Exploring Cannabis With Dr.Cannabinergy,
Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, MD, PhD, Physician-Scientist and Medical Geographer

The need to explore human consciousness is as vital as the need to eat or sleep. Since time immemorial and until the end of time, humans have been, and will be, using drugs or plants that seem to facilitate interesting or productive explorations and, without the opportunity to use them under supervised conditions, many people will inevitably be misusing them as long as their dominant cultures, to which they’re pressured to conform, continue to insist that these substances have no legitimate use.
Some psychopharmacologists have described this acquired human drive to psychoactivate as “the fourth drive.”
Thus, taking it into account is essential for a full understanding of human health.
The ‘war on drugs’ or ‘drug abuse prevention and control’ is therefore more appropriately seen as a low-grade, persistent, prisoner-taking war on the acquired human drive to psychoactivate steeped in an ideology of pharmacologicalism in which some substances are allowed and encouraged for psychoactivation (e.g, tobacco, alcohol, caffeine, sugar, cacao, “better than well” mood brighteners) and others are morally forbidden. Pharmacologicalism is a matrix of centralized powers and discursive practices whose object is to reinforce an essentialism of drugs, of angel drug and demon drugs.

When Drug Control Was Handed to the Cops — 1966 by Sunil Aggarwal on Sunday, 07 November 2010 at 01:09 Man of Vision Testifying during a recent Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency, Timothy Leary tells the group that the LSD fad among the young is a “crisis of challenge” and not a “crisis of peril.” He was one of the [...]

Clearing Up Cannabis Confusion Written by Dr. Sunil Aggarwal on December 26, 2010 Hemp, Reefer, Mari(h/j)una, Pot, Maryjane, Ganja, Chronic, Weed are all common names for one plant, Cannabis, which evolved 36 million years ago. This can indeed be confusing, so let’s start from the beginning. Humans and this plant, like all plants and animals [...]

American Medical Association Position: Regarding Cannabis The largest physician-based group in the country, the American Medical Association (AMA), had for many years taken a stance that cannabis had no medicinal value. All that changed on November 9, 2009 when the AMA voted to reverse its position by formally adopting a report drafted by the AMA’s [...]