The Smoke and Mirrors of the Marijuana Legalization Movement (www.theepochtimes.com)
Commentary
From my mailbox, I pulled out the usual junk mail and was recently surprised to find a new advertisement I had never seen before: a large, glossy printed ad for the local marijuana dealer. Featuring a smiling, colorful cartoon face with a large joint in its mouth, the advertisement promises “20% off + FREE Gift with Coupon” and “Veterans & Med Card Holders 10% Off – Proof Required.” As happy, colorful, and normal as this ad looks, it tells a sad story: some business in my local community is trying very hard to push a product that is poisoning people. Worst of all, there seems to be nothing I can do about it since marijuana, or cannabis, has been legalized in my state, as it has in most states. Story continues below advertisement
Meanwhile, research proving the many harmful effects of cannabis continues to mount—from brain health to heart health to mental health, cannabis is bad news. As reported in The Epoch Times just last month, a recent study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology “found that middle and high school-age teens who used cannabis showed 20 percent to 50 percent slower gains across memory, attention, processing speed, and other core cognitive abilities.” However, the plain facts of hard-nosed research such as this are easily drowned out by sensational headlines like this one from earlier this year: “Study Finds Cannabis Usage in Middle Aged and Older Adults Associated With Larger Brain Volume, Better Cognitive Function.” This headline, published by the University of Colorado Anschutz, implies that cannabis use comes with some positive effects. A bigger brain must be good, right?
Seeing this situation, it is tempting to throw in the towel and let the world go to the dogs—even if (to extend the metaphor) the dogs are experiencing homicidal psychosis from THC gummies and smell like skunks.
How Marijuana Has Changed in Effects and Potency But now I implore you not to give up. On May 4, Americans Against Legalizing Marijuana (AALM) announced that consumers of cannabis products are filing two federal class action lawsuits in Illinois and Connecticut that mark the beginning of legal action against the marijuana industry nationwide. They allege that companies, “promoted unproven medical claims; failed to warn consumers about known health risks; minimized dangers including addiction, psychosis, psychiatric disorders, and cardiovascular complications,” according to a news release sent out to email subscribers by AALM.
Indeed, let’s return to the sensational pro-cannabis headline mentioned above. It takes only a little digging beyond the headline to find a not-so-pro-cannabis reality. The article states that cannabis use is “generally associated with larger volumes in several brain regions.” The term “generally associated” is very important. The researchers have found an association between two phenomena occurring together (cannabis use and growth in certain areas of the brain) but this is different from a causal link whereby research can confidently state that one phenomena causes another. In the case of general association there could be a third, currently unknown factor that further research may find explains the association and casts doubt on the possibility of causation. The classic example of this is the general association between ice cream sales and drowning deaths both going up. Ice cream does not cause drowning, of course; the third factor is the summer heat leading people to eat more ice cream and swim more often (which comes with more drowning).
The study also notes: “However, another brain region saw lower volumes—suggesting the impact cannabis has on the brain is complex and nuanced, requiring further investigation.” In other words, we may not be seeing positive growth of the brain but rather a warping effect whereby one part unnaturally grows and another unnaturally shrinks. Who knows? I do know from experience that when people use cannabis they act less intelligent and more paranoid. Now, let’s turn back to the colorful advertisement I received in the mail. After navigating New York State’s Office of Cannabis Management website, I concluded that the ad is quite possibly illegal since it doesn’t have the required age warning, “For use only by persons 21 years of age and older...;” or a rotating statement, such as “Cannabis can be addictive;” and it features cartoon images that may appeal to children. I used the online form to notify the Office of Cannabis Management. Whether it will actually do anything is perhaps beside the point. The point is that by not giving up and by staring the cannabis problem in the face I did see areas where we can easily hold the cannabis industry responsible and put pressure on a state government to end legalization. Not to be cliché, but we can make a difference.
Finally, the government hands-off argument for legalization simply falls apart when the harmful effects of cannabis are fully considered. There are plenty of useless and excessive laws and regulations that could be scrapped, but laws keeping people from new ways to quite obviously destroy their health are not among them. Also cannabis users have lower sperm counts and fertility rates. In this sense they are destroying society since America’s birth rate has for decades been declining. Additionally, cannabis leads to paranoia. In a democratic nation dependent on civil social discourse and informed voters with basic rationality, paranoia is not simply a side effect, it is a destabilizing force that can undermine our entire political framework. If someone feels government is not able to protect itself in such circumstances then, frankly, they are living in a libertarian fantasy land.
To summarize all of this efficiently, don’t be affected by the smoke and mirrors of the cannabis legalization movement. It will end in the dustbin of history, where it belongs.
