For the Culture By The Culture
The San Francisco Chronicle’s new article warns that cannabis is dangerous for older adults, but the science says otherwise. Studies show benefits for pain, sleep, and muscle spasticity when used responsibly. The real risk comes from misinformation, fear, and the unregulated hemp market, not from seniors using cannabis with care.
Hemp may have been ripped from the Controlled Substances Act in 2018, but freedom was only on paper. Farmers are still shackled by THC math, the DEA’s shadow rules, and FDA’s silence on CBD. The loopholes gave rise to delta-8 and other lab-born cannabinoids, sparking a new prohibition panic. The truth is simple: hemp didn’t escape the drug war, it just exposed the absurdity of it all.
Colorado regulators just banned Midnight Drops after reports linked the cannabis sleep aid to liver injuries. Nuka Enterprises and affiliates were fined $400,000 and booted from the state, but loopholes may allow their return. This is not about the plant. It is about corporate shortcuts, weak oversight, and the way scandals weaponize prohibitionist narratives against cannabis culture.
For decades, junk science has fueled cannabis prohibition, from bogus chromosome scares to today’s clickbait about weed causing diabetes. Despite billions in tax revenue and no overdose deaths, scare studies dominate headlines while real-world data proves otherwise. This piece exposes how research funding, media bias, and political agendas keep cannabis criminalized against all evidence.
The New York Times is pushing a fear campaign on “cannabis poisonings” in kids, built on sloppy hospital coding, bad data, and lazy journalism. We break down the inflated numbers, call out the stupid motherf*ckers leaving edibles out, and show how real regulation not media panic protects children while exposing the NYT’s scare tactics
Sweden promised a drug-free society. Instead, it built a death machine. From overdose rates that dwarf Portugal’s to gang violence run by teenagers, this hard-hitting feature exposes the brutal cost of prohibition disguised as public health. Don’t call it a model. Call it a failure
