“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” -Terence Mckenna
I love tea, but hate coffee. Tea can invigorate or relax, depending type used and company. Which tea is something you can drink as a solitary activity, or put the kettle on when someone drops over. Nothing, and I mean nothing beats a nice cuppa! :)
He’s always such a peaceful well-balanced speaker. There’s never an agenda when he speaks it’s just plain simple communication. Are you listening liberal/right wing media that loves to put on spin?
Coffee is horrible. I used to drink it everyday thinking it gave me a boost. NOPE. Get off coffee and you'll notice you feel happier and you have 10x the energy. When you wake up you are not tired and ready to go. If you drink coffee you wake up and you Need coffee to wake up. YUCK
Coffee is definitely a drug. When I gave up coffee for a week I had flue like symptoms and was really ill with withdrawal symptoms. But I did drink up to 10 cups a day. And now I am back to coffee, I love the smell soooo much.
I used to drink about 3-4 cups a day just to relieve myself from my constipation symptoms. Then i got addicted and loved the feeling it gives. I stopped and had horrible withdrawals , confusion, muscle twitching, exhaustion , horrible headaches and even vicious panic attacks. I am still in my withdrawal period, in a few weeks ill he fine.
Coffee is VERY healthy, (organic) when it goes up the body, not down. 8 oz of coffee requires THIRTY-TWO ounces of water just to flush the sludge out of your liver, etc. Thank goodness I've only had it on rare occasions. Why make life any harder for your body than the enduring system already inflicts? Frank Sinatra said that living well is the best revenge. Cup of cocoa barry, anyone? What about good old clean water? LOL. Another great vid. Thank you
Coffee was discovered by a yemeni herder not some (make fancy name to look clever) hence the arabica latin name for it or the mocha ,which is the town and port in yemen that was the coffee capital of the world.
Thank you for that knowledge. I did in face research it and the Harvard study that I read was enough to make me believe it is try. Sorry for that statement and thank you again.
I never had a coffee habit. Smells good, but tastes bad. When I quit sodas a few years ago, I substituted tea. I just couldn't give up both sugar and caffeine at once. When I finally gave up tea, the withdrawals were tougher than I expected. But I've been off caffeine for more than a year now and no longer miss it. I don't think caffeine is a bad addiction, but I just decided I didn't need that addiction anymore. I notice I don't need as much sleep as when I drank caffeine.
The point is that caffeine is accepted into our society because it helps us work through our working long hours (capitalist society), while marijuana is not accepted in our society because then we wouldn't be motivated enough to (among many other things) (and he's not saying this, I am) fight wars that we don't stop to ask "why are we fighting again?"
Real capitalism promotes hard work, discovery, education, advancement and a myriad of other great things, but when you end up with a few corporations owning everything then it's no longer real capitalism, it's more like a few corporations replacing government and controlling everything. When you get 1 company dominating in an industry with no competition it's like a type of government who's sole motive is to benefit the shareholders rather than the people.
Granted there is in fact a valid point to debate. Pardon my candor however but I have never heard of people turning to crime in order to support thier coffee/tea habit! Truth be told-I must agree that I have had headaches associated with not having a morning cup of coffee-indicating the validity that it has the propensity to be habit forming but can still function without.
I completely agree. I'm just saying the goal shouldn't be to 'end capitalism'. The goal should be to bring it back. Glad to see there are still bright people like you on the internet =)
i get a really bad reaction on coffee. i feel shaky, feels like my insides are burning. my hands shake. everything is sketchy. safe to say i am very sensitive to bad things. None of those things happen to me on weed. coffee is a much much much stronger drug in my opinion. And lastly.. weed doesnt really get you 'high'. it calms you the fuck down.
The best type of business is a purely trade based system where things have no intrinsic value and people just trade/share with others based on needs. So if someone created a company to build spaceships then engineers would give their services for fun/advancement, materials companies that liked the idea would give their materials etc. Right now on earth that wouldn't work. Not the way people currently are. People are too greedy/short-sighted right now.
