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a pack of wolves:
You also can't separate these things from the fan violence you're talking about. Celtic and Rangers fans go at each other but it's not just about football, it's also about Catholic and Protestant communities fighting. Or look at violence between FC St Pauli, Hansa Rostock and Hamburger SV. The conflict comes from the latter two sides having, at certain times, neo-Nazi factions in their supporters and FC St Pauli fans being well known for their left wing, anti-sexist (apparently Maxim ads are banned from the stadium) and thoroughly anti-fascist outlook. FC St Pauli bring people together in mutual hatred of the Nazis. What's wrong with that?
Hat:
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--- Quote from: Jeans on 30 Sep 2009, 11:04 ---Music is not a competition.
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http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Freestyle-Rap-Battle
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Also possibly the only competition in which cocaine is legitimately a performance enhancing drug
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 30 Sep 2009, 12:25 ---Well, if it were legal to take ecstasy for recreation, it'd presumably be equally legal to use it as a medication in conjunction with therapy for PTSD sufferers (among other patients suffering from mental disorders of varying severity), and this would take a massive bite out of the pharmaceutical industry's profit margin by replacing a whole pharmacopeia of maintenance medications (which need to be bought in quantity and taken on a daily or twice-daily basis for an extended period of time) with a medication that only needs to be taken once or twice in order to result in successful treatment. The economy would take quite a hit if fewer people needed antidepressants and mood stabilizers, and that's precisely what would happen if MDMA entered psychiatric practice.
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Or not!
onewheelwizzard:
::sigh:: I was literally just at a research conference about precisely this, last weekend. The extrapolation that pharmaceutical industry interests play a causal role in keeping MDMA illegal is my own conjectured opinion, but the bit about MDMA being a safe and effective treatment for PTSD and other mental disorders is simple fact, and it's not a huge leap in logic to see that antidepressant prescription and use would decline if it were available as an alternative treatment. It almost certainly would not be overprescribed to the extent current antidepressants are, so it wouldn't see widespread use, but my personal opinion is that this is because it does not hold the same potential for profit through overprescription.
Hat:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 30 Sep 2009, 16:32 ---
--- Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 30 Sep 2009, 12:25 ---Well, if it were legal to take ecstasy for recreation, it'd presumably be equally legal to use it as a medication in conjunction with therapy for PTSD sufferers (among other patients suffering from mental disorders of varying severity), and this would take a massive bite out of the pharmaceutical industry's profit margin by replacing a whole pharmacopeia of maintenance medications (which need to be bought in quantity and taken on a daily or twice-daily basis for an extended period of time) with a medication that only needs to be taken once or twice in order to result in successful treatment. The economy would take quite a hit if fewer people needed antidepressants and mood stabilizers, and that's precisely what would happen if MDMA entered psychiatric practice.
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Or not!
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cool contribution dude
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