I saw our country as a nation that had no clue what drug abuse and addiction were about, yet rushed ahead to 'fix' it and made exactly the sort of mistakes that people make when they’re desperate for a solution to a problem they never really understood in the first place.
It’s not one or the other, it’s about the synergy between them– toxic ideas, with a platform that allows them to spread.
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Arguing with believers about the merits of a pet conspiracy theory is ordinarily a waste of time. It’s too easy to ignore or discount any evidence that contradicts their beliefs.
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By adding statistics, charts, graphs, and other trappings of research, it’s possible to make even the most outlandish claim appear convincing.
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Wellness products, which unlike prescription drugs can be promoted with little or no oversight from the government, are ideal for the Wild West atmosphere of today’s Internet.
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It’s likely because of all the favorable attention that hallucinogens have received in the popular media.
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Meanwhile it’s tempting for politicians to point to a particular statistic that appears to support their position, regardless of evidence to the contrary. Think “alternative facts.”
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More likely the hope is to increase awareness of the risks, and encourage drinkers to limit consumption.
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So if some enterprising MD or PhD were to show with a proposal for research designed to prove that drinking has definite health benefits, the industry will throw money at it.
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Sometimes powerful business leaders sound like drunk drivers or corner drug dealers. Rationalizing, externalizing, minimizing…
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After all, you can’t afford to stop selling it. That’s not how you get promoted. What you need is science that seems to confirm your biases.
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CDC gives cigarettes credit for more than 480,000 deaths a year, in the US alone.
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