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General Interest => Open Free for All => Topic started by: Antigen on September 22, 2004, 10:47:00 AM

Title: Stanton Peele on Cultural Baggage
Post by: Antigen on September 22, 2004, 10:47:00 AM
Also some clips from yesterday's Montel show.

09/21/04

Doctor Stanton Peele -  Author of "7 Tools to Beat Addiction".

Cultural Baggage: (29:00)
MP3:   http://www.drugtruth.net/MP3/FDBCB_092104.mp3 (http://www.drugtruth.net/MP3/FDBCB_092104.mp3)
REAL:  http://www.cultural-baggage.com/ramtorm/to092104.ram (http://www.cultural-baggage.com/ramtorm/to092104.ram)
 

Laws are like spider webs. If some poor weak creature comes up against them - it is caught. But the bigger one can break through and get away.
-- Solon; Greek philosopher - c.630-c.555 BC

Title: Stanton Peele on Cultural Baggage
Post by: Antigen on September 22, 2004, 11:58:00 AM
And Matt Elrod snagged a copy of the Montel show:
http://drugpolicycentral.com/real/csa/montel.rm (http://drugpolicycentral.com/real/csa/montel.rm)

(I'm always tempted to spell his name "Elrond")

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.


--Voltaire (1694-1778)

Title: Stanton Peele on Cultural Baggage
Post by: RTP2003 on September 22, 2004, 12:19:00 PM
Thanks for posting that, Ginger.  I really enjoyed hearing some common-sense re the War on Some Drugs and Addiction/Recovery, particularly the point he made that many of the ideas that get placed in people's heads (i.e. powerlessness, jails/institutions/death, etc.) are often more harmful than the use of drugs is to the person.

I wish more people took Peele's approach.
Title: Stanton Peele on Cultural Baggage
Post by: Antigen on September 24, 2004, 10:52:00 PM
I know! I love Stanton.

When we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the flow of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the US to export tobacco.  Years from now, our nation will look back on this application of free trade policy and find it scandalous.

1989 testimony before the US Trade Representative,September 1989
--Surgeon General, Everett Koop