05/08/2026
CANNABIS DECEPTION
Despicable people like this skunk below Steve de Angelo ed Rosenthal high times and the rest, made millions while they watched everyone go to prison and laughed about it .
Truly evil sick people. look at him brag about the people he sent to prison
How “Legalization” Became Control – and How They Played You
They’re out here popping champagne over Schedule III like it’s the end of the war.
The same people who marched you into courtrooms, who watched you get raided, who let you sit in a cell while they stacked checks and gave interviews—those people are now on stages and in magazines telling you:
“We did it. Cannabis is federal medical now. This is a victory.”
No. This is not a victory. This is the punchline to a long, ugly joke.
This is my line in the sand.
This is my exposé of how we were played—from fake “no medical use” science, to federal law, to Supreme Court rulings, to Schedule III, to the “activist” class of Steve DeAngelo, Ed Rosenthal, NORML, and others like them who sold you the rope they tied you with.
This isn’t a polite policy debate. This is a betrayal.
And I’m going to spell it out in first person, with no hedge and no apology.
The Great Cannabis Betrayal
They told us cannabis had no medical value.
They said it was dangerous, addictive, useless as medicine. They used that lie to jail people, steal homes, seize land, destroy families.
Then, decades later, they smiled and said:
“Now we’ve learned cannabis has medical value. We’ve evolved. We’re rescheduling.
We’re bringing you federal medical.”
No. They didn’t “learn” anything. They always knew.
By the 1960s, scientists had already:
Mapped the structure of CBD (1963)
Mapped the structure of THC (1964)
By the 1970s and beyond, they were:
Creating synthetic cannabinoids
Exploring therapeutic uses
Discovering the endocannabinoid system—a system in our bodies with receptors (CB1, CB2) that respond directly to compounds in cannabis.
So when the government, the DEA, and the expert class said for years that cannabis had “no accepted medical use,” that wasn’t ignorance.
It was a weaponized fiction.
They criminalized the plant, then quietly turned it into pharma chemistry while we took the arrests.
And the worst part is how long we bought it. How long we let the official narrative define reality. How many of us were fooled by the dialectic they ran:
Thesis: Cannabis is dangerous, has no medical value.
Antithesis: Brave activists and reformers push for “medical marijuana,” strict regulation, and state‑level control.
Synthesis: The final product—federal medical under Schedule III—where the plant is allowed only as a controlled, pharmaceutical commodity… under the same system that built the cages in the first place.
They created the problem, controlled the opposition, and now own the solution.
That’s the dialectic. That’s the game.
How They Rewrote Reality With the Controlled Substances Act
The legal weapon they used is called the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), passed in 1970.
It built the scheduling system—Schedule I through V—and pretended that a political chart was “science.”
Under the CSA, Schedule I drugs are supposed to have:
High potential for abuse
No currently accepted medical use
No accepted safety even under medical supervision
They threw cannabis into Schedule I.
This was insane on its face. Cannabis had:
A long medical history in Western medicine—tinctures, extracts, and preparations prescribed in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Deep roots in traditional medicine globally—for pain, sleep, appetite, seizures, inflammation, spiritual and ritual use
But the law just declared: “no medical use.”
That’s the moment law stopped being a reflection of reality and became a tool to overwrite reality.
And they needed that fiction.
Because if they admitted:
The plant had medical value,
The science was real,
The history was real,
Then the entire War on Drugs—decades of criminalization, raids, and cages—collapses under its own hypocrisy.
So they lied.
They lied while scientists were literally mapping THC and CBD. They lied while research showed biological activity. They lied while they were isolating, extracting, synthesizing, and quietly building pharmaceutical products.
The bu****it lie that no one knew cannabis had medical value is exactly that: bu****it. It was crafted and maintained by people and institutions that needed prohibition to justify enforcement, budgets, careers, and later—pharmaceutical profits.
Commerce Is Federal – Even in Your Backyard
Let’s get one hard legal reality out of the way:
Commerce in this country is controlled by the federal government, even inside state borders.
That’s the way the courts have twisted the Commerce Clause. If Congress can say something “affects interstate commerce,” they claim the power to regulate—and ban—it.
