One for Mike, others re weed..Luv
Catch (on Science Goes to the Movies/pbs) the show (today here) "Trainspotting; Cheech & Chong".
Dr. Yasmin Hurd of the Center for Addictive Disorders ... gives a pellucid run-through re--well several of your koans, for one--talks re how addiction is portrayed in movies, but lots More re the dearth of [Real!] scientific long-term INFO of any kind re this ackshull (!) 'gateway-drug' for very many ..sensitive to various things (noting that females Are more sensitive to most of the opioids etc. cf. Date-rape in Murica, if you need to. (my note, not the Dr.'s)
Particularly mentions--another of your comments--how it is that the prefrontal lobes do not reach 'adult' status until mid-Twenties ie. starting weed-use at the usual monkey-see yout-stage: produces results which (Are within the history which is NOT nearly-sufficiently studied. yet and still.) Notes she: this be first-time in dis-US history of "voting re Use of a Drug!" per the vox-populi masses. Alcohol, cigs etc. covered en passant, natch.
In brief, methinks that your stated views Anti- ..on this Public-Votes [not via: Informed-medical science Opines on:] ... has some ept support. But let's all get rich peddling megatonnes of Weed to ... 'Muricans; disparate/warring tribes as feature: ignorance, cuthlessness and already-too-short attention spans and way-too-short ..on Reasoning of all kinds. What could go Rong next ..and after that?
(I demur as, I didn't much like the stuff earlier, but hardly from any latent Puritanism; it just made-a-one Sillier than one's usual abnormality, I wotted. Still.)
If you can run this down in archives there, methinks you might get a chuckle or two, eh?
moi, *Iconoclastic Pretender to some throne--which I shall refuse because, you know: humility {blushes, but only a little}
* but never pyroclastic (moi pussy-cat y'see? :-)
oT..py + ed.
Dr. Yasmin Hurd of the Center for Addictive Disorders ... gives a pellucid run-through re--well several of your koans, for one--talks re how addiction is portrayed in movies, but lots More re the dearth of [Real!] scientific long-term INFO of any kind re this ackshull (!) 'gateway-drug' for very many ..sensitive to various things (noting that females Are more sensitive to most of the opioids etc. cf. Date-rape in Murica, if you need to. (my note, not the Dr.'s)
Particularly mentions--another of your comments--how it is that the prefrontal lobes do not reach 'adult' status until mid-Twenties ie. starting weed-use at the usual monkey-see yout-stage: produces results which (Are within the history which is NOT nearly-sufficiently studied. yet and still.) Notes she: this be first-time in dis-US history of "voting re Use of a Drug!" per the vox-populi masses. Alcohol, cigs etc. covered en passant, natch.
In brief, methinks that your stated views Anti- ..on this Public-Votes [not via: Informed-medical science Opines on:] ... has some ept support. But let's all get rich peddling megatonnes of Weed to ... 'Muricans; disparate/warring tribes as feature: ignorance, cuthlessness and already-too-short attention spans and way-too-short ..on Reasoning of all kinds. What could go Rong next ..and after that?
(I demur as, I didn't much like the stuff earlier, but hardly from any latent Puritanism; it just made-a-one Sillier than one's usual abnormality, I wotted. Still.)
If you can run this down in archives there, methinks you might get a chuckle or two, eh?
moi, *Iconoclastic Pretender to some throne--which I shall refuse because, you know: humility {blushes, but only a little}
* but never pyroclastic (moi pussy-cat y'see? :-)
oT..py + ed.
