Beware approval of marijuana dispensaries
Those facing decisions about approving marijuana distribution facilities in their communities would do well to read Kevin Sabet’s most recent book, “Smokescreen.”
An assistant professor at Yale’s Medical School, the author documents the 30-year push by Big Tobacco, the pharmaceutical and porn industry (Hugh Hefner, et al, and libertarians such as George Soros) to legalize the drug. Sabet, a PhD (Oxford University), has actively opposed marijuana use since high school and subsequently as a senior advisor on drug policy with the Bush and Obama administrations.
New York state has recently approved legalizing marijuana for recreational use and can learn about the effects of legal dispensaries from states (California, Washington, Oregon and Colorado especially) from their experiences. Over the past 30 years, a huge cash flow has fed pro-marijuana politicians, lobbyists and groups to push legalization.
The strategy has been to inundate the population with the belief in the ‘medicinal’ value of marijuana, that it’s less dangerous than alcohol, and that legalization will achieve social equity, doing away with law enforcement’s unfairly targeting of poor and minority communities.
None of these claims are true, Sabet reveals. The psychoactive properties of the drug (THC) are much more potent — and addictive — than the drug of decades ago. Young people are the primary target of the legalization industry; disenfranchised communities, already burdened with liquor stores as opposed to grocery stores, are the special target of establishing drug dispensaries.
Greater addiction, hospitalization, undermined immune systems, depression, suicide, indifference to eduction, lower IQ (by some 10 points), more accidents, greater negative involvement with law enforcement are the documented consequences of legalization.
Sabet shows that those states which have legalized don’t have the staff to properly monitor the legal dispensaries where the big push is profit, turn over product, which means more pesticides used in cultivation, more dangerous mold, heavy metals, ever higher THC content, more slick packaging to children (candies, vaping, cookies etc.) and an emboldened black market industry.
With legalization, New York state expects to realize over $2 billion in the next couple of years after local communities buy into the scheme. Higher levels of THC mean even more tax revenue for the financially strapped State.
Local communities have until Dec. 31 to approve or reject retail dispensaries. Rather than relying on the propaganda pushed by the State, which is offering loans and grants to encourage pot operations, interested citizens should look at the experience of those states which have embraced legal marijuana distribution, as outlined in Sabet’s book.
See more here: observertoday.com
About the author: Roy Harvey, a Mayville resident, was for 10 years an investigator in Illinois with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.
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Lunatictoctarian
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That guy is a retard. There are enormous amounts of medicinal benefits to marijuana, in various ways.
Those who smoke marijuana tend to smoke it for the psychoactive effect, however.
Anyway, I don’t support marijuana dispensaries coz marijuana, nor any plant should be illegal in any way. So I grow my own.
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Lunatictoctarian
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Here’s why I don’t care about dispensaries (this was January 2020):
https://ibb.co/bzs6rDv
https://ibb.co/tBGhM2L
Look at the environmental damage. And btw, I’ve never sold any. Shit, I’ve used marijuana as fertilizer. Thinking of actually making a new kind of glue with it.
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Lunatictoctarian
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That guy has been a career “war on drugs” guy, associates with psychiatry, pharma(why not address the far greater damage related to pharmaceuticals eh?), senior advisor on drug policy with the Bush and Obama administrations (remember that time you took advice from Tony Blair’s hairdresser?), lies about practically any statistic he can (and he has a very very shitty catalogue to reference from his selection bias) and ignores pretty much any reality relating to marijuana use and spins it into some warped pseudo-reality of ironic paranoid delusion.
Like even when he references: “Big Tobacco, the pharmaceutical and porn industry”
You see, that’s like saying “I’ve seen a bad guy eating food, and he wants to use food to control you”. Equating the plant with shit industries, is retarded. And any regulations of it, has also made it retarded. That’s one of the reasons there’s so much profit incentivization (and associated “bad guys”).
Deal with the porn industry, big tobacco and pharma, kev.
Personally, you couldn’t get me to $10 for an ounce of “medical weed”, coz it’s not worth that much and if I can grow my own, you can fuck right off.
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Lisa
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I’m with the lunatic … and no way is it addictive. A septarian.
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Lunatictoctarian
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If something is beneficial, or useful to you and you use it…it is often misconstrued as addictive. Often circumstantial need, preferences are simply miscategorized.
From what I’ve seen and experienced, there’s very limited marijuana addiction concern and because it doesn’t have the sort of withdrawal issues associated with say, pharma opioids it tends to be a non-issue. Btw, I say that as a cigarette smoker and an alcoholic. And I used lots of pharma crap throughout my life. Completely different beasts. MSG is probably more addictive. Aspartame, I dunno, fucking name it.
I grow lots of marijuana, but I don’t actually use it that much. Often go for several days without using marijuana, depending on how I feel. I’ve gone without marijuana for months at a time. And I’ve smoked for around 25 years?
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Lunatictoctarian
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Regarding the ACTUAL problems relating to marijuana…
Industry (every aspect of it), regulations, limitations (like telling people they can only grow indoor, which of course is RETARDED unless truly necessary), glamourization.
So because of that, you have homogenized weed, far lower quantities/efficiency, massively overpriced, people using absolutely retarded methods for growing.
Just imagine how a typical smoker would freak out if I eat like, 2 ounces of great weed, and it happens to not be decarboxylated (no psychoactive effects), fresh…and tried to explain to them the health benefits.
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Lit
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I never believed that cannabis had much medicinal value with a few exceptions like for MS and CBD for severe epilepsy, because those conditions have a robust scientific foundation for cannabis easing the symptoms. I believe in most cases people are just looking for an excuse to get high. While there maybe is nothing wrong with getting high, most claims about cannabis as medicine seems to have no real basis in science. But this study on CBDs effect on SARS-CoV-2 replication shows remarkable results. CBD seems to be an excellent anti-viral profylactic.
“Strikingly, only 1.2% of the patients prescribed CBD contracted SARS-CoV-2 whereas 12.2% of the matched, non-cannabinoid patients tested positive (p=0.009), suggesting a potential reduction in SARS-CoV-2 infection risk of approximately an order of magnitude.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7987002/
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Scouse Billy
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Perhaps he could explain why we have cannabinoid receptors.
Rita Levi-Montalcini must be spinning in her grave.
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Joseph Olson
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over 250 Americans a day die from Fentanyl overdose, likely more from alcohol, at least that many from tobacco > IF YOUR CAREER IS ACTIVIST, THEN YOU ARE NOT OBJECTIVE
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Sol
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“Beware Approval Of Marijuana Dispensaries” I don’t think that you should worry with that
here an article fo you.
https://www.wakingtimes.com/fda-takes-only-months-to-approve-pfizer-jab-yet-cannabis-remains-schedule-1-despite-centuries-of-data/
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