According to a new report in the Journal of the American Heart Association, daily marijuana use is tied to a 25% higher risk of heart attack and 42% higher risk of stroke
The irony. All the froth and fussing about unproven vaccine side effects, yet this damning study is nothing more than a footnote.
This is an excellent point. I’m a big fan of consistency myself. I don’t smoke pot myself because it seems like its just as bad as smoking and drinking at the same time and I don’t smoke and rarely drink. Still, I respect the rights of others to destroy their own bodies and minds if they want to. I don’t take the COVID vaccines because I personally weigh the small risk of unknown side effects as more serious than the infinitesimal change in the risk of death by COVID that the vaccine represents, but I respect the rights of others to weigh such risks themselves and make their own choices. The world would be a better place if we simply had greater respect for our fellow man.
Steve Jolly
8 months ago
The hole the Democrats have dug for themselves keeps getting deeper. It’s hard to reconcile being the party of Wall Street, Davos, bluebood universities, and wealthy suburbs with being the party of inner city minorities. The Democrats got away with it for a while because the Republicans were also run by and for the same group of elites, but with a different group of grassroots voters to hoodwink in different ways. Since 2008, the Republican elites have lost over and over again. Even before Trump, they were losing to the likes of Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and the tea party movement. Democrats did a comparatively better job of circling the wagons and defeating their own reformist factions going all the way back to the John Kerry/Jon Edwards primary contest in 2004. Obama beat Hillary because he was a brilliant speaker who convinced people he was a reformer and a change angent, but he wasn’t. I still consider the man to be either an outright liar or a sellout too softhearted or weak willed to actually confront elite interests on behalf of the people who elected him. As a result, the Democrats cannot escape the narrative that there is one establishment party in the USA and one reform party. Anyone can read the polls showing a decades long trend of growing distrust in government, media, universities, corporations, and basically anywhere else institutional power is concentrated and then exercised. The polls were there five years ago, ten years ago, fifteen years ago, and even twenty ago for anybody paying attention to read.
Why, then, is anybody shocked that rappers and those who reflect the values and interests of inner city minorities, who have more reason than most to be dissatisfied with the status quo are suddenly making peace with the likes of Donald Trump. They see which way the wind is blowing. The people want change. One party is offering that, and one party isn’t. When faced with such a fundamental question as “are you satisfied with America as it is or not?”, even deeply held policy views can be held secondary to the basic question, because if enough people want change, they’ll unite against obstacles to change and sort out the details after. If the election were held today, it would be close and neither I nor anybody else could predict the winner, but it isn’t held today, and the establishment party is vulnerable to anything bad that might happen between now and then, while the anti-establishment party isn’t. We’re basically one international crisis or economic recession away from a decisive Trump victory that will mark a decisive end to the globalist era, and anyone with half a brain (despite the weed, Snoop Dogg is no fool), is properly preparing for the possibility.
Samuel Ross
8 months ago
Marijuana has a tar content 5x that of tobacco. It is mildly hallucinatory, and its long-term use impacts on the human psyche in unknown ways.
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SubscribeThe irony. All the froth and fussing about unproven vaccine side effects, yet this damning study is nothing more than a footnote.
This is an excellent point. I’m a big fan of consistency myself. I don’t smoke pot myself because it seems like its just as bad as smoking and drinking at the same time and I don’t smoke and rarely drink. Still, I respect the rights of others to destroy their own bodies and minds if they want to. I don’t take the COVID vaccines because I personally weigh the small risk of unknown side effects as more serious than the infinitesimal change in the risk of death by COVID that the vaccine represents, but I respect the rights of others to weigh such risks themselves and make their own choices. The world would be a better place if we simply had greater respect for our fellow man.
The hole the Democrats have dug for themselves keeps getting deeper. It’s hard to reconcile being the party of Wall Street, Davos, bluebood universities, and wealthy suburbs with being the party of inner city minorities. The Democrats got away with it for a while because the Republicans were also run by and for the same group of elites, but with a different group of grassroots voters to hoodwink in different ways. Since 2008, the Republican elites have lost over and over again. Even before Trump, they were losing to the likes of Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and the tea party movement. Democrats did a comparatively better job of circling the wagons and defeating their own reformist factions going all the way back to the John Kerry/Jon Edwards primary contest in 2004. Obama beat Hillary because he was a brilliant speaker who convinced people he was a reformer and a change angent, but he wasn’t. I still consider the man to be either an outright liar or a sellout too softhearted or weak willed to actually confront elite interests on behalf of the people who elected him. As a result, the Democrats cannot escape the narrative that there is one establishment party in the USA and one reform party. Anyone can read the polls showing a decades long trend of growing distrust in government, media, universities, corporations, and basically anywhere else institutional power is concentrated and then exercised. The polls were there five years ago, ten years ago, fifteen years ago, and even twenty ago for anybody paying attention to read.
Why, then, is anybody shocked that rappers and those who reflect the values and interests of inner city minorities, who have more reason than most to be dissatisfied with the status quo are suddenly making peace with the likes of Donald Trump. They see which way the wind is blowing. The people want change. One party is offering that, and one party isn’t. When faced with such a fundamental question as “are you satisfied with America as it is or not?”, even deeply held policy views can be held secondary to the basic question, because if enough people want change, they’ll unite against obstacles to change and sort out the details after. If the election were held today, it would be close and neither I nor anybody else could predict the winner, but it isn’t held today, and the establishment party is vulnerable to anything bad that might happen between now and then, while the anti-establishment party isn’t. We’re basically one international crisis or economic recession away from a decisive Trump victory that will mark a decisive end to the globalist era, and anyone with half a brain (despite the weed, Snoop Dogg is no fool), is properly preparing for the possibility.
Marijuana has a tar content 5x that of tobacco. It is mildly hallucinatory, and its long-term use impacts on the human psyche in unknown ways.