Posted on 05/07/2024 8:40:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
What do backward Yemen and the developed United States have in common? An apparently insatiable urge to get stoned on a green bush. In Yemen the green bush, khat, generally is chewed. In our country the green bush, marijuana, is smoked, chewed, vaped, and applied as a cream. The effect is more or less the same: incapacity and degradation.
Imagine being a fly on the wall at the recent Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) senior staff meeting where Biden politicals hanging on at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) uncorked their plan to downgrade marijuana on the controlled substances list. You remember HHS: the same public health agency that provided gold-plated COVID-19 advice to the nation while receiving Big Pharma royalties. Does Big Marijuana pay royalties? Bet on it.
One wonders: in the meeting room, is there a portrait of late DEA Special Agent Enrique Camarena? Did anyone mention that the Guadalajara Cartel murdered Camarena in 1982 for engineering the destruction of its marijuana plantations? Or that transfers of millions of American dollars each year collected from American drug buyers finance the cartels? Has anyone at DEA or HHS disputed the notion that increasing marijuana use in America will contribute to reducing our shocking national drug addiction? Or that the cartels will vanish?
In Yemen khat is widely available and khat chewing is built into everyday life. Visit Yemen’s ancient capital, Sanaa, and you will see khat-chewing parlors on every block. Couches line the walls in these establishments. By mid-afternoon they are occupied by out-of-it chewers and the country shuts down. Visit Sanaa’s central market and you will see heaps of the green khat bush on tables, ready for local use and for export to the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Gulf states, and even to the USA,
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hashish and opium are bigger in Arabia/Yemen
In the past when I said on this site that marijuana is a chemical weapon used against us by America’s enemies, deep state posters came out of the woodwork in protest.
Biden staff advisor to the President: “If we get enough of them using it, we’ll win all upcoming elections. Dumbin’ ‘em down will work in our favor.”
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We’re America. We’ll beat them Yemenis easily in this duel because that’s what we do.
But my biggest concern is that when enough users have toked themselves into befuddled unemployability, the behavior will be declared a disease (as was alcoholism) and public funds (my tax dollars) will be diverted to their support.
And the fall of America 🇺🇸 continues sadly.
I truly think that is the goal. I would guess that 50% of the time I’m out driving (in the Greenville, SC area) I smell weed from another car out on the road.
I don’t doubt that there are likely medicinal purposes for it, but getting stoned shouldn’t be part of the process.
Whoever wrote this article is ignorant of the effects of both drugs. It’s just the usual simpleminded argument that the acceptance of any recreational drug will lead to societal collapse. Chewing khat could be compared to drinking coca tea. Abusing khat might be problematic but then so is abusing alcohol. Does the author want to reinstitute prohibition too?
Easing access?
Cannabis has been available widely in US for longer than I have been alive. Just because it was off the books and under the table doesn’t mean it wasn’t accessible.
Societal collapse is the only possible outcome in a nation full of mind-numbed drug addicts. Marijuana makes people stupid and lazy. I know this for a fact because I was once headed in this direction and my former friends are still stupid and lazy 40 years later.
“ Cannabis has been available widely in US for longer than I have been alive. Just because it was off the books and under the table doesn’t mean it wasn’t accessible.”
It’s easier to buy now than it used to be. Hence the use of the word “easing”.
Great. Now college students will start smoking marijuana.
Not everyone seems to have the same experience with Marijuana users. I smoked it regularly prior to and while in the Army from 83-87, and have smoked it daily since I got out. I’ve been steadily employed for over 41 years now and I prefer Marijuana to alcohol when I get off work.
Your “facts” are not what I’ve experienced over my lifetime. My friends who also indulge are quite active and also fully employed.
Most of the people I see who are stupid, lazy and useless tend to be alcoholics and crystal meth heads.
Marijuana has been around for decades and the legalization of it is unlikely to contribute significantly to the numbers of those already abusing it. I’ve been a heavy user of marijuana myself up until a week ago and it didn’t make me stupid. The people it appeared to make stupid were likely stupid to begin with.
It’s currently “easier” to access from the black market than the legal route these days, and cheaper to boot. One thing I appreciate now is the competition from legal vendors has pushed the pricing way down in all markets.
I never had any problems locating MJ when it wasn’t legal in any form.
Agree 100%. My retirement job is a school crossing guard in Florida. I stand on a sleepy 2 lane for one shift and a busy US HWY for the second. I smell that crap both morning and afternoon shifts everyday. People driving, people parked at the gas station or nearby park before they go to work…it is a problem.
Alcohol is responsible for a million times more social problems than marijuana. So to be consistent I guess you would support getting rid of that too or are you a hypocrite?
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