Thank you both for bringing this discussion here. I’ve seen several good videos about health and liberty. No question, HM, the items you state can be harmful and cause disease. Monsanto altering God’s foods with their “frankenfood” GMO’s don’t help!
More and more laws trying to limit people’s freedom, trying to micro manage their lives, has not worked. People still drink (Prohibition failed), smoke, take drugs (War on Drugs failed), and eat bad food (soda taxes fail).
All these laws have done is to create a People at war with their government. The Drug War transformed our formerly friendly neighborhood Peace Officers into Law Enforcement Swat Teams with tanks. People pay endless taxes to enforce laws that don’t change behavior, and have only filled out jails and ruined people’s lives… and yet people STILL decide to take drugs, drive while drunk, etc.
I read about how healing, curing, and pain-relieving cannabis is (search “Rick Simpson”), and how Big Pharma pushes for more restrictive laws because they don’t like “competition” eating into their profits, and wonder where it’s all going to lead.
I wonder about the concept of people telling other people what to do with their lives. Thomas Jefferson, (1963 Comptons Encyclopedia) talks about how elites with power and arrogance make laws because they think they “know better” than the people themselves what is best for them. I used to have that quote on my old computer, which is gone.
To me, whether or not things are good or bad for people is irrelevant. If someone wants to grow a plant, eat or smoke a plant, or sell a plant, I don’t consider that any of my business.
John Adams told us quite clearly that this Republic is meant ONLY for a deeply religious and moral people, and that it is wholly unsuited for any other. With such a populace, these laws are unnecessary because moral people self-regulate.
IMO, the answer isn’t more and more draconian laws resulting in more criminals and less freedom. The answer is re-establishing the moral, self-regulating people of which our founding nation was comprised.
Either Police of USSS have shot someone and they are on their way to the hospital. He might have been on White House grounds. Nothing confirmed...