I often think foreign threats to the American people are much over played. America is isolated from much of the world by geography, we are the predominant economic force and have enormous energy resources. Even if we didn’t have much of a military it would be a challenge for other countries to pose a threat to the everyday life of most Americans.
Drug use is an exception – it’s common. Alcohol and caffeine are legal stimulates and depressants, and in a majority of states marijuana is now legal. That said, other drugs are strictly criminalized because of politics and their perceived dangerousness in how they alter consciousness or become addictive. But a lot of threat of drugs isn’t their use themselves but the clandestine and unregulated nature mandated by their prohibition.
Fentanyl isn’t inherently evil or even poison but it often unpredictable in quantity and strength in street drugs because it’s unregulated and unmeasured. It’s a powerful and cheap synthetic opiod, a little goes a long way in feeding an addiction. And it easily can go beyond a high to become deadly. Certainly much comes from overseas where there are smart chemists and little regulation, but some may be manufactured in the US too.
Truth is that there are some nasty toxic things like children’s toys with lead paint imported from third world countries like China. It’s not just fentanyl. Even if those products aren’t going into kids mouths their toxins are getting into our local environment in landfills and smoke stacks all around. We need better regulations and inspections on imports, we should get rid of commercial de minis tax free direct to consumers shipments from other countries. Trump isn’t wrong on this for sure – and that would help stem the flow of Fentanyl.
But what’s really needed is not less Fentanyl but less demand for opioids and pain killers more generally. Why are so many people in pain in the first place? First and foremost, unsafe working conditions. But secondary is poor diet and poor health due to processed foods loaded with inflammatory saturated fats and sugar. The things so advertised and pushed in supermarkets is killing us all. We also need more opportunities for people to get ahead, have reason for hope as tomorrow gets better for them. People use drugs primarily to dull the pain. If people had less pain, they wouldn’t need so many drugs, especially those potentially boosted with Fentanyl.
Truth is that outside of high oil prices caused by international affairs, illegally imported Fentanyl might actually be the one thing in foreign affairs that impacts people in local communities the most. If an active foreign war was going on, then maybe you could add injured and dead soldiers to that list but because we live in peace time and oil is relatively cheap, you could reasonably say Fentanyl is the greatest foreign threat to everyday Americans lives.
I was curious of tobacco retailers choose to locate their businesses in minority communities.
This seems true -- though I would caution that minority communities have more bodegas and fewer people with motor vehicles, so the presence of tobacco retailers might not be as large as the maps would suggest, as people with cars can cover more distance then people on foot.
Methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin may be America's most addictive and destructive drugs, but marijuana is the most dangerous illegal drug in our nation. The reasons for this conclusion are many. First is that marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in America. Almost 2 million persons began using marijuana last year in the United States, and marijuana use starts at a younger age than most other illicit drugs.
As spoken by Robert Du Pont. Because giggles and sparkles on the waterfalls and trees, and really good rock and roll music is such a threat to America.
I never understood psychedelia until I took a few good puffs of Tropical Skittlez, put on some really psychedelic music and found myself giggling my brains out noticing how beautiful the waterfalls were, strange shadows on the rocks, the way the leaves fliddered in the breeze and the clouds overhead.
People often think the psychedelic experience about elephants jumping out of windows and all kinds of strange colors. Maybe that’s the case with LSD but smoking a good sativa pot it’s more the colors and details are enhanced.
But probably seeing an elephant jumping out of the woods would be weird and hilarious at the same time, even though you know is unlikely unless it escaped from the zoo or somebody released it into the back country of the forest preserve. And, I wouldn’t mind looking a very colorful magazine with trippy colors and cartoons, just because that be a good giggle.
It’s good, legal fun. Not unlike having a beer minus the beer goggles and the often rowdy drunken behavior. Sativa strains aren’t nearly as tiring, indeed they can be quite engerzing, especially with energy shots. And quite hillarious!
