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On Aug 14, 2013, at 3:54 PM, Wuensch, Karl L wrote: > As much as Mike's hypothesis appeals to me, the weed seems to affect > others here. > > Cheers, > > Karl L. Wuensch > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 9:31 AM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Cc: Michael Palij > Subject: Re:[tips] Why my mind no longer changes on weed? > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 03:38:56 +0000, , Karl LWuensch wrote: >> It stopped having any noticeable effect on me, many years ago. >> Is this unusual? How does this happen? >> Cheers, > > Dear Karl, > > I don't know how to say this delicately so I'll just say it straight: > it is God's punishment for the evil and wicked behavior of North Carolina > (NC) both past and present. Yes, whatever euphoric or other positive effects > marijuana might have had on residents of NC have been suspended for the sins > that they and their ancestors have committed. Why would God choose to > eliminate the positive effects of marijuana as His/Her/It's punishment? I > don't know but God does work in mysterious ways. As for them there sins, > allow me to elucidate: > > (1) Eugenics: forced sterilization and other eugenics practices were popular > in the U.S. before WWII (just ask Chris Green), some saying that this was the > inspiration for the Nazi laws for increasing the "fitness" of the German > people. For the role that North Carolina played, see this article from the > Salon website: > http://www.salon.com/2013/08/11/north_carolinas_shocking_history_of_sterilization/ > > Briefly quoting from the article: > > |North Carolina's first sterilization law was recorded in 1919, but > |sterilizations did not begin until 1929, after the passage of Buck v. > |Bell, when one vasectomy, one castration, and one ovariectomy were > |performed (the state's law was unusual in allowing castrations for > |"therapeutic treatment"). ... > |By July 1935, the state had sterilized 223 men and women, most of them > |residents of state-run institutions. > (It is unclear whether "state-run institutions" included state colleges). > > It should be noted that NC was NOT the first to propose a eugenics > sterilization law; that honor goes to Indiana who passed a law in 1907. But > don't think that Indiana is getting away scot free: it is being published by > having Republican governors and putting some of them in charge of the state's > major universities; see: > http://socialistworker.org/2013/08/14/whats-wrong-with-indiana > and > http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/07/17/e-mails-reveal-censorship-efforts-by-mitch-daniels-as-indiana-governor/ > > But let's get back to NC's activities that have robbed their residents of > marijuana's positive effects. > > (2) Voter Suppression: current Governor Pat McCrory has just signed a state > law that will restrict non-Republicans from voting. > For background on this see: > http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/North_Carolina_Joins_The_Parade > Even the Catholics are upset by it; see: > http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/shame-north-carolina > These anti-democracy tendencies cannot go unpunished. > > (3) Arresting Riff-Raff: By riff-raff I don't mean ordinary people but the > rapper Riff Raff. Riff Raff is from Houston, Texas and as everyone knows: > "You don't mess with Texas". See: > http://blog.chron.com/hottopics/2013/08/riff-raff-arrested-in-north-carolina/ > > (4) Anti-Sharia Law Laws: NC has recently passed a law that would prevent > Sharia or Islamic law from being imposed on North Carolina. See: > http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/09/north-carolina-your-anti-sharia-law-takes-the-cake.html > > Quoting from the Daily Beast article: > > |Why would Republicans in North Carolina feel the need to prevent a > |threat they admit isn't real? Even the North Carolina Bar Association > |called the legislation unnecessary. > | > |Maybe looking at the legislative history of this proposed bill will > |give you some insight. The Republican-controlled House's version also > |included provisions to restrict a woman's right to an abortion. So in > |the very same breath these Republicans were trying to prevent Islamic > |law from being imposed, they were trying to impose Christian law. > | > |No surprise, then, that they fear Muslims will be trying to impose > |their own religious-based laws-it's exactly what these Republicans are > |trying to do. > > There is an important note: > > |What's interesting about the proposed North Carolina law is that it > |doesn't mention the word Islam or Sharia. Why? Likely because a law > |passed a few years ago in Oklahoma that specifically singled out > |banning Islamic law was struck down by the federal courts. > > So, those crafty, cunning, and crazy Republicans used the term "foreign law" > instead of Islamic law but we all know what is really meant *wink-wink*. > This does raise some interesting questions such as "Does North Carolina now > have to remove all parts of its state law that are based on English legal > traditions as well as that of other European and American (i.e., Canadian, > Mexican, South Amereican) traditions? The article ends by pointing out that > about 10% of the Africans brought to America in the slave trade and that > President Thomas Jefferson held an iftar (end of fasting at nightfall during > Ramadan; for more details see: > http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/islam-in-america/ ) > > (5) Guns: Well, I guess everyone knows that one can't be a real SAS > programmer unless one is packing serious heat (SAS's world headquarters are > in Cary, NC). And the companies in the Research Triangle Park (RTP) know that > a worker with a gun is a happy worker (for companies in RTP see: > http://www.rtp.org/about-rtp/rtp-companies > > Among the companies in RTP is the national honor society Sigma Xi. > I guess after all those years in New Haven, the society's administrators feel > better about being able to shoot first. > > I point out these things because the gun company Sturm Ruger has decided to > move its manufacturing factory from Southport, Connecticut, to Raleigh, N.C. > It appears that the gun company did like the atmosphere in Connecticut after > the December 14, 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. > But NC knows how to make a gun maker feel right at home; see: > http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/56729531-79/gun-ruger-sturm-connecticut.html.csp > > And, for now, last but not least, perhaps the most disturbing activity that > has brought the wrath of you-know-who on NC: > > (6) Pet Flipping: this refers to the stealing of pets and then selling them. > See: > http://www.wnct.com/story/23128449/dog-stealing-trend-on-the-rise-in-eastern-north-carolina > I note that this activity seems to be taking place in eastern NC. Hmmm, who > do we know from eastern NC? ;-) > > -Mike Palij > New York University at Sodom on Hudson > m...@nyu.edu > >> -----Original Message----- >> 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.c78b93d4d09ef6235e9d494b353442 >> 0e&n=T&l=tips&o=27000 >> or send a blank email to >> leave-27000-13060.c78b93d4d09ef6235e9d494b3534420e@fsulist.frostburg.e >> du >> >> >> >> --- >> >> END OF DIGEST >> >> --- >> You are currently subscribed to tips as: m...@nyu.edu To unsubscribe >> click here: >> http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13415.1d1f05e59ddfa82248f422b49a72c2 >> b3&n=T&l=tips&o=27009 >> or send a blank email to >> leave-27009-13415.1d1f05e59ddfa82248f422b49a72c2b3@fsulist.frostburg.e >> du > > > --- > 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=27023 > or send a blank email to > leave-27023-13060.c78b93d4d09ef6235e9d494b35344...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: pcbernha...@frostburg.edu. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263003&n=T&l=tips&o=27038 > or send a blank email to > leave-27038-13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. 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