Cannabis Experts – Can You Trust Them?

Can Cannabis Experts Be Trusted?

Much depends on who these “experts” are. A cannabis farmer with decades of experience? A budtender with extensive knowledge of cannabis products?

These people are experts.

What about doctors and other healthcare workers? Many consider them experts in all fields of medicine and nutrition.

But does this expand their expertise too much? For example, during the 2020-21 Covid hysteria, many healthcare professionals advocated lockdowns and domestic passports.

That was “science,” and resistance to it was misinformation. But Covid restrictions were normative statements, not indisputable facts.

Of course, the distinction between is and ought has eluded a generation of scholars who see no value in philosophy.

With this in mind, it’s important to distinguish between real cannabis experts and the pseudo-experts of “public health”.

I only mention it because of a recent article published in Public Health Nutrition.

Referring to the “experts” who decide the US government’s dietary guidelines, they found that “95% of committee members had conflicts of interest with the food and/or pharmaceutical industry.”

Can You Trust Cannabis Experts?

In general, you can trust your local cannabis experts, whether they are budtenders, breeders, or extractors. Even if it’s “illegal” or “unregulated,” these people are still consuming the product they’re making. You have no incentive to harm yourself or others.

But what about so-called public health experts on boards and membership committees? In the above study, 95% of these so-called experts had financial ties to lobby groups and big corporations.

Companies like Abbott, Cargill, Dannon, General Mills, Kellogg’s, Kraft, Mead Johnson, McDonald’s, Nestle, Pepsi and Syngenta.

The people who dictate the optimal American diet work with corporations that sell highly processed junk foods and pesticides. Is it any wonder that obesity rates in the US have tripled in the last sixty years?

Likewise, 75% of the Food & Drug Administration’s funds come from the pharmaceutical industry. Should we be surprised that reefer craze is making a comeback? A non-poisonous flower that pharma doesn’t patent doesn’t bode well for their profiteering scams.

Consider what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said to Joe Rogan:

That became clear to me during these conversations [with vaccine regulators] that none of these people had read anything of science; They just repeated things they had been told about science. And they kept saying to me, “Well, I can’t answer that detailed question.” “You need to talk to Paul Offit.” Well, Paul Offit is a vaccine developer who has a $186 million deal with Merck for the rotavirus vaccine completed. It struck me as odd that state regulators would say, “You should talk to someone in the industry.” It’s like I’ve been talking to EPA people the whole time. Ask them: What does this provision in the permit mean? Why did you put it in there? And if they had said to me, “I don’t know, why don’t you talk to the coal industry or this coal industry lobbyist and he’ll tell you what we’re doing?” I would have done that very, you know, confused and penniless . It struck me as odd that the top regulators in the country told me to talk to someone who is an industry expert because we don’t understand the science.

Whose Bono?

Can Cannabis Experts Be Trusted? Some yes, others not at all. The corporate press will claim without justification that certain facts are “misinformation”.

But it’s up to you to determine what’s right. And you can only do that if you have all the available information, factual or not.

But we live in a world where “do your own research” has negative connotations. That’s revealing. It’s similar to the Bill Hicks joke. “Why are you reading?” Not what are you reading, but what are you reading for?

Didn’t you know that the experts already had the right opinion?

It doesn’t matter that the “experts” who draft the government’s diet and medication guidelines have clear conflicts of interest. These people are not cannabis experts and never will be.

It’s no wonder RFK Jr. has been condemned as “anti-vaccination,” that saturated fat has been linked to heart disease, or that cannabis “causes” psychosis and schizophrenia.

Who benefits from your trust? Are they worth it? Is it in your interest to listen to them? Or should you do your own research?