Anti-Media bracht afgelopen woensdag het bericht dat de Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in de VS cannabis als ongevaarlijk genotsmiddel heeft gekwalificeerd. Sterker nog het gebruik van cannabis geeft een groot aantal voordelen!!
Zo wordt je gelukkig en vrolijk door het gebruik van cannabis, het zorgt voor socialisering, spraakzaamheid en laat de gebruiker beter genieten van muziek en kunst, aldus de DEA rapportage.
‘Uiteraard’ wijst de DEA wel op negatieve effecten die kunnen optreden na het gebruik van cannabis, zoals bronchitis en longemfyseem, terwijl daar bij gebruik van cannabis zonder tabak geen bewijzen voor zijn.
De DEA wil verder niet ingaan op de sterk geneeskrachtige werking van cannabis en producten gemaakt van cannabis, dit alleen omdat cannabis op de nummer 1 lijst voor (verboden/gevaarlijke) drugs staat……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
In het rapport van de DEA ‘Drugs of Abuse’ staat vreemd genoeg niet de harddrug die verreweg de meeste schade toebrengt en dat op meerdere vlakken, alcohol!!
Het valt nog mee dat de DEA ‘zo gunstig rapporteerde’ over cannabis, daar de alcoholindustrie via lobby kapitalen steekt in het verboden houden van o.a. cannabis………
Al met al een mooi artikel van Carey Wedler, ook informatief over andere drugs als MDMA en LSD. Voorts wijst Wedler op de hypocrisie t.a.v. voorschrift medicatie in de rapportage van de DEA, die vooral in de VS voor veel problemen zorgt en een enorm aantal doden veroorzaakt, zoals men het afgelopen jaar een aantal keren heeft gemeld in de reguliere VS media……
The
DEA Just Admitted Weed Has Never Killed Anyone and Causes ‘Happiness’
June
28, 2017 at 4:08 pm
Written
by Carey
Wedler
(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) The
Drug Enforcement Agency just admitted that cannabis has never killed
anyone. Ever. They also acknowledged that the little green plant,
which has been used across civilizations for
thousands of years, causes “merriment” and “happiness.” But
they still want to keep it illegal.
The
new 94-page report
released this week is
entitled “Drugs of Abuse” and is intended to foster a better
understanding of the dangers of drug consumption. “Education
plays a critical role in preventing substance abuse,”
the document opens. “Drugs
of Abuse, A DEA Resource Guide, is designed to be a reliable resource
on the most commonly abused and misused drugs in the United States.”
While
the report correctly includes seriously dangerous drugs like heroin,
fentanyl, and pharmaceutical opioids, it also includes substances
increasingly proven to be far less harmful than the government would
like its citizens to believe — “drugs” that actually have
medicinal properties. The report fails to acknowledge these benefits
throughout its in-depth explanations.
Nevertheless,
when it comes to cannabis, the DEA is surprisingly honest, at least
in part. Describing the plant for what it is — a “dry,
shredded green/brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves”
— they note that “[n]o deaths from overdose of marijuana have
been reported.”
They
even acknowledge that cannabis use can cause “[m]erriment,
happiness, and even exhilaration at high doses,” as well as
“[d]isinhibition, relaxation, increased sociability, and
talkativeness.” The illegal, allegedly dangerous substance even
causes — gasp — “[e]nhanced sensory perception, giving rise
to increased appreciation of music, art, and touch.”
Of
course, the report focuses far more on the “dangerous” effects of
the plant, including bronchitis, emphysema, paranoia, anxiety, panic
attacks, and a litany of other alleged dangers. Despite the fact that
research has found marijuana use has few significant effects on lung
health —
far less than legal tobacco
use —
and the fact that mounting evidence shows varieties of cannabis like
CBD (cannabidiol) can help treat anxiety and
other mental
health ailments,
the DEA displays no such nuance in their explanations, instead
appearing to base their assessment of safety on the legality of
the drug.
For
example, though they claim cannabis can cause nausea, they go on to
explain in the very same section that “Marinol, a synthetic
version of THC, the active ingredient found in the marijuana plant,
can be prescribed for the control of nausea and vomiting caused by
chemotherapeutic agents used in the treatment of cancer and to
stimulate appetite in AIDS patients.”
Wait,
what?
Indeed,
though cannabis is indisputably a form of medicine, whether for
nausea, anxiety, Parkinson’s disease, Crohn’s disease, chronic
pain, or countless other disorders, the DEA insists that because it
is a Schedule I drug, it has no medicinal value.
The
same pattern emerges with psychedelic drugs, which the federal
government also claims have no medicinal value despite increasing
evidence that MDMA can help treat PTSD (the FDA itself has
authorized research into
the drug’s potential for helping those who suffer with it) and that
psychedelic mushrooms and LSD can
help treat depression.
None
of this is acknowledged in the report. Instead, myths that they are
addictive and dangerous abound.
Further,
conspicuously absent from “Drugs of Abuse” is one of the most
dangerous, addictive, and harmful drugs in the history of mankind:
alcohol. According to
the government, itself, alcohol is responsible for
88,000 deaths per year in the United States, and 15.1 million
Americans suffer from “Alcohol Use Disorder.” But the substance
remains legal. Interestingly, the alcohol
industry remains
one of the largest anti-marijuana legalization lobbies.
The
agency’s dogmatic adherence to arbitrary law is the reason why
alcohol is excluded from this comprehensive attempt to educate
Americans on the dangers of substance abuse. As the report explains
in the introduction, “There are also a number of substances that
are abused but not regulated under the CSA [Controlled Substance
Act]. Alcohol and tobacco, for example, are specifically exempt from
control by the CSA,” and are therefore not included in “Drugs
of Abuse.”
Other
hypocrisies abound. For example, the report lists benzodiazepines
like Xanax as potentially addictive drugs, noting that those who use
“benzodiazepines
to treat anxiety are likely to be physically dependent on that
medication.” But
according to the CSA, on which they base their entire drug
enforcement agenda, drugs like Xanax have “low
potential for abuse and low risk of dependence.”
This is patently false, as 13.5 million Americans are dependent
on drugs
like Xanax,
overdoses are on the rise, and side effects of quitting the
drug include heart
palpitations, panic attacks, and seizures in extreme cases. Yet the
DEA, which enforces the CSA, admits in its own report that Xanax
causes physical dependency.
Ultimately,
while the DEA admits cannabis has never caused deaths and can make
for a good deal of “merriment” and “exhilaration,” the most
telling aspect of the report is the futility of banning drugs in the
first place. The exclusion of alcohol from this report — except the
countless instances where it acknowledges that the drug can
intensify other drug
experiences — shows the federal government’s tirades against
“drugs” have nothing to do with keeping people safe. Prohibition
in the 1920s proved
this,
and the ongoing failure that is the “War on Drugs” continues to
prove it today.
Even
abusing the dangers of cannabis, MDMA, and other drugs the DEA lists
in its report are accurate, the fact remains that other legal drugs
pose just as many, if not more dangers, and individuals should be
free to take risks with their own health, just as they are with
alcohol and tobacco.
Legal
or not, people will find ways to use drugs, and while the authors of
“Drugs of Abuse” likely have good intentions, their efforts are
futile in their lack of honesty about many of the substances listed
and their continued belief that more government and throwing
non-violent people in cages will solve the deeply-rooted problem of
addiction.
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