3 broken Democrat promises; 3 major Trump initiatives. Marijuana issue Dems spent decades fumbling, the Biden-era PPP fraud drawer is finally getting pried open, and beauty returns to the Capitol.
“It sat right there on the list next to heroin and LSD, staring at the ceiling, waiting for the Uber Eats driver to deliver a 24-pack of Taco Bell chalupas.”
I’m laughing so hard. Jeff I can’t love you enough. Saturday just got better with your first paragraph ❤️🤣❤️🤣
Edit: now I’m coughing. That’s the longest laugh I’ve had all week 🤣
I share Jeff's libertarian leanings, but the problem is, marijuana really can be dangerous not only to users, but those around them. See fellow Substacker Alex Berenson's book Tell Your Children.
Oh I know this firsthand, as I watched it destroy the future of my oldest son. To this day he is still derailed even though he has been clean of it for three years now. I’m completely against its legalization but more importantly it’s moralization and normalization sending the wrong messages to our vulnerable. It destroys more lives than it helps. All three destroy lives, but two are insidious while the third simply robs one of brain cells.
Still, Jeff’s description of heroin and LSD and their known impact on a human life sitting next to dopey marijuana staring at the ceiling oblivious as to why it’s sitting next to them as it dreams of chalupas was hysterical.
My daughter developed an anaphylactic allergy to secondhand pot smoke her first semester in college (straight A’s - never did drugs or drank). Her life forever upended thanks to the uncontrolled drug crisis on campuses. Had to drop out - couldn’t keep her safe and out of the ER. Gave up her college dreams of becoming a speech therapist. We live in fear. She must leave our home every day with a P100 respirator to avoid exposure - the only way we can keep her from constant epi pen use. Just moved further west on 3 acres to get away from the constant smoke in our old neighborhood. She’s married and expecting her first baby - we must protect them both. Drugs are awful for this country. I’m fully aware of the medical uses for cancer etc. But it is just an easy way out for some instead of doing the hard work in therapy. Just use the edibles and let my daughter breathe freely! Sorry for the rant - but we are 6 years into this horrific journey. (After seeing multiple Drs/allergists etc - most likely caused by a vax injury from the meningitis vx prior to college. She knows 2 others with exact same issue - same timing as freshmen in college. )
May I share your story with my grandson, who is going to University this fall to be a, believe it or not, speech therapist.
He has been accepted into a very respected Scholars program and they will have their own dorm, and he had been invited to join a Christian fraternity that eschews smoking, drinking, drugs etc but he won’t be living in the fraternity.
He has been the joy of our lives, and I pray constantly over his future. But he does have a lais·sez-faire attitude towards MaryJane. He thinks it should be legal for medical purposes and does not see the danger.
But if you would rather I did not share it with him, I won’t.
But I do want to thank you for sharing it, nevertheless.
Of course - the more people that know about this - the better. Good luck to him - speech therapists are desperately needed with all the injured kids out there.
He is 18. He told me the other day that while he knows that now is not the time to go after a wife, that he has started praying for a Godly wife. He has a good head on his shoulders, which will make him a target of the enemy.
😢🥺🥺 🙏 Prayers for her and her new little one. That’s frightening! I’ve never heard of that happening with second hand smoke! But I don’t doubt it for a second. I get instant nausea at just the smell of it so I can imagine there would be far worse physical and biological responses for others.
NoVA mom: I am so sorry this has happened to your daughter, your whole family. I cannot drive anywhere in my city without smelling weed exhaust as drivers pass me or stop near me in traffic. They are DUI and putting others, like your daughter, in danger.😡
I know you have talked about this before and I’m glad you keep educating others that this can happen and what terrible effects it has 😞 It really torques me off when pot lovers mock people who dislike the smell or who have strong reactions to it, let alone a life threatening condition like your daughter’s 😕
This sound AWFUL! I am so sorry. I don’t get the smoking over edibles either but I have been told the ‘high’ is different and edibles last longer. My response I DON’T want to smell it for hours. It lingers. Stays stuck.
A lot of the edibles are made from pot grown for the CBDs not the THC. The CBD is the part that helps the patient with pain usually. My hubby use to use canna oil on his neck for his spasmodic torticolis and it did help, but he did not like the tired feeling he got due to there still being some THC in it. I started studying herbs and found out that hops is related to pot but it only has the CBDs in it no THC. It helped him just as the canna oil had until his body started rejecting it like it does all medications and herbs if he does not back off of them for a few months. Other herbs have been helping him though so he has no wish to start up the hops again. But I do take a hops tincture for sleep nightly. Again, it is the THC that is the problem but growers have cross bred for higher THC and forget about the CBDs. So growers have remembered though and cross bred for CBDs and very little THC and people try it an complain about no high and the grower said well that is the purpose to get the medical benefit without the high and some were upset and others were thrilled. There are a lot out there who say they use it medicinally but who really just want to be able to get it for the high. There are others like hubby who used it medicinally and not for the high.
I work with a guy who is allergic to cigarette smoke. When we were working in an office, there was a telemarketing firm downstairs and workers there would smoke outside and somehow the smoke would get into the ventilation system and right into my coworkers cubicle. He missed a number of days of work because of this, and would ask the people in telemarketing firm to please get farther from the building when they smoke. He got no relief until the firm moved out. Of course, almost no one smokes cigarettes anymore and we all work from home now, but that story reminded me of his story. He also had problems getting through college because of this (he went to college in the late 80's, and smoking was still allowed in most buildings in designated areas, but that didn't help him much at the time).
Come to Michigan where it was legalized in the 2022 election by ballot vote. The marijuana lobby is one of the biggest and they gave huge amounts to the Democratic governor, AG, and SoS, bids for re-election which they did. Virtually every college campus went big for the blue and legalization.
Now we have dispensaries in every town in Michigan. When our budget was way overspent and is supposed to be balanced, Whitmer’s plan was to add taxes to the marijuana stores. But of course.
I believe in medical marijuana. But marijuana does not make you sharper or more intuitive. It makes you dumber and pretty much in a euphoric, spaced out state, and I don’t want the people driving big rigs at me, just ingesting a handful of laced gummies.
My doctor (who is NOT attached to our local hospital and who doesnt accept insurance), said that ER's are being inundated with marijuana-induced psychosis cases ever since we legalized it in this state.
People smoke before, during, and after work. They smell like skunk, but as long as they arent stumbling around, are just left alone. My direct manager couldnt get thru lunch without smoking ang getting high. It's getting worse every day.
I intermittantly lose my sense of smell. I almost dont want it back, because skunk smell is almost EVERYwhere now.
the skunk smell is a 'tell' that they are smoking a laced product, not a pure one. It could be anything from formaldehyde or angle dust. Straight pot does not have that smell.
Our smallish Illinois city (10,000) is getting a dispensary, opening soon. It’s a new model with a smoking lounge in it. I’m trying to be the oldest boomer alive (along with my husband) who has never tried weed or even a gummy. I see no reason to start now. Maybe for a true medical condition for pain, but as I don’t have one of those, not interested.
So bad in Michigan… from The Toledo border to the upper peninsula to Grand Rapids to the thumb of the state ……Zombie land to dummy down its people . 😡.
My BIL works as a PA in a gastroenterology clinic for the last 2 decades (PNW where pot is legal). He’s about to retire. He tells me that 7 out 10 patients are heavy to moderate pot users and not one will listen to him that symptoms they suffer from are marijuana-use related. He said he’s tired of bringing it up because the ‘pot is harmless’ message is so thoroughly accepted by patients. The pot now is so strong in THC compared to 1990’s that some people are doing much more than mellowing out. I’m all for decriminalizing personal amounts. But think legalization is wrong-headed.
There will be studies published in future showing the harms of pot use, the same way it was done to Big Tobacco. We’re just 20 years and a lot of wrecked lives too early.
Yeah it’s hard to prevent normalization when so many things involving it trigger laughter. Laughter normalizes a lot of things, and I think that’s where young lives get trapped. They have a hard time understanding that not everything laughable is wise or should be permissible. Still, less regulation by government and more personal responsibility is needed, nurtured by a society that understands the stakes and helps the young understand the difference. Our society failed to take it as serious as it should, relaxing the urgencies of valid concerns and encouraging its use across the board.
And yet....alcohol, sold in stores on every street corner, neighborhood, rural and urban.
A bank robbery is occurring...
The bank robber has had a few whiskeys to invigorate his bravado, has a gun, and WILL use it because.
The bank robber has had a doobie, gets to the teller, forgets why he's there and orders a super sized fry and large coke.
One can get CBD Oil and gummies that have NO THC, but have all the beneficial impacts of medicinal marijuana.
One can also get the full impact of medical marijuana (such as cancer patients) to deal with pain.
The body literally has receptors like nicotine (found in all sorts of night shade veggies we eat every day - white potatoes, tomatoes, etc.), and cannabinol receptors that make what GOD made beneficial. It was those who turned these into cash cows that either 1) corrupted them or 2) fear factored them to promote petrochemical pharmakeia. (Sorcery as Jesus calls it.)
-> Big Pharma.
And now 17, 17!!, Big Pharma companies are WITH President Trump as he releases the benefits of marijuana.
Yeah, both my kids, that I tried so hard to raise right, really hard, when all my efforts were being undermined by their mother, getting them high at 12 years old. Now,their dreams and goals amount to weed, concerts, “art, dude” and I just pray they aren’t homeless in their old age. All because of pot. Had I known she was doing this, think I might have removed her from the list of the living.
Ugh I feel ya on this. My X husband wanted to be best friends to our boy when they were teenagers. I put it simple. They have several friends. They need one strong solid father. Did it work? Nope! After we were done he would drink with our youngest and allowed him to smoke pot. Our older tow wondered and questioned why so different with him. SMH! Divorce that’s why. Ugh I had high hopes for my youngest he was the most balanced. Ambitious. Motivated of all three but NOPE! Don’t get me wrong they’re all doing well but none of them have a good relationship with their father either
I always thought Marijuana was step one on the ladder to ever more dangerous and destructive habits. In this month alone, we've lost the son of a dear family friend, and a nephew. Both, dear sweet boys - now men, that couldn't find their way back to living. They're young men who no longer struggle against the evil controlling them. Their mothers grieve and question - my son? How did this happen?
