the rest don't seem to be with a single use. Not having a physician is fine if they reference qualified studies. Also, that guy is religiously bias I can just tell. LSD, mushrooms, and pot have medicinal uses, and pot probably deserves a place for a large segment of the population to use recreationally, but personally I think it's kind of a "kid drug". Unfortunately other drugs aren't nearly as safe. I won't lie, I've used a lot of drugs. Basically the whole gamut.

But I don't advocate their usage. I think it would be a good idea to at least federally regulate the aforementioned drugs so that less of it ends up in the hands of kids, whom, don't know, for instance, that one gram of MDMA taken in a night could make them depressed for a very long time.

It's easy to say "I did it but I don't think others should". I know. But trust me: alcohol is the best way to go for now. You won't have to deal with the legality of it (if you're of age).

 

[Burnt Offerings]

Alcohol is a shitty drug, one of the worst.

I really hate the phrase "hard drugs" for some reason. Especially when it's used to refer to something like LSD, which is probably one of the safest drugs someone can consume, toxicity-wise.

 

[ro4eva]

Eliyahu Federman must have had his asshole wiped clean with dolla bills yo.

Fuck double-standards and the drug war hypocrisy yo.

I just seen a flying lawn mower yo.

Merry Christmas indeed.