Trotsky's great-grand-daughter wants to keep you from getting high

[Princess Luna]

The road from the house of ghosts in Mexico has taken Nora Volkow to a place of influence in Washington. She starts each day with a seven-mile run, getting a healthy dose of dopamine. And looking forward down the road, she sees a day when science might banish the curse of addiction.

Nora Volkow: A cure would be fantastic. And that means you get a medication like an antibiotic. I cure you.

Volkow's labs and others around the country are working to develop vaccines to block drugs from entering the brain. The complexities are enormous, and progress is slow.

Nora Volkow: We're not there yet. But perhaps one day we may be. And in my brain, if you don't dare to think very ambitious things, you'll never be there.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57423321/hooked-why-bad-habits-are-hard-to-break/?pageNum=4&tag=contentMain;contentBody
obviously this could be helpful with more serious drugs, but I have no doubt if discovered the US government would pass a law mandating all businesses give monthly "vaccines" to their employees

there is also a bunch more to the interview, including some stuff about Trotsky. To be honest she sounds like a very boring person...

[Bostana]

Keep us from getting high?

Doesn't she know that the only reason why they made marijuana illegal is so that the corporations can make more profit by using timber as paper, because hemp was a cheaper raw material which caused them to make less money?

Or she does know this and she is just working with the bourgeoisie. I guess it runs in the family....

[Per Levy]

I guess it runs in the family....

fuck you

[gorillafuck]

Doesn't she know that the only reason why they made marijuana illegal is so that the corporations can make more profit by using timber as paper, because hemp was a cheaper raw material which caused them to make less money?that is not why marijuana is illegal, nor is it why marijuana was made illegal.


Or she does know this and she is just working with the bourgeoisie. I guess it runs in the family....yeah, trotskys granddaughter is a conscientious stooge of the paper industry:rolleyes:

[Ostrinski]

fuck trotsky betray revolution moar

Let's get this thread moving in the right direction.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

TENDENCY WARRRRRRRR!
*grabs popcorn*

[Bostana]

fuck you
Luv ya

[Deicide]

Trotsky was a genius.. Stalin was Glenn Beck in comparison.

http://t.qkme.me/39a4.jpg

[Bostana]

that is not why marijuana is illegal, nor is it why marijuana was made illegal.

Are you kidding me?

You never heard of the great William Randolph Hearst campaign? Okay why was it made illegal then? Mister smarty pants :rolleyes:


Harry Anslinger got some additional help from William Randolf Hearst, owner of a huge chain of newspapers. Hearst had lots of reasons to help. First, he hated Mexicans. Second, he had invested heavily in the timber industry to support his newspaper chain and didn’t want to see the development of hemp paper in competition. Third, he had lost 800,000 acres of timberland to Pancho Villa, so he hated Mexicans. Fourth, telling lurid lies about Mexicans (and the devil marijuana weed causing violence) sold newspapers, making him rich.

Some samples from the San Francisco Examiner:

“Marihuana makes fiends of boys in thirty days — Hashish goads users to bloodlust.”

“By the tons it is coming into this country — the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms…. Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him….”

You might find the link where I quoted from very interesting:
http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-marijuana-illegal/



yeah, trotskys granddaughter is a conscientious stooge of the paper industry:rolleyes:

You're friends must hate you when it comes to understanding sarcasm huh?

[ed miliband]

ayo i know what does run in the family - bolshevik puritanism

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Trotsky was a genius.. Stalin was Glenn Beck in comparison.

http://t.qkme.me/39a4.jpg

Trotskyist lies!
Trotsky funded Fox News.

[Princess Luna]

that is not why marijuana is illegal, nor is it why marijuana was made illegal.

yeah, trotskys granddaughter is a conscientious stooge of the paper industry:rolleyes:
I am not sure if the story is true or not, but it is plausible. William Randolf Hearst was a.) a huge asshole b.) had a lot of money invested in non-hemp based paper c.) did in fact lobby for the outlawing of marijuana as well as used his various media holdings to demonize it.

