Six years after California legalized marijuana, the bodies keep piling up. Drug legalization has failed on every level. The legal drug business is collapsing. Cartels and gang members dominate the business. And open borders allowed them to bring massive numbers of laborers to boost their ranks. Pictured: San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies and other law enforcement agents cut down cannabis plants during a raid on an illegal cannabis farm in Newberry Springs, in the western Mojave Desert of California on March 29, 2024. (Photo by Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

There is one force and only one force behind the massive push to legalize all psychotropic or psychoactive drugs. It’s called evil. Nothing else. Just evil. However, millions of people work diligently to attach as many other meanings to this travesty as they can to deflect from the truth.

More states are legalizing all manner of drugs that were once illegal, and illegal for a reason, for good reasons.

Today’s drugs — today’s marijuana — are not like the marijuana of the 1950s, 60s,70s and 80s.

Today’s marijuana, like so many other drugs, is much more impactful on the human mind, the human soul, and the human body.

Escapism does not remove a person from reality even if experiencing the deepest possible drug stupor this side of death. Eventually, at least until the next ingestion, reality returns.

What is at work has nothing to do with medical help, medical advancements, improving life, and creating a better freer world.

We’re not talking about cancer cures, diabetic drugs, or other drugs that are brought about with true medical use. We’re talking about marijuana — today’s marijuana, heroin, LSD, fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamines, and every other illicit mind, soul, spirit, and body-altering psychotropic drug present today.

The lie, the utter delusion that legalization would not only reduce drug crimes but the leis of how legalization would eliminate drug crimes has been bought hook line, and sinker by Governors, elected officials, medical staff, and many unknowns blending into the fabric of society people.

It’s all a scam people. It’s all a lie. It’s all propaganda and a concerted public relations campaign that has been very successfully brought to you by SATAN and all his dedicated ministers and minions knowing what the outcome would be!

Let’s stop lying and pretending already, finally, shall we?

And if you are one to blame God? You better rethink that right now. If a subscriber, a regular visitor here it must be clear by now I love Israel and stand with Israel and I love Jewish people and stand with them. I have known and had many Jewish friends and relationships with Jewish people. I had a permanent falling out with a Jewish woman from Philadelphia I had become friends with. We had only spoken on the phone frequently or emailed frequently, and I was even going to go to Philadelphia at one point to visit her and her friends — but when I became completed through Christ, completed by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, born again and spoke and wrote of God our relationship became very strained. She had a daughter who died young from a heroin overdose. And this woman, a friend of mine, a wonderful person to know and speak with, blamed God for her daughter’s drug overdose. And she didn’t like or accept my telling her God didn’t seek out, liquify, put into a syringe, and inject the heroin into her daughter’s veins. Her daughter did that of her own free will and choice. As for God? God loved her daughter and was grieved in how she sinned and shut Him totally out of her life and was on the path she was — of her own choosing. Her decisions. We’re not puppets on strings being manipulated.

The woman rejected God. Told me that she didn’t believe in God any longer although in the same breath told me she was always angry with God. She rejected my words and attempts to help her. Rejected me as her friend. I haven’t spoken to her in years. I do not even know if she is still living.

Stop blaming God for any or all the suffering taking place on this earth and place responsibility where it needs placing — within every individual.

Going out for a drive anywhere at any time on any day or night in America? See that vehicle ahead? Behin? Next to you? Odds are you don’t have to think about those drivers being under the influence of alcohol, though that is still a terrible and deadly problem in America — no, the majority of those driving like lunatics, bats out of hell, maniacs, inconsiderate full of rage and reconsideration drivers are more likely to be under the influence of a psychotropic drug, or multiple psychotropic drugs. To escape reality. To numb them and dumb them down to life on earth.

Whether those psychotropic drugs are one-time illegal ones or mood-altering prescriptions — America has 4.3% of the world’s population yet accounts for over 80% of the world’s ingestion of prescription psychotropic drugs. And that isn’t taking into account all the marijuana being used, heroin, cocaine, LSD, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and other psychotropic drugs being invented weekly. All always being stronger, taking the user deeper and deeper.

Because even past drug use and escapism can’t get them far enough from reality and the truth.

Satan and his team are very, very successful at what they do.

Can we also be that successful?

We should be and then some seeing if we’re truly Christ followers, true believers, indwelling of the Holy Spirit with the Lord Jesus Christ, God our Father, and Their power behind us to engage in this battle. This is also a large part of the escalating and growing more powerful spiritual war every person everywhere are a part of.

Idle bystanders, idle people period only aid the Enemy and are complicit in serving Satan’s side.

Don’t like that?

Well, God doesn’t like idle, complicit people who refuse to be a light unto the world, the salt of the earth, and be individual beckons of faith, perseverance, truth, and service according to His Word for what His Son did for us…

Evil fills every void, vacuum left by people. People who know better, or should, and should be filling the void lives, the walking dead in sin, the lifeless eyes, the dead cold hearts, filling the voids and the vacuum with the Word of God. As living examples. Bringing light into the darkness and then leaving it up to the darkness to either hear and accept and come out from the darkness — or to remain mired in darkness.

We need to at least try.

Silence. Idleness. Absence from the battlefield. We will all have to give an accounting.

