New York Times Admits that Pot Legalization Stinks – AMAC – The Association of Mature American Citizens
Backers of so-called “recreational” legalized marijuana use are now admitting they erred and are pleading with officials to re-impose restrictions on the rampant use of the drug. But the momentum toward full legalization may be difficult to reverse even as the evidence piles up against it.
Last week, reversing nearly a decade of pro-pot stances, The New York Times Editorial Board declared, “It’s time for America to admit that it has a marijuana problem.”
“In our editorials, we described marijuana addiction and dependence as ‘relatively minor problems,’” the Editorial Board wrote. “It is now clear that many of these predictions were wrong… Given the growing harms from marijuana use, American lawmakers should do more to regulate it.”
As the Times acknowledges, legalization of marijuana did lead to a dramatic increase in use and abuse of the drug (as most people with common sense could have predicted), addictions did increase, and hospitals are being inundated with drug-related illnesses, including “marijuana-linked paranoia and chronic psychotic disorders.” Worse, innocent children are accidentally eating edibles laced with cannabis and ending up in the emergency room.
As The Wall Street Journal reported back in 2023, psychosis cases among teenage pot users are skyrocketing due to elevated levels of THC, the psychoactive element in the marijuana plant, in modern strains of the drug. Today’s pot is roughly three times more potent than it was in the mid-1990s. Some marijuana-derived products have THC content as high as 90 percent – exponentially greater than the three percent THC content in marijuana plants a generation ago.
The Times Editorial Board was careful to note that it does not want a complete return to past prohibition of the drug, but said American society “has recently gone too far in accepting and even promoting its use.”
To address the burgeoning crisis that they helped create by mainstreaming legalization, the Editorial Board members, at least some of whom use the drug themselves, propose a federal tax on marijuana, arguing that the increased cost will deter heavy users. They also want tighter regulation of so-called “medical marijuana” and the questionable claims pot corporations make about its alleged benefits. Some companies claim, for example, that it “can treat cancer and Alzheimer’s.”
When it comes to legalized pot, “it is time to acknowledge reality and change course,” the Times pleads – and they aren’t the only ones. Other past supporters of marijuana admit they made a mistake and want to see limits put on the drug or at least have regulations on public use enforced.
National Review, a conservative outlet with a libertarian streak, has generally supported the legalization of pot, going back to the 1970s when its founder, William F. Buckley, endorsed the idea. But now Senior Editor Charles Cooke says that “legalization is a good idea with bad consequences,” decrying “pot anarchy.”
In particular, Cooke is peeved that pot users openly smoke the drug in public, and officials are loath to enforce any limits. This contrasts sharply with strict bans on smoking tobacco in most public places, in part to prevent harm to non-smokers from secondhand smoke.
“The United States has some of the greatest and most interesting cities in the world — New York, Chicago, San Francisco,” Cooke said, but “almost all of them have become unpleasant to walk around in thanks to the ubiquitous smell of weed.”
While backers of marijuana often compare it to alcohol, the truth is it is rarely legal to walk around with an open beer or gin and tonic. Alcohol is actually more regulated than marijuana in this regard, Cooke argues.
Laws against smoking pot in public are “so poorly enforced,” Cooke laments. He slammed his fellow marijuana legalization advocates for not speaking up more about the haze of smelly, skunky weed assaulting the noses of Americans.
“This is absurd, and in the long run, it is unsustainable,” he warns.
The National Review editor also highlighted the lie used to push legalized marijuana, which is that it would remain in homes and out of sight. The right approach, in Cooke’s opinion, is that the drug is “best indulged in private.”
Indeed, for years that was the image cultivated in popular culture – the innocent teen or adult who simply smokes a joint in the privacy of their own home while munching on snacks.
Shows like “That 70s Show” depicted teens and young adults smoking pot in their parents’ basement, not harming anyone. Entertainers like Cheech and Chong and Willie Nelson cultivated the image of happy-go-lucky guys just enjoying a little marijuana for fun with friends.
