More Reefer Madness

A reader emails:

Regarding your section “Lies, Damned Lies And Statistics” on your weblog today, you quoted Bob Weiner as saying that THC was the second leading cause of car crashes. I did some quick research and this certainly appears to be false. In fact, the studies specifically find that THC is only statistically significant if used in combination with another drug.

See the following links:

Link 1

Link 2

The definitive review would appear to be this one, because it appeared in Epidemiologic Reviews:

Link 3

Unfortunately, this journal does not have full-text articles (or even abstracts) available on-line to that date.

What, a (former) government official lie about effects of illegal drugs? I’m shocked, shocked…

Soldier Boy

In honor of Bubba’s new-found love of the military, Doug from Upland over at Free Republic has come up with a song.

To the tune of “Soldier Boy“:

Soldier boy?Willy, you’re my soldier boy
I’m so hot for you

You were a coward?on you I had soured
Now that you have changed your tune?I’m so hot for you

I hear you said?you’re not scared of bloodshed?you would fight till you’re dead
Now I’m so hot for you

Iraq you’re scorning?you gave them a warning
With the Jews you’d stand and fight?I’m so hot for you

I hear you said?you’re not scared of bloodshed?you would fight till you’re dead
Now I’m so hot for you

Soldier boy?Willy, you’re my soldier boy
I’m so hot for you

More OKC Middle-Eastern Links

Jim Crogan at the LA Weekly continues to cover the story that no one else will. The FBI shut down an investigation into domestic terrorist training camps, which trained two people from Oklahoma City in the early ’90s.

The Weekly has learned that Chicago-based special agent Robert Wright has accused the agency of shutting down his 1998 criminal probe into alleged terrorist-training camps in Chicago and Kansas City. The apparent goal of the training camps, according to confidential documents obtained by the Weekly, was to recruit and train Palestinian-American youths, who would then slip into Israel. Recruits at these camps reportedly received weapons training and instruction in bomb-making techniques in the early 1990s. The bomb- making curriculum included the sort of explosives later used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. And government documents state that two trainees came from the Oklahoma City area.

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