Legal weed is full of poison: Grow it?

Smoke some weed in college instead of drinking.

Should anyone smoke CBD? Why does MA exist? What is abuse? Addiction medicine specialists like Dr. Drew Pinsky and Dr. Gabor Mate agree that when a substance begins to negative impact our lives and consequences of its use start piling up but we keep going, that's abuse. That's addiction, and calling cannabis "medicine" doesn't make a difference.

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Pharmaceutical medicines can be as addictive and abused as anything from the "plant pharmacy" of natural substances. Now legal in many places, lots of Americans abuse marijuana. That's problematic, not only because it violates Buddhism's Five Precepts but because it's unskillful karma and it's poisoning them.

Legalization has not cleaned up pot but made the motive to include pesticides, fungicides, additives, and anything else that might make it more addictive, just as happened when "natural" Big Tobacco got their hands on the lowly tobacco plant. Neither nicotine in specific nor tobacco in general were very addictive until the industry got their hands on it, hired consultants, and began to add chemicals and sugars (used in curing) to it to make it highly addictive.

Pot is a plant that people plant in pots? Oh yeah.

Nicotine is a medicine. (Use patches of 7 mg or less for 6 days to resolve long-term Covid symptoms that have lingered, as Dr. Bryan Ardis advises). Before long, nicotine will be made illegal. It has to be because it is so valuable as a nutraceutical capable of undoing vaccine nanoparticles and other harmful adjuvants, excipients, and additives such as krait snake venoms, allegedly.

GROW IT YOURSELF AT HOME?

Clean hydroponics? Permaculture practices? Biodynamic farming? Indoor growroom or outdoor greenhouse? There are many ways one might take up home gardening to produce the flowering bud of Cannabis sativa or indica to use it as a natural medicine or revered entheogen.

Your legal weed is full of poison with investigative journalist Paige St. John

(Adam Conover) Feb. 19, 2025: Factually! Just because weed is legal doesn’t mean it’s safe.

Moving Beyond COVID-19 Lies (Dr. B. Ardis)

Despite its growing (profit-motive) legalization across the country, a lack of regulation has led to alarming levels of pesticides and chemicals in cannabis products — posing serious health risks.

This week, Adam Conover talks with Los Angeles Times investigative reporter Paige St. John about her recent findings on contaminated products being sold in fully legal dispensaries and what it means for consumers.

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Dead animals, clean meat, mushroom solution

Paul Shapiro, TEDxSouthLakeTahoe, 1/3/18; Ash Wells, S. Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The best, cleanest, healthiest, tastiest "burgers" will be made from mushroom fibers.

Clean meat: the clean energy of food | Better Meat's Paul Shapiro

We're not cannibals. We won't eat animals.

(TEDx Talks) Since the dawn of Homo sapiens, animals have satiated one species’ craving for bloody meat.

But with a growing human population and capitalist demand for animal products increasing, raising such huge numbers of animals to become food poses serious challenges.

But what if human could have animals and eat them, too? Enter "clean meat" — real meat, grown without animals — which has now moved from science fiction to science fact.

We would sooner eat each other.

Paul Shapiro serves as the vice president of policy for The Humane Society of the United States, the world’s largest animal protection organization.

In 1995, Shapiro founded Compassion Over Killing as a high school club, building it into a national organization over the next decade.

An inductee into the Animal Rights Hall of Fame, Shapiro has published dozens of articles about animal welfare in publications ranging from daily newspapers to academic journals.

He’s also the author of a book on the clean meat movement (Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx.

Too much marijuana in Oregon, prices down

Associated Press (ap.org, May 31, 2018); Seth Auberon, Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly

Glut of marijuana in Oregon is cautionary tale, experts say

PORTLAND, Oregon - When Oregon lawmakers created the state's legal marijuana program, they had one goal in mind above all else: to convince illicit pot growers to leave the black market.

That meant low barriers for entering the industry that also targeted long-standing medical marijuana growers, whose product is not taxed. As a result, pot production boomed -- with a bitter capitalist consequence.

(PHOTOS) A marijuana harvester examines buds going through a trimming machine near Corvallis, Ore. Three years after Oregon lawmakers created the state's new legal marijuana program, marijuana prices in the state are in free fall and the craft cannabis farmers who put Oregon on the map decades before legalization are losing their businesses to emerging chains and out-of-state investors.

 

Now, marijuana prices here are in freefall, and the craft cannabis farmers who put Oregon on the map decades before broad legalization say they are in peril of losing their now-legal businesses as the money market adjusts.

 

Oregon regulators on Wednesday announced they will stop processing new applications for marijuana licenses in two weeks to address a severe backlog and ask state lawmakers to take up the issue next year. Experts say the dizzying [de-]evolution of Oregon's marijuana industry may well be a cautionary tale for California... More

A Homegrown Revolution

Path to Freedom presents "A Homegrown Revolution," a collection of clips featuring their urban homestead and farm. The focus is on the need for radical action -- growing food in the city!

This short, self-produced music video was shown at Peter Seller's Cultural Art's class at UCLA followed by a short presentation by urban farmer Jules Dervaes, the founder of Path to Freedom. The focus of the class was on the art of slow food. Among other guests invited were Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Eric Schlosser.

Like the victory gardens of yesteryear, start your own homegrown revolution! Grow your food in your own yard. For more information visit the urban homesteaders at PathtoFreedom.com. Read the online journal urbanhomestead.org/journal. Since the early 1980's the Dervaes family has successfully transformed their ordinary city lot into a self sufficient urban homestead.