World Health Organization global Cocaine Project Study suppressed by the United States for 13 years, 1995 - Wikileaks (8 July 2009)

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". cont.... World Health Organization global Cocaine Project Study suppressed by the United States for 13 years, 1995 - Wikileaks (8 July 2009) http://tinyurl.com/lulhjl

RCMP Catches Itself In a Lie

‘We rarely have our facts straight early on’

Who is keeping them accountable? May 7th, 2009 · Raphael Alexander (National Post Editorial) - Just when you think nothing more scandalous could be discovered at the Braidwood Inquiry overseeing the taser-related death of 40-year-old Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport on October 14, 2007, the former commanding officer in charge of investigating the death today defended the RCMP decision to maintain erroneous information publicly for 14 months. The preliminary reports of the death have been contradicted by actual testimony during the Braidwood Inquiry, leading many people to speculate there has been an attempted RCMP cover-up. RCMP Superintendent Wayne Rideout explained that he did not correct falsified reports in the media because his “[...] belief at the time is we needed to protect the facts we were gathering”. He said that it was his decision not to release any further facts about the case, although they allowed the preliminary reports of Mr.Dziekanski being combative, resistant, and only fired upon with the taser twice to stand. “We rarely have our facts straight early on,” he explained. Well...that’s very interesting of them to say. Does that mean that if the police rarely have their facts straight early in a case, is it at all possible for the RCMP to immediately exonerate the officers involved? To decide that they had all acted “appropriately”? Of course not

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Richard Cohen Reveals His RWA Bias

January 28, 2009 6:48 PM

"And I thought, No, I'm not going to sit here passively and wait for it to happen. I wanted to go to "them," whoever "they" were, grab them by the neck, and get them before they could get us."

DHS scientists, looking into the mindset of those who use terrorism, have focused nearly all their attention on one specific group. This group is notable for the way they behave when mortality salience is present. They behave almost as though they are somehow being rushed to make their decisions, thus the shortcuts and/or following a path that may actually do more harm than good given the lack of understanding of those they are involved with. They seem to be in a chronic state of anxiety, behaving much like what one would expect from those who must try and deal with a steady, low-level fear, with the"fight or flight" response always on a hair trigger, thus the violent and aggressive actions taken over matters that did not seem worthy of the deadly force used. So which group am I talking about? Conservatives of course. Or more specifically, right wing authoritarians and the 'social dominance-oriented' they follow unquestioningly (in that "RWA-SDO embrace", as it's known) http://www.wam.umd.edu/~hannahk/conservatism.html Now it appears we have a journalist who openly admits his decisions are strongly informed by the fear and anger generated by the WTC attack. Then there's the editor, the public, and the political hacks who are at present still quite clueless over who it is that initiates, perpetuates, and promotes highly damaging reactionary responses to problems m uch more complex that they are willing to acknowledge, or perhaps be unable to even conceive. GWB's presidency played out nearly every single symptom of this debilitating societal disorder. To continue tolerating them as intellectual or emotional equals of other subgroups within the population, will be to bring about our own destruction. Their denial of Global Warming is just one example of their willingness to destroy the planet merely becaused the idea is too discomforting to the way they prefer to see their world. And as far as Cohen is concerned, the big question then is... how could he find this trait admirable enough he'd openly admit it in his column?

The histopathologic effects of Securidaca longepedunculata

Here's another example of the bizarre level of hypocrisy that the prohibitionists behind the WODs must engage in in order to defend their motives.

Note how, at the end of this abstract, the authors compare this plants toxic effects as being of a sort that strongly resembles the damage seen in the organs of chronic users of alcohol --- and acetaminophen! --- or "Tylenol" IOW. How can LEOs live with themselves when one considers the cruel, heartless lack of ethics it must take to arrest, prosecute and imprison a parent, husband or child for smoking pot? How can they sit at a bar-stool popping Tylenol and sharing a drink with buddies, when ALL scientifically rigid studies confirm both drugs as being much more pathological or dangerous to use? It's thinmgs like this that make me wonder if "conservatism" isn't merely a euphemism for persons who share the same emotional stunting that sees them as adults still reliant on an authority figures; people whom they've substituted as the parent, and like the paremnt to a young child, obedience is mandatory. As such, justification for any given law is not theirs to question. It is from them that they depend for knowledge that forms their concepts of existentialism. It's from outside sources that make claims of having all the answers they gravitate toward because they are intellectually incapable of forming abstract thought structures themselves.

Their lack of empathy for anyone outside their own group is one of the hallmarks of political conservatism. It is noteworthy that the very act of employing empathy requires an intellectual feat that newborns and "toddlers" are incapable of, and is one that only becomes available to us once we reach an age where social skills are benificial to getting what the individual needs from others who are not their parents.

The simple-mindedness and "black & white" perception of the world, the inordinate number of conservatives who join any given societies military or police force is also explainable as being motivated by a need to place themselves somewhere they aren't expected to think for themselves; where they will always know what is expected of them; as well as the practical shield that being an LEO can bring to a personality with little empathy. Otherwise, they would very likely to be arrested for after acting out their frustration and embarrassment at not being an intellectually capable person. It all seems to fit. And DHS agrees with me. See Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ABSTRACT

Securidaca longepedunculata is a savannah shrub commonly used by traditional medicine practitioners in Nigeria; the plant is reputed to have over one hundred medicinal indications. In this investigation, the histopathologic effects of S. longepedunculata on the heart, kidneys, liver and lungs of rats were examined. Albino rats (Sprague Dawley strain) weighing 200 – 250 g were given 2 mg/kg (I.P) of aqueous extract daily for fourteen days and then sacrificed. Tissues were harvested and processed for photomicrographic examinations. Extracts of the plant gave an LD₅₀ value of 37 mg/kg (I.P) and histological alterations monitored. In the kidneys, there was acute tubular necrosis with diffused interstitial and glumerular haemorrhage characteristic of irreversible cellular injury of the epithelium and parenchyma. Similar changes were observed in the liver showing severe ballooning degeneration of the hepatocytes, necrosis and formation of mallory bodies. In the lungs diffused alveolar and capillary damage as well as early formation of hyaline membranes were evident. The histological changes are similar to those produced by chronic ethanol and p-acetaminophene ingestion, suggesting the presence of toxic constituents. From these observations, it can be inferred that the use of S. longepedunculata may be associated with tissue structural damage of some vital organs.

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