Is Marijuana Harming America’s Youth The Facts Revealed
In this eye-opening episode of Gene Valentino’s GrassRoots TruthCast, Gene sits down with Anne Schlafly-Carpenter, Chairman of Eagle Forum and author of Throwing Children Under the Cannabis, to discuss the growing concerns surrounding marijuana legalization, THC products, and their impact on children, families, and society.
They explore:
✅ The rise of recreational marijuana across America
✅ THC’s effects on child development and mental health
✅ The risks for pregnant and nursing mothers
✅ Marijuana’s impact on teens and young adults
✅ The connection between cannabis use and cognitive development
✅ Public policy, legalization, and societal consequences
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Full Episode Transcript
Hi friends, Jean Valentino and welcome to another episode of Gan Valentino’s Grassroots Truth Cast. As you know, we
have guests from all walks of life on the show each week, political, social, economic, spiritual, and this one’s more
on the medical side. This um this uh is jux the medical issues related to
cannabis, THC, marijuana in general. And I have a wonderful guest, Ann Chafly, who’s with us. She’s uh live with me from St.
Louis, Missouri. Hi, Ann. How you doing?
I’m so glad to be with you, Jean. Thank you for having me on.
Well, it’s a good good to have you on as well. We’re going to be discussing your book today, Throwing Children Under the
Cannabis. I love the title. It’s about time we had looked more deeply into this
experiment of cannabis and THC and as an refers to in her book, nipping it in the
bud. And we’re going to do that right after we return.
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Hi friends, welcome back. We’re here with Anne Chaffley. Uh she’s written a great book entitled Throwing Children
Under the Cannabis. Uh nipping it in the bud is what she’s going to try to do.
And what’s the hot point to this book we’re going to spend a little time talking about? I think it’s so important for people to realize what is the ulterior motive of the pot propheteers.
They want to get the children hooked on this dangerous drug. They market to children. And we have under for the last
25 years undergone this social experimentation of legalizing recreational marijuana across the
country starting in Colorado. And this has been without much oversight. And
what has happened is that under the guise of um medicine, under the with
candy and fruit flavors, they lure children into a an addiction with a dangerous drug. And we are seeing the consequences now. And they’re dramatic.
And we have a lot of families that are hurt from from the proliferation of pot.
Yet in parallel, you see President Trump pulling it off um uh what is it? A class one scheduled rating to something more um accommodating for regular retail use.
Yes, he moved it from schedule one to schedule three by executive order. And this was a serious mistake. This is
really policy by podcasters, not a true scientific analysis. Because the more you open up and say this drug is okay.
Guess what, Jean? The more people use it, the more uh teenagers think it’s okay because it’s it’s seems more
acceptable to the adults to use and and that is not good. And where it’s really bad by moving it to schedule three is
that impacts a lot of government regulations. So, for example, the Department of Transportation
uh uh will drug test for schedule one drugs. They there is no requirement for
them to drug test on schedule three drugs. Do we want our over the road longhaul truckers on marijuana and not drug tested for marijuana?
Well, let’s start by getting them to be Americans licensed and legally a legally able to read a a road sign. But your
point is well taken. I think I think our problem has been is that there’s an inconsistency with it. I remember when I was in the payment processing business.
We had a payment transaction underwriting issues related to the attempt to um transact a a THC or
cannabis product. um on the internet and it all boiled down to it being class one at the time and considered a felony to
to to to do so. Um putting that aside, there was a there was a complete I would
say acceptance that it fell in line with medicine and therapy
and I see no evidence of that. I read your book and what I found interesting
is that it’s doctor suggesting some level of use. I’ve never seen a
prescription for the use of the of the marijuana or THC product.
You you’re absolutely correct. Uh this is um using calling marijuana medicine was a way to get the camel’s nose under
the tent of of of legalizing marijuana to say well it’s just those for really
sick. But you can get a so-called prescription for any ailment you want that you think marijuana might solve.
But if you go to the doctor and he gives you a prescription for heart medicine or cholesterol medicine, guess what?
