The Arabist

The Arabist

By Issandr El Amrani and friends.

The opiate of the masses

Richard Dawkins warns of a conspiracy to get people across the world hooked on a sociopathic drug. Governments are pushing it. Children are encouraged to do it. Gerin oil is all around us:

Gerin oil (or Geriniol to give it its scientific name) is a powerful drug which acts directly on the central nervous system to produce a range of characteristic symptoms, often of an antisocial or self-damaging nature. If administered chronically in childhood, Gerin oil can permanently modify the brain to produce adult disorders, including dangerous delusions which have proved very hard to treat. The four doomed flights of 11th September were, in a very real sense, Gerin oil trips: all 19 of the hijackers were high on the drug at the time.


How do we stop this plague?