IMO it's not capitalism that's the problem, but what capitalism develops into when a few companies eat up everything else. You end up with something that's definitely not capitalism. I think most people don't know what capitalism is and associate capitalism with globalist business. The 2 are separate. Capitalism is simple. Private ownership providing services/goods as opposed to government ownership or providing services/goods for something other than profit.
Categorizing tea as a "plant drug" tells a very short-sided story about tea. I drink yerba matte, which is green tea. Most people I've talked to drink green tea for the antioxidant benefits, not the caffeine. There is about 30 mg of caffeine in yerba matte (compared to about 100-130 mg of caffeine in coffee).
@paulagloria pretty much. You're body gets used to and demands for nicotine as a "treat" after an achievement or an exertion ("I need a cigarette now"), and the nicotine releases the hormone dopamine, better known as the "happiness hormone".
More simply put: caffeine helps create the society we have (buy and sell, but don't think or ask much about it), while marijuana would put our government and it's hierarchy, inequality, $-based interest groups, power, whiteness, patriarchy, bureaucracy, and indifference-to-it's-people at risk.
This view he has, (after the 2 minute mark) so far as I know, he should actually credit to Terence Mckenna who said the same exact thing in the 90's. Unless he came up with this distinct view on his own with no knowledge of Mckenna, or credits him elsewhere. Mckenna is deceased now, and academia probably writes him off, but he said these things numerous times and could be an interesting and original general philosopher.
Mozart Jones So....If I have an opinion that originated from another person, I cannot speak that opinion without crediting the person who first spoke that opinion? God knows how many people I have to credit every time I speak against vaccines or for legal abortion...or speak about how I choose to bring up my children - alot of books to refer to!!!!
Betina Mikkelsen Well, if you have no knowledge of the prior thinking that matches your own, I suppose that's alright. If you do have an influence from a thinker who's ideas you like, it doesn't hurt to mention them now and then. I just thought Mckenna was a great example of someone who is most likely demonized by academia, and actually I was thinking that in a case like his a general university professor might hypothetically not be too keen on mentioning him.
not always. I remember last week I was having a conversation with my co-worker and it never came back to goats. lol, nah, I'm just kiddin', I ain't got no job, thus it follows that I have no co-workers.
Alcohol (in the west) became socially acceptable before that through religion (whine as well as ale). More tied to letting go of the hardships of medieval life than the economy.
Alcohol is also less socially acceptable than coffee or tea... but, the big alcohol-companies make a *lot* of money off this drug, and that's ultimately what counts. The reality is the people in power are cynical criminals who don't give a damn about the adverse health effects they promote to the 'plebs'. This is why you see it promoted.
@paulagloria It seems like you didn't really get his point. Furthermore, cigarettes have a rewarding effect that is stronger than the soothing effect (the first being the cause of the latter if you look at it hormonally).
You could say the same about red wine. "Many people drink red wine for its antioxidants and health benefits..." Same thing. Drug is a drug is a drug. Different degrees of course, but yeah.
A question a more calm, relaxed, creative person (a person, say, who might like to smoke marijuana)--like the many of our great musicians (mostly in the past now) who would question our government--would ask. Marijuana and its effects might bring more peaceful, thorough thinkers to our ever-in-war nation; and we absolutely wouldn't want that.
Why coffee is legal and marijuana is illegal. Coffee makes you more focused and alert, capable of working long hours it was made more socially acceptable to drink during the industrial revolution. Marijuana makes you question the system and makes you uninterested in working long hours in order to make a lot of money and buy a lot of shit! And yes I love the taste and ritual of coffee as much as the next guy but I view it as a potent serious drug, just a culturally accepted drug which everyone have been indoctrinated into viewing as perfectly harmless. It's just presupposed normality and we don't question it and wonder what effects it has on our mood, sleep patterns and overall health.
This kind of economy (maybe alongside something like gift-economy) is what I wish we could have. I'm very much for free markets, but the term "free" is not defined the same way by everybody unfortunately..
I don't know about marijuana curing cancer, but I have no doubt that cancer can be cured, but it will never be because too much money will be lost. Think of all the doctors, hospitals and drug manufacturers that would lose money and go out of business if there were no cancers.
