{"id":287523,"date":"2024-05-14T14:21:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T14:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=287523"},"modified":"2024-05-15T15:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T15:26:45","slug":"why-the-blackout-on-the-effect-of-cannabis-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=287523","title":{"rendered":"Why the Blackout on the Effect of Cannabis Legalization?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>HenryMakow.com \u2013 May 13, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Cannabis has been legal in Canada for almost six years.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the United States, cannabis is legal in 38 of 50 states for medical use and 24 states for recreational use. Yet there are practically no\u00a0articles on the social or political impact of cannabis legalization in the MSM or online. Has legalization improved society?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A friend suggested that nothing has been written because they can&#8217;t find anything bad to say, and they don&#8217;t want to say anything good.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Makow&#8211;I believe Cannabis helps us to access our souls. We are normally trapped in our minds and the mental matrix. Cannabis takes us to the universal. <a href=\"https:\/\/henrymakow.com\/2022\/01\/poll-canadians-are-burned-out.html\">Is Cannabis the Answer for Burned-Out Canadians?\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/henrymakow.com\/2020\/09\/we-all-suffer-from-mental-illness.html\">Marijuana Edibles Could Save the World<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/planetwavesfm.substack.com\/p\/your-thoughts-ubiquitous-cannabis?\">Your Thoughts: Ubiquitous Cannabis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>by Eric Coppolino &#8212; <\/strong><strong>(henrymakow.com)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ve gone from evil weed and 20-year prison terms <\/strong>to buying cannabis in gas stations and smoke shops, all in about five minutes. But it seems nobody is discussing the potential impacts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here to open a discussion about the implications and consequences of legal weed showing up nearly everywhere. The first point of conversation is that nobody much is talking about the potential impacts and consequences of such powerful medicine being turned loose on society, just like that.<\/p>\n<p>Like most environmental influences, what ubiquitous cannabis might do is somehow not a conversation, and I&#8217;m curious throughts about why. Not long ago, people were serving significant jail terms (I reckon some still are) for something that was held officially to be a danger to society, which at the same time many people did behind closed doors. Now that has reversed. It&#8217;s wonderful and anyone may imbibe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrymakow.com\/2024\/05\/why-the-blackout-on-the-effect.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannabis has been legal in Canada for almost six years. In the U.S., cannabis is legal in 38 states for medical use and 24 states for recreational use. Yet the media has been almost silent on the impact of legalised cannabis. Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287524,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287523\/revisions\/287524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}