Ambrose M. Bennett
THE TRUTH of the matter is the marijuana phobias that still exist in “lay-language” are technically called by experts and scientist as being “IRRATIONAL FEARS” that can’t be substantiated by scientific methods nor with unfounded assertions. Well, the marijuana phobias promoted by “Saipan Man” in the comment section is the source that provided the platform for this response to his ill-rational and unfounded assertions about marijuana and its usage. In fact, I wish to take this opportunity to issue an “APB” (all-points-bulletin) for the identification of Saipan Man in the comment section who is using a fake-name for fake-comments (please contact: ambrosebennett@yahoo.com).
I usually don’t address the ridiculousness of commenters like the rest of the “silent majority” but sometimes their ridiculousness is obviously shared by others in our society who need to be educated about their ridiculous phobias. The CNMI has a Hemp & Cannabis Tourism Industry that were largely influence by me and I hate for them to fail due to the ugly politics that is virtually common knowledge even among our youth who can’t even vote yet. The CNMI has a Cannabis Tourism Industry that needs promoting FOR New Revenues FOR the Government & People, as this industry is costing the CNMI over 200,000 a year beyond what is being collected — operating in the RED!!!
As adults, its truly time to “Get-Real about marijuana” and stop the ridiculous hypocrisy, as Saipan Man asserted that marijuana should be “hush-hush” as if it is the worse vice, when science has now PROVEN that cigarettes & alcohol are both health-hazards and even deadly, while there has NEVER been a reported illness nor death directly attributed to marijuana!!! All adults really need to Get Real and ask the serious questions of “WHY is it OK for children as young as the third grade to serve beer to adults at parties & the beach while adults are smoking cigarettes and drinking in the faces of these adolescents, but one must “hide to use marijuana”???!!! Why can’t marijuana be treated the same way we treat cigarettes and alcohol given it does NOT Adversely affect a person’s health. There are even “active marijuana test” to assure people are not using it on the job. Heck, I don’t think readers have ever heard of an employer conducting an “alcohol usage test” on employees while they were on the job but it’s almost mandatory testing for marijuana which is HYPOCRISY in a very real sense. Only “safety sensitive jobs” need testing for marijuana AND alcohol usage on the job and normality for the rest of the workforce.
It is truly time for the CNMI and even the rest of the world to “Get-REAL” about marijuana usage, as the “BRAINWASHING” that took place to make marijuana illegal is still adversely affecting entirely toooo many people who still frown on marijuana out of pure ignorance. Medical professionals and scientists, not Ambrose M. Bennett, are proving marijuana to be a “medical wonder and far-far-far safer than cigarettes & alcohol and less addictive.” In fact, ever since I arrived in the CNMI I know adults were going-to-the-back to smoke at parties, which was and still is acceptable, so why make this big fuss just because its legal now? Please STOP the HYPOCRISY!!!
The Cannabis Tourism Industry and the Hemp Industry have economic potential that is still unfolding around the world and only the early birds get the worms. Many countries have now made Hemp & marijuana legal and a commonality within their society that is NOT frowned upon. The CNMI will never make any real money by trying to make OUR Cannabis Tourism Industry a “hush-hush industry unlike prohibition.” In fact, the CNMI should take the lessons taught from the prohibition of alcohol and Colorado’s success in capitalizing on Cannabis Tourism, as most hotels in Colorado provide smoking rooms — wake-up CNMI, you’re sitting on a potential gold-mine! The CNMI has an opportunity to educate and capture the Cannabis Tourism Market for our ENTIRE region if WE do the work to make it happen but for TRUE, “hush-hush” is never going to work, its common sense. Approaching Cannabis Tourism from an “educational perspective” is the right & best way to promote our Cannabis Tourism Industry and listen to a real economist, not whoever Saipan Man is with his unfounded assertions of hush-hush ridiculousness. It’s truly time to be One People One Direction FOR our Cannabis Tourism Industry as part of our NEW Economic Model — attitude determines our altitude!
Ambrose M. Bennett is an Economist who minored in Sociology, a Political Scientist, a retired teacher & former CNMI Board of Education Member, a James Madison Fellow (U.S. Constitutional Scholar), a Fulbright-Hays & lifetime Humanities Scholar who resides in Kagman III in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