People only turn to crime to get cannabis, because it is illegal. Look at alcohol prohibition for reference. People were very violet, when it was illegal. In terms of caffeine, it is very addictive. Tell a long time coffee drinker to stop cold turkey and you'll have an irate person on your hands. I believe it is all about moderation, as cannabis and caffeine can both be used well, but can also be abused.
I'm still going to drink tea though... I can live without meat, dairy, eggs, and honey, but not my tea. Tea may be a drug, but at least I as far as I know having tea, hurts nothing but the plant and maybe me. What about all these ads for tea having antoxins then? Please explain this part to me.
somehow i don't think the average industrial revolution era factory worker was spending lots of money on expensive commodities like coffee, they might have drank tea but i believe coffee was more for the people who were higher up on the chain than working class people, eg the coffee house was created in this era. i smell bullshit
I've liked the other things he's had to say but I find these points odd. Yes, I see the argument about being jacked on e.g. vended coffee so people work long hours like cogs in a capitalist machine. But surely that's preferable to people getting stoned and doing very little? He's stating that coffee is a supported/socially acceptable drug because it's conducive to a well functioning capitalist society, but as if that's a bad thing. In excess it can be, but really I don't see the supposed problem. Stable capitalist systems are the most effective social systems I know of at least. Certainly the main alternatives seem to have spectacularly failed. And awareness, social responsibility and accountability is improving, helping address some of the issues that have been raised with capitalist society. The other missed point is smoking - the key delivery mechanism for marijuana is incredibly bad for ones health, and also harms others around the smoker who may not want to be affected by the health damage caused by the smoke, nor affected by the nicotine or cannabinoids. Just as drunkenness - so alcohol that affects others - isn't socially acceptable, thankfully smoking now isn't either - for similar reasons - it unfairly imposes a personal decision to affects ones health/take drugs on others. Lastly, he totally ignores the health benefits of drinking tea. Drinking green tea, white tea, oolong and so forth without milk and sugar - as in, traditional asian tea consumption - has masses of well documented health benefits. There's a lot less cafeine, no crash like what coffee can cause, and it can improve concentration and focus, without the drinker being jacked up. I see traditional tea drinking as a wholly positive thing, that really is more like the consumption of food than the taking of a drug. Drugs have negative side effects, and are only helpful in specific applications; like the medicinal use of cannabinoids to treat epilespy or muscle issues. Tea is a subtle, healthy food stuff that can be consumed daily for life with no ill effect. I find his statements totally bizarre.
And people say that Marijuana isn't bad for you. Like any drug, it does have its negative side. Use it for good. I know people who smoke pot and they continue to smoke pot and they continue to defend it. Yet, at the same time they wonder why they can't seem to get off their ass and do the things that they have always wanted to do...before they started smoking pot. Hmmm, I wonder why...
@mrcon5 Allen Carr has helped over 10 million people get free !!! Smoking is slavery, and it helps the government (gasp!). Stop helping them, stop buying those cigarettes :)
So without capitalism you think the world would have developed much faster and we would all be living in luxury now? I'm interested to here how you think that could have happened. Capitalism is what drives people to learn more, be more and create more so they can get a piece of the pie. We know that communism doesn't work and creates quite a dull, depressing society where life just becomes pointless, so what do you think is the solution that would have propelled society forward globally?
he needs to be more specific about what he means by tea. there is black, oolong, green, white and yellow teas, all created from the camellia sinensis plant. white tea has hardly any caffeine and green tea doesn't have much either. black tea has the most.
saidas108 he does. green, black, oolong, etc. have different nutritional benefits. the differences between caffeine content in teas is very larger, more so than between coffees. the process of creating the different varieties impact their nutritional and caffeine content, despite the fact that they are from the same plant. also, there are many different cultivars, just among chinese green tea alone, not to mention japanese. tea is deeper than you seem to think. so, i think you don't get it. you should be consuming green not black tea for across the board nutritional benefits.
well actually, all tea is the same. they turn out to be different kind of tea each other during the process from the leaves. but the leaves are the same. like us, humans.