[Geiseric]

I heard it was andrew mellon who had newspaper stocks, but capitalism in general runs off of weakened proletarians who have no vision due to things like drugs and social alienation, like look at how opium was used in china. One of the first things the bolsheviks did was outlaw vodka, but it didn't work since the soldiers who they told to let's say seize alcohol would instead drink it... But i wouldn't have a problem with shutting down a shitload of those indian reservation liquor stores or the ones that plague minority communities.

[Bostana]

Well syd it was a huge system of pro-corporate people who would rather companies make more money then have the people be able to live.

In this case I am assuming zeekloid is trying to cover up for the corporations
;)

[Prometeo liberado]

To be honest she sounds like a very boring person
I woder where she gets it from?:confused:

[Per Levy]

I woder where she gets it from?:confused:

her suroundings, her parents or better who the fuck cares, or do you think that trotsky's dna somehow influences people who are to a little extent related to him?

and if this was a "joke" its just not funny ok.

[Prometeo liberado]

her suroundings, her parents or better who the fuck cares, or do you think that trotsky's dna somehow influences people who are to a little extent related to him?

and if this was a "joke" its just not funny ok.

Touch a sore point did I? Should I have gone with the ice pick meme then? Yes, lets please talk about the "material conditions" that make her, as the OP stated "sound boring". Apparently boredom can drive you mad.

[Rocky Rococo]

She'd be better served working on something to keep icepicks from entering brains.

[gorillafuck]

You never heard of the great William Randolph Hearst campaign? Okay why was it made illegal then? Mister smarty pants :rolleyes:I have heard of it because every stoner kid talks about it. and I don't believe it's the reason marijuana was criminalized. I think marijuana was criminalized as a result of racism, misinformation (which was going around long, long before William Randolph Hearst), and lobbying combined.


You're friends must hate you when it comes to understanding sarcasm huh?you're right, I couldn't tell that was sarcasm. and lol, yeah my friends sure must hate me!

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I have heard of it because every stoner kid talks about it. and I don't believe it's the reason marijuana was criminalized. I think marijuana was criminalized as a result of racism, misinformation (which was going around long, long before William Randolph Hearst), and lobbying combined.

you're right, I couldn't tell that was sarcasm. and lol, yeah my friends sure must hate me!
IIRC the final nail in the coffin for weed was what zeekloid mentioned ^^^

The congressional testimony consisted of "mexicans are crazy because of marijuana" and "it makes black men want to rape white women" along with "shut up doctors nobody cares what you have to say about marijuana not being bad"

[Blanquist]

First off this is a re-post.

Secondly she studies addiction and has done a great deal in terms of research. Drug addiction is a huge problem in the world.

Also lol at the paper theory, you know the world is bigger than just america right?

[BOZG]

I hope she's successful purely to piss off the people on this forum that think getting high is some sort of revolutionary act.

[black magick hustla]

Keep us from getting high?

Doesn't she know that the only reason why they made marijuana illegal is so that the corporations can make more profit by using timber as paper, because hemp was a cheaper raw material which caused them to make less money?

Or she does know this and she is just working with the bourgeoisie. I guess it runs in the family....

weed, mao, and burnt out "legalize marihuana" wikipedia politics. shit, i feel sorry for you for being born in the wrong era lol

[Per Levy]

Touch a sore point did I?

i was tired and in bad mood and then i had to read shit like this. so not really, i mean whats the point, the thread wouldnt exist if she wasnt in some way related to trotsky, she has nothing to do with him beyond being related to him so again whats the point.

[Hit The North]

Also lol at the paper theory, you know the world is bigger than just america right?

But the USA put pressure on other nation states to criminalise cannabis, once it had done so itself.

The way I heard it, the key industry that benefited from the criminalisation of cannabis was the American cotton industry, as hemp was a rival fibre. This also suited the interests of the petro-chemical industry because cotton requires pesticides in order to thrive, whereas hemp doesn't.

