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Is There a Future for Money?
In our digital age, where banks and even nations fail through reckless monetary spending and policies, it seems that our monetary system is becoming the big elephant in the room, yes even obsolete. Automation replacing humans seems to be one of the fundamental contradiction of capitalism and may be the demise of the system itself leaving the looming possibility of fascism or military dictatorship to arise and flourish if we fail to arrive at any alternatives.
While some believe taking us back to the gold standard will fix things, and others believe that debt forgiveness is the solution, we hear talks about access/resource based economies, where we simply declare all of Earth's resources as the common heritage of mankind and make goods and services available to all without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude, through technological abundance.
In fact, let's rephrase the question. At what point in the future do you think that our technology will make automated systems possible and allow us to move out of a monetary system?
Sep 9 2012: IThink what the world needs at this moment is spiritual cash, that we make efforts that benefit whole society.
I mean that we care about eachother, sometimes words have more value then money.
Think this is possible with little effort to help eachother in life. People have to share what they feel,working together,concern about our environment,community etc.
We only need the money for basic needs to live a normal life like food, a house,healthcare etc.
At this time the world needs only love and this we cant buy,we just have to make a little effort to start with and will cost nothing.Gail .
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Aug 19 2012: Bitcoin is just a less expensive way of printing money. It does nothing to end the destructive economic model that now enslaves the world. I'm a supporter of and believer in the moneyless society. But until more people become self-aware, and through that, begin educating themselves PROPERLY, we might well die out as a species first.
Mathematicians and economists are saying that our economy cannot be sustained any longer than 2030 at the outside. (less than 20 years from now) but MANY are very worried that collapse is just around the corner. But for as long as people are ignorant about what's going on, it can be sustained until there are not enough consumers. Faith is holding it up now - faith brought about by ignorance.
Now add bad farming practices to the mix - resulting in polluted & unsafe aquifers along with the loss of topsoil - all encouraged by our current economic policy. Now add global warming into the mix. Now add spiraling over-population into the mix. We're headed for a perfect storm, and again experts are saying that all will come to a head no later than 2030, when at least 28% of the earth's population will be starving/thirsting to death, and the good ol' USA will not be immune, nor will Europe.
People should be learning about economics today, because it might well be fundamental to our survival as a species. The current paradigm was created with the need for poverty built in. The poor are the worker class. Adam Smith proposed that for his model to work, that the greater number of the children of the "race of workers" would have to die (of poverty related issues).
People who are not awakened (self-aware) cannot see that we are committing suicide. No wonder the conspiracy theorists are saying that the illuminati will give us a great war or a plague to thin our numbers. Too many poor people will collapse the economy, and automation is giving us too many poor people.
$$$ is an unsustainable idea.-
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Aug 19 2012: Thanks for your interesting insights! I couldn't agree more. Education is key to move our civilization ahead and evolve from this seemingly stagnating economy thus environment. By the way, do you have any sources on the mathematicians and economists saying that our economy cannot be sustained any longer than 2030? I would love to read about it. Cheers.Aug 23 2012: Money is a system to exchange human effortsSuketu Shah
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Sep 12 2012: hi Mats,
This is an excellent thought and i am for it and in complete line with your thoughts and i also believe that this is the only way to create awareness in all country. now the next step would be how to set up these awareness through internet media and be a part of that movement... all over the world...-
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Sep 13 2012: Absolutely. This is the challenge. How to spread awareness. It's starts with us though, and what we want to do in order to change things.David Felcan
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Sep 11 2012: Thank you for starting this conversation. Its interesting.
I think we need to have some agreement about the purpose of money. To my mind, the purpose of money is that it allocates the products of human and machine labor to various peoples. Whether you like money or hate it, or think its fair or unfair, I think that we can generally agree that it currently does this.
You are positing that essentially technology will eventually become so productive that there will be no limits, and therefore no need to decide who gets what because everyone will be able to have everything that they want.
But there isn't a limit on human need (and there are still many fixed resources - land, water, air, energy, etc.), so I don't see money becoming obsolete in the sense of it providing a way to distribute goods and services. What an entirely automated society does obsolete is the fact that money can be earned through some sort of labor. We are positing now a future where there are thinking machines that can do creative/informational/research labor as well as producing all physical goods.
In such a society, no one can make any claims to more resources than anyone else, because everyone is equally (non) productive. At least that the reasoning for inequality in a capitalist system. One fair system is for everyone to receive the same stipend - a completely egalitarian society. Another idea is to distribute money based on some other system, like moral worth (niceness = cash?) or some amorphous concept of "need". But this really begs the question of who or what decides these other criterion.
Anyway, I feel to advance the conversation, its not so much about the death of money as it is about the death of work and the death of money from work.Sep 10 2012: Indeed, Mats; the most intelligent sometimes destroy their forests, pollute their waters, foul their air and poison their food with pesticides and herbicides.... Certainly no one would be that stupid in the 21 century.... would they?-
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Sep 11 2012: "the most intelligent sometimes destroy their forests, pollute their waters, foul their air and poison their food with pesticides and herbicides"
That's because the "most intelligent" people in the current socioeconomic system are the economists and they see natural resources and what naturally keeps us alive as an externality. If you cannot profit on it, it's basically an externality. The fact is that the monetary system is totally disconnected with the real world and the preservation of resources. It simply doesn't give a damn. And it's the system that perpetuate this kinda behavior. It's not people that are unsane, it's the system. It has always been.-
Sep 11 2012: That statement could not be any more inaccurate.
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Sep 11 2012: How so?pat gilbert
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Sep 11 2012: The definition of economics: The study of scarce resources that have alternative uses.
All resources become scarce.-
Sep 12 2012: That's indeed a smart definition.Sep 9 2012: Exactly Mats. And there is very little evidence of any..... Collapse is imminent and the closer you live to the ground, the less you will fall.
