Middle-Aged Drug Users Have Sharper Minds: 50-YR-OLDS WHO TOKED-SCORED HIGHER ON MEMORY TESTS

[Peace Patriot]

17. Got to read between the lines when a study like this gets published/promoted...

...by the Corporate Press. And, believe me, Rotters is one of the worst as to hidden Corporate agendas.

For instance, there is a big movement in Latin America to legalize marijuana and re-think the entire U.S. "war on drugs," with centrist and even rightwing leaders saying rather astonishing things about it. It could be that Latin American countries will take the initiative and reject the corrupt, failed, murderous U.S. "war on drugs" (as some of them have already done, notably Venezuela and Bolivia), leaving U.S. war profiteers flat-footed and without a "cause." The CIA must know this, so are they laying some ground work for a shift of the war profiteer billions to some other "crusade"?

I don't know anything about this "study"--its funding and origins--but I do know that the Corporate Press is HIGHLY MANIPULATIVE, and if the "study" was truly independent and honest and the war profiteer "powers that be" didn't want it known, we wouldn't know about it. So, whatever the researchers' motivations may have been, the Corporate Press is likely publishing it for hidden reasons.

I have reason to suspect that the Bush Junta was using the U.S. "war on drugs" to consolidate the cocaine trade in Colombia and to better direct its trillion+ dollar revenue stream to certain beneficiaries (the Bush Cartel, transglobal banksters...the CIA itself?). So maybe there is some thinking (behind closed doors) that marijuana now needs to be eliminated as a rival trade (drastic reduction in price if it is legalized) or, perhaps some transglobal corporations are now set up to monopolize legal marijuana trade; they will immediately take it over, once legalized, and the illicit cocaine trade (and heroine trade out of Afghanistan) will keep the U.S. "war on drugs" war profiteers in clover for some time to come.

I don't have this totally figured out yet, obviously--but I'm thinking of recent "studies" promoted by the Corporate Press which have said that women don't need breast cancer screening and men don't need prostate cancer screening. I figured that these "studies" were prep for denial of these medical services by Medicare and the big insurance giants. The Corporate Press has MOTIVES in what they allow you to know. Again, I don't know about the honesty of the "studies" but I DO know that the Corporate Press is the servant of the Corporate Rulers.

As for the substance of this study, that's likely what the manipulators of the Corporate Press want us to restrict our discussion to. Is it harmful? Is it not? (It's possible they are setting up the researchers to be dissed or discredited later on--another possible hidden motivation.) What we should really be talking about is the "war on drugs" and the criminal misuse of this "war" by the U.S. government as a tool of aggression and, if my suspicions are correct, a flipover into vast crime (by the Bush Junta). Whether a drug is harmful or beneficial, or whatever, really isn't that important. How society handles problems such as drug use, drug addiction or the desperate poverty that drives people into illicit trades is the heart of the matter.

So maybe what the Corporate Press motivation is here is distraction. They are quite aware of the legalization movement in Latin America, and the medical marijuana movement here, and they are publishing this NOT to add information and enlightenment to the discussion, but to draw people off into a side issue. That is yet another Corporate Press tactic to look out for.

There is evidence of honesty in this study, in that the researchers admit that "The middle-aged tokers may have scored higher than others because the drug users tended to have a higher education level than non-users." That makes intuitive sense to me (though I don't have any numbers), having lived through much of the history of this medicinal herb as it was demonized by thuggish or cowardly politicians and turned into an excuse for fascist oppression. Intelligent people saw through this and some of society's brightest were in fundamental rebellion against the war machine when marijuana smoking became a synonym for living peacefully. Indeed, that is the first thing that occurred to me, when I read the headline--that many smart people took up marijuana smoking and maybe that skewed the numbers. Well, they admit it, so that's good. On the other hand, you have to wonder about taking up such a stupid study--that is, a study with such a huge "chicken and egg" question at its core. What does it matter, in the end, whether marijuana impairs memory, or benefits memory, or is neutral? The REAL issues are, a) individual freedom, and b) TRILLIONS of dollars WASTED on the "war on drugs." Why didn't they do a study instead on the assholes instigating wars? (Oh, wait, that might harm the cocaine trade!)