Stoner Nation
A new large-scale study suggests that teens who use cannabis are eleven times more like to develop a psychiatric disorder than teens who don’t.
The researchers used data for 10,000 young people aged 12-24 in Ontario, Canada, including survey answers and hospital records, to see if there was a relationship between recent use of cannabis and mental illness. As well as finding that teens who’d used cannabis in the last year had a massively elevated risk of developing a psychiatric disorder, they also found, conversely, that the vast majority of teens diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder had a history of cannabis use: five out of every six teens who were hospitalized for a psychiatric disorder.
What’s particularly interesting about the study is this: the association between cannabis use and psychosis was not in evidence for subjects aged 20-24. This clearly suggests that there is some developmental process taking place in teenage bodies—and specifically the brain—that is altered by the use of cannabis. The precise nature of those processes remains to be explored—through animal testing, of course—but it’s not hard to imagine, in general terms, why this must be so.
There’s little debate that cannabis consumption during adolescence is probably a bad thing—previous studies have suggested an association with mental illness—but none have provided such alarming figures as this one. In part, this is probably because, with each passing year, cannabis strains become more potent.
In the 1980s, the average tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content of cannabis strains was around 1%, but now your average jack-of-all-strains has 20% THC content and some even contain as much as 90% or more. The truth is, we simply don’t know what exposure to psychoactive compounds at these concentrations is likely to do to a person’s mind, let alone a mind that is still as plastic as a 13- or 14-year-old’s.
We don’t: but we’re going to find out.
We’re in the process of narcotic self-experimentation on a massive scale. It’s now far more normal to smoke weed than tobacco, and it’s seen as an overwhelmingly good thing. According to Gallup polling, 16% of Americans say they smoke weed, as opposed to 11% who still, doggedly, cling to tobacco. The vast majority of Americans now see cigarette-smoking as “very harmful,” with 83% of adults choosing that response in a 2019 survey. By contrast, in another survey, from 2022, half of all respondents said they believed weed is a “positive force for good” in society.
These statistics barely capture the nature of the transition from nicotine to THC and CBD (the other psychoactive substance in cannabis). As no doubt you’re aware, people don’t just consume the active ingredients in cannabis by smoking the leaf. They use oil and gummies and vape juices and brownies and other edibles as well, and they’re using them in quantities and in situations that are totally novel.
For example, 11% of 12 graders claim to have used delta-8-THC vapes and gummies in the last year. Delta-8-THC is a variant of delta-9-THC, the main psychoactive form of THC. Delta-8 has only been available in the US since 2018 and, as a result, there are no federal regulations restricting its sale to minors. Delta-8-THC vapes and gummies are now a fixture at gas stations and they’re readily available online. There are no reliable safety data on delta-8-THC either.
That’s pretty bad. Just as bad, if not worse, is the fact that pregnant women are using cannabis like never before. Since the legalisation of cannabis in Canada, cannabis-use disorder has grown by 20% among pregnant women. Women are also being recommended CBD oil to ease the symptoms of morning sickness.
Two studies from last year suggest that consumption of CBD oil and THC in any form while pregnant could have serious developmental effects on babies. In the first, a mouse study, the offspring of female mice given CBD oil while pregnant displayed significantly impaired problem-solving abilities and reduced responses to stimuli in key regions of the brain’s prefrontal cortex. In the second, testicular cells from human fetuses were exposed to CBD and THC and the effects on hormonal production were measured. The cannabis extracts altered the expression of nearly 200 genes within the testicular cells, disrupting the production of vital developmental hormones, especially testosterone. So cannabis is an endocrine disruptor too. Gynecomastia—the development of female breast tissue—has been observed in male cannabis users by physicians for decades.
All this cannabis use seems to be helping push us in one direction, towards a society of… well, profound retardation. A society where individual development, both physical and mental, is squelched, quite literally. Where our brains and bodies don’t form as they should.
So why isn’t anything meaningful being done about it?
The natural reaction in such situations, or so I find, is to reach for the old cui bono.
Who benefits?
In one of his final monologues at Fox, Tucker Carlson blasted a proposed move by the FDA to ban menthol cigarettes.
“[Our rulers] hate nicotine,” Tucker said.
“They love THC. They’re promoting weed to your children, but they’re not letting you use tobacco, or even non-tobacco nicotine-delivery devices which don’t cause cancer. Why do they hate nicotine? Because nicotine frees your mind, and THC makes you compliant and passive—that’s why! They hate it. It’s a real threat to them.”
Show me a better answer than that.
Government Contractor Exposes Planning of Profitable Lethal Injections
Defense Department Lost Track of Millions Sent to Chinese Labs For Gain of Function Research, Bombshell Gov’t Report Finds
The Pentagon sent millions of dollars of taxpayer funding to numerous Chinese research labs and then lost track of how it was being used, according to a government report.
“Due to limitations in the DoD’s tracking systems, the full extent of DoD funds provided to Chinese research laboratories for research related to enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential is unknown,” the DoD’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) wrote in its 26-page report released Tuesday.
