MAGA Is Coming for Legal Marijuana
MAGA Is Coming for Legal Marijuana
MAGA Is Coming for Legal Marijuana
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“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.”
“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.
Got it, bring back huffing gasoline and smoking asbestos cigarettes.
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?
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.