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 @48bfa577 @6a018a2a 

One very big problem with this industry is that they are growing the plant to be very concentrated... too concentrated. 

I've heard (bc I don't smoke it either) that pot these days isn't like the pot of the old days... it's too strong.

I have an acquaintance who told a sad story of her middle aged son literally going psychotic from smoking the modern weed.

He is in a mental hospital. Sad. 
 @72906336 @48bfa577 @6a018a2a 
It could be a trick !!
To get people on the Big Pharma "prescribed medical weed" to see your local witch doctor for a script. 
 @0af78396 It does sound like Reefer Madness, but I've heard about how outrageously strong it is from our kids' peers. Like Heroin, I'd be afraid of it. Driving on anything is dangerous. Like anything else, I think it's a matter of degree.  Some limits on the strength might be a good idea. We know it has good applications and medicinal properties, and God knows, we don't need any more retards walking around. Don't go head first into everything. @72906336 @48bfa577 @6a018a2a 
 @72906336 @48bfa577 @6a018a2a 

I think things were much better when fewer people used especially harmful to youth. It definitely is a gateway drug. 

Big lobbying efforts and big billions went into legalization.

It’s a threat to national security.

My thing is that it is smoked. I hate smoke. My aunt’s in a condo complex and her druggie neighbors open their windows for fresh air but she can’t have fresh air bc all the weed smoke goes into her condo. 
 @2c0be518 @72906336 @48bfa577 @6a018a2a

I'd love to know how, in Florida, we voted "NO!" for Medical Marijuana. Somehow it's now on every other corner. Even old abandoned churches, banks, restaurants are converted into pot shops. 
 @1c553d25 @2c0be518 @72906336 @48bfa577 

I've seen that just in the few days I've been here... 
 @6a018a2a @2c0be518 @72906336 @48bfa577

I know there were some huge law firms going ALL-IN for it, for all the money it'll make them.
They'll get money all different ways:
🔹from the shops
🔹from the drivers under the influence 
🔹from the people hit by the drivers under the influence 
 @72906336

It’s definitely different from what it was BITD.

I know two young men in their early 20’s, who started smoking it in their teens, are addicted. It’s hard for them to hold down a job and both have had mental illness issues.

@48bfa577 @6a018a2a 
 @f6ecc530 @72906336 @48bfa577 

Millions of Americans in the same state, tens of millions... sad but True