Now the image of pot as a safe and harmless activity is going up in smoke. Adults are being afflicted with psychosis from the drug, while non-users are forced to smell pungent weed while grappling with the harmful effects of friends and family who have become dependent on the drugs.
But as evidence mounts pointing to the dangers of marijuana where recreational use is legal, so does the momentum to continue legalizing it in other states. As the New York Times reported recently, “no state allowed marijuana for recreational purposes,” prior to 2012. That year, Washington and Colorado voters approved ballot measures in support of recreational marijuana.
But as of 2026, 24 states allow for recreational marijuana use in some form, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Forty states allow for so-called medical marijuana as well. Some states are considering loosening their regulations on marijuana even further.
Virginia, for instance, is currently considering a bill to allow for a “retail market” in marijuana. Current law allows for individuals to grow a small amount of the devil’s lettuce for personal use in their homes. (Notably, the Virginia State Senate President Pro Tempore, Democrat Louis Lucas, who is one of the leading proponents of legalization, owns a cannabis store that has been busted for selling illegal products.)
Pennsylvania is also considering opening up a lucrative drug market, as it sees neighboring states raking in millions of dollars in tax revenue.
If Virginia and Pennsylvania lawmakers care about the health of their citizens, they’ll reconsider legalization. What began as a cultural experiment in normalization has quickly revealed serious public health and social consequences that even its most prominent champions can no longer ignore.
If politicians are serious about protecting communities, they must confront the evidence and reimpose meaningful limits before today’s permissiveness becomes tomorrow’s irreversible damage.
AMAC Newsline contributor Matt Lamb is an associate editor for The College Fix. He previously worked for Students for Life of America, Students for Life Action, and Turning Point USA. He previously interned for Open the Books. His writing has also appeared in the Washington Examiner, The Federalist, LifeSiteNews, Human Life Review, Headline USA, and other outlets. The opinions expressed are his own. Follow him @mattlamb22 on X.
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The Prohibition of cannabis and Reefer Madness are only pushed and believed by a very small, lunatic-fringe minority of irrational looney-tune Holier Than Thou types that are on a never ending little personal moral-crusade and witch-hunt against relatively benign cannabis and it’s consumers. The rest of us sane, rational, normal Americans just laugh our butts off at and mock utterly desperate lying prohibitionists and their ridiculous Reefer-Madness-Rhetoric as the comedy show they truly are!
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Fear of Cannabis Legalization Nationwide is unfounded. Not based on any science or fact whatsoever. So please prohibitionists, we beg you to give your scare tactics, “Conspiracy Theories” and “Doomsday Scenarios” over the inevitable Legalization of Cannabis Nationwide a rest. Nobody is buying them anymore these days. Okay?
Furthermore, if all prohibitionists get when they look into that nice, big and shiny crystal ball of theirs, while wondering about the future of cannabis legalization, is horror, doom, and despair, well then I suggest they return that thing as quickly as possible and reclaim the money they shelled out for it, since it’s obviously defective.
The prohibition of cannabis has not decreased the supply nor the demand for cannabis at all. Not one single iota, and it never will. Just a huge and complete waste of our tax dollars to continue criminalizing citizens for choosing a natural, non-toxic, relatively benign plant proven to be much safer than alcohol.
If prohibitionists are going to take it upon themselves to worry about “saving us all” from ourselves, then they need to start with the drug that causes more death and destruction than every other drug in the world COMBINED, which is alcohol!
Why do prohibitionists feel the continued need to vilify and demonize cannabis when they could more wisely focus their efforts on a real, proven killer, alcohol, which again causes more destruction, violence, and death than all other drugs, COMBINED?
Prohibitionists really should get their priorities straight and/or practice a little live and let live. They’ll live longer, happier, and healthier, with a lot less stress if they refrain from being bent on trying to control others through Draconian Cannabis Laws.
