An interesting story is making the rounds these days. I'm dead certain that no TOUGHLOVE hategroup or drug warrior summit organizer has bothered to let ya'll know about it, so I thought I'd do you the favor.
Wired
Ecstasy Study Botched, Retracted
By Kristen Philipkoski | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 1
04:39 PM Sep. 05, 2003 PT
A researcher who a year ago published startling research showing that the drug commonly known as ecstasy can cause Parkinson's-like brain damage has retracted his study.
Full Text: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60328,00.html
"What the hell has this got to do with the TeenHelp industry?", you may ask.
Well, I'll tell you. These people--not people like them or people who share some obscure common link--but the same individuals who put their kids in The Seed, founded Straight and continue to support forced Synanon based juvenile 'treatment' are
the very same individuals who now occupy positions of influence in domestic and international drug policy.
They still lie, manipulate, intimidate and coerce whoever they have to to further their higher calling agenda. Last year, a parent group w/ branches here and in Australia lobbied and hassled various medical science journals and institutions to put forth a bogus study which showed a correlation, but no evidence of causation, between marijuana and pscyzaphrenia.(sp?) Not long after, they celebrated just as gleefully this surprising report showing serious, long term and instant side effects of MDMA.
About two years ago, James McDonough, Brother Jeb!'s state drug czar, hit the campaign trail with his alarming report of the high number of deaths from "club drugs". Well, as it turns out, he got those impressive numbers by including tragic deaths like Pearl Mastros, 80, who died in a nursing home; Mitchell Waters, 15, who died playing basketball and Tavani Smith, 4, who died in a hospital.
Make no mistake about it, these people want to seperate you from your children; put you on opposing sides of a war; devide every family in the nation and cause strife between those families who buy into their Hegalian schemes and those who don't.
If you suspect that your kid is involved with illegal drugs, relax, really, that only means they're just like roughly half the other kids in high school since we started doing the surveys back in the `70's. If you're wise enough to know that this sort of thing might lead them to trouble and sorrow, be prepared to stand by them if they need you. But don't fall for the fear mongering and make your own kid an enemy combatant.
Just because you do not take an interest in politics, doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
Anonymity Anonymous