I think C Kirk is alive somewhere (Valhala?) but has been effectively silenced as he revealed his suspicion about Oct 7, his opposition to WAR ON IRAN.
Massie exposed Israel's influence on Congress. nuff said.
Kevin Warsh is son in law of Ronald Lauder.
https://jesusisprecious.org/evils_in_government/911_inside_job/911_rothschild_lauder_connection.htm
Apparently a Zionist Jew named Ronald Lauder was involved in the privatization of the World Trade Center (WTC) just months before the false-flag terror attack on the Twin Towers. Get this: Lauder is connected with Rothschild. Surprise, surprise!
The privatization of the World Trade Center involved Ronald Lauder, a high-level Zionist with close ties to the Rothschild family, one of whom served at the highest level of Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate.
Ronald Lauder headed the two commissions under Governor George Pataki that pushed for the privatization of the World Trade Center: the New York State Commission of Privatization and the New York State Research Council on Privatization. Lauder was the driving force behind the effort to privatize the World Trade Center, which resulted in Larry Silverstein, a fellow Zionist, getting the 99-year lease of the Twin Towers in July 2001.
Ronald S. Lauder is the President of the World Jewish Congress.
Do not export what the US has become.
Is it just me or is anyone else SICK OF THIS SHIT?
20+ $Million$ buys a lot of fraud,
Pretty crazy y'all are cheering that a foreign nation just spent a record amount of money to endorse a shill politician because they were about to have to register with FARA if they didn't. I thought y'all were supposed to be smarter than the propaganda?
Hey Ho Cornholio Must Go
LISTEN- 23 minutes
https://www.noemamag.com/we-may-be-entering-a-second-axial-age/
An Excerpt:
The First Axial Age
Roughly 2,500 years ago, something remarkable happened. It occurred not in one place but across the Eurasian continents, largely in parallel. Against the backdrop of Bronze Age civilizations collapsing, empires disintegrating, city-states competing and waves of migration and warfare reshaping social structures, the old mythic orders were failing. Local, myth-based traditions could no longer hold the weight of human experience. And out of that turbulence, new kinds of questions broke through: What does it mean to be human? How shall we live? What is our place in the larger order of things?
Within a few centuries, the responses to these questions crystallized into several of the world’s enduring wisdom traditions. In China, Confucius, Laozi and Zhuangzi explored ethics, harmony and alignment with the Dao. In India, the Upanishadic traditions, the Buddha and Mahavira investigated the nature of consciousness, liberation and nonviolence. In Persia, Zarathustra articulated a cosmic moral struggle between good and evil. In the Hebrew world, the prophets, voices like Isaiah, called for justice and ethical monotheism. And in Greece, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle began a systematic inquiry into ethics, knowledge and the nature of reality.
German philosopher Karl Jaspers named this the Axial Age. What these movements shared, despite their vast differences, was the discovery of a deeper interior dimension of the human being. For the first time, human beings stepped back from the immediacy of mythic experience and turned inward. They developed capacities for moral reflection, compassion and the articulation of universal ethical principles. A new vertical axis opened, linking the inner life of the individual with something transcendent: a universal moral order, a ground of being, a deeper source beyond the self.
I heard that the plan, since at least 1984
Written in 1948'
Tommy Robinson & Israel. IT'S WORSE Than You Think
Double Down News
Massey revealed who controls our lawmakers.
Sounds like TREASON to me.
I want to hear: WE ARE ENDING THE FED, I'M STEPPING DOWN.
On their HATRED for Palestinians SNORDSTER: Quotable Quotes from the Chosenites- IN THEIR OWN WORDS
What BULLSHIT! Fake scandal brought to you by AIPAC
GOD BLESS NICHOLAS HULSCHER AND THE WORK HE IS DOING!
America has been a Rothschild-controlled corporation since 1871.
The American Civil War changed everything but it wasn't over slavery that was merely the pretext or the tool of justification. Unfortunately, the American public was never truly informed about these changes afterwards. Because the Rothschilds were afraid that if the American public knew the truth, they would soon revolt against their monolithic control and elect someone like the former Andrew Jackson when it was still possible.
So Americans were led along in blissful ignorance. If they had truly understood what had happened to them and their Constitutional Republic, which no longer existed they would have been sorely disappointed, Congress does not represent you this video explains why. Our country was hijacked by foreign bankers 157 years ago.
After President Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, historians have called Abraham Lincoln the first American Emperor, and rightly so because Abraham Lincoln didn't follow the Constitution either. The blood of 600,000 Americans was now on his hands after a bloody Civil War receiving a $100 million loan from the Rothschilds to launch the greatest war in American history. 3 years later in 1868 while nearly half of the country was still under a state of martial law, as the 1st and 2nd Amendments had been completely suspended in the Southern States.