Legalize relatively benign cannabis federally now. What’s legal to possess and consume in over half of the populated areas of The United States should not make you a criminal in states still being governed by woefully ignorant prohibitionist politicians. Cannabis consumers in all states deserve and demand equal rights and protections under our laws that are currently afforded to the drinkers of far more dangerous and deadly, yet perfectly legal, widely accepted, endlessly advertised and even glorified as an All-American pastime, alcohol. Plain and simple! Legalize Nationwide Federally Now!
Okay, so now, the worst news outlet in the country is the Oracle of America??? The New York Times should be kept in NYC!!! The rest of us that use our minds in our daily lives don’t need their pseudo science opinions for any reason.
The “War on Cannabis” has been a complete and utter failure. It is the largest component of the broader yet equally unsuccessful “War on Drugs” that has cost our country over two trillion dollars.
Instead of The United States wasting Billions upon Billions more of our yearly tax dollars fighting a never ending “War on Cannabis”, lets generate Billions of dollars, and improve the deficit instead. It’s a no brainer.
The Prohibition of Cannabis has also ruined the lives of many of our loved ones. In numbers greater than any other nation, our loved ones are being sent to jail and are being given permanent criminal records. Especially, if they happen to be of the “wrong” skin color or they happen to be from the “wrong” neighborhood. Which ruin their chances of employment for the rest of their lives, and for what reason?
Cannabis is much safer to consume than alcohol. Yet do we lock people up for choosing to drink?
Let’s end this hypocrisy now!
The government should never attempt to legislate morality by creating victim-less cannabis “crimes” because it simply does not work and costs the taxpayers a fortune.
Cannabis Legalization Nationwide is an inevitable reality that’s approaching much sooner than prohibitionists think and there is nothing they can do to stop it!
Legalize Nationwide Federally Now! Support Each and Every Cannabis Legalization Initiative!
It’s time for us, the majority of The People to take back control of our national cannabis policy. By voting OUT of office any and all politicians who very publicly and vocally admit to having an anti-cannabis, prohibitionist agenda! Time to vote’em all OUT of office. Period. Plain and simple.
Politicians who continue to demonize Cannabis, Corrupt Law Enforcement Officials who prefer to ruin peoples lives over Cannabis possession rather than solve real crimes who fund their departments toys and salaries with monies acquired through cannabis home raids, seizures and forfeitures, and so-called “Addiction Specialists” who make their income off of the judicial misfortunes of our citizens who choose cannabis, – Your actions go against The Will of The People and Your Days In Office Are Numbered! Find new careers before you don’t have one.
The People have spoken! Get on-board with Cannabis Legalization Nationwide, or be left behind and find new careers. Your choice.
Every major poll in the nation shows that The Vast Majority of Americans favor The Legalization of Cannabis Nationwide!
“Americans Favor Legalizing Cannabis Support surged 10 percentage points in past year””
-Gallup Poll
“A solid majority of voters nationwide favor legalizing and regulating cannabis similar to the way alcohol and tobacco cigarettes are currently regulated. Most also dont believe it should be a crime for people to smoke cannabis in the privacy of their own homes”
-Rasmussen Poll
“Americans favor making cannabis legal for adults, according to the findings of a CNN/ORC International survey released late Monday. The percentage is the highest ever reported by the survey, which has been tracking public opinion on the issue since 1973, and marks a 12 percentage point jump in support since the last time pollsters posed the question in 2012”
-CNN Poll
I say this article is B.S. Of course you want to take away a God given medicine and replace it with pharmaceuticals.
Here we go with refer madness again. The only reason marijuana was illegalized to begin with is because J.E.Hoover wanted to control the black Jazz musicians. Then the jerk Nixon kept it illegal even though the group of scientists he hired to prove marijuana was harmful instead told him to legalize it; Which of course he wouldn’t do inspite of the proof Marijuana IS NOT harmful.
And why haven’t you mentioned the fact that marijuana wax is being used to cure brain cancer in children along with other diseases? Or the fact that I have been using marijuana on and off since 1970 and I am still of sound mind and body.
