Marijuana Downgrade: Three cheers for Yemen
General News,CIA,DEA,Defense,HHS,Pentagon,Somalia,United States,Yemen,Big Pharma,Charles Krauthammer
What do backward Yemen and the developed United States have in common? An apparently insatiable urge to get stoned on a green bush. In Yemen the green bush, khat, generally is chewed. In our country the green bush, marijuana, is smoked, chewed, vaped, and applied as a cream. The effect is more or less the same: incapacity and degradation. Imagine being a fly on the wall at the recent Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) senior staff meeting where Biden politicals hanging on at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
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