CNBC’s Marijuana, Inc: An Odd Mix of Weed Porn and Anti-Drug Propaganda
A one-hour program devoted to the pot industry is one long propaganda project for the ONDCP.
They might as well have displayed a link to ONDCP.gov across the screen for an hour. CNBC's Marijuana, Inc. couldn’t have been more sensationalist if John Walters wrote the screenplay and Bill O’Reilly did the interviews. I’m serious, it was that bad.
Something is seriously out of balance when CNBC puts out an obnoxious propaganda program, while simultaneously hosting an online poll that favors decriminalization at 97%. They even felt compelled to put this disclaimer on their comment section:
**As of this posting, CNBC has only received comments favoring decriminalization of marijuana.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/122177/cnbc%E2%80%99s_m...
Your cosmic consciousness has been suppressed . . . .
. . . . if you have never felt "elated".
Elation when meditating with God, elation while communing with sex, and after a good joke. A "raw" uncooked meal makes me feel "elated and happy".
If you are good natured, you are said to be positive and inquisitive, which includes the natural altered state of feeling, usually defined as feeling "good".
True! An automatic smile on your face.
So, why a war on marijuana?
It's a war on you.
And never forget, “Humans, despite our artistic pretensions, our sophistication and many accomplishments, owe the fact of our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”
While CNBC is chasing whores and pot heads Bernie Madoff
was running a decades old ponzi scheme and stealing 50 billion dollars. Now that is some crack investigative reporting.
"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."
--Jane Wagner
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
I've never smoked pot, or
I've never smoked pot, or used it in any way. But I fully support the concept of a free people having the right to make this decision for themselves. Just as long as they do not violate the rights of others while doing so, I am perfectly fine with it.
This sort of news coverage may be coming out due to the growing support of decriminalization around the country. Maybe "they" are losing the battle and know it.
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Pot porn? What else can you expect from CNBC?
Last week it was expensive prostitutes. It seems the liberal NBC-lovers are obsessed with sex and drugs as the Fox fans are of sex and punishment.
TV, especially news, is one of my vices. It takes effort for me to read. Or concentrate on a college lecture I downloaded. But I can eat, or doze, or escape reality in front of the tube.
It helps me hate the world at large, which seems to be infested with demonic , fiat, fractional-reserve despotism. Something only I and a few of us here understand, but everyone feels, at a deep level, they are being cheated.
At least CNBC puts Schiff on once and awhile. I don't pay the cable bill. I wouldn't pay for that trash. But I confess, I watch it.
God, have mercy.
A month before that ... a whore of a different sort ...
Saving the auto industry.
WAHOR!!
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/48994
WAHOR!!
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/48994
The REAL DESIRE....
Of all mens hearts in this "battle" is the Goal of the "War on Drugs" , to have a society of happy healthy individuals , emotionally , physically, and mentally who will not use drugs but quest for knowledge and to be better person and leave behind a better world.
Prohibition clearly does not work. And telling LIES about Cannabis just makes us LIARS and destroys all credibility and any self or external respect. It is not odd that in more liberal states the use of cannabis by teenagers is much lower, as is teen pregnancy.
As a father of 2 teenage daughters. I want them to grow up to realize their full potential and have happy productive lives. I believe honesty is the best means to achieve that.
My goal is to make Cannabis as popular with teenagers as GERITOL.
KIDS
CANNABIS = GERITOL..
Something only for Old / Sick people.... That should be the message. Not the Because I said so and I'm going to lie and use extreme force.
You know the Crazy Authoritarian Approach....Vs...
The Enlightened Approach...
Just a Suggestion... HR 11:11 The Enlightened Cannabis Policy...
Or HR 2325 ~ OFFICIALLY RENAMING MARIJUANA TO GERITOL..
Experience the rapture of the Universe and leave this Universe of gloom , doom, and the sky is falling...