Fact is, pot is just another plant that the government uses to keep control of the people with like other B/S laws are. Nothing more than the government, especially the communist Democrats, use to control the citizens. Dare you to tell the truth for once.
“Cannabis is 114 times safer than drinking alcohol”
“Cannabis may be even safer than previously thought, researchers say”
“Cannabis may be even safer than previously thought, researchers say New study: We should stop fighting Cannabis legalization and focus on alcohol and tobacco instead By Christopher Ingraham February 23
Compared with other recreational drugs — including alcohol — Cannabis may be even safer than previously thought. And researchers may be systematically underestimating risks associated with alcohol use.
Those are the top-line findings of recent research published in the journal Scientific Reports, a subsidiary of Nature. Researchers sought to quantify the risk of death associated with the use of a variety of commonly used substances. They found that at the level of individual use, alcohol was the deadliest substance, followed by heroin and cocaine.”
-Washington Post
“The report discovered that Cannabis is 114 times less deadly than alcohol. Researchers were able to determine this by comparing the lethal doses with the amount of typical use. Through this approach, Cannabis had the lowest mortality risk to users out of all the drugs they studied. In fact—because the numbers were crossed with typical daily use—Cannabis is the only drug that tested as “low risk.”
-Complex
There is absolutely no doubt now that the majority of Americans want to completely legalize cannabis nationwide. Our numbers grow on a daily basis.
The prohibitionist view on cannabis is the viewpoint of a minority and rapidly shrinking percentage of Americans. It is based upon decades of lies and propaganda.
Each and every tired old lie they have propagated has been thoroughly proven false by both science and society.
Their tired old rhetoric no longer holds any validity. The vast majority of Americans have seen through the sham of cannabis prohibition in this day and age. The number of prohibitionists left shrinks on a daily basis.
With their credibility shattered, and their not so hidden agendas visible to a much wiser public, what’s left for a cannabis prohibitionist to do?
Maybe, just come to terms with the fact that Cannabis Legalization Nationwide is an inevitable reality that’s approaching much sooner than prohibitionists think, and there is nothing they can do to stop it!
Legalize Nationwide!…and Support All Cannabis Legalization Efforts!
As a disabled elderly woman who spent a lifetime trying to find out what is wrong with me, after a lifetime of pharma drugs to treat my hypochondria (which was eventually, in the past 2 decades one after the other, it was discovered I have Fibromyalgia, severe IBS, Epstein Barre syndrome, Chronic Anemia, a bad thyroid, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, A-Fib, with a star on top of it all called Multiple Sclerosis), I discovered gummies, not the smoking kind of pot. They have changed my life. I have struggled with severe anxiety and pain, and having to plan my life around very irregular Irritable Bowel Syndrome D&C, being called a hypochondriac by many “doctors,” told “it’s all in your head – you need to relax,” by family and friends, fighting depression (cannot take any medications that artificially push my body into more energy – that’s when the A-Fib started) – all this started in the 6th grade. My current doctor is an Angel and very smart. She has been trying to get me to try THC gummies for years – but the stigma held me back.
Finally, after ANOTHER visit to the Emergency Room, that turned up nothing, I gave in a carefully selected a medicinal gummy that helps relax and sleep, a try. After a year of taking it? I am still very sick, but my anxiety and depression are gone and I sleep better than I ever remember. The pain is significantly lowered.
I hope, in everybody’s zeal to squash the marijuana sales, this is taken into account. After a painful, miserable life filled with bad doctors and bad reactions to “legal” pharma made medications, I CANNOT go back to the never-ending suffering, both mentally and physically that the pharmas provided.
I find it odd that it’s OK to buy any sort of liquor, has IT been tested for side effects and long-term damage (not to mention the families destroyed by it – mine was one!)? Why not? I cannot and haven’t been able to tolerate alcohol most of my life. But that? Go to your local supermarket and pick whatever your poison is to drink yourself out of a liver or kidneys – that’s OK? The argument is frustrating and very hypocritical. Just hope they don’t take is away from those of us who actually need it and/or don’t make it too expensive for those using it to keep pain and anxiety issues, and inability to get a good night’s sleep under control. That would be cruel and unfair!
