420 with CNW — Study Shows State-Level Cannabis Legalization Boosts Recruitment for College Basketball

420 with CNW — Study Shows State-Level Cannabis Legalization Boosts Recruitment for College Basketball

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A recent study conducted by researchers at Kennesaw State University and Georgia College and State University has established a link between cannabis legalization and its impact on recruitment outcomes for college sports teams. Delving into the dynamics of recreational marijuana policies and their influence on talent acquisition, the researchers examined recruiting data spanning from 2003 to 2019.

Their findings, presented in the “Sports Economics Journal,” propose that cannabis legalization plays a major yet intricate role in shaping the landscape of college sports recruitment, particularly in football and basketball, warranting attention from NCAA leagues. The research revealed a positive correlation between cannabis legalization and enhanced recruitment prospects for college basketball teams. Teams situated in states where marijuana is legal experienced an average improvement of 3.7 slots in recruiting rankings. In stark contrast, the outcomes for football teams in legal states were less favorable, with recruitment rankings showing an average decline of 2.9 slots compared to similar institutions in nonlegal states.

Despite the absence of survey data from individual athletes, the authors caution against drawing definitive conclusions from their findings. Nonetheless, they offer speculative hypotheses to shed light on the observed disparities. One theory posits that variations in the recruitment landscape between football and basketball may be attributed to the historical cannabis policies of national leagues, such as the NBA and NFL. The NFL, with its more stringent penalties for marijuana use, could have instilled greater caution among college football players compared to their basketball counterparts.

The study notes the evolving landscape of league policies, citing adjustments made by both the NFL and NBA in 2020. The NBA, for instance, removed cannabis from its banned substances list, allowing players to engage in marijuana-related activities within specified limits. Similarly, the NFL altered its drug-testing policy to eliminate the threat of suspension for positive tests, signaling a more lenient stance.

Notably, the study highlights the broader impact of cannabis policy changes on various professional sports leagues, including the NCAA. In a significant move, the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports recommended the removal of cannabis from the list of banned substances for college athletes. This proposed reform aligns with the NCAA’s prior adjustment of the THC threshold for a positive test, bringing it in line with the WADA standards.

The researchers also explore the possibility that the disparate effects of legalization on football and basketball recruitment may be influenced by cultural differences within these sports communities. The study suggests that the basketball community might be more accepting of cannabis use, potentially empowering college recruits to choose institutions in states where recreational use is permitted.

The researchers acknowledge the need for further research to validate these hypotheses. However, they emphasize the predictive power of their results in anticipating the future dynamics of college athletics. With several states enacting legalization post-2019, the study suggests that colleges in these states may witness improved basketball recruitment and on-court performance but could experience adverse effects on football recruitment and on-field performance in the coming years.

Established cannabis companies such as Verano Holdings Corp. (CSE: VRNO) (OTCQX: VRNOF) likely wouldn’t have thought that the legalization of cannabis could have positive effects on recruitment into college sports teams. More research could reveal yet more benefits associated with ending cannabis prohibition.

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The Electronic Takeover of Every Asset on Earth, “The Great Taking,” and the Control of Humanity

The Electronic Takeover of Every Asset on Earth, “The Great Taking,” and the Control of Humanity

The Electronic Takeover of Every Asset on Earth

 “The Great Taking,” and the Control of Humanity

By: Gary D. Barnett

“Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin… Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.”

~ Josiah Stamp

Sometimes things seem so complicated, that most simply avoid any effort to understand the problems facing them. Very little of anything is too complicated or too complex for any thinking individual to understand, so breaking things down to a level that is more easily understandable is often necessary for clarity. These efforts can be helped along by those with knowledge about important issues, who take the time to explain them in such a manner, that little expertise is necessary to figure out the basis of the matter at hand. A great impediment to this dilemma, is the fact that the State has over many decades, attempted, and most successfully, to dumb-down the population at large, by taking over the ‘schooling’ of each generation almost from birth until full adulthood and beyond, thereby harming the intellect of large numbers of ‘society’ to such an extent, as to effectively negate meaningful dialogue.

The result of this manufactured and manipulated outcome, has been the plotted creation of a blind, ignorant, and indifferent population, with voluminous propaganda being used as a tool of deception. This has led to mass slavery, even though the crowd for the most part, still believes due to extreme gullibility and brainwashing, that they are somehow free. This solidifies the statement made by Von Goethe, that “None are so enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.” This country is the epitome of this reality, but few recognize the existence and scope of the extreme uncertainty confronting us, and the dire consequences of the mass inaction of the herd in the face of the staggering challenges ahead.

