Ratings ratings ratings. Control through fear. That just about sums up the media. Be afraid, be very afraid. Be careful not to drink 2% milk after midnight on a Saturday, or you may be at risk for congenital heart failure.
It makes you wonder where these cockamamie reports come from, and the manner in which they're tested. Check out sometime how doctors found the "evidence" to support the far-reaching claim that Cannabis kills brain cells. What they won't tell you is the test monkeys were given hundreds of times the dosage of THC that is found in the Cannabis plant through gas masks over a period of DAYS. Some monkeys died, others suffered severe mental damage. Do you know why this happened? Asphyxiation! They were deliberately starved of oxygen to produce the results that the pharma companies (who were funding the tests) wanted to see. Now talk to anybody who thinks Cannabis is bad, and I bet you a million they'll say "it kills brain cells." Oh but we think for ourselves do we? We merely salivate when Pavlov rings the bell. We're no more free than a house cat who knows nothing of the world outside.
It is this ignorance that is killing us, and it's the constant fear mongering propagated through media channels that makes us unable to act upon anything.
I have yet to see anything uplifting or fulfilling in the news.
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