I should be investing my money into a vaporiser, but the good ones (where I'm at) are like $150-$400 which I would rather spend on more weed or drugs. I'm pipe gang 4 lyfe.
Hear my thoughts, in case you're a citizen of the USA...
Mind control, the long shadow of a family tradition
Once more, here comes doctor Nora Volkow displaying a triumphal prohibitionist smile in the Oval Office. She may look like just any other scientist in a white suit, except we must refer back to the months before Nixon's disgraceful resignation to fully decipher such historic scene.
This most influential addiction specialist grew up in a house of ghosts, where her great-grandfather the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky got assassinated in 1940. To her, every dope user is a potential risk that must be managed, so she naturally transitioned from a world of red revolution to one of gray matter studies, digging deep inside compulsive minds.
The compassion lure, a trojan horse
It turns out NIDA was created on May 14, 1974 exactly. She became the architect of this "War on Drugs" legacy institution since 2003, no wonder she smiled back at Donnie on December 18... NORML's strategy of pity-begging for the sick is a total failure, it simply paved the way for a fresh-new industry where biometrics including mood, heart rate and DNA are the real product to harvest. In other words it's a simple shift from law enforcement to medicalization, possibly switching from a logic of incarceration to a form of coerced conversion therapy.
Cocktail effects to sustain an industry
Never mind about Public Health, we should expect a self-justifying ecosystem that relies on the vilifying of cannabis and its noble molecules. If "legalization" is the next step of a distant future, then that will come with some huge catalog of sanitary additives, similar to Health Canada's socio-toxic model featured with a concept of "non-detection", in absence of combinatorial C(n, r) restrictions.
The trick is this, there's never going to be sufficient resources, time nor money to verify every single savvy recipe hiding synergy toxicities. As a result "strange" diseases will emerge that cause cannabis to get all the blame. Waste no time waiting for Nora Volkow & friends to explain how the next few generations are bound to be exposed to cumulative effects until they themselves become a source of epidemiological data for even more studies.
That's going to work like a perfect leash in the digital age, her sparkling smile in the oval office certainly wasn't one of generosity and altruism. Welcome to prohibition v3.0: an era when citizens carry a cage with no bars in their own pocket, for a lack of collective memory.
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In short, better think twice about that penny-wise calculation; recent events suggest that waiting is a luxury which could make you regret every cent that was saved.
Good day, have fun!!
