Probably my favorite episode of Rosanne. Ever. Carol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYUHeEPVeUo
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Rick Stevens <stevens.r...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > Was this stuff that had no effect in the back of your sock drawer for the > last 20 years? > > Rick Stevens > Psychology Department > University of Louisiana at Monroe > stevens.r...@gmail.com > OSGrid - Evert Snicks > > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Wuensch, Karl L <wuens...@ecu.edu>wrote: > >> It stopped having any noticeable effect on me, many years ago. >> Is this unusual? How does this happen? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Karl L. Wuensch >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:48 PM >> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) >> Cc: Michael Palij >> Subject: re: [tips] Sanjay Gupta on "Why I changed my mind on weed" >> >> On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 07:54:14 -0700, Carol DeVolder wrote: >> >I wonder what impact this more or less open letter will have: >> > http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana/ >> >> I've read Gupta's article and the follow-up posts on Tips and I'd like to >> make a couple of points: >> >> (1) Here is the text of what constitutes a Schedule I narcotic according >> to the DEA: >> >> |Schedule I >> | >> |Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no >> |currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Schedule >> |I drugs are the most dangerous drugs of all the drug schedules with >> |potentially severe psychological or physical dependence. Some examples >> |of Schedule I drugs are: >> | >> |heroin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), marijuana (cannabis), >> |3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy), methaqualone, and peyote >> >> Anyone who has any experience with marijuana will appreciate the >> absurdity of having it identified as a Schedule I drug. Why alcohol is not >> listed here is the real question. Oh, and cocaine, methamphetamine (for >> "Breaking Bad" fans), oxycodone/OxyContin, adderall, and fentanyl are all >> Schedule II, that is, are considered less dangerous drugs than marijuana. >> Here is the DEA page: >> http://www.justice.gov/dea/druginfo/ds.shtml >> >> (2) Back when I was in graduate school at Stony Brook, the famed >> psychiatrist Max Fink (at SB's Med School's Psychiatry Dept) gave a >> colloquium in the psychology department on the effect of marijuana on >> cognitive processes (I forget what specifically he had done but a Google >> Scholar search for "Max Fink" and marijuana gets a lot of hits from the >> 1960s and 1970s. I spoke to Fink after his presentation and asked him if >> he had considered studying the effects of marijuana use on priming effects >> on the lexical decision task (Roger Schvaneveldt who was one of the >> original researchers on this topic was still at Stony Brook at this time). >> Fink said it would be an interesting thing to do but it was a great big >> pain in the butt getting funding for any research involving marijuana and >> if you did get funding, there were all sorts of regulations that one had to >> follow that really discouraged people from using it in research. He said >> the really foolish and scary thing was that there was research using new >> drugs that was far easier to get permission to do and with far less >> oversight and regulations but the drugs could be far more dangerous than >> marijuana (how dangerous was unknown but if one checks the side >> effects/adverse effects of drugs in PDR or one's favorite drug reference, >> one should not be surprised to see how often death, stroke, cardiac arrest, >> etc., are listed as side effects). >> >> Others have pointed out that U.S. legal policies concerning drugs were >> not rational, did not really rely upon scientific data, and which drugs >> were considered "safe" and which were considered "dangerous" often involved >> sociocultural and racial considerations. Draw your own conclusion about >> the race-drug connection. >> >> There is an entry on Fink on Wikipedia and it is mostly concerned with >> his work with ECT/Electroshock which, as we all know, is far safer than >> using marijuana. ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Fink >> >> For people considering a classroom exercise on the Pro's and Cons of >> marijuana for medicinal purposes, see the following handout: >> Http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/files/marijuana_notes.pdf >> >> The U.S. can benefit from a more rational drug policy and legislation. >> That it took this long for Sanjay Gupta to realize this about marijuana >> is disappointing because that means that there are probably many more >> physicians who have some unsubstantiated beliefs about pot but what else is >> new? >> >> -Mike Palij >> New York University >> m...@nyu.edu >> >> >> >> --- >> You are currently subscribed to tips as: wuens...@ecu.edu. >> To unsubscribe click here: >> http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13060.c78b93d4d09ef6235e9d494b3534420e&n=T&l=tips&o=27000 >> or send a blank email to >> leave-27000-13060.c78b93d4d09ef6235e9d494b35344...@fsulist.frostburg.edu >> >> --- >> You are currently subscribed to tips as: stevens.r...@gmail.com. >> To unsubscribe click here: >> http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13526.d532f8e870faf8a0d8f6433b7952f38d&n=T&l=tips&o=27006 >> or send a blank email to >> leave-27006-13526.d532f8e870faf8a0d8f6433b7952f...@fsulist.frostburg.edu >> > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: devoldercar...@gmail.com. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=177920.a45340211ac7929163a0216244443341&n=T&l=tips&o=27031 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-27031-177920.a45340211ac7929163a0216244443...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > > > -- Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Street Davenport, Iowa 52803 563-333-6482 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. 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