Now will it take personal experiences of high ranking editors with infertility, Myocarditis and other 'cardiac' issues including SADS for them to wake up to the COVID vaccines danger?
And if the Times operates on personal experiences of editors, is it really a news organization or just a darn blog?
Compared to the tenets of classical liberalism, (behind which the NYT continues to hide) the current rag is nothing more than a caricature of a woke comic book.
In the same vein, it's remarkable that the unexpected sudden death of a congressman's teenage daughter hasn't sparked more attention. There's been a rash of such deaths, enough for a foreign news source to dub it SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrome). Beneath the radar, more and more are voicing concern. With this much smoke, there has to be a fire burning somewhere.
But where? Those performing the autopsies say they can't find a a cause of death. One would think that the public Health Authorities would at least be looking into this.
I’m wondering if coroners (appropriate name) can’t find causes of death because it’s such a new type of killer? Can micro clotting, etc be detected in an autopsy?
Does seems a new type of killer, as you suggest. I'm not qualified at all to venture a guess on your second question. Rather large clotting events have been detected in some of the sudden deaths, but nobody knows whether those clots occurred before or after the unexpected death. I've also read claims that most coroners wouldn't think to look for those clots during a routine autopsy. I've read theories that suggest that micro clots may be behind much of the other recent anatomical mayhem. Naomi Wolf (also not a medical expert) recently posited a unified theory that micro clots might be behind both the neurological problems and the heart problems. (She mentioned this recently in an interview on Steve Bannon's Rumble channel.)
Strange new world we live in.
Haven't heard whether a medical expert has weighed in on her recent theory. Sounds plausible to me, but I lack the expertise on that also.
My 18 year old daughter tried the medical marijuana craze and it woke her up to their true intentions. She saw right away that it was not healthy and had never done more and it pushed her to swear if off for good. I tried one of the “one hit pens” out of curiosity from my days of youth. The power of it put my mind in a place I never want to go again - I was scared to death, paranoid, anxious, and had feelings I had never had in my life. This isn’t the old crappy brown weed I had in the 80’s. She realized as well as I that there is more to this medical push than we know. She has seen so many of her friends destroyed by it. Keep on posting Alex and wake up the world.
I could not agree more with you my friend, nor could I agree more with Alex as strongly as I do. Medical marijuana is absolutely a scourge upon our nation. It is flat out evil. And if we had a 100% dead honest news media in this country and one that was without a doubt completely “forthcoming”,
(speaking of the word forthcoming it me and then again it may not surprise you to know just how many people don’t even know what that word / terminology even means!!)
They would tell the truth about what happened not only to the state of Colorado, but what happened to Denver pertaining to the crime rate after pot all but, became 100% completely legal the State. Crime rate not only shot up slept through the roof I’m going to try to put into words things that family members witnessed with their own eyes.
Starting from the day that it all but became completely legal and moving forward for the first 365 days, Colorado experienced a massive influx of young people that flocked to Colorado like flocks of ducks that you see today during the migration and flocks of geese that we see during migration.
So many wound up being homeless in a state that you definitely don’t want to be homeless in, come-winter. Downtown Denver turned into a panhandlers nightmare. Far far to many took to the streets. Myyyyyyyyy God!!!!!! Did it, Ever!! it was so unbelievable!! and all of the emergency rooms not only in Denver but throughout the State.
I’m witnessing the same here in Phoenix. I mentioned this to my husband yesterday. He wasn’t even aware it was now legal here. We have extreme summers. Of course none of the media outlets are reporting about this.
I agree and I sure hope that it does. I was in CO last month and I smell more pot here than anywhere I’ve been (hate the smell). I get customers in the store I work at that reek so bad, you could get high just standing next to them. Not sure what drug some of them are on but just driving down McDowell, I usually drive in the middle lane when going to central Phoenix because so many times someone under the influence almost went off the curb because of the state/stuper they are in and you know darn well if you hit one by accident, you’re probably going to prison.
Had a friend that lived outside Denver for like a year after weed was legalized. Said it was a nightmare, everywhere you went all the staff was stoned. Service at restaurants was horrible. He hated living out there.
And he was completely correct. It was absolutely horrible and to this day, it hasn’t improved all that much. Now, you get out in your small rural Colorado towns it’s markedly different.
Especially, on the back-side, of the Colorado Rocky-Mountain-Divide. Those 11 counties have pushed and pushed to leave Colorado and join, my state of Wyoming. And our Governor welcomes all 11 counties. Each one is heavily Oil&Gas / Cattle 🐮 🐄 & Sheep 🐑
This is why there's a difference between raw, unprocessed natural products like leaves and buds,, and processed products like THC extract, and why there should be a legal difference between the two substances. Nobody advocates for legal sales of even the natural product to minors, and both THC and CBD oils need to be inspected and regulated by government and available only on prescription and only to adults. But to ban growing and sale of the plant and its unprocessed parts only leads to criminality and increased usage by minors.