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Sep 10 2012: Very true, Craig. "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change." - DarwinComment deleted
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Sep 11 2012: I am glad. Critical thinking is a vital tool to evolve our society to a better one. If you are interested in how a moneyless society today could work, I highly recommend the book "The Best That Money Can't Buy" by Jacque Fresco.Justin Elkin
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Aug 31 2012: There is a future for money. Though in today's world it seems with the more value incentive placed in money the more value incentive is lost in future utility. Logic is key to where value is placed. In my ponderings I have come to believe in a deductive logic/argument systems value incentive is placed in a past notion of value while an abstract logic/argument system value incentive may be placed in a future/intangible notion of value. A system to utilize an equitable account of value incentive, I feel, a merging of the two, a deductive abstraction if you will, of value is in order whether there should be a voucher to display it or not.Comment deleted
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Aug 31 2012: Well, education and sharing of ideas is key to overcome these "disabilities" of looking forward. Implying that our "disability" to look forward is simply human nature is like saying that having any conversations about anything is completely useless because of our fixed set of values and behaviors dictated by human nature. If that was true, we would all still live in caves. By sharing ideas and trying things out we learn what works and what doesn't. How does this logic not apply to our way of economics? Why does finding solutions to our current socioeconomic problems seem pointless? Why is this not the time for sharing ideas and testing them out? -
Sep 2 2012: The human mind is not free. Learn what science has discovered.
http://bit.ly/dYaWUcAug 28 2012: One of the fundamental reasons for money is to have a means of distributing finite amounts of necessary resources.
If we start thinking about what is required for modern living the first step would be to get to a situation where electricity can be free. Some ideas on the not so distant horizon that have potential include fusion energy, the process that can power stars for billions of years. I also like the idea of vibration scavenging, it could be placed anywhere and everywhere humans are. Where the simple act of moving could provide the power to run common devices.
If electricity can become free the next step would be to be able to automate a process of creating food such as the replicator that has been mention. From there you then need free housing.
Some of these are borderline science-ficton ideas such as star trek or matrix-esque(without the machine overlords) However science fiction has a history of becoming science fact where people realise the potential of an idea and then make it reality.
If basic human needs can become free then there is scientific endeavour, luxury items and entertainment, with the actual materials required to create them being free all that is left are ideas.
The established rich and powerful are likely to try and resist such changes, however if we continue to progress and manage to avoid destroying ourselves or decending into endless conflict or war, I think that it is ultimately inevitable.Aug 28 2012: This is an excellent question. While I don't condone forcing a de facto socialist agenda onto a people, I'd love to see a city set up in the United States (my country of origin), where people could voluntarily live. You should check out video on YouTube of a very old man/inventor/futurist named Jacque Fresco. While some believe he has a cult following, he's simply an intellectual guy, who explains how we require switching from a monetary system to a resource-based economy as technology relieves more and more of their jobs.
Personally, I love the idea. Technology, as we've seen, increases exponentially with time. To answer your second question would be to imply that I see the best situation as the inevitable one; which isn't the case. People are, by nature, greedy. They hoard what they don't need, that could be given to others. Through a system of giving to others, contributing voluntarily (with no monetary incentive), helping others and being a good neighbor, we can all shift the equilibrium of the planet to a more hospitable and pleasant environment. Just as most kids would never start smoking if they never saw anyone smoke, more and more, people would begin doing good around them without selfish intentions if they saw more people doing so. I know this, because I'm a product of said phenomenon.-
Aug 31 2012: Jaques Fresco and the Venus Project are an inspiration to me as well. I don't agree with people being, by nature, greedy. I think of people possessing a nature of any propensity the environment demands. Shifting incentive is the key to money's future. Value derived with incentive from a source in the past to value derived with incentive from a source in the future.Aug 27 2012: Isn't money just numbers that represent the relative value of all things? You can't get rid of the idea of relative value. I suppose you could try to use words instead of numbers to represent the relative value of things but even an idiot would soon discover how cumbersome and inaccurate that would be. No, I think you asked you question wrong. What you really wanted to ask is; "when can people like me dictate the relative value of things for everyone else?"
Imad Atwi
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Aug 24 2012: Simple: E-commerce, M-Commerce, Near Field Communications (NFCs), and M2M services.Luke Hobbs
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Aug 22 2012: I'm hoping we keep money, but lose the hypnotic power it has over us, in making us believe it has a sacred power - one which is really just implied. No man has power over another except that which we choose to give.-
Aug 22 2012: money does not have hypnotic power over me. it does over you?
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Aug 22 2012: Would it, however, be necessary to keep money if we could create an abundance of materials/resources with technology, providing the necessities of life and a high standard of living to everybody?-
Aug 22 2012: If everyone's happy with what they got, then there's no need for money. But there's no such thing as a free lunch. How would we achieve that state, at what cost? And everyone will always want something more/new, or else we would be incredibly bored and have no reason to live.
So if there is a way to make everyone happy, of course people would vouch for this solution, but as of right now, it's impossible. Until we figure out how to get to that Utopian state, money is the best solution we got so far, despite the greedy influences it has.-
Aug 22 2012: >or else we would be incredibly bored and have no reason to live.
Look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs. What are at the bottom? Physiological and safety needs. My money satisfy these needs. While they satisfied I don't need money. Do you think I have no reason to live? I can create, develop(self-actualisation by Maslow), love and being loved(love, belonging by Maslow). Scarcity only creates these basic needs(physiological and safety). The real life begins when human satisfies his higher needs. So the really happy people today are those whose job satisfies both their higher and basic needs. And there are always bored people. In scarcity and post-scarcity. Who have only their basic needs.
>Until we figure out how to get to that Utopian state, money is the best solution we got so far
I agree. Post-scarcity has very high technological requirements. Firstly we must reach this technological level. I love money. In this society they help me satisfy my higher needs.Mats K
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Aug 22 2012: James, I invite you to read about a resource based economy at http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project/resource-based-economy. Let's have this discussion after that if you still feel this way.James Zhang
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Aug 22 2012: @Mats, ok, lemme check it out first then get back to you on thatLuke Hobbs
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Aug 23 2012: Why was money invented in the first place? Wasn't it meant to be a way of circumventing the complexity of multi-trading? Like if I had ten sheep and you had two cows, but you didn't want my sheep but chickens, I then needed to find someone who would trade my sheep for chickens so I could get your cows...-
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Aug 23 2012: Yes, but this is no longer necessary. We have reached a point in our civilization where technology can provide all of us with food, clothes, shelter, clean water and a high standard of living. In other words, we have the possibility to create an abundance of resource if we intelligently manage them through technology and the scientific method.Aug 23 2012: Hi Luke,
This is a response to your comment:
"I'm hoping we keep money, but lose the hypnotic power it has over us, in making us believe it has a sacred power - one which is really just implied. No man has power over another except that which we choose to give".