The legalization and normalization of THC is HORRIBLE. There's NO standardization to the THOUSANDS of products out there, sold in colorful packages and enticing flavors. If a pharmacy packaged 3 or 4 different drugs into cello, marked them "mellow buzz" without saying what they were, would you go in and let yourself get sold them by the mellow hippie working there who has no credentials? NO. It's gotta stop. There's ONE approved cannabinoid, Marinol, produced under tight standards. Anything other than that it's a big case of "caveat emptor".
Excellent summary, that book. Quick read. The 4x increase in incidence of psychosis in males in a large prospective study (Swedish military) is a major data point.
Incentives around cannabis are fairly bent and the Democrat and blue state approaches have been the worst of all worlds.
Our son’s psychiatrist warned us over 6 years ago about the dangers of marijuana on mental health and what the industry and doctors were really seeing in practice. He said the lobbyists were too strong and they were dismissing what the psychiatrists and primary doctors were reporting. Their conferences were filled with the damage going on and they were ignored.
Agree. People take it far too lightly, imo, just as they do binge drinking or pill popping 😕 Lots of jokes about all those, making light of them as if they can never lead to serious consequences.
The UK just ‘banned’ tobacco for anyone born after 2008:
“The government has just passed a law (Tobacco & Vapes Bill) that will create the first “smoke-free generation,” banning anyone born after 2008 from ever buying tobacco products of any kind—cigarettes, cigars, or even vapes. This generation will be, according to the British health secretary, Wes Streeting, “protected from a lifetime of addiction and harm.”
This is a Temperance movement for the 21st century and predict it will fail. Young people will rebel against rules like this, they always have. Imagine the future where the 30 year old can buy a cigar to celebrate his baby’s new birth but the 29 year old can’t.
UK has also welcomed in a lot of Arabic people and sharing the hookah is literally part of their culture.
Yeah, this exactly. The weed today isn’t your goofy aunt’s flowerpot variety, first of all. You just need to walk around Brooklyn to get a sense of how damaging it is, both to the individuals addicted to it and to the social fabric.
How many of the flood of trans shooters are cannabis users?
Drugs that are legal are easier to control. In the 80s it was easier for a teenager to get pot than alcohol or even cigarettes. Not only was the purveyor already breaking the law by being in possession of a weed that anyone could grow but there was also an artificial profit incentive without tax stamps.
The so-called legalization of anything puts the government in control and takes away the profit incentives. At least until governments inevitably start abusing the licensing and taxation.
I say legalize and control all drugs. If you want to make something against the law, then I vote for outlawing driving while wearing a hoodie. It is a peripheral vision thing. Perhaps we could make it that hoodie wearers can only go 15 mph.
I hate to bust your bubble, but it's not Marijuana that's dangerous... It's what man has done to it and made it into that's dangerous... What the Lord provided to the world was a gift that could be used for everything from medicine (The main opponent to marijuana's legalization is and has always been the medical/pharmaceutical industry)... to clothing (Hemp fiber is a WAY FAR more comfortable and durable than cotton)... to paper (Hemp is a WAY FAR more productive and economical use of land than trees for paper production... and BTW...the U.S. Constitution is written on Hemp paper)... Naturally, marijuana contains at the very most 12%-15% of the active psychotropic ingredient of Delta-9 THC... what man has made it into is a dangerous commodity that currently contains 30%-40% Delta-9 THC... Like everything else that man touches... man corrupts! Put your complaints and design your legislation against those who corrupt... not a gift from God.
I might also add that the pharmaceutical industry has been trying to create pharmaceutical marijuana for DECADES to patent it for its medical efficacy!!! (I know this because I am a retired chemist and worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over 10 years out of a 35-year career) The particular molecules of interest, also known as Cannabinoids (THC, THCA, CBD, CBDA, CBN, CBC, CDG, etc et.al.) along with their associated Terpenes, Flavonoids and other compounds have been broken down to their elemental constituents... and put back together in vitro with identical configurations, bond angles, and bond rotations... yet the medical efficacy of the in vitro concoctions compared to the natural product has not been achieved... a classic example of "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
I am not a MJ user but how many lives and/or families have been destroyed by alcohol?
It is important to know the effects of both and use them responsibly and reasonably.
Beer and wine are my choices but a couple times a month with a meal and not to get more than a little buzz! Who knew Trump would become such a Libertarian, good for him!
I share your liberation leanings as well as your caution. I use CBD products, the kind that doesn’t alter my thinking in any way. I’m all for medicinal purposes. The problem for me as a Christian, is that drug use distorts one’s thinking and clouds one’s judgement and people, however unknowingly, enter into the turf our Enemy. Once on his turf, you are open to all sorts of harassment and particularly influence. Satan doesn’t care how you wandered into his turf, only that you did. It’s like hiking in Turkey and all of a sudden you’re surrounded by the IRGC. You might say, why are you arresting me? I am in Turkey! When they say no, you’re not, you wandered 10 miles into Iran and now your ours. Doesn’t matter how innocently you got there, you’re in their territory. Too long to go into in this comment, but the links between Pharmakia and sorcery are biblical.
Mmmmm back in the day I didn’t smoke pot but did make many a trips to Jack in the Box for the glorious tacos. Still my favorite and I’d be there in a minute if they opened again. Still the best tacos in mind.
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (worldliness, manner of life), God made you alive together with Christ, having [freely] forgiven us all our sins, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of legal demands [which were in force] against us and which were hostile to us. And this certificate He has set aside and completely removed by nailing it to the cross. When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities [those supernatural forces of evil operating against us], He made a public example of them [exhibiting them as captives in His triumphal procession], having triumphed over them through the cross.
The certificate of payment and Id also nailed to the cross, paid in full, as far wide as the ends of E to W, by The King of the Jews, the God of their making.
There’s a reason we put flowers 🌸on the table. A reason we light candles, hang art, fuss over the details nobody technically needs. None of it is necessary. A house functions without it.
But a house isn’t a home until somebody decides it’s worth making beautiful.
A capital city works the same way. For a long time, we treated ours like a building to pass through, not a home to live in. Sterile. Functional. Embarrassed of itself.
I’m proud we’re taking pride in it again.🇺🇸
My wife and I recently decided to bring a number of potted plants into our bedroom. The advantages to doing this other than the simple beauty of their placement is the fact that these plants emit oxygen as well as they remove from our indoor air harmful pollutants like benzene, tuoluene and others.
Examples of the best plants for your bedrooms are, snake plants, ZZ plants, Pothos plants, and Gerbera Daisy's.
We now have 8 potted plants in the bedroom and the fresh oxygen they produce each night is amazing.
I got fed up with fighting all the myriad of little pests they attract, like spider mites. Now I only have chives and basil in my kitchen window. I miss fresh plants but for some reason here in Chicagoland you can’t buy them without a family of pests and eggs buried deep within. 🫤
🤣 I’m scrolling so fast through my reply notifications and yours was mixed in with a bunch about marijuana. And I see “maybe buy some online?” 🤣🤣🤣 coughing with laughter again at my misinterpretation. Lolol
We’ve got Gerbera Daisies and geraniums that have been blooming in our living room since January. They’re joined by a basil plant, a saved mum and petunias from last fall. And a maple tree started from an errant seed that landed in the pot of last summer’s tomato plant! They provide such solace during our long, bitter South Dakota winter.
I have a sticky note stuck above my desk. “Make beautiful things” that thought overcame me after my week old grandson died. I was not sure why God put that on my heart and mind but it matters.
Lets unpack the issue of Cannabis, from the perspective of history and Plant Biology as the
most significant issue was not teased into the open.
The Schedule 1 weed wars were simply a boon for the massive alcoholic beverages industry.
Alchohol by an exponential margin has done more damage than weed from DUI...
Due to a variety of factors (state and feds recognizing the enormous tax potentials) they opened a few flood gates.
Hybridizers (plant genetics peeps) went to work years ago to DEVELOP STRAINS that have
THC content many dozens of times more potent than previous. Many details.
There are currently more strains of weed than tomatoes. Any discussion about weed that does not acknowledge this fact and its relevance to the effects it will have is woefully remiss. There will be and likely have been direct consequences for making incentives great again.
The irony is that in blue states (Trump haters by definition) are likely to cozy up...
Leaving a legacy of knowledge and kindness is considered one of the most enduring impacts a person can make, as it focuses on enriching the lives of others rather than accumulating material wealth. True greatness is often measured not by status, but by the warmth shared and the wisdom passed down, creating a ripple effect of positivity that lasts for generations. There’s nothing like the positive wisdom we get right here, thanks Jeff!
I When I was a kid my mother always made sure every Sunday the 6 of us would go to Church. Being raised Catholic meant I had God parents, my Uncle Ben and Aunt Annette. My Uncle Ben sadly had passed away a little over 10 years ago, but my aunt lived on until recently she passed away.
Over many years living around my mother’s Italian family, all in this same small town, my cousins, aunts and uncles were very close. Over the years, like many families, life happened and many of us had grown apart.
When I think of my Aunt Annette though, my mothers sister in law, I don’t think back to negative things that had happened. Though they had 2 houses in view of the ocean in Plymouth I don’t think of her houses. I honestly don’t care what kind of cars they drove. Though there were times when there was some falling out over properties my grandparents had left to my mother and her siblings, I don’t think of those negatives things.
What I do think of is what a good mother Aunt Annette was to my two adopted cousins. I think of what a good grandmother she was to her grandchildren and what a good childhood her and my uncle provided all of them. How she taught them right from wrong. How she always treated me with kindness and respect when I stayed in Plymouth with them, one year for a whole summer. My uncle taught me a great work ethic and how to do many trades and my aunt would always make sure I had great meals many times eating on the big farmers porch overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. They were a great couple that had a great life together. I know my uncle has been patiently waiting for her.
Wouldn’t it be nice to think that when I pass away, maybe, my nephews, nieces, cousins or siblings would overlook the meaningless material things that I may have and think of things I may have taught them or kindness I showed them. After all we enter this world with nothing and we leave this world with nothing. Thanks for the memories and your kindness Aunt Annette, I’ll never forget you. J.Goodrich
What a beautiful story about family history James. Thank you for sharing the lives of your Aunt and Uncle with us.
