A Narco-Nation of Potheads, Courtesy of George Soros

George Soros was named “Philanthropist of the Year” by Inside Philanthropy magazine for his “…fight for academic freedom in Central Europe, and his resistance to the rising tide of authoritarianism worldwide.” The former is a reference to gender studies programs and the latter concerns his ongoing campaign to undermine existing governments, causing chaos that makes more money for hedge fund currency manipulators and short-sellers like himself.

In the United States, he is best known for almost single-handedly creating a narco-nation through legalization of marijuana, causing human suffering and environmental devastation on a scale most people do not yet comprehend.

With the nation focused on the opioid danger, and President Trump accusing China of pumping fentanyl into the veins of American victims through Mexico, the marijuana problem has gotten less attention. Indeed, liberal politicians and prosecutors, some of them getting Soros money, are treating the dope as a harmless substance and even a money-maker for local and state governments.

For one of the most sensational examples of a notorious pothead, consider Aaron Hernandez, the former NFL star who became a convicted killer and then killed himself in prison. The subject of a new Netflix series, “Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez,”he was a chronic marijuana user throughout college and his NFL career who experienced brain damage from the drug. The case proves a direct link between marijuana, mental illness, and violence.

In California, legal dope was supposed to displace illegal dope. But illicit cannabis cultivation sites are proliferating, offering a cheaper product than the government-approved variety. The Siskiyou County (California) Board of Supervisors voted on a new Declaration of Local Emergency that refers to illegal growers being responsible for “hundreds of pervasive fire hazards, insecticides, pesticides, rodenticides, fertilizers, trash, and unsanitary conditions which severely impact health, safety and quality of life for countless county residents…”

It’s in Barack Hussein Obama’s state of Illinois that we see some of the recent damage being done.

Illinois last year became the first state to legalize the marijuana business through legislation rather than by referendum and placing excise and sales taxes on the “product.” We can already see the predictable result — marijuana-related emergency room visits are on the rise.The local ABC-TV station in Chicago quotes doctors as saying the most common symptoms of the new potheads in Illinois are restlessness, heart palpitations and anxiety, but that “In some cases we are seeing full on psychosis, agitation, hallucinations.”

Incredibly, Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton was one of the first in line to purchase the dope. She bought clementine-flavored marijuana edible gummies and paid with cash.The scene was captured by CNN as she was pictured among hundreds of early-morning customers at a Chicago marijuana dispensary. She probably went to the front of the line, but some people waited hours in order to buy their “recreational marijuana” and get “high.”

David E. Smith of the Illinois Family Institute comments, “Not only have lawmakers failed to do their due diligence before passing this marijuana law, but they also failed to heed the compelling research that indicates how regular use of marijuana affects young people, including an increased risk of psychiatric illnesses and a permanent loss of IQ points.”

In fact, this is the plan – dumb people down so they ruin their lives and then have to be dependent on the state for the rest of their lives. The potheads are fast becoming an important new constituency for the socialist-minded.

Before they actually navigate their way to the polls, they can relieve their pain by employing another “hemp” product – CBD or cannabidiol. CBD is being hawked all over, even on the Rush Limbaugh show, and is being advertised as a treatment for “muscle soreness” and “everyday discomfort.” But many complaints have been filed with the FDA over the false medical claims made about CBD.

Dr. Kenneth Finn comments, “These products are everywhere, but there is little scientific evidence to support the hype that surrounds them.” He says unregulated CBD products hitting the market might be contaminated with heavy metals, pesticides, fungicides, rodenticides, insecticides, molds, E. coli, or fungus.

Official dope distribution is supposed to fill a financial gap. In Illinois, the sixth-biggest state, by population, Politico reporter Theodoric Meyer reports that it has seen its credit rating cut to near-junk status in the decade since the financial crisis. “Its bonds are now considered as risky as those of Russia and Romania,” he notes. “Its pension system is in worse shape than that of almost any other state.”

Writers Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner note that the population of Illinois dropped by 100,000 people between 2010 and 2018 and few of the state’s counties have been spared. “That means that 93 of the state’s 102 counties have shrunk since 2010,” they note. Adam Schuster, Director of Budget and Tax Research at the group, Illinois Policy, reports that 36 percent of the money the state allocates to education will be diverted away from teachers and students to meet required pension payments for retirees.

Former Illinois pension chief Marc Levine is quoted as saying a federal bailout may be required, making this a matter affecting all taxpayers, not just the saps remaining in Illinois.

The “progressive” politicians have virtually bankrupted the state, forcing thousands to flee, and have turned to the cruel exploitation of potheads as a sure-fire money-maker to stave off the final countdown to fiscal oblivion. But legalized dope means more wards of the state who need government help.

Now this is going national. “Once a politically dangerous subject,” notes Trevor Hughes of USA Today, “legal marijuana has become something of a de facto platform plank for the 2020 Democratic candidates: All support either legalizing or decriminalizing its use, and the differences lie in how far the candidates are willing to take it.”