I, well, my wife and I do not agree with any, Any of it. NOT. ONE. BIT. The reason why people feel like it works???? That is very very simple…. Because, THEY ARE STONED!!!!
This part of your comment is your own personal opinion. There is no empirical evidence to support this. The people that support marijuana being used in any amount I’ve been bringing this up in saying it for the last 20 years, 30 years etc. etc..
Do I have statistical evidence? No, but if it is illegal to sell the plant product anywhere, there is no additional penalty for selling it to minors. Have you learned nothing from 100 years of prohibition? It has not been working.
Oh Lord here comes one of the old Saws 🪚 by The folks that absolutely love drugs. Give it up!!! you’re never ever going to convert us. I was the type that turned in pot heads. Me and my kind despised pot smokers here in Wyoming growing up. Cowboy / Rodeo fans hate dope smokers. Despise them. Yes I’ve seen pictures of those livers by idiot heavy / alcoholic drinkers…..
And even up until it became legal in the kind of realm that you’re talking about, The days of locking up teenagers for getting caught while getting stoned, had come and gone. With the days of the show, Major Dad. Way back in the 80s.
You just made my point. That is, police were so overwhelmed that they ignored minors getting stoned. If they are relieved of arresting dealers because ADULTS can buy at smoke shops, they'll have more resources to solve the real problem, minor use and adults supplying minors. Meanwhile, requiring prescriptions for CBD and THC will limit minor access.
In college back at the beginning of the 80s I ate a piece of a friend's walnut potberry brownie. I ended up hallucinating and had to be talked down by a friend. I'd played with LSD in college once or twice; ingesting even the weak weed of the times made me afraid I'd lost it for good. It was terrifying. I never touched that garbage again.
Of course. I watched the batch get cooked with the same shit-weed that had been making the rounds in my little group of friends. You can get a lot more THC by eating the stuff than smoking it, as any pothead knows.
So you indulged with full knowledge of what you were getting, and apparently you learned a youthful lesson, from which you were fortunately mature enough to profit. That's why even such natural products must be kept out of the reach of children, just like beer, wine and tobacco, which are also the products of natural fermentation and curing rather than technological processing (distillation).
It's best to stick with broad principles like natural vs processed, rather than arbitrary rules that can be abused by elites to discriminate against specific populations like blacks (cannabis), Middle Eastern (kat), Asian (betel nut), native American (peyote) or South American (raw coca leaf) while allowing privileged whites to enjoy their beer, wine and tobacco. Doncha think?
By all means, regulate the processed extracts, even ban them or require prescriptions if they're really dangerous. It's far easier to control a processing plant than somebody's garden.
"Privileged" whites? Are you aware that black people drink alcoholic beverages also? For that matter so do "under-privileged" whites and "privileged" blacks. I fail to see how turning this into a class/race battle sheds any light on the discussion at all.
I guess you really don't get sarcasm, nor do you understand that "privileged" blacks are white "adjacent." I'm not turning this into a class/race battle; that's been inherently part of the agenda ever since Nixon stepped up enforcement against cannabis.
I think of NYT like the Democratic party - beholden to donors like teacher's unions & upholding popular leftists narratives, even if they're blatant lies or irrational.
So *who* benefits from this shift?? I'm intrigued. WHY?
I can't believe NYT actually gives a rat's behind about what's best for humanity & children. (Based on their pushing long term school closures.) So why shift?
There are a whole lot of really terrible people who have made careers out of cannabis prohibition. I'm sure they're quite upset that they may no longer be allowed to squander taxpayer dollars sending harmless hippies to the gulag.
It may also be the case that there is growing consciousness that the old style peace-and-love liberals, who used to be a mainstay of the "left", are now classed by our Prognaz masters as "right wing".
Ah, OK, I can see how prisons do profit from cannabis prohibition.
But are they a powerful enough force to sway NYT? I just don't see NYT doing the bidding of prisons the way they clearly did for teacher's unions, the Biden Admin & the Democratic party overall.
All government power comes at the expense of the people. When the liberty of the people is weakened (prohibition), the authority of government grows stronger. Union money and special interests are not the only motivating factors. Do not underestimate the very nature of government.
Thanks for your comment. Super interesting point. You made me think of the writings of my friend who's an anarchist.
If I don't want the government taking steps to forcibly "protect" me from a highly contagious virus, then why do I want them to protect society from the risks of cannabis? Hm...
Your response also answers my Q, "Why is NYT acting pro-cannabis-prohibition?" Because they do the bidding of big government.
