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megaman79 on 14 June 2009

This sums up the drug wars pretty nicely. I don't do cocaine but maybe i should. lol

World Health Organization global Cocaine Project Study suppressed by the United States for 13 years, 1995

June 13, 2009

Summary

 

In March 1995, the WHO and UNICRI announced the publication of the results of a global study on cocaine. Information had been collected in 22 cities and 19 countries about the use of the coca leaf and its derivatives, its effects on consumers and the community as a whole, and the answers of the governments concerned to the cocaine problem. Preparations for the research began in 1991. Over more than two years, three sub-projects were developed which "proposed to collect up-to-date information about cocaine at regional and national levels." The study was never published despite being "the largest study ever on cocaine use."

 

Reference to the study can be found in the UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Institute of Crime Investigation) library, where it is still marked as "RESTRICTED" [1]

 

The Director of the PSA, Hans Emblad, sent a copy of the Briefing Kit to the United Nations Drugs Control Programme (UNDCP), where it caused a sensation. Two months later, on 9 May 1995 in Commission B of the forty-eighth General Health Assembly, the destiny of these years of labour was determined by the intervention of the representative of the United States of America, Mr Boyer. He expressed his government's concern with the results of this study: "which seem to make a case for the positive uses of cocaine, claiming that use of the coca leaf did not lead to noticeable damage to mental or physical health, that the positive health effects of coca leaf chewing might be transferable from traditional settings to other countries and cultures and that coca production provides financial benefits to peasants".

 

The representative said that his government considered suspending funds to WHO research if "activities related to drugs failed to reinforce proven drug control approaches." In reply, the representative of the Director General defended the study claiming it was "an important and objective analyses done by the experts", which "represented the views of the experts, and did not represent the stated policy position of the WHO, and WHO's continuing policy, which was to uphold the scheduling under the convention." It was not the intention to publish the study in its current form, the representative explained as it might lead to "misunderstanding." The debate concluded with agreement on a peer review by "genuine experts."

 

"The United States Government considered that, if WHO activities relating to drugs failed to reinforce proven drug control approaches, funds for the relevant programmes should be curtailed. In view of the gravity of the matter, he asked the Director-General for an assurance that WHO would dissociate itself from the conclusions of the study and that, in substance abuse activities, an approach would not be adopted that could be used to justify the continued production of coca."

 

Peer review is a fundamental part of every scientific study, including those of the WHO. The timeline set for the peer review procedure was programmed in the terms of reference as to be concluded by 30 September 1997. In fact, from March 1995, names of potential researchers were listed and, in accordance with procedure, sent to the US National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) in charge of selecting the candidates. Over the course of almost two years, an intensive fax exchange took place whereby the PSA proposed names and NIDA answered by refusing each and every one of them.

 
There has been no formal end to this 'Cocaine Initiative'. The majority of the participating scientists never heard what was done with their work.[2]

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_global_Cocaine_Project_Study_suppressed_by_the_United_States_for_13_years%2C_1995

 



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akuma587 on 14 June 2009

There are two words that can adequately describe the effectiveness of the war on drugs in America: miserable failure.

It is probably easier to get drugs now than it was when the war on drugs started. They might as well be legal. We sure as hell aren't stopping people from getting them.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

megaman79 on 14 June 2009

I just think its funny how information contradicting the mantra of drugs kill people is hidden from the public for over a decade and no one thinks any more of it.

Reality is drinking causes more violence, more addiction and causes more deaths because of it. Again this information is glossed over or ignored by the public.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

akuma587 on 14 June 2009

Alcohol is about 5x as dangerous as marijuana. But don't tell state and federal legislatures that.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

MrBubbles on 14 June 2009

guess they never tested crack



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NJ5 on 14 June 2009
akuma587 said:
Alcohol is about 5x as dangerous as marijuana. But don't tell state and federal legislatures that.

I don't know much about this issue, so the questions I'll pose are not loaded in any way, just honest doubts.