This is where Gonzales v. Raich (2005) comes in, and if you don’t understand Raich, you don’t understand the trap we’re in.
Gonzales v. Raich: They Claimed Your Closet as Federal Jurisdiction
California said medical cannabis was legal. Patients grew at home.
One of them, Angel Raich, grew her own plants, for her own medical use, under state law.
The DEA came anyway. They destroyed her plants. She took it to court.
The Supreme Court said:
Even if:
The cannabis is grown at home,
Never crosses state lines,
Is not sold,
Is used purely for medical reasons under state law—
The federal government can still ban it under the Controlled Substances Act, using the Commerce Clause.
Their logic:
If enough people grow at home, it could affect the national market for cannabis.
If it could affect the market, Congress can step in.
Therefore, your homegrow is federal business.
Read that again.
My home plant, never sold, never transported, used as my own medicine, in full compliance with my state’s law—
is “interstate commerce” in their eyes.
That’s what Raich did. It gave the federal government a loaded gun pointed straight at:
State medical programs
State recreational “legalization”
Home cultivation in any form
And they’ve kept that gun loaded ever since.
They didn’t always pull the trigger—politically, it sometimes looked better to “tolerate” state programs—but the power has always been there.
So when I hear people say, “Now that it’s federal medical, they can’t ignore us,” I see the trap:
Federal medical doesn’t weaken federal power. It organizes it. It gives them a “legitimate,” FDA/
DEA‑wrapped way to say:
“These are the acceptable cannabis products.
Everything else is criminal.”
Schedule III: The “Medical” Cage
Now comes the part they want you to celebrate: Schedule III.
They throw around words like:
“Rescheduling”
“Recognition”
“Medical acceptance”
“Historic win”
Let me make it simple:
Under Schedule III, cannabis doesn’t get free. It gets absorbed.
What Schedule III Actually Means
In Schedule III, cannabis becomes:
Recognized as medical—but only if it passes through the federal pipeline:
FDA‑approved products,
Doctor-prescribed,
DEA‑registered manufacturers and dispensers.
Dispenser means what?
Pharmacy, or tightly controlled dispensary/channel under DEA oversight.
Schedule III doesn’t say:
“Grow what you want.”
“Use it how you like.”
“Sell it freely.”
Schedule III says:
“We will now control which forms of cannabis are legitimate medicine—and everything else is officially unauthorized.”
People cannot comply with FDA approval and doctor prescription in a home closet. That’s exactly the point.
FDA and Home grow: Oil and Water
Here’s what it takes to be an FDA‑approved medicine:
Standardized dose, exact composition
Rigid manufacturing controls
Clinical trials
Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
Documentation, audits, inspections
Now picture a homegrower:
Growing plants in a backyard, closet, or tent
Changing strains, phenos, grow conditions
Drying, curing, maybe making oil or edibles for themselves
Can that person ever be “FDA‑approved”?
No.
Homegrown cannabis cannot comply with FDA regulation. It’s not built to. FDA isn’t built to recognize it. The system is designed to exclude it.
And doctors?
Mainstream doctors are not going to write:
“Smoke two joints of homegrown flower daily.”
They will write for:
Pills, capsules, oils, sprays, inhalers
Products from companies that:
Have gone through FDA
Have lawyers and lobbyists
Fit into the pharmaceutical model
So when cannabis is pulled into Schedule III, you’re not being liberated—you’re being routed into a tightly controlled, pharma‑friendly lane.
Everything outside that lane stays legally exposed.
No Home Cultivation, No Real Recreation, No Raw Flower
Under a true Schedule III, FDA/DEA‑dominated structure:
Home cultivation is unsanctioned.
Raw flower that never passed through the approved supply chain is suspect.
Recreational use outside tightly regulated, taxed, tracked channels is always one policy shift away from a crackdown.
They won’t necessarily kick every door in on day one. They don’t have to.
What they’ve done is build a framework where:
The only “legitimate” cannabis is productized, standardized, and dispensed by the same system that once said it had no medical use.
Everyone else is painted as:
“unregulated,”
“illicit,”
“dangerous,”
“non‑compliant.”
That’s not liberation. That’s integration into a control system.
Mapping the Market: From Prohibition to “Compliance”
From the beginning, there was a concerted effort to:
Map demand in the underground market.