I LIKE COFFEE ..... :) But it doesn't do much ... so to call it a DRUG is a big word! I specially like the Arabica coffee. Tea does nothing for me at all. Cholocate can't say I feel any different eating chololate .. .
i don't know who alex jones is, i saw the documents labeling the united states as a corporation. Don't comment to me if you are just going to laugh at me, I don't want to hear it, in that case keep your opinion to yourself.
@MammalAnonymous Well, it is my health to waste (If this is not unproven bogus) anyway, is it not? Why should I care if tea is messing me up? People eat all sorts of stuff that is bad for them, but what does it matter when we are all are going to die sooner or latter? Additionally, you are very quick the show on how superior to any other person you are. How does that help or teach anybody, except to resent you? (Not that I am going to waste my time)
Spectacularly uninteresting. A short history lesson and then repeating, “Coffee has caffeine. So does tea” but phrasing it in different ways. Then a note on society. Ok....maybe some effects of drinking coffee and tea on health?
I understand how you may hate a religion but it isn't just the religion that is holding people back from stepping into letting people use pot as a legit way to help themselves and what you just did set a horrible example for everyone else. I would ask that you not use such negativity when representing a cause you care about because then people will start to believe your cause is just like you. Horrible and uncouth with a foul mouth. I'm not Christian but I don't like seeing your hate towards it
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“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”
-Terence Mckenna
So does Noam Chomsky
Your doing too much
Made me look at coffee a whole other way. We gotta be educated on what we are putting into our bodies. Thank you for your work!
I love tea, but hate coffee. Tea can invigorate or relax, depending type used and company.
Which tea is something you can drink as a solitary activity, or put the kettle on when someone drops over.
Nothing, and I mean nothing beats a nice cuppa! :)
He’s always such a peaceful well-balanced speaker. There’s never an agenda when he speaks it’s just plain simple communication. Are you listening liberal/right wing media that loves to put on spin?
field north .... He’s the head of the journalism department at Harvard he better speak right.
Ah... I love you Mr.Pollen. My plates are super clean with most of the groceries coming from locally but don't tell me I can't have my coffee.
Coffee is horrible. I used to drink it everyday thinking it gave me a boost. NOPE. Get off coffee and you'll notice you feel happier and you have 10x the energy. When you wake up you are not tired and ready to go. If you drink coffee you wake up and you Need coffee to wake up. YUCK
Really!? Do you still not drink coffee? I want to try
I love coffe n a cigar. When the shovel has your name then its the end. Live your life and be happy..dont live in fear.
Michael you hit the nail on the head.
Coffee is definitely a drug. When I gave up coffee for a week I had flue like symptoms and was really ill with withdrawal symptoms. But I did drink up to 10 cups a day. And now I am back to coffee, I love the smell soooo much.
I used to drink about 3-4 cups a day just to relieve myself from my constipation symptoms. Then i got addicted and loved the feeling it gives. I stopped and had horrible withdrawals , confusion, muscle twitching, exhaustion , horrible headaches and even vicious panic attacks. I am still in my withdrawal period, in a few weeks ill he fine.
yeah same as cocaine iam not addicted i just like how it smells
@@hanskazan7403 LOL good one
Well said.
Luckily for us, their prohibition have led to more and more people opening up their minds with the wonderful plant. :)
Thx for sharing. I think I am going to drink a cup now!
This man can debunk anything.
They will have to take my coffee from my dying arthritic hands.
I like what he says; very good teacher!
We don't have capitalism we have corporatism, if we did have capitalism small businesses would thrive our economies would not be indebted to banking.
omg thank you for understanding that. seriously. america is not a capitalistic country.
Coffee is VERY healthy, (organic) when it goes up the body, not down. 8 oz of coffee requires THIRTY-TWO ounces of water just to flush the sludge out of your liver, etc. Thank goodness I've only had it on rare occasions. Why make life any harder for your body than the enduring system already inflicts? Frank Sinatra said that living well is the best revenge. Cup of cocoa barry, anyone? What about good old clean water? LOL. Another great vid. Thank you
Coffee was discovered by a yemeni herder not some (make fancy name to look clever) hence the arabica latin name for it or the mocha ,which is the town and port in yemen that was the coffee capital of the world.
