Posted on 04/01/2020 4:21:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
George Soros's first major effort to reshape America was undertaking the legitimization of illegal drug use, especially marijuana. Soros initially said his overarching goal was to promote informed discussion of drug policy. But debate and discussion are not his style and were not his objects. Instead, he used his resources to fund think-tanks, foundations, and public policy action groups that successfully muddled public opinion enough to change public laws, making illegal drug use legal.
In the early 1990s, the notion of legalizing marijuana in the U.S. was unthinkable and unacceptable. The voices to legalize drugs were marginal and not in sync. This changed in 1993, when Soros, who claimed that prohibitionist drug policies are wrong because they contradict his vision of the "Open Society," launched a $15-million prodrug legalization propaganda campaign that has made him the new darling of the media left. Soros and his acolytes have garnered enormous press attention through a barrage of magazine articles, op-ed pieces, and television appearances. By 1996, the slogans of "medicalization" and "compassion" joined "legalization" and "decriminalization," as well as "nonviolent drug offender." All of these were shaping the vocabulary of the public dialogue. Soros's sponsorship provided the credibility theretofore lacking in the movement to legalize drugs.
David Callahan, the liberal founder and editor of the website Inside Philanthropy, noted in his 2018 book The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age, that "no philanthropist has done more than Soros to soften America's drug laws. Soros got behind that cause in the mid-1990s, funding a new drug policy think tank and bankrolling the push for medicinal marijuana, widely seen as a bridge to legalization. Today, two decades after Soros began his push and many tens of millions of dollars later several states have legalized pot,
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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.
So tobacco should be banned? Or is the author a hypocrite?
Speaking of the Constitution: where in that document is the federal government authorized to make policy about intrastate marijuana matters?
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.
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.
I guess all those WA nursing homes looked like scenes from Up In Smoke. /s
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.
Edibles don't damage the lungs, which is the connection the author alleges with COVID-19.
But the smoking part does in a group with a low ability to recover after even short term use.
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)
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