I like the sound of DISCONBOBULATOR
https://old.bitchute.com/video/8njGoQ2V06vm/
The Rothschilds created their own sovereign state, The City of London, with its own laws
Based on the book “A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind” by Stephen Mitford Goodson.
"Taken from their own quotes, you can see that probably as of the year 1815, it was the Rothschilds who ruled over the Bank of England, the City of London, and over all England."
"The high degree Freemason bankers, especially the Rothschilds, created their own state within the state [ The City of London ] in which only they may rule and operate according to their own laws."
"No government is able to control their business, and no court can prosecute them."
"In 1694, the year the Bank of England was founded, also the City of London was granted the status of a sovereign state."
"Due to its status as a sovereign state, the city is extraterritorial territory and thus does not belong to Great Britain."
"Even the King of England has to register as with a state visit if he wants to enter the City of London."
"In 1946, the Bank of England was nationalized and thus placed under state control, but according to Stephen Goodson, this was purely for propaganda purposes."
"Taken from their own quotes, you can see that probably as of the year 1815, it was the Rothschilds who ruled over the Bank of England, the City of London, and over all England."
"Meyer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812) - "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes its laws.""
"Gittel Rothschild, wife of Meyer Amschel Rothschild (1753-1849), - "If my sons did not want wars, there would be none." __
This video clip is from this 29:50 minute video titled "The Rothschild Conspiracy
– Part 1: The Finance Mafia’s War On Humanity", which is posted here: https://rumble.com/v79co2a-the-rothschild-conspiracy-part-1-the-finance-mafias-war-on-humanity-kla.tv4.html
The book, “A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind” by Stephen Mitford Goodson, is posted here:
https://archive.org/details/a-history-of-central-banking-and-the-enslavement-of-mankind-pdfdrive
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AI Overview
Excess mortality in the USA is projected to persist through 2025 and 2026, though at lower levels than the 2021-2023 pandemic peak. While 2024 showed a significant reduction in excess deaths to around 0.4%, structural issues like drug overdoses, gun violence, and cardiovascular diseases maintain elevated mortality rates.
Boston University +4 Excess Mortality Trends (2025–2026) Projections: Excess mortality is expected to remain above pre-pandemic levels until at least 2028, with a potential return to baseline by 2033, according to Swiss Re Institute analysis.
Swiss Re 2025 Status: The CDC Mortality Dashboard shows that for the 12-month period ending 2025 Q2, the crude death rate (911.6) was slightly lower than 2024 Q2 (914.0), indicating a slight decline but still high levels.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC (.gov) Persistent Factors: Even with COVID-19 as a reduced factor, US excess deaths in 2023 were roughly 700,000, continuing a trend of rising mortality among working-age adults.
Advisory Board +1 Drivers: The ongoing mortality gap compared to other high-income countries is heavily driven by preventable causes rather than pandemics, note experts in a Boston University study.
Boston University +2 Factors Influencing 2025–2026 Mortality Population Health: While mortality among the elderly is expected to improve, long-term trends show a stagnation in life expectancy improvements for working-age adults.
Penn Wharton Budget Model Flu Seasons: The 2024-2025 flu season had a peak in early 2025, which, while severe, did not increase overall annual excess mortality, according to reports from RGA. Age Disparities: Excess mortality remains higher in non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic populations compared to White populations, with significant contributions from non-COVID causes in younger groups, according to NBER.
There are a lot of people dead or dying. "They" are saying as little as they can get away with.
Spielberg is a member of Les Wexner's/Charles Bronfman"s MEGA group.
The Mega Group was an informal group of influential Jewish entrepreneurs. It was founded in 1991 by Les Wexner and Charles Bronfman as the Study Group. The group met twice yearly for philanthropy and Judaism seminars. It is said to have had up to 50 members, including Hollywood director Steven Spielberg. Wexner led the group with Bronfman, and it inspired several philanthropic initiatives such as the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education, Birthright Israel, and support for the renewal of Hillel International. The group became known to a wider public through a Wall Street Journal report in May 1998.[1]
As a pro-Israel lobby group, the organization is also said to have tried to influence US foreign policy in the Middle East. In 2003, it employed Republican political consultant Frank Luntz to help the group mobilize support for Israel.[2]
Members The following is a partial list of people named as members of the group:[1][3]
Les Wexner Charles Bronfman Edgar Bronfman Max Fisher Michael Steinhardt Leonard Abramson Harvey Meyerhoff Laurence Tisch Charles Schusterman Lester Crown Ronald Lauder Marvin Lender Steven Spielberg