Posted on 02/05/2022 8:29:45 AM PST by Kaslin
They want everyone on the weed and pharmacologicals.
The bad news is that those organizations were useless against the lockdowns.
” none of it has resulted from a clamour by the public”
Brexit!
There are a number of unaccountable, but uncanny, similarities between the period of Prohibition (which eventually failed), the campaign against nicotine, and the period of lockdown, masking and prohibition of adequate and effective treatment of COVID-19 Wuhan virus we are now subjected to, which shall not end until the general population comes out overwhelmingly against the restrictions.
And to think the college drinkers thought their liberal indoctrinators were rebelling against only their fuddy duddy Christian parents. LOL
You are not far off. Despite the fact that hard booze are sold in every grocery store, wholesale club, and just about every other retail establishment... in the State of Washington just legal marijuana already outsells both tobacco and alcohol combined. The taxes are so high that illegal sales still make up the majority of the market. The skunk like odor of marijuana is everywhere these days. You can't drive half a mile in town without your car being filled with the smell of marijuana.
I’ve been following this for a while—noting more and more with interest and alarm the growing anti-wine studies and the new trend of “dry January” which hurt my local wine bar’s business.
My husband and I share a bottle of wine at dinner daily, and once a month enjoy going to Napa etc for wine tasting at wineries and collecting wine. It’s a fun, relaxing hobby, and wine country in Napa is gorgeous. We have about 400 bottles now stored, but our oldest reds are 2017—not very old yet. We have room and time and money to buy and store more.
I figure that if we buy and store more now before the Next Prohibition starts, we’ll have more time for our reds to age and we’ll have enough to get through the rest of our lives. That is, unless and until the government comes to confiscate both our guns AND our wine collection.
Like General Wellington says, it’s important to look over the next hill and know that SOMETHING is coming, and try to prepare.
I agree that our new authoritarian governments want us all stupid and stoned and compliant on weed rather than fired up drinking in pubs planning revolutions (which is where they are ALWAYS planned).
Booze makes you fight, weed makes you watch TV and eat junk food. Do the math.
Let us ban alcohol, yet allow the drunks, crackheads, junkies and pot-heads to live on the streets.
In major cities, they are declaring Motels a blights on the city. They then take over ownership, remodel them, and turn them from cheap places to live housing drug addicts and hookers, into expensive housing. The fill them with drug addicts and hookers, then say they are doing something with the $1 Billion annual budget.
I assume alcoholics go to work, come home and pay bills. Drunks can and do quit drinking, and return to regular life sober, so they are a poor customer of government.
Drug addicted are better clients, they stay the same for life. Passing on the habit, and the genetic changes that makes more clients for Uncle Joe. They are better consumers of government largesse than drunks. In short, they are a permanent reason for big government to take care of us all.
Of course they would want to ban something that people can moderate usage of in favor of more addictive things.
Anyone think that the rich will be affected?
After responding to both boozers and pot heads for 25 years I can report back that this stereotype is not all that accurate. It depends completely on the individual. The truly serious mental cases are more likely to be pot heads, and they can and do become violent.
You make some good points. My last serious girlfriend before I got married, smoked, drank and used pot. The only thing she said she could never give up was the marijuana. She was actually a very pretty, nice and honest person, but I left her because of her bad habits.
The WHO is heavily Muslim influenced. Muslims hate alcohol.
In public, LOL
As long as you don’t have the alcoholic gene I say good for you
Govt idiots always want to tax things they don’t like. Then they can’t give up the tax revenue.
Pot, cigarettes, alcohol, etc.
They should cancel all those taxes and make all three illegal. That would be fun to watch.
Good luck with that battle - I’ll hang with my weed 🤪
Too many alcoholic politicians to get much traction imo
“ You can’t drive half a mile in town without your car being filled with the smell of marijuana.
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Well I lived in the state capital of OLympia for a year for 17 - 18 and never once experienced that 🤪
Only thing I ever saw anyone blowing out their car window was nicotine vape
In fact that’s when I seat up my FR account and thus my screen name though I couldn’t wIt to get back to a red state (with weed)
The number of places that have a strong aroma of pot smoke coming out is astonishing when on a motorbike. It’s like every third house is hot-boxing themselves.
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