Posted on 10/17/2023 1:24:18 AM PDT by spirited irish
Marijuana, cannabis, pot, weed—call it what you will, the psychoactive drug is incredibly popular. This is especially true in the United States, where weed is big business. A staggering 16 percent of Americans—roughly 54 million—admit to smoking weed. In 2021, 13 percent said they smoked the drug.
According to a recent Brightfield Group report, the annual revenue of the U.S. weed industry is estimated to reach $31.8 billion by the end of the year. By 2028, the industry is expected to be worth $50.7 billion. In New York City alone, legal marijuana appears set to become a $1.2 billion-a-year industry
In recent times, the push to legalize recreational weed across the country has gained momentum—even though Republicans are desperately pushing back. As I hope to show in this piece, very little, if anything, good comes from the use of weed. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a dangerous drug with very few (again, if any) positives attached.
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Alcohol and tobacco have been with us all along. Alcohol, in particular, is connected with Christianity (in small amounts). Cannabis, OTOH, is relatively new, which is why it would be easier to discourage it.
Any society can tolerate one or two accepted intoxicants. Going past that number is not helpful to society
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“Alcohol, in particular, is connected with Christianity (in small amounts). Cannabis, OTOH, is relatively new, which is why it would be easier to discourage it.”
Whoa, what have YOU been smoking?
Not for me. I smoked truck loads of it as a teen, the older I got though the more paranoid I would become when I smoked it.
Where at one time i loved it, I grew to dislike the feeling.
Marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol, despite what its proponents proclaim. Alcohol intoxication wears off in a matter of hours. Cannabis intoxication can last for months.
Whereas someone intoxicated with alcohol usually knows he is intoxicated and that his judgment is impaired.
This is how marijuana can act as a gateway drug for more destructive drugs:
When judgment is impaired by marijuana, and the persons doesn't realize it, he can be easily persuaded to try cocaine, heroin, or some other highly addictive drug, something he would never do if not intoxicated. Soon he is irretrievably addicted for life.
People who say that marijuana is harmless are either lying, kidding themselves, or ignorant. It's more dangerous than alcohol, and alcohol is very dangerous.
Marijuana is ubiquitous in the USA. It's being pushed relentlessly by America's enemies whose objective is the destruction of the USA. Those who join the push are useful idiots.
Marijuana is to 21st century America as opium was to 19th century China. (Remember the Opium Wars?) It might be part of China's revenge.
Do not be fooled. Marijuana is very dangerous.
In these dangerous times, sobriety is a top-priority.
Chasing drugs has always been one of my favorite pastimes. I can tell you from personal experience that yes, weed can bring symptoms of schizophrenia to the forefront. The first time that happened to me I was extremely scared. In all the intervening years, however, this has only happened like a couple of additional times, i.e., that the weed was so powerful that I started to hallucinate - and in those subsequent events I wasn’t frightened at all, although I imagine some of the people around me might have been.
The worst thing that happens to weed-smokers - in my opinion - is that you get addicted and it is a TRUE PHYSICAL ADDICTION, not like what pot advocates say, i.e., that it’s a “psychological addiction.”
I have a few times experienced the symptoms of “weed addiction” which are very unpleasant - you get emotionally unstable and depressed, anxious and fearful. (The thing is, with me, once I recognize symptoms of withdrawal of any type, I start thinking “all right, that’s enough” and I just sort of repress the h3ll out of it and drink lots of water until it’s over - in the case of weed, withdrawal can last for nearly a week. It’s almost worse than heroin withdrawal because with that you have fevers, chills, aches, and vomiting, so you have an excuse to stay home from work - not so when you’re withdrawing from weed, that’s more like breaking up with a favorite boyfriend but you’re not sick enough to take a day off.)
So I’ve seen people go out of their minds withdrawing from weed - I’ve received some verification from others I know, like one guy said his brother is one of those people who, if he can’t smoke, gets the “insane heebie-jeebies” and you can’t even stand to be around him. A typical scenario is that your pothead friend will run out of weed and if you stop by his/her house you’ll be treated to what looks like a nervous breakdown with accusations that you’re doing something effed-up to him or her.
People who have to be drug-tested are the worst: There are lots of hard drugs, cocaine for example, that in spite of their hardness don’t stay in one’s system for long and won’t show up on a pee test even just a couple of days after a binge - however, you can smoke one joint one time and you’ll still test positive a month later. A few people I’ve known who were on parole expressed EXTREME upset because if they could just smoke some (relatively harmless) weed every so often, they wouldn’t be as tempted to go out and find some crack or heroin. (Personally I think that’s how so-called “parole” is rigged: To make it pretty easy for the offender to re-offend and keep going back into the system over and over. It’s money for the machine. And, personally, that’s why I think the whole thing about “parole” is bogus and a money hole for the taxpayers - judges should sentence fairly and the offender should do EVERY DAY OF HIS SENTENCE unless some mitigating factor is uncovered that reduces the offense. But back to the subject.)
Now weed is “legal” in Colorado so I can smoke weed all day long if I want to. :)
But - all joking aside - this is not true legalization. If it WAS, you could have your own field of plants outside your house, or grow a bunch of plants in your house, or have your cousin in Alabama truck a few pounds over for resale every couple of months. There wouldn’t be this nuisance of state-operated weed stores where heads have to show an ID to buy weed and have to pony up a HUGE amount of $$$ to trade in weed, but ILLEGAL ALIENS can of course do WHATEVER THE H3LL THEY WANT. The “legal weed” trade, in the end, supports organized crime and in particular the cartels of M3xico and S America.