The NYT is usually a propaganda machine for Democrat policies. If the Times has condemned cannabis usage, then it has definitely had a negative impact on someone important.
Nobody subscribes to your Substack for this, Alex. Enjoy your chance to spike the football. I get it. But please don't lose sight of what brought you here. The President just told us flat-out, there's going to be a 'next' pandemic. We need you on that wall.
I don’t always agree with Alex’s views and sometimes wish he’d stay off some topics and even thought of cancelling but what keeps me here, is the chance to see others views and be able to comment. That’s what I enjoy most and learn from, not to mention I love the funny whit of this group I can count on for the occasional much needed laugh.
For all the old hippies out there who insist that marijuana is no big deal, today’s varieties are much more potent and liable to be laced with something else.
Eh, I've seen that claim in a lot of propaganda. But the actual old hippies I know, who were smoking the reefer 50 years ago, tell me it's 110% bullshit. Since most of this propaganda emanates from sources with a financial or culture war interest in continued prohibition, I'm inclined to believe what the old geezers say.
Well the "old geezers" have their stoned heads up their asses. I've seen the receipts. There are pilots right now - today - being paid to spray herbicides on drug crops overseas. If 50 years ago they were getting "artisanal" weed - there used be a whole lot more varieties and from small farms - they might have evaded it, but paraquat was absolutely sprayed on Mexican and Colombian pot crops and some of it ended up in people's pipes and bongs. That's why people started growing their own.
I think we're getting threads crossed. My comment referred to the specious claim that weed (buds, not talking industrially manufactured distillates) is vastly stronger today than it was some decades ago. Multiple unrelated sources tell me this is a steaming crock of bullshit.
Yes, that's anecdotal evidence. But it's first-hand anecdotal evidence, from multiple sources I personally judge trustworthy. Alas I cannot say the same for the trustworthiness of people who have built handsome careers on filling the gulags with peaceful hippies.
Obviously contamination of any human-consumable crop with toxic chemicals is bad bad bad.
My apologies. My assessment as someone who allegedly may or may not have smoked copious quantities of weed in the 1970s and early 80s...Today's weed is EXPONENTIALLY stronger.
First of all, now it's ALL female plants without seeds ("sensimilla") which forces the plants to create way more resin than is normal in a desperate attempt to catch pollen. That was very rare in the old days . Sensimilla didn't become the standard until the later 1980s (which I guess was a long time ago.)
Second, today's stuff has been bred to be sledgehammer. I may allegedly know the man who may have allegedly brought the first Indica strains to the US from pre-Soviet invasion Afghanistan and I can assure the breeding efforts to amp the plan's potency s was NASA-level. Cannabis has very malleable genetics.
Weed in the 60s and 70s was all over the place ("ditch weed", "Mexican green" etc.) Much of it was total low-potency, head-ache inducing, seed-riddled garbage. "Acapulco Gold", "Panama Red", "Jamaican" and "Columbia" were considered premiere ($50-$60 an oz vs $10 and $20) but were pretty much available only to people who lived in big cities like New York and LA or people who had a good connection. That and believe it or not $50-$60 was enough to pay your share of a house or apartment back then. A lot of money. Minumum wage was $2.10 per hour.
I think the old hippies you know are in denial. It’s a well known fact that cannabis has been bred for decades to have increased amounts of THC. Increasing THC but not CBD or CBG is a recipe for psychosis. This is completely separate from whether it should be legal.
Yes, that too! I never got into drugs back in the day, but there seemed to be less worry and/or less frequent incidences of laced drugs. Things shifted after the early 80’s. My ex was a drug addict and anyone else I’ve met that’s struggled with drugs, it started off from pot to something worse.
Some guy was claiming here he polled old hippies and they told him that pot was just as potent in the old days. This is ludicrous beyond words.
While there were the occasional one-off "artisanal" batches that came in in small quantities here and there, the bulk of weed in the 60s and 70s was low potency garbage. The rare and much coveted good stuff back then occasionally had interesting and unpredictable psychogenic effects, but it was NOTHING like the consistent sledge hammer stuff sold fraudulently today as "medicine."
Anyone talking to "hippies" from the 90s and beyond (there were no hippies left in the 90s) is talking to people who are either pulling his leg or are so fried they don't remember was life was like when when real hippies (not make-believe neo-hippies) roamed the earth.
The sledgehammer stuff ("Hawaiian and "Humboldt") didn't start making an appearance until the very end of the 70s and when it did was very avant-garde, very rare and very expensive.
I think the left is waking up to the fact that their embrace of marijuana is affecting their families more adversely than those families on the right. Gosh, who’d have seen that coming?