I will only make one observation. You mention we enter and leave the word with nothing but I respectfully amend this to we enter and leave the world with the most beautiful gift we could ever receive; our Souls.
I too have been Graced with some wonderful family members,who had lived out their Faith in Fear and Trembling, just as St Paul reminds us to do.
Being the 12th of 13 siblings and growing up in the 60s and 70s in South Miami, and getting kicked out of Miami Palmetto HS in 1975. I was very fortunate to get some Tough Love back in the day from my family.
Experienced a deep love of Our Lord Jesus back in 1978ish, and I was pulled out of the Catholic Church. I'm grateful for my time in the Protestant church and many friends I still have today, but I'm forever grateful for Steve Wood sharing his journey with me back in 1991🙏
I love Jesus, and I love His Most Holy Family too ☝️🙏
Lets unpack the issue of Cannabis, from the perspective of history and Plant Biology as the
most significant issue was not teased into the open.
The Schedule 1 weed wars were simply a boon for the massive alcoholic beverages industry.
Alchohol by an exponential margin has done more damage than weed from DUI...
Due to a variety of factors (state and feds recognizing the enormous tax potentials) they opened a few flood gates.
Hybridizers (plant genetics peeps) went to work years ago to DEVELOP STRAINS that have
THC content many dozens of times more potent than previous. Many details.
There are currently more strains of weed than tomatoes. Any discussion about weed that does not acknowledge this fact and its relevance to the effects it will have is woefully remiss. There will be and likely have been direct consequences for making incentives great again.
The irony is that in blue states (Trump haters by definition) are likely to cozy up...
The Elite Families knew that marijuana was a weed and it would grow everywhere and they couldn't put a patent on it. So they forced it to be a Class A drug and locked up many innocent people.
They were studying it in the late 1800's, and they knew the medical benefits were powerful.
Funny thing, it was the Democrats locking up the innocent people because of marijuana.
PPP and EIDL loans were originally from the Trump 45 administration. A response to save small businesses from the COVID lockdowns. We later found out that it was all part of the Plandemic engineered by the Deep State Cabal. The PPP loans were meant for Main Street businesses to pay their laid off employees. Unfortunately Oprah, Pelosi and thousands of greedy grifters got in on the free money spree. I hope they get what’s coming, with penalties and interest.
I hope so, but when my corrupt governor managed to come up with $268 million in unaccounted for UIC in Michigan during covid, a shrug of the shoulders and somehow it was “lost”. Oh well.
I feel sorry for the kids getting dropped off at school, the car door opens and the teacher's assistants are practically getting high off the second hand smoke that those kids just marinated in for who knows how long...
Same!!! I also hate smelling it when *I’m driving* 😡 but yes, I choose not to smoke and can’t stand it when I have to breathe that stench. It literally makes me want to vomit. Sometimes even smoking inside is apparently not enough as I have run by people’s houses early in the morning and there is no one in sight but you sure can smell that horrible odor 🤮 Maybe they open their windows, I don’t know, but it’s happened even on very cold days in the winter.
Running: They must become ‘nose blind’ to the skunk odor, or they don’t care. Inhaling while walking past some families in Walmart is a health hazard. Gummies are a better option!
So who was paid millions by the Obama administration to fix the reflection pool? Sounds like another boondoggle similar to that Solar energy project that went no where....except for his friends pocketing millions. Enquiring minds want to know.
I think the problem the democrats have is that they have stopped trying to fix things that annoy regular people because they prefer to cater to the irregular people, by calling them marginalized
My stylist took a huge hit having her business shuttered in 2020-21 but she got a PPP loan. I remember offering to help her dig out of that debt when she reopened but she said the loan was forgiven. 🤷🏼♀️
I had a friend and she and I had to put up with a person in our horse group that was very dishonest. My friend told that “I had to get up tomorrow to be ahead of that person today.” I just couldn’t think of the dishonest things this person would do to win… like drug other people’s horses. I just couldn’t believe it.
It might be a sign that a select group of people and their known associates were permitted to submit these claims. I bet some of the 500k+ were multiple applications by the same entities with multiple “businesses”.
I know the government has fields on public aid applications where they can indicate a connection to a senator and their advocacy. It’s like a flag that people see to simply shuffle past and go onto the next form.
The reason I know this exists and is used is because I accidentally got to see copies of internal documents related to the internal decision about my own son’s social security disability application. I wasn’t supposed to receive these documents but they were accidentally included with something else shared with me. Mind you, he was wrongly kept from aid for three long years and endlessly harassed about his condition. Once I reached out to our Democrat senator complaining about illegal aliens receiving 10x as much aid during that same time frame while my legal citizen son got nothing suddenly an indicator was added to his account “senator interest” or something like that and he was magically approved. I think that indicator has kept them from harassing us further.
What’s sad is the actual contents of the decision failed to even read the neuro psych eval and use its findings in the decision. THAT should be what protects my son. Instead, this little Senator flag is protecting him until it is removed and we will be harassed again.
Anyway, I’m sure there were flags all over the place for select applicants of PPP
That’s important information with respect to the senator flag. In 1962, I was in the process of getting my wife a green card without having to go back to the state where we had originally registered. A friend who knew about the political issues went to the local senator and presto, the green card was issued.
Long ago Parade Magazine carried stories about Trump that were glowing. One was about how well his children were raised and the other was about NYC failing to restore the over budget ice skating rink. Trump took over and voila, completed beautifully. The man cares AND, knows how to get it done.
Im with you on pot. Medical marijuana makes really sick people feel better, but today its so strong it makes alot of people psychotic. And drivers...yikes. To me it should be restricted to medical only. No one listens to me.
Agree, if people really have a medical need best addressed by the chemicals in this drug, it’s not any worse than taking Valium or Xanax or anything else like that. But I don’t want to be forced to breathe it in and I don’t want people driving while smoking (or where their passenger is smoking), which happens even in my state where it’s not legalized.
That is what the rescheduling is intended to promote, medical uses. It still will not be legal for recreational use, at least on a federal level. I have no problem with this and think it's a good idea. What I'd really like to see is more regulation of the medical growers and dispensaries, so that people who do need it for medical reasons can be sure they aren't ingesting dangerous pesticides or mold spores. I don't think Trump is interested at all in total legalization.
Anecdote: back in the 60's i shared a house with a half dozen other GMI students during work sections. Several indulged in smoking grass. One related how he had driven to work up a busy 4 lane street, and wondered why so many were honking horns. Then looked down and "realized" he was doing 15 in a 45 zone. The very definition of wasted. He didn't last the full 5 yrs.
On the one hand it looks good. On the other hand, does the city that represents the swamp deserve to spend money that it doesn’t have and increase our national debt on beautification projects?
Too many times pot legalization is placed on the ballot to sway the election to a blue wave. When they put pot on the ballot in Arizona, a majority of blue candidates won. The signs to legalize pot and vote blue were combined. Pot was legalized in 2020...
I do when they are driving and using. I encounter stoned or people in the process of getting stoned in their cars every day. It is no different than driving while drinking a can of beer or some Jack Daniels. There are also other externalities like the aforementioned smell which permeates entire neighborhoods. Finally, and maybe most importantly, our kids are now addicted to yet another thing in addition to psychiatric meds, social media and tech. My son tells me that most of his friends smoke multiple times a day. It is beyond depressing. Tell me how it is different than the fictional SOMA in Brave New World?
And for my daughter (and a few others she knows) the smell triggers the need for an epi pen in order for her to continue to breathe…..a complete nightmare here in NoVA - never mind a big city….
That's awful. People have no idea how terrible using an epi pen is for the recipient. Obviously, if it's needed, it's needed, but people feel really bad after getting a super dose of epinephrine.
And the kids convince each other it’s safe and not as dangerous as adults claim. My son’s friends had him convinced it would help his tics caused by his Tourette Syndrome and ease his anxiety. Instead it robbed him of the promising future he had lined up, confusing him and destroying his self discipline and motivations. Those same “friends” didn’t have disabilities to screw with their own use of drugs and today have jobs and futures without caring that their influence robbed my son of his.
Juju, I partook of cannabis at an early age of 19 in 1970. At the time I was enrolled in college and a few years later received my Bachelor's of Science in Business Management degree.
Within 2 years I found a career job with a Fortune 500 company and stayed there for 30 years until I retired at the age of 54.
I am not bragging at all. It was all hard work, and through it all I occasionally consumed cannabis.
I never once became overwhelmed with illness or chose to cease my pursuit of a lifetime of choices that didn't include "dropping out" of society.
Yes cannabis is different than it was in 1970, and "moderation" is more important now than it was then.
Cannabis can be labeled by those who cannot see it for it's medicinal effects, as evil.
However, cultures around the world have recognized it as an herb that provides relief to many for 1000's of years.
Even now in our own country, many seniors are awakening to it's therapeutic uses.
Did you have 5-6 neurological disabilities when you used it? People with disabilities are far more likely to struggle with both addictions and the onset of schizophrenia.
And yes, it’s easily 30x more potent today than when you partook. It’s downright dangerous these days. I too used it in the early 80s and thankfully was able to get out from under it. I had friends that used it all the time and aced their college courses. Again, they were not smoking the drug as it is today and their stories would have been a lot different had they, and most likely yours. That’s the problem today, people are judging the problem based on experiences from 50 years ago!
NAB: My son was offered med weed for his Crohns dx (which is also a ‘disability’ in the eyes of Big Bro) but he said he hated the brain fog and swore off. I hated that it was even offered to him.
Especially when the potency of todays cannabis is so much stronger than ever before. I watched many a soul start using the 10.00/lid pot in the 60's and progress quickly to hard core drug users and several died. Their lives were ruined and stagnant. Not everyone, but many. It was a gateway drug back then and and what is out there now is hugely different. Medical marijuana has a place but needs control.
I saw Dick Gregory in the ‘70’s. He was talking about marijuana being framed as a gateway drug. He stated that every single person doing drugs started out on milk. One of the problems with the draconian measures against marijuana was that being a schedule one drug equated it with heroin, etc. Then a teenager would try it and see that it wasn’t nearly as harmful as painted. And think, What else are they lying to me about?
I’m old enough to remember people getting 50 year sentences (Texas) for possession of small amounts. I had a friend forfeit a car in Grant, New Mexico for the crime of driving through town with a miniscule amount of pot. This apparently was a well known scam in that town. No one should go to jail for smoking marijjana in the privacy of their own home.
