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[–] 121 points 2 years ago (52 children)

Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.” He added, “I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities.” The farm residents would grow their own organic food because, he suggested, many of their underlying problems could be “food-related.”

Hol up. They've gotten rid of all the people who used to pick fruit in rural areas, and now they want to send arbitrarily diagnosed "addicts" to these rural areas to live for "free".

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not only will they live for free, but their work will truly set them free.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    The idea that you can't just step down off an SSRI as if it's a heroin addiction is fucking ludicrous.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The thing is it's so easy to verify that they're not addictive.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Virtually every bullshit medical claim RFK Jr. makes can easily be verified to be bullshit.

    And he just outright lies all the time too. I heard a radio interview with him where he claimed he had hundreds of clients with golf ball-sized tumors behind their ears from using cell phones. You know how you see all those people walking around with golf ball-sized tumors behind their ears?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    I didn't see "free" mentioned anywhere.

    My guess is that these "wellness farms" will be just as costly to patients as traditional rehab programs, but at the same time the patients will be expected to do physical labor on the farms.

    They'll literally be paying to work there. Isn't that the ultimate end-stage capitalist dream?

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