Since 22.2 million people have used marijuana in the past month, this is fertile ground for votes. In a bid for votes, candidate Pete Buttigieg actually toured a “cannabis dispensary” in Las Vegas while commenting that he smoked dope a “handful of times a long time ago.”

President Trump, on the other hand, can just say no. He lost his brother to alcoholism and should consider speaking out against the Soros-funded marijuana craze before more lives are ruined and lost. His Surgeon General, Vice Adm. Jerome M. Adams, is already speaking out about the health risks of marijuana use. He needs the backing of his president.

Roger Morgan, author of Soros: The Drug Lord. Pricking the Bubble of American Supremacy,notes the elevated levels of mental illness, addiction, suicides, traffic deaths and the unseen mental and physical defects to babies and future generations from the use of marijuana and other mind-altering drugs. He adds, “America can never be great again if a major percentage of its young people are brain damaged, mentally ill, addicted or dead.”

I do know that everyone I grew up with used it regularly.

My 1st thought was that you must have lived in an "interesting" (but perhaps not unusual) environment. My 2nd thought is that then you have no basis for judgment.

My own background was of a somewhat, uh, wider experience. Granted that my parents expected a lot of me, academically and more, and I mostly hung out with kids from similar families. Basically, tho', there were 4 groups, loosely(!) defined. In high school, the smallest group avoided drugs of any kind entirely. Some drank socially, lightly, or in family situations: Say, a half glass of wine on Great-grandpa's birthday. Most of these kids (and myself) were regular members of a church youth group. Not all this group was academically gifted, but most all of them worked hard at their studies and maximized what they had. The next group was much larger, and judging by the feedback, drank more (and maybe a few times a year to severe excess), and many smoked pot now and then, but not regularly. Few messed with harder drugs, and if they did, it was usually only once. Many athletes were in this group, and so were some of the "irregular" church youth group types. This group showed some variance, IMO, but most were not harmed too much academically by their alcohol and / or pot usage, other than an occasional test or paper blown. ("Man, I should 'a studied all weekend!!!") The next group fits the description you describe (and some drank quite often, too.) Now, don't get me wrong, some could "handle it" fairly well, or were just plain extra-intelligent to begin with, but, as a group, my observation was that these kids generally did not fulfill their potential as well as the 1st 2 groups. Last there were the heavy dopers and drinkers, and except for a few musicians and such, you could generally just write them off, until perhaps later when maybe they'd straighten out...

In college, the intensity of my studies (engineering, and the fact I'm NOT a freaking genius), and working summers, precluded much social activity on my part at all. I had to work damn hard to maintain my academic partial scholarship and make enough money to cover what the scholarship did not. I even had to give up most of my church related activities. Most of the "kids" I studied with were similar. Again, a few of the really smart ones had a little more room for error, but, kids of my ability stayed mostly straight or didn't do well. A beer and pizza on a rare Friday night out with a couple buddies was about it. By the time I was a junior in college, groups 3 & 4 were pretty much "gone": dropped out, changed majors to something easier, or flunked out.

I knew a few kids in the Medical School, and in "heavy" cross-disciplines (Bio-engineering, for example), and while my "sample" size there was much more limited, the observation seemed much the same.

After college was if anything even tougher: Starting my own business with nothing but a little knowledge, the problem solving skills I learned in engineering school, and energy / enthusiasm left little time for fooling around. Eventually that eased up a bit, and through business I was in contact with a lot more people again, and with time, I was socializing with perhaps the widest spectrum of my life. In the last 20 years or so, mostly due to my wife & family, I'm closer to church and regular churchgoers, again. And of the better engineers, in my entire life after 30, not ONE has mentioned smoking pot, offered me such in a social setting, or to my knowledge was a regular user past high school.

I'm sure my "experience" has flaws and gaps, but I'm a fairly good "observer", so I'm fairly confident about how the trends run.

Looking back over the years, I'd have to say that there are some exceptions for sure, but in general, the more one partakes of mind altering substances, beyond very light social use, the more likely one is to not reach their intellectual potential. Some artists and musicians excluded, perhaps.

if an adult chooses to use it, it’s nobody’s business but theirs. Just like beer, tobacco, wine and whiskey. And sugar.

The Libertarian side of me agrees, IF those who use these things are 100% responsible for ALL the consequences. If they can't pay for said consequences (should that come into play), then they will be well armed, tatoo'd on the forehead something to the effect "I hate Allah", and airdropped into the latest / most radical Muslim terrorist camps.

REALISTICALLY, that sort of liberty and responsibility cannot be obtained, and we are left with the problem that society (including you and me) are who pay, in a variety of ways, for the poor decisions of others. If I'm paying for the consequences, do I get a say in regulation of harmful substances?

Alternately, perhaps the TOTAL cost, including lost productivity in all forms, of, say, alcohol consumption in this country, should be calculated, and that product taxed accordingly. That'd be quite a slippery slope.

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