I think it is also true that Hearst's newspapers led the way in the campaign to criminalise cannabis, utilising anti-Mexican racism ideologically, in order to win popular support.

[Bostana]

I have heard of it because every stoner kid talks about it. and I don't believe it's the reason marijuana was criminalized. I think marijuana was criminalized as a result of racism, misinformation (which was going around long, long before William Randolph Hearst), and lobbying combined.

Yes did you even check out the link I gave you?

Marijuana is illegal because:
Racism
Fear
Protection of Corporate Profits
Yellow Journalism
Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators
Personal Career Advancement and Greed

A series of thing made it illegal.

[Bostana]

weed, mao, and burnt out "legalize marihuana" wikipedia politics. shit, i feel sorry for you for being born in the wrong era lol

Wikipedia?

Lol I never got anything from Wikipedia just the link I fed you watch was the research of pro-cannabis doctors. You should really read my posts.

Yes that's how they spelled it back then. They also used to spell magic 'magick'

[TheGodlessUtopian]

No more tendency baiting, flaming, or ice pick jokes. Honestly...

[ColonelCossack]

Or she does know this and she is just working with the bourgeoisie. I guess it runs in the family....

lolololol

[Luís Henrique]

Doesn't she know that the only reason why they made marijuana illegal is so that the corporations can make more profit by using timber as paper, because hemp was a cheaper raw material which caused them to make less money?

Usually when the raw materials are cheaper the corporations make more profits, not less.


Or she does know this and she is just working with the bourgeoisie. I guess it runs in the family....

You, sir, are a complete imbecile. And idiots like you, who believe politics are hereditary, should be banned immediately from a left-wing board; it is a very reactionary position, bordering on Hitlerism.

Luís Henrique

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Wow, you idiots that took Bostana's joke seriously need mental help. He was obviously joking. No one believes politics are hereditary.

[Luís Henrique]

Stalinists defending marijuana, now that's precious. Uncle Joe must be twisting within his grave.

Luís Henrique

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Stalinists defending marijuana, now that's precious. Uncle Joe must be twisting within his grave.

Luís Henrique

Too bad we are not trying to recreate the 1930's Soviet Union.

[Luís Henrique]

Wow, you idiots that took Bostana's joke seriously need mental help. He was obviously joking. No one believes politics are hereditary.

There are racist jokes, sexist jokes, chauvinist jokes, and jokes that rely on the idea that politics, responsibility, guilt, etc, are hereditary.

But I don't think he was joking at all. He really believes that Trotsky's granddaughter's politics are due to Trotsky DNA. Or at very least doesn't think that saying such monumentally cretin absurd is reprochable.

If it isn't his position, let him say out loud that it wasn't. Else, gulag with him.
He can't even complain; it is where his beloved Uncle Joe would have sent him, for supporting "bourgeois decadence" in the form of legalised marijuana.

Luís Henrique

[Luís Henrique]

Too bad we are not trying to recreate the 1930's Soviet Union.

Oh, but of course you are. Just now in marijuana flavour.

Luís Henrique

[Princess Luna]

There are racist jokes, sexist jokes, chauvinist jokes, and jokes that rely on the idea that politics, responsibility, guilt, etc, are hereditary.

But I don't think he was joking at all. He really believes that Trotsky's granddaughter's politics are due to Trotsky DNA. Or at very least doesn't think that saying such monumentally cretin absurd is reprochable.

If it isn't his position, let him say out loud that it wasn't. Else, gulag with him.
He can't even complain; it is where his beloved Uncle Joe would have sent him, for supporting "bourgeois decadence" in the form of legalised marijuana.

Luís Henrique
Racist jokes, Sexist jokes, and Chauvinist jokes are bad because they demean entire groups of people. Claiming politics are hereditary is at most stupid, but not offensive.

[ForgedConscience]

Are you seriously making the leap of logic that because he made a provocative joke, he must somehow believe it too?

Jokes like this don't rely on claims of fact, they rely on non-sensical claims as a means to generate amusement.

[Omsk]

Troubling times are upon us if Gideites have to judge anyone.