I wholeheartedly agree...nothing has power over us unless we give it/them power, and that is our choice in each and every moment.
I apparently misunderstood/misinterpreted your comment in that other discussion, and now it is closed. I was going to send you an e-mail, and you do not have that feature in your profile. So, I'll tell you here....I got it with your explanation.....thanks:>)-
Aug 23 2012: An easy way to lose the hypnotic power is to separate money from survival instincts. Like universal health care has done in many societies. If we as a society provide for all primary needs, like food, shelter, security, then we loose the hypnotic power that money has, and it becomes what it was always meant to be, a tool for rational trade. Expand the welfare-system to include basic needs as the security of food, shelter and healthcare. It´s so obvious when money becomes hypnotic, it´s when you really need it... We need to elevate people above the risk of being hypnotized. Make them more "upper class" in their confidence in their economic security.
Aug 23 2012: I agree Johan, and that seems difficult for some people. When people are vulnerable and frightened in survival mode, they tend to cling to something that is known. Even when they don't have money sometimes, the hypnotic power is still there with the "wanting" of it. I agree that elevating people above the risks would support them/us in being less hypnotized by money. Where do we begin????
I would say empowering and building confidence in people is good, and that of course supports a lot of other good things in one's life as well. What do you think?Luke Hobbs
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Aug 24 2012: Did you know that here in Australia they sued to have underground tanks at each home to collect rain water. However, the GOVERNMENT of all people abolished this because they didn't think people had the right to free water! Seems to me the agenda is to make us very dependent on money for basic survival needs to perpetuate the hypnosis. But are these people doing so out of "evil" or it is that it's all the know how to be? In fact, should we even judge on intent, if the action is still appalling?Aug 29 2012: Luke,
That is very unfortunate, and I guess I'm not surprised. I believe governments often try to make people more dependant....easier to control....right? I believe the welfare/public assistance system here in the US keeps people poor and dependant, and that is not what it was designed to do. I generally do not believe that people are intentionally "evil". I just don't think they are thinking about the long term ramifications to the people they are disempowering or to the whole. We cannot "judge on intent", because we don't actually know what the intent is....do we?Aug 23 2012: I can´t reply to your post so I´ll reply to the one above :)
In our world of accelerating change, I think it´s increasingly important that we elevate people above survival mode. The job-market will probably continue to be disrupted at exponential rates, and we need to be very altruistic to help each other adapt to this brave new world. I believe everyone is beautiful in their own way, and don´t want to see my fellows loose the race against the machine. So I believe we should just empower people financially, with money, through citizens dividends or basic incomes or something like that, divide the wealth surplus, and make the transition to a better world a little smoother, and give each other time to adapt, and the economic resources and confidence to be altruistic and friends and work together to reinvent our identities and find new niches. I wholeheartedly believe in this :)-
Aug 29 2012: I agree Johan, that one underlying factor is to elevate people above survival mode. I agree with your previous comment to expand the systems..." welfare-system to include basic needs as the security of food, shelter and healthcare"...etc. I do not agree with empowering people with too much money in the beginning of this process, for the simple reason that many people do not have money because they are poor managers of money. I think empowerment is better first....as you insightfully say..."give each other time to adapt". I wholeheartedly believe it could happen too, and I am realistic enough to know that it will not happen over night. It's good to ponder and plan however!
Luke Hobbs
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Aug 24 2012: No problem at all. The good thing about TED is that everyone here is open and honest, with the goal of finding a solution to a better society. Peace :)-
Sep 4 2012: @Collen
>I do not agree with empowering people with too much money in the beginning of this >process, for the simple reason that many people do not have money because they are >poor managers of money.
I think economic anxiety is a root to "their" poor management "skills", lack of "economic" freedom has forced them/us to become less then our "full potential".
Future generations will be better managers :)Wade Crum
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Aug 22 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKWPht3fU-o&feature=related
Money (Power) Trumps Technological Abundance. We must first unlearn our concepts of "Free". Absolute freedom can not exist. It can only be exchanged. http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/biobookener1.html. Will we ever be able to define a fair exchange? If I'm a corn farmer and I want exchange a certain amount of my corn to get my roof fixed, How much corn would it take to pay the roofers. The future of money could be based on the answer to corn for roofers. So we could base it on thermodynamics. What was the energy expenditure and time required to produce the corn VS the energy expenditure to produce the materials to fix the roof including the act of fixing the roof. Therfore, I conclude: Energy is the next currency.-
Aug 22 2012: money(power) is similar to apple(elephant). they are not in any respect similar. you can be relaxed though, because governments all over the world are working hard to eliminate freedom. so this unlearning is on the way.
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Aug 22 2012: Interesting concept. It kinda sounds like a fusion of time banking and barter. However, I see a near future where automation of all labor is a reality. There is almost nothing today that can't be replaced by machines and especially agriculture and farming in general. If we did this, we, the humans, would be in a position to focus on the important stuff like curing cancer, eradicating illness and whatever the heck we would want to do that better our lives and humanity in general. This is what we should aspire towards.-
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Aug 22 2012: Thanks Mats. I share your aspirations towards quality of humanity. The trick is getting the technology to market before big oil and big energy buy up the raw materials.Aug 22 2012: I hope your future never happens then.
Because if that occured people couldn't do what they truly wanted with their lives-
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Aug 23 2012: How so? Freeing people from meaningless and painful jobs, that machines can do better and more efficient to make our life better, has always been the goal of technology in the first place.Aug 23 2012: I know many people who want to do things like machining, welding, farming, ranching, etc. Whom if your future came to would be unable to do what they enjoy-
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Aug 23 2012: Here's the thing. They could do exactly that if they wanted to. Nobody has the right to stop anybody from doing what their passionate about. That's limiting humans and counterproductive to our well being. Organizations and people that proposes a moneyless society where automated labor is intact, are very well aware that people are passionate about many things and therefore during a transition phase or more specifically a re-educational phase, people would do whatever they want to do without the burden of selling or trading their product, but because they enjoy to do so. I hope this helps.Wade Crum
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Aug 24 2012: Wants and dreams would evolve right along with technology some are great some are a disaster like texting while driving, yet still ideas, wants, needs, will evolve just as our environment evolves. I also know many people who want to farm, weld, machine, ranch. I don't see those trades / hobbies disappearing anytime soon. Nor should they.Aug 21 2012: I also think money is NOT necessary 'at all costs'.
