Ben Cort: What commercialization is doing to cannabis
بين كورت: كيف يؤثّر التسويق التجاري على حشيش "القنّب"
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are anything like me,
to turn around recently
of the way that we eat in recent years,
بالطريقة التي نأكل بها في السنوات الأخيرة،
their way into our daily lexicon.
اتخذت طريقها إلى قاموسنا اليومي.
interacted with our bodies
مع أجسامنا
أن تُصغي.
from states like Washington and Oregon
مثل "واشنطن" و"أوريغون"
are not just being used in our diets.
لا تستعمل فقط في نُظُم حِمْيتنا الغذائية.
using this language now.
هذه اللغة الآن.
worth of product in 2016.
في 2016.
about this legalized marijuana thing
المُقننة
is a pretty quick way to get uninvited
هو نقاشٌ لا يجب أن نخوض فيه نحنُ
be perfectly clear about one thing:
دعوني أوضّح شيئاً:
adult use of marijuana --
الرشيد للماريغوانا...
is this new industry
هو هذه الصناعة الجديدة
that we are consuming something natural
نستهلك شيئاً ما طبيعياً
a little bit of Weed 101.
and has been used within textiles
وكان يدخل في صناعة الأقمشة
for thousands of years.
منذ آلاف السنين.
plants and herbs to use."
كل بذور النباتات والأعشاب"
a TV preacher sort of thing.
تُقدم لكم بالمذياع!
of different chemicals,
الكيميائية المختلفة،
are by far the most interesting.
هما الأكثر إمتاعاً.
of the medicinal properties lie.
part of the plant
while vaping pure CBD
بينما تدخِّن الـ"CBD" النقي.
الكثير من المال.
a part of the plant as CBD is,
التي تتمتّع بها الـ"CBD"،
of the commercial market.
من السوق التجارية.
in that other chemical --
من المادة الأُخرى...
that gets you high.
الذي يجعلك تنتشي.
of a percent of THC.
من 0.5% من الـ"THC".
as we became better gardeners, that --
أصبحنا 'مزارعين أفضل'، بحيث...
to slowly but steadily rise,
بشكل بطيء، ولكن باطراد،
started to get involved.
الكيميائيون بالتدخل.
exclusively indoors,
بزراعة القنّب داخلياً،
extremely and unnaturally short.
بشكل اصطناعي.
pesticides and fertilizers
والأسمدة
should be concerned with.
at a commercial grow operation
with the chemicals
were actually encouraged
بعض زملائه في العمل
the chemical cocktails on the plants.
بهذه التوليفات من المواد الكيميائية.
can contain above 30 percent THC.
على أكثر من 30% من الـ"THC".
above 95 percent THC --
أن تحتوي على أكثر من 95% من "THC"...
one of the thousands of dispensaries
really selling in them is THC.
لهم هو الـ"THC".
تُسجل تجارياً نسبة الـ"THC" فيها.
lists exactly how much THC it contains,
much more popular products
القهوة، الآيس كريم،
introducing into the human body.
that's being sold today --
الذي يتم بيعه حالياً...
and unnatural concentration.
بشكل غير طبيعي.
is subtly misleading.
هو ضلال مبين.
has so rapidly exploded
الذي ينتشر بسرعة
of a lot of money to be made
التي يجب أن تُجنى
our desire to get high.
being made by the mom-and-pop shops.
a lot of the small-time growers.
على ملاحقة الكثير من صغار المزارعين.
to continue to profit off of us
تعلم أن الطريقة المُثلى للتربح من ورائنا
industry's 80/20 rule.
of the product is consumed
the problemed users.
all rich, white men --
من الرجال البيض الأثرياء...
more of what they're selling
twice as likely to consume THC regularly
المعتاد من الـ"THC"، وبشكل منتظم،
over 50,000 dollars a year.
أكثر من 50000 دولار سنوياً،
your money on their products.
أموالك على منتجاتهم.
and race are highly correlated.
for the legalization of marijuana
تقنين الماريغوانا
the disproportionate incarceration rates
معدلات السَّجْنِ المتدهورة
should be extremely concerned with.
به كل من في هذه الغرفة.
have to look any further
here in Colorado
Department of Public Safety,
minority neighborhoods --
الأقليات الفقيرة...
in the arrest of white kids
بنسبة 8%
in the arrest of Hispanic kids
من أصل إسباني إلى 29%
of black kids for weed-related crimes.
إلى 58% فيما يتعلق بهذه الجرائم.
more people of color in Colorado
الأعراق المختلفة في كولورادو
في كولارادو.
صارت في بؤرة الاهتمام.
is in school suspension rates.
