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In totalitarian societies, marijuana use is a crime of the mind. Its consumption is distinguished from crimes of violence and other types of offenses in that its use symbolizes a flagrant dissent that challenges the authoritarian ideologies prohibiting it.
Marijuana is criminalized not for how users might conduct themselves after smoking it but for what they might con...
CIA mind control experiments that exposed willing and more often unwilling people to mind-altering chemicals are the focus of an HBO series now in early production by David Chase. Chase is best known as the creator of the Emmy-winning mob drama The Sopranos. His latest drama series is based on John Lisle’s new book href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250338747/...
Dogma is an ancient Greek word that originally meant opinion until it was repurposed in 1534 to be an authoritarian mandate with legal consequences for anyone questioning it. It was the same year the Church of England split from the Roman Catholic Church. In the Reformation, criticizing dogma became heresy. Rejecting it altogether could lead to lethal penalties.
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The anti-marijuana movement is a major obstacle to ending the drug wars that have raged across continents for over fifteen centuries. Beginning in 5th century North Africa, religious factions targeted users of illicit substances in much the way prohibitionists do today. Drug users were scapegoated for social problems unrelated to their drug use while cannabis consumption itse...
American drug treatment programs specializing in cannabis use disorder (CUD) achieve long term marijuana abstinence rates of only 14-to-22 percent. Opioid addictions treated using buprenorphine have a href="ht...