I smoked some in college, quit for 30 years and only started again as it was the ONLY thing that gave me relief from my RLS. I was taking meds for Parkinson’s ( off label) that didn’t touch it and RLS is a waking nightmare. There were lot of good reason to change the marijuana laws , but as usual in this country the pendulum swings too far.
In 2023 I went through an IRS PPP loan audit. I was told it was triggered from irregularities in tax reporting. Which was true-my (now former) CPA had to restate and we cleared everything up with no problem. But now I wonder if the audit was also triggered by voting record.
I took the two PPP loans along with the forgiveness, completely on the up and up. It helped a ton. But I resisted the constant barrage of EIDL loan outreaches. I knew I did not qualify, but the word on the street was "no problem, just take the money".
Thank you! I was going to make the same point. The "grass" of today is not the grass brought over during the Vietnam War. It is now dangerously potent. And speaking of war, intoxicants/drugs, such as marijuana and alcohol, have always been weapons of war. AND MAKE NO MISTAKE, there is a war being waged against America inside our own borders against our youth (and I use the term "borders" advisedly).
You cannot walk down the street in any American city without smelling marijuana. We now commonly have young people who are constantly smoking grass nonstop. This drug will destroy a young mind.
We had an initiative in FL to legalize marijuana in 2024. Thank God the voters turned it down. Even DeSantis opposed the legalization. But when Trump came out in support of that initiative, I decided right there that Trump was not who he presented himself to be. Sorry, but that's just the facts.
I have a friend who was in Vietnam and Laos- yes, we were there too , who swears the heroin was brought in by the CIA. Makes sense. Send 20 year olds to a foreign nation to commit atrocities and you have to numb them so their conscience doesn’t kick in.
Remember the marines guarding opium fields in Afghanistan? Or the CIA trafficking in cocaine to provide money for off the books operations back in the 80's? I doubt very much any of that has stopped.
For those old enough to remember the Iran-Contra Hearings, Col. Oliver North, who worked for the National Security Council/CIA, was a central figure in the Iran-Contra Affair known as Contragate. The CIA illegally sold weapons to Iran and imported drugs into the US to raise money to secretly divert those funds to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua for one of the CIA's secret wars.
It is SO MUCH STRONGER now. ER docs are seeing all kinds of serious GI issues associated with usage. But, there are arguably medicinal benefits, and Everclear is hardly benign. There are dangers lurking everywhere, even in FOOD. To each his own…just know what you’re getting yourself into and use responsibly.
You are not wrong. I stopped smoking it for obvious health reasons, switching to edibles. The unintended effect was to put my colon in stoner stasis, thoroughly messing up my regularity. Stopping put me back to normal. Still, there is a spiritual aspect of it that cannot be denied. I get why people love it.
Pot was way cleaner in the 60's! It was for connecting with spirit and mother nature and hippie loveins. Today it's tweaked and modified and sprayed and not the same gene anymore.
A kid that worked with us was hospitalized ENDLESSLY for uncontrollable emesis related to his DAILY pot-smoking. Had to let him go because he was always in the hospital
This is my biggest issue with it. I started in college, and aside from have an occasional all day usage with friends back then, I have never done it all day long. I noticed it getting much stronger in the late 90's, and cut way back on my usage, stopping completely for months at a time. Now it's a rare treat, and I still wish I could get the stuff I got back in the late 80's that was much more pleasant and enjoyable.
They probably would like to find a way to make alcohol more potent. I enjoy an occasional beer or wine with my meal especially with friends. But alcoholism is terrible. My youngest sister died from alcoholism.
Yes, my family has had a couple serious alcoholics in it and their lives did not end well. My extended family when I was growing up were big drinkers and cigarette smokers, but my parents never smoked anything and were a glass of wine or beer a day at the most. My father is 84 and still has a beer a couple times a week. But I have been told by drug addiction counselors that alcohol withdrawal is by far the most dangerous and potentially deadly of all drugs, while the biggest danger of opioid abuse is overdosing, not withdrawal.
Unfortunately, the medical "standard of care" for alcoholism is cold turkey withdrawal and as you said is horrendous to go through. The goal of the medical paradigm these days seems to be to kill you if the disease doesn't kill you. Think chemotherapy.
There used to be clinic near us that used NAD+ IV therapy to treat alcohol and drug addiction WITHOUT withdrawal. Of course, medical insurance won't pay for anything that won't kill you. I finally convinced my sister to go to this clinic. After a week, she came home and was a completely different person. The NAD therapy removes all the alcohol metabolites from the body without withdrawal and literally frees you from physical addiction. But she never quit drinking though physically she had the ability to make that choice. She drank because she was self-medicating for an emotional trauma and never quit. So she ended up with organ failure from the alcohol.
Tried a gummy ONCE during COVID after recreational use in college in the early 80s. Won't do that again. The experience was closer to how Rogan describes psychedelics than a calming, peaceful bliss I remembered.
I can take a long walk in the woods now to get that peaceful escape. Don't need a trip inside my head.
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“It sat right there on the list next to heroin and LSD, staring at the ceiling, waiting for the Uber Eats driver to deliver a 24-pack of Taco Bell chalupas.”
I’m laughing so hard. Jeff I can’t love you enough. Saturday just got better with your first paragraph ❤️🤣❤️🤣
Edit: now I’m coughing. That’s the longest laugh I’ve had all week 🤣
I share Jeff's libertarian leanings, but the problem is, marijuana really can be dangerous not only to users, but those around them. See fellow Substacker Alex Berenson's book Tell Your Children.
Oh I know this firsthand, as I watched it destroy the future of my oldest son. To this day he is still derailed even though he has been clean of it for three years now. I’m completely against its legalization but more importantly it’s moralization and normalization sending the wrong messages to our vulnerable. It destroys more lives than it helps. All three destroy lives, but two are insidious while the third simply robs one of brain cells.
Still, Jeff’s description of heroin and LSD and their known impact on a human life sitting next to dopey marijuana staring at the ceiling oblivious as to why it’s sitting next to them as it dreams of chalupas was hysterical.
Amen Juju. Sorry to hear about your son. 🙏🏻
My daughter developed an anaphylactic allergy to secondhand pot smoke her first semester in college (straight A’s - never did drugs or drank). Her life forever upended thanks to the uncontrolled drug crisis on campuses. Had to drop out - couldn’t keep her safe and out of the ER. Gave up her college dreams of becoming a speech therapist. We live in fear. She must leave our home every day with a P100 respirator to avoid exposure - the only way we can keep her from constant epi pen use. Just moved further west on 3 acres to get away from the constant smoke in our old neighborhood. She’s married and expecting her first baby - we must protect them both. Drugs are awful for this country. I’m fully aware of the medical uses for cancer etc. But it is just an easy way out for some instead of doing the hard work in therapy. Just use the edibles and let my daughter breathe freely! Sorry for the rant - but we are 6 years into this horrific journey. (After seeing multiple Drs/allergists etc - most likely caused by a vax injury from the meningitis vx prior to college. She knows 2 others with exact same issue - same timing as freshmen in college. )
May I share your story with my grandson, who is going to University this fall to be a, believe it or not, speech therapist.
He has been accepted into a very respected Scholars program and they will have their own dorm, and he had been invited to join a Christian fraternity that eschews smoking, drinking, drugs etc but he won’t be living in the fraternity.
He has been the joy of our lives, and I pray constantly over his future. But he does have a lais·sez-faire attitude towards MaryJane. He thinks it should be legal for medical purposes and does not see the danger.
But if you would rather I did not share it with him, I won’t.
But I do want to thank you for sharing it, nevertheless.
Of course - the more people that know about this - the better. Good luck to him - speech therapists are desperately needed with all the injured kids out there.
I agree.
He is 18. He told me the other day that while he knows that now is not the time to go after a wife, that he has started praying for a Godly wife. He has a good head on his shoulders, which will make him a target of the enemy.
But I trust God will have him in HIS Hands.
😢🥺🥺 🙏 Prayers for her and her new little one. That’s frightening! I’ve never heard of that happening with second hand smoke! But I don’t doubt it for a second. I get instant nausea at just the smell of it so I can imagine there would be far worse physical and biological responses for others.
NoVA mom: I am so sorry this has happened to your daughter, your whole family. I cannot drive anywhere in my city without smelling weed exhaust as drivers pass me or stop near me in traffic. They are DUI and putting others, like your daughter, in danger.😡
I know you have talked about this before and I’m glad you keep educating others that this can happen and what terrible effects it has 😞 It really torques me off when pot lovers mock people who dislike the smell or who have strong reactions to it, let alone a life threatening condition like your daughter’s 😕
The positive THC drug screens in pregnancy is the highest I have ever seen it .
That’s discouraging 😞
This sound AWFUL! I am so sorry. I don’t get the smoking over edibles either but I have been told the ‘high’ is different and edibles last longer. My response I DON’T want to smell it for hours. It lingers. Stays stuck.
How awful for her. People don’t get it.
A lot of the edibles are made from pot grown for the CBDs not the THC. The CBD is the part that helps the patient with pain usually. My hubby use to use canna oil on his neck for his spasmodic torticolis and it did help, but he did not like the tired feeling he got due to there still being some THC in it. I started studying herbs and found out that hops is related to pot but it only has the CBDs in it no THC. It helped him just as the canna oil had until his body started rejecting it like it does all medications and herbs if he does not back off of them for a few months. Other herbs have been helping him though so he has no wish to start up the hops again. But I do take a hops tincture for sleep nightly. Again, it is the THC that is the problem but growers have cross bred for higher THC and forget about the CBDs. So growers have remembered though and cross bred for CBDs and very little THC and people try it an complain about no high and the grower said well that is the purpose to get the medical benefit without the high and some were upset and others were thrilled. There are a lot out there who say they use it medicinally but who really just want to be able to get it for the high. There are others like hubby who used it medicinally and not for the high.
I work with a guy who is allergic to cigarette smoke. When we were working in an office, there was a telemarketing firm downstairs and workers there would smoke outside and somehow the smoke would get into the ventilation system and right into my coworkers cubicle. He missed a number of days of work because of this, and would ask the people in telemarketing firm to please get farther from the building when they smoke. He got no relief until the firm moved out. Of course, almost no one smokes cigarettes anymore and we all work from home now, but that story reminded me of his story. He also had problems getting through college because of this (he went to college in the late 80's, and smoking was still allowed in most buildings in designated areas, but that didn't help him much at the time).