Michael Pollan looks like Richard Wiseman. =D
You can take my coffee away when you pry the mug from my cold, dead fingers.
Drug addict
Oh, so you’re into Cold Brew.
Christoph Lehman French press
Thank you for that knowledge. I did in face research it and the Harvard study that I read was enough to make me believe it is try. Sorry for that statement and thank you again.
Marijuana can have the effect of INCREASING ones alertness and ability to 'take action'. It depends on the person and situation
and strain!
clownonabike Thank you. Think that should have been first on the list.
I never had a coffee habit. Smells good, but tastes bad. When I quit sodas a few years ago, I substituted tea. I just couldn't give up both sugar and caffeine at once. When I finally gave up tea, the withdrawals were tougher than I expected. But I've been off caffeine for more than a year now and no longer miss it. I don't think caffeine is a bad addiction, but I just decided I didn't need that addiction anymore. I notice I don't need as much sleep as when I drank caffeine.
I like tea and pot, I think plants can be good if used correctly.
The point is that caffeine is accepted into our society because it helps us work through our working long hours (capitalist society), while marijuana is not accepted in our society because then we wouldn't be motivated enough to (among many other things) (and he's not saying this, I am) fight wars that we don't stop to ask "why are we fighting again?"
Real capitalism promotes hard work, discovery, education, advancement and a myriad of other great things, but when you end up with a few corporations owning everything then it's no longer real capitalism, it's more like a few corporations replacing government and controlling everything. When you get 1 company dominating in an industry with no competition it's like a type of government who's sole motive is to benefit the shareholders rather than the people.
@davehutchinson67 I'm not talking about de-caffeinated. I'm talking about herbal teas, etc. Naturally decaffeinated.
Granted there is in fact a valid point to debate. Pardon my candor however but I have never heard of people turning to crime in order to support thier coffee/tea habit! Truth be told-I must agree that I have had headaches associated with not having a morning cup of coffee-indicating the validity that it has the propensity to be habit forming but can still function without.
I love coffee and tea. I find it relaxes me. Here is a custom to drink coffee.
nery colon 1 helps me put up with peoples shit! 😂😂
Well,I feel the need to work after smoking a joint,like fixing something or going on an hour long,"full blast in traffic" bike ride.
Learned man, nice persona
I completely agree. I'm just saying the goal shouldn't be to 'end capitalism'. The goal should be to bring it back. Glad to see there are still bright people like you on the internet =)
Watching this whilst drinking tea..
i get a really bad reaction on coffee. i feel shaky, feels like my insides are burning. my hands shake. everything is sketchy. safe to say i am very sensitive to bad things.
None of those things happen to me on weed.
coffee is a much much much stronger drug in my opinion.
And lastly.. weed doesnt really get you 'high'. it calms you the fuck down.
The best type of business is a purely trade based system where things have no intrinsic value and people just trade/share with others based on needs. So if someone created a company to build spaceships then engineers would give their services for fun/advancement, materials companies that liked the idea would give their materials etc. Right now on earth that wouldn't work. Not the way people currently are. People are too greedy/short-sighted right now.
IMO it's not capitalism that's the problem, but what capitalism develops into when a few companies eat up everything else. You end up with something that's definitely not capitalism. I think most people don't know what capitalism is and associate capitalism with globalist business. The 2 are separate. Capitalism is simple. Private ownership providing services/goods as opposed to government ownership or providing services/goods for something other than profit.
I believe you!
Categorizing tea as a "plant drug" tells a very short-sided story about tea. I drink yerba matte, which is green tea. Most people I've talked to drink green tea for the antioxidant benefits, not the caffeine. There is about 30 mg of caffeine in yerba matte (compared to about 100-130 mg of caffeine in coffee).