Our plight, at least in the economic and financial sense, has been recently explained by David Rogers Webb, in his documentary, “The Great Taking.” This is very well done so far as explaining much of what has happened, how it happened, and the players involved on Wall Street, in government and by so-called ‘law-makers,’ political regulators, corporate heads, and the central bankers, whose ability to create unlimited sums of currency has plunged this country into economic hell. A lot of what he is saying in this production is spot on, and does get very technical concerning the structuring of assets so as to place ownership of nearly everything intangible on earth in the hands of the few at the top of the banking cabal. Where he completely fails, is in his very confused ideas concerning the solutions to this takeover plot. On one hand, he nails the problems, but on the other, he destroys all his efforts due to his gross ignorance and misunderstanding of government and the power structures bent on controlling everything. It is astounding to me that Webb understands so much about the corruption, dishonesty, and intricate criminal workings of those who control the ‘money,’ but fails miserably in his assessment of how to go about fixing these problems.

This is not uncommon, as most everyone seeks solutions from outside themselves, and inside the very failed system that has always been the problem. This is of course backward, but by accepting the system and attempting to change and reform it using that same system, negates any risk or responsibility of the individual, and places all efforts on ‘trusting’ others to be honest and noble for the benefit of the evil and moronic idea of the ‘greater good.’  Let’s just get ‘better people’ in government; let’s tell government not to seek power or expand; let’s just ‘educate’ the ruling class, because they really do not want this, but only inherited this ownership layer of power. “They (Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Royals, Presidents) did not design this, they did not put it into motion, they have allowed the juggernaut to continue; they are not particularly capable people.”

All we have to do according to Webb, is push the ‘awareness’ of the insanity of wanting to control everything, to the top levels of all the “muscle,” (politicians, agency heads, corporate heads, CIA, military brass, etc.) who enforce the criminal behavior of the real rulers, so that they will see the error of their ways, because “they did not know anything about this” plot. So all we have to do is reach people at high levels, in order to expect them to save us. With Webb’s thinking, we do not need to get rid of this heinous system, all we need to do is repair it. We do not need a privately-owned central bank, (of course not) we need to have a central bank run like a ‘public’ utility, or in other words, the government should run the central bank and return all profits to the ‘public’ (government) and for the support of that same government. This is what I would refer to as a socialistic, communistic, nationalistic, and fascist, utopian monetary plan, based on pure fantasy.

According to Webb, “We have to have government. We have to have someone to ‘operate’ society.” “Anarchy and chaos; (opposites) we can’t have that.” His notion is that everything has to be done ‘legally,’ which only means by the forced and enforced rules of the State. All we have to do is to make government smaller, limited, and beneficial to humanity. Ah, so simple?

Enough of this poppycock, love and respect of the evil State, its laws, and the expectation that by informing the ruling class that it is not being good, that they will understand their complicity in evil, and voluntarily reverse everything they have done perpetually throughout history, and only act as benevolent masters and ‘leaders,’ ministers of peace for humanity, and lowly saints of man. All this nonsense means is that a full reliance on educating the near top level of rule, so that they will speak out against what is happening; those high level politicians, billionaires, corporate heads, and banking magnates, and then the ‘system’ will repair itself for the betterment of mankind.

All assets on earth are on the chopping block, as all assets are coming under the control of the ruling master class. The electronic takeover of all monetary, credit, and debt systems, total control of the internet, and the all-consuming growth of artificial ‘intelligence,’ are going ahead full steam, and once in place universally, once all monetary transactions are digital, once CBDCs and other central bank monetary units (fed coins, etc.) are in place, and when currencies are cleared and controlled from a global central source or sources, the total loss of control by individuals, will be the result. All property will be subject to confiscation and management by the State, including the very lives of the sheep.

The bankers own the earth, (and all politicians) and will never give up their power to create money out of thin air, and without limit. Even if government was to somehow take over the monetary system and control the central bank, a joke to be sure, it would never rectify this gross corruption, or act in favor of the people. The entire system is the problem; government is the problem, so in order for any escape from this insanity, in order to ever regain any aspect of real freedom, this entire system, all of it, must be abolished. Nothing of value can ever come from seeking redress from the same government that is the oppressor of humanity. No government or ruling class controlling government, will ever limit its own power in favor of individual sovereignty, for that would automatically negate any need of government or rule. No government or rule should exist, as it is completely immoral for any man to rule another by force. The natural state of  man is to be free, and this is the responsibility of each and every individual; each and every one of you.

“Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.”

Victor Hugo

–  Time to Grow  –

– Time to Grow –

– Time to Grow –

by Julian Rose

The plant kingdom, the animal kingdom and the human kingdom, have one outstanding common ambition -‘to grow’.

The plant kingdom reaches for the light, and through a process of photosynthesis it absorbs sunlight and CO2 and turns them into oxygen.

We humans then breathe in this oxygen and eat the plant’s stems and leaves, to give us energy. We also utilise them for curative medicinal purposes.

The plant kingdom can survive without us, but we can’t survive without it.

This simple fact should be one of the first things to learn upon arriving on this planet. In fact, it’s more important than knowing that 1+1=2.

But for the majority, only ‘seeing is believing’. So taking a seed or two in one’s hands and pressing them gently into some fertile soil – should be a mandatory experience for all human beings when just a few years old.

In fact, the importance of experiencing the first appearance of that little green shoot is comparable to the moment one first witnesses a newborn child.

What we observe in both these experiences, is that life is aspirational, vigorous and expressive of extreme determination. There is a huge ‘will to be’.

But what happens to this great ‘will to be’ for we humans?

Does it burst forth and sustain itself throughout the duration of our lives? Or does it dissipate away and dry up amongst the overlaid ambitions of material ‘success’ and a life of enslavement to the digitalised techno-salvation god of ‘convenience’?

Those voices that whisper in your ear “No point in struggling to grow your own – it’s all available in the supermarket – and you don’t even have to get your hands dirty!”

But fortunately, not all citizens of the post industrial Westernised World succumb to this trap called ‘convenience’. There are those who take quiet delight in getting their hands dirty and committing to sowing the seeds of destiny in the great outdoors.

Last month, during an interview conducted by Lorenzo, painter, poet and general manager of The New Agora online and The New Now, I was introduced to a fellow aspirant and entrepreneur within the world of food, farming and human health, Dr Brent Davis from Tennessee.

Like myself, Dr Davis felt guided to work on the land a number of years ago and to do this in the spirit of ‘working with, rather than against, nature’.

Taking this attitude is contrary to the advice pumped out by mainstream agrichemical farming lobbies and the vast monocultural farms that supply super and hypermarkets of the world with the resulting so called ‘food’.

But in my language and that of Dr Brent Davis, this is not real food. It is a pale imitation of that which is grown with one’s own hands in small scale pro-ecological ventures run by caring, thoughtful individuals who do not see their lives as separate from that which emerges out of the soils on their holdings – but very much a part.

As the divided world into which we are indoctrinated, falls into a state of increasing confusion – incited and directed by deliberate top-down acts of aggressive narcissism – so the need to become anchored in something positive and enduring, grows ever greater in importance.

Having one’s hands, mind and heart strongly involved with the wondrous workings of nature, is the best possible way of keeping alive a light capable of burning through the imposition of a dystopian darkness.

Whether this be the self imposed variety, or that directed against us by the architects of oppression, it doesn’t matter; ‘where attention goes energy flows’. And for the sake of our sanity and deeper prosperity, it is truly vital to establish an energetic working connection with the soil, plants, animals and insects that form the multidimensional tapestry of the natural world.

Dr Davis described how he is forging this kind of relationship on his 160 acre holding near Nashville, Tennessee. He is also a trained homeopath and collector and preserver of rare flower essences.

These essences are obtained without cutting the rare flowers, but by a process of frequency capture and symbiotic transfer from flower to a liquid medium which holds the essential vibratory expression of the plant.

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Feeling a ready sympathy for this unique approach, I requested a sample so as to test this ‘uncut flower essence’ first hand.

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My first impressions relate directly to this sensitive nature. Like with homeopathic remedies, the recommended volume of water to essence means a high dilution rate, but the ‘flower power’ diffuses throughout and the effect is immediately uplifting.(See end to ‘order’ if interested – editor)

It is, in many ways, a humbling experience to open one’s self to a remedy of such subtlety, and I look forward to an unfolding onward journey with FlorALIVE.

In the course of my conversation with Dr Davis it emerged that we share a deep respect for plant biodiversity within the context of pro-ecological farming methods that strive to operate through a dynamic symbiosis with nature.

‘Feeling’ the holistic interconnection between diverse yet complementary life forms is the quality essential for creating the building blocks of a new society.

