By Howie Katz
The cannabis industry's best friend
One of BGB's readers recently commented that "45-47 is waging a real war on drugs and it's working. Sadly, the history on the War on Drugs is dismal at best."
Wrong on both counts, dead wrong.
To begin with, when Trump rescheduled Marijuana, he actually declared war on the war on drugs. He downgraded marijuana in order to please the cannabis industry and not to help cancer sufferers as he so falsely claimed. All you have to do is look at Trump's signing ceremony which was packed with representatives of the cannabis industry.
With marijuana now downgraded to a Schedule III drug, many more youths and others will start using pot. That's real good news for the cannabis industry. And the Mexican drug cartels are rejoicing too.
The increase in the use of marijuana will result in a significant increase of harder drugs like heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and meth. And the increase in demand for illicit drugs has China and the Mexican drug cartels counting millions of dollars they would not have gotten had marijuana remained a Schedule I drug. And who can the Chinese and the drug cartels thank? Why, it' no one other than President Trump.
Now what about the war on drugs being dismal at best. Where did he get that baloney? While it's true that we are not winning that war, many notable victories have been scored. Blowing up small Venezuelan boats is not one of them. The US Coast Guard, the DEA and other American law enforcement agencies have and continue to make significant drug seizures, thereby keeping those drugs from being sold on our streets.
We could have won the war on drugs during the Vietnam War era. That's when there was a massive increase in the use of drugs by the multitude of youths protesting the war. Prior to that we did not care about Mexicans and blacks being imprisoned for the use and possession of marijuana and other illegal drugs. But when the youths from upstanding families were using drugs, heaven forbid they should spend a day in jail. By not jailing drug users, the war on drugs was deprived of its most potent weapon - the punishment of illegal drug users.
Trump has a habit of referring to reports of his declining popularity and other unfavorable reports as being a hoax. Well, there is no bigger hoax than that of medical marijuana.
The December 15 issue of the New York Post, a conservative media outlet, had a report headlined "Shocking medical marijuana study reveals Big Weed’s big lies." The report states: A bombshell new review from researchers at top-tier universities, appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, concludes that “evidence from randomized clinical trials does not support the use of cannabis or cannabinoids for most conditions for which it is promoted, such as acute pain and insomnia.” In other words, Medical marijuana doesn’t work — right there, in black and white, despite years of promoters and addiction profiteers shouting that it was the next miracle drug.
So when Trump said he was rescheduling marijuana to help cancer sufferers, he was telling a big fat lie. And don't give us that nonsense of him waging a real war on drugs and it's working. Quite the opposite is true.
2 comments:
A friend with weed is a friend indeed. I vaguely remember that from the 1960s. Of course back then even the good shit had about 10% of the kick the genetically engineered stuff has now. There is good reason to believe that significant exposure to modern weed can alter the brains of young people.
I agree with BGB. However the burden of enforcement is too great. Law Enforcement has taken it on the chin since Obama was elected. I think 45-47 is making a lot of sense with his true war tactics on cocaine and fentanyl. Concentrating on Cartels, immigration and violent crime is a priority. However , the war on marijuana is over.
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