Although it appears to still HAVE some value (even though almost only virtual), it IS NOT a Value.
(as far as mushrooms and so forth, I think this is NOT the place for insults...)-
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Aug 22 2012: Indeed, money is sometimes not necessary when doing transactions that requires set value. Barter system for example, is still alive and kicking! I'm extremely curious about the Schrodinger Cat techniques of observing value of money, perhaps you can elaborate more on that?
Regarding the musroom thingy, sarcasm and insults are two faces of the same coin. One is used to convey a feeling of contempt for the incredulous ideas or situation one is subjected to, while the other is used to dehumanized and degrade the recipient. Sarcasm may be appropriate or inappropriate, though this is generally a function of one's point of view.
Yes, I was being sarcastic, in case you can't tell from my dry sense of dark humor and puns and fancy wordplay and whatnots. Far be it for me to insult him, oh no! For I DO agree he has some points in there, but the way he presented it in the jumbled up snippets of idea and phrases that rivals, nay, exceed the most extreme of schizophrenic rantings warrants a mechanism to defuse it; the mechanism I chose in this instance was sarcasm.
Which leads me to believe that English is probably not your native language, am I correct? Perhaps that is why you have misunderstood and misconstrued the fine subtleties in my sarcastic remarks. ;PAug 22 2012: money is not necessary at all. just like factories are not. or agriculture. our great ancestors lived without all of these. we don't need them. but we want them. we choose to have agriculture, factories and money. because they make our life much better.-
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Aug 22 2012: Money is, however, not necessary to make a good life. And looking at the how much poverty there is around the world I would argue that it doesn't even make a manageable life. The only reason we want/keep it, is because of our unawareness of technological possibilities that can easily create an abundance of materials/resources that can provide everybody with food, shelter, clothing, clean water and a high standard of living. If you will, I can gladly elaborate on our technological possibilities to prove my argument, but if you're here to win the argument or have already made up your mind, I would rather not have to waste my time on it.-
Aug 22 2012: without money, we can have medieval level economy. go for it, i choose money.Aug 23 2012: money is not necessary, it is just an extension of the bartering system (where they would negotiate between a certain amount of X and a certain amount of Y).
agriculture is an absolute necessity, in fact it is the foundation for civilization-
Aug 23 2012: in fact, exchange and division of labor is the foundation of civilization. and these are impossible without the concept of money.
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Aug 20 2012: I've said it a few times in TED posts - do the exercise of designing a new currency and it will all become clear.
Let's say that you live in Greece or Spain, and that you perceive that the currency of the Euro contains a dynamic that syphons the value from your country.
So you need to disconnect from the flaw in the Euro - to do this, you abandon the Euro for a currency that does not recognise value balances external to your country.
Let's assume that the national government is incapable of doing this because of commitments it has made.
So a return to the pre-Euro currency is not an option - it would violate governmental treaties. So instead of top-down from government, you implement the new currency bottum up from local communities with a new label that divorces it from treaties.
So, you get a vew local producers to agree to participate. For this you would need some food producers, some buyilding supply producers, some energy producers and a team of utility procurers. The best place to implement this is in teh local distribution providers - the retailers.
The initial community of the new currency need not be large, but the first rule would be that they do value exchange between each other exclusively in the new currency.
This has the affect of divorcing the community from external inflationary/deflationary affects.
Then you promote the stability of the new currency to invite others to join.
You set up a discriminatory exchange rule that discourages echange with other economies - such that the only way to participate is to adopt the currency exclusively.
This new currency would have hard rules to prevent value syphoning via usury, so there would be strict laws about borowing/lending and speculation.
The net result is that the agregate value generated by the community remains within the community. The attendent increase in life-quality would quickly promote inclusion and eventually subsume all other currencies.
But the currency regulator becomes the absolute power.-
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Aug 22 2012: Great thought exercise!-
Aug 23 2012: Mats,
What we as humans have to realise (and pretty soon) is that money is an expression of farming.
What is farming? The root principle of farming is the creation of the closed system.
The farmer defines an area in which the flow of energy is prevented from interacting with flows outside the defined area.
A currency is one such closed system - all who participate in teh currency are farmed by the currency issuer/regulator.
So you can see that both currency and property arise from farming.
We have been doing this as a species for 10,000 years or more, but at this point we have run out of "property" - we need to examine the dynamic and start looking at re-opening some of our systems.
This is the root cause of the challenges facing humanity right now. If we don't open our eyes and admit that the closed model has crashed, we will fail to see the opportunity to adjust the model.
So let's begin by getting eyes opened.-
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Aug 23 2012: I completely agree, Mitch. However, in order to change things we must also propose a plan for a better future. It isn't enough to merely point out the shortcomings of our current system, we must provide an alternative. Your thought exercise is important and is an excellent way of making people think critically and start realizing that we must change the system if we want to survive, but we must also emphasize on solutions.Aug 24 2012: Not so much a plan as a system.
De Bono would say that critical thinking only takes you part of the way becasue it is retrospective in nature.
In that vein he observes that sequential ordering of components as they present results in a structure that cannot be sustained - a component will arrive that violates the plan. In the ideal circumstance, a new plan is made and the whole structure is dismantled and re-built according to the new plan.
Of course, the resources required to do that are prohibitive, so it continues to build in an unballanced way till the entire structure collapses.
This would suggest an endless cycle of build and collapse.
But there's another way.
Think of it as a computational challenge.
Rather than man-handle each new circumstance into a structure according to a plan, put together a dynamic system that can adapt itself to unexpected components as they arise. A thing that determines its own plan as it evolves.
With the paradigm of farming, we had just such an adaptive system, however, it was insufficient when presented with the expiry of available "property" in which to expand - thus we now see the internet being twisted to create some desparate new "property" to expand into. It can't work of course, because you can't eat binary data.
