Stanton Peele on Cultural Baggage

[Antigen]

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
REAL:  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

[Antigen]

And Matt Elrod snagged a copy of the Montel show:
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)

[RTP2003]

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.

[Antigen]

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