Excerpt from the book by Anne and Sasha Shulgin 1997

.....This is the thesis that was named "Inductive Inference" by the great Elizabethan scholar, Francis Bacon. His recipe for the establishment of the truth of a fact was deceptively simple. State the "fact"as a hypothesis and design an experiment that will show this hypothesis to be wrong. Carry out the experiment. If you fail, then there is little more reason to believe that the fact is indeed a fact. But it is still not proven. If you succeed with your experiment, then the fact goes down in flames, and your efforts now can be directed to the search for a different, and perhaps better, hypothesis. It is only the failure to disprove a hypothesis that can lend weight to its validity. But proof? That is not obtainable. Many years ago I had a quiet dinner with a research person from the FDA, who told me that marijuana would never be approved for popular use until it had been proven safe.

"What," I asked him, would be the final experiment that would prove its safety?"

"Well," he admitted, "there isn't really any definitive experiment that would answer that concern."

"Then, I must assume that marijuana will never be approved by the FDA?"

"I guess you're right."

This is an example of the Bacon thesis from the world of the realpolitic. You cannot prove safety. You can only fail to demonstrate danger. Marijuana is still illegal and I suspect will remain so for a very long time.

THE LEGALIZE INITIATIVE http://www.legalize.org You can support the Global Days against the Drug War on June 6-8th,1998 and help stop the United Nations from tightening an already failed and unjust drug policy! You can join the Drug Peace rally on the afternoon of June 6th in San Francisco at the Civic Center Plaza. Find out how you can contribute!

NORML http://www.natlnorml.org: The best source for up the most up to date news concerning cannabis

UKCIA http://www.foobar.co.uk/users/ukcia/index.html: The best site in the United Kingdom for an overall look at the battle against the established prohibitionist government bureacracy.

ALOHA AMSTERDAM http://www.xs4all.nl/~homegrow: One of the only spots on the web where you can order cannabis seeds from anywhere around the world. They get the courageous award for being brave about battling bullshit international drug laws.

HEMP NATION http://www.hempnation.com The "War on Drugs" has upset some Canadians so much that they are organizing active combat units. One of the most militant minded, Hemp Nation is selling war bonds that can be redemed after the war is over.

INTERPOLM http://www.interpolm.nl More grow shops are learning about the incredible capacity to display their different goods. This sites has everthing you need and more. they have a "family album" of pictures showing who they are and the work put into their shop.

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE DRUG WAR http://www.hr95.org

NICHOLAS SAUNDERS http://www.ecstasy.org

THE SCHAFFER LIBRARY OF DRUG POLICY http://www.druglibrary.org
 
 

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