03-11-2019, 04:47 AM
MarkD - I'd hate to see the plight of our poor performing students in East Hawaii--and poor performing adults--be blamed on chemical exposure ... Too much time getting high. Smoking ice and excessive amounts of marijuana
Cognitive dissonance much? Documented exposure to lead and other neurotoxins has got nothing to do with it, but THC is the key (chemical) culprit? Just add them in to the innumerable novel chemicals we are exposed to every day (far more than 1600s Londoners could even dream of).
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...ns/284466/
The Rome analogy seems apropos though - emperors hand down edicts and fiddle while the commoners watch their homes burn... You're probably onto something there!
ETA: The Atlantic quote (as next to nobody actually reads the links)
"The law we do have is the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA, pronounced toss-ka among those in the know). Passed in 1976 under President Gerald Ford, it is still today the primary U.S. law regulating chemicals used in everyday products. [...] It only requires testing for a small percentage of chemicals, those deemed an “unreasonable risk.”
[...]
Landrigan also calls it “a particularly egregious lapse” that when TSCA was enacted, the 62,000 chemicals already on the market were grandfathered in, such that no toxicity testing was required of them. These chemicals were, as Landrigan puts it, “simply presumed safe” and allowed to remain in commerce until a substantial health concern came to public attention.
[...]
In the nearly 40 years since the law’s passage, more than 20,000 new chemicals have entered the market. “Only five have been removed,” Landrigan says."
Cognitive dissonance much? Documented exposure to lead and other neurotoxins has got nothing to do with it, but THC is the key (chemical) culprit? Just add them in to the innumerable novel chemicals we are exposed to every day (far more than 1600s Londoners could even dream of).
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...ns/284466/
The Rome analogy seems apropos though - emperors hand down edicts and fiddle while the commoners watch their homes burn... You're probably onto something there!
ETA: The Atlantic quote (as next to nobody actually reads the links)
"The law we do have is the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA, pronounced toss-ka among those in the know). Passed in 1976 under President Gerald Ford, it is still today the primary U.S. law regulating chemicals used in everyday products. [...] It only requires testing for a small percentage of chemicals, those deemed an “unreasonable risk.”
[...]
Landrigan also calls it “a particularly egregious lapse” that when TSCA was enacted, the 62,000 chemicals already on the market were grandfathered in, such that no toxicity testing was required of them. These chemicals were, as Landrigan puts it, “simply presumed safe” and allowed to remain in commerce until a substantial health concern came to public attention.
[...]
In the nearly 40 years since the law’s passage, more than 20,000 new chemicals have entered the market. “Only five have been removed,” Landrigan says."