The flaw is growth.
So we need a computational paradigm that is not dependent on growth.
We should begin by dismantiling the farming paradigm to determine its functional parts then re-assemble them to remove the growth requirement.
Unlike the "critical thinking " method, we are not dismantling the entire existing structure, we are simply re-configuring a system - small functional tweaks that do not require a massive amount of resources.
Once the new dynamic structure is assembled - you just let it loose and if it works it will consume the old model.
OK - let's get started. What are the functional parts of the farming paradigm?Aug 19 2012: "Automation replacing humans, which creates the ultimate paradox in terms of purchasing power, seems to be one of the fundamental contradiction of capitalism and may be the demise of the monetary based economy itself."
what the heck this sentence means? in what sense automation creates paradox? how would that a contradiction and between what? and how would that affect the monetary system? how would the monetary system's collapse or reform alleviate a problem that is fundamental to capitalism or automation? what does that mean for an economy to be "monetary based"?
"alternative economies such as Bitcoin, a decentralized digital currency where goods and services are purchased without the exchange of any physical currency"
how would bitcoin be an alternative economy? how bitcoin changes available resources, production, capital stock, transportation methods, consumer habits or any other aspect of the economy? why do we need bitcoin to get rid of physical currency? isn't a bank account or credit card just as information technology as bitcoin is?-
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Aug 19 2012: Paradox in the sense that while automation frees us from monotonous, repetitive and even dangerous jobs (making our lives better) it also decrease the purchasing power of the working class (jobs being replaced by machines). You see, not everybody can instantly do the jump or the transition from industry work to more creative fields when automation takes over their previous job. It takes time and education. And this would deeply affect the monetary system by that reason alone - that there is no purchasing power left within the working class during that transition. Because the money system or what I like to call the monetary based economy has to constantly circulate in order to sustain itself. There will come a time called the Gaussian curve where employment is stagnating, production is peaking and purchasing power is rock bottom. The system stops. On a side note - capitalism was created under the assumption of scarce resources and didn't take into account the possibility of automation of labor and technological abundance which is why we are in the mess we are in right now. It is an inherent flaw in the monetary based economy. Sure, it worked fine a hundred years ago, but not today.
I agree that Bitcoin isn't any valid replacement for the money system, in fact it's the same thing only digital. I am aware of this, but I kept it in there since there seems to be a consensus that a "new" way of distributing currencies is what is needed to fix the economy and a degree of attention has been given to namely Bitcoin and other digital currencies. This is the only reason I kept it in there.-
Aug 19 2012: how on earth would automation decrease the purchasing power of the working class? ever heard of the industrial revolution? you know, the thing that made available for the masses to have lighting, medicine, clothing, heating and all that stuff. later cars, cellphones, flat tvs.
i don't about this part, it is to be taken literally, or it is some metaphoric imagery?
"money system has to constantly circulate in order to sustain itself."
does it have a meaning? how could a system circulate? what would the implications of that be? money circulates, so? of course it does, it is the medium of exchange. its essence that it is just goes around. so what?
"There will come a time called the Gaussian curve where employment is stagnating"
curves are not times. what gaussian? do you actually know what a gaussian curve is? why would employment stagnate because of a curve? why would employment ever increase? why would it be lower than we want? unless of course some external force prevents people from finding a job. but in a free market, what would prevent people from working?
"capitalism ... didn't take into account the possibility of automation"
wow. capitalism is the result of automation. that might cause someone to question the validity of your claims.
and the final question: what money has got to do with all this? without money, there would be no automation? there would be no problem of distributing resources and goods? you are fighting with demons that don't exist. i strongly recommend you to follow up on how money works and how capitalism works. because your knowledge is lacking. badly. and i would not recommend 99% or venus project or any other such crap. i mean real knowledge and real science.
you can start with murray rothbard's the mystery of banking. also matt ridley's TED talk here:
Aug 20 2012: I think he means radically new level of automation. The industrial revolution didn't cause the high unemployment because old professions were replaced by new one. It created new professions: scientists, engineers, mechanics, electricians and so on. And even reduced the unemployment. But the world has changed greatly since that times and there is a possibility of the total automation in the future. When the machines will produce, maintain, evolve and repair themselves. As well as produce products and services. I've talked too about such level of technologies. So conceptually there is no need in almost all current human professions in this model. And maybe such times will not come suddenly so there will be some transition period which will cause unemployment. When traditional economy is not gone completely and post-scarcity is not came yet.Aug 21 2012: Damn Krisztián you are going to wear out that Ridley video.
How many jobs were there at the industrial revolution? How many are there now? Nope the job demand increases because of technology and off-shoring. The problem is that us mericans is too stupid and lazy to get the jobs.Aug 19 2012: I think there is no monetary system at all in the future. Probably our next economical model is post-scarcity. I have wrote some thoughts on it in my idea http://www.ted.com/conversations/13343/designing_the_model_of_future.html
More can be found in my blog post http://techains.blogspot.com/2012/08/manufacturing-paradigm-shifts.html
I tried to argue post-scarcity by the example of manufacture technological evolution and how it will affect the economy. But I am going to write more thoughts about post-scarcity because the subject is both interesting and complicated.


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Stephen Strasburg battles the D'backs and the rain this afternoon.
It's a dreary, rainy morning here at Nationals Park. The tarp is on the field and will likely stay there for a while. But I expect there to be baseball today, for two reasons:
1) This is the Diamondbacks' last scheduled game in D.C. this season.
2) Stephen Strasburg is scheduled to pitch.
This will be Strasburg's first appearance since his shaky outing Tuesday against the Marlins in his return from the disabled list, and all eyes will be on the rookie to see how he responds.
Another rookie right-hander who has gotten far less publicity than Strasburg, Barry Enright, starts for the Diamondbacks. Enright beat the Nats 10 days ago in Arizona, allowing two runs over six innings.
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DIAMONDBACKS at NATIONALS
Where: Nationals Park
Gametime: 1:35 p.m.
TV: Ch. 50, MASN2
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Weather: Rain showers, 79 degrees, Wind 13 mph out to LF.
