Saturday, August 17, 2019
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Black Fathers Matter
Larry Elder shows just how important black fathers are in turning boys into responsible and happy men--and how their absence has had a tragic impact on millions of black Americans.
Donate today to PragerU! http://l.prageru.com/2ylo1Yt
Left or Liberal?
Tell the average American you’re a liberal and they’ll assume you’re on the political left. Yet, leftists and liberals hold very different positions on key issues. In this video, Dennis Prager explains how the tenets of liberalism like a belief in capitalism and free speech have more in common with conservatism than with the identity politics and racial resentment preached by the left.
Donate today to PragerU! http://l.prageru.com/2eB2p0h
Donate today to PragerU! http://l.prageru.com/2eB2p0h
Friday, June 26, 2015
Indoctrination vs Transfixed
Popular Term Indoctrination
Indoctrinated - are well informed willful participants promoting a theme intented to abstract the goals of an Agenda.
Transfixed - are adherents to a methodical intervention, within a frabricated circumstance, created by a selective reasoning or filtering of the full spectrum of actual facts.
Indoctrinated - are well informed willful participants promoting a theme intented to abstract the goals of an Agenda.
Transfixed - are adherents to a methodical intervention, within a frabricated circumstance, created by a selective reasoning or filtering of the full spectrum of actual facts.
Friday, October 31, 2014
Medicine Men, History's Medical
New Study Shows Marijuana Does Not Lower IQ, But Other Legal Drugs Do
A new study revealed this week shows that in spite of past claims, marijuana use does not affect IQ. The research, performed by the University College of London, was presented on Tuesday at the European Conference of Neuropsychopharmacology in Berlin.
The longitudinal study was performed on over 2,000 students. Researchers studied subjects–once at age 8 and again at age 15–born between 1991 and 1992. As the Washington Post reported, the study found
“‘No relationship between cannabis use and lower IQ at age 15,’ when confounding factors – alcohol use, cigarette use, maternal education, and others – were taken into account. Even heavy marijuana use wasn’t associated with IQ.”
This runs in stark contrast to what an internationally publicized Duke University study found in 2012. That study claimed that using marijuana in adolescence led to irreversible drops in IQ–an average of 8 points. Though scientists almost immediately objected to the efficacy of the Duke study, the University College of London’s findings are the most recent to prove it wrong.
As the lead author, Claire Mokrysz noted,
“This is a potentially important public health message- the belief that cannabis is particularly harmful may detract focus from and awareness of other potentially harmful behaviors.”
In fact, the only substance the study found to lower IQ was alcohol, a government authorized drug.
While cannabis, a largely prohibited plant, improves a variety of medical ailments, alcohol is mostly detrimental and addictive. Even the state, which allows alcohol consumption, acknowledges alcohol’s health risks and admits that it instigates violence.
Likewise, pharmaceutical painkillers can be highly addictive, are increasingly abused by teenagers, kill more people than the drugs the state forbids, and remain perfectly legal. This is because they are approved by an agency in bed with pharmaceutical companies.
Similarly, toxic chemicals are considered legal and safe (as are poisonous foods and pesticides approved by the FDA and EPA) because corporations pay for special treatment.
Meanwhile, drugs deemed dangerous by the government continue to be outlawed and punished. Marijuana is not the only one. LSD, mushrooms and MDMA are increasingly recognized as beneficial yet they remain classified as Schedule 1 narcotics, described by the DEA as
“Drugs, substances, or chemicals…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.”
Painkillers do not make the list, nor does alcohol.
The London study did find that among the heaviest marijuana users, test scores averaged 3% lower, cautioning that there are still drawbacks to consumption. However, as Mokrysz noted,
“The current focus on the alleged harms of cannabis may be obscuring the fact that its use is often correlated with that of other even more freely available drugs and possibly lifestyle factors. These may be as or more important than cannabis itself.”
