Xerhoss
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I was watching The Botany of Desire last night. For those of you who don't know what it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Botany_of_Desire
While i enjoyed the section on cannabis, i couldn't help but get a little concerned when they were talking about the potential in developing a treatment to induce event-specific forgetfulness. It was packaged pretty like everything else - the idea of being able to treat trauma patients by inducing forgetfulness.
Here's a video presentation from the author of the original book, Michael Pollan, recorded in 2002.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeCra-sn0dI
It's a long video and MJ is featured in the discertation from 24:30-the end, for those that would like to listen to the entire MJ-related section of the lecture. FYI: The segment from 43:10-56:00 covers the topic on memory and forgetting.
I'm all for medical use and even extracted variants for more specific purposes, but in the case of event-specific induced forgetfulness, it's other implications that made the hairs on the back of my neck raise up...military, government, law enforcement, etc.
Scary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Botany_of_Desire
While i enjoyed the section on cannabis, i couldn't help but get a little concerned when they were talking about the potential in developing a treatment to induce event-specific forgetfulness. It was packaged pretty like everything else - the idea of being able to treat trauma patients by inducing forgetfulness.
Here's a video presentation from the author of the original book, Michael Pollan, recorded in 2002.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeCra-sn0dI
It's a long video and MJ is featured in the discertation from 24:30-the end, for those that would like to listen to the entire MJ-related section of the lecture. FYI: The segment from 43:10-56:00 covers the topic on memory and forgetting.
I'm all for medical use and even extracted variants for more specific purposes, but in the case of event-specific induced forgetfulness, it's other implications that made the hairs on the back of my neck raise up...military, government, law enforcement, etc.
Scary.