@paulagloria pretty much. You're body gets used to and demands for nicotine as a "treat" after an achievement or an exertion ("I need a cigarette now"), and the nicotine releases the hormone dopamine, better known as the "happiness hormone".
More simply put: caffeine helps create the society we have (buy and sell, but don't think or ask much about it), while marijuana would put our government and it's hierarchy, inequality, $-based interest groups, power, whiteness, patriarchy, bureaucracy, and indifference-to-it's-people at risk.
So he's a pothead :D
Camille McALoon nobody is saying they're the same???? They're just both drugs
This view he has, (after the 2 minute mark) so far as I know, he should actually credit to Terence Mckenna who said the same exact thing in the 90's. Unless he came up with this distinct view on his own with no knowledge of Mckenna, or credits him elsewhere. Mckenna is deceased now, and academia probably writes him off, but he said these things numerous times and could be an interesting and original general philosopher.
Mozart Jones So....If I have an opinion that originated from another person, I cannot speak that opinion without crediting the person who first spoke that opinion? God knows how many people I have to credit every time I speak against vaccines or for legal abortion...or speak about how I choose to bring up my children - alot of books to refer to!!!!
Betina Mikkelsen Well, if you have no knowledge of the prior thinking that matches your own, I suppose that's alright. If you do have an influence from a thinker who's ideas you like, it doesn't hurt to mention them now and then. I just thought Mckenna was a great example of someone who is most likely demonized by academia, and actually I was thinking that in a case like his a general university professor might hypothetically not be too keen on mentioning him.
if it's not black tea or green tea what kind of tea(camellia sinensis) are you talking about?
legalise pot now damnit!
It always gets back to goats, doesn't it?
not always. I remember last week I was having a conversation with my co-worker and it never came back to goats. lol, nah, I'm just kiddin', I ain't got no job, thus it follows that I have no co-workers.
so that's why the Rutles were introduced to tea by Bob Dylan
Makes sense. But what's the explanation for alcohol. That would seem to impede capitalization. Drunk, or even buzzed people, don't always do so well.
Alcohol (in the west) became socially acceptable before that through religion (whine as well as ale). More tied to letting go of the hardships of medieval life than the economy.
Alcohol was considered safer to drink than water at one time...
Alcohol is also less socially acceptable than coffee or tea... but, the big alcohol-companies make a *lot* of money off this drug, and that's ultimately what counts. The reality is the people in power are cynical criminals who don't give a damn about the adverse health effects they promote to the 'plebs'. This is why you see it promoted.
if that's true, why do Italians love coffee so much? their culture is really relaxed, no?
No.
It’s a paradox.
@paulagloria It seems like you didn't really get his point. Furthermore, cigarettes have a rewarding effect that is stronger than the soothing effect (the first being the cause of the latter if you look at it hormonally).
I haven't even watched the video yet! But ny reading the comment, u know that this is gonna be interesting!!! I belong in this part of UA-cam!!!
Well you may be right, all depends what people mean by Capitalism and Globalism.
You could say the same about red wine. "Many people drink red wine for its antioxidants and health benefits..." Same thing. Drug is a drug is a drug. Different degrees of course, but yeah.
A question a more calm, relaxed, creative person (a person, say, who might like to smoke marijuana)--like the many of our great musicians (mostly in the past now) who would question our government--would ask. Marijuana and its effects might bring more peaceful, thorough thinkers to our ever-in-war nation; and we absolutely wouldn't want that.
Why coffee is legal and marijuana is illegal. Coffee makes you more focused and alert, capable of working long hours it was made more socially acceptable to drink during the industrial revolution. Marijuana makes you question the system and makes you uninterested in working long hours in order to make a lot of money and buy a lot of shit! And yes I love the taste and ritual of coffee as much as the next guy but I view it as a potent serious drug, just a culturally accepted drug which everyone have been indoctrinated into viewing as perfectly harmless. It's just presupposed normality and we don't question it and wonder what effects it has on our mood, sleep patterns and overall health.
