In this episode, we discuss the growing use of marijuana in the U.S. and the potential dangers associated with it. We also discuss the pros and cons of using it in your 20's and 30's, and how it can affect your IQ.
00:00:00.000Yeah. Hey, I didn't know if you would have time to go over this or if it's super relevant at all, but I saw you retweeted something about there was a study about marijuana usage that came out about it being at record high levels.
00:00:12.820And I'm seeing a lot of cover for that from certain people saying like, well, you know, like the normal stuff, like, well, alcohol kills this many people a year.
00:00:22.580So what's really the problem with this? I just kind of wanted your take on that to break it down a little bit, because there's obviously like additional problems that come with marijuana that that those people are just ignoring.
00:00:36.440I'll talk about it a little bit. I mean, I wouldn't even mind doing a deep dive into pot at some point.
00:00:42.800I've seen that there was a New York Times article and I'm seeing that people are talking about it and summarizing it.
00:00:48.400A couple of notes. First off, just on a personal level, like I, I won't name names here, but it's not like anyone knows who this person is, but there's this woman who I've known simply through my, the kids, basically my time at Whitefish.
00:01:09.480Like I I've got into, and I, and I, and I genuinely like her as well.
00:01:13.720And it's, I hadn't seen her in a number of years. Maybe I didn't really talk to her in two years or something like that.
00:01:20.560And I just kind of saw her randomly and I just noticed two things.
00:01:26.280First off, this Mar-a-Lago face, the Botox filler.
00:01:31.260It's not like she looked like Kimberly Guilfoyle or anything, but it is funny how universal that thing is, even with people in their like early thirties who you would presume wouldn't need that much.
00:01:49.500I don't know. I just noticed it. And it's like, Oh, you too.
00:01:53.600Of course you've now, you look a little bit different than when I saw you a couple of years ago.
00:01:59.400But the other thing is the way she was talking. I was like, are you on drugs?
00:02:05.580It was this like staring off to the upper left or something like, yeah.
00:02:12.520And it's like, can you not do drugs, please?
00:02:17.420It's 3 PM. I don't know. Yeah. Someone said total milf.
00:02:21.740Yeah. I, again, I'm not even trying to be mean to this woman because she is very nice and I genuinely like her, but there it's something that's just so universal now that it sort of touches everyone.
00:02:35.100Everyone's part of this. Everyone's being pulled into this vortex.
00:02:38.900Um, the other thing, and I'm just speaking again, very personally, but I think whitefish is representative of a massive trend.
00:02:48.380I don't even know how many dispensaries there are within walking distance of one another, but I think it's like six.
00:02:56.900Six. So there's one place in downtown whitefish.
00:03:01.760That's like the roofie dispensary where they're selling like moisturizer and whatever.
00:03:09.320But then I presumably can also buy pot. And then there's like the power plant. Get it? Power plant. It's power. It makes you powerful guys.
00:03:20.360Like you should smoke weed before you work out. Yeah. Or like, uh, late playing beach volleyball with your shirt off. Just smoke up where you do that. Whoa.
00:03:29.700Anyway, then there's like one that's just like the cheapo one. That's just says dispensary and there's others that I'm missing and it's, it is a funny thing because there's the boutique quality to it.
00:03:43.560And then there's just the brass tacks, you know, do you want to get high on the cheap quality to it?
00:03:49.280And I don't know the last time I have smoked marijuana. Uh, I did it a few times in high school and, and then, you know, I don't know, you do maybe in my twenties or thirties, you'd like go to a party or whatever.
00:04:03.560But from what I understand, it is far more powerful than it was in the nineties through the power of eugenics. And they have mastered the science. And, um, while humans keep getting dumber, our plants keep getting smarter.
00:04:19.820And so this is a different type of drug and the ability to just put it into gummy or brownie form. And so everyone is mildly high is can't be underestimated.