Maybe the left is realizing that trying to be a “good” person and legalizing a drug so minorities aren’t arrested for it wasn’t a good idea after all. Maybe they’ll get really crazy and start saying out loud “Don’t do drugs!”. Nah, that’s asking too much :)
Marijuana use is ubiquitous kids in NYC, regardless of socio-economic status. All of my son’s friends used it. I watched outstanding children go from math fiends to blasé C students in a blink. The main reason we left nyc was covid but drug use was a concern as well. My son, 17, has a sharp, analytical mind. I just wasn’t ready to let it go to mush.
We moved to Oklahoma City, my hometown. It’s not drug free but there are LOTS of kids who don’t do drugs. In his graduating class there were hardly any that were regularly getting high. (Private school.) That said we have cannabis shops everywhere.
Never apologize for taking a victory lap. Those victories are hard-earned. Thanks again for being our LOUD voice in this wilderness that our nation's become.... The NYT cannabis turnabout is intriguing, but it's doubtful they really a-woke.
As someone who is somewhat of an authority on this subject, having designed and developed vaping devices for this industry 10 years ago and witnessed the vaping explosion from California, I can tell you I saw this day coming a long time ago. Too much to go into here but basically what has occurred over the past 10 years was an unregulated and unchecked race to produce the highest potency products possible whether that was flower, vape carts, concentrates and edibles without ANY concern whether it was safe in any regard. Basically everything is 2-3x more potent today than it was 10 years ago and it's having an awful effect on the youth of this country. I've seen it over and over as I was camped out in dispensaries while pitching my products.
Because I don't believe flower is really the issue except for the elevated super potent strains. THC levels in flower range from 15%-35%. Concentrates can reach 95% and vape carts can reach 90%. Big difference. Flower has been around an awful long time and it's relative harm or lack of is well studied and documented. The other forms I mentioned .... not at all studied and documented. It's the difference between drinking a beer and 10 martinis.
Marijauna is not being legalized because it's a miracle drug with no risks. It's being legalized because criminalizing drug use is not productive. Would you like to go find kids that have fried their brains huffing paint, glue, aerosols, whip its, etc. and start a campaign to ban them all? When I was in High School, it was a hell of a lot easier to get weed than alcohol. Why? Because alcohol is legal and regulated.
We could start by exposing the primary truth: smoking cannabis is not only not therapeutic and outright toxic to brains, especially young ones, it also comes with the same hazards inhaling any smoke comes with.
Instead, a multi-billion dollar industry was built up to aggressively promote this perverted use which effectively obscured what the plant actually offers: medicine (when NOT smoked), food (the seeds), and materials (textiles, building etc.)
Marking it up astronomically as "smokable/medicinal" in order to generate taxes has hurt not helped these other uses, but it did create yet another bonanza for Pharma which will get to provide "solutions" for the wreckage caused while discrediting all legitimate medical uses of the plant.
You know what I agree Cannabis is harmful. But I don’t care, I like getting stoned and have done so for 30 years. Legal, illegal im still going to do it. Being a free adult means I can choose to do things that are good for me and harmful to me. But it’s still good what you are doing, I’ll still subscribe, I’d rather know the truth, then as a free man I can decide to ignore the truth.
I hope you do it in your private space. We had very good $$$ tickets to Paul McCartney and some 30+ year pot smoker shared with his two 20 something yr old offspring sitting next to him…which was next to us. They stunk, we stunk.
Now will it take personal experiences of high ranking editors with infertility, Myocarditis and other 'cardiac' issues including SADS for them to wake up to the COVID vaccines danger?
And if the Times operates on personal experiences of editors, is it really a news organization or just a darn blog?
Compared to the tenets of classical liberalism, (behind which the NYT continues to hide) the current rag is nothing more than a caricature of a woke comic book.
Agreed. Overpriced excellent crossword puzzle.
The BIG glaring difference there is $$$ Over a BILLION was given to media for promoting the EUA gene therapy medical injection indoctrination
Touche!
In the same vein, it's remarkable that the unexpected sudden death of a congressman's teenage daughter hasn't sparked more attention. There's been a rash of such deaths, enough for a foreign news source to dub it SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrome). Beneath the radar, more and more are voicing concern. With this much smoke, there has to be a fire burning somewhere.
But where? Those performing the autopsies say they can't find a a cause of death. One would think that the public Health Authorities would at least be looking into this.
I’m wondering if coroners (appropriate name) can’t find causes of death because it’s such a new type of killer? Can micro clotting, etc be detected in an autopsy?
Does seems a new type of killer, as you suggest. I'm not qualified at all to venture a guess on your second question. Rather large clotting events have been detected in some of the sudden deaths, but nobody knows whether those clots occurred before or after the unexpected death. I've also read claims that most coroners wouldn't think to look for those clots during a routine autopsy. I've read theories that suggest that micro clots may be behind much of the other recent anatomical mayhem. Naomi Wolf (also not a medical expert) recently posited a unified theory that micro clots might be behind both the neurological problems and the heart problems. (She mentioned this recently in an interview on Steve Bannon's Rumble channel.)