There’s a dosage. The doctor prescribes an exact amount that is appropriate for
you to take. The difference with the so-called medical marijuana is that the patient is selfdosing. You would not
selfdose on any other medicine and call it medicine. That’s akin to self-dosing with a bottle of bourbon.
Yeah. Um that has happened more than once, too. But um uh the fact of the matter it’s not medicine.
It’s not correct. It’s not medicine. Um staying on the topic uh med from a
medicinal point of view with men it’s affecting sperm count. With women you’ve got pregnant and nursing mothers using
marijuana permanently and how it’s affecting child development. You want to focus on those two points?
Yeah. I think this is very important and not publicized enough and it because I I live in a city where pot shops have
proliferated and and these pot shops actually recommend marijuana for morning
sickness. Now that is akin to fetal alcohol syndrome of what you’re going to do to your baby if you use a THC product
while you were pregnant or nursing. the baby will have a lower birth rate, a smaller head circumference, and a
lifetime of damage of just inability to have cognitive development throughout
the baby’s life. And so, the damage that can be done by using THC while pregnant
and nursing is huge. But more recently, I found out of what it affects on sperm.
It degrades both the quality and the quantity of sperm. So males and females
who are interested in having babies are affected by this. If the father is on marijuana, uh there is it doubles the
chance that the of a miscarriage for the mother. Doubles the miscarriage effect. The medicine issue.
Where do they get the word medical marijuana then if their doctors have no purpose in prescribing it? I don’t get
the can do you like you said they get their nose partially under the tent. I get it. But uh it it seems to be a
miscarriage of the med medical uh profession to be allowing this um reference to to exist.
It gives the impression there’s a basis by which there’s a medical use. I think it’s worth looking at the history of tobacco.
And a hundred years ago, tobacco was introduced and marketed to Americans as
medicine. It is a way to to lure people into an addiction is to say, “Well, this is good for you. This is medicine.” And
the tobacco companies actually used advertisements where they said, “Four out of five doctors recommend this brand
of tobacco.” I and and of course it was all a sham. No medicine can be smoked
and still be medicine because of the damage you do to your lungs by smoking.
Uh but once you get the people the idea that it is medical then people are very
um uh easy to accept it as a part of life. Well, you know he’s sick, he needs some help. The problem with this is
that’s not who the users are. are the users are not the cancer patients. The users are teenage boys and that’s why we
have a societal problem with marijuana today.
Talking with Ann Schlaffly who’s also um chairman of Eagle Forum, a not for-p profofit organization. And you can
explain that too if you’d like. But before you do, Ann, following your train of thought, what’s going on with um uh
pregnant women and nursing mothers? uh is this I mean what’s going to h is the a
consequence to children uh unspoken unwritten but worse than it they purported to be.
Well if if you recall you know 50 75 years ago nobody thought anything about
a pregnant woman smoking a cigarette or taking a drink. And today, happily for the babies, we do see that as a problem.
And there’s been great education on that. Well, we just need the similar kind of education on the dangers of THC
products and what they can cause to these babies. So, in the medical marijuana
uh applications, there’s no um you know, medical marijuana doesn’t come with the fine print list of side effects that all
other drugs come with. and and you know, you need to know these side effects so that you can be you can make a decision
about what’s best for for your your developing baby and that you aren’t hoodwinkedked and so sorry that you had
this puff as to the lifetime consequences to your child that you’re not aware of. So, one state, Alabama,
has done something that I think all the other states should copy, which is they have rules and regulations that if you
are a woman of childbearing age and you get medical marijuana, you have to do a
pregnancy test every 30 days. Now, that may sound ownorous, but that’s the exact
same regulation that they do for Accutane. Accutane is an acne medicine that causes severe birth defects. And of
course, nobody likes acne. And you want to take the drug to clear up your face so you look beautiful and you can go out on a date, but you can’t do that if you’re going to be pregnant.
Interesting. Well, can you distinguish between the consequences to uh babies in the womb versus the infants born? Is
there a pattern uh of THC or marijuana abuse that shows that reveals itself as a consequence in the child or infant?
