You sound like you think people have significant ‘control’ over ‘kids’ buying and consuming cannabis, alcohol, and cigarettes, etc. … Kids already consume cannabis and alcohol and cigarettes etc. even though you pretend you ‘don’t let them’ (threaten them) and harrass them. Prohibition from alcohol to cannabis, for example, has not reduced consumption, but rather reduced supply, increased prices, and decreased quality. Repression tells consumers you hide value on the other side of your unilateral decree. On the other hand, instead of a facsist authoritarian totalitarian approach of repression, in comparison, an approach with education, legalization and decriminalization has reduced prevalence of consumption of drugs, including amongst kids; for example, Portugal has decriminalized all drugs (in ~2001); they offer drug consumers education and treatment instead of incarceration and difficult to verify products from difficult to verify producers and sellers in dark places. But the big billionaire homicidal dealers (Merck, Pfizer, United Health Care, etc.) have a lot of monetary incentive of polluting media messaging with muddy murky moral panics like the ones you just put your discursive hands in today. That being said, kids should indeed get education on things like the importance of paying attention in lectures, doing their homework on schedule, secure use of technology, blockading attempts of the feudalist advertising industry of manipulating their opinions, blockading big tech from literally spying on them and selling their opinions and bodies left and right, etc. Fun fact: that problem (cell phone use in course rooms where course work (e.g. lectures and note writing) should occur) has also been having widespread occurence among ‘adult’ students in university courses.

“The Art of the Steal” now available in all banks of the US of A.

Did you even hear about America’s Apple’s Foxconn factory in China where the factory has nets on the windows to stop the frequent ‘inconvenient’ problem of cheap labor workers attempts of window jump suicides, for example? Co-operative structure (worker-owned) companies have more likelihood to have more human policies to, uh, themselves, than ponzi scheme corporations. Despite a fancy socialist (‘communist’) sounding title of government structure, Russia and China both took International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans, with their conditions of worker rights suffocation policies and market concentration monopolization policies. America’s and China’s feudalist monopolist billionaires have a lot more proximity of ideology than either of their propaganda machines has acknowledged so far.

About illegal U.S. Command operations in the global south: That does not seem surprising with America’s (and Canada’s) CIA illegal covert war operations of multiple homicides (more than hundreds, plausibly more than thousands per year going on for decades now (2026)) of gunning down and of bombing peasants in lands with concentrations of petroleum and gold and silver (e.g. Mexico, Columbia, and very recently Venezuelan parliament, and Nigerian peasant village). Even a brief surface review of a Netflix show like ‘Narcos’ shows viewers America’s CIA actually have been running south american drug cartels themselves, choosing a new dictator of a corporation bigger than many countries, in batches of approximately 2 years, based on levels of fascist servitude of their discursive positions. In the collusive monopolist tv news, they have been describing their actions using smokescreens of the likes of “The War On Drugs!”, “protecting kids from drugs” (instead of actually funding education about drugs for informed healthy use of healthy drugs), and “spreading democracy” using guns and bombs like poison on a toast. Concurrently, their collusive monopolist corporations have been selling cocaine, opioids and benzodiazepines, in collusive monopolist hospitals of the likes of United Health Care Corp, the likes of which have been killing patients for profit by refusing to honor insurance and hospital care contracts, under an extensively documenting surveillance apparatus of their collusive monopolist corporations of the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Palantir.

What do we recommend then? Progressive taxation campaigns, funding education, paying university-level student work of studies, decomposition of monopolies through application of the actual law (e.g. anti-trust law, armed robbery and homicide law, etc.). Like Margaret Thatcher refused to acknowledge, despite their plans of robbery of collective capital (privatization), there are many alternatives!

Or else what? Piketty (2013) argued that inequalities of the sort that such atrocities have emerged from have historically only come back down to normal levels of inequalities in the aftermath of the French Revolution and World Wars I and II.

References, recommended reading:

Paley, Dawn. 2012. “Drug War Capitalism”. AK Press. Piketty, Thomas. 2013. “Le Capital au 21e siecle.” Editions Seuil. Kropotkin, Pyotr. “The Conquest of Bread” (1892), “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution” (1902) Teachout, Zephyr. “Break’ em Up (2019)”

Happy reading!

MountainBear49

Fascists have been robbing people at gunpoint in their own homes with approval from a serial killing billionaire monopolist state and that article talks about pseudoscience, non-verifiable, self-report based terms like feelings of anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Facts have shown that POVERTY causes anxiety, depression, and PTSD. POLICE STATE ARMED ROBBERIES CAUSE ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, AND PTSD. They’re more likely to happen to people on the antagonist side of the MERCK, PFIZER, GSK MONOPOLY DRUG CARTEL. That is a fact about cannabis possession, cultivation, usage, and sale. Another relevant fact about this study would be the shadow network of BIG PHARMA serial killers with residence addresses somewhere near readers of that article and bank accounts in 0-tax jurisdictions of the likes of Panama, Luxembourg, etc. that funded putting that pile of feces into a format that looks like a scientific article. In the meantime, those unethical bastards have been selling drugs of the likes of opioids, benzodiazepines, etc. from inside hospitals near the readers of that article, drugs that have killed tens of thousands if not millions of humans per year.

P.S. That article totally omits to even acknowledge the variety of types of cannabis with widely different molecular composition profiles.

P.P.S. That article also omits to acknowledge that fact that research on cannabis consumption therapy has been happening outside the fascist states of the american-european colonial (and racist) empire and their ‘universities’ (sites of propaganda) because of a little thing called a decades-long illegal criminalization of the non-violent behavior of personal choice of consumption of a plant flower with numerous therapy applications growable with a small budget in approximately any house.

Canadian management of supply of agriculutral products, a.k.a monopolization of production permits, oligopoly, subsidization of already rich inherited fortunes of mostly colonial ‘white’ (beige, pale brown) men, harassment and incarceration of personal producers and of surplus resale to neighbors. Only 3 legal slaughterhouses of pigs for the entire province of Quebec, tens of hours of drive to get back a chicken and pig that may turn out being the product of another farmer… Something like 12 legal producers of eggs for the entire province of Quebec. Dependence on Mexican slave-like labor import for harvesting fruits and vegetables. $10/750ml of yogourt in 2025 CAD$ is far from affordable, that’s an incitation to food riot! Thank supply management for the increase of risks of riots for food!