Cannabis vilification IS the true origin of this begining, although anti-vilification would more closely correspond to some remedy against official socio-toxic anti-banalisation campaigns IMO.
Vilification is like when i hear Céline Galipeau mumbling the word "cannabis" to address my country's national French-speaking TV audience, for example during the evening news just a couple days ago, right in the middle of a twisted declaration which purposedly juxtaposed "CoVid-19", the "opioïd crisis", alcohol-related abuse/disorder, tobaco health issues, mental health and even lotery games then "deaths" i think...
It was such a brief short-cut i could as well have never seen it at all, typical of one good old trick serving bigot anti-cannabic prohibitionist propaganda in my province, so the other canucks can feel like
everything's fine now that it's been made "legal". No later than this weekend i noticed repeated "minute" editorials valorizing the work of police, perpetuating the failed "Drug-free-World" utopia which the equally failed UNGASS 2016 event couldn't begin to fix and yet the population still ain't connecting the dots, over 4 years later.
With this only hint left about what authentic cannabis vilification really means i guess:
Vilification occurs when cultural appropriation promotes the continuation of a THC-centric "legal" market with too few alternatives other than Full/High CBD, which begins at the SQdC in my canuck province. Those boxing gloves were a "message" intended for Justin's new/future fans who voted conservative before; those he claimed to fight are only cannabis consumers like you or me, but imposed to choose between the fruits of cultural re-appropriation (by opportunist predators) vs being "legally" declared criminals - with at least 2 dozen new "crimes" or so since 2018 i believe.
Canuck Public Health, under the Liberal's impulse, still ain't doing the right thing for cannabis consumers who wish to inhale - and please don't tell me to try edibles or tinctures as i'm not willing to remain limited to THC alone in my appreciation(s). These days "legal" appears to signify that i should pay total strangers so they will strongly "invite" me to adjust my own consumption method as a function of whatever mix of "tumble" and "seasoned" mari-caca they feel i can have depending on inventories that particular week, etc... Similar to opening a
surprize box, m'well at least knowing what's NOT part of a "bargain" anyway!
So, vilification is also when socio-toxic tensions are maintained/amplified to serve some Victorian-age ideology, pretending to protect us against the nocive effects of an eventual banalization movement. In The Name Of Children!
Vilification of the person's self may even result from such sickening environment where "légaleezation" didn't translate as the end for cannabis self-serving instrumentalists, starting with our political "elites" & friend$. Including the Collège des Médecins and pharmacists, the therapists in their so-called (scientology-inspired...) "re-hab treatment" center$, even law "enforcement" agents always asking for more para-military resources (and budgets)... Etc., etc.
But over all, i consider vilification is when my appreciation of cannabis gets
diminished and all too often simply to
please these troubled individuals - which reminds me of yet one more political anecdote, by the way:
...who obviously lack a fair sense of proportionality, especially during the present pandemic while it's alcohol which effectively endangered whole societies, among countries of the Commonwealth and beyond!
Briefly put vilification is about turning something good into something bad, and self-vilification is when we do that to ourselves, perpetuating a socio-toxic poison as obedient vectors convinced it's the Canadian "healthy" way to include over-priced/over-taxed pre-rolled (
COMBUSTION) "joints" of industrial-grade mari-caca in "legal" stores, (them) thinking somehow it's just too appealing a prospect for us to envision ourselves performing chronic long-term mass-poisoning that won't be revealed/understood before many more generations have passed after the Kosher Zyklon farce of Hexo/Hydropothecary and more. Etc.
Good day, have fun!! ☮