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
FLP/BLP Theory
Politicians & Cannabinoids - FLP/BLP Theory, Dr.Bob Melamede
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbNXQw8Xk2w
Dr.Bob Melamede
http://www.uccs.edu/~rmelamed/
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“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another; shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement” - Thomas Jefferson
“We have allowed our nation to be over taxed and over regulated and overrun by bureaucrats, the founders would be ashamed of us for what we're putting up with.” Ron Paul
The REAL DESIRE....
The REAL DESIRE....
On January 23rd, 2009 Gavaru says:
"Of all mens hearts in this "battle" is the Goal of the "War on Drugs" , to have a society of happy healthy individuals , emotionally , physically, and mentally who will not use drugs but quest for knowledge and to be better person and leave behind a better world."
Yea, I really can't buy that. I don't think that the true intention in men's hearts regarding the drug war is the concern for the welfare of society. It is about controlling others to force them not to do what you don't agree with. It's about the alcohol lobby not wanting competition. It's about the hypocrisy of claiming to believe in freedom, but agreeing with DEA agents raiding medical marijuana shops in a legal state. It's about pure ignorance and intolerance.
Mankind has always needed an escape from reality and always will. The War on Drugs is a War on Freedom, clear and simple.
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Fossils Rock!
'Cause there's a monster on the loose
I'm with you
...And drugs helped get us here. Let's not forget that.
The Drug War is BIG BUSINESS and BIG PROFITS
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
"Human beings with love and compassion are some of the most beautiful creatures in the universe... Those without are a plague on us all."
i also want to add...
that as soon as monitors start getting tricked out (60" w/ sub-woofers and surround sound, yeah buddy) THAT is when the internet will become a living room situation and the usual family ritual.
do or do not. there is no "try" - yoda
do or do not. there is no "try" - yoda
that's because a lot of smokers...
aren't as stupid as they're stereo-typed on t.v. and film. my uncle smoked his whole life. he also was an accomplished electrical engineer, lived out in the country w/ horses and a vietnam vet as well. i know a lot of them. they get on the internet and read a hell of a lot more than most. they're also hip to what's really going on behind the curtain.
of the 97%, most were probably smokers telling CNBC to shut the hell up w/ their bs propanganda. they also managed to let some of the non-smoker sheeple know it at the same time because they're the ones who sit on their asses and watch that shit.
the sheeple who stayed glued to their tubes need to realize that the internet will replace television (like television replaced radio) because the internet IS television, without the commercials and much more. you have all the shows, movies, music, history of man, worldwide communication and almost instant knowledge of all mankind. plus, it doesn't cost nearly as much as cable. we have the knowledge of all the world at our fingertips now and people should start thinking for theirselves, instead of listening to what their idiot box tells them.
do or do not. there is no "try" - yoda
do or do not. there is no "try" - yoda
I was a college dropout...
and a heavy drinker until I was 23, with a minimum wage job. It was then that I decided that I should make something out of my life. I went back to college, majored in a science, made dean's list, was an athlete for the first time, went to grad school and earned a Masters, was recruited out of college by a major company, now own my own very lucrative company.
BTW, (coincidentally?) I took my first bong hit at 23, have smoked on and off for 30 years now. Did the pot make me smarter? Probably not. Did it make me lazy? 100% certainly not. Does it just plain suck that I could go to jail for this? 100% certainly.
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Fossils Rock!
'Cause there's a monster on the loose
The Smokers I know are all PHD's,
Geniuses working at Los Alamos, Corporate Executives, and extremely smart people.
Cannabis grows neurons. All things being equal a pot smoker has more brains. Literally. If they choose to fill those nuerons and make new connections through learning or not is a different story.
Most do.
The hundreds of studies have been posted here several times in the last 18 months.
The screw ups are always pot smokers who drink a lot of alcohol.
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Talent ( & good ideas ) without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I've always heard that it
I've always heard that it kills brain cells and recall hearing people who smoked it a lot being referred to as "burn outs." Is none of that true? I'm not being sarcastic here and this question is coming from someone who has never tried the stuff.
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Compounds in marijuana promote neurogenesis
The creation of new brain cells is called neurogenesis. Several studies have found that compounds in marijuana, and synthetic compounds similar to those, are the only known neurogenic compounds.