In fact, I think the “legal” craze has been more of a gateway to hard drugs than anything that came before it: I get to witness this pretty much every day because (as promoted by Dan “Blackface” Bongino) our illustrious former Denver mayor, CO governor, and senator J Hickenlooper and his organized crime pals invested in the “vaping” fad which makes it much, much easier for youth to get their hands on all kinds of smokables, including crack and meth. So neighbs have this “vaping” den where idiots can do “legal” drugs “safely” - and of course some people absolutely freak out on the legal stuff because they’re not used to ANY drugs, right? They’re just neebs who maybe snort coke once a year on Stupid Bowl Sunday or whatever and so a “vape” or a “chewable” makes them jump out the window if you don’t watch them.
(Note: Hickenlooper in fact got busted some years ago for promoting vaping to the underage, did you know that? He got probation. Just an interesting factoid you can look up.)
Now we all know that vaping is A) for f*gs and B) is just as or perhaps even more of a health hazard than smoking. (If you smoke and take too big of a drag, coughing will result which prohibits future overindulgence, but if you “vape” there’s no irritating sensation - and you’re inhaling an oil straight into your bronchial system, WHERE IT WILL SIT FOREVER. And like that won’t eventually cause problems. Sure, Dan. I know! Let’s get Rush to vape after his cancer diagnosis! It’ll be SO FUNNY.)
I know this will not make me more popular, but: Why should any substance be criminalized? If people are stupid enough to make a lifetime out of something they KNOW is harmful, why waste time and money trying to save them? (I was going to say something about traders who sell products they know are harmful, but a lot of y’all still - after all is said and done - still have a great deal of trust in the medical establishment and I’ve already opened up too many cans of worms this week, and it’s only Tuesday.)
This in the inevitable result of frequent marijuana use.
As I say, cannabis is stored in the liver and other tissues and is time-released. The time-release can last for months.
I have seen highly intelligent people behave like morons because of chronic cannabis intoxication, doing stupid things, sometimes violent things, because their judgment is impaired.
When they then abstain from marijuana--either voluntarily or under compulsory institutionalization--the reappearance of clarity is crystal clear and can be astonishing.
Weed and most other drugs short-circuit the circuitry and turn people into worthless lazy bums a.k.a. Rats or Libertarians.
The commies were very smart in incorporating drugs as a strategy of undermining the USA. It worked."
Excellent! Well said.
Yes. It's because wokies ("liberals", "progressives", Democrats) are stupid. Maybe they're chronically THC intoxicated.
Couldn’t the same be said for cocaine and heroin ? They’re already trying to legalize that in some states.
Whatever makes you feel good, I guess.
Interesting read. Having had zero experience with any drug use (Baptist preacher’s family) I found your post most educational and very sad. So thankful my parents threatened to almost kill us if we ever drank alcohol, smoked a cig, or used any drug. And we believed our dad might do that.
My Presbyterian parents were the same. No drinking, smoking, or illicit drug use. They set the example so there was no booze or cigarettes in our house.
I never had the temptation to try any of the stuff because we were brought up to take care of our bodies and our brains. “Your body is your temple,” as my mother put it.
As a teen I saw the movie “Lost Weekend” which was about an alcoholic who ran out of booze and had withdrawal symptoms including seeing mice coming out of his walls. He was so desperate for another drink he would do anything. Scared the hell out of me. Show kids that film and “Days of Wine and Roses” and they’ll never take a drink.
Maybe it's the one thing they could actually do well.
“I can’t imagine using it now with the normal cognitive decline of aging.”
Throw in some fentanyl-lacing...and you may very well have a death sentence.
Oh, obviously! That’s why they NEVER drive or get into stupid fights.
What do you mean by "we?"
Nobody on this forum agreed with sending jobs overseas to the Chinese.
The "them" who did this were the on-the-take politicians such as those whom you mentioned... Clinton, Bush, etc., all corrupt swamp rats.
They did it for money.
But you are mixing up apples and oranges.
The Chinese have the drug trafficking mission to obliterate our youth (now geezers of course) AND they also have another mission and that is to get every politician on the take or blackmailed so that they do crazy suicidal things like open the borders and ship off all manufacturing to China.
It is a multi-pronged approach.
That’s what happened with me. It had been fun, then it wasn’t fun. Nearly 40 years now since I’ve used the stuff. Sometimes I wonder about trying it again, but what’s the point?
“Why should any substance be criminalized? If people are stupid enough to make a lifetime out of something they KNOW is harmful, why waste time and money trying to save them?”
Because it doesn’t harm only them it impacts everyone around them. And having a society full of stupid, paranoid, addicted, schizoid slackers is not a recipe for a successful society.
Also we spend a ton of money in rehab clinics, homeless (druggies) programs, jails and increased crime, etc. So not having laws against drug use costs more than enforcing those laws.
Everyplace will start looking like SF, Portland and Seattle.
The idea that drug use (including pot) is a victimless crime is pure BS.
Take a look at Singapore instead.
The distiller sector did an excellent job of getting laws in place against marijuana. Are they still at it?
BTW - how does Big Pharma feel about marijuana? Do they see it as an opportunity or a threat?
Hmmmm .... if enough people get whacked on weed...can we sell this new anti-anxiety drug?
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