SeaGypsy wrote: the Devil's weed people
Lead Poisoning Due to Adulterated Marijuana in Leipzig
... Five hundred ninety-seven marijuana consumers (439 men, 158 women; age 26.9 ± 4.8 years) had their blood lead levels measured at the local health office. Among them, 27.3% had lead levels above the HBM-II threshold ...
The Ethyl Controversy (PDF, 9.7 MB)
by WJ Kovarik - 1993
... The breakthrough came in 1992, when I checked with what was then the General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in Flynt, Michigan.[sic] I learned that 80 linear feet of “unimportant” archives from the office of leaded gasoline inventor Thomas A. Midgley Jr had been released only a few months beforehand. No one had taken the time to look through the mass of disorganized unclassified material. A former Marine colonel and US Energy Department official, William Holmberg, thought it might be important and insisted that I spend a week in Flynt going through the archives. Holmberg was absolutely right. Most of what we
historians now know about the context of the development of leaded gasoline has come from those archives — despite a rather large collection of historical information still (as of December, 2013) being withheld by industry. (Specifically, the successors to the Ethyl Corp., such as Afton Chemical and New Market Inc.) ...
... I was aware, for instance, that Ethyl critics had been attacked in past decades, notably Clair Patterson of Cal Tech and Herbert Needleman of the University of Pittsburgh. ...
... Leaving aside the question of whether history is, in itself, a promotional endeavor, or whether historians should or should not “investigate,” or even whether ethanol is or isn’t net energy positive (here, reasonable people differ), the criticism was the
strongest of any that directly came my way. ...
JacobMadison wrote:Since we were talking about how you could get brain damage from casual marijuana, did the Harvard study test for ... lead.
Show me one shred of evidence that the root cause of the brain damage was not lead.
What if there was a conspiracy to poison people who smoke marijuana in a way that cause brain damage and blame it on the pot?
JacobMadison wrote:Why can't you reproduce their work at home?
pstarr wrote:Plant, your theory .... is on life support.
pstarr wrote: ...Obama and pot. Is there a connection?
Plantagenet wrote:pstarr wrote: ...Obama and pot. Is there a connection?
Yup--- there's a very strong connection between Obama and pot
Obama was a big pothead when he attended Punahou. He spent much of high school getting high.
cheers!
Plantagenet wrote:... I suppose you could reproduce their work at home if you had a few million dollars to spend to buy the specialized brain scan MRI machine and computer imagining equipment and install it in your basement, along with the doctors and staff needed to operate it and interpret the data.
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