Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes

[RainDog]

100. but this research itself notes it doesn't demonstrate causation

and, as I noted above, a science editor called out media coverage on the issue as bullshit - media is lying about this study to the American people.

The reason people are so skeptical, as well, is because the NIDA refuses to publish studies that show benefits - so any study approved by them will be skewed before it is even done, based upon the parameters the NIDA sets for funding - which other researchers have discussed to say the NIDA is nothing but a propaganda arm of the DEA.

That's scientists talking about this - they most definitely are not deniers of science. They are, however, noting the bias that exists in order to maintain the current status of cannabis within research.

They have a really bad track record, as well, for getting people to do bogus studies - such as Reagan's old brain damage research - a claim he made based upon research that falsified its actual parameters - but it was touted all over the news until it became yet another media lie. The actual research was not released until lawsuits were filed. No reputable researcher would try to hide a study - and certainly not one that had that much impact upon American political life.

Technology now exists that allows people to look at such situations - so, without a complicit media, you wouldn't see such lies.

This study is more propaganda - and we'll continue to see this as the prohibitionists grow desperate to find ways to maintain bad law - b/c they are that dishonest and untrustworthy.