Posted on 05/12/2019 2:02:24 PM PDT by buckalfa
Genetic mapping has provided a clue about human vulnerablity to each of these drugs-— both marijuana/THC (the DEA described Class I, though is non-narcotic), and ethanol/alcohol. There is absolutely no doubt about population subsets highly susceptible to either individual agent, dependent on genetic region “dosing” which are proven altered by the environmental chemicals.
Schizophrenia ID’d sites have been studied extensively in the UK, affecting permanent brain cell development alterations in non- mature growing brains up to age of maturity (minimum age 24) with marijuana/THC in populations of chronic use.
With alcohol, entire population groups/genomes have deep susceptibility and lack of metabolic processing (for example: Pima Indians, East Asian population subgroups, Iberian/Celtic gene markers in populations with high alcoholism addiction.
Neither of these are in any dispute- not in modern medicine. What adults, past brain development stages do, is of course their own business— until it no longer is just their business when visited upon others— violence, automotive accidents, motor cortex degradation/ loss of impulse controls. The kind of things which should not be allowed in the transportation industry (which btw also outlaws non-treated Type II diabetes for the potential insulin/sugar collapse, say in commercial trucking or air freight driver).
Cannot “wash away” scientific progress made in the study of these recreational agents. Again— don’t care what adults do at home- but it becomes a societal issue when you have the social impact of people provably out of control. The law must respond.
30-year-old James Jordan... faced charges after a separate altercation on the Appalachian Trail in April, during which he threatened hikers in North Carolina and Tennessee. He is also known by his trail name “Sovereign.”
Trail name? Yeah, ok. That's a bad trail name to have to pronounce after the other inmates have knocked the teeth out of his head for reasons best left unsaid. Thanks buckalfa.
Yes.
I’ve been on the AT in NJ and the lower part in NY, and don’t see these types; it may just be too cold (even in the summer, the nights get chilly in our mountains). Friends who have hiked other parts describe “Have you seen me?” signs posted along the AT - very creepy...
It might just look like that. I think it might also be a Tyvek jumpsuit from one of the CSI’s, who probably took all his clothes.
“Friends who have hiked other parts describe “Have you seen me?” signs posted along the AT - very creepy...”
Not as creepy as you think. Check out the 411 book series. The author started looking into those types of disappearances, and found they clustered, and even weirder, a *lot* of them had strange circumstances, like the person was there is full view one second, and in a moment vanished completely, and then was found in a strange place not easily accessible, too far from where they disappeared to have gotten there on foot.
He claimed some Rangers would only say off the record there was a coverup of the disappearances, and he felt there was some pseudo-paranormal explanation for it, like UFO’s, or some high-tech government thing. He found so many he had to begin doing sequels.
There have been strange cases too where the person was found, disoriented, and not remembering what happened. The guy who created the biggest discovery in DNA science, Kary Mullis, and his daughter both had separate experiences like that. He may have found something out, because he had cryptically said of the event, something like, “It was anthropology, of a scale we can not begin to imagine.” He wouldn’t say anything else.
Very few ever see the full world from their cubicle. It could be a lot weirder than we know.
If you go on the AT without a gun you have a death wish. Meth heads are everywhere on the AT here in N GA.
You can’t carry legally on the AT. How many states do you pass through that would not allow concealed carry? I would never do it without a gun. We carry on small hikes in the Poconos.
Any word on Mark Sanford?
Forget the law. The AT in GA is thick with the meth heads which is probably what that Sovereign guy was. Mr. GG2 and his buddy were up there a couple of years ago for the day and ran into to some real freaks. They were both carrying thank God.
Good point. Do those tyvek overalls have no front buttons and do the front center panels expand up to a large rolled “collar” around the back of the head— like an Elizabethan age undershirt? That’s where my observation was coming from- having a couple of actor’s (expensive handmade) shirts from long ago Shakespeare plays.
The shirt appears to have front ties, not buttons, also. Speculate the delusions of the “Sovereign” of the Appalachian Trail. There are quite a lot of drugged up loons living in the mtns, in deference to renting a shack and ... working. Fat of the land type enviro-loonies who hate all people— and drugged bipolars. Clinically speaking, from experience.
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