I have no problem giving THC prescribing abilities to doctors where, after they took them away because doctors messed that all up, are STILL a good gateway for those using it like alcohol – the very dangerous drug I have seen ruin more families and people in general than marijuana. I’m not sure why marijuana is treated like some evil addicting drug and is already heavily regulated – WAY more than booze is! Weird, if you ask me why alcohol OK, THC evil, addicting drug? THIS makes no common sense and I hope President Trump understands this!
The government cannot control a man’s appetite .Prohibition did not work.
The Prohibition of cannabis and Reefer Madness are only pushed and believed by a very small, lunatic-fringe minority of irrational looney-tune Holier Than Thou types that are on a never ending little personal moral-crusade and witch-hunt against relatively benign cannabis and it’s consumers. The rest of us sane, rational, normal Americans just laugh our butts off at and mock utterly desperate lying prohibitionists and their ridiculous Reefer-Madness-Rhetoric as the comedy show they truly are!
What we certainly don’t need are anymore people who feel justified in appointing themselves to be self-deputized morality police.
We are very capable of choosing for ourselves if we want to consume cannabis, a far less dangerous choice over alcohol, and we definitely don’t need anyone dictating how we should live our own lives.
We can’t just lock up everyone who does things prohibitionists don’t personally approve of.
If I were you and worried so much about “saving all of us” adults from ourselves, well then, I’d begin with the deadliest drug. Which causes more broken homes, domestic violence, and traffic fatalities than all other drugs, combined. That most dangerous and deadly drug is alcohol.
Yet alcohol remains perfectly legal, widely accepted, endlessly advertised, even glorified as an All American pastime.
Why doesn’t the much more prevalent, far more widely abused, use of alcohol concern you much more than relatively benign cannabis?
Protesting the legality of booze should be your number one priority if you are truly so concerned about “saving us all” from ourselves.
Cannabis Consumers Are Not Criminals!
End the systematically failed both state and federal policies of criminalizing consumers of a natural, relatively benign plant, proven to be far safer than perfectly legal, widely accepted alcohol and tobacco.
End The Federal Prohibition of Cannabis Now!
Legalize Nationwide! State by state if need be!
It’s time our country wakes up and learns from our history.
Prohibition does not prevent people from consuming cannabis. The demand will be there always and therefore cannabis will always be served up to the public regardless of cannabis prohibition laws. The alcohol prohibition era criminal organizations and gangsters such as Al Capone of yesteryear are the Pablo Escobar, El Chapo and drug cartels of today.
The Temperance Movement didn’t catch on and last in part because it was a dead horse from the start.
Prohibition only serves to further fuel the vast wealth and corruption, violence and death attributed to the criminal organizations which flourish under it. By providing cannabis to meet the continual demand at inflated prices. Just like with alcohol, cannabis prohibition doesn’t work, makes no sense, and costs the tax payers a fortune yearly.
Legalization creates jobs, improves the economy and let’s us as a nation focus the wasted resources currently used to criminalize citizens over cannabis towards things much more needed and useful.
This is how freedoms get taken away from The People. First, a small minority doesn’t morally approve of cannabis. Tomorrow, it’s R-Rated movies, certain books and literature and eventually that minority aspires to make every citizen conform to their personal sense of morality through laws which criminalize everything that they personally don’t approve of.
Tell us something prohibitionists:
Why do you feel justified in endlessly wasting billions upon billions of our yearly federal tax dollars continuing to arrest, criminalize, incarcerate, and hand out life long permanent criminal records to otherwise hard-working, tax-paying, adult citizens for choosing to consume cannabis although it is far safer than perfectly legal, widely accepted alcohol?
Shouldn’t their first and foremost priority be protesting the legality of alcohol if they really aren’t just biased and truly so “concerned” about other people on what those whom oppose cannabis legalization deem to be a “dangerous drug”?