I always assumed the issue with lots of drugs (even the "light" ones) is that they're more addictive than alcohol. The percentage of alcoholics out of all the people who drink is probably smaller than the percentage of marijuana (or whatever) addicts.

One can ask whether addiction is a serious enough problem though.

 



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akuma587 on 15 June 2009

Stuff like heroin, cocaine, benzodiazepine, barbiturates, methamphetamines, and other narctotics are physically addictive.  In comparison, there are almost no hallucinogens (like marijuana, LSD, mushrooms, peyote, DMT, salvia) that are physically addictive.  People just lump all drugs together because they don't know even basic psychopharmacology.

Marijuana is not physically addictive. You do not go through withdrawal, it does not trigger the same addiction forming neural pathways in your body as other addictive drugs, and it does not have any chemicals in it that are addictive. Now it is psychologically addictive, but so are videogames, sex, and any other types of behavior we engage in on a regular basis. Banning things that are psychologically addictive is the equivalent of the government being people's parent.  Its like banning fast food because it "tastes too good."

http://www.spencerrecovery.com/marijuana-addiction.html

Marijuana is not physically addicting. But this does not let users off the hook. Just because a drug is not physically addicting doesn't mean that it is not addicting in any capacity. It is by far one of the most addicting drugs on the market when thought about as emotionally and mentally addicting.

Alcohol IS physically addictive. It does cause you to go into withdrawal once you are addictive, it does trigger addiction forming neural pathways, and it does have chemicals in it that are addictive.

http://www.bma-wellness.com/addictions/Alcohol.html


 Alcohol Addiction  
 

Ethanol or ethyl alcohol is a sedative-hypnotic drug that acts on the human brain like other sedative-hypnotic drugs such as the barbiturates and benzodiazepine tranquilizers(Valium, Xanax, Ativan &etc.). All of these drugs can substitute for one another and prevent withdrawal symptoms from each other. Thus benzodiazepine tranquilizers are commonly used briefly to treat severe alcohol withdrawal.

Ethyl alcohol, like other sedative-hypnotic drugs in its class, can cause physical dependence in anyone who consumes enough of it for a sufficient period of time. The withdrawal syndrome from ethyl alcohol is identical to that for other drugs in the same class such as Valium, Librium, Xanax, Ativan, phenobarbital and other barbiturates(Nembutal, Seconal, Amytal &etc.). Individuals who have been regularly exposed to any of these drugs may develop the following physical symptoms upon abrupt discontinuation or drastic reduction of dosage:

  • Anxiety, restlessness, irritability and insomnia

  • Elevated blood pressure, temperature, pulse and respiration

  • Confusion, hypervigilance and disorientation

  • Visual and auditory hallucinations, acute psychotic behavior

  • Grand mal seizures

  • Infrequently, sudden death

Physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms from sedative-hypnotic drugs such as alcohol will develop in anyone exposed to the drug long enough, regularly enough and in a sufficient dosage if intake is suddenly curtailed.


We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

megaman79 on 15 June 2009

I dk whether addiction is the best excuse for drug enforcement when that same gov. makes huge tax revenues from gambling and cigarettes.

But if cocaine isn't a health issue then the criminal actions behind its use are a consequence of the government making it illegal. This just proves making something illegal is ultimately more damaging to society.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

HappySqurriel on 15 June 2009

Having seen the impact of cocain on people first hand, all this study does is make me doubt all the studies that are used to support marijuana legalization.



Kasz216 on 15 June 2009
akuma587 said:
There are two words that can adequately describe the effectiveness of the war on drugs in America: miserable failure.

It is probably easier to get drugs now than it was when the war on drugs started. They might as well be legal. We sure as hell aren't stopping people from getting them.

Well think about it this way.  Cocaine has a RIDICULIOUS profit margin.

So... there is no way to stop it.  You can ship in 10 shipments illegally, have 9 caught and still make a profit!

Also... this article doesn't have anything to do with cocoaine but the actual leaves.

There are plenty of people who are messed up from Cocaine.