How George Soros's Marijuana Advocacy Makes the COVID-19 Panic Worse

American Thinker.com ^ | April 1, 2020 | Rachel Ehrenfeld

[FreeReign]

FYI: Corona loves smoking including smoking marijuana.

Next time one walks through the exhaled stench of some moron's weed, think of the COVID-19 filled droplets that may be attached to it.

[NobleFree]

A recent publication by NIDA says the virus poses "an especially serious threat to those who smoke tobacco or marijuana or who vape," because — as was evident all along — their lungs have "enhanced tissue damage and inflammation."

So tobacco should be banned? Or is the author a hypocrite?

[NobleFree]

Very rarely do I see people "Fighting to Defend & Protect the Constitution".

Speaking of the Constitution: where in that document is the federal government authorized to make policy about intrastate marijuana matters?

[GOPJ]

I’ve decided it’s ethical to pray for George Soros to die. God’s call... but I’m throwing in my two cents... Please - in Jesus’s name - please make Soros die and leave this earth.

[zeestephen]

Re: “I wonder how many of the “younger” Wuhan virus victims are pot smokers.”

I have the data for Washington state, which has had medical marijuana since 1998, and legal recreational marijuana since 2012.

We have tested 74,798 high risk individuals - from all age groups. High risk means known exposure, travel history, or obvious symptoms.

We have 5,984 test confirmed COVID-19 infections and 247 fatalities - from all age groups.

28% of COVID-19 infections are under age 40.

Just one death out of 247 was under age 40.

When our schools and universities were shut down - about 2.5 weeks ago - not one student in the state had tested positive.

[NobleFree]

Just one death out of 247 was under age 40.

I guess all those WA nursing homes looked like scenes from Up In Smoke. /s

[Varda]

Thanks for that but those numbers don’t screen for pot smokers. The age range for pot smokers will cover all but the oldest ages and the youngest ones will be the ones with the least lung damage. The reason I wonder is because early on there was some indication that people who already had lung damage (from smoking or air pollution) were more likely to develop pneumonia.

[Varda]

There’s been a huge spike in the number of seniors smoking pot and taking cannabis edibles

[NobleFree]

taking cannabis edibles

Edibles don't damage the lungs, which is the connection the author alleges with COVID-19.

[Varda]

But the smoking part does in a group with a low ability to recover after even short term use.

[NobleFree]

From the data in your link, we can't conclude that smoking among the elderly has risen at all - it could be all edibles.

[Varda]

BTW - I get why my first post was confusing, it’s because I said “younger”.
I was referencing particular articles posted here which called middle aged people “young” victims of the Wuhan virus.

The link in the article is subscription only. The stat I could find breaking out particular usage says 3% of those 65 and over self report smoking cannabis. Another study says the trend is reversing in age ranges with those in the youngest demographic decreasing usage and those in the older demographic increasing usage (this report didn’t break out method of usage).

So yes, you could be right, maybe old people are eating cannabis instead of smoking it. The doctor in the link I posted said that previous cannabis smokers were more likely to be current senior users. (he didn’t break out method in his quote)