Strange new world we live in.
Haven't heard whether a medical expert has weighed in on her recent theory. Sounds plausible to me, but I lack the expertise on that also.
I also lack the expertise. My father was a pathologist but he’s deceased. Wish I could ask him!
My 18 year old daughter tried the medical marijuana craze and it woke her up to their true intentions. She saw right away that it was not healthy and had never done more and it pushed her to swear if off for good. I tried one of the “one hit pens” out of curiosity from my days of youth. The power of it put my mind in a place I never want to go again - I was scared to death, paranoid, anxious, and had feelings I had never had in my life. This isn’t the old crappy brown weed I had in the 80’s. She realized as well as I that there is more to this medical push than we know. She has seen so many of her friends destroyed by it. Keep on posting Alex and wake up the world.
I could not agree more with you my friend, nor could I agree more with Alex as strongly as I do. Medical marijuana is absolutely a scourge upon our nation. It is flat out evil. And if we had a 100% dead honest news media in this country and one that was without a doubt completely “forthcoming”,
(speaking of the word forthcoming it me and then again it may not surprise you to know just how many people don’t even know what that word / terminology even means!!)
They would tell the truth about what happened not only to the state of Colorado, but what happened to Denver pertaining to the crime rate after pot all but, became 100% completely legal the State. Crime rate not only shot up slept through the roof I’m going to try to put into words things that family members witnessed with their own eyes.
Starting from the day that it all but became completely legal and moving forward for the first 365 days, Colorado experienced a massive influx of young people that flocked to Colorado like flocks of ducks that you see today during the migration and flocks of geese that we see during migration.
So many wound up being homeless in a state that you definitely don’t want to be homeless in, come-winter. Downtown Denver turned into a panhandlers nightmare. Far far to many took to the streets. Myyyyyyyyy God!!!!!! Did it, Ever!! it was so unbelievable!! and all of the emergency rooms not only in Denver but throughout the State.
WHAT A FLAT-OUT-SCOURGE ON ALL OF SOCIETY IT IS!!
I’m witnessing the same here in Phoenix. I mentioned this to my husband yesterday. He wasn’t even aware it was now legal here. We have extreme summers. Of course none of the media outlets are reporting about this.
I think it should go back on the ballot for vote to repeal the legalization in AZ. The population here must be educated about the dangers and effects.
I agree and I sure hope that it does. I was in CO last month and I smell more pot here than anywhere I’ve been (hate the smell). I get customers in the store I work at that reek so bad, you could get high just standing next to them. Not sure what drug some of them are on but just driving down McDowell, I usually drive in the middle lane when going to central Phoenix because so many times someone under the influence almost went off the curb because of the state/stuper they are in and you know darn well if you hit one by accident, you’re probably going to prison.
Had a friend that lived outside Denver for like a year after weed was legalized. Said it was a nightmare, everywhere you went all the staff was stoned. Service at restaurants was horrible. He hated living out there.
And he was completely correct. It was absolutely horrible and to this day, it hasn’t improved all that much. Now, you get out in your small rural Colorado towns it’s markedly different.
Especially, on the back-side, of the Colorado Rocky-Mountain-Divide. Those 11 counties have pushed and pushed to leave Colorado and join, my state of Wyoming. And our Governor welcomes all 11 counties. Each one is heavily Oil&Gas / Cattle 🐮 🐄 & Sheep 🐑
This is why there's a difference between raw, unprocessed natural products like leaves and buds,, and processed products like THC extract, and why there should be a legal difference between the two substances. Nobody advocates for legal sales of even the natural product to minors, and both THC and CBD oils need to be inspected and regulated by government and available only on prescription and only to adults. But to ban growing and sale of the plant and its unprocessed parts only leads to criminality and increased usage by minors.
I, well, my wife and I do not agree with any, Any of it. NOT. ONE. BIT. The reason why people feel like it works???? That is very very simple…. Because, THEY ARE STONED!!!!
I am NOT stoned.
“ increased usage by minors.”
This part of your comment is your own personal opinion. There is no empirical evidence to support this. The people that support marijuana being used in any amount I’ve been bringing this up in saying it for the last 20 years, 30 years etc. etc..
Do I have statistical evidence? No, but if it is illegal to sell the plant product anywhere, there is no additional penalty for selling it to minors. Have you learned nothing from 100 years of prohibition? It has not been working.
We are for outlawing all forms of pot use.
Have you seen the livers of chronic drinkers?