I say legalize marijuana or classify coffee and tea as Class 1 substances like marijuana is.
coffee poisons the liver ...its the toxins that keep you alert
Just giving up coffee and tea, you'll see a change in behavior. No more go, go, go. I stopped drinking it altogether and am much more laid back.
truthdemon Prove it ..WHERE IS THE PROF IN THAT STATEMENT ??????
TheGuy58520 coffee can become contaminated with ochratoxin and mold which can then cause liver disease.
This kind of economy (maybe alongside something like gift-economy) is what I wish we could have. I'm very much for free markets, but the term "free" is not defined the same way by everybody unfortunately..
Mmmm coffee and weed, can't beat it.
I don't know about marijuana curing cancer, but I have no doubt that cancer can be cured, but it will never be because too much money will be lost. Think of all the doctors, hospitals and drug manufacturers that would lose money and go out of business if there were no cancers.
What about rebunking?
chicory-coffee blends make a great brew, along with some milk added to taste, close to a third.
this dude loves his marijuana, it's in his book, the botany of desire, too.
YES
People need to open their eyes to the truth about food. Do you know what your eating?
People only turn to crime to get cannabis, because it is illegal. Look at alcohol prohibition for reference. People were very violet, when it was illegal. In terms of caffeine, it is very addictive. Tell a long time coffee drinker to stop cold turkey and you'll have an irate person on your hands. I believe it is all about moderation, as cannabis and caffeine can both be used well, but can also be abused.
"People only turn to crime to get cannabis..." really?
i feel the need to eat and play starhawk
The 1% need to smoke more weed.
Legal marijuana might be the way to end capitalism, lol
Wait did he just promote pot but condemn coffee and tea crazy
I'm still going to drink tea though... I can live without meat, dairy, eggs, and honey, but not my tea. Tea may be a drug, but at least I as far as I know having tea, hurts nothing but the plant and maybe me. What about all these ads for tea having antoxins then? Please explain this part to me.
Why was marijuana brought up? The title is Coffee and tea. hummmmm
SHER he is discussing "Coffee and other plant drugs"
+Designs By Sher because its legal now too
somehow i don't think the average industrial revolution era factory worker was spending lots of money on expensive commodities like coffee, they might have drank tea but i believe coffee was more for the people who were higher up on the chain than working class people, eg the coffee house was created in this era. i smell bullshit
check out the books JOURNEY OF SOULS and DESTINY OF SOULS. There really might not be an "end". You only die if you believe you do.
I'm drinking tea right now
Welp...
I've liked the other things he's had to say but I find these points odd. Yes, I see the argument about being jacked on e.g. vended coffee so people work long hours like cogs in a capitalist machine. But surely that's preferable to people getting stoned and doing very little? He's stating that coffee is a supported/socially acceptable drug because it's conducive to a well functioning capitalist society, but as if that's a bad thing. In excess it can be, but really I don't see the supposed problem. Stable capitalist systems are the most effective social systems I know of at least. Certainly the main alternatives seem to have spectacularly failed. And awareness, social responsibility and accountability is improving, helping address some of the issues that have been raised with capitalist society.
The other missed point is smoking - the key delivery mechanism for marijuana is incredibly bad for ones health, and also harms others around the smoker who may not want to be affected by the health damage caused by the smoke, nor affected by the nicotine or cannabinoids.
Just as drunkenness - so alcohol that affects others - isn't socially acceptable, thankfully smoking now isn't either - for similar reasons - it unfairly imposes a personal decision to affects ones health/take drugs on others.
Lastly, he totally ignores the health benefits of drinking tea. Drinking green tea, white tea, oolong and so forth without milk and sugar - as in, traditional asian tea consumption - has masses of well documented health benefits. There's a lot less cafeine, no crash like what coffee can cause, and it can improve concentration and focus, without the drinker being jacked up. I see traditional tea drinking as a wholly positive thing, that really is more like the consumption of food than the taking of a drug. Drugs have negative side effects, and are only helpful in specific applications; like the medicinal use of cannabinoids to treat epilespy or muscle issues. Tea is a subtle, healthy food stuff that can be consumed daily for life with no ill effect. I find his statements totally bizarre.
What about alcohol?