Why do the anti-cannabis folk apply such a blatantly obvious unfair double standard to far less dangerous cannabis that they obviously don’t apply equally to far more deadly, dangerous and harmful yet perfectly legal, widely accepted alcohol?
Legalize Nationwide!
States “rights” has become just a clever excuse, disguise and blanket authority being used for a very small minority of irrational prohibitionists to be able to criminalize everything that they personally don’t morally approve of. Same with abortion, websites and even books that they don’t morally approve of, and they have the nerve to call it states “rights”.
The only “right” states rights provide is the right of a very small minority to criminalize anything they don’t morally approve of in their individual home states. It needs to end now! It’s like having 50 different countries with different laws instead of a “United” States.
States rights=Criminalization of the citizens by a very small lunatic fringe minority of irrational prohibitionists whom have self righteously appointed themselves as self deputized morality police over everyone else.
Odor also is is never a valid, reasonable, rational justification to keep anything illegal and to continue criminalizing and handing out life long permanent criminal records to millions of American citizens. We can’t just arrest, lock up and hand out life long permanent criminal records to anyone who, heaven forbid, dares to make you temporarily smell things that you aren’t fond of smelling for a few brief seconds while you pass by in public places. Sound fair and reasonable?
Believe it or not, millions of Americans have always used cannabis way before we ever considered legalization. Legalization is not adding anything new into our public places that wasn’t always there before. For the most part its the very same people who have been using cannabis while it was illegal that will be using cannabis when it’s legal.
To suggest that all of a sudden due to legalization that the scent of cannabis will be everywhere public is ludicrous, irrational, and ridiculous! Get real, cut the bs and stop the silly smell exaggerations and lies. Admit that the only real issue you have with cannabis legalization is your very own unjustifiable irrational personal moral issue with allowing other adult American citizens to legally enjoy cannabis without constant threat of lifelong criminalization, prosecution and persecution.
While I do not use cannabis, I know plenty of folks that do, Responsibly. It has been life changing for some who have anxiety and depression and do not want to eat Big Pharma’s poisons. Also those with chronic, debilitating pain have benefitted. Given the current climate in the medical field where doctors are afraid to give pain meds that actually help with the pain of those individuals for fear of losing their licenses.
People should use it responsibly and exercise extreme caution around children. But as a mother, grandmother and reasoning adult, I find no harm in responsible use of cannabis.
The Government cannot control a man’s appetite. Think prohibition.
Bull you no what.
As a child of the 60s and a teen of the 70s, I was deeply affected by pop culture of the time around Marijuana. My memories are full of SNL skits littered with quite humorous drug references touting it as harmless.
The inconvenience of smelling weed in public is an everyday occurrence in my home city of Seattle, which I accept as a consequence of the choices voters have made many moons ago.
We need to keep law enforcement away from using the site and smell of weed as a pretext for any further action; they have better things to do. We need to regulate all consumable products and test for toxins, with severe penalties for manufacturers that allow poison in their finished goods. We need to discourage use, just as we discourage the use of Alcohol.
Finally, don’t be dumb with regulations. Hemp is a great fiber with all kinds of uses. Many patients find THC to be helpful in their health care battles. Support that with research.
Cannabis should be absolutely just as legal and easy to obtain anywhere as alcohol currently is. No exceptions. It’s so easy: As legal and easy to obtain/use as alcohol currently is. Why hold relatively benign, often healing cannabis to any sort of irrational, stricter double standard than perfectly legal alcohol?
Amendment XVIII was enacted in 1919 banning the ” manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors”.
If the Federal Government need an Amendment to the Constitution to ban intoxicating liquors, why does Congress have the power, without an Amendment, to ban other intoxicating substances?