Identify who uses, who grows, who sells.
Control access once enough data was gathered.
Prohibition did the dirty work early on:
Arrests
Raids
Asset forfeiture
Surveillance
Prison time
Every bust was data:
Who’s buying, who’s selling, what’s being moved, where.
Then came “medical marijuana” and state legalization—with a new set of tools:
Seed‑to‑sale tracking
Licensing and regulatory systems
Patient registries and “cardholder” databases
Mandatory reporting, compliance logs, METRC, all of it
And here is where the controlled opposition came in.
The Activist Dialectic: How They Walked You Into the Cage
Look at the dialectic they ran:
Thesis: The DEA, ONDCP, NIDA, politicians all insist cannabis is worthless, dangerous, Schedule I, no medical use.
Antithesis: “Activists” and organizations—NORML, certain celebrity growers, dispensary founders—position themselves as the noble opposition:
They say, “We’re fighting the system.”
They say, “We’re for the patients, for the plant.”
They push for state legalization, but always:
with heavy regulation,
license caps,
tracking,
“good operator” frameworks.
Synthesis: Over time, the “compromise” becomes:
cannabis is grudgingly accepted,
but only:
in forms the FDA approves,
through channels the DEA licenses,
under regulations that favor big operators and pharma.
The result?
The state “legal” model becomes a controlled market, not a freed plant.
The feds keep all their power from Raich and the CSA.
The public thinks they “won,” because Steve DeAngelo, Ed Rosenthal, NORML, and the talking heads tell them so.
hat’s how a dialectic works:
They control both sides of the argument, and you’re herded into the middle.
Steve DeAngelo, Ed Rosenthal, NORML: The Propaganda Masters
Let’s be blunt.
For years, figures like Steve DeAngelo, Ed Rosenthal, and organizations like NORML positioned themselves as the faces of cannabis “freedom.”
They ran dispensaries, wrote books, fronted advocacy groups, did media. They became the respectable voice that the system wanted to deal with. They presented themselves as counterculture, as rebels, as pioneers.
But what did they actually normalize?
Licensing frameworks that exclude ordinary people.
Tracking systems that map every plant, every sale, every gram.
Regulatory schemes that treat cannabis users and growers like suspects who must constantly prove compliance.
Here’s the cruel part:
While average people:
followed their advice,
believed the rhetoric,
walked into heavily monitored “legal” frameworks—
those same leaders:
made millions,
gained influence,
and moved into positions where they could help shape policy to favor large, centralized operations.
They brag about having seen the movement from the beginning. They brag about helping shape state laws. They brag about “professionalizing” the industry.
But how many people who followed their “movement” ended up:
raided,
indicted,
on the wrong side of some new regulation they couldn’t afford to comply with?
You said it yourself: these people watched their followers go to jail while they cashed in.
And now, these same figures stand up and tell you Schedule III is a “historic victory.”
If you keep following that script, if you keep parroting their talking points, I don’t know what to call it other than this:
You’ve been turned into a useful idiot for a system that exists to control you.
The Science They Used to Replace the Plant
While the propaganda class did their job on the culture and the legal front, the science machine quietly did its job on the plant.
Once THC and CBD were mapped in the 1960s, it was only a matter of time before:
Synthetic THC products came out (like dronabinol/Marinol).
CBD‑based pharmaceuticals like Epidiolex hit the market.
Yeast and microbial platforms started producing cannabinoids without the plant at all.
Follow the logic:
Understand the plant at the molecular level.
Identify the most commercially valuable molecules (THC, CBD, and others).
Synthesize or biosynthesize those molecules in labs.
Patent the processes, formulations, and analogs.
Push them through:
FDA approval,
DEA scheduling,
insurance coverage,
doctor education programs.
Once you’ve done that, the original plant is just competition.
And competition, in their world, is managed through:
Regulation
Criminalization
Smear campaigns (“unregulated,” “unsafe,” “dirty weed”)
They used prohibition to map the demand.
They used “legalization” to map the users and the growers.
They used science to copy the key compounds.
Now they use Schedule III to seal the deal.
Legalization for the Suits, Prohibition for Everyone Else
Look at who thrives in this model:
Big Pharma – perfectly built for FDA trials, DEA licensing, regulatory compliance.