Well, the first consequence is is a smaller circumference of the head and and then subsequently there is brain
devel uh poor brain development and cognitive uh a poor cognitive development and that usually shows up in
the teenage years when the when the child is just um far behind in developing and and then I I think there
is some evidence that you get some some hyperactivity u um uh attention deficit disorders because they just don’t have the brain capacity to concentrate.
I guess I’m going to have to speak liberal to figure out how they justify this this abuse of the drug for for the It’s very simple. You follow the money.
Follow the money.
Follow the money. People want to make money off of it and and that is why they
candycoat it. You know, no medicine is candycoated. And when you look at these
marijuana products, they come as gummies. They look like candy. They’re marketed as candy. Well, you don’t
market candy to adults. You market candy to children because the marijuana profiters want to get the children
hooked because then they have a a lifetime uh customers just like the tobacco companies did. And one of the
things I read in your book which I found very interesting is that and I didn’t connect the dots is that it is
there’s a connection between psychosis schizophrenia and um the the impact as a consequence
of the abuse of THC or marijuana um uh in children and young teens. But you know I’ve also noticed it in adults too.
I mean, I’ve seen some adults who hang their hat on the fact that I need it to calm my nerves or I’ve got a little bit of emotional trauma.
I’m going to take um uh take marijuana or PTSD.
And as a consequence, there’s a um what’s the word? There’s a reliance on
on the drug for uh a remedy. Is it a remedy?
So the problem with it being a remedy like aspirin will remedy your pain is
that THC is fat soluble not water soluble. So it stays in your system for
for quite a long time. In fact, Jean, the fatter you are, the longer it stays in your system because of and and when
you ingest the THC and it gets stored in the fat, the body then slowly releases
it back into the bloodstream. So, you may only take marijuana once a month, but you are not sober for the next 30
days. And that’s one of the challenges in in teaching about the effects of
marijuana is that people equate it with say taking a drink. Well, the next day you may be hung over, but you’re not
drunk. But you take marijuana and you are not sober for weeks afterwards
because it is still slowly releasing into your system. They say for men, if they want to impregnate a woman, they
need to be off THC for six months uh before. And so that’s a long period of
time for this drug to clear from your system. So when people take it for insomnia or anxiety and then say they
stop and they feel the effects of their insomnia or anxiety, what they’re feeling is withdrawal. It is not that
the drug is solving their medical condition because they’re not actually addressing their underlying medical condition, but they are going through
the symptoms of withdrawal. Because with any drug, the the more you you you build up a tolerance to it and then you feel
like you need more in order to achieve the same high that you got the first time. And that building up of more then
is what creates such problems in your body in trying to get off of the drug, the the the basis for an addiction.
Yeah. Yes.
Yeah. Folks, we’re talking with Ann Schlafi. Uh uh she’s also head of the she’s chairman of the Eagle Forum, a
notfor-profit organization. Ann, you want us explain your other books, where we can find them, your website, how we reach you?
Thank you, Jean. My organization is called Eagle Forum. It was founded by my mother, Phyllis Schlafley, uh 60 years
ago. It is a fabulous volunteer organization of chapters across the country that care about issues at the
local, state, and national level. I we’re conservative. We do the three um the the three-legged stool of
conservatives. Uh fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, and good family policy. Uh our website is eagleforum.org.
It’s where you can find my book, Throwing Children Under the Cannabis.
And yes, I have a couple of other books that I think are quite fun. And the funny one, and I we do need humor in our life. I mean, we’ve got some serious
issues, Gan, but we got to we got to have some humor. And that is how to speak liberal. And that’s where I
investigate these words that the um the left has come up with and say, what is it that they actually mean? you know
these uh you know it’s you know they’re trying to redefine our language you know redefining marriage redefining male and
female and you know what it means you know we thought we had these biological truths and they come along and say that
it’s it’s just a feeling of the moment is what it is but u no so I I I may I have a I have a little fun with language
on that that’s good hey explain Eagle Forum as well so Eagle Forum as a network of uh
chapters across the country and we were founded on the idea that males and females are not interchangeable. If you
go back to the feminist movement, that was their whole idea was that males and females are interchangeable in every
situation, which is why they wanted to put females on the front line in the combat and subject to the draft. Well,
we oppose that because that would only weaken our military and make our enemies uh stronger. The um and then of course
the logical extension of interchangeability of males and females is this nutty transgender movement which
says that you can wake up one day and decide that God made a mistake. Well, guess what, Jean? God never makes a mistake.