Have no doubt, the emergence of a new era of human creativity, incorporating shared idealism and a love of working harmoniously with fellow human beings – and with nature – is going to rise like a Phoenix from the ashes of the rapidly fraying godless agenda we are faced with today.

Hold this upwardly rising vision in your mind, buy some seeds and get to work! Yes, its time to grow. You won’t regret it and you won’t forget it.

Commit to a love affair with nature and take endless pleasure in exploring its mysteries.

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Julian Rose is an organic farmer, writer, broadcaster and international activist. He is author of four books of which the latest ‘Overcoming the Robotic Mind’ is a clarion call to resist the despotic New World Order takeover of our lives. Do visit his website for further information www.julianrose.info

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Break the Cycle: In 2024, Say No to the Government’s Cruelty, Brutality and Abuse

Break the Cycle: In 2024, Say No to the Government’s Cruelty, Brutality and Abuse

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Break the Cycle: In 2024…

Say No to the Government’s Cruelty, Brutality and Abuse

By John & Nisha Whitehead

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”—Edmund Burke

Folks, it’s time to break the cycle of abuses—cruel, brutal, immoral, unconstitutional and unacceptable—that have been heaped upon us by the government for way too long.

Here’s just a small sampling of what we suffered through in 2023.

The government failed to protect our lives, liberty and happiness. The predators of the police state wreaked havoc on our freedoms, our communities, and our lives. The government didn’t listen to the citizenry, refused to abide by the Constitution, and treated the citizenry as a source of funding and little else. Police officers shot unarmed citizens and their household pets. Government agents—including local police—were armed to the teeth and encouraged to act like soldiers on a battlefield. Bloated government agencies were allowed to fleece taxpayers. Government technicians spied on our emails and phone calls. And government contractors made a killing by waging endless wars abroad.

The president became more imperial. Although the Constitution invests the President with very specific, limited powers, in recent years, American presidents have claimed the power to completely and almost unilaterally alter the landscape of this country for good or for ill. The powers amassed by each successive president through the negligence of Congress and the courts—powers which add up to a toolbox of terror for an imperial ruler—empower whoever occupies the Oval Office to act as a dictator, above the law and beyond any real accountability. The presidency itself has become an imperial one with permanent powers.

The cost of endless wars drove the nation deeper into debt. Policing the globe and waging endless wars abroad hasn’t made America—or the rest of the world—any safer, but it has made the military industrial complex rich at taxpayer expense.

The courts failed to uphold justice. Time and time again, the Supreme Court failed to right the wrongs being meted out by the American police state. A review of critical court rulings over the past decade or so, including some ominous ones by the U.S. Supreme Court, reveals a startling and steady trend towards pro-police state rulings by an institution concerned more with establishing order and protecting the ruling class and government agents than with upholding the rights enshrined in the Constitution.

The Surveillance State rendered Americans vulnerable to threats from government spies, police, hackers and power failures. Thanks to the government’s ongoing efforts to build massive databases using emerging surveillance, DNA and biometrics technologies, Americans became sitting ducks for hackers and government spies alike. Billions of people have been affected by data breaches and cyberattacks. On a daily basis, Americans were made to relinquish the most intimate details of who we are—our biological makeup, our genetic blueprints, and our biometrics (facial characteristics and structure, fingerprints, iris scans, etc.)—in order to navigate an increasingly technologically-enabled world. The Department of Homeland Security, which has led the charge to create a Surveillance State, has continued to deploy mandatory facial recognition scans at airports and gather biometric data on American travelers. Police were gifted with new surveillance gadgets. The Corporate State tapped into our computer keyboards, cameras, cell phones and smart devices in order to better target us for advertising. Social media giants such as Facebook granted secret requests by the government and its agents for access to users’ accounts. And our private data—methodically collected and stored with or without our say-so—was repeatedly compromised and breached.

Mass shootings claimed more lives. Mass shootings have taken place at churches, in nightclubs, on college campuses, on military bases, in elementary schools, in government offices, and at concerts. In almost every instance, you can connect the dots back to the military-industrial complex, which continues to dominate, dictate and shape almost every aspect of our lives.

The rich got richer, and the poor went to jail. Not content to expand the police state’s power to search, strip, seize, raid, steal from, arrest and jail Americans for any infraction, no matter how insignificant, the courts continued their practice of jailing individuals who are unable to pay the hefty fines imposed by the American police state. These debtors’ prisons play right into the hands of those who make a profit by jailing Americans.  This is no longer a government “of the people, by the people, for the people.” It is fast becoming a government “of the rich, by the elite, for the corporations,” and its rise to power is predicated on shackling the American taxpayer to a debtors’ prison guarded by a phalanx of politicians, bureaucrats and militarized police with no hope of parole and no chance for escape.

