How many hundred varieties of this plant are there now? How many different effect profiles? How many are labeled “non GMO?” How many have their genes secretly patented by Monsanto? Organic? Are you kidding? The mold, mildew, and pests of indoor growing require pesticides. I think I hear a cry for government regulation brewing in the background.

After the first few dozen deaths (four deaths of athletes were blamed on the ephedra tea used for three thousand years by the Chinese in order to make it illegal), the FDA will require a license to grow. R. J. Reynolds and Philip Morris – now the kinder gentler “altruistc” Altria – will get the monopoly licenses. What a perfect (now even electronic smokeless) vector for brain enhancing chemicals. “Hey, we can put the ergot mold gene for lysergic acid in this one, and the DMT gene from the frog in that one.” Party time! Brain Short Inc. Which leads us to something much more immediate:

Your government now has the technology to change your belief system or eradicate belief entirely without even implanting electrodes in your brain.

Painless directed magnetic frequencies can now shut down specific brain sites that enable the brain to believe something (anything), and then reactivate it to believe another thing. Of course this new DARPA funded research is only designed for use on recalcitrant Muslims who aren’t amenable to Western values. Do I believe that?

Some of these links will be temporary as they are being shut down:

http://scienceblog.com/67103/stimulating-brain-region-makes-people-more-compliant-with-social-norms/
http://csc.asu.edu/projects/
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/07/secret-darpa-mind-control-project.html
http://phys.org/news/2011-10-darpa-master-propaganda-narrative-networks.html
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120501-building-the-like-me-weapon

If you want to get an inside view on how these people think, you have to download PDF white papers, which are fascinating but heavy slogging if you are not an academic:

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/2005/MR1619.pdf
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ada409007