CF Roger Bernadina
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- BQ - Aug 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM
SS needs to rebound for this team to start a winning streak. Bigger worry is the offense which has been quiet most of the past two series. I am really disappointed in our 3-4-5 hitters lately, especially Dunn and Zimm given that Hammer is dealing with an injury. Last night with Desmond on 2nd and non outs, our 3-4-5 guys couldn't get him across the home plate. That's embarrassing. i hope they can do a better job againt Enright tonight, better than 2 runs in six innings.
- dj in Fl. - Aug 15, 2010 at 3:40 PM
mlb trade roumors says deals are completed for A.J. Cole and 2nd round Sammy Solis at well above slot money. Rizzo says deal are not completed. Hopefully only their signatures are missing.
- Anonymous - Aug 15, 2010 at 4:22 PM
The Nats year will be judged by signing Harper and Dunn. Not sure if that is fair but I believe it is true. Not signing Dunn means that Nats will not be offensively competitive for several more season. There just are not going to be any better free agent hitters this off-season. Not signing Harper means they will have no future hitters in their system. Failure to sign both will mean people will not come to the park except for maybe Strasburg games and even those are dropping some.
- Grandstander - Aug 15, 2010 at 4:52 PM
Just because it isn't "official", doesn't mean it didn't get done. Because Cole's signing is a record and well above slot, Selig probably wants them to hold the announcement until the deadline. And considering they spent $2 million on him, I can't imagine they won't get Harper done. Dunn on the hand… They're acting like they'd just rather have the draft picks then lock up one of the best power hitters in the game.
- Jimmy - Aug 15, 2010 at 5:09 PM
The Nats should use the following line-up for most of the remaining season. This would give everyone a read on their future.1-Morgan LF When he returns Wednesday2-Bernadina RF 3-Zimmerman 3B4-Dunn 1B or Mors5-Desmond SS6-Maxwell CF We need to see if he can hit over an extended period.7-Pudge C Bring up Ramos and get his feet wet8-Gonzales 2B or Esponsia to see what he can do at SS and 2BWe know what we have in Harris, Kennedy, (Willinham can pinch hit only for the rest of the season.) Neives can be the bull pen catcher.This season is over (we know we are cellar dwellers again) and we need to find out about some of the other guys. We also have to put a stop to Double Switch Riggleman and make him let these guys play against both left and right. handed pitchers. Double Switch would have benched Babe Ruth against left handers.
- Doc - Aug 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM
Assuming that the Nats and the Dunn team are 1 year and $15-20 million apart, maybe they ought to be thinking about the $15 million they threw away on Jason Marquis!They need Dunn, more than Dunn needs them.
- BQ - Aug 15, 2010 at 6:21 PM
To watch SS do that, terrible. He might be buckling under all the pressure after all. Stop calling him savior, Jesus, and all. Let him just play ball.
- Anonymous - Aug 15, 2010 at 7:15 PM
I hope they put those idiots who ran onto the field in gen pop at the DC jail and they get a taste of DC hospitality!!!
- Anonymous - Aug 15, 2010 at 7:16 PM
Another mediocre performance from the Savior….bring on Maya and Zimmermann the real stars!!!
- Anonymous - Aug 15, 2010 at 7:18 PM
Can we please stop harping on this Dibble comment about two chatty cathys he did not say all female fans were disinterested he talked about two specific individuals and if those individuals are too stupid to conme forward and defend their actions then this story does not deserve the light of day that certain special interest bloggers are giving it…those people make Nats320 look like an informative blog!
- natsone_va - Aug 15, 2010 at 7:22 PM
Mark, thanks for reporting on the protest. Seriously. It's not nice to see people delay the game, but it is nice to see people stand up for a proper cause. But enough politics, Let's Go NATS!!
- David Josephson of Phoenix - Aug 15, 2010 at 7:47 PM
So which rookie pitcher had the better outing? Enright, who entered the game with a better ERA than Strasburg's, was effective, except for one pitch. And please don't cite Strasburg's strikeouts. The Diamondbacks lead the world in striking out. By a mile.
- Cwj - Aug 15, 2010 at 8:22 PM
Nice outing by Stras. Remember, he's a rookie and is having a great year. He's a keeper I'd like to see Storen pitch in more save opps. from now on. That's what he's here for.
- Arlington Big Fish - Aug 15, 2010 at 8:27 PM
Maybe all us Michael Morse fans (& I'm one) should admit that Riggleman might have been doing the right thing in the way he was handling Morse — given that MM is now 1 for his last 22. Maybe he DOES play better in when he plays infrequently.
- LoveDaNats - Aug 15, 2010 at 8:33 PM
Mark,I was at the game. As the Man Who Knows, what do you know about the people who track the "K's" under the Miller Light sign at the scoreboard? Are they random fans? They seem to be at every game. BTW, I wore my Insider shirt and was able to sing your praises to a couple of people who asked.
- BQ - Aug 15, 2010 at 8:58 PM
David Josephson-san, Enright: 5 IP, 6 H, 3 XBH, 3 ER, 1 SO, 1 HR vs SS: 5 IP, 5 H, 1 XBH, 1 ER, 7 SO, 1 HR. Pretty obvious to me who had a better night.
- CapPeterson - Aug 15, 2010 at 9:20 PM
I was at the game and moderately encouraged by Morse's ABs. Tried to go to RF his 1st time and lined out. Was robbed by Drew his next AB on as good a play going in the hole as you'll see by a SS. One of the drawbacks of being at the game of course is that we're never shown replays of nice plays by the opposition–would like to have seen that one again.
- Dryw - Aug 15, 2010 at 9:28 PM
Mark,What do you think is the chance that the decision not to put Strasburg back in for the sixth had some relationship to the extra time he sat out waiting for security to get the idiots off the field? (sure, stand up for things you believe in, but preferably in ways that will actually do some good rather than just making you look stupid) I know it wasn't a terribly long delay, but after having Stras bat for himself, my friends and I were just looking for SOME sort of reason to then turn around and pull him….
- Mark Zuckerman - Aug 15, 2010 at 9:31 PM
Dryw: That's exactly what happened. Riggleman was planning to send Strasburg back out to start the 6th, but the extended delay from the protest (combined with the fact he was at 85 pitches and is still on a shorter leash coming back from the DL stint) prompted the manager to pull the plug at that point. I'll have Riggleman's full explanation shortly in a story I'm writing for CSNwashington.com.