That’s for darn sure. Uh uh he’s he’s he’s right more often than he’s wrong.
I’ll tell you that much. Um you know, one of the things um that amazed me about your book is you make even a reference to crime.
um the criminal wrongdoing in this nation and the propensity of the statistics moving having a correlation
again to to uh the use or misuse of marijuana and THC products. Can you
expound upon that a bit? I I find that very interesting.
I I know it it’ll come as a shock to you, but if you open a pot shop in a neighborhood, crime increases. You’re shocked, aren’t you?
What a concept. Yeah. Right. But but here’s the problem is that the legality of marijuana has made the illegal more
attractive and because it gives the illegal a veneer of legality. You know, if you’re if that you’re just walking
down the street, you don’t know whether that that local pot shop is a legal pot shop selling legal marijuana or an
illegal selling illegal marijuana. Now, why is that important for states is because states sold the idea of
legalizing marijuana with the with well people are going to do it anyway. Let’s let’s legalize it, tax it, and then we
can have a nice revenue stream. Well, it turns out that the legal marijuana is more expensive because they pay taxes
than the illegal marijuana which doesn’t have to pay taxes. And so then the states, particularly California, has had
this problem. They’re not getting their expected revenue. And after all, where does this expected revenue go to? How is
it spent by the state? You you you put you you create sin taxes. You want then
people to sin and use more of these bad things. And then they get in trouble.
And then you have to have increase your social services with state money to to take care of the people who you’ve now
addicted. Now that is a lose-lose situation. As far as I’m concerned,
I can’t imagine how we how the medical profession
with a lack of clinical trials um documentation
to connect the illness uh to the THC marijuana remedy. Uh you know, show me
some linkage there. and uh we’re quickly on board to approve or adopt that as a
as a as a medicine for cure. The problem I have today is that not only do you don’t see it, but it’s directly related
to some criminal wrongdoing. You had reported in uh your book um about 30% of
the uh criminal activities involving the shooting incidences in schools and the
younger the younger folks in shooting incidences in and around schools at
least 30% probably more were um were on THC or marijuana at the time of their
wrongdoing. I can’t believe how high that is. And um you you know uh I I used
to enjoy a good drink. I stopped drinking 22 years ago because I didn’t learn my lesson and I went a little too
far. Now I stay off it completely. I’m glad I did. But the fact of the matter is uh whether it’s alcohol or marijuana
or anything else for that matter. I I don’t enjoy being controlled by another substance.
Here’s my only substance. It’s called coffee. And I you I’m sorry. Yeah. I I I plead guilty. You got me one or two cups
a day. That’s all you get out of me. But um let that be my sin. But the other stuff that triggers you to go further
into um uh uh losing control over your own wellness, not to mention causing
harm to others, to me uh is is a step too far. What say you?
So the the younger you are that you start marijuana, the the worse the consequences. and and it seems and
teenage boys seem to be particularly susceptible susceptible to the lures of this drug and if they start younger they
get they tend to get more addicted and the consequences are more profound. So, um, and they tend to be heavier users,
the the the teenagers, uh, and heavy use of marijuana, uh, brings on, um, the cannabis use
disorder, which is a fancy way to say that you’re addicted to it and you use it every day. And so, right now, we have
more daily users of marijuana than we have daily drinkers of alcohol. I mean
that to me is quite stunning of how of the proliferation of marijuana. But these these young boys get on the
marijuana and you know they they say well you know it’s not really a gateway drug or you know that they they use they talk about that. I don’t it doesn’t
matter whether they lead it to other harder substances. Marijuana itself has
bad effects. So if you have the cannabis use disorder, you are more susceptible to getting schizophrenia and psychosis.
