Sunday, November 30, 2025

reefer madness is here

The picture of weed shared by many older Americans, drawn from their own college years, helped ease the path of legalization. Weed, the mellow drug. The Cheech-and-Chong drug. The Grateful-Dead-road-trip drug. The munchies drug. The drug that, if anything, makes you overly cautious behind the wheel. Dowd thought of marijuana along similar lines " that is, until she tried the legalized stuff for herself and nearly lost her ever-loving mind. Since then, weed potency has only intensified, with some concentrates reaching near-pure levels of THC, the plant's primary psychoactive compound. Only now are policy makers and opinion elites reckoning with what Big Weed has wrought: "turning a drug that used to be 5% THC, and made people pass out for a few hours and eat Cheetos, into one that triggers psycho killers," as Kevin Sabet, a former drug adviser in successive Democratic and GOP administrations, tells me.

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And it's addictive, a truth that Americans are still reluctant to accept. Sabet recalls speaking to a large group about the addiction angle, only for a member of the audience to tell him during the Q&A portion: "I use it every day, Kevin, and I'm qualified to tell you it's not addictive."

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Any chemical powerful enough to get you intoxicated is a chemical powerful enough to get you in trouble.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-30 09:54 AM

Humans have and will always find ways to self medicate themselves. Animals even do it in the wild. It's natural to want to explore the depths of your own consciousness. It belongs to you after all.

As long as alcohol is legal then marijuana should also be legal.

It is a much safer alternative way to medicate yourself.

But neither are for children and both can cause harm if abused or misused.

But, of course, that rule actually applies to anything that can intoxicate you or put you into an altered state of mind.

And yes I have noticed ... being happy and enjoying life in the moment is addicting. Even if it is a drug induced illusion.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-30 10:42 AM

I think that the citizens of West Virginia, with their apparently insatiable demand for fentanyl, are national security risks because they are of necessity in league with the cartels.

Let's denaturalize them.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-30 11:54 AM

Reality is for people who can't handle drugs

Articles like this are pure pharma propaganda

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-30 01:27 PM

Blaze a Doobie!

#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-11-30 01:54 PM

www.bing.com

When weed gets even remotely close to alcohol or tobacco in annual deaths then I might get concerned. Agree with Donnerboy.

#6 | Posted by mattm at 2025-11-30 03:15 PM

Come on, kids! Smokem if you gottem!!

#7 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-11-30 03:47 PM

Disgusting.

Yeah, put that cat in the bag.

Try it.

#8 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-12-01 12:34 PM

The movie, Reefer Madness, was part of a propaganda campaign against marijuana in the 1930s that was initiated by the U.S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics, led by its first commissioner, Harry J. Anslinger.

Anslinger found himself with little to do when Prohibition was repealed, allowing legal alcohol consumption, so he cooked up a campaign aimed at city black folks, the easiest targets.

They showed us Reefer Madness in high school "health class." Half of us had been in the parking lot before that class, if you know what I mean. Much frivolity ensued as we watched that silly movie with the crazy piano player.

#9 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-12-01 12:45 PM

Out the window you must go, you must go, you must go.
Out the window you must go, you pot-crazed psycho.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-01 08:18 PM

You know the great thing about 35% THC weed?
You don't have to smoke as much.
A bowl gets you as loaded as a joint used to.
A couple of hits, here and there, gets one through the day.
And yes, I understand that inhaling hot vapors from just about anything is bad for your lungs.

#11 | Posted by morris at 2025-12-02 11:06 AM

"And yes, I understand that inhaling hot vapors from just about anything is bad for your lungs."

Indeed, especially those vaporizer air fresheners.

#12 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-02 11:09 AM

Re: #11...Next time any of you who live in a state where giggle weed is "legal," ask your budtender about "infused" marijuana, where it's magic properties are rendered from the entire plant, not just the nuggets at the top. Around 45% THC, pre-ground, and most assuredly NOT for amateurs or uninitiated neophytes. The high sticks around a whole lot longer, so I found I consume much, much less to achieve it's desired affect.

And for those who dwell in less tolerant climes, my condolences.

#13 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-12-02 04:08 PM

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