“Our society thrived when everyone was smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey,” wrote Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh, completely ignoring the countless, well-documented, negative impacts (violence and death) of those two American vices. “We became the most powerful nation in the world with liquor and nicotine. No country of potheads has ever thrived, or ever achieved anything at all. Every city that legalized it became an even bigger shithole basically overnight. The entire history of western civilization tells us that marijuana is far, far worse for society.”
Dumbest fucking take I’ve read regarding weed in the U.S. in probably the past two decades. This is another one of those things that’s like so low on the list of outrageous things that require attention right now, but it’s just so fucking unbelievably dumb that it somehow becomes salient enough to become noticable in the chaos that is the normal background.
The way he is so confidently trying to gaslight society like an overbearing parent, as if we have no frame of reference regarding marijuana policy other than what we learned in D.A.R.E.
Those shithole city’s with their absurd abundance of tax revenue from marijuana sales.
Opioid sparing effects in Medicare enrollees with access to medical marijuana.
Fewer lives ruined due to a reduction of nonviolent incarceration.
I’m not sure what kind of utopia Matt Walsh believes he is advocating for by rolling back even more evidence based progress, but it sounds like a shithole.
I’m so sick of these fucking dweebs and I don’t want to share oxygen with them anymore.
A guy at my work place swore that Trump was about to legalize pot
Which does have backing. This is coming out because Trump said he wanted to reschedule THC. Not all of MAGA is behind this.
Anyway, release the Epstein files.
No country of pot heads ever thrived
Uh… Dude doesn’t even know US history. Our biggest cultivated product pre-revolution was hemp. Several founding fathers, including Washington, cultivated and consumed cannabis. We are a country of pot heads. While the driving forces to ban it here were entirely because of racism and greed.
I guess they might also want to revert back to the glory days when the nation was so consistently and pervasively drunk off its ass that prohibition actually passed.
Trump has never once in his life made an effort to know a single thing, and if there’s one thing he knows the least about, it’s the history of the country he leads.
So Hamilton was probably a stoner? Cool!
“Give me the chronic, or give me death!”
- Patrick Henry probably.
Hamilton was a huge piece of shit.
I mean all the founders were.
I am not throwin’ away my pot! 🎵
High-five
Does this person have a child? That child won’t make it as an adult because they’ve historically never made it as an adult :3
Edit: this is a random example :333333333
Fun fact Herodotus hot boxed with the Scythians.
Glad you posted it, cause I was about to
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No shit, it’s a fantastic excuse to arrest and detain/deport people for holding plants while you’re out there obliterating 4th amendment rights.
Can’t have people getting high and start being introspective and caring about others
Can’t have people get high and start thinking
Well, now I’m gonna have some weed tonight just to spite them. I’m in Canada so they aren’t coming for mine…yet
It’s just a matter of time. Fascists are not kind to their neighbours.
Elbows up.
Already there, in MI sadly so they can pry my bong from my cold dead hands.
Glad you added the yet
“Our society thrived when everyone was smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey,” wrote Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh, completely ignoring the countless, well-documented, negative impacts (violence and death) of those two American vices. “We became the most powerful nation in the world with liquor and nicotine. No country of potheads has ever thrived, or ever achieved anything at all. Every city that legalized it became an even bigger shithole basically overnight. The entire history of western civilization tells us that marijuana is far, far worse for society.”
Combine it with this quote:
Far-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec called people smoking weed outside a “huge factor” in violent crime in Washington, D.C. “States with legal weed you can just smell it all over in public,” he continued. “Can’t take kids anywhere.”
Because everything was so great when there was a nicotine haze in every restaurant. I don’t even like the smell of burning a joint, but I’ll take it over shitty cigarettes.
I do admit that a good cigar can smell really nice. But I have a family history of asthma as it is, and there’s no way I’m touching one.
“Our society thrived when everyone was smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey,”
Correlation vs causation.
You could say “we became the most powerful nation in the world with leaded gasoline and asbestos”. They were around at the same time too.
Honestly, those aren’t that much crazier than thinking smoking and drinking are somehow good for you. If this goes on, it’s only a matter of time.
I, for one, would encourage anyone who believes that kind of drivel to drink as much whiskey as is possible. The sooner they check out the better
We ran a simulation of this up here in Nova Scotia before. Here are some of the results.
Zero thought involved. Remember that time we outlawed booze?
This is a fantastic way to get non violent citizens locked up in for profit prisons for years on the taxpayers dime where shareholders profit.
Someone must have found out it contains benefits and brings good to the world. Better kill it!
I hope they are ready to have their faces torn from their heads when they come for me because I am livid. I have noticed quite a spate of anti-marijuana articles including one yesterday talking about a hidden link between marijuana and schizophrenia which is just nuts.
lol good luck. The supply chain is so big that the growers and supplies won’t go away any time soon or 10 years. You’re just being back 90s drug deals. I guess dumbass republicans hate money.
Matt Walsh talks about whiskey so performatively I don’t think he actually likes it.
Also legalize pot to the same degree as alcohol and create a sustained treatment category of schedule 2 while you’re at it.
President Trump’s vaguely positive views on marijuana use and legalization have opened up yet another schism within the MAGA movement, as some hard-liners are reverting back to war on drugs–adjacent rhetoric to express their opposition to perhaps the most popular plant in America.
Last Friday it was reported that Trump told donors at an event that he is considering reclassifying marijuana from its current Schedule I level.
