Submitted by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,
According to the DEA, the problem with cannabis in the United States isn’t that it’s still designated a dangerous drug with no medicinal value in spite of volumes of emerging scientific research indicating otherwise.
With 100% chance of at least a 25bps hike (and 10% chance of 50bps), this was perhaps the most 'priced in' of any Fed meeting ever. Of course, it is not whether the Fed hikes or not at a given meeting that matters, but rather what kind of overall hiking cycle it communicates, and so attention is focused on changes to the 'dot-plot'. No surprise here: FED RAISES RATES BY 25 BPS, REPEATS GRADUAL POLICY PATH PLAN, but the forecast is more hawkish: FED OFFICIALS SEE THREE 2017 RATE HIKES VS TWO IN SEPT.
A video of a top secret presentation at the Pentagon has come to light with details of a vaccine which was in development ten years ago to change the genetic make-up of a potential terrorist. The video shows a snippet of a longer presentation to Pentagon officials by a scientist who explains how it is possible to inject a vaccine into someone who has displayed terrorist tendencies on an MRI brain scan. The scientist explains how the vaccine can change the genetic structure of the identifiers terrorist and eradicate their desire to cause mayhem.
A breakthrough scientific study suggests that a hallucinogenic drink from South America called Ayahuasca contains a substance that stimulates the generation of human neural cells. The native South American brew Ayahuasca stimulates the brain and helps fight Alzheimer’s and Down syndrome, according to a new study. RT.com reports: Ayahuasca has been studied before for its ability to fight depression, but in the latest research, published in PeerJ, one of the main substances present in the drink, harmine, was exposed to human neural cells.