Oh Lord here comes one of the old Saws 🪚 by The folks that absolutely love drugs. Give it up!!! you’re never ever going to convert us. I was the type that turned in pot heads. Me and my kind despised pot smokers here in Wyoming growing up. Cowboy / Rodeo fans hate dope smokers. Despise them. Yes I’ve seen pictures of those livers by idiot heavy / alcoholic drinkers…..
So to be fair let's unleash a toxic weed as well?
why not alcohol then too?
And even up until it became legal in the kind of realm that you’re talking about, The days of locking up teenagers for getting caught while getting stoned, had come and gone. With the days of the show, Major Dad. Way back in the 80s.
You just made my point. That is, police were so overwhelmed that they ignored minors getting stoned. If they are relieved of arresting dealers because ADULTS can buy at smoke shops, they'll have more resources to solve the real problem, minor use and adults supplying minors. Meanwhile, requiring prescriptions for CBD and THC will limit minor access.
In college back at the beginning of the 80s I ate a piece of a friend's walnut potberry brownie. I ended up hallucinating and had to be talked down by a friend. I'd played with LSD in college once or twice; ingesting even the weak weed of the times made me afraid I'd lost it for good. It was terrifying. I never touched that garbage again.
And of course you're sure the brownie had nothing in it other than cannabis?
Of course. I watched the batch get cooked with the same shit-weed that had been making the rounds in my little group of friends. You can get a lot more THC by eating the stuff than smoking it, as any pothead knows.
So you indulged with full knowledge of what you were getting, and apparently you learned a youthful lesson, from which you were fortunately mature enough to profit. That's why even such natural products must be kept out of the reach of children, just like beer, wine and tobacco, which are also the products of natural fermentation and curing rather than technological processing (distillation).
It's best to stick with broad principles like natural vs processed, rather than arbitrary rules that can be abused by elites to discriminate against specific populations like blacks (cannabis), Middle Eastern (kat), Asian (betel nut), native American (peyote) or South American (raw coca leaf) while allowing privileged whites to enjoy their beer, wine and tobacco. Doncha think?
By all means, regulate the processed extracts, even ban them or require prescriptions if they're really dangerous. It's far easier to control a processing plant than somebody's garden.
"Privileged" whites? Are you aware that black people drink alcoholic beverages also? For that matter so do "under-privileged" whites and "privileged" blacks. I fail to see how turning this into a class/race battle sheds any light on the discussion at all.
I guess you really don't get sarcasm, nor do you understand that "privileged" blacks are white "adjacent." I'm not turning this into a class/race battle; that's been inherently part of the agenda ever since Nixon stepped up enforcement against cannabis.
"Whatever is driving this change"
I think of NYT like the Democratic party - beholden to donors like teacher's unions & upholding popular leftists narratives, even if they're blatant lies or irrational.
So *who* benefits from this shift?? I'm intrigued. WHY?
I can't believe NYT actually gives a rat's behind about what's best for humanity & children. (Based on their pushing long term school closures.) So why shift?
There are $$$$$ somewhere
Yes! Precisely my suspicion!
It's obv what the money motivation is to legalize weed, but what's the money motivation to FIGHT legalization??
There are a whole lot of really terrible people who have made careers out of cannabis prohibition. I'm sure they're quite upset that they may no longer be allowed to squander taxpayer dollars sending harmless hippies to the gulag.
It may also be the case that there is growing consciousness that the old style peace-and-love liberals, who used to be a mainstay of the "left", are now classed by our Prognaz masters as "right wing".
Ah, OK, I can see how prisons do profit from cannabis prohibition.
But are they a powerful enough force to sway NYT? I just don't see NYT doing the bidding of prisons the way they clearly did for teacher's unions, the Biden Admin & the Democratic party overall.
All government power comes at the expense of the people. When the liberty of the people is weakened (prohibition), the authority of government grows stronger. Union money and special interests are not the only motivating factors. Do not underestimate the very nature of government.
Thanks for your comment. Super interesting point. You made me think of the writings of my friend who's an anarchist.
If I don't want the government taking steps to forcibly "protect" me from a highly contagious virus, then why do I want them to protect society from the risks of cannabis? Hm...
Your response also answers my Q, "Why is NYT acting pro-cannabis-prohibition?" Because they do the bidding of big government.
Agree!
This just in..consumption of drugs has systemic consequences. A novel idea is to have adults decide what they can and cannot put into their own body.
The NYT is usually a propaganda machine for Democrat policies. If the Times has condemned cannabis usage, then it has definitely had a negative impact on someone important.
Nobody subscribes to your Substack for this, Alex. Enjoy your chance to spike the football. I get it. But please don't lose sight of what brought you here. The President just told us flat-out, there's going to be a 'next' pandemic. We need you on that wall.
Marijuana is destroying families. Someone needs to say it.