Big Cannabis corporations – funded, lawyered up, lobbyists on retainer.
Brand-name activists and organizations – who get seats at the policy table.
Look at who gets squeezed:
Homegrowers
Small, independent farmers
Traditional, informal networks
Anyone who doesn’t have the money or the stomach to turn their relationship to a plant into a corporate compliance exercise
“Legalization,” as designed by this alliance of feds, pharma, and professional activists, is not about your freedom.
It’s about:
Legitimizing a commercial market that they can control and tax.
Maintaining criminal penalties as a stick against anyone who steps outside that sanitized market.
Protecting the interests of those who played along and built their careers around this controlled model.
So we end up with:
Legalization for the suits.
Ongoing prohibition for everyone else.
What Real Liberation Would Look Like
I’m not interested in rearranging the bars of the cage. I’m interested in whether there’s a door.
Real liberation would look like this:
1. Descheduling, Not Rescheduling
Cannabis needs to be removed from the Controlled Substances Act entirely—not shuffled from Schedule I to II or III like a piece on their board.
As long as cannabis is in any Schedule:
The DEA has jurisdiction.
The federal criminal framework remains.
Your access to the plant can be shut down with the stroke of a pen.
Descheduling says:
This is not a controlled pharmaceutical monopoly anymore.
This is a plant, a crop, a traditional medicine, a human right.
2. Homegrow as a Non-Negotiable Right
The right to grow your own is the real line between freedom and managed dependency.
If you can’t:
plant a seed,
grow a plant,
harvest and use it yourself,
share it non‑commercially with your community,
then you are not free. You’re a customer.
I want to see:
State constitutional amendments that protect:
personal cultivation,
reasonable plant counts,
non‑commercial sharing,
and bar police from touching you over it.
3. End to Criminalization
No one should be caged for:
growing a plant,
using a plant,
sharing a plant,
or providing that plant to willing adults.
No more SWAT teams for seeds and dirt.
No more asset forfeiture for a few lights and a room.
The law needs to say, in plain terms:
The criminal justice system is out of the cannabis business.
4. Decentralized, Community-First Models
Real freedom means:
Co-ops, not just corporations.
Small farms, not just mega‑facilities.
Local control, not just distant boards and investors.
People should be able to choose:
to grow for themselves,
to buy from a neighbor,
to support a small farm,
or, if they want, to buy pharma‑grade pills—
without one model being used as a hammer to crush all the others.
Taking the Plant Back
By now, the pattern should be clear.
They:
Lied about “no medical value” while mapping THC and CBD.
Locked cannabis into Schedule I while developing cannabis‑based pharmaceuticals.
Used prohibition to map the underground.
Used “legal” frameworks and activist‑branded compliance to tighten the grid.
Copied the molecules in labs.
Moved cannabis into Schedule III to crown pharma and centralized control.
And all along the way, people like Steve DeAngelo, Ed Rosenthal, NORML, and their clones in other states played the role of “good opposition”—
smoothing the way, giving the system a friendly face, feeding people hope and half‑truths.
They told you:
“We’re on the verge of victory.”
“This is what we’ve been fighting for.”
“Federal medical is the big win.”
But victory that leaves:
homegrow illegal or fragile,
raw flower outside the system,
small growers under constant threat,
and the DEA/FDA still in control—
is not victory.
It’s management. It’s consolidation. It’s Cannabis Deception.
You have a choice.
You can:
Keep repeating their propaganda,
Keep treating Schedule III as liberation,
Keep trusting the same voices that walked you into this cage,
or you can:
Call out the dialectic,
Refuse to bless this “victory,”
Demand descheduling, homegrow, and an end to criminalization,
And stop letting controlled opposition define your reality.
They have the courts.
They have the lobbyists.
They have their Schedule III.
What I have—and what you still have—is the truth about what they’ve done.
And as long as there is one person left willing to grow a plant without asking permission, to share it without a barcode, to say “no” to a system that turns medicine into monopoly, this fight isn’t over.
Legalization isn’t when they let you buy their version of cannabis.
Legalization is when they can’t stop you from growing your own.
Until then, I call this what it is:
Cannabis Deception.
