No, my point is that essentially saying your man parts are going to stop working is an easy path to ground for propagandists. I'm just floating the idea that's why cigarettes, alcohol, weed, cocaine, steroids, COVID, (edit also vaccines against COVID) and god-knows-what all have a steady stream of clickbait articles about how they damage your manhood.
I worked in the legal cannabis industry & I'm pretty sure it's just old puritan values for the most part. There's also a large history related to alcohol prohibition. Long story short, the government agency that handled enforcing prohibition needed something to do after prohibition ended. Then came waves of propaganda associating weed with black people, mexicans, and gays to make white people scared of it. Isn't it kind of weird that we call it marijuana in federal laws? Before, it was all just called "hemp". Nixon ramped it up and created the beginnings of our modern prison state. The US is the most incarcerated country in the world both by per capita and total number (1). Mass imprisonment became a way steal votes away from these communities as well as create a more palatable version of slavery where we currently have people working for $0.25/hour.
The reason why so much research is just coming out now is because it was illegal to study the plant. So it's kind of backwards to say the fertility or any other non-obvious effects inspired criminalization as no science was done until it became legal enough to study.
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Hey man, if those are things you want, there are much easier ways which the government isn't clamping down on! You have my full support!
No, my point is that essentially saying your man parts are going to stop working is an easy path to ground for propagandists. I'm just floating the idea that's why cigarettes, alcohol, weed, cocaine, steroids, COVID, (edit also vaccines against COVID) and god-knows-what all have a steady stream of clickbait articles about how they damage your manhood.
I worked in the legal cannabis industry & I'm pretty sure it's just old puritan values for the most part. There's also a large history related to alcohol prohibition. Long story short, the government agency that handled enforcing prohibition needed something to do after prohibition ended. Then came waves of propaganda associating weed with black people, mexicans, and gays to make white people scared of it. Isn't it kind of weird that we call it marijuana in federal laws? Before, it was all just called "hemp". Nixon ramped it up and created the beginnings of our modern prison state. The US is the most incarcerated country in the world both by per capita and total number (1). Mass imprisonment became a way steal votes away from these communities as well as create a more palatable version of slavery where we currently have people working for $0.25/hour.
The reason why so much research is just coming out now is because it was illegal to study the plant. So it's kind of backwards to say the fertility or any other non-obvious effects inspired criminalization as no science was done until it became legal enough to study.
(1) https://www.statista.com/statistics/262961/countries-with-th...
I'd suggest that if you're seeing a steady stream of clickbait articles like this you may be in the wrong neighborhoods of the internet.
What about the vaccine that’s making everyone flaccid.. cure covid and solve overpopulation all in one go