Here's the editorial called Bungling the Cannabis Story
Correlation does not equal causation, and a single exam cannot show a trend over time. Basic stuff, right?
But judging by coverage of a study just out in the Journal of Neuroscience, these are apparently foreign concepts for many folks in the media.
me:
he's being nice and not saying, outright, that the media are complicit in the drug war in the same way they were complicit in promoting the lies that Iraq had WMDs and "yellow cake" as a faked Niger Embassy claim stated.
In the study, researchers at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital and Northwestern University in Chicago performed MRI brain scans on 20 young adult "casual" marijuana users and 20 age- and sex-matched nonusers. They found that, in the users, gray matter densities in the nucleus accumbens were higher than in controls, and the right amygdala and left nucleus accumbens were shaped differently.
Interesting, but remember that these findings only reflected differences between the marijuana users and controls at a single point in time. The researchers did not, could not, demonstrate that the differences resulted from marijuana smoking or even that the "abnormalities" relative to controls reflected changes from some earlier state.
BRAVO to John Gever for calling out the propaganda. Go to the link here and read the headlines from all the "papers of note" across the U.S.
They look like Pavlov's dogs, salivating when the DEA rings their bell to tell them to publish propaganda... just in time to push back when Dr. Sanjay Gupta said, on national and international television, that the DEA and EVERY AGENCY IN THE FEDERAL GOVT. had lied to the American people for more than 50 years....that's just since Nixon's "war on drugs" began, which Reagan escalated, and no Democrats seriously challenged because they didn't want to look soft on crime...
Come on, America, aren't you tired of this same old shit, over and over again, on issue after issue in this nation? It's the SAME TIRED SCRIPT, time after time. Act tough. Beat up on some veteran with chronic pain. Pretend you're not lying because to do so would call attention to the reality that the entire drug war has been one long litany of lies.
GET OUT AND VOTE to get rid of the lying liars.
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