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Pharmaganda 

That study in the latest issues of JAMA was full of problems, it was nothing more than pharmaganda.
Pharmaganda by Tamara Jane December 22, 2005

pharmacology

n. NOT PHARMACY, but rather the study of chemical interactions in living organisms, especially those with possible therapeutic value.
I am not studying to be a pharmacist; I am doing pharmacology research, you *&#%!
pharmacology by Caligula March 24, 2004

Church of Voodoo Pharmacology 

The Church of Voodoo Pharmacology is a popular and global cult which holds the paranoid belief that all scientific studies regarding illegal drugs are liberal conspiracies and thus completely false, and that all illegal drugs are without exception Satanic, immoral, life-ruining, addictive, and deadly. The actions of this cult are oriented towards demonizing and incarcerating all illegal drug users, and in some cases removing them from the earth in some type of Holocaust (see Rush Limbaugh). They strongly and unquestionably support the war on drugs. The official term for all those who disagree with them in any way is "pro-drug."

Many organizations are involved in this cult, including the PDFA, ONDCP, DEA, UN, Republicans, and various pharmaceutical companies, as well as almost all fundie groups. The cult has no official leadership, but the US government and UN share most of the administrative duties.

The cult was founded by Harry J. Anslinger (also first head of the DEA), who was mainly responsible, through the successful use of propaganda, for the national and subsequently global criminalization of marijuana (globally criminalized through U.N. conventions). He was well-known for his racism and violent hatred of jazz, as well as his hypocrisy, reversing his position on the effects of marijuana from the claim that it would make you murderous to the claim that it would make you absolutely useless. This led some to conclude that he was hepped up on goofballs. Some enlightening quotes from him are below.
"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men." (1929)
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others."
"...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races." (taken from his testimony to Congress)
"Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death."
"You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother."
"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing." (1948)
The Church of Voodoo Pharmacology continues to be well known for hypocrisy, racism, and an obsession with marijuana.

Pharmatard 

An overworked, understaffed, not necessarily underpaid, legal community drug dealer wearing a short, dirty, white lab coat and employed by a Fortune 500 mass merchandiser, grocer, large retail chain, or healthcare institution; a pharmatard graduates from pharmacy school with a vast array of knowledge and factual tidbits relating to pharmacotherapy but eventually becomes a dumbed-down, amorphous, human mass as a result of continuous verbal abuse from those illegitimately seeking controlled substances despite various federal and state regulations governing their dispensation in addition to psychological stress imparted through dealings with uneducated physician office staff, under-educated nursing staff, and egotistical, arrogant practitioners with established prescriptive authority yet complete disregard for the deleterious consequences of polypharmacy, drug-drug, drug-food, and drug-disease interactions that may hinder optimal therapeutic outcomes; also, an empty shell of a pharmacist, who makes bogus recommendations regarding self-treatment of certain disease states with nonprescription, over-the-counter (OTC) drug therapy
Mike was nominated as the employee of the month, even though he is the biggest pharmatard that works here. How did that happen?
Pharmatard by Pharminator July 28, 2010

Pharmacratical Inquisitionist 

One who, through the ingesting of any number of psychoactive vegetation, explores the humane psyche in search of ancient wisdom and early mans creation of gods.
During a recent bi-monthly mind expansion clinic, I had an epiphany, and realized I had surpassed the Doctoral prerequisite and could now apply for my PH.d as a Pharmacratical Inquisitionist.

shit-against-the-wall-pharmacology 

noun. The process of throwing chemicals at a disease until something changes.
"shit-against-the-wall-pharmacology," credit to Barry Schuler @ TEDTalks.
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