I was on a zoom call with a couple of friends who live in central Massachusetts and they were telling me that the pot business is a howling success.\u00a0 There are billboards on all the state highways.\u00a0 The \u201cdispensaries\u201d as the pot shops are known are doing a land office business.\u00a0 And we discussed how exactly the \u201cgrowers\u201d managed to protect their crop.\u00a0 The theory was that although there were probably some crops outdoors, hidden from the view of the populace, mostly the stuff is being grown in locked greenhouses.\u00a0 And we assumed this means that the \u201cfarmers\u201d must have fairly robust security and probably a few guns thrown in for good measure.\u00a0 One of the guys said that the biggest problem that\u2019s become apparent is that the stuff being sold today is many times more potent than the stuff that used to be sold before legalization.\u00a0 He mentioned THC levels that were near 90%.\u00a0 And the upshot of this is psychological symptoms among the users are much worse and much more prevalent than in the past.\u00a0 Anxiety and paranoia manifest at levels that render the users incapable of normal life.\u00a0 They can\u2019t keep a job or maintain relationships.<\/p>\n
And it just struck me that here is a blue state policy to contrast with their alleged commitment to safety on the COVID front.\u00a0 They\u2019ll force you to be vaccinated and wear a mask against your will supposedly for your own good but they\u2019ll allow a practice that they know is a mental and physical health threat and also a public safety hazard from the consideration of people driving under the influence and walking among us in a mentally unbalanced state.\u00a0 In addition, since the FDA still considers marijuana illegal, they won\u2019t get involved in regulating the safety of the pot that\u2019s being sold and so any terrible mistake involving pesticides or other toxins finding its way into the drug cannot be prevented or adjudicated.<\/p>\n
So here is the double standard.\u00a0 They get to decide when freedom is important and when it\u2019s not.\u00a0 Freedom for me but not for thee.\u00a0 But this definitely opens up the model for how the red states can change things in their favor.\u00a0 Pick and choose the places where they will obey or defy federal law.\u00a0 As an example, Texas needs to close their border with Mexico.\u00a0 They should build their own wall a mile inside the federal wall.\u00a0 They should arrest all illegal aliens and jail them until they agree to leave the country and if they come back make their next stay in jail very uncomfortable.\u00a0 They should force all employers to obey immigration laws under the penalty of massive fines.\u00a0 If the federal government squawks flip them the bird and continue on with real life.\u00a0 And there are other things that make sense.\u00a0 Welfare needs to be tightened up to the point where those who refuse to work should be so hard-up that they decide to leave and go to a blue state like California on their own.\u00a0 Hell, that could be part of the policy to offer them bus or plane tickets to the blue state of their choice.<\/p>\n
So that was what I was thinking about today.\u00a0 Instead of freedom for thee but not for me let\u2019s make it you live your life your way and I\u2019ll live my life mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was on a zoom call with a couple of friends who live in central Massachusetts and they were telling me that the pot business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[439,2520,2849,3321,2978],"class_list":["post-16368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-hypocrisy","tag-red-state-blue-state","tag-red-state-activism","tag-selective-enforcement-of-the-law","tag-state-nullification-of-unconstitutional-federal-laws"],"yoast_head":"\n