Cannabis legalization. Who benefits from it?
Unvarnished opinion. Today with Prof. Dr. Jörg Barben, specialist in pediatrics and adolescent medicine.
According to the German government's 2018 Drug and Addiction Report, around seven percent of
18 to 59-year-olds in Germany have used cannabis once or several times in the past year.
To explain the terms cannabis, hemp, marijuana and hashish, the following should be said by way of
introduction: cannabis is the Latin word for hemp.
Marijuana or weed is the dried leaves of the female flowering plant.
Hashish is the collected and usually pressed resin of the hemp plant.
Cannabis legalization is increasingly being discussed in many European countries.
According to the Swiss Commission on Addiction Issues, the question is now less whether cannabis
should be legalized, but rather how to go about it.
Professor Dr. Jürg Barben, a specialist in paediatrics and adolescent medicine, has therefore asked himself
who will benefit from the legalization of cannabis.
Klagemauer TV publishes below an abridged excerpt of its research, which was
published in the Schweizerische Ärztezeitung:
Hardly conceivable 40 years ago and a reality today:
While marijuana is still classified as an illegal drug at the federal level in the US, 30 US
states have approved cannabis for medical purposes,
and ten US states have approved cannabis for recreational use.
[...] Since mid-2016, marijuana products with a THC content of less than 1 % have
also been legally available in Switzerland.
In Switzerland, 580 companies have already entered the legal hemp business, and the boom
flushed 15 million francs into the state coffers for the first time in 2017.
In the USA, a huge cannabis industry has now developed with a billion-dollar business.
The cannabis industry has learned a lot from the tobacco industry.
Who financed the legalization?
In a detailed report, the National Families in Action, or NFIA for short, has for the first time documented
in detail the money flows that have been used for votes on the legalization of
cannabis in the USA over the last 20 years.
Since 1996, three billionaires - George Soros, Peter Benjamin Lewis and John Sperling - have
contributed around 80% of the money used for voting in the individual US states.
As early as 1992, George Soros, who made his fortune as a financial speculator, donated 15
million US dollars for the campaign to legalize cannabis for medical purposes.
Only later did he use his Open Society Foundation in the fight for full legalization, initially in Uruguay.
[...] All three have seen the path to full legalization in the prior
enforcement, the use of cannabis in medicine.
Cannabis legalization and its consequences
The legalization of cannabis for recreational use opens up marketing opportunities
whose consequences are hardly foreseeable today.
Debates on how to limit the resulting health problems with new regulatory measures will
tie up enormous financial and legal resources.
The marijuana industry could follow the same path as the tobacco industry.
In the last century, this company developed the tobacco cigarette into the perfect nicotine delivery
device and used perfidious advertising campaigns to increase the number of
cigarette smokers from 1% in 1880 to 50% in 1950.
The number of cannabis users over the age of twelve in the USA is estimated at 22 million people,
10% of whom use cannabis for medical purposes only.
The number of cannabis smokers rose from 6.2 % in 2002 to 8.3 % in 2015.
Conclusion: Like tobacco, the cannabis trade is also a business with an addictive substance
addictive substance whose physical and psychological consequences are well known.
Marijuana was deliberately trivialized for the purpose of legalization, and a few are
making a billion-dollar business out of it.
After initial successes were achieved in the tobacco epidemic thanks to the global efforts of the WHO
'Framework Convention on Tobacco Control', the legalization of cannabis is creating a
new epidemic, the consequences of which can hardly be foreseen at present.
For this reason, various medical organizations, such as the German Society for Pneumology, have
now drawn attention to the dangers of cannabis use with a position paper and a report.
So much for Dr. Barben's report, which shows that cannabis legalization is
only superficially about human welfare.
So the final question remains: What kind of forces are trying to push through cannabis legalization?
What higher goal are they pursuing with humanity - and young people in particular?
There must be a bigger picture that is worth thinking about!