- Anonymous - Aug 16, 2010 at 2:48 AM
Enright is better right now than Strasburg.


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1. Crocodile 2. Kuro 3. None because I never got into One Piece. Those guys are the only ones I liked.
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Originally Posted by uchiha seeker 1. Ace 2. Marco 3. Luffy r.i.p ace one of my favs also
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I haven't read much of One Piece but from what I did read.. I liked Chopper and the two doctors in that arc. Zoro and Luffy are also pretty awesome as well. Arlong is my favorite villain in the story so far.
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Collmenter, Locke out to rebound in series opener
D-backs take on Pirates in four-game set at Chase Field
Road trips on an opposite coast are taxing for a team. But as the Pirates begin the last leg of their 10-game journey out west in Arizona, they can be confident their bullpen will still be relatively fresh for a four-game set with the D-backs.
That's primarily because of Vance Worley's shutout Monday and Francisco Liriano's seven innings of one-run ball Tuesday, beating the Giants twice before dropping the series finale, 7-5, on Wednesday.
"Big boost for everybody. Gives energy to everybody," said manager Clint Hurdle. "That's the challenge of this road trip. ... You get these breathers, very, very helpful to what we're trying to get done on this road trip."
The Pirates will turn to left-hander Jeff Locke in the opener at Chase Field to keep his bullpen breathing a little more.
Locke is coming off a subpar showing Saturday against the Rockies at Coors Field. The southpaw allowed six earned runs on 10 hits, including three home runs, over 6 2/3 innings in an 8-1 loss.
It was first time since Locke's first start of the season May 5 that he surrendered more than three earned runs, and he'd strung together eight consecutive quality starts before his rough outing at Colorado.
Locke said there were some mental obstacles to overcome when pitching against the same team in two straight starts. He limited the Rockies to three earned runs over six innings in Pittsburgh on July 20.
"I think it gets in my head a tad bit when you play a team you don't see a lot during the season, but somehow you face them twice in a row," said Locke, who is 2-2 with a 3.54 ERA.
The D-backs will counter with Josh Collmenter, who had perhaps the roughest start of his career his last time out against the Phillies on Saturday. The right-hander surrendered six earned runs on 11 hits before D-backs manager Kirk Gibson pulled the right-hander with two outs in the third inning.
"He didn't have it," Gibson said after the game. "I stayed with him as long as I could."
The lackluster performance was relatively unexpected, as Collmenter allowed only one earned run over seven innings in each of his previous two starts, the latter of which resulted in his eighth win.
D-backs: Towers cooking up potential deals
With Thursday's non-waiver Trade Deadline swiftly approaching, general manager Kevin Towers said he is waiting on word from several teams about potential moves.
"It's kind of in the other ballclub's court right now," Towers said before the D-backs' 5-4 win over the Reds on Wednesday afternoon. "I think we all know there's a couple of potential deals out there that we've told clubs that to move this particular player, this is what we'd do. If they meet that, we do something. If not, we don't."
Towers said he doesn't like to be in a seller's position considering the D-backs have been in "buy mode" for each of the past three seasons. But if provided with an intriguing offer, Towers said he would be open to dealing from his depth in the infield, which includes veterans Martin Prado and Aaron Hill.
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For the first time in memory, Pedro Alvarez on Wednesday was a healthy scratch for a second straight game in which the Pirates faced a right-handed starter.
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"It's pretty simple at the end of the day: He's not outplaying Harrison," Hurdle said to explain why Alvarez was left off his afternoon lineup against the Giants' Tim Lincecum. "We need to pay attention to the whole team."
As for potentially playing in the D-backs series, Alvarez only has three career hits in Chase Field -- but two of them are home runs.
Worth noting
• Pirates first baseman Ike Davis is 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a homer against Collmenter in his career.
• Locke has allowed five homers in his last two starts -- after yielding a total of three in the first eight.
• Pirates catcher Russell Martin (off Wednesday) has reached base in 57 of his 65 games this season and is carrying an average (.279) 55 points above his career mark.
Jake Kring-Schreifels is an associate reporter for MLB. Daniel Popper is an associate reporter for MLB.com. He also can be found on Twitter @danielrpopper. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The purpose of this 3-year trial is to test the efficacy of transdermal nicotine patch versus placebo patch on marijuana withdrawal symptoms in cannabis-dependent individuals, using a randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled design. This proposal is in response to RFA-DA-10-016(R01) Medications Development for Cannabis-Related Disorders. Consistent with the goals of this RFA, the overall goal of the proposed project is to assess the impact of transdermal nicotine patch (TNP) on marijuana (MJ) withdrawal (negative affect and craving motivated by negative affect) symptoms in MJ-dependent individuals.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Marijuana Dependence |
Drug: Nicotine Drug: Placebo Patch |
Phase 4 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Pharmacodynamics Study Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator) Primary Purpose: Basic Science |
Official Title: | Nicotine for Marijuana Withdrawal |
- Marijuana withdrawal symptoms (mood, use, and urge to use marijuana) [ Time Frame: 15 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]These dependent variables will be assessed with the following previously validated and reliable measures during the 4 pre-quit and 8 post-quit sessions: Marijuana Withdrawal Checklist, Marijuana Craving Questionnaire, Brief Symptom Inventory Sleep Inventory, Wisconsin Smoking Withdrawal Scale, Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale, and Profile of Mood States (POMS). The baseline and one-month follow-up assessments will allow the detection of any treatment-associated increases or decreases in marijuana, nicotine and other drug use.
- Patch Guess and Attributions Questionnaire [ Time Frame: 15 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The Patch Guess and Attributions Questionnaire assesses which type of patch (active versus placebo) the subject believes that he or she was given during the study and attributed effects of the patch on the individual's cognition, affect, and behavior.
- Blood Pressure [ Time Frame: 15 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Blood pressure will be measured.
- Tobacco dependence. [ Time Frame: 52 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Self-reported frequency of nicotine/tobacco use and level of dependence will also be assessed one month after the end of treatment with the nicotine/tobacco timeline followback method. Expired breath carbon monoxide concentration will also be assessed during each pre-follow-up session to assess smoking.