Here is the most noted paper on the subject.
Cannabinoids promote embryonic and adult hippocampus neurogenesis and produce anxiolytic- and antidepressant-like effects
http://www.canapa-info.ch/info/en/IMG/pdf/Neurogenesis_3104_...
The perception of burnouts is directly a result of the comedy of Cheech and Chong. Burn outs are burn outs. If they happen to also self medicate, that does not mean the self medication was the cause.
Like EVERYTHING else...
Moderation is the key. Anything you do in excess -- drugs, alcohol, sugar, fat, sun, sex,... well you get the idea --- is bad for you. Pot can indeed have its benefits if used properly, you just need to be smart about how you use it.
My children are my most valuable thing in life, and I would rather they smoke pot than drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes! I honestly believe it is much less harmful than either of those, this is from my personal experience.
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Fossils Rock!
'Cause there's a monster on the loose
to tell you the truth...
i can't possibly know how it would affect you because it affects people differently. i do know some people who should quit but i think it's a balance of getting used to it while keeping control of your situation. some people get sleepy, while some wake and bake, get amped and lift weights. for some it makes things funnier, music better, you get more creative and smashing a chick is more fun, especially if she's smoking too. if you smoke enough, it will always make you hungry because i don't know anyone that doesn't happen to. always keep it at home and never have more than your state's felony amount on hand. i think it's better to get used to it before you smoke around others. that's the only way you will ever know for sure. if it starts messing your life up, quit. it's not addictive but 97% can't be wrong. =)
do or do not. there is no "try" - yoda
do or do not. there is no "try" - yoda
It's on again on Sunday..
Got my TiVo set up for it...
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Fossils Rock!
'Cause there's a monster on the loose
i would comment on this but
i would comment on this but i haven't seen it yet.
tivo set for Sunday.
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“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another; shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement” - Thomas Jefferson
“We have allowed our nation to be over taxed and over regulated and overrun by bureaucrats, the founders would be ashamed of us for what we're putting up with.” Ron Paul
I missed it, anyone got a link?
"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."
--Jane Wagner
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
I agree
That was my thought exactly. Total DEA propaganda piece. Let's blame burglaries on marijuana.
Prohibition is the cause of the crime, the prison industrial complex and government overreaching in all our lives, from financial to many other violations of the constitution.
bilgepumper
you nailed it.
that doesn'teven count all the corporate industries that would go out out business. hemp has over 1,000 uses, all positive. hell, the founding fathers wrote our constitution on it while wearing clothes made from it.
do or do not. there is no "try" - yoda
jedi
I think it's just like anything else, if it's not for you don't do it. Otherwise if it doesn't hurt you, mind your business and concern yourself with your own life.
bilgepumper
I agree
That was my thought exactly. Total DEA propaganda piece. Let's blame burglaries on marijuana.
Prohibition is the cause of the crime, the prison industrial complex and government overreaching in all our lives, from financial to many other violations of the constitution.
bilgepumper
Maybe we watched different shows...
Because the one I watched had ONE story about a burglary during the entire hour it was on.
I also thought that the "antis" that were on the show were portrayed as old and kinda stupid.
For credibilities sake, documentary pieces have to show both sides of the story. The anti-marijuana aspect of this show was extremely weak.
fer shizzle
"I also thought that the "antis" that were on the show were portrayed as old and kinda stupid."
That being said....I thought the slant seemed to be that those old, kinda stupid/holier than thou "antis" were correct in there philosophy.
That's just my take on it.
bilgepumper
You'd have to be over 60
to take those kooks seriously.
I watched it...
And didn't see any attempt to sensationalize weed in a negative way. In fact, I thought it was pretty favorable - especially the part where the guy in the wheelchair (who happens to own an extremely lucrative pot shop in SF) said that he paid $300k in state taxes and $500k in federal taxes last year, and that's why he's never been shut down!!! LOL
It was a good show and I think the hottie reporter Trish Regan was loaded at that guy's house in Mendocino!