{"id":271,"date":"2004-09-28T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2004-09-28T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T21:31:00","slug":"271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Drug war backfires again<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Drug Enforcement Agency’s bureaucratic blunders may unwittingly end up boosting the legal hemp industry<\/a>, while new research seems to confirm<\/a> that your body manufactures morphine–a finding with interesting implications for the study of addiction.<\/p>\n

If I were (a) younger and (b) more interested in medicine as a career than I ever was, I would concentrate on the study of addiction. What a spiritual-medical-psychological-legal-social puzzle! <\/p>\n

Thanks to The Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics<\/a> for the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drug war backfires again The Drug Enforcement Agency’s bureaucratic blunders may unwittingly end up boosting the legal hemp industry, while new research seems to confirm that your body manufactures morphine–a finding with interesting implications for the study of addiction. 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