I encounter similar hostility when invoking the (late -50s) concerns of physicist Wald, re. continuous low-levels of (nuclear) radiation--as well as, the not-yet knowable
long-term effects of Brand New (to the species) less- or non-ionizing radiation: whether from cell-fones or via the now routine Overdoses via CATs, MRIs etc.

The abject ignorance (about basic physics) of the Operators of X-ray and similar medico devices is Palpable: most of these 'technicians' aren't Really-clear
about the difference between a Dosage-rate... and the accumulated Dose. Now THAT's the very-definition of BASIC knowledge.
Try asking one: WHAT is the dosage (in RADS, Sieverts et al) you plan to administer?
Don't even IMAGINE they could state the Energy (or spread of same) of the particles/wavicles creating this integrated Dosage ... at varying depths in human moist-ware.
These are most-all: rote-operators, with little curiosity and even less earned knowledge of What they Do.

Similarly--long-term--we possess no fucking 'algorithm' for measuring, let alone "relating" the brain- or attitude!- changes over habitual usage of
(the rich alkaloid mixtures within various cannabis 'products'. And re so much Else.) No $$ alotted to Study. qed
Except: some day, down-the-line, via mining the accumulated random data (collection of which today is Not mandated, correlated (and not-Only "because we don't know How to define 'significant'-impairment".)

In the end though: People Take Drugs to escape an environment they deem, "as-is", is Unacceptable to their psyche.
Were there No Effects--w.t.f. would Buy such substances?

Alcohol's destruction is Sooo-well catalogued. And yet.. And yet.. for millions it remains Their Escape from an increasingly dysfunctional anti-'society' du jour.
My bitching Won't result in 'technicians' having to Prove they Are "technically savvy", nor apply same requirements on MDs (so often barely sci-literate).
And your bitching re pot is null/void to any wannabe Escapee from the shit-building hothouse of 2014 Murica and its inmates.

(I buy the koan, Most people live lives of quiet desperation). In that 'state'--who is to say that a concomitant-Death-wish is not a merely sane attitude trade-off?!
re. living "a liff?" in our sanctimonious ignorance-driven dystopia--especially as its Suckiness Quotient makes giant leaps, almost weekly.)
Amirite? ..enough..?

..And yes, I manage to enjoy my alloted space/time, despite the active-work of tuning-Out the sights/sounds/neurasthenias of those deeply-immersed in 'commerce' and similar $-pursuits.
Most money-obsessed-ones have far more daily-shit-to-eat than I; I guess I'm Richer than they? if ownership of one's time/events trumps fungible phony-money.
'Course, should I run out of 'specie' via the unexpected, amidst the free-fall deterioration occurring.. sooner? I be fucked, too. Crap shoot, as always.
(I do appreciate that you can rarely disconnect to this degree--with any sorts of Dependents. The other Price of er, creating Immortality, say?)



Carrion.. (sometimes that detritus is manufactured intra-body, via outside ignorant habits.) Ya don't have to Eat it to 'Ingest' it! ;^>

All-too-True, as you state. Don't blame the victim of Corporate-designed Serfdom; eliminate instead, the 0.001$ ---> 1%? 2%? 5% ???

I can sorta 'put-up with' the guaranteed oversimplifications of manufactured social-'Systems'--Ours, Theirs and many of the hypotheticals.
We Are Machines (!?) much of waking hours and even with sane/informed employment of Language--we just cannot achieve the Making-of-Laws-without-Oversights.

(Maybe why I decided in negative (when once asked..) Hmm, ever considered studying 'Law'?
It would ever-be a Mare's Nest, even were a majority of bipeds sentient, adequately educated and Meaning-Well..
Hah!...
Pity that the best of the religio-Philosophers (I mean: competent To Philosophize!) have been little-saner than the vast majority of Political-'analysts'.
Du Any jour. (As to Econ-omists--I no words of opprobrium not already over-used.)

So, we're Fucked--metaphysically speaking--via latent/natural on-Average-Incompetence.
Can we survive.. ever to reach Adulthood?

Damned if I have a Clue--but if 'past is prologue'? Well, you know..

http://www.salon.com...on_drugs_partner/

How NBC and our reactionary media perpetuate the war on drugs
Instead of asking tough questions, reporters tend to parrot conventional wisdom -- and ruin hope for real reform
MAIA SZALAVITZ, SUBSTANCE.COM

Journalists are no less likely to take drugs than anyone else—indeed, in my admittedly anecdotal experience, they’re morelikely to use. You’d think that this would make us especially skeptical both about federal policies that failed to prevent our own drug-taking and about extreme claims about drug users.

But the press may actually be one of the biggest obstacles to reform. Instead of asking tough questions, reporters tend to simply parrot conventional wisdom—and reinforce the idea that the drug war is the only way, even when drug warriors’ claims contradict the evidence of the writers’ own lives.

In the last month alone, we’ve seen several particularly egregious examples of mindless reporting—including one that is explicit in propping up longtime racist stereotypes about drug users. If we want better care—and, especially, less incarceration—for addicted people, we can’t just sit by while the media stirs up frequent drug panics. If we don’t challenge the stale formula that “crackdowns” are the best response to drug-related harm and that “typical drug addicts” are black, reform will remain marginal, at best.

Let’s examine the problem in some recent stories. Here’s NBC, in part of a network-wide series on heroin. In a lead-in to a video report headlined “Will the Rise of Heroin Mean the Fall of Pot?” (see the video below) the website says:

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..and so it Goes in our innumerate, oft illiterate kultur.
First: killing all the lawyers.. again.. won't cut it either. List-of-One is just too short :-/