This is an odd platform for a presidential candidate, but in 2024, it doesn't surprise us. Mother Jones (yeah, we know) has this scoop on Robert F. Kennedy's plan to 'cure' people of 'addiction' to antidepressants and ADHD meds SCOOP: RFK Jr.
plans to create government "wellness farms" where people will spend 3 or 4 years harvesting organic vegetables to cure their addiction to antidepressants and ADHD meds: https://t.co/jyn8Y5QrZh More from Mother Jones: In a virtual event last week that was billed as a “ Latino Town Hall ,” presidential candidate and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
unveiled his plan to overhaul addiction treatment programs. Speaking during a live recording of the Latino Capitalist podcast, Kennedy described opioid, antidepressant, and ADHD “addicts” receiving treatment on tech-free “wellness farms,” where they would spend as much as three or four years growing organic produce. How to pay for these farms? Kennedy had an answer.
With money generated through a sales tax on cannabis products, Kennedy said, “I’m going to dedicate that revenue to creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country,” he said. “I’m going to make it so people can go, if you’re convicted of a drug offense, or if you have a drug problem, you can go to one of these places for free.” Yeah, we don't think that'll work.
Where does the Constitution provide that as a responsibility for the Federal Government? It doesn't. This kind of California flakiness is disqualifying. It is.
And this writer likes Kennedy. But this is a big misstep. "Work on a collective farm will cure your ills" pic.
twitter.com/h2kNJ9fpmg Excellent reference. No Yeah, it's a no from us, too.
So gulags are back in vogue, huh? Da, comrade. Good, because I’ve just been advocating for lobotomizing the homeless like we used to but this sounds much more humane Heh. Didn't Margaret Atwood reference those in The Handmaid's Tale? I believe they were call the Colonies.
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twitter.com/lP0G5NYaQY Weird, huh? Damn, if I only had a Kennedy inheritance I could get off the Wellbutrin This made us chuckle. I harvest organic vegetables and raise chickens and still take Lexapro because working outside can help the symptoms of depression but farming isn’t a cure for mental illness, you dolt https://t.
co/HvLujijAfn It's not a cure, and medication can be very helpful -- even necessary -- for some people. He said this on @RisingTheHill to me right after the debate a month ago but good SCOOP! https://t.co/6EjIrZWi8s It's an interesting scoop, for sure.
RFK also wants to send the homeless and people suffering from addiction to these healing camps, it is a sensible and compassionate idea. https://t.co/7qttbXWSgE We're having a hard time reconciling sending people to camps with 'sensible and compassionate', but you do you.
https://t.co/hKUFAhCbWp pic.twitter.
com/7FT0A8mQ2P Love this meme. Staying at a place to garden and get closer to nature and God is beautiful Government forcing people they disapprove of in labor camps is one of the worst things imaginable Intentional farming communities already exist. Don't get govt involved https://t.
co/MyQUErpKHR Exactly -- when has government done anything right? We can't imagine what a hellscape these camps would be. RFK Jr wants to send people to collective farms to cure societal ills and Internet goobers will still call him "libertarian" https://t.co/YTrXOJH4jk Well, the Democrats kicked him out, so he had to go somewhere.
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