I actually do subscribe to hear Alex’s views. I have been a fan for years and he knows how to multi-task.
I don’t always agree with Alex’s views and sometimes wish he’d stay off some topics and even thought of cancelling but what keeps me here, is the chance to see others views and be able to comment. That’s what I enjoy most and learn from, not to mention I love the funny whit of this group I can count on for the occasional much needed laugh.
I completely agree. The comments are enlightening. The overall humanity here is pretty darn good. I do feel like I’ve found my people in a way.
I do too! so far there’s been a lot of respect towards differing opinions. We are able to agree to disagree
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I think Team Reality can and should be more than a one-trick pony. Time to expand our horizons.
Maybe write about it in your own substack, and let Alex say what he wants.
For all the old hippies out there who insist that marijuana is no big deal, today’s varieties are much more potent and liable to be laced with something else.
If it's grown in a greenhouse herbicides and anti-fungal chemicals for one thing. Remember paraquat?
Eh, I've seen that claim in a lot of propaganda. But the actual old hippies I know, who were smoking the reefer 50 years ago, tell me it's 110% bullshit. Since most of this propaganda emanates from sources with a financial or culture war interest in continued prohibition, I'm inclined to believe what the old geezers say.
Well the "old geezers" have their stoned heads up their asses. I've seen the receipts. There are pilots right now - today - being paid to spray herbicides on drug crops overseas. If 50 years ago they were getting "artisanal" weed - there used be a whole lot more varieties and from small farms - they might have evaded it, but paraquat was absolutely sprayed on Mexican and Colombian pot crops and some of it ended up in people's pipes and bongs. That's why people started growing their own.
I think we're getting threads crossed. My comment referred to the specious claim that weed (buds, not talking industrially manufactured distillates) is vastly stronger today than it was some decades ago. Multiple unrelated sources tell me this is a steaming crock of bullshit.
Yes, that's anecdotal evidence. But it's first-hand anecdotal evidence, from multiple sources I personally judge trustworthy. Alas I cannot say the same for the trustworthiness of people who have built handsome careers on filling the gulags with peaceful hippies.
Obviously contamination of any human-consumable crop with toxic chemicals is bad bad bad.
My apologies. My assessment as someone who allegedly may or may not have smoked copious quantities of weed in the 1970s and early 80s...Today's weed is EXPONENTIALLY stronger.
First of all, now it's ALL female plants without seeds ("sensimilla") which forces the plants to create way more resin than is normal in a desperate attempt to catch pollen. That was very rare in the old days . Sensimilla didn't become the standard until the later 1980s (which I guess was a long time ago.)
Second, today's stuff has been bred to be sledgehammer. I may allegedly know the man who may have allegedly brought the first Indica strains to the US from pre-Soviet invasion Afghanistan and I can assure the breeding efforts to amp the plan's potency s was NASA-level. Cannabis has very malleable genetics.
Weed in the 60s and 70s was all over the place ("ditch weed", "Mexican green" etc.) Much of it was total low-potency, head-ache inducing, seed-riddled garbage. "Acapulco Gold", "Panama Red", "Jamaican" and "Columbia" were considered premiere ($50-$60 an oz vs $10 and $20) but were pretty much available only to people who lived in big cities like New York and LA or people who had a good connection. That and believe it or not $50-$60 was enough to pay your share of a house or apartment back then. A lot of money. Minumum wage was $2.10 per hour.
I think the old hippies you know are in denial. It’s a well known fact that cannabis has been bred for decades to have increased amounts of THC. Increasing THC but not CBD or CBG is a recipe for psychosis. This is completely separate from whether it should be legal.
Yes, that too! I never got into drugs back in the day, but there seemed to be less worry and/or less frequent incidences of laced drugs. Things shifted after the early 80’s. My ex was a drug addict and anyone else I’ve met that’s struggled with drugs, it started off from pot to something worse.
I don't know any old hippies who think it's no big deal.
Some guy was claiming here he polled old hippies and they told him that pot was just as potent in the old days. This is ludicrous beyond words.
While there were the occasional one-off "artisanal" batches that came in in small quantities here and there, the bulk of weed in the 60s and 70s was low potency garbage. The rare and much coveted good stuff back then occasionally had interesting and unpredictable psychogenic effects, but it was NOTHING like the consistent sledge hammer stuff sold fraudulently today as "medicine."
Anyone talking to "hippies" from the 90s and beyond (there were no hippies left in the 90s) is talking to people who are either pulling his leg or are so fried they don't remember was life was like when when real hippies (not make-believe neo-hippies) roamed the earth.
The sledgehammer stuff ("Hawaiian and "Humboldt") didn't start making an appearance until the very end of the 70s and when it did was very avant-garde, very rare and very expensive.
I do.
