If I were going to promote the use of nicotine for Parkinson's and other
therapeutic uses, I probably wouldn't choose cigarettes as a delivery system.
I don't know about medical cannabis. I suspect it's like medical opiates (but
less addictive.)
I know the amount of money wasted in this country on prosecuting most crimes
related to it could be used to fix so many other things. And the money we could
make taxing and regulating it would probably boost the economy substantively....
Nancy Melucci
PS. Not any kind of regular pot user. I've used it in the past. Yawn. Not my
idea of a good time. There may be no such thing as an amotivational syndrome.
But people who are obsessed with pot generally don't seem to have much of a
life (unless they are very rich...then they can pay others to get things done
for them so they can stay stoned...)
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Shearon <tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu>
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) <tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu>
Sent: Tue, Aug 13, 2013 2:52 pm
Subject: RE: [tips] Sanjay Gupta on "Why I changed my mind on weed"
Nancy
You make a very valid point. His original position does not reflect good
critical thinking either. If all he is saying is that he wants to be more open
minded, and to suggest that his earlier position was ill supported, then I’d
agree with him.J Certainly it hasn’t as you point out, done the population-wide
damage of tobacco or ethanol (both of which also have research showing positive
effects in some ways- e.g., protection from Parkinson’s and beneficial stress
reduction effects of moderate use, respectively).J Clearly one could not come
out in blanket approval of nicotine based on Parkinson’s given the population
effects of cancer and heart disease. (I should stop- I’m starting to ramble as
I try to get out the door to get a new lap-top).J Everyone have a great Monday
evening.
Tim
_______________________________
Timothy O. Shearon, PhD
Professor and Chairperson, Department of Psychology
The College of Idaho
Caldwell, ID 83605
email: tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu
teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and
systems
"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker
From: drnanjo [mailto:drna...@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:05 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Sanjay Gupta on "Why I changed my mind on weed"
Perhaps this was not the best way to present his contribution to what should be
a sea-change (or a "seaweed" change perhaps) on drug policy as it related to
cannabis.
Like any drug it has harmful effects. In pure health terms, the best
recreational drug is no recreational drug (I'd argue this for most therapeutic
pharmaceuticals also also but that's for a different day.)
However it's pretty clear that cannabis' effects do not come even close in
terms of damage done to the social and physical cost of alcohol and tobacco.
The time has come to stop wasting limited criminal justice resources on this
(comparatively) benign substance. I wish he had just said that instead of
trying to couch it in such proof surrogate - y terms.
Nancy Melucci
Long Beach City College
Long Beach and Anywhere USA
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