Wow - awful. The girls’ HS guidance counselor had a similar issue. If she couldn’t take a neb treatment soon enough - she’d need an epi pen.
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Yes, I’m not against the rescheduling per se, but against the normalization and the acting like it’s no big deal ever.
Come to Michigan where it was legalized in the 2022 election by ballot vote. The marijuana lobby is one of the biggest and they gave huge amounts to the Democratic governor, AG, and SoS, bids for re-election which they did. Virtually every college campus went big for the blue and legalization.
Now we have dispensaries in every town in Michigan. When our budget was way overspent and is supposed to be balanced, Whitmer’s plan was to add taxes to the marijuana stores. But of course.
I believe in medical marijuana. But marijuana does not make you sharper or more intuitive. It makes you dumber and pretty much in a euphoric, spaced out state, and I don’t want the people driving big rigs at me, just ingesting a handful of laced gummies.
My doctor (who is NOT attached to our local hospital and who doesnt accept insurance), said that ER's are being inundated with marijuana-induced psychosis cases ever since we legalized it in this state.
People smoke before, during, and after work. They smell like skunk, but as long as they arent stumbling around, are just left alone. My direct manager couldnt get thru lunch without smoking ang getting high. It's getting worse every day.
I intermittantly lose my sense of smell. I almost dont want it back, because skunk smell is almost EVERYwhere now.
That’s so disheartening 😕 I truly think a certain group pushed this because they knew it would help make the population easier to control 😕
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the skunk smell is a 'tell' that they are smoking a laced product, not a pure one. It could be anything from formaldehyde or angle dust. Straight pot does not have that smell.
Our smallish Illinois city (10,000) is getting a dispensary, opening soon. It’s a new model with a smoking lounge in it. I’m trying to be the oldest boomer alive (along with my husband) who has never tried weed or even a gummy. I see no reason to start now. Maybe for a true medical condition for pain, but as I don’t have one of those, not interested.
Yes I can imagine, and we keep getting a lot of pressure in my state to legalize in order to be like our neighbors 😕
In Illinois. DIDN'T DO IT. ILLINOIS IS A FAT UGLY STINKER of a state going down. 🦨
So bad in Michigan… from The Toledo border to the upper peninsula to Grand Rapids to the thumb of the state ……Zombie land to dummy down its people . 😡.
You ought to look into if the numbers jumped after that for mental illnesses.
My BIL works as a PA in a gastroenterology clinic for the last 2 decades (PNW where pot is legal). He’s about to retire. He tells me that 7 out 10 patients are heavy to moderate pot users and not one will listen to him that symptoms they suffer from are marijuana-use related. He said he’s tired of bringing it up because the ‘pot is harmless’ message is so thoroughly accepted by patients. The pot now is so strong in THC compared to 1990’s that some people are doing much more than mellowing out. I’m all for decriminalizing personal amounts. But think legalization is wrong-headed.
There will be studies published in future showing the harms of pot use, the same way it was done to Big Tobacco. We’re just 20 years and a lot of wrecked lives too early.
Yeah it’s hard to prevent normalization when so many things involving it trigger laughter. Laughter normalizes a lot of things, and I think that’s where young lives get trapped. They have a hard time understanding that not everything laughable is wise or should be permissible. Still, less regulation by government and more personal responsibility is needed, nurtured by a society that understands the stakes and helps the young understand the difference. Our society failed to take it as serious as it should, relaxing the urgencies of valid concerns and encouraging its use across the board.
Well said, I agree and I feel the same is true of casual sex. The normalization and haha attitudes about it have produced unfortunate consequences 😕
And yet....alcohol, sold in stores on every street corner, neighborhood, rural and urban.
A bank robbery is occurring...
The bank robber has had a few whiskeys to invigorate his bravado, has a gun, and WILL use it because.
The bank robber has had a doobie, gets to the teller, forgets why he's there and orders a super sized fry and large coke.
One can get CBD Oil and gummies that have NO THC, but have all the beneficial impacts of medicinal marijuana.
One can also get the full impact of medical marijuana (such as cancer patients) to deal with pain.
The body literally has receptors like nicotine (found in all sorts of night shade veggies we eat every day - white potatoes, tomatoes, etc.), and cannabinol receptors that make what GOD made beneficial. It was those who turned these into cash cows that either 1) corrupted them or 2) fear factored them to promote petrochemical pharmakeia. (Sorcery as Jesus calls it.)
-> Big Pharma.
And now 17, 17!!, Big Pharma companies are WITH President Trump as he releases the benefits of marijuana.
Huh.
Alcohol, A proven chemical addiction with a substantial lobby, seems to be ok with everyone.
They have more locations that sell it than anything else.
Its toxins have injured many for life.
Yet, the government repealed its ban.
As with any intoxicating substance, moderation.
Yeah, both my kids, that I tried so hard to raise right, really hard, when all my efforts were being undermined by their mother, getting them high at 12 years old. Now,their dreams and goals amount to weed, concerts, “art, dude” and I just pray they aren’t homeless in their old age. All because of pot. Had I known she was doing this, think I might have removed her from the list of the living.
So sorry to hear this Alan. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Ugh I feel ya on this. My X husband wanted to be best friends to our boy when they were teenagers. I put it simple. They have several friends. They need one strong solid father. Did it work? Nope! After we were done he would drink with our youngest and allowed him to smoke pot. Our older tow wondered and questioned why so different with him. SMH! Divorce that’s why. Ugh I had high hopes for my youngest he was the most balanced. Ambitious. Motivated of all three but NOPE! Don’t get me wrong they’re all doing well but none of them have a good relationship with their father either
I’m so sorry Alan 😞😢
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I always thought Marijuana was step one on the ladder to ever more dangerous and destructive habits. In this month alone, we've lost the son of a dear family friend, and a nephew. Both, dear sweet boys - now men, that couldn't find their way back to living. They're young men who no longer struggle against the evil controlling them. Their mothers grieve and question - my son? How did this happen?
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The legalization and normalization of THC is HORRIBLE. There's NO standardization to the THOUSANDS of products out there, sold in colorful packages and enticing flavors. If a pharmacy packaged 3 or 4 different drugs into cello, marked them "mellow buzz" without saying what they were, would you go in and let yourself get sold them by the mellow hippie working there who has no credentials? NO. It's gotta stop. There's ONE approved cannabinoid, Marinol, produced under tight standards. Anything other than that it's a big case of "caveat emptor".
I don’t want to smell it at all. So if you ‘need’ it, get edibles or only smoke in the confines of your own house.
Excellent summary, that book. Quick read. The 4x increase in incidence of psychosis in males in a large prospective study (Swedish military) is a major data point.
Incentives around cannabis are fairly bent and the Democrat and blue state approaches have been the worst of all worlds.
Our son’s psychiatrist warned us over 6 years ago about the dangers of marijuana on mental health and what the industry and doctors were really seeing in practice. He said the lobbyists were too strong and they were dismissing what the psychiatrists and primary doctors were reporting. Their conferences were filled with the damage going on and they were ignored.
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Agree. People take it far too lightly, imo, just as they do binge drinking or pill popping 😕 Lots of jokes about all those, making light of them as if they can never lead to serious consequences.
I have friends that need smoke it numerous times a day. It’s nuts really. They cannot function without it. Most are from CA
That’s so sad 😕
Toni: I thought if this book as I read Jeff’s take on the weed reclassification.
Alex will weigh in and not favorably.
It's possible we just have go through this as a society to see the bad effects made obvious, just as Victorian England did with demon gin.
And China with its opium
The UK just ‘banned’ tobacco for anyone born after 2008:
“The government has just passed a law (Tobacco & Vapes Bill) that will create the first “smoke-free generation,” banning anyone born after 2008 from ever buying tobacco products of any kind—cigarettes, cigars, or even vapes. This generation will be, according to the British health secretary, Wes Streeting, “protected from a lifetime of addiction and harm.”
https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s763
This is a Temperance movement for the 21st century and predict it will fail. Young people will rebel against rules like this, they always have. Imagine the future where the 30 year old can buy a cigar to celebrate his baby’s new birth but the 29 year old can’t.
UK has also welcomed in a lot of Arabic people and sharing the hookah is literally part of their culture.
Yeah, this exactly. The weed today isn’t your goofy aunt’s flowerpot variety, first of all. You just need to walk around Brooklyn to get a sense of how damaging it is, both to the individuals addicted to it and to the social fabric.
How many of the flood of trans shooters are cannabis users?
I think more are 'roid-ragin'. But, who knows?.. maybe it's a combination.
Esp it is not good for young people !
Alcohol is just as bad if not worse and fully legal ...
Drugs that are legal are easier to control. In the 80s it was easier for a teenager to get pot than alcohol or even cigarettes. Not only was the purveyor already breaking the law by being in possession of a weed that anyone could grow but there was also an artificial profit incentive without tax stamps.
The so-called legalization of anything puts the government in control and takes away the profit incentives. At least until governments inevitably start abusing the licensing and taxation.
I say legalize and control all drugs. If you want to make something against the law, then I vote for outlawing driving while wearing a hoodie. It is a peripheral vision thing. Perhaps we could make it that hoodie wearers can only go 15 mph.
I hate to bust your bubble, but it's not Marijuana that's dangerous... It's what man has done to it and made it into that's dangerous... What the Lord provided to the world was a gift that could be used for everything from medicine (The main opponent to marijuana's legalization is and has always been the medical/pharmaceutical industry)... to clothing (Hemp fiber is a WAY FAR more comfortable and durable than cotton)... to paper (Hemp is a WAY FAR more productive and economical use of land than trees for paper production... and BTW...the U.S. Constitution is written on Hemp paper)... Naturally, marijuana contains at the very most 12%-15% of the active psychotropic ingredient of Delta-9 THC... what man has made it into is a dangerous commodity that currently contains 30%-40% Delta-9 THC... Like everything else that man touches... man corrupts! Put your complaints and design your legislation against those who corrupt... not a gift from God.
