4 million dollars to find a way to give marijuana users THC

Marihuana, A Signal of Misunderstanding – Table of Contents
Neither severe physical dependence, nor prominent withdrawal symptoms after abrupt termination of very heavy usage is suggested by some overseas experience (Charen and Perelman, 1946; Fraser, 1949; Ludlow, 1857, Marcovitz and Myers, 1944; Siler et al., 1933; Walton, 1938). Other studies, however, suggest marked psychological dependence from heavy use producing compulsive drug taking in very heavy users (Indian Hemp, 1893; Chopra and Chopra, 1957; Bouquet, 1944; Lambo, 1965).

Studies in the United States using much lower doses for shorter periods of time have revealed little if any evidence of psychological dependence (Bromberg, 1934 Mayors Committee, 1944; Williams et al., 1946).

DWR December 4th, 2009 at 4:18 am

National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse
Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding
Chapter III
Social Impact of marihuana use

Unfortunately, fact and fancy have become irrationally mixed regarding marihuana’s physiological and psychological properties. Marihuana clearly is not in the same chemical category as heroin insofar as its physiologic and psychological effects are concerned. In a word, cannabis does not lead to physical dependence. No torturous withdrawal syndrome follows the sudden cessation of chronic, heavy use of marihuana. Although evidence indicates that heavy, long-term cannabis users may develop psychological dependence, even then the level of psychological dependence is no different from the syndrome of anxiety and restlessness seen when an American stops smoking tobacco cigarettes.

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Your average non-toker zombie needs to have the bits fed to them little by little. You can’t give them a brain and expect them to know it’s delicious if they don’t pry it from a warm corpse first themselves!

sorry for the over use of zombie imagery btw but ive been playin left for dead 2 alot latey haha….

But anyways… I don’t think you’re crazy, I think it just needs some toning down for the sake of making progress.

Peace-

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Dirk, looking forward to tearing you apart when I return, patience dude. Nothing personal and please spare the tears. There is a world of difference between man made, huge infrastructure addictive booze and Pharmaceutical industrial complex and a non-addictive psychotropic plant that grows in dirt almost anywhere. Hallucinogens are not addictive. Ganja is not a narcotic. Simply you are either working for or being duped by vested ignorance. Ganja can not stay a schedule#1 drug with all of the medicinal uses being re-discovered, but that doesn’t mean it will become the benign plant it is for the public to use. If they can prove through misnomers and good intentions that it is addictive. They can retain it as a schedule#2 drug and keep the profits in the Pharmaceutical family. And they won’t have to release recreational or Hemp status. Your false definition in a clinical setting only continues the bogus status for greed. Maybe not your personal income, but NIDA’s grants and exploitation along with the true reason Ganja was outlawed in the first place. So I look forward to smashing your theory to bits. Here’s something to gnaw on until then…
Be well.

Stanton Peele’s Body of Wor
The Meaning of Addiction, continue to be actively used in university courses to convey major new directions in addiction thought and treatment.

Following is a list of Stanton’s key writings and the impact of these writings. Stanton has written ahout defining addiction, addictive love relationships, fighting the disease theory of addiction, self-cure of addictive problems, the benefits of moderate drinking, drug and alcohol policies and, most recently, raising non-addicted children, teaching children positive drinking habits, and creating non-disease, “life process” addiction treatment programs.

Drug: Cannabis (marijuana, hashish)
Medical Use: None in modern medicine
Physical Dependence: Little if any
Psychic Dependence: Yes
Tolerance: Little if any

See cleve even Dirk knows how to spell DdC

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As for the anecdotes, if DdC wants to believe that I am a fundamentally dishonest journalist who fabricates quotes, there’s not much I can do about it.

It’s a shame that the DNC/Drug WarRant people don’t seem to understand that I’m on their side.

Why is it so easy for people to understand that most people can drink alcohol without becoming addicted–but a minority cannot? No different with pot. Why this should come as a big surprise or cause such controversy remains largely a mystery to me.

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Who is going to tell the 55 million they were addicted and didn’t even know?

Hansen only suggests that a small percentage of heavy users (an even smaller group) may have difficulty quitting (when they want to), so we may only be talking about less than 1% of the current 25M. My point was that for those unlucky few (possibly many thousands), cannabis dependence isn’t, as Pete suggested, “mostly invented”. Cannabis research did not stop in 1972. And of course none of this is justification for criminalization…

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All Rehabs… and how about dirky…

Dirk Hanson covers addiction medicine, the search for a cure, the science of recovery, alcoholism, and drugs of abuse. New treatment options and recovery
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding.”
~ Upton Sinclair…

Ganja shouldn’t be, no I’d even say Ganja can’t be used as a crutch, the problems need to be dealt with whatever condition it is. Blaming Ganja for individual shortcomings is a copout.

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All Rehabs… and how about dirky…

Dirk Hanson covers addiction medicine, the search for a cure, the science of recovery, alcoholism, and drugs of abuse. New treatment options and recovery
The Chemical Carousel
Collaborative Study of the Genetics of Alcoholism?
Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse: Searching for a Cure

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding.”
~ Upton Sinclair…

Ganja shouldn’t be, no I’d even say Ganja can’t be used as a crutch, the problems need to be dealt with whatever condition it is. Blaming Ganja for individual shortcomings is a copout.

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