what is the CIA's opinion on drug use for military purposes today (relating to MKULTRA & their other drug use
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You might get your info at the following sites : \nhttp://www.cia.gov/saynotodrugs/index\nhttp://www.serendipity.li/cia.html
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All I know is I hope all of our USAF pilots are flying those aircraft with fully functional & alert brains at all times. Even Crew Chiefs & Mechanics should be 100% drug-free & continually alert.\n\nMy advice is if you occasionally use a recreational drug, find another line of employment because the USAF has much more important issues to monitor, other than who is suspected of going back on drugs after they passed the pre-entrance drug screening. Even past addiction can show it's ugly head again, and the USAF =Will= find out!\n\nJust remember there are urine, blood & hair folicle tests that they can subject a person to "without Prior warning", even after you're admitted in. So if you have something to hide, look into selling real estate or maybe selling insurance. Both have higher income potentials anyway. :))
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Am I safer today than I was the day the US started our occupation of Iraq? Are all my rights and freedoms still held in the same regard by the NSA and the CIA? Have the deaths of men and women that wear the uniform, who at best reports, only had their honor to shield them from bullets and IEDs, make for anyone, anywhere, sing the praises of the American liberators? \n\nCongressman Murtha serves his country with Honor as a politician because the spilling Americans blood for no other reason than political gain is a travesty to those who swear to protect and defend. I ask the military to defend my freedom, not to lower gas prices or keep any political party in the majority. Anyone can wave a flag. I demand and expect someone in the House of Representatives to be in service to those who pledge to die for it.
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The truth is ....the Gov....listed it that because it is a widely used herbal relaxant...and peoples ( drug dealers) make good money from it...and the Gov...has no money coming out of it that they can tax so they label it as a narcotic so they can bust you.
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DUCK, man, DUCK!!!!! boy are you in for it. You should know by now you can't talk sense here.\n\nTry saying that when we declared war on terror, it meant we are never gonna stop,\n\nor that the government uses the war on drugs to invade our private lives,\n\nYou are so brave:)
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USMC combat vet here.  i have a right to answer and gave up most of my life so that others had those same freedoms.  and now i don't know.  i don't think so.\n\nbut i don't think it was eisenhower kennedy, and johnson that did it as someone above said; i think it was the citizens of america who traded freedom for a bunch of useless trinkets that no one ever actually saw.
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The 'Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005' was rolled into the 'USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006'. \nIt is Title VII of that act. \nIt requires:\n    * Nationalize restrictions on retail sales by requiring ephedrine and pseudoephedrine products to be kept behind the counter or in a locked case; require purchasers to buy no more than 3.6 grams a day and 9 grams a month, show I.D. and sign a sales log, and require employees handling the products to be properly trained\n    * Toughen penalties against meth kingpins and smugglers and also meth cooks who endanger children or use federal property\n    * Step up the government's authority to monitor the flow of precursor chemicals from foreign manufacturers, including withholding aid to countries who are not fully cooperating with U.S. law enforcement\n    * Hold precursor chemical importers and exporters accountable if their product is diverted for illicit use\n    * Increase funding for assistance programs such as drug courts and those helping mothers or drug-endangered children\n    * Impose on manufacturers quotas for production and import of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine\n    * Pledge support to Mexico in its efforts to curb methamphetamine production \n\nIt was passed by Congress and signed by George Bush in March and will become effective Sept 31st.\n\nVERY patriotic.
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The American War on Some Drugs is actually a war by powerful cultural group on other Americans of different cultural practices who are, if not necessarily less powerful, certainly less inclined to savagely impose those practices on others.\n\n "As a consequence of this 'war' there are hundreds of thousands of political prisoners incarcerated in America. In their pursuit of this campaign, the anti-drug zealots have, in course of a couple of decades, essentially eliminated the civil liberties of those who don't agree with them, and ultimately their own.\n\n "This campaign has profoundly distorted all American institutions, corrupted the governments of half the hemisphere, and caused even more disrespect for government that its equally futile predecessor in Viet Nam.\n\n "If we don't end the War on Some Drugs, there will soon be little left to love in America, as there is already almost nothing to respect."\n\n-- John Perry Barlow, December 1998.
