Ronald Siegel person
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Ronald Siegel exposed
United States documented
“Siegel fired off his letter to the New England Journal of Medicine alerting the medical profession that there was a problem ahead. Users are now experimenting with smoking cocaine, alkaloid, or base. Free base parties have become increasing…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 40:12
Ronald Siegel member_of
Lima conference documented
“appeared in the journal in February 1979. Five months later in July, he along with Polly, Beck, Jerry, and other cocaine researchers found themselves together in Lima for an international symposium on cocaine. It was the first chance North …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 40:39
Ronald Siegel member_of
California Conference on Cocaine host_asserted
“They wanted me to do a scientific paper about cocaine smoking, but not to tell anyone how it was done. I tried to explain that people already knew how it was done. That's why there was a problem. In 1982, Raul Jerry came to the United State…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 46:17
Ronald Siegel member_of
California State University, Los Angeles documented
“While Polly was running his experiments in Peru, further evidence was emerging in the U.S. that Raoul Jerry's laughable predictions in North America's cocaine invasion was right on the mark. In February of 1979, a psychologist from UCLA, Ro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 33:14
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While Polly was running his experiments in Peru, further evidence was emerging in the U.S. that Raoul Jerry's laughable predictions in North America's cocaine invasion was right on the mark. In February of 1979, a psychologist from UCLA, Ro…
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Siegel, who'd been researching cocaine use in the L.A. area since the 1970s, was a well-known drug expert and had something of a media darling. He had become something of a media darling, already with a good quote for reporters wanting an i…
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Siegel had started a pioneering research project in 1975 by taking out newspaper ads seeking long-term cocaine users. L.A. being L.A., he got plenty of responses. He selected 99 cocaine users, mostly young males, and proposed keeping in tou…
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His findings were great news for cokeheads. Not only did cocaine make you feel good, Siegel reported, but it had very few adverse psychological effects, and as a bonus, it helped you lose weight. By the end of the study, approximately 38% o…
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which the psychologist mentioned in passing. Over the course of his study, which ran from 75 to 78, six of the original 99 cocaine users had become confirmed cocaine smokers, pumping something known on the streets called freebase. Siegel wa…
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which was given a choice between smoking lettuce or cocaine, clearly preferred Coke. So when Siegel read Jerry's report about cocaine smoking epidemic in South America, he realized the Peruvians was wrong about one thing. The habit wasn't c…
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but cocaine powder was made to be able to snort. It was extremely difficult to smoke because of the high boiling point. So what was it that Siegel's patients were using? This cocaine they called Freebase. Siegel learned that it was cocaine …
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in January 1974, around the time that coca paste smoking had started to become popular in Peru. According to Siegel, California cocaine traffickers who were journeying to Peru and Colombia for their wet wares heard of the people down their …
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thought that it was cocaine base. So they looked it up in a Merck manual, saw cocaine base, and said, yeah, it's just an alkaloid of cocaine hydrochloride, which is the street cocaine. By a relatively simple chemical process, Siegel said th…
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Hence the expression freebasing. I didn't know that. That was something that they could smoke because it was volatile. And they were wowed by it when they smoked it. The traffickers thought they were smoking base. They were not. They were s…
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Siegel fired off his letter to the New England Journal of Medicine alerting the medical profession that there was a problem ahead. Users are now experimenting with smoking cocaine, alkaloid, or base. Free base parties have become increasing…
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When Siegel, under U.S. government contract, finished a massive report on the history and literature of cocaine smoking, he couldn't even get the government to publish it, allegedly due to concerns that readers would rush out and start smok…