I think the left is waking up to the fact that their embrace of marijuana is affecting their families more adversely than those families on the right. Gosh, who’d have seen that coming?
Maybe the left is realizing that trying to be a “good” person and legalizing a drug so minorities aren’t arrested for it wasn’t a good idea after all. Maybe they’ll get really crazy and start saying out loud “Don’t do drugs!”. Nah, that’s asking too much :)
Marijuana use is ubiquitous kids in NYC, regardless of socio-economic status. All of my son’s friends used it. I watched outstanding children go from math fiends to blasé C students in a blink. The main reason we left nyc was covid but drug use was a concern as well. My son, 17, has a sharp, analytical mind. I just wasn’t ready to let it go to mush.
So you moved to a drug free utopia? Where is this magical place?
We moved to Oklahoma City, my hometown. It’s not drug free but there are LOTS of kids who don’t do drugs. In his graduating class there were hardly any that were regularly getting high. (Private school.) That said we have cannabis shops everywhere.
The large Seattle suburb we lived in had 1 Baskin Robbins ice cream shop & 5 pot shops. Does anyone else see a problem with that? We moved.
Sometimes I wonder if we're turning a corner into a healthier and personally responsible populace.
And then I look around me.
*Sigh*
Maybe someday.
Never apologize for taking a victory lap. Those victories are hard-earned. Thanks again for being our LOUD voice in this wilderness that our nation's become.... The NYT cannabis turnabout is intriguing, but it's doubtful they really a-woke.
Validation by way of NY Times? 😬 Adam Schiff used to argue that. Just saying.
Exactly. Consider the source.
Paul Revere and the Raiders. On to something:
Girl, you thought you found the answer
On that magic carpet ride last night
But when you wake up in the mornin'
The world still gets you uptight
Well, there's nothin' that you ain't tried
To fill the emptiness inside
But when you come back down, girl
Still ain't feelin' right
And don't it seem like
Kicks just keep gettin' harder to find
And all your kicks ain't bringin' you peace of mind
Before you find out it's too late, girl
You better get straight
Blast from the past!
As someone who is somewhat of an authority on this subject, having designed and developed vaping devices for this industry 10 years ago and witnessed the vaping explosion from California, I can tell you I saw this day coming a long time ago. Too much to go into here but basically what has occurred over the past 10 years was an unregulated and unchecked race to produce the highest potency products possible whether that was flower, vape carts, concentrates and edibles without ANY concern whether it was safe in any regard. Basically everything is 2-3x more potent today than it was 10 years ago and it's having an awful effect on the youth of this country. I've seen it over and over as I was camped out in dispensaries while pitching my products.
Kinda like the vaxx.
What is your advice to combat it?
Potency restrictions, removal of concentrates, make dabbing illegal. Dabbing is by far the worst think out there. Brain melting ....
Just out of curiosity, why don't you - having read Berenson and his warnings - not want to make all MJ illegal, like you do dabbing?
Because I don't believe flower is really the issue except for the elevated super potent strains. THC levels in flower range from 15%-35%. Concentrates can reach 95% and vape carts can reach 90%. Big difference. Flower has been around an awful long time and it's relative harm or lack of is well studied and documented. The other forms I mentioned .... not at all studied and documented. It's the difference between drinking a beer and 10 martinis.
Marijauna is not being legalized because it's a miracle drug with no risks. It's being legalized because criminalizing drug use is not productive. Would you like to go find kids that have fried their brains huffing paint, glue, aerosols, whip its, etc. and start a campaign to ban them all? When I was in High School, it was a hell of a lot easier to get weed than alcohol. Why? Because alcohol is legal and regulated.
We could start by exposing the primary truth: smoking cannabis is not only not therapeutic and outright toxic to brains, especially young ones, it also comes with the same hazards inhaling any smoke comes with.
Instead, a multi-billion dollar industry was built up to aggressively promote this perverted use which effectively obscured what the plant actually offers: medicine (when NOT smoked), food (the seeds), and materials (textiles, building etc.)
Marking it up astronomically as "smokable/medicinal" in order to generate taxes has hurt not helped these other uses, but it did create yet another bonanza for Pharma which will get to provide "solutions" for the wreckage caused while discrediting all legitimate medical uses of the plant.
You know what I agree Cannabis is harmful. But I don’t care, I like getting stoned and have done so for 30 years. Legal, illegal im still going to do it. Being a free adult means I can choose to do things that are good for me and harmful to me. But it’s still good what you are doing, I’ll still subscribe, I’d rather know the truth, then as a free man I can decide to ignore the truth.
I hope you do it in your private space. We had very good $$$ tickets to Paul McCartney and some 30+ year pot smoker shared with his two 20 something yr old offspring sitting next to him…which was next to us. They stunk, we stunk.