- Tobacco and nicotine intake [ Time Frame: 52 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Nicotine intake will be assessed by: 1) self-reported tobacco and other nicotine intake, and 2) urinary concentration of cotinine, the major metabolite of nicotine during pre-treatment and treatment phase. Self-reported frequency of nicotine/tobacco use and level of dependence will also be assessed one month after the end of treatment with the nicotine/tobacco timeline followback method.
- Body Weight [ Time Frame: 22 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Body weight will be assessed during baseline and treatment phases.
- THC Intake [ Time Frame: 22 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]THC intake will be assessed during the baseline and treatment phases.
- Heart Rate [ Time Frame: 15 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Heart rate will be measured.
Estimated Enrollment: | 116 |
Study Start Date: | April 2011 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | July 2014 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | June 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
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Placebo Comparator: Placebo Patch
Placebo patch for 15-day quit period
Drug: Placebo Patch
Placebo patch
Other Name: Placebo patch from Rejuvenations Lab
Active Comparator: Nicotine Patch
7 mg Habitrol nicotine patch-15 day quit period
Drug: Nicotine
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Other Name: Habitrol
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The aim of this proposal is to accurately assess the effects of TNP on MJ withdrawal symptoms across 15 days of biochemically confirmed MJ abstinence using a placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomly assigned treatment design, while closely monitoring any potential adverse effects, including changes in nicotine use and dependence.
To achieve these goals, 116 carefully screened cannabis-dependent individuals (58 female) will be randomly assigned to one of two doses (0 mg or 7mg nicotine) of TNP (transdermal nicotine patch) while they abstain from MJ for 15 days. Subjects will be administered a follow-up phone interview 30 days after the termination of treatment to assess the effects of nicotine-patch treatment on: 1) frequency of nicotine and tobacco smoking intake, 2) FTND-assessed nicotine dependence, 3) new use of nicotine during the time since completion of the study, and 4) marijuana and other drug use patterns. Large financial contingencies will be used to provide a high degree of abstinence and study completion. This will be the first adequately powered study to assess the effects of TNP on MJ negative affect-related withdrawal symptoms and urges to use MJ. Withdrawal patterns and abstinence will be assessed in two groups of MJ-dependent individuals: 1) those who rarely or never smoke tobacco, and 2) those who smoke four or fewer tobacco cigarettes per day (very-light tobacco smokers). A stratified randomization method will be used to control for gender and tobacco-smoker status. It is hypothesized that MJ withdrawal symptoms will be less severe in the group assigned to the 7 mg patch than in the group assigned to the placebo. It is also hypothesized that individuals high in anxiety/neuroticism and those high in aggression/hostility will exhibit greater benefits from TNP than those low in these traits. Given that no gender differences were observed in our preliminary study, gender differences are not predicted. The over-the-counter availability, minimal abuse risks, and minimal adverse side-effects associated with TNP would make it an ideal and highly implementable treatment for MJ dependence if it can be demonstrated to be efficacious in reducing MJ withdrawal symptoms.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 50 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria: Female and male cannabis-dependent MJ smokers aged 18 years or older will be recruited. Inclusion criteria include cannabis dependence as assessed by a DSM-IV-based structured interview and MJ use on 10-28 occasions per week and be willing to abstain for 15 days. Only individuals who are in good mental and physical health, with a BMI of 17-30 kg/m2, as verified by health questionnaires and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID), will participate in this study. Potential subjects will be asked to indicate, on a scale of 1-10, how strong they currently want to quit smoking MJ (from "1" = "not at all" to "10" = "very strong") and will also be assessed with the four-item MJ Stages of Change. Additionally, subjects will fulfill one of two criteria: 1) not smoke or use other tobacco products or 2) smoke tobacco cigarettes or use other nicotine delivery systems (e.g., hookah, cigars, chewing tobacco) fewer than 5 times per day (on average) for the past year. Current use of MJ and tobacco will be verified by detectable urine THC and nicotine metabolites. All subjects will be required to provide four pre-quit baseline urine samples. The mean creatinine-normalized THC concentration across these samples must be of 175 ng/ml or greater based. -
Exclusion Criteria:
Criteria include meeting DSM-IV criteria for current abuse or dependence on a substance other than MJ, nicotine, or caffeine, using psychoactive substances (other than MJ, alcohol, nicotine, & caffeine) 6+ times/month, testing positive for stimulants, antidepressants, anxiolytics, and/or opiates (10-panel urine drug test), testing above a salivary cotinine concentration of 150 ng/ml during the initial screening, using creatinine or creatinine-containing supplements, testing positive for adulteration of urine samples, consuming more than 6 alcoholic drinks per day continuously for a month, mental disorders including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, psychotic symptoms, currently, recently, or ever chronically at significant suicidal risk or experiencing violent thoughts or current major depression. Others that will be excluded include women who are pregnant, lactating, not taking precautions to avoid pregnancy, individuals with significant physical disorders or unstable physical disorders that may represent a severe untreated condition, such as hypertension, as well as those with less than a high school education or equivalent, primary language other than English, and those with significant cognitive impairment.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01400243
Contact: Norka E Rabinovich, B.A. | 618-453-3527 | email@example.com | |
Contact: David G Gilbert, PhD | 618-453-3558 | email@example.com |
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Southern Illinois University | Recruiting |
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Contact: Norka E Rabinovich, B.A. 618-453-3527 firstname.lastname@example.com | |
Contact: David G Gilbert, PhD 618-453-3558 email@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: David G Gilbert, PhD |
Principal Investigator: | David G Gilbert, PhD | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
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Responsible Party: | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01400243 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | NIH/NIDA 1R01DA031006 - 01, R01DA031006 |
Study First Received: | March 21, 2011 |
Last Updated: | February 3, 2014 |
Health Authority: | United States: Food and Drug Administration |
Keywords provided by Southern Illinois University Carbondale:
Marijuana Drug withdrawal symptoms Nicotine |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Marijuana Abuse Chemically-Induced Disorders Mental Disorders Substance-Related Disorders Nicotine Autonomic Agents Cholinergic Agents Cholinergic Agonists |
Ganglionic Stimulants Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Neurotransmitter Agents Nicotinic Agonists Peripheral Nervous System Agents Pharmacologic Actions Physiological Effects of Drugs |
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