The study’s main findings add to the growing body of evidence that marijuana is far more medicinal than it is harmful. The new evidence adds to a long list of other past claims about the plant that have been disproved: that it causes cancer, that it is a gateway drug, and that it leads to crime and delinquency, to name a few.
Regardless of how harmful any drug — legal or illegal — may be, it is clear the government is not concerned with keeping people safe. Rather, its audacity in outlawing beneficial substances and promoting more dangerous ones shows not only its tendency toward corruption, but its belief that it can control what an individual non-violently does with his or her own body.
This notion is more dangerous than any drug the government condemns or endorses, but thanks to increasing studies like the University College of London’s, perceptions and policy continue to change.
This article is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to the author and TheAntiMedia.org. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to receive our latest articles. Image credit: Cannatraining
A new study revealed this week shows that in spite of past claims, marijuana use does not affect IQ. The research, performed by the University College of London, was presented on Tuesday at the European Conference of Neuropsychopharmacology in Berlin.
The longitudinal study was performed on over 2,000 students. Researchers studied subjects–once at age 8 and again at age 15–born between 1991 and 1992. As the Washington Post reported, the study found
“‘No relationship between cannabis use and lower IQ at age 15,’ when confounding factors – alcohol use, cigarette use, maternal education, and others – were taken into account. Even heavy marijuana use wasn’t associated with IQ.”
This runs in stark contrast to what an internationally publicized Duke University study found in 2012. That study claimed that using marijuana in adolescence led to irreversible drops in IQ–an average of 8 points. Though scientists almost immediately objected to the efficacy of the Duke study, the University College of London’s findings are the most recent to prove it wrong.
As the lead author, Claire Mokrysz noted,
“This is a potentially important public health message- the belief that cannabis is particularly harmful may detract focus from and awareness of other potentially harmful behaviors.”
In fact, the only substance the study found to lower IQ was alcohol, a government authorized drug.
While cannabis, a largely prohibited plant, improves a variety of medical ailments, alcohol is mostly detrimental and addictive. Even the state, which allows alcohol consumption, acknowledges alcohol’s health risks and admits that it instigates violence.
Likewise, pharmaceutical painkillers can be highly addictive, are increasingly abused by teenagers, kill more people than the drugs the state forbids, and remain perfectly legal. This is because they are approved by an agency in bed with pharmaceutical companies.
Similarly, toxic chemicals are considered legal and safe (as are poisonous foods and pesticides approved by the FDA and EPA) because corporations pay for special treatment.
Meanwhile, drugs deemed dangerous by the government continue to be outlawed and punished. Marijuana is not the only one. LSD, mushrooms and MDMA are increasingly recognized as beneficial yet they remain classified as Schedule 1 narcotics, described by the DEA as
“Drugs, substances, or chemicals…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.”
Painkillers do not make the list, nor does alcohol.
The London study did find that among the heaviest marijuana users, test scores averaged 3% lower, cautioning that there are still drawbacks to consumption. However, as Mokrysz noted,
“The current focus on the alleged harms of cannabis may be obscuring the fact that its use is often correlated with that of other even more freely available drugs and possibly lifestyle factors. These may be as or more important than cannabis itself.”
The study’s main findings add to the growing body of evidence that marijuana is far more medicinal than it is harmful. The new evidence adds to a long list of other past claims about the plant that have been disproved: that it causes cancer, that it is a gateway drug, and that it leads to crime and delinquency, to name a few.
Regardless of how harmful any drug — legal or illegal — may be, it is clear the government is not concerned with keeping people safe. Rather, its audacity in outlawing beneficial substances and promoting more dangerous ones shows not only its tendency toward corruption, but its belief that it can control what an individual non-violently does with his or her own body.
This notion is more dangerous than any drug the government condemns or endorses, but thanks to increasing studies like the University College of London’s, perceptions and policy continue to change.