And people say that Marijuana isn't bad for you. Like any drug, it does have its negative side. Use it for good.
I know people who smoke pot and they continue to smoke pot and they continue to defend it. Yet, at the same time they wonder why they can't seem to get off their ass and do the things that they have always wanted to do...before they started smoking pot.
Hmmm, I wonder why...
@mrcon5 Allen Carr has helped over 10 million people get free !!! Smoking is slavery, and it helps the government (gasp!). Stop helping them, stop buying those cigarettes :)
Doesn't this guy go by the name of Eric Schlosser , too?
What about chocolate?
Drug. And sugar too.
Oranges are drugs too because of high vitamin C level. Almost like amphetamine.
Have a nice day or not as you wish, goodbye.
funny.
Misleading.. not all tea is caffeinated
So without capitalism you think the world would have developed much faster and we would all be living in luxury now? I'm interested to here how you think that could have happened. Capitalism is what drives people to learn more, be more and create more so they can get a piece of the pie. We know that communism doesn't work and creates quite a dull, depressing society where life just becomes pointless, so what do you think is the solution that would have propelled society forward globally?
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What does caffeine has to do with GMO, i fiqured that kind of statement would come from a woman !
o no i am a drug addict LOL
The first step is admitting you have a problem, congratulations!
speaking like Trump
he needs to be more specific about what he means by tea. there is black, oolong, green, white and yellow teas, all created from the camellia sinensis plant. white tea has hardly any caffeine and green tea doesn't have much either. black tea has the most.
No he doesn't. Did you really miss his point? Not all coffee has the same amount of caffeine and other constituents either.
Same for cannabis. Not to mention the myriad of different effects different people feel from the same drugs.
saidas108 he does. green, black, oolong, etc. have different nutritional benefits. the differences between caffeine content in teas is very larger, more so than between coffees. the process of creating the different varieties impact their nutritional and caffeine content, despite the fact that they are from the same plant. also, there are many different cultivars, just among chinese green tea alone, not to mention japanese. tea is deeper than you seem to think. so, i think you don't get it. you should be consuming green not black tea for across the board nutritional benefits.
iwasborntobefly We are not in disagreement and if fact, you are making my point. :)
well actually, all tea is the same. they turn out to be different kind of tea each other during the process from the leaves. but the leaves are the same. like us, humans.
Except things that are true.
say wha?
he did not research plant drug marijuana.
I LIKE COFFEE ..... :)
But it doesn't do much ... so to call it a DRUG is a big word!
I specially like the Arabica coffee.
Tea does nothing for me at all.
Cholocate can't say I feel any different eating chololate .. .
i don't know who alex jones is, i saw the documents labeling the united states as a corporation. Don't comment to me if you are just going to laugh at me, I don't want to hear it, in that case keep your opinion to yourself.
the more
It does taste bad, until you put sugar and cream in it :), or if it's poor quality coffee
@MammalAnonymous Well, it is my health to waste (If this is not unproven bogus) anyway, is it not? Why should I care if tea is messing me up? People eat all sorts of stuff that is bad for them, but what does it matter when we are all are going to die sooner or latter? Additionally, you are very quick the show on how superior to any other person you are. How does that help or teach anybody, except to resent you? (Not that I am going to waste my time)
who ?
BUt alot of people get drug induced schizophrenia
lol
What does this guy actually eat? He condemns nearly everything. Who can afford, and who even has access to farm to table ingredients?
He's an omnivore. He eats everything.
Spectacularly uninteresting. A short history lesson and then repeating, “Coffee has caffeine. So does tea” but phrasing it in different ways. Then a note on society. Ok....maybe some effects of drinking coffee and tea on health?
ummmm
lol stop watching alex jones
I understand how you may hate a religion but it isn't just the religion that is holding people back from stepping into letting people use pot as a legit way to help themselves and what you just did set a horrible example for everyone else. I would ask that you not use such negativity when representing a cause you care about because then people will start to believe your cause is just like you. Horrible and uncouth with a foul mouth.
I'm not Christian but I don't like seeing your hate towards it