I might also add that the pharmaceutical industry has been trying to create pharmaceutical marijuana for DECADES to patent it for its medical efficacy!!! (I know this because I am a retired chemist and worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over 10 years out of a 35-year career) The particular molecules of interest, also known as Cannabinoids (THC, THCA, CBD, CBDA, CBN, CBC, CDG, etc et.al.) along with their associated Terpenes, Flavonoids and other compounds have been broken down to their elemental constituents... and put back together in vitro with identical configurations, bond angles, and bond rotations... yet the medical efficacy of the in vitro concoctions compared to the natural product has not been achieved... a classic example of "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
I am not a MJ user but how many lives and/or families have been destroyed by alcohol?
It is important to know the effects of both and use them responsibly and reasonably.
Beer and wine are my choices but a couple times a month with a meal and not to get more than a little buzz! Who knew Trump would become such a Libertarian, good for him!
@Toni- the STREET crap can be. The regulated stuff is fine.
I share your liberation leanings as well as your caution. I use CBD products, the kind that doesn’t alter my thinking in any way. I’m all for medicinal purposes. The problem for me as a Christian, is that drug use distorts one’s thinking and clouds one’s judgement and people, however unknowingly, enter into the turf our Enemy. Once on his turf, you are open to all sorts of harassment and particularly influence. Satan doesn’t care how you wandered into his turf, only that you did. It’s like hiking in Turkey and all of a sudden you’re surrounded by the IRGC. You might say, why are you arresting me? I am in Turkey! When they say no, you’re not, you wandered 10 miles into Iran and now your ours. Doesn’t matter how innocently you got there, you’re in their territory. Too long to go into in this comment, but the links between Pharmakia and sorcery are biblical.
I know, it made me remember those long ago days, lol.
Back in the day, that was a midnight run to Jack in the Box for a dozen greasy tacos.
Mmmmm back in the day I didn’t smoke pot but did make many a trips to Jack in the Box for the glorious tacos. Still my favorite and I’d be there in a minute if they opened again. Still the best tacos in mind.
And that dozen tacos cost less than $5! Remember the $.35 cent tacos???? Oh those were the days!
And now we are finding out that LSD does in fact have considerable medical benefits but was stopped when the hippies high jacked it
You mean when the CIA hijacked it?
Agreed. I liked the sitting on the list comment the best.
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When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (worldliness, manner of life), God made you alive together with Christ, having [freely] forgiven us all our sins, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of legal demands [which were in force] against us and which were hostile to us. And this certificate He has set aside and completely removed by nailing it to the cross. When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities [those supernatural forces of evil operating against us], He made a public example of them [exhibiting them as captives in His triumphal procession], having triumphed over them through the cross.
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Darkness cannot conquer light. But it does not give up trying to.
Be the light of Christ.
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GOOD MORNING, sister, Janice! So good to see YOUR POST lead off the C & C Blog for today. I've missed your missives, sister in faith!
Thank you Janice
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Thank you, Janice. God's richest blessings always to you and yours. ♥
Your scripture choices always reflect the tone of Jeff’s post. The Holy Spirit guides you so well! Thanks for sharing every day. ♥️♥️
I just finished a Precept study of Colossians and Philemon. What a great book!
Is Janice a lot like Trump's spiritual advisor/pastor???
https://x.com/CarriePrejean1/status/2047678659427975557
Prepare the Thorazine hypo!
The certificate of payment and Id also nailed to the cross, paid in full, as far wide as the ends of E to W, by The King of the Jews, the God of their making.
“Beauty mobilized as a uniquely American brand.”
There’s a reason we put flowers 🌸on the table. A reason we light candles, hang art, fuss over the details nobody technically needs. None of it is necessary. A house functions without it.
But a house isn’t a home until somebody decides it’s worth making beautiful.
A capital city works the same way. For a long time, we treated ours like a building to pass through, not a home to live in. Sterile. Functional. Embarrassed of itself.
I’m proud we’re taking pride in it again.🇺🇸
Best comment today by far. Captured every one of my own thoughts I had while reading Jeff. His writing made me feel the flowers opening up in my soul.
My wife and I recently decided to bring a number of potted plants into our bedroom. The advantages to doing this other than the simple beauty of their placement is the fact that these plants emit oxygen as well as they remove from our indoor air harmful pollutants like benzene, tuoluene and others.
Examples of the best plants for your bedrooms are, snake plants, ZZ plants, Pothos plants, and Gerbera Daisy's.
We now have 8 potted plants in the bedroom and the fresh oxygen they produce each night is amazing.
I got fed up with fighting all the myriad of little pests they attract, like spider mites. Now I only have chives and basil in my kitchen window. I miss fresh plants but for some reason here in Chicagoland you can’t buy them without a family of pests and eggs buried deep within. 🫤
Juju, try misting the soil (not the plant) with peroxide, or peroxide and bit of dish soap in a spray bottle. Works wonders.
Hydrogen Peroxide has a multitude of positive purposes.
Check them out online or on YouTube.
Getting old seeds to sprout is one of those purposes.
Proof that it's not necessarily bad for plants.
Edit: Stay gold, PonyBoy. (Couldn't help myself.)
Juju, thanks for that heads up on the little pests.
However, like SHug says below there are easy treatments for such things.
I'll let you know how our "fresh oxygen" experiment goes.
Maybe buy some online? Have them shipped from other states.
🤣 I’m scrolling so fast through my reply notifications and yours was mixed in with a bunch about marijuana. And I see “maybe buy some online?” 🤣🤣🤣 coughing with laughter again at my misinterpretation. Lolol
We’ve got Gerbera Daisies and geraniums that have been blooming in our living room since January. They’re joined by a basil plant, a saved mum and petunias from last fall. And a maple tree started from an errant seed that landed in the pot of last summer’s tomato plant! They provide such solace during our long, bitter South Dakota winter.
Yes!! Indeed ❤️ That is a great way of putting it 🙂
Juju I’ve still not seen our friend Tri Torch and his page has no new restacks or quotes… DM’d but heard nothing. 🥺
Well said!!
Chris Bray opened my eyes to the mess blue cities have become. I'd like to see this mindset of pride spread to all our cities. I had no idea how bad things had become. I know which future I want. https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/cosplay-fantasy-battle-in-a-sewer
Chris Bray is terrific! And funny.
I love Chris Bray’s writing.
I have a sticky note stuck above my desk. “Make beautiful things” that thought overcame me after my week old grandson died. I was not sure why God put that on my heart and mind but it matters.
😢🫂
I am so very sorry. ❤️🙏
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Lets unpack the issue of Cannabis, from the perspective of history and Plant Biology as the
most significant issue was not teased into the open.
The Schedule 1 weed wars were simply a boon for the massive alcoholic beverages industry.
Alchohol by an exponential margin has done more damage than weed from DUI...
Due to a variety of factors (state and feds recognizing the enormous tax potentials) they opened a few flood gates.
Hybridizers (plant genetics peeps) went to work years ago to DEVELOP STRAINS that have
THC content many dozens of times more potent than previous. Many details.
There are currently more strains of weed than tomatoes. Any discussion about weed that does not acknowledge this fact and its relevance to the effects it will have is woefully remiss. There will be and likely have been direct consequences for making incentives great again.
The irony is that in blue states (Trump haters by definition) are likely to cozy up...
Great way to make the connection!
Proud of DC???
Make cesspools great again?
Leaving a legacy of knowledge and kindness is considered one of the most enduring impacts a person can make, as it focuses on enriching the lives of others rather than accumulating material wealth. True greatness is often measured not by status, but by the warmth shared and the wisdom passed down, creating a ripple effect of positivity that lasts for generations. There’s nothing like the positive wisdom we get right here, thanks Jeff!
I When I was a kid my mother always made sure every Sunday the 6 of us would go to Church. Being raised Catholic meant I had God parents, my Uncle Ben and Aunt Annette. My Uncle Ben sadly had passed away a little over 10 years ago, but my aunt lived on until recently she passed away.
Over many years living around my mother’s Italian family, all in this same small town, my cousins, aunts and uncles were very close. Over the years, like many families, life happened and many of us had grown apart.
When I think of my Aunt Annette though, my mothers sister in law, I don’t think back to negative things that had happened. Though they had 2 houses in view of the ocean in Plymouth I don’t think of her houses. I honestly don’t care what kind of cars they drove. Though there were times when there was some falling out over properties my grandparents had left to my mother and her siblings, I don’t think of those negatives things.
What I do think of is what a good mother Aunt Annette was to my two adopted cousins. I think of what a good grandmother she was to her grandchildren and what a good childhood her and my uncle provided all of them. How she taught them right from wrong. How she always treated me with kindness and respect when I stayed in Plymouth with them, one year for a whole summer. My uncle taught me a great work ethic and how to do many trades and my aunt would always make sure I had great meals many times eating on the big farmers porch overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. They were a great couple that had a great life together. I know my uncle has been patiently waiting for her.
Wouldn’t it be nice to think that when I pass away, maybe, my nephews, nieces, cousins or siblings would overlook the meaningless material things that I may have and think of things I may have taught them or kindness I showed them. After all we enter this world with nothing and we leave this world with nothing. Thanks for the memories and your kindness Aunt Annette, I’ll never forget you. J.Goodrich
What a beautiful story about family history James. Thank you for sharing the lives of your Aunt and Uncle with us.
I will only make one observation. You mention we enter and leave the word with nothing but I respectfully amend this to we enter and leave the world with the most beautiful gift we could ever receive; our Souls.
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Super Way Cool testimony James.
I too have been Graced with some wonderful family members,who had lived out their Faith in Fear and Trembling, just as St Paul reminds us to do.
Being the 12th of 13 siblings and growing up in the 60s and 70s in South Miami, and getting kicked out of Miami Palmetto HS in 1975. I was very fortunate to get some Tough Love back in the day from my family.
Experienced a deep love of Our Lord Jesus back in 1978ish, and I was pulled out of the Catholic Church. I'm grateful for my time in the Protestant church and many friends I still have today, but I'm forever grateful for Steve Wood sharing his journey with me back in 1991🙏
I love Jesus, and I love His Most Holy Family too ☝️🙏
It's always been a Family Thing 😁🙏
Lets unpack the issue of Cannabis, from the perspective of history and Plant Biology as the
most significant issue was not teased into the open.