And those are lifetime illnesses that cannot be uh cured. You are forever psychotic and under
schizophrenia once you get it. You never get off of it. So you have a lifetime problem from using marijuana as a
teenager. The other thing is with the heavy marijuana use, and you’re right, many of the most infamous school
shooters, starting with the Coline, but a lot of other school shooters were heavy marijuana users. And it turns out
that there is among certain um uh uh heavy users suicide ideiation with using
marijuana. So if you’re going to go out and kill yourself, then you think, well, why don’t I take everybody else out with
me when I go? And that’s why we get these horrific school shootings is because of the use of marijuana by these teenage boys.
You know, I was thinking, and that’s and that’s what we need um uh we we need the people, the public to
understand how danger it is to use marijuana under the age of 25. It’s legal in a lot of states at 21 and
above, but there’s a loophole because you can get medical, so-called medical marijuana at age 18.
Well, medicine was never packaged uh in my lifetime as a candy and it certainly uh uh can’t be smoked.
I don’t know what medicine you smoke.
No. Uh, so, um, look, I I was never really anti- marijuana or cannabis. It didn’t, you
know, you do your thing, I’ll do my thing. I had this cavalier attitude. I stay stayed away from the argument, so
to speak. But now, as I grow older, I’m seeing more impacts, more consequences
when used inappropriately, when smoked inappropriately, when eaten inappropriately. And um as you you led
with a minute ago, the the the Coline shooting and the dozens of other illegal
incidents since then, uh all of them were impacted or or they had some sort
of marijuana or THC in their body when um when tested. There’s a there’s a there’s a correlation. And so we need to
look at that. And you know it draws to a bigger uh issue that you and I were at a recent uh event and um it’s conservative
conservative group of people by nature and when we were there having a chat um it dawned on me there’s a lot of things
in the United States of America right now stepping back that seems to be allowed
it’s almost like a deep state movement that’s pushing these that’s that’s pushing these
narratives that uh weaken our our standing our our footing and our principles um to allow more unrest and
instability uh in our nation itself. The enemy abroad is is um is winning when they say let’s um let’s disrupt them from within.
And I think that our group that when we were there had brought that out that while President Trump and other leaders
focus on the instability around the world in parallel we have instability within the United States in our own
backyards regardless of where you are and that needs to be protected and addressed. I find that very
I I find marijuana therefore and THC abuse to um to align with this issue.
What say you?
Yes. When you have internal rot, you you society is on the road to to committing
suicide. And that’s what you worry about with our great nation here at our 250th
birthday. Can we do it for another 250 years? Well, we do need to make sure that we don’t have an internal rot that
destroys our um the fabric of our society, our cultural institutions, our the way our government works. We have to
we have to keep you know we want to maintain a good society. And the problem with a with the proliferation of
marijuana is that it harms the next generation. You then get boys who have
no ambition and are just stoners in their parents’ uh basement. Now what does that do for the success of our
country if our next generation is s is is living in the parents’ basement?
Boy, how many veterans I’ve spoken to who’ve taken on um recruitment jobs.
What a within the last 6 years in particular, you can see people who’ve totally given up on America uh lounging
around on their couch and taking an extra toque on their little cannabis stick. And then you’ve got um the others
who are working hard to defend this nation. Uh, and I’m trying to figure out what it’s going to take to get these uh,
couch potatoes remotivated to getting back into um, productivity for our American system uh, and way of life.
It’s um, well, first they have to get off the drugs. Yes, ma’am. That’s right. That’s right.
And uh, uh, you’ve been around quite a bit. You’ve written a few books. You want to explain some of the other books you’ve written?
So, uh, I wrote a book called Is Our Constitution in Jeopardy?
And that book and and what I just the reason I wrote the book is that if you’re if you’ve been around conservative circles, you probably have
many copies of the pocketbook constitution. This this little tiny book that you can spring out and say, “Oh,
but article 2, section one says this.” And and I but the problem is you got your pocket constitution there. the uh Yeah,
here’s I heard you. I’m always ready for a reference. Go ahead. Here’s the problem with the with that.
