The US Government tried to kill weed smokers with a toxic chemical in the 1980s
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Re: The US Government tried to kill weed smokers with a toxic chemical in the 1980s
#2I don't see why this should come as a surprise. The government poisoned liquor during prohibition, injected plutonium into unwitting pregnant women, gave innocent people syphilis while giving them fake treatments to see how it killed them (and just for the heck of it because the victims were black), and on and on.
Re: The US Government tried to kill weed smokers with a toxic chemical in the 1980s
#3I don't see why this should come as a surprise. The government poisoned liquor during prohibition, injected plutonium into unwitting pregnant women, gave innocent people syphilis while giving them fake treatments to see how it killed them (and just for the heck of it because the victims were black), and on and on.
This time all the experts from the government and pharmaceutical corporations have only our best interests at heart though.
Re: The US Government tried to kill weed smokers with a toxic chemical in the 1980s
#4How is this any different than denatured alcohol today? You can buy 100% ethanol very cheap if it's been poisoned so you can't drink it.
If you choose to drink it despite a big skull and cross bones on it, was the US gov't trying to kill you?
Re: The US Government tried to kill weed smokers with a toxic chemical in the 1980s
#5I don't see why this should come as a surprise. The government poisoned liquor during prohibition, injected plutonium into unwitting pregnant women, gave innocent people syphilis while giving them fake treatments to see how it killed them (and just for the heck of it because the victims were black), and on and on.
This time all the experts from the government and pharmaceutical corporations have only our best interests at heart though.
The vaccine is working. Not everything the government and pharmaceutical companies do is bad.
Re: The US Government tried to kill weed smokers with a toxic chemical in the 1980s
#6How is this any different than denatured alcohol today? You can buy 100% ethanol very cheap if it's been poisoned so you can't drink it. If you choose to drink it despite a big skull and cross bones on it, was the US gov't trying to kill you?
I guess the difference would be the skull and bones label.
Re: The US Government tried to kill weed smokers with a toxic chemical in the 1980s
#7I don't see why this should come as a surprise. The government poisoned liquor during prohibition, injected plutonium into unwitting pregnant women, gave innocent people syphilis while giving them fake treatments to see how it killed them (and just for the heck of it because the victims were black), and on and on.
Don’t forget that the CIA had to pinky swear not to use vaccine campaigns as cover for spy operations (anymore).
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/05/20/314231260...
Re: The US Government tried to kill weed smokers with a toxic chemical in the 1980s
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
This time all the experts from the government and pharmaceutical corporations have only our best interests at heart though.
The vaccine is working. Not everything the government and pharmaceutical companies do is bad.
Sure, that's what they said back then too.
At any rate, the pathetic bootlicking and prostration to authoritarianism, and mob bullying of anybody who would dare to ask any questions of such pure and innocent institutions is pretty sickening.
Re: The US Government tried to kill weed smokers with a toxic chemical in the 1980s
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
This time all the experts from the government and pharmaceutical corporations have only our best interests at heart though.
The vaccine is working. Not everything the government and pharmaceutical companies do is bad.
Pfizer’s own study shows no effect on death
Re: The US Government tried to kill weed smokers with a toxic chemical in the 1980s
#10How is this any different than denatured alcohol today? You can buy 100% ethanol very cheap if it's been poisoned so you can't drink it. If you choose to drink it despite a big skull and cross bones on it, was the US gov't trying to kill you?
I guess the difference would be the skull and bones label.
Oddly enough for whatever reason they don't seem to use that as much anymore. The visual symbols have been replaced with english text like CAUTION, WARNING, etc. A system of pictograms exists for chemicals but manufacturers must not have to use them.