This article is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to the author and TheAntiMedia.org. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to receive our latest articles. Image credit: Cannatraining
Saturday, January 8, 2011
I Know
Done little bo peeps, Done low jo heeps, Done in the days of mud, Done in the skittles of crud, Done in the washer and dryer, Done in the coffin and crier, Done in the back street store, Done in the telling me more, Done in the why so thin, Done in the do it again, Done in sweet so smell, Done in you selling me hell,
I know about the bills to pay, I know about the its ok, I know about the cards being dealt, I know about the hearts being felt, I know about the guess and gander, I know about the goose and slander, I know about crack so high, I know about stacks of sighs, I know about life on a limb, I know about you cut it off again, I know about twist and turn, I know about swish and burn, I know about crap undone, I know about smack and come,
I know the jock straps tight, I know the woman's all right, I know the wind is blow-in, I know the charts are slow-in, I know the waters down, I know the air is foul, I know the clock strikes 8: , I know the time is late, I know the crew is sound, I know the day goes down, I know the life is getting tuff, I know the game is played in the ruff, I know the hearts of some fail, I know the starts of this wail,
I got a something that I 'd like to say, Before you go and blow it all away, I have nothing and feels alright, You have nothing and you start a fight, I have a woman and its all fair game, You have a woman and its not the same, You have a father and he's not so well, I am a father being sent to hell, Brake n my stuff is not the way to learn, Its only makes you more a step to burn, I know about-- as a rhyme so tells, You know me nothing my decline so shall,
You have a brain you see it there on top, That's just your head the caps don't stop, The caps up there the brains inside, And way up high its dark and scarified, Its like I' am there be don't just hat be, Our hearts are marry, Emotion going, Don't stop an show um, The farts are flow-in, This time I' am goin,
Oh wait the moneys not flow-in, You ain't - stop going away, You going to burn and stay, You just a pup don't get ruffed up, Let the canines do the main lines, Stop with your show-in we don't know where your going, You tuff me not, You scared suck squat, Me here just fine no life to unwind, Can't stay can't go, Do it yourself then you will show,
Just rebuild Gods way - we'll join in and have a stay, That's funny – I haven't – seen what !
You haven't seen God sitting on a pot ? Stand-in here Stand-in fine, God just directing you to unwind, Just rebuild put your card in and make a place wheres we can dig in again, Take my song give it a whirl, And don't forget --- take my girl,
You got it all you want the HIDDEN, Go to God you might not be FORBIDDEN, Not your man at the corner street, Not the suit that gives me the creeps, To the creator of heaven and hell the blue sky and fine sea shells, Our hearts are there don't dis-pare,Will have a good time show-in we care,
We all have a brain stem its safe to say, Some move on up and begin to stay, Explorings not easy and some say unsafe, Its not that bad, If you move up with lace, Its not magic, its not sly of hand, Its just good liven the best you can, The supernatural I would say is True,But most of this is between Me and You!!
Friday, January 7, 2011
Just Believe
Hang-in around with my brothers and my cuz. Doing a little fish-in at a dry lake in the mud. When up pops a whale that took down half my tree. You'd have to been there seen it cause its to big to believe! The rest of the guys well they began to shout! I thought I was in trouble so I had to skate on out. So just don't go a swimmin in the mud. There might just be a creature in that crud! Now taken the feel-in that you can know so well. And just be reel-in the things you know as swell. Keep-in with tradition of the story as its sold. You have to have a reason more than life so is told. An if you keep your head up and your feel-ins in their place! You might just find believe-n is believe-n in its Ace! The other side of the rainbow isn't quite so hard to see. Just keep on a tug-in an the rainbow won't even be! The poverty is within you, Yes the matter is within. The fact that you been duped is but an average way to win. So look for silver linings in the stormy clouds of doubt. And rest assured your way is through and not the round about. Say why don't God just do something before things get so whacked. Well hows about you grab a tool and give yourself a crack. Wasn't all that long ago that Martin Luther King and also John Fitzgerald Kennedy and some-wares in between. Said hay now lets get it in gear and rise ourselves up. The path to havin something better is not off way above.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)