The print’s too fine and people don’t really understand it. And we are in a society because of our phone that you
need to give people information in very bite-sized bits. So, what I do in this
book is that it is an answer and question game. And on the first page you get the answer and then you have to
guess the question of what is the constitutional reference and I take it through the history of the constitution the writing what’s actually in the
document the bill of rights the ratification and all of that so you can get a thumbnail bit of the of the whole
history of of the founding of our country and when I give the an the the the um the question which is the answer
to it I have the exact quote from the Constitution underneath so that you can get yourself in a situation of
understanding what our founding principles are, what it is to be uh an American and the rights that we hold so
dear. Because one of the things I discovered with the COVID shutdown is that Americans did not understand their
rights. No one can can force them to quarantine them in their homes. Uh and yet that yet people were allowing that
to happen, you know, closing their businesses and and and so we need to go back to first principles and in this
anniversary year of our country, it’s so important to go back to first principles. So is our constitution in jeopardy?
Is is the uh is the book to teach as a teaching tool for all ages of learning
our principles. Well, if it uh is in jeopardy, there’s been no greater challenge than this past decade as
there’s been an acceleration in challenging our constitution and our constitutional republic, the democracy
it sits in. It’s it’s to me uh amazing and just to see how how the the disparit
forces uh within the administrative side, the legislative side and now the judiciary
have um all misbehaved in different ways. And um for some strange reason,
we’re on our 250th anniversary. There’s no small coincidence. Either the founding fathers were brilliant beyond
uh cognition or they were and I suspect they weren’t taking cannabis at that time like
or or they just fell into it because the fact of the matter is we’ve survived longer than any other nation in the
world. And um there’s but we have a mayor of New York who’s just announced that he’s going to seize the property of any landlord he doesn’t
like. Yeah, I saw that. It’s that’s obscene. The question is, what will we do?
He’s going to want to hand out free marijuana and THC gummies to everybody because he doesn’t want them stepping
up, protesting, and and um uh showing resistance, the real American stoned people do not protest.
That’s correct. And maybe that’s the connection. And but the truth is our
constitution even talks about and you know this as a a history major that that
the there’s in the constitution there’s an allowance for individuals to step up to remedy the
very government that is misbehaving and mistreating them. There is room for that. We have the right to petition.
Yes ma’am. And I think Donald Trump uh he’s drinking water out of a fire hose uh with the issues he’s been dealing
with. And after Donald Trump is gone, will he have created a new era, a a
reformation, a uh a repair to the ills of the last
decade or two since um Carter, Obama, uh and Clinton and um and now and then
Biden. Uh I I sense I sense America by its recent vote last night uh
even in Texas uh watching um but Paxton win in the Republican p
primary against uh incumbent Senator John Cornin.
uh Paxton winning because of uh Trump’s endorsement sends a message again 100%
of the time that Donald Trump’s endorsements seem to pay off. Uh I hope
to to finish my thought that sober Americans come forward and uh remedy
these wrongdoer uh these wrongdoers from carrying the torch like you mentioned.
uh Mandamid is doing up in New York. Um it’s a destruction of our our city. It’s
no small coincidence. I’m down here in Florida and uh property prices are going through the roof and um the acreage
between homes is disappearing and um there’s a lot of um a lot of folks from the north coming here. I’d rather they
stay where they are and fix their problem in their backyard and not run from it. I think that’s what really America is all about.
Yes. And you know I I have often wondered why other countries across the world did not just follow the American
example. Here we have presented a form of government and a system of liberties uh for the people that has been so
incredibly successful that many of many people want to come to the United States and put down roots here. Well, why can’t
they make their countries just as wonderful as America?
Boy, you hit the nail on the head. After all, we left um we left Great Britain uh
and created a um a nation here on the Americas uh because we couldn’t work under the monarchy or kingship anymore.
uh uh this autocratic environment. Uh the concept of taxation without representation.
