It took a while for it to happen, but it finally did. I was listening to the radio on the way home from work last week when I heard it. The inevitable pitch by someone promising to make your rich. Or, rather to put you on the path of possible profitability, quickly followed by the implication that they’re going to make you rich. It’s time for you to sign up for your free CBD seminar and training session.
If you were to look at a map of America for where marijuana is legal you might actually be surprised. The movement for legalization has been a long one. However, the change that has come as of late has really surprised many. In some states it is legal. In some states it is less criminalized, or rather prosecutors won’t prosecute. In some states CBD oil is legal. There are only around ten or eleven states where it is still fully illegal and criminalized. That’s a helluva thing and a helluva opportunity.
Now with that understanding, we all know what’s going to happen next, or is already happening. I don’t know if you’ve done this, but I have. I’ve taken the time to sit back and think about just how gullible we can be in our desire to be rich, to covet, to want, to be able to buy stuff. It boggles the mind, or at least it boggles my mind.
There is always the get rich quick ThingamaJigAmIstupidAsHell scheme, whether it’s stocks, real estate, long distance phone service, energy, or a person from a foreign country who will give us a cut of the proceeds if we help him with his 1.5 to 3-million-dollar bank deposit. We all have heard about it at this point. Still, again, and again without fail we will throw caution to the wind and give this person, this prevaricator our hard-earned cash. We hope, that what will happen next will allow us to buy our own champagne wishes and caviar dreams.
Well, I hate to say it, but that old thang is back with a vengeance. The real estate seminars have been back on and popping for a few years now. Some of you may have attended a free seminar or two. Many of you may have bought the $500 hot box packet to help you build your empire, or you may have dropped the $1500 to $4000 necessary to take the course through the special all-powerful training academy that will help you conquer the land in your own back yard.
Yeah, same old story with a new book cover. As Clark Howard once said, if they have all the answers, why are they sharing them with you? Do you really think they’re doing it out of the goodness of their hearts? Do you really think that $1500 multiplied by the fifteen of you out of the class of thirty who attended that day and paid are just small potatoes in their annual balance sheet, a small goodwill line? Or, do you realize that even though they made money buying and selling homes they really make way more money today telling you what they did as opposed to continue doing it themselves? Just something to think about, critically.
So, now that I’ve rehashed the continuous tried and true that find their targets every year, it’s time to introduce the latest entrant. And to be sure, this one is a heavy hitter.
Do you smoke weed? Have you ever smoked weed? Do you love the allure of marijuana? Have you ever considered the money-making potential of cannabis sativa and thought it should be you, or it would be you if it were legal? Are you a person who thinks of the societal wrongs of marijuana and how now that it is becoming legal the windfall will belong to the same people who have always controlled the reigns of power?
Are you one of those people who thinks about all those who have been imprisoned and suffered while trying to make a way by selling it in traps and on street corners? Are you an old hip-hop head who remembers when the Notorious B.I.G rapped about how he was just trying to make some money to feed his daughter? For that one go listen to his song “Juicy,” and if you don’t know, now you know, you know.
Are you one of the folks who saw the video of the woman news correspondent who said “fuck it” on live television and walked off her job after she revealed herself to be the owner of the Alaskan Cannabis Club?
Are you an American who sees the powerfully ripe opportunity that marijuana legalization represents, just like former Speaker of the House John Boehner, a Conservative and a Republican? Do you see all this and feel the itch and fear of being too late? Are you worried about being completely left out? Do you think of all this and say, NOW is our time, or more importantly my time?
Well, please allow me to tell you that the impending legalization of marijuana and the accelerating growth of cannabis derived products truly do represent an economic paradigm shift, and they will make fortunes over time. Let’s get that out of the way first.
Second, all that you have seen and all that you feel creates powerful emotions. We humans become ripe for exploitation when we feel we’ve missed the boat, or that the boat is just about to leave, and we feel we can still get on it. We feel just like we would if we were late to the port of our seven-day cruise that we spent our hard-earned money on. Our stomachs sink. We become frantic, manic, willing to do whatever to get on that boat.
That’s who we are and that is why critical thinking is so incredibly important to consider.
I’ve heard many of them already. People want you to join their downline in their CBD Multi-Level-Marketing program. People are starting CBD businesses around how to make CBD businesses. People are offering programs to join CBD startups that will develop innovative ways to circumvent current challenges to actually getting your CBD oil. People are offering courses on the health benefits of CBD.
And the health benefits of CBD have to be considered independently of the rest in my opinion because we aspiring critical thinkers know the truth. We’ve seen it all before, just like many of you. There are those who will tell you CBD cures everything, helps everything, is the be-all and end-all of medicines. CBD oil clearly has many benefits. But it is not a cure-all. Still, there will be those that market it as such and there will be those who will buy it as such. And that, is truly sad. Critical thinking is needed more than ever, especially at early stages of what many consider be a crazed gold rush.
I hope what I’ve said resonates with you. I felt the need to make this statement. I was driving, and I was simply moved to speak. If you be an aspiring critical thinker, when asked to attend the seminar, join the program, start a business, ask critical thinking questions. Because you see, someone is making money. Someone might be making money and it is all above board, no fraud, no skirting the edge of legality. Yes, someone might be making money, but with regard to these types of schemes and programs, that someone is more than likely not going to be you. The Marijuana CBD craze is hot, but many of you my friends, are not.
The Aspiring Critical Thinker/Writer/Innovator, D.S. Brown