“Show your papers” incidents skyrocketed. We are not supposed to be living in a “show me your papers” society. Despite this, the U.S. government has introduced measures allowing police and other law enforcement officials to stop individuals (citizens and noncitizens alike), demand they identify themselves, and subject them to patdowns, warrantless searches, and interrogations.

Free speech was dealt one knock-out punch after another. Protest laws, free speech zones, bubble zones, trespass zones, anti-bullying legislation, zero tolerance policies, hate crime laws and a host of other legalistic maladies dreamed up by politicians and prosecutors (and championed by those who want to suppress speech with which they might disagree) conspired to corrode our core freedoms, purportedly for our own good. On paper—at least according to the U.S. Constitution—we are technically free to speak. In reality, however, we were only as free to speak as a government official—or corporate entities such as Facebook, Google or YouTube—allowed. The reasons for such censorship varied widely from political correctness, safety concerns and bullying to national security and hate crimes but the end result remained the same: the complete eradication of free speech.

Police became even more militarized and weaponized. Despite concerns about the government’s steady transformation of local police into a standing military army, local police agencies continued to acquire weaponry, training and equipment suited for the battlefield. There are now reportedly more bureaucratic (non-military) government civilians armed with high-tech, deadly weapons than U.S. Marines.

Schools turned into prisons. So-called school “safety” policies, which run the gamut from zero tolerance policies that punish all infractions harshly to surveillance cameras, metal detectors, random searches, drug-sniffing dogs, school-wide lockdowns, active-shooter drills and militarized police officers, turned schools into prisons and young people into prisoners.

The government waged a renewed war on private property. The battle to protect our private property has become the final constitutional frontier, the last holdout against our freedoms being usurped. We no longer have any real property rights. That house you live in, the car you drive, the small (or not so small) acreage of land that has been passed down through your family or that you scrimped and saved to acquire, whatever money you manage to keep in your bank account after the government and its cronies have taken their first and second and third cut…none of it is safe from the government’s greedy grasp. At no point do you ever have any real ownership in anything other than the clothes on your back. Everything else can be seized by the government under one pretext or another (civil asset forfeiture, unpaid taxes, eminent domain, public interest, etc.).

The plight of the nation’s homeless worsened. In communities across the country, legislators adopted a variety of methods (parking meters, zoning regulations, tickets, and even robots) to discourage the homeless from squatting, loitering and panhandling. One of the most common—and least discussed—practices: homeless relocation programs that bus the homeless outside city limits.

The government waged war on military veterans. The government has done a pitiful job of respecting the freedoms of military veterans and caring for their needs once out of uniform. The plight of veterans today is America’s badge of shame, with large numbers of veterans impoverished, unemployed, traumatized mentally and physically, struggling with depression, suicide, and marital stress, homeless, subjected to sub-par treatment at clinics and hospitals, left to molder while their paperwork piles up within Veterans Administration offices, and increasingly treated like criminals— targeted for surveillance, censorship, threatened with incarceration or involuntary commitment, labeled as extremists and/or mentally ill, and stripped of their Second Amendment rights—for daring to speak out against government misconduct.

The Deep State took over. The American system of representative government was overthrown by the Deep State—a.k.a. the police state a.k.a. the military industrial complex—a profit-driven, militaristic corporate state bent on total control and global domination through the imposition of martial law here at home and by fomenting wars abroad. When in doubt, follow the money trail. It always points the way.

The takeaway: Everything the founders of this country feared has come to dominate in modern America.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, if freedom is to survive at all, “we the people” must refuse to allow the government’s abusive behavior to be our new normal.

There is nothing normal about egregious surveillance, roadside strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, censorship, retaliatory arrests, the criminalization of lawful activities, warmongering, indefinite detentions, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, police brutality, profit-driven prisons, or pay-to-play politicians.

Let’s not take the mistakes, carnage, toxicity and abuse of this past year into 2024.

As long as we continue to allow callousness, cruelty, meanness, immorality, ignorance, hatred, intolerance, racism, militarism, materialism, meanness and injustice—magnified by an echo chamber of nasty tweets and government-sanctioned brutality—to trump justice, fairness and equality, there can be no hope of prevailing against the police state.

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