A culture that steals from the young by monopolising their peak productive years through price gouging and egregious rent seeking, charging twice, thrice or even four times what they paid for essential services, is operating an inverted structure where the old siphon from the young by leeching off their vitality like a desiccating parasite, when they should be nurturing the next generation rather than sacrificing it. There is no greater sign of narcissism in a culture, be it western materialist short-term greed or eastern self-sacrificing parent worship where the child is viewed as a unit of consumption to better and improve the lot of elders, rather than something that those elders should be cultivating and sacrificing for. The young of today have every right to be mad. They would be mad not to be.
.@JamesTalarico on Texas officially banning THC:
“This bill is insane.
Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. Texans will still use THC — but instead of getting it safely from a local small business, they’ll go back to getting it from the black market. From the drug cartels.
This ban is a gift to the cartels.
We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst.
Instead of fully funding our schools, guaranteeing healthcare, or making childcare more affordable — this Legislature is focused on banning a product that gives people a little peace.
We’re making people’s lives harder, not easier.
I want to leave you with a quote: ‘It is time to end needless arrests and incarcerations of adults for small amounts of marijuana for personal use.’ That wasn’t a Democrat. That was President Donald Trump.
To my Republican colleagues, I’m asking you to oppose the cartels, stand with President Trump, and vote no on this insane bill.”
Since we’re sharing viewpoints… here’s mine. I’m a hemp farmer who can only grow low THC biomass, and if my crop tests a .10% over .3% I lose everything. Not a fine, everything. Meanwhile, conversion companies can turn that same CBD into THCP or whatever molecule they want, because lawmakers can’t write language fast enough to cover molecules that get invented in a lab. And when the price I ask for my biomass isn’t low enough? They skip me entirely and import synthetic CBD from overseas, then convert that. So I’m held to a decimal point on a living plant, and they’re free to rearrange chemistry at will or just outsource it. Same plant, same law. Two completely different standards depending on where you sit in the supply chain. My state won’t let me sell into the market it opened up for smoke shops in every town, and since it’s not legal here, it still ranks among the highest in the country for cannabis arrests. So the person closest to the dirt follows the strictest rules, and the person furthest from it plays by none. If that’s not hypocrisy, I don’t know what is.
It's funny that Kaczynski dedicated 10,000 words to shitting on libtards, while his criticism of conservatives was a single paragraph that read: "You guys are fools for thinking that you can maintain traditional values while radically altering the material conditions of society."
@TheAustinZ420 Well maybe if you weren’t such a pot head -sips beer- and relied upon -drinks coffee- a plant to try and -pops prescription meds- deal with life then maybe -scarfs down McDonald’s- you wouldn’t be so angry.
@Sashaz04 It had something to do with it for sure. I'm a conservative cannabis user, and I held my nose and voted GOP with the exception of doobie danny patrick.
Many others didn't do that
It's so frustrating, because I feel like I'm personally very conservative on politics, like, we need to research what we are doing and make sure it's a good decision.
So with marijuana. Knowing it's had medical use before the CSA, knowing that we've had state medical programs since before I was born, seeing how successful state legal adult use has been. As conservative as I might be, it's clear that it just shouldn't be in the CSA.
So, I can accept that we have to reclassify it for research, and then after the research we can remove it as a controlled substance. But we're dealing with people that still think if you eat on Wyld gummy you're going to meet the hat man and die.