Uh uh finally finally blew up and um we created an entity of our own which uh
hopefully outlives you and me for our children and grandchildren. And really uh you know we t started the
conversation on the health side of things regarding marijuana uh and
cannabis and CB THC products. Um I to me is a distraction from our
ability to continue to rem keep this country in its pure form. Uh am I what
say you? Am I okay with that? Well, there there are many many issues facing us and many problems that we’re trying to solve. I I I took on the uh marijuana
issue because it seemed like a sleeper to me. 40 states now have some kind of legal marijuana. It’s it’s it’s it’s not
legal on the federal level, but they’re certainly pushing to make it legal. And we’ve not had a national conversation of
is this something that we want to do as a society to allow our children to be addicted to this harmful substance. And
and I and I think because of that, I I just saw an opportunity to explain matters that because no one else was
doing it. No one else was really speaking up on this. People were saying, “Oh, well, you know, let the can let the cancer patients have a little piece.”
And I’m not worried about the cancer patients. I’m worried about the children because that’s who the companies are
marketing to with the candy. Now, are there plenty of other problems in this country? Oh, yes. And are there do we need to work on all of them? Yes.
uh and and we continue and that’s one reason why Eagle Forum has always been very broad-based in the issues that we
take on because we take on any issue that affects the family because you don’t have a strong country unless you
have strong family units because the family is the building block. The eagle is in our forum.
Yeah, I like that. That’s cute. I’ve been not I’ve been admiring it the whole show here.
He keeps guard over me along with our Lord. Um in our last few minutes and give us a summary of uh your book again
folks. The throwing children under the cannabis uh by an as Shaffley. Um give us a summary on that. Where do we reach
you? How do we get to your website? How do we buy the book?
Thank you. I’m available at eagle forum.org.
All my information is there. I am selling the book- but I I have a special cut rate if you buy um quantities uh
because I want it as a manual for how you can protect your community. What happened to me is that here I am living
in a red state. It’s a really nice community and we have pot shops everywhere. Uh and we need as a
community to say this is not beneficial to us. It’s not beneficial because of the odor. It’s not beneficial because of the increase in homeless population.
It’s not beneficial for what it does to our children in the schools. Uh and and so that and and of course the um the
information that needs to go out to uh parents on the effect of their um unborn
children and their small children of uh of of when they have marijuana in the house. So what we what I believe we need
is this manual so that you can make a difference in your community. The book has has action steps of things that you
can do to to limit the the um the marijuana um because that’s that’s the
first step. you know, in in all of the the um the social movements of the past, they have to start with educating the
public and the public finding out that no, this is a bad idea. Let’s start putting limitations. So, for example,
why should your community allow a 24-hour driveth through cannabis shop?
That just seems all wrong.
I know some things that need to be open 24 hours. It wasn’t cannabis that came to mind.
Yeah, we didn’t even get to the problems of driving under the influence of marijuana, which is a huge problem right now in roadside accidents.
Indeed, especially by illegal alien aliens posing as truck drivers. Yeah.
Um, thank God for Secretary Duffy kind of clamping down on things in transportation as well. Um, okay folks, eagleforum.org.
Go there. You’ll find an Shafley’s um contact information. That’s the book Throwing Children Under the Cannabis.
And uh get your copy now or order in quantity as she mentioned. Uh and so Ann, on that note, let’s close. Thank you very much for joining me here today.
Jean, it was such a pleasure to be with you.
It’s not goodbye. I think it’s see you later. I hope so.
Likewise. And likewise to all of you as well. Thank you for joining us here today. More of an insight on cannabis uh marijuana THC.
uh less about a political opinion. just an insight of what um what uh the
suggestions are by doctors and medicine uh to use this product for treatment
with no known uh scientific epistemic information uh clinical trials and data
at our uh disposal to come to the decision that cannabis THC marijuana uh could be or should be
used as a remedy a treatment. Uh, I don’t think you’ve gotten a doctor to give you a prescription lately for it. You may have
received a suggestion from them, but you certainly haven’t um haven’t gotten a prescription. So, that’s it. Thank you,
Ann again, and thank all of you for joining us on another episode of Gene Valentino’s Grassroots Truth Cast. See
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