تتعلق بمعدلات الحرمان في المدرسة.
predominantly white --
of 25 percent or fewer --
أو أقل من الأقليات...
following commercialization,
المتعلقة بالاستغلال التجاري،
of 190 drug-related suspensions,
المتعلقة بالمخدرات،
of 75 to 100 percent
الحرمان المتعلقة بالمخدرات،
gets left out of the conversation
than twice as likely to consume THC
أكثر من الضعف من الـ"THC".
as heterosexual or cisgender.
كمغايرين أو متوافقين الجنس.
higher rates of mental illness
معدلات الذُهان (الأمراض العقلية)
called "Going to Pot,"
"الذهاب إلى السُكْر"،
of THC found in today's products
المتواجدة في منتجات هذه الأيام
تلك الأزمات.
to matter very little
selling these products,
is too much of a sacred cow to question.
المُقننة تثير ذعر الكثيرين.
is not natural,
social justice as a smoke screen
يستخدمون "العدالة الاجتماعية" كسحابة دخان
that led me to begin questioning
هي التي أوصلتني للتساؤل
that we're taught to do.
for the Washington, DC, area
where the kind of shoes you wore
الحذاء الذي ترتديه
just about anything else.
to help me play that game.
لم أستطع معها أن ألعب دوراً تجاه ذلك.
crisis of identity.
blacktop than treetops,
السوداء الكثيفة،
المخدرات للمرة الأولى
drugs and alcohol,
من المخدرات والكحوليات،
inside of my brain.
within a couple of months.
خلال شهرين.
many of the stories
on June 15 of 1996.
في النهاية سقطت مغشياً.
trying to both put my life back in order
في محاولة تنظيم حياتي
some peace in this world.
قليلا من الوئام في هذا العالم.
drug and alcohol treatment
"العنقاء للرياضة متعددة الأغراض"
Transgender, Bisexual Treatment Providers
جنسياً، ومقدمي العلاج لثنائيّ الجنس)
on the front lines
في الخطوط الأمامية.
when I started to see
was doing to cannabis,
for something pure and natural
فإن أملنا في شيء نقي وطبيعي
what's really going on,
لما نراه يجري في الواقع،
are getting richer
that we are allowing industry
challenged among us
الأكبر فيما بيننا
and food in years past.
في السنوات الماضية.
our choices were having,
for ourselves and our families,
demand the same thing from this
من أن نطالب بالمثل في هذا
to get a piece of our paychecks?
أن تستقطع جزءاً من رواتبنا؟
some hard questions?
على بعض الأسئلة الصعبة؟
than we are right now?
أعلى مما نحن عليه الآن؟
of commercialization.
في نظر الاستغلال التجاري.
this is a sensitive topic
and helping us explore it.
ومساعدتنا على كشفه.
are experiencing health benefits
يلامس الفوائد الصحيّة
to that part of the community?
you brought that up.
سعيد جداً أنك طرحت هذا.
that we can do right now
والتي يمكنُنا القيام بها الآن
that are being made
some whole-plant medicines,
وحتى بعض الأدوية العشبية،
the part about getting high,
هذا الجزء متعلق بالنشوة،
is less about being anti-cannabis
about aspects of commercialization.
عن جوانب الاستغلال التجاري.
listen, I'm a drug addict.
اصغوا إليّ، أنا مدمن مخدرات!
and I don't want to do that.
and what's so hard for me
that we are just embracing
to the fire on some stuff.
ليقللوا تركيز المواد الخام.
if you're smoking when you do it,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ben Cort - Author, addiction treatment specialistBen Cort focuses on marijuana education and consulting in the substance use disorder treatment field.
Why you should listen
Ben Cort's passion for recovery, prevention and harm reduction comes from his own struggle with substance abuse. Sober since June 15, 1996, Cort has been a part of the recovery community in almost every way imaginable -- from a recipient to a provider to a spokesperson. Cort has a deep understanding of the issues and a personal motivation to see the harmful effects of drug and alcohol abuse minimized.
In 2007 Cort left his position as HR director of a Denver based S&P 500 firm to help start the Colorado-based nonprofit Phoenix Multisport (PM). As an original board member and then their first full-time employee, Cort was instrumental in building the organization, which has received frequent national recognition for their innovative approach to building sober communities around sport and healthy activities.
Following the passage of Coloradro Amendment 64, which outlined a new statewide drug policy for cannabis, Cort was appointed to the Board of Directors of Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana) as well as NALGAP (the National Association of Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender Treatment Providers and their Allies). Cort's passion about the intersection of recovery and public policy makes him frequent guest in the media.
Cort's first book, Weed, Inc.: The Truth About the Pot Lobby, THC, and the Commercial Marijuana Industry, was released in September 2017. He resigned from his position with the University of Colorado Hospital in their chemical dependency treatment service line in January 2017 to focus on marijuana education and consulting in the substance use disorder treatment field.
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