Reefer Madness?

Chronic abuse of marijuana in the electorate may help to explain the 2018 House elections that produced a bumper crop of morons. We need to slow down attempts to legalize this gateway drug and let intensive scientific studies determine the dangers of THC.

The marijuana industry had a good day in Washington Thursday, as the House Financial Services Committee passed a bill to liberalize banking laws covering the industry. This win for pot came after a pretty tough blow: A new study published in the Lancet, a highly respected medical journal, found that high-potency marijuana can make you psychotic. In fact, about half of all cases of psychoses in Amsterdam could be prevented “if high-potency cannabis were no longer available,” the data suggest. 

The study doesn’t prove causality, but it certainly suggests it may be there. It illustrates the need for more research into the careless and unscientific claims that marijuana use is harmless. It also cries out for U.S. policymakers to put the brakes on the push to legalize recreational marijuana use and weaken guardrails around “medical” marijuana.

More here.

He’s Got You By The Balls

On December 12^th, the White House tweeted a laughable photo of The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer telling America to #GetCovered.  The West Wing is desperate and it shows because they possess an utter incapacity for embarrassment.

Jim Geraghty posits this at National Review:

Caroline Baum, a columnist for Bloomberg, offers suggestions to the Obama administration that are extremely creative, extremely desperate, or a sign Obamacare’s fans are having a collective nervous breakdown:

“First, announce and advertise that everyone between the ages of 18 and 34 who enrolls on the health-care exchanges by the end of the year is automatically entered in a lottery. Winners will receive everything from a free iPhone or iPad to a full-year of health-care underwritten by Uncle Sam. Refer a friend and get a discount. Buy one (year), get one free. In states that have legalized marijuana for recreational use—Colorado and Washington—by all means, throw in a bag of cannabis.” 

“It isn’t fair, you say? Who said life is fair? Obamacare is based on the idea of young, healthy people, who don’t use a lot of health-care services, subsidizing the sick and elderly. Their generation is on the hook for the debt incurred to provide for the baby boomers in retirement. So forget fair.”

Holy shit woman!

You didn’t think I’d let this tweet go without chopping it did you?  Nah.  You didn’t.