Witchcraft = medication

[Rico]

Originally Posted by Ferd

the question is Rico, what is your point?

so scientists are looking for plants that process chemicals in a way that might be benificial to humans and they are interviewing those closest to these plants, people who have some experience with them....


so if you take a liniar view of history and move backwards in time, drug makers today have an historic connection to occult pharmacology.

but what is the point? the only point you can have is that drugs we use today are tetherd to witchcraft.

and we are saying that is just silly. there is no connection between proper use of modern medicine and ancient pharmocological occultic practice.

we all will agree that illicit drug use today has the same spirits associated with it that it had 2000 years ago. Witchcraft is alive and well in 2008.

so, I ask again. what is your point?

Illicit drug use. Define that for me, would you? If smoking a joint is evil and involves spirits, is it then not evil if a pharmaceutical company chemically produces the same pain relieving effects as marijuana? Does the fact that a pharmaceutical company was able to transform it into a pill make it legitimate? How about something like morphine? Isn't morphine a chemically produced version of heroin? Is the heroin evil to use but the morphine ok because it was produced in a lab?

Originally Posted by Rico

Illicit drug use. Define that for me, would you? If smoking a joint is evil and involves spirits, is it then not evil if a pharmaceutical company chemically produces the same pain relieving effects as marijuana? Does the fact that a pharmaceutical company was able to transform it into a pill make it legitimate? How about something like morphine? Isn't morphine a chemically produced version of heroin? Is the heroin evil to use but the morphine ok because it was produced in a lab?

Bro,

Whoever said that Doctors and Pharmacists do the same must not know what they're talking about:

Here is the real deal.

What doctors are, and do, in the 21st century is thus not much different to what Osler espoused 100 years ago. Their tasks are embodied in the questions that preoccupy patients when consulting doctors: What is wrong with me? (diagnosis); What will happen to me? (prognosis); What can we do? (management plan, priorities and coordination); and Who will do it and be responsible? (competent, up-to-date and experienced practitioners, who are indemnified, and whose expertise is underpinned by broad and rigorous training).
In this context, the medical profession should welcome task transfer and better use of the skills of the various health care providers, as long as it occurs within the boundaries of team care, and as long as quality and safety outcomes are established.
The enactment of the Productivity Commission’s proposals has the potential to realign health care delivery for the 21st century. But it will require wide consultation, a “bottom-up” rather than “top-down” approach, and a modicum of goodwill. It should not be the slippery slope to doctor pretenders.

What does a Pharmacist do?
• Pharmacists prepare, compound, and dispense medicines prescribed by Doctors, Veterinarians, and Dentists.
• They advise customers or patients on the use and interaction of medicines and over-the-counter products.
• They also advise Doctors, Veterinarians, and other prescribers on the proper selection and effect of drugs.
• They may also maintain patient-medication profiles, buy and sell non pharmaceutical supplies, and hire and supervise personnel.
• Some specialize in pure research.

Originally Posted by Rico

Illicit drug use. Define that for me, would you? If smoking a joint is evil and involves spirits, is it then not evil if a pharmaceutical company chemically produces the same pain relieving effects as marijuana? Does the fact that a pharmaceutical company was able to transform it into a pill make it legitimate? How about something like morphine? Isn't morphine a chemically produced version of heroin? Is the heroin evil to use but the morphine ok because it was produced in a lab?

There are so many medications that alter the mind that it isn't funny. I have known and have seen people on different medications that didn't know where they were or make any sense at all. These mind altering drugs is what keeps the world going in the downward spiral, which is so sad.