I am not a marijuana user but have always felt that alcohol was worse than marijuana, in how it made people act and how it didn’t appear to be addictive. It sounds like anything that alters how people feel and act, has the chance of becoming “addictive”. Whether there are compounds being added to make it addictive, or if it is just people’s minds creating an addiction. People just want to feel good, while others just want to escape their world. Hopefully, we can find a fair conclusion for those that have been permitted to have their weed, and those that would like it curtailed a bit. Let’s be honest, if it’s creating real revenue for the local, state and federal governments, it is not going away. They have allowed cigarettes to remain legal and that doesn’t even give people a “high”. It remains legal because no matter how bad it is for our health, big business makes money and so does the government with the high taxes placed on cigarettes. High cost has helped curtail cigarette use, the difference with marijuana is people will grow it on their own if the government makes it too expensive and the average person has difficulty affording it. Of course, then we will hear the racist claims, that certain people can’t afford the higher pricing. There is truth to that as well. It’s already complicated and doesn’t appear to be getting any easier. People seem to want to have their weed and smoke it too.
There are legitimate medical uses for “CBD” — but it should be a tightly controlled prescription drug, not sold over-the-counter like cough drops or soda pop.
As a “recreational drug,” ALL including alcohol and tobacco are addictive, have potentially lethal side effects, and should be regulated, taxed, prohibited to minors, only used on/in private property (public inebriation/intoxication prohibited, clearly labeled and limited in strength/concentration and sold NOT by government (which then promotes it as a revenue source) but by private companies that government can regulate and tax.
Total prohibition only leads to criminal cartels producing and selling impure, unregulated and untaxed materials and using armed violence as a form of competition and collections — the remedy is worse than the problem.
Not once did the article mention the crime related to pot being illegal. You can’t prevent people from doing what they want and when pot was illegal it was in every school and every place you can imagine. Making it illegal did one thing and that is feed money to the cartels. Now consider all the people harmed by the cartels and the illegal drug trafficking. They should make all drugs legal and regulated and create help centers for those who are addicted and if you think making it legal will create more addiction just go look at the streets in Philly and every city for that matter because 90% of the homeless are drug addicts not getting any help. That’s what happens when you make drugs illegal. And don’t forget about the cartels and all the people they murder.
“Follow the science.” This phrase, so MISUSED during COVID, is so correct for marijuana [and for that matter–“trans”]. Today’s MJ is 30 times as potent as that in the 1960s. There are documented stats that show excessive use can create paranoia and other mental issues. This is just ANOTHER issue [like trans] where money, not science, drives the issue!
The last time I smoked any was in the early 1980s, it was someone’s home-grown and we (4 of us) only shared one joint. On my way home I became SO paranoid that I literally stood on my brake pedal, at a railroad crossing, so hard I popped a brake line. Luckily the train had finished passing by then as I couldn’t stop completely after that. Never again, too unpleasant, and nearly fatal, experience.
All the states and politicians saw was more tax dollars they’d be able to spend/waste with no accountability. JMO
What have they done differently with the marijuana plants of the 80’s and 90’s? Added chemicals? My hubby used to enjoy and maintain ‘sobriety’ smoking POT, but says it’s now so much more potent it isn’t good – he needs it for calming, which the new stuff doesn’t provide…???
Of all the stupid bills these bone head politicians make, Makes one wonder how many politicians are using also.
Federal Tax on marijuana?? What a joke. Most of the pot sold is still by a dealer on the street. The street dealer has no overhead. The dealer can sell cheaper which is a key factor for the addict. The cartels benefited the most with legalization. Laws were passed so that people could carry a certain number of ounces of pot legally, so cartel customers didn’t have to worry about police stopping them for carry anymore.
Nevadan voters were led to believe the tax money would be used solely for schools and the money would magically fix our school problems.The tax money actually goes into a general fund and some is used for schools, and our schools are worse than ever. Using the schools was the only reason it passed.
Many of the DUI accidents in the Las Vegas area involve people who have consumed alcohol and/or pot. Pot is a pox on any area it’s sold in. I stated my opposition to it being legalized and was met with some really horrible remarks. It’s a nasty business, with a lot of mean people running it in the background who care only about the damage it causes, and only about making money.
Seriously? If the politicians actually care about their constituents… LOL. There’s not a demon crap politician in the country that actually cares about their constituents. My goodness, those people are just horribly self-centered narcissistic slime balls.
Colorado has also seen a dramatic rise in automobile accidents due to people driving under the influence of marijuana. One of my neighbors hit a dumb truck and got a DUI even though she takes it for medical reasons.
Not just that. The psychosis has led to mental illness regarding what sex you, gender hallucination, that borders shouldn’t protect the same and that women’s rights are more important than children’s lives.
BUT then NYT Backed Rec Pot Use vs Medical
Always defied common sense. Now we have a generation of older and younger people who are CONSTANTLY under the influence of a drug. And they don’t think there is anything wrong with it! Driving, voting, etc. And INSTEAD of helping to wipe out illegal pot farms, they are proliferating and even more crime associated. there is even Like this was ever going to work.
Next should be prostitution and gambling in every supermarket and mall, put the mob out of business , money in the gov. pocket to finance all the left fancies , get the money out of people this way rather than those nasty taxes.
Here we go again – opening up another can of worms with a can opener that no one knows how to close again. . . when will we EVER learn?
All the states and politicians saw was more tax dollars they’d be able to spend/waste with no accountability. JMO
Why don’t they make it illegal to use in public? In saying that, there’s not one single outdoor event that alcohol isn’t allowed to be used at. MJ is habitual more so than additive. In saying that, your a fool if you’re someone that starts smoking in the morning and smokes all day long. What you’re going to do is develop a chronic case of laziness.
Absolutely, no cannabis/marijuana. Leads to stronger drugs. Nephew started out with marijuana at age 15..died by suicide at age 57!
It’s called Dope for a reason. It identifies the user.
It was called Dope back in the day for a reason.
It’s about time they come to their senses!
I agree there is a problem with marijuana. There’s not enough of the good stuff and whatever they are lacing it with when it’s out on the street that’s the problem so why don’t the police give everybody a drug test when they stop them or arrest them and if they have just regular marijuana, no worries, but if it’s lace with fentanyl cocaine, heroin crack then that’s a problem and I don’t think the marijuana distributors and farmers want that either
If you feel the need to smoke pot, you’ve got deeper issues. Who wants to walk around in a stupor or worse drive! I smell pot all the time in passing cars. It’s nuts.
The correct phrasing is “Live and let them die” for the people who think cannabis is a good thing!
Now if they were just admit that they’re reporting stinks and they are nothing but a arm of the liberal Democrat party, we would agree with them. They even denied the Holocaust and they call themselves a newspaper
Never understood how all these leftist states were even able to legalize a drug that still to this day is illegal under Federal Law. But I guess they just live by their own rules. No good came of legalizing that drug. Live and learn, I guess.
What we common sense people saw years ago when Colorado legalized this drug. This is nothing new but the Woodstock generation with the younger generations being drug users. This was passed and the first months kids were jumping off buildings after using too much of the drug. And now 14-15 years later we see the effects of evermore stronger weed being grown. Did no one foresee this? To keep their customers happy THC crept up and up. No drug no matter how safe is going to do damage after long time use. If it is alcohol or weed or mushrooms, longtime use is going to do damage. Here in America we start something without doing research about the consequences after long time use. The democrats are favorite to push that agenda. They see a neighboring state make money from weed sales so they start legalizing it too. That it destroys their citizens that’s secondary. Money money. Is what it’s all about and also destroying people. The dems don’t care about the poor, the homeless, drug users, mutilating young kids in the name of trans. Not giving them psychiatric help. No give them gender changing drugs and ruin their lives forever. Talk to a transgender who changed back. Her or his life is ruined forever. We will see many of these kids transition back. With all the consequences that it brings with it. More and more suicides and broken people for the rest of their lives. These consequences are never thought about by the left progressives. See what Mamdani is doing in New York. Taxing the middleclass out of their homes. He is not for the citizens of New York City. He is working for the illegals including the criminals. Wake up people. Slowly they are destroying this country.
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