Cops Brag About Forcing Lies About Marijuana On School Children Using Bogus "Weed Googles"

 This year, Illinois became the 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana for adult use.

As of Jan. 2020, consumers aged 21 and older can purchase marijuana products from licensed sellers in Illinois - with or without a medical marijuana card.

This was an enormous breakthrough in terms of the war on drugs and is additionally shoring the state's economy amid the pandemic disaster.

Sales have totaled over $300 million since the start of the year which number is growing.

Because marijuana is way safer than alcohol and other drugs, it's a viable option for several people that don't wish to experience the side effects of other harder "Legal" drugs.

Despite the proven safety of the plant and therefore the incontrovertible fact that nobody ever has died from its use, in most of the country, recreational marijuana remains illegal.

As the following example shows, even in Illinois where it's legal, police are still devoting resources - using scare tactics and propaganda - to discourage its use.

The Moline local department took to Facebook in the week to brag about AAA giving them the grant to propagandize school children with false information about marijuana.

"These goggles model the consequences of recreational marijuana, therefore the user can experience the impact of what it wishes to be under the influence of marijuana while driving," police said within the Facebook post.

"Marijuana affects the brain differently than alcohol, and therefore the goggles simulate marijuana's true effects - they diminish the participant's capacity to form quick, accurate decisions, which causes a driver to miss important external cues that would cause a crash."

Police said in their Facebook post that these "Kits are going to be delivered to area schools and community events as how to teach people about the consequences marijuana-impaired driving."

Are these kids really getting to be "Educated" about marijuana? the solution is not any.

They will be lied to and manipulated by police who don't seem curious about facts and honesty.

Fatal Vision company makes several dubious claims on their website, where their kits sell from $1,859 for the "Program Kit" to upwards of $4,330 for the "Campaign Kit.".

Fatal Vision says their product is meant to be "a hands-on awareness-building tool that models the distorted processing of visual information, loss of motor coordination, and slowed deciding and response time resulting from recreational marijuana use".

"The purpose of the Fatal Vision Marijuana Simulation Experience is to offer participants an understanding of cognitive impairments related to recreational marijuana use."

The last item these goggles do is simulate an actual experience while on marijuana.

While parents and police are understandably concerned with the abuse of alcohol and other drugs, the utilization of the goggles, which creates fear supported false realities, is questionable at the best.

The goggles deduct the power to ascertain red, which is somehow meant to simulate being stoned.

Of course, you'll see the color red perfectly well under the influence of cannabis.

In other instances during which the marijuana goggles are used, people could grab things that were right ahead of them.

Others couldn't complete menial tasks like putting a basketball into an ashcan.

While we in no way condone driving under the influence, the lies these goggles tell about marijuana are as asinine as they're outlandish.

The company says their product "Simulates the distortion of visual information and altered beholding, loss of motor coordination, and response time that results from recreational marijuana use."

While the abuse of any substance can cause impairment, the responsible use of cannabis can actually increase some areas of cognitive function, like creativity.

It is a laudable effort to stay kids from driving under the influence of any substance, but are "Marijuana goggles" that mimic false realities the simplest thanks to set about this? Also, promoting them may have the reverse effect of getting more kids curious about cannabis.

The use of such a tool that doesn't actually simulate the consequences of marijuana, hearkens to the 1930's-era propaganda Reefer Madness, which presented a false reality of madness and violence under the influence of cannabis.

The only thing that came from these lies and propaganda was setbacks, fear, and eventually the war on drugs which helped inaugurate the most important militarized police and jail population on the earth.

Perhaps honesty, logic, reason, and facts should tend an opportunity rather than lies and fear.

Teenagers and adults would be far better off getting real information on cannabis and other substances, in order that they and their families can rationally decide for themselves what's responsible and what should be avoided.