Yes, it’s tiresome and endless effort! Yes, it makes one weary at times and I understand most folks just want to have fun, fun, fun, and more fun and personal pleasure and find a place to chill.

Eternities are at stake here.

Eternal lives are at stake here. Not just ones taken over by drugs or something else and they suffer what appear the earthly, fleshly health consequences. This is about eternal consequences.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Friday, June 21st, 2024

California Legalized Drugs. Cartels Took It Over.

Six years after California legalized marijuana, the bodies keep piling up. Earlier this year, six men were murdered in the Mojave Desert. Four of the men had been burned after being shot with rifles. In 2020, seven people were killed at an illegal pot operation in Riverside County.

Violence like this was supposed to disappear after legalization. Legalization advocates argued that making the drug trade legal would end the grip of the cartels. Instead, the legal market has failed, and the cartels are taking over sizable parts of California and the rest of the country.

California’s legal drug revenues have fallen consistently, as have those in other legal drug states including Colorado, whose model helped sell the idea that drug money would fix everything.

Despite falling revenues, Colorado legislators brag about $282 million in drug revenue. That number may sound high, but it’s a drop in the bucket considering the money that the state and cities like Denver are spending on homelessness, drug overdoses and law enforcement.

While the legal drug business is also collapsing in California, the state is spending a fortune fighting marijuana even as it tries to tax it. Gov. Gavin Newsom paradoxically promised to close the budget deficit with $100 million in drug revenue, meant to be used to fund law enforcement and fight substance abuse. The state seized over $300 million in illegal pot this year and uses satellite imagery and heavily-armed raids to fight untaxed marijuana.

But despite all those efforts, illegal marijuana has won and legal marijuana has lost.

The Los Angeles Times warned two years ago:

“Proposition 64, California’s 2016 landmark cannabis initiative, sold voters on the promise a legal market would cripple the drug’s outlaw trade, with its associated violence and environmental wreckage.

“Instead, a Los Angeles Times investigation finds, the law triggered a surge in illegal cannabis on a scale California has never before witnessed.

“Rogue cultivation centers like Mount Shasta Vista now engulf rural communities scattered across the state, as far afield as the Mojave Desert, the steep mountains on the North Coast, and the high desert and timberlands of the Sierra Nevada.

“Residents in these places describe living in fear next to heavily armed camps…”

Some of the growers are private citizens, but they aren’t likely to remain in business for long.

Cartels and gang members dominate the business. And open borders allowed them to bring massive numbers of laborers to boost their ranks. Not only California, but places as far afield as Maine that have large open areas and limited law enforcement resources, have been overrun by drug operations that more closely resemble parts of Latin America and Asia than the USA.

The coasts, from Southern California up to Oregon, are controlled by Mexican cartels which have expanded so much that they’re running short of workers even during the Biden open borders boom. Some have taken to brazenly advertising for illegal workers in Europe.

A local California DA described “Mexican cartel groups coming up to grow pot, and people from Bulgaria, France and Russia.” The vast exodus across the border has made it possible for cartels to freely bring in any workers they want, even as drug legalization and open borders effectively ended any real penalties for either illegal migration or marijuana.

Asian organized crime may be less on the radar, but it is no less ruthless or violent.

A few years ago, four Chinese people were murdered at an Oklahoma illegal pot farm. Chinese organized crime had “taken over marijuana in Oklahoma and the United States,” the head of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs revealed.

Once again, “the mafias set their sights on Oklahoma when the state’s voters approved a ballot measure that legalized the cultivation and sale of marijuana for medicinal purposes.” Now the Triads run their own compounds “ringed by fences, surveillance cameras and guards with guns and machetes” with 3,000 illegal grows having a value estimated at as high as $44 billion a year.

The Triads are not just in the illegal marijuana business, they traffic in everything from heroin to fentanyl. Legalizing marijuana, however, provided them with a profitable and semi-legal market that gives them a base to expand their efforts trafficking in even more lethal drugs.

Drug legalization has failed on every level. The legal drug business is collapsing. MedMen, which once promised to be the Apple of weed, fell from a $3 billion valuation to a bankruptcy with $411 million in liabilities. Despite the green crosses and online apps, 80% of Californian’s pot is still the old-fashioned illegal kind. Politicians may be boasting about hundreds of millions in revenue, but the cartels are making tens of billions and they’re taking over entire forests.

The future isn’t pot shops, weed apps or MedMen: it’s Mexican and Chinese organized crime compounds that are spreading across the West and parts of New England like a plague.

Legalization advocates still argue that if the government lowered the high taxes on legal pot, the business model could turn around again, but even without a single penny in taxes, no amount of legal labor is going to be able to compete with illegal aliens smuggled across the border and forced to work for free by gunmen. Legal businesses can’t compete with organized crime.

Drug legalization increased homelessness and drug abuse. It boosted illegal migration and organized crime. It made life worse in every state and city where it’s been tried without delivering tangible benefits to anyone (including weed users who still get theirs the old-fashioned way) except for a few politicians who temporarily have a few million more to pass around to special interests, donors and lobbyists.

And all they had to do was hand over half the country to organized crime.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center’s Front Page Magazine.