Just when evidence is accumulating of the permanent brain damage from pot, and just when new, more potent varieties are available, legalizing and mainstreaming cannabis is thought to be a great idea. How stupid can people be?
One thing is inescapable: legalized drugs and the welfare state cannot exist long forever. Normal people will not stand for supporting brain-damaged druggies, and such a society will fall prey to external barbarians.
The strains of marijuana thought to be new and higher potency have been available for decades, at least as long as I was a college student in the late 70s.
It had names like Thai stick and sensimilla.
And you can thank our friends in the DEA and their paraquat spraying for taking the growing indoors where the environment is much more easily controlled.
I'm beginning to have thoughts like there's no point in regulating vices in a society where most choices don't have consequences. Then, when something goes wrong, everyone loses their rights. The movie IDIOCRACY isn't sci-fi satire; it's prophecy.
I have a really tough question. What's going to happen to young children in places where marijuana is legalized? What happens then when parents smoke in the presence of children, and the kids inhale the smoke? In places where it isn't legal, the children can be removed from that environment.
It's not just the marijuana. It's the legal mind-altering drugs. It's the pesticides and poisonous food additives. It's that most bodies are under a constant barrage from medicatons and vaccinations. Nobody can possibly know the long-term effects and the effects from various combinations.
What are possible long term effects? The end of free will? The inability to make life-sustaining decisions? I don't see how it can end well.