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"all of this is very apparent if you have a passing familiarity with how drug use is measured."
Rest assured that this is not my first acquaintance with the subject.
For what it's worth, on the topic of providing information on cannabis, this guy blows away everyone else on Substack, including you and me:: cannabinoidsandthepeopl…
Book reco…
"all of this is very apparent if you have a passing familiarity with how drug use is measured."
Rest assured that this is not my first acquaintance with the subject.
For what it's worth, on the topic of providing information on cannabis, this guy blows away everyone else on Substack, including you and me:: https://www.cannabinoidsandthepeople.whitewhalecreations.com/
Book recommendation-- Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana, by Martin Lee (2013)
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Smoke_Signals/8XE-AAAAQBAJ?hl=en
The most comprehensive history I've ever read on marijuana- and I've read a lot of them. Almost all of the ones published in English, if not all of them.
Including the axe-grinding antis, of course- Harry Anslinger, Donald B. DeLouria, Gabriel Nahas, Robert DuPont, Joe Califano, Alex Berenson. Although those books aren't really histories; they're more intended as inquisitorial bills of indictment. None of them impressed me. But, after all, if you don't comprehend the arguments of your opponents, you don't fully have a grasp of your own position.
It's sad. We agree on some important points. But they share an irrationally exaggerated terror of the risks of marijuana. And all of them think that officially ordained punitive moralism is useful in matters of public health policy, whereas I view it as a severe iatrogenic complication. Possibly a lethal complication, if left untreated. And the influence of punitive moralism on US drug policy has been left largely untreated for around the past 100 years.