Due to limitations in the DoD’s tracking systems, the full extent of DoD funds provided to Chinese research laboratories for research related to enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential is unknown. Read our new report now: https://t.co/Ts7V7C15V9
— DoD Office of Inspector General (@DoD_IG) June 20, 2024
The audit conducted in compliance with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) looked into where the funds were sent, including whether money was sent to the Chinese Communist Party, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and other CCP-controlled research labs.
DoD OIG investigators also looked into whether the funds could be used to spark a new pandemic through gain of function research or other methods that “could have reasonably resulted in the enhancement of any coronavirus, influenza, Nipah, Ebola, or other pathogen of pandemic potential or chimeric versions of such a virus or pathogen in the People’s Republic of China or any other foreign country.”
But the report states that due to a lack of proper oversight, much of the funding could not be unaccounted for how it was used.
The full extent of DoD funds provided to Chinese research laboratories or other foreign countries for research related to enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential is unknown. The DoD did not track funding at the level of detail necessary to enable us to completely and accurately determine if the DoD provided funding to Chinese research laboratories or other foreign countries for research related to the enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential. For example, when the DoD awards funds to an entity, the entity often provides some of those funds to other organizations for subawards or contracted services. DoD officials stated that during the initial grant application process, they have visibility over who the subaward recipients are intended to be. However, we found that DoD organizations lacked visibility of subaward information over the life of contracts and grants.
“We found significant limitations with the adequacy of data, similar to the observations the GAO found in its reports. Specifically, the DoD did not track funding at the level of detail necessary to determine whether the DoD provided funding to Chinese research laboratories or other foreign countries for research related to enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential,” the report concludes.
“In addition, DoD organizations did not have visibility of subaward information throughout the life of contracts and grants. In addition, except for the CDMRP electronic grants system, DoD organizations could not effectively search award systems to identify all contracts, subcontracts, grants, and subgrants that may have been related to pathogen research performed by China and other foreign countries. As a result, DoD organizations could not produce a complete population of pathogen research grants and subawards necessary for us to conclude on the use of DoD funds provided for pathogen research.”
Notably, the page about pathogen research projects involving Chinese entities between 2014-2023 is redacted.
This comes a month after the Department of Health and Human Services debarred the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance from receiving taxpayer-funded government grants over its role in facilitating gain-of-function research in China.
Now you have the U.S. Department of Defense not only admitting it helped fund risky pathogen research in Chinese biolabs, but that it even lost track of just how much money it sent and for what purposes!
Border Agents Airlift Five Illegals “Trapped” in Arizona Mountains
Border authorities airlifted five illegal aliens who required hospitalization after becoming “trapped” in an Arizona mountain range.
Two separate rescues unfolded in the Peloncillo Mountains last weekend, according to information released by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) this week.
On June 14, U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agents on horseback in Tucson Sector encountered a group of illegals suffering from heat exhaustion and summoned a CBP Air and Marine Operations (AMO) crew and members of a USBP Search Trauma and Rescue (BORSTAR) unit to assist.
How much did that cost us?
— Debunking Headlines (@debunkingtruth) June 21, 2024
“The first patient was unresponsive and seizing. After inserting two AMO Rescue Specialists to clear a landing zone, the migrant was loaded onto the aircraft and flown to an awaiting air ambulance. A second migrant suffering from heat exhaustion and delirious was then lifted to an awaiting Douglas Fire crew who also responded,” CBP explained in a statement.
“The third migrant was unable to walk, necessitating the individual to be raised into the aircraft via hoist along with an AMO Rescue Specialist. The patient was also flown to awaiting Douglas Fire Department personnel for transport by ground ambulance.”
A second extrication took place on Sunday in the Peloncillos near the Arizona/New Mexico border.
A USBP Horse Patrol agent located nine illegal border crossers and determined two required emergency medical attention.
“After finding an acceptable landing zone in the harsh/steep mountainous terrain,” a Tucson Air Branch crew airlifted them individually, transferring one to a waiting air ambulance and another to a ground ambulance, CBP reported.
Both were treated at a hospital in Sierra Vista, AZ.
Chaos unfolds constantly along the U.S.-Mexico border, as Infowars regularly reports.
Government Contractor Exposes Planning of Profitable Lethal Injections
Watch: Head of LGBTQ Democrats in Maryland Busted Trying to Groom a 14-Year-Old
Predator hunter Alex Rosen busted another alleged pedophile, this time the head of the LGBTQ Democrats of Maryland.
Rosen confronted Michael Knaapen, chair of the @mddems‘ LGBTQ Diversity Council, in Montgomery County after catching him in a child sex predator sting.
Knaapen had apparently been trying to groom a 14-year-old boy online to become his “fa***t,” according to graphic text message exchanges obtained by Rosen.
We just busted the head of the LGBTQ Dems of Maryland going after a 14-year-old. ?
— Alex Rosen (@iFightForKids) June 22, 2024
Groomers are about to be mad.
