cannabisnews.com: Monkey See, Monkey Do Monkey See, Monkey Do Posted by FoM on October 23, 2000 at 19:22:54 PT Examiner Editorial Writer Source: San Francisco Examiner Imagine the excitement at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Laboratory observers scribble furiously on their clipboards. Their captive squirrel monkey s repeatedly push little levers that give them little injections of THC, the ope rative ingredient of marijuana. Oh, wow. Although pot fiends argue with the fervor of religious zealots that marijuana isn't physically addictive, the federal study is being interpreted as proof to the contrary. Or so we learn from a report by researcher Steven Goldberg in the journal Nature Neuroscience. That's all very well for him to say. Scientists get to go home at night and play Schubert, or chess, or the TV. But let's consider instead the criminally tedious existence of an imprisoned monkey designed by nature to leap in freedom from one vine to the next. And into the cell comes the old dope peddler, wearing the white coat of science, who installs a pot-o-matic machine. The injections offer the monkeys a pleasurable but temporary escape from a meaningless life of cruel confinement, miserable diet and squirrelly companions in misery. Were the same experiment conducted with human prisoners, is there any doubt that the levers would be pulled repeatedly? The proof of pot addiction doesn't sound like science. It sounds like monkey business. Source: San Francisco Examiner (CA)Published: October 23, 2000Copyright: 2000 San Francisco ExaminerContact: letters examiner.comWebsite: http://www.examiner.com/Forum: http://examiner.com/cgi-bin/WebXRelated Articles:Marijuana Monkey Off Your Back http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread7383.shtmlCannabis as Addictive as Cocainehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread7360.shtmlNIDA Researchers Find Animals Will Adminster Marijuanahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread7353.shtml Monkeys Seek Repeated Doses of Marijuanahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread7352.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #2 posted by Dankhank on October 24, 2000 at 07:06:31 PT: Monkey do the doob ... No question this is a powerful piece about the insanity at NIDA.We need to sic NIMH on NIDA ...Peace ... Hemp n Stuff [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by freedom fighter on October 23, 2000 at 22:02:03 PT Monkey See Monkey doMonkey hearMonkey doMonkey smellMonkey do..Monkey don't seeMonkey doMonkey don't hearMonkey doMonkey don't smellMonkey do..:) [ Post Comment ] Post Comment Name: Optional Password: E-Mail: Subject: Comment: [Please refrain from using profanity in your message] Link URL: Link Title: