Say you decide to go out for a burger. You hop in the car and hit the road, where at least three other drivers are drifting between lanes at ten miles under the limit, backing up traffic for blocks. You stop at a red light and soon feel like you’re trapped inside a smoker that’s burning dead skunks. When you get to the burger joint, the red-eyed kid behind the counter asks you to repeat your order multiple times. You eat in a hurry, barely tasting your burger, and rush home, only to be hit with another skunk cloud emanating from your neighbor’s window.
For years, legalizing weed was a central plank of the Libertarian platform. They gave reasonable-sounding justifications like lowering incarceration rates and raising local government revenue. But now that they’ve gotten their wish, it turns out they just wanted the freedom to indulge their vices by restricting decent people’s liberty to live in a healthy environment.
The Satanic regime that closed down the churches during Corona-chan’s visit didn’t legalize weed because they love liberty. They’ve renounced any duty to protect us and now mean us active harm. Just look at how they let the opioid crisis run amok.
Our rulers see the cracks forming in the current order and need bread and circuses to keep the masses distracted. They also want to keep anyone who might object to their tyranny dull-witted and weak.
Take this sorry state of affairs as another lesson in the hierarchy of cultural warfare. For decades now, Libertarian and Conservative opposition to the Death Cult has relied on appeals to freedom.
The result: They lost their liberty and conserved nothing.
Freedom is moral currency. Its worth wholly depends on the intrinsic value of the goods you can get with it.
To win, it will be absolutely necessary to abandon transactive relativism, stop pushing negatives, and champion the common good.
And Disney, Netflix, and AAA gaming are the circuses half of the equation, so it’s also necessary to stop giving money to people who hate you.
My state legalized recreational weed. A nearby town is full of large, beautiful churches crumbling due to lack of maintenance down the street from brand new weed dispensaries. There’s a lesson there.
And an intention
drugs cause demonic possession, outside of just being mortally sinful in general.
Freedom has always been just another word for Responsibility. “liberty” is just slavery.
Until relatively recently, I used to frequent the comment section at Instapundit. Between the supposed libertarian guru of the web, Prof. Reynolds’, embrace of Covid lockdowns, the vaccines and the Jan. 6th narrative, it’s just not the same place it used to be, sadly
Before I stopped frequenting the place, the quickest way to get the comment section agitated was to make some sort of comment as regards to marijuana not being as safe and harmless as it was sold to everyone. Being a cop, I saw first hand for years what it did to people, even while I doubted the wisdom of the drug war due to the abuses of power I had witnessed. Watching the pro-marijuana propaganda at work reminds me of watching old movies and commercials where tobacco smoking was ubiquitous, especially amongst the “beautiful people”, and doctors pimped cigarettes.
Now, as your essay illustrates, in my state of NY, I cannot escape the smell. I find it nauseating, even a whiff of it. Where tobacco smokers have retreated to the edges of culture, marijuana smokers seem to believe we all want to smell their sickly habit. Where alcohol drinkers have come around, mostly, to knowing the dangers of driving while intoxicated, marijuana smokers believe it makes them better drivers. Somedays, it seems like 50 percent of the population around me is stoned to some degree.
I’m certainly no fan of tobacco, but tobacco smokers at least seem to “get it” now: we don’t want to indulge in their habit, even secondhand. The legalization of marijuana has led some users to believe it’s legal everywhere, at any time, and the rest of us must want them to do so. Because it makes them stupid- the way the death cult wants us all.
I had already stepped off the libertarian reservation many years ago. But now, seeing the evil results of such policies, I can’t imagine how other libertarians, at least the intellectually honest ones, still cling to libertarianism.
I squandered my youth and a good chunk of my adulthood to recreational drugs. Daily pot use was the conduit I followed to the harsher stuff. Marijuana is not harmless. Any assertion to the contrary is a vicious lie. Pot makes you stupid, as do all recreational drugs. Half my life can attest to that. It is only by the grace of God that I survived the self-inflicted stupidity.
Praise God for deliverance!
Not everyone is willing to cooperate with grace, though.
They want everyone to go through what you did but deny them a way out.
Reminds me of the other Boomer-idiom, “if you don’t masturbate then you’ll get prostate cancer!”
Wait. Who said that?
It’s a pretty standard reply to people deciding to stop masturbating for no nut November. I don’t know if I’ve heard Baby Boomers saying it though; always seemed to be more of a Gen X and Millennial thing.
Back in the ’00s when I was on seveal Catholic forums the topic of masturbation would of come up and yes, someone would vaguely refer to “studies” correlating periodic masturbation to lower instances of prostate cancer. Standard hollow consequentialist arguments you’d expect from agents of the Erottomon Empire.