Full video dropping early for subscribers on X. Help support our mission and go to my page and click subscribe in the top right corner. pic.twitter.com/rlvJO2QmmO
Michael Knaapen, longtime LGBTQ activist and a leader in the Maryland Democratic Party @mddems, was allegedly caught in a child sex predator sting. He allegedly wrote extremely graphic messages about wanting to r—ape a 14-year-old boy. https://t.co/eHcJ9Mu9Kl pic.twitter.com/c8OLnSeCNt
— Andy Ngô ?️? (@MrAndyNgo) June 22, 2024
“We just busted the head of the LGBTQ Dems of Maryland going after a 14-year-old,” Rosen wrote on X with an accompanying clip.
He also posted screenshots of some of the graphic messages.
More text messages between Michael Knaapen (Leader of LGBTQ Dems of Maryland) and a 14-year-old boy. https://t.co/FAGdV4tLAG pic.twitter.com/OduJgsxUOp
— Alex Rosen (@iFightForKids) June 22, 2024
Notably, Knaapen had once been invited to VP Kamala Harris’ residence to help promote an LGBTQ Pride event.
Why is the vice president (@VP/@KamalaHarris) hosting pedophile Michael Knaapen at her house? pic.twitter.com/fcDKY81H0N
— Alex Rosen (@iFightForKids) June 22, 2024
Knaapen is also set to host a Maryland Democrats “Pride reception” Saturday at Somerset Mayor Jeffrey Slavin’s home.
Michael Knaapen, who we confronted tonight for going after a 14-year old, is set to host the Maryland Democrats “Pride reception” tomorrow at the mayor’s (@JZSLAVIN) home.
— Alex Rosen (@iFightForKids) June 22, 2024
I wonder if the mayor will speak out against Michael’s actions tonight. ? pic.twitter.com/nt7L1IsNdx
“How it started/how it’s going” type shit… ? https://t.co/NigkKOufdd pic.twitter.com/BaHSgyrjGz
— Alex Rosen (@iFightForKids) June 22, 2024
The full sting video is available for Rosen’s X subscribers.
This comes days after Rosen confronted another alleged child predator who ended up pulling a gun on him.
A pedophile just pulled a gun and chased after us ? pic.twitter.com/kKYQuCCG8s
— Alex Rosen (@iFightForKids) June 21, 2024
Biden Allies Spend $10 Million To Learn How To Meme
Most of our readers know the left can’t meme, as memes require an understanding of both universal human truths and a minimal grasp on humor.
For example:
Or this:
Or this hot garbage:
Sometimes they don’t even realize what they’ve done…
These people are genuinely operating in their own reality:
Every time the Left tries to meme Trump they just end up making him look cooler https://t.co/MKardQ6aD3
— Jack Poso ?? (@JackPosobiec) April 14, 2023
Sorry about that, but the uninitiated needed to see how bad the situation is. Their jokes are obvious. Reductive. Anti-intellectual if you will. These are the same people who think gender is a state of mind, and these peeks under the hood can be constructive.
It seems that Biden’s allies are aware of their shortcomings, however – as the president’s main re-election SuperPAC, Future Forward USA Action, is raising $10 million to learn how to meme, or as Reuters puts it, ‘compete with Republican Donald Trump’s social media machine that spits out a wall of viral videos.’
We guarantee whoever wrote that sentence does not know how to meme.
The previously unreported effort by the highly-secretive Future Forward USA Action underscores broad concerns among Democrats and Biden donors that he and his campaign are losing a viral-video war with the Republican Party, which relentlessly portrays him as too old and out of touch.
Democrats say they are playing catch-up in a battlefield with few rules or ways to police manipulated or misleading content before it reaches tens of millions of Americans on their smartphones.
The Palo-Alto-based SuperPAC, backed by tech giants like Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and LinkedIn founder Reed [sic] Hoffman, is raising at least $10 million to help better understand the algorithms that help Trump and his allies dominate vertical video platforms.
The group will also “collaborate with left-leaning influencers to help generate and disseminate new content,” according to the report.
How are they going to do that when the most ‘successful’ lefty ‘influencers’ are the perpetually-shat-upon Krassenstein brothers and this guy…
Speaking of TikTok, Future Forward has given up on Twitter, and is hoping to appeal to short attention-spans, with TikTok’s short, vertical videos.
“Future Forward is around to help solve problems, and TikTok is a problem and the group is reasonably trying to solve that problem,” a Democratic source told Reuters.
In short, the left is now incinerating millions of dollars trying to learn how to be cool.
Good luck, Reid… We can only explain it to you. We can’t make you understand it.
Democrats Are Swimming In The Blood Of Hundreds Of Americans Killed By Biden Border Invaders
Owen Shroyer breaks down how the strings of rapes and murders against American citizens at the hands of illegal aliens could have been easily prevented if Joe Biden and the Democrats simply secured the border.
Democrats Are Swimming In The Blood Of Hundreds Of Americans Killed By Biden Border Invaders pic.twitter.com/BK7IAEKxP9
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) June 21, 2024