The Schedule 1 weed wars were simply a boon for the massive alcoholic beverages industry.
Alchohol by an exponential margin has done more damage than weed from DUI...
Due to a variety of factors (state and feds recognizing the enormous tax potentials) they opened a few flood gates.
Hybridizers (plant genetics peeps) went to work years ago to DEVELOP STRAINS that have
THC content many dozens of times more potent than previous. Many details.
There are currently more strains of weed than tomatoes. Any discussion about weed that does not acknowledge this fact and its relevance to the effects it will have is woefully remiss. There will be and likely have been direct consequences for making incentives great again.
The irony is that in blue states (Trump haters by definition) are likely to cozy up...
The Elite Families knew that marijuana was a weed and it would grow everywhere and they couldn't put a patent on it. So they forced it to be a Class A drug and locked up many innocent people.
They were studying it in the late 1800's, and they knew the medical benefits were powerful.
Funny thing, it was the Democrats locking up the innocent people because of marijuana.
Right Camellia Harris 🤨
HalleluYah!
Praise, O you servants of Yahweh,
Praise the name of Yahweh,
Blessed be the name of Yahweh
from this time forth and for evermore.
From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same,
Yahweh's name is to be praised.
Psalm 113: 1-3
HalleluYAH!!!!!!
Paging Yahweh.
Yahweh or the highway.
Right.
Just follow Trump's pastor:
https://x.com/CarriePrejean1/status/2047678659427975557
For Biden it seems the type of loan didn't matter - PPP, EIDL or student loan. It was all free money to buy votes. It appears the bills are coming due
PPP and EIDL loans were originally from the Trump 45 administration. A response to save small businesses from the COVID lockdowns. We later found out that it was all part of the Plandemic engineered by the Deep State Cabal. The PPP loans were meant for Main Street businesses to pay their laid off employees. Unfortunately Oprah, Pelosi and thousands of greedy grifters got in on the free money spree. I hope they get what’s coming, with penalties and interest.
I hope so, but when my corrupt governor managed to come up with $268 million in unaccounted for UIC in Michigan during covid, a shrug of the shoulders and somehow it was “lost”. Oh well.
💯
Paging VP Vance
Niall Ferguson warns U.S. spending on debt service payments outweighing military spend has triggered a threshold of geopolitical power.
https://fortune.com/2026/04/23/national-debt-interest-military-spend-ferguson-law-geopolitical-power/
Student loan forgiveness, no tax on overtime, tax cuts, they’re all vote buying schemes.
I wish all the pot smokers would do it inside their houses! I’m surrounded by neighbors who light up on their back patio. My hood stinks like skunk! 🦨
Better yet- get some gummies!
Ugh. I hate it all…it makes me feel so dull and slow and I can’t even SPEAK. And speaking is my spiritual gift 😂. But…to each his own…
Yeah I never understood tte attraction. A little when I was a kid, but to function requires a clear mind. At least to function properly.
I feel sorry for the kids getting dropped off at school, the car door opens and the teacher's assistants are practically getting high off the second hand smoke that those kids just marinated in for who knows how long...
Same!!! I also hate smelling it when *I’m driving* 😡 but yes, I choose not to smoke and can’t stand it when I have to breathe that stench. It literally makes me want to vomit. Sometimes even smoking inside is apparently not enough as I have run by people’s houses early in the morning and there is no one in sight but you sure can smell that horrible odor 🤮 Maybe they open their windows, I don’t know, but it’s happened even on very cold days in the winter.
Running: They must become ‘nose blind’ to the skunk odor, or they don’t care. Inhaling while walking past some families in Walmart is a health hazard. Gummies are a better option!
Viva la gummies!!!
It just lingers in the air forEVER!
It really does 🤢
The smell is awful. I get physically ill from it
Same 😕 And every time anyone mentions that in a comment section on the subject, the pot people get all offended and mock them about it 🙄
I can’t stand it either.
We moved to get away from it - since my poor daughter needs an epi pen if she inhales ANY of that foul stench. And she has a service dog…
It’s funny how the Footlocker stores smell like that too.😏
So who was paid millions by the Obama administration to fix the reflection pool? Sounds like another boondoggle similar to that Solar energy project that went no where....except for his friends pocketing millions. Enquiring minds want to know.
That’s where all the “shovel ready jobs” money went. Anytime these people get a “book deal” it’s money laundering.
I’m sure you’re right 😡
I didn’t even know anything happened or was suppose to happen. AUDIT PLEASE
Taxpayer waste and fraud certainly isnt a partisan issue. Both evil parties engage fully in it
Ray Nagy giving all post-Katrina contracts to his friends and family
I think the problem the democrats have is that they have stopped trying to fix things that annoy regular people because they prefer to cater to the irregular people, by calling them marginalized
Irregular, um abnormal.
What's a democrat?
This brought tears of recognition to my eyes:
'Beauty in a national capital is not a luxury. It is one of the ways a people tells the truth about itself without words.'
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Jeff reminded me of this: The truth about the nature of beauty is also true about our homes and yards.
Yes 💗
After reading the Co-vid fraud portion, I have come the realization that I am either too lazy ir too busy to commit fraud.
And thinking about the stress! Waiting for the government to knock on my door.
I am apparently too dumb to come up with these things. I have a shed, never thought of it being a possible dance studio!! 😂
I always think How do people come up with this?
You’re right. There is that important aspect. I guess I am not a crook at heart.
Good thing there are a few of us anyway. Goobermint can’t afford many more.
Funny thing....I did have a real farm in the plandemic years. Never once thought to beggar money from the government.
My stylist took a huge hit having her business shuttered in 2020-21 but she got a PPP loan. I remember offering to help her dig out of that debt when she reopened but she said the loan was forgiven. 🤷🏼♀️
@Susan: people who lie/cheat have to work very hard to cover their tracks and keep them covered for a lifetime. It can’t be worth it, imo.
You’re honest .. honest people do not think that way. I’m the same..
"American Greed" has ALREADY done an episode on PPP fraud in the Southwest among the Albanian crowd. .... Professional fraudsters. It's all they do.
I had a friend and she and I had to put up with a person in our horse group that was very dishonest. My friend told that “I had to get up tomorrow to be ahead of that person today.” I just couldn’t think of the dishonest things this person would do to win… like drug other people’s horses. I just couldn’t believe it.
I’m in your camp! I just don’t think that way either.
Proves you have a conscience DL. Cherish it.
THIS.
Yes!!
It might be a sign that a select group of people and their known associates were permitted to submit these claims. I bet some of the 500k+ were multiple applications by the same entities with multiple “businesses”.
I know the government has fields on public aid applications where they can indicate a connection to a senator and their advocacy. It’s like a flag that people see to simply shuffle past and go onto the next form.
The reason I know this exists and is used is because I accidentally got to see copies of internal documents related to the internal decision about my own son’s social security disability application. I wasn’t supposed to receive these documents but they were accidentally included with something else shared with me. Mind you, he was wrongly kept from aid for three long years and endlessly harassed about his condition. Once I reached out to our Democrat senator complaining about illegal aliens receiving 10x as much aid during that same time frame while my legal citizen son got nothing suddenly an indicator was added to his account “senator interest” or something like that and he was magically approved. I think that indicator has kept them from harassing us further.
What’s sad is the actual contents of the decision failed to even read the neuro psych eval and use its findings in the decision. THAT should be what protects my son. Instead, this little Senator flag is protecting him until it is removed and we will be harassed again.
Anyway, I’m sure there were flags all over the place for select applicants of PPP
That’s important information with respect to the senator flag. In 1962, I was in the process of getting my wife a green card without having to go back to the state where we had originally registered. A friend who knew about the political issues went to the local senator and presto, the green card was issued.
Or perhaps you were reared right and actually know right from wrong. IDK maybe you have morals.
Long ago Parade Magazine carried stories about Trump that were glowing. One was about how well his children were raised and the other was about NYC failing to restore the over budget ice skating rink. Trump took over and voila, completed beautifully. The man cares AND, knows how to get it done.
Im with you on pot. Medical marijuana makes really sick people feel better, but today its so strong it makes alot of people psychotic. And drivers...yikes. To me it should be restricted to medical only. No one listens to me.
Agree, if people really have a medical need best addressed by the chemicals in this drug, it’s not any worse than taking Valium or Xanax or anything else like that. But I don’t want to be forced to breathe it in and I don’t want people driving while smoking (or where their passenger is smoking), which happens even in my state where it’s not legalized.
That is what the rescheduling is intended to promote, medical uses. It still will not be legal for recreational use, at least on a federal level. I have no problem with this and think it's a good idea. What I'd really like to see is more regulation of the medical growers and dispensaries, so that people who do need it for medical reasons can be sure they aren't ingesting dangerous pesticides or mold spores. I don't think Trump is interested at all in total legalization.
Yep agreed not any worse than barbiturates or opioids but keep it to yourself.
Anecdote: back in the 60's i shared a house with a half dozen other GMI students during work sections. Several indulged in smoking grass. One related how he had driven to work up a busy 4 lane street, and wondered why so many were honking horns. Then looked down and "realized" he was doing 15 in a 45 zone. The very definition of wasted. He didn't last the full 5 yrs.
I love your description of how the president -- and Mrs. Trump, don't forget her active influence -- are making the capitol beautiful again!
On the one hand it looks good. On the other hand, does the city that represents the swamp deserve to spend money that it doesn’t have and increase our national debt on beautification projects?
“but I still personally oppose legalization.”
Same, I have no interest in policing those who chose to use.
Most every state that was once red or even purple has turned blue upon the legalization of cannabis. Not a trend I want to support.
If you sell it, they will come…
That may change ... even the perpetually-stoned will discover who it was that made weed great again.
If you know anything about how Mao-Tse-Tung was able to take over China because everyone was so high on opium, it might change your mind.
It matters.
MAMA, "Make America Mindful Again."
Too many times pot legalization is placed on the ballot to sway the election to a blue wave. When they put pot on the ballot in Arizona, a majority of blue candidates won. The signs to legalize pot and vote blue were combined. Pot was legalized in 2020...
