Robert Bick person
also: Dr. Robert Beck, Beck, Dr. Robert Bick, Bick, BIC, Bix
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Robert Bick member_of
Yale University book_quoted
“We don't think people are bringing cocaine across the border to a large extent in a car from Mexico. He recommended that Congress, instead of trying to prevent the drug from coming in over the borders, concentrate its efforts on getting the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 14:55
Robert Bick recruited
David Pally book_quoted
“You'd come around a corner and all you could do was smell it for miles. Alarm Polly called Beck at Yale and told him what he had seen. The substance of my conversation with Beck, if I can remember correctly, was that if this shit ever hits …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 30:50
Robert Bick 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
Robert Bick exposed
U.S. Congress documented
“and other things to buy more drugs. The Lima conference had taken place only two weeks before Beck appeared in Washington, and the stories he heard were fresh in his mind when he sat before the committee. Once Beck testified, he was in thei…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 41:39
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▶ 14:55
We don't think people are bringing cocaine across the border to a large extent in a car from Mexico. He recommended that Congress, instead of trying to prevent the drug from coming in over the borders, concentrate its efforts on getting the…
▶ 15:24
warmly welcomed him to the witness table, complimenting him on a very, very impressive academic credentials. Beck thanked him and then publicly ripped into the federal government for spreading misinformation about the drug. Now, keep in min…
▶ 15:54
At Yale, the truth was that cocaine wasn't the horrible health hazard Americans were being told it was. Cocaine doesn't have the kind of health consequences that one sees with drugs such as alcohol or cigarettes. Right now, we look at the h…
▶ 17:22
As most Americans were using it, Beck said, cocaine is a very safe drug. You almost never see death due to cocaine. Here, excuse me, these have been a series of 14,000 consecutive doses of cocaine given with no deaths. Deaths from cocaine a…
▶ 18:20
What the government was doing with the scare campaign about cocaine, Beck said, was poisoning the well. It was ruining the government's credibility with the public. And when the government needed its credibility to be impeccable, he also ad…
▶ 18:47
There are a great many people around here who've been snorting campaign for a while. If you then tell those people that cocaine is very dangerous, they won't believe you. Then when you get to the next step, when you're talking about somethi…
▶ 19:16
Beck knew something so deadly, awful, that the only way to prevent a catastrophe was for the government to tell the truth and pray to God that it was believed. I think we have to be careful that the government is believed about cocaine beca…
▶ 19:44
Beck told the committee that he hesitated for a long time about coming forward with the information and was still reluctant to discuss it in a public hearing. Usually when things like this are reported, the media advertises them, then the a…
▶ 26:33
Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia, but there were ominous signs that it was coming to America. We do not know if coca paste had been introduced to America at that time, but pandemonium authorities have reported heavy transportation of co…
▶ 27:56
has a thesis requirement for being a doctor. It's the only medical school at the time that did. Coincidentally, Beck had recently gotten a letter from a prominent Peruvian neurosurgeon who proposed some cooperative research on cocaine. At t…
▶ 30:50
You'd come around a corner and all you could do was smell it for miles. Alarm Polly called Beck at Yale and told him what he had seen. The substance of my conversation with Beck, if I can remember correctly, was that if this shit ever hits …
▶ 31:47
Beck quickly got some federal grant money and sent Polly back to Lima to do some more controlled experiments on cocaine smokers. Jerry, with his police connections, obtained the necessary permits and approval and procured half a kilo of coc…
▶ 40:39
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 …
▶ 41:39
and other things to buy more drugs. The Lima conference had taken place only two weeks before Beck appeared in Washington, and the stories he heard were fresh in his mind when he sat before the committee. Once Beck testified, he was in thei…
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He said cocaine smoking can represent the same threat that the speed epidemic did in the 1960s. Beck also wasn't the only American scientist who attended the Lima conference that came back alarmed. The impact of these experiences were impre…
▶ 42:33
But there was still time to prevent a catastrophe, Beck told the committee. We do not have to have an epidemic of freebase or cocoa paste smoking in the United States. The possibility is strong that this might occur. I have reports from Cal…
▶ 43:00
Here is a chance for the federal government to engage in an educational campaign to prevent it. The government needed to do three things rapidly. Number one, find out about it. Number two, establish the kind of collaboration with the media.…
▶ 43:25
but the congressmen weren't interested in discussing educational campaigns or public service announcements. That wouldn't get any cocaine off the streets. What they wanted to know was this. What about the DEA's plan to ask Peruvian and Boli…
▶ 43:52
Not with crop substitutions, Geyer asked. I don't think so. That is not going to work, Geyer said. Beck said, if you consider that these crops are grown on the slopes of mountains near jungles and grown by people for their own use for 2,000…
▶ 44:52
Those are the kind of questions that the congressmen were interested in. Not another word was said about doing research or warning the public about the dangers. Beck left the hearing stunned. Nobody paid any attention. They listened to it a…
▶ 48:08
often upon the request of the family. It was hard for Jerry's listeners to imagine how cocaine could become so addictive that a person would volunteer for brain surgery. One said that that was barbaric. Beck said that the FDA shut down atte…
▶ 48:30
refusing to approve grant requests or research proposals, and withholding the government's permits necessary to run experiments with controlled substance. The FDA almost totally roadblocked our getting anything done. They insisted that they…
▶ 48:59
Why not? Once you get into the morass of government, you never understand exactly what it's doing. Eight months before he appeared before the task force, Beck had requested official government permission to bring a CocoPaste sample into the…
▶ 12:24
That summer in 1986, listening to the official excuses was a man who knew the truth better than anyone. Dr. Robert Bick, Yale University's top cocaine expert. It had been seven years since he appeared before Congress to sound the alarm of t…
▶ 12:54
This is a quote from him. In 1979, I testified before the House Committee on Narcotic Abuse and Control, and I said that we were about to have the worst epidemic of drug use this country had ever seen. Something like the speed epidemic of t…
▶ 13:25
Drug Institute, for goodness sake, this is a chance to stop. If not stop it, at least to take a chance on education campaign to avert the drug abuse epidemic. This advice went unheeded. We are not significantly more knowledgeable about coca…
▶ 13:53
DEA official Westgate hastened to assure Congress that the drug agency was on full alert now. Quote, DEA last week began an extensive in-depth intelligence survey through all of the domestic field offices to try to discern the use and avail…
▶ 14:25
Quote, I hope my testimony today will have a greater effect than my warnings in 1979. Bix said bitterly, but it did not. Quote, every problem that comes before us, everybody says that money is the answer. Scott, the chairman, Senator Willia…
▶ 17:23
is still a narco state today. And they knew back then that all of this drugs was coming from Colombia, and they didn't do anything about it. This entire thing was a scam to lock up Black Americans in prison and destroy families. It was, as …
▶ 17:55
That all comes from one of the congressmen, the one from Florida, Lawton Childs. He recalled, quote, Childs was asking me a question in which he stated something up front. Dr. Bick, isn't it true crack 50 times more addicting or something l…
▶ 18:22
And some experts' opinion on addictiveness got translated into a weight. The numbers are fabricated, but not reality, unquote. Another congressional kabuki dance. As drug expert Stephen Balenko of New York City Criminal Justice Agency later…
▶ 18:54
It didn't because Dr. Bick knew all about it. He'd been briefed about it in Latin America. Meanwhile, drug experts were reading and hearing about this tidal wave of crack and began wondering which planet the media was reporting from. When t…