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People seem to be asking plenty of those kinds of questions right here on Yahoo! Answers.\n\nYou can also search in Google.  Archived columns like "The Straight Dope" and so forth will come up, depending on the phrase.
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I think pot usage was wider spread back then before the government dug in with all the anti-drug campaigning and subsidies to law enforcement.  The taboo of it has been softened too.  Coke was off the hook back then, really just getting started...but I don't think it's any worse than today, considering how strong the growing darker forces of the Columbian Drug Cartel have become.  So, all-in-all, the same...basing that on information from the media and the occasional creepy book or two covering the subject from Barnes & Noble....
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Very interesting.  \nThe CIA has always been a morally amiguous organizition which serves the government not in the interests of right and wrong but in guaranteeing US military might throughout the world.  Ex-Nazis were probably used to make connections and guarantee some flow of information.  \nI especially like that the article points out the sentiment of the war on communism took precedent over right and wrong within our government, however slanted a view that is.
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I know one thing for ABSOLUTE sure.\n\nBoth the CIA and NASA have been investigating the use of EMF, microwaves, and sound waves for disabling, irritating, disconcerting, or controlling people in other ways for MORE THAN 35 years.  \n\nIn other words, this work was already long in progress by 1970.\n\nMany, many useful things have already been carefully determined and equipments developed, but little of it is generally known.\n\nNow for my guesstimates:\n\nI am pretty sure they can make you vomit from a distance, possibly not knowing how this is happening.\nAlso, cause headaches, cause pain, cause dizziness, and similar things.\n\nAs to drugs, that has been a special focus of all major intelligence agencies.  The Soviets probably developed some things we still do not know about.  There is an armamentarium of these, all carefully studied, known and catalogued for any future possible use or contingency.\n\nThe Russians used a special gas, not disclosed, in the Moscow Theatre hostage crisis.\n\nHowever, from time to time some less conspicuous use is made of these items.\n\nI daresay if you use your imagination, you would not likely be far off the mark.\n\nThe oversight of these activities is wholly inadequate.  Even supposedly moral people who should be interested by virtue of their positions in government tend to turn a blind eye in this direction.\n\nUnfortunately, that means the less conscientious could be doing virtually anything, perhaps surpassing Hitler, probably at least equivalent.
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I don't think it's fair at all! Even though I don't use either substance, I agree with you 100%. I think at the moment it's a control issue for the Government. If they legalized it right now, they still couldn't keep up with it all because so much is being grown nation wide and there is so much is on the streets. I think they should open up the market for everything. The recreational user will still be the recreational user and the addicts will still be addicts. What does the Government have to loose? Nothing the way I see it, because they will see a new tax base and there will also be plenty of new experimenters turned recreational users. We don't need Uncle Sam telling us what to do and what not to do....especially in the privacy of our own homes!
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Yeah right-- you will really get an expert opinion here.\n\nEr, I mean, yes, I am an MD.\n\nNo drug testing! Spying is not OK!\n\nI know all you youngsters out there with your drug tests and cameras in school think spying on you is normal, but it is NOT OK.\n\nEver read 1984? No? Go read it. Better yet, I'll save you some time: in the future, the government watches your every move to make sure you act the "correct" way and have the "correct" thoughts. How does this happen, I wonder? Because the people let it happen.\n\nDon't let it happen.
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And the real question is why dont US forces bother to stop it.A. because they are in the pay of the locals B. they dont care anyway C.Alot of the U S forces are using the stuff anyway;after all it is a pain killer and if your chasing a non existent enemy all around the place it is very nerve racking(parralels with Vietnam there as well as the probibility that they cant win).D the US government couldnt care less about drugs control,A,B,C or D which would you pick or maybe I missed an alphabet of answers
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frustrating situation and rising resentment. I can't think of any other nations who supported the vietnam war, that was the problem. Drugs didn't have anything to do with vietnam, it was a domestic issue.
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By outlawing the junk, they are encouraging and creating a market for an underworld of dealers. Other than that, there are several conspiracy theories about the government, the distribution of drugs, AND the creation of hip-hip music. Weird, yeah?\n\nThey say that the CIA formulated highly addictive forms of the two drugs you mentioned AND created hip-hop music in the eighties to keep black people down with their own addictions so that they wouldn't vote, run for office, own business, etc.\n\nI don't know if I believe that, but that's what I heard.\n\nGood Luck!