I do when they are driving and using. I encounter stoned or people in the process of getting stoned in their cars every day. It is no different than driving while drinking a can of beer or some Jack Daniels. There are also other externalities like the aforementioned smell which permeates entire neighborhoods. Finally, and maybe most importantly, our kids are now addicted to yet another thing in addition to psychiatric meds, social media and tech. My son tells me that most of his friends smoke multiple times a day. It is beyond depressing. Tell me how it is different than the fictional SOMA in Brave New World?
And for my daughter (and a few others she knows) the smell triggers the need for an epi pen in order for her to continue to breathe…..a complete nightmare here in NoVA - never mind a big city….
That's awful. People have no idea how terrible using an epi pen is for the recipient. Obviously, if it's needed, it's needed, but people feel really bad after getting a super dose of epinephrine.
You are correct. Very hard on the body. And now that she’s expecting - we are desperately trying to avoid that. The P100 works like a charm.
And the kids convince each other it’s safe and not as dangerous as adults claim. My son’s friends had him convinced it would help his tics caused by his Tourette Syndrome and ease his anxiety. Instead it robbed him of the promising future he had lined up, confusing him and destroying his self discipline and motivations. Those same “friends” didn’t have disabilities to screw with their own use of drugs and today have jobs and futures without caring that their influence robbed my son of his.
Juju, I partook of cannabis at an early age of 19 in 1970. At the time I was enrolled in college and a few years later received my Bachelor's of Science in Business Management degree.
Within 2 years I found a career job with a Fortune 500 company and stayed there for 30 years until I retired at the age of 54.
I am not bragging at all. It was all hard work, and through it all I occasionally consumed cannabis.
I never once became overwhelmed with illness or chose to cease my pursuit of a lifetime of choices that didn't include "dropping out" of society.
Yes cannabis is different than it was in 1970, and "moderation" is more important now than it was then.
Cannabis can be labeled by those who cannot see it for it's medicinal effects, as evil.
However, cultures around the world have recognized it as an herb that provides relief to many for 1000's of years.
Even now in our own country, many seniors are awakening to it's therapeutic uses.
Did you have 5-6 neurological disabilities when you used it? People with disabilities are far more likely to struggle with both addictions and the onset of schizophrenia.
And yes, it’s easily 30x more potent today than when you partook. It’s downright dangerous these days. I too used it in the early 80s and thankfully was able to get out from under it. I had friends that used it all the time and aced their college courses. Again, they were not smoking the drug as it is today and their stories would have been a lot different had they, and most likely yours. That’s the problem today, people are judging the problem based on experiences from 50 years ago!
I had no neurological disabilities in 1970.
Today I am a patient in my state's Medical Marijuana Program for the past 4 years.
I have no neurological disabilities now.
Children have no business consuming cannabis.
Only well adjusted adults not prone to abuse of it.
Reports nationwide confirm that young people are "less" inclined to use Marijuana.
Reports saying the opposite of this are lies and propaganda designed to create fear amongst the populace.
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NAB: My son was offered med weed for his Crohns dx (which is also a ‘disability’ in the eyes of Big Bro) but he said he hated the brain fog and swore off. I hated that it was even offered to him.
Yes. All very good points and I completely agree with you.
Take a SOMA holiday. If you want a long weekend take a little bit of SOMA. If you take a 3 week vacation take a lot!
Especially when the potency of todays cannabis is so much stronger than ever before. I watched many a soul start using the 10.00/lid pot in the 60's and progress quickly to hard core drug users and several died. Their lives were ruined and stagnant. Not everyone, but many. It was a gateway drug back then and and what is out there now is hugely different. Medical marijuana has a place but needs control.
I saw Dick Gregory in the ‘70’s. He was talking about marijuana being framed as a gateway drug. He stated that every single person doing drugs started out on milk. One of the problems with the draconian measures against marijuana was that being a schedule one drug equated it with heroin, etc. Then a teenager would try it and see that it wasn’t nearly as harmful as painted. And think, What else are they lying to me about?
I’m old enough to remember people getting 50 year sentences (Texas) for possession of small amounts. I had a friend forfeit a car in Grant, New Mexico for the crime of driving through town with a miniscule amount of pot. This apparently was a well known scam in that town. No one should go to jail for smoking marijjana in the privacy of their own home.
I smoked some in college, quit for 30 years and only started again as it was the ONLY thing that gave me relief from my RLS. I was taking meds for Parkinson’s ( off label) that didn’t touch it and RLS is a waking nightmare. There were lot of good reason to change the marijuana laws , but as usual in this country the pendulum swings too far.
In 2023 I went through an IRS PPP loan audit. I was told it was triggered from irregularities in tax reporting. Which was true-my (now former) CPA had to restate and we cleared everything up with no problem. But now I wonder if the audit was also triggered by voting record.
I took the two PPP loans along with the forgiveness, completely on the up and up. It helped a ton. But I resisted the constant barrage of EIDL loan outreaches. I knew I did not qualify, but the word on the street was "no problem, just take the money".
I swear my heart rate went up just reading the word "audit" - that's how much fear lives in my heart over the IRS.
That would not surprise me one bit 😕
This is not the marijuana that was smoked at Woodstock.
Could be 100x stronger.
Would be wary to use it if approved, just as all the recent miracle cures of the Drug Trust.
Who knew that tobacco was safe, but was grown with toxic pesticides using paper dipped in opium.
Thank you! I was going to make the same point. The "grass" of today is not the grass brought over during the Vietnam War. It is now dangerously potent. And speaking of war, intoxicants/drugs, such as marijuana and alcohol, have always been weapons of war. AND MAKE NO MISTAKE, there is a war being waged against America inside our own borders against our youth (and I use the term "borders" advisedly).
You cannot walk down the street in any American city without smelling marijuana. We now commonly have young people who are constantly smoking grass nonstop. This drug will destroy a young mind.
We had an initiative in FL to legalize marijuana in 2024. Thank God the voters turned it down. Even DeSantis opposed the legalization. But when Trump came out in support of that initiative, I decided right there that Trump was not who he presented himself to be. Sorry, but that's just the facts.
I voted against it because it gave immunity to the growers and sellers. I will never vote to give anyone immunity.
The whole war in Vietnam was about controlling the drug trade as well as Afghanistan.
Iran has excellent opium too.
How else to keep down a generation? Paging Turning Point USA
I have a friend who was in Vietnam and Laos- yes, we were there too , who swears the heroin was brought in by the CIA. Makes sense. Send 20 year olds to a foreign nation to commit atrocities and you have to numb them so their conscience doesn’t kick in.
They called it the Golden Triangle. Half the soldiers addicted. Drugs came home with the body bags.
"Poppy" Bush was not called Poppy because he was a family patriarch.
Remember the marines guarding opium fields in Afghanistan? Or the CIA trafficking in cocaine to provide money for off the books operations back in the 80's? I doubt very much any of that has stopped.
For those old enough to remember the Iran-Contra Hearings, Col. Oliver North, who worked for the National Security Council/CIA, was a central figure in the Iran-Contra Affair known as Contragate. The CIA illegally sold weapons to Iran and imported drugs into the US to raise money to secretly divert those funds to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua for one of the CIA's secret wars.
Thank you for your drug service.
Canada legalized Pot under Troodo. Disaster. Both Troodo and Pot.
They may have to increase the flouride in the drinking water.
Fluoride is a neuro-toxin and "they" want our babies ingesting this poison. Just another vector for dumbing down our children!!
Waste product from Aluminum.
Got Alzheimers yet?
Dumped in Water supply under Truman.
It is SO MUCH STRONGER now. ER docs are seeing all kinds of serious GI issues associated with usage. But, there are arguably medicinal benefits, and Everclear is hardly benign. There are dangers lurking everywhere, even in FOOD. To each his own…just know what you’re getting yourself into and use responsibly.
You are not wrong. I stopped smoking it for obvious health reasons, switching to edibles. The unintended effect was to put my colon in stoner stasis, thoroughly messing up my regularity. Stopping put me back to normal. Still, there is a spiritual aspect of it that cannot be denied. I get why people love it.
Pot was way cleaner in the 60's! It was for connecting with spirit and mother nature and hippie loveins. Today it's tweaked and modified and sprayed and not the same gene anymore.
A kid that worked with us was hospitalized ENDLESSLY for uncontrollable emesis related to his DAILY pot-smoking. Had to let him go because he was always in the hospital
This is my biggest issue with it. I started in college, and aside from have an occasional all day usage with friends back then, I have never done it all day long. I noticed it getting much stronger in the late 90's, and cut way back on my usage, stopping completely for months at a time. Now it's a rare treat, and I still wish I could get the stuff I got back in the late 80's that was much more pleasant and enjoyable.
They probably would like to find a way to make alcohol more potent. I enjoy an occasional beer or wine with my meal especially with friends. But alcoholism is terrible. My youngest sister died from alcoholism.
Yes, my family has had a couple serious alcoholics in it and their lives did not end well. My extended family when I was growing up were big drinkers and cigarette smokers, but my parents never smoked anything and were a glass of wine or beer a day at the most. My father is 84 and still has a beer a couple times a week. But I have been told by drug addiction counselors that alcohol withdrawal is by far the most dangerous and potentially deadly of all drugs, while the biggest danger of opioid abuse is overdosing, not withdrawal.
Unfortunately, the medical "standard of care" for alcoholism is cold turkey withdrawal and as you said is horrendous to go through. The goal of the medical paradigm these days seems to be to kill you if the disease doesn't kill you. Think chemotherapy.
There used to be clinic near us that used NAD+ IV therapy to treat alcohol and drug addiction WITHOUT withdrawal. Of course, medical insurance won't pay for anything that won't kill you. I finally convinced my sister to go to this clinic. After a week, she came home and was a completely different person. The NAD therapy removes all the alcohol metabolites from the body without withdrawal and literally frees you from physical addiction. But she never quit drinking though physically she had the ability to make that choice. She drank because she was self-medicating for an emotional trauma and never quit. So she ended up with organ failure from the alcohol.
Liked only for visibility, Phil.
Dolores O'Riordan, a favorite artist of mine, died while trying to detox herself. There, but for the grace of God, go I.
Tried a gummy ONCE during COVID after recreational use in college in the early 80s. Won't do that again. The experience was closer to how Rogan describes psychedelics than a calming, peaceful bliss I remembered.
I can take a long walk in the woods now to get that peaceful escape. Don't need a trip inside my head.
Thanks J Boss
Wondered about them.
Stick with my whiskey.