Comment Re Hitchens And The Dope Cult

I goofed up in the preceding post in which I presented/discussed Peter Hitchens’ views on dope legalization and what it means for the West. Hitchens’ article appeared at The American Conservative yesterday, and with it there also appeared a sort of brief op-ed that presented the core of what Hitchens’—in a more diffuse or impressionistic way—was trying to communicate. That op-ed is here—I had meant to include discussion of it in my previous post:

Pot and the Abyss

State of the Union: Marijuana is indeed a “revolutionary” drug.

The author explicitly emphasizes the point I had in mind in presenting the Hitchens article: Marijuana is a revolutionary drug, in effect but also in intent—that is, in the intent of its proponents. The author does this by discussing the concerns behind those who successfully opposed legalization in Oklahoma:

Voters in Oklahoma had both practical and cultural concerns with recreational pot. They worried about the medical effects, especially on adolescents. They also saw the widespread gang activity that followed the state’s legalization of medical marijuana years earlier and feared recreational use would exacerbate the problem. But they also worried about the cultural effects of legalizing a drug that, by its nature, is anti-social.

Wherever its use becomes widespread, marijuana births certain habits, opinions, and values. It tends to make people apathetic, less capable of appreciating higher things, and more willing to tolerate disorder. …

Both proponents and opponents of marijuana legalization recognize that the cultural question, not medical or legal effects, is at the heart of the dispute. …

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Marijuana, despite its proponents’ pretensions to the contrary, is a revolutionary drug at the level of its effects. Its proponents want to smoke, yes, but they also want the social revolution widespread pot use entails—the indifference, the apathy, the empty pleasure that robs man of the joy for which he was created.

Its opponents, then, are “anti-revolutionaries.” They stand between proponents and an abyss that Hitchens describes in his essay …

Would it surprise you to learn that the same wealthy interests that pushed the Covid Regime on us, that are pushing the Trans Regime on us, are also major proponents and beneficiaries of Dope Legalization? Would it surprise you to learn that they are all on the outer fringer of Progressivism?

Chicago Pot Cartel by Pritzker, Wrigley Families Alleged in Suit

By Steve Stroth and Tiffany Kary

April 18, 2022 at 5:46 PM CDT

The legal marijuana business in Illinois is being controlled by a state-protected “Chicago cartel” that includes companies linked to the wealthy Pritzker, Wrigley and Kovler families, according to a lawsuit filed by a group called True Social Equity in Cannabis.

That lawsuit was brought by another legalization lobby, but the point is that powerful interests are behind the movement. Those interests are looking for far more than just money. They’re at the forefront of human transformation into an inhuman future.