00:04:34.980There are serious issues in terms of particularly with young, with boys and young men in terms of IQ, there are really serious issues in terms of schizophrenia. And I don't know if the New York times article goes into this. I presume it does. Actually, I know it does because some people were mentioning this.
00:05:00.460And I, I was actually talking with RFH about this a couple of weeks ago, and I don't remember the exact statistics, but just take my word for it on this. There is a clear connection. And if you have a tendency towards schizophrenia, smoking out on a regular basis, you smoke once or twice, probably not can do anything. Smoking out on a regular basis is the equivalent of playing Russian roulette.
00:05:29.380In the sense of schizophrenia, we don't even fully understand schizophrenia. We, we know it as a phenomenon. It affects men more than it does affect women and it affects young men. So it seems to hit when you're 20, 25, thereabouts, and your life is destroyed.
00:05:50.560I actually have a, not quite a friend, but a classmate of mine from St. Mark's who went to Princeton, actually. He was, he was a bit of a nerd, but he was obviously very talented.
00:06:05.160And this young, this, this man now has been homeless multiple times and is basically dysfunctional. When he went to college, he started out just like everyone else. Things were looking up. And then he starts locking himself into his dorm room.
00:06:23.320His like flat dorm mates can't get in. He's afraid. Everyone's trying to kill him. They're aliens. I mean, all the typical schizophrenic reactions basically are on display.
00:06:38.360He cannot function at all. And I mean, it is absolutely debilitating. I mean, this is a terrible thing that we don't quite understand. However, we can describe it as a phenomenon.
00:06:52.020Let's say that in its genetic in some fashion, let's say you have a 5% chance of becoming, of developing schizophrenia due to genetic biological factors. Smoking out regularly multiplies that by 10.
00:07:13.120So you might as well hold a revolver up to your head and put one bullet in and start clicking away and see what happens. I mean, the idea and that kind of stuff doesn't happen with alcohol.
00:07:29.020So the idea that we would just forget that this is a statistically relevant phenomenon that we just sort of wash it over and say, hey, man, pot's cool, dude. There's nothing bad with pot. It just gets you relaxed.
00:07:50.580Right. And the fact that we would just treat pot as this benign and sort of just whimsical or meaningless when they have these clear correlations with something that dramatic is just the height of irresponsibility, the height of insanity, really strong correlations with repeated pot use at a young age and lowering your IQ.
00:08:19.640So again, let's say there's a schizophrenic in your family tree. Your grandmother, she went crazy. You might very well possess those genes and smoking out is a lot like playing Russian roulette.
00:08:35.460But if you're a young man, you might as well, you might as well just hit yourself over the head with a hammer. I'm not talking about looks maxing here.
00:08:44.060You might as well just dumb yourself down physically because that's what you're doing with pot.
00:08:50.140But on a deeper level, I just sort of hate pot. It's a dumb drug. It's a left wing drug, you could say. It's a drug that like it if it does something active, it creates paranoia.
00:09:06.660Why would you possibly want to do that? It inspires you to eat a bag of Cheetos. Why would you possibly think that that is cool?
00:09:16.760It dumbs you down. It makes you forget the world. It makes you check out of life. Everything's fine, man. It's cool. I love you, bro.
00:09:26.080That's what it does. That's what it does. That's the drug. As opposed to a stimulant like cocaine. Say what you will about the 1980s Wall Street.
00:09:38.040But there is something sort of, I don't know, cool about doing a line of coke and going to the disco and staying up all night and being energetic.
00:09:52.280That is getting off your couch and entering life. I mean, I'm not endorsing cocaine, but I think you get my point.
00:10:02.660The other thing, alcohol is obviously a depressant, although it's a funny type of depressant in the sense that alcohol can inspire fights.
00:10:13.260It can inspire some very bad things as well. There's no doubt that 90% of men who beat their wives do it on alcohol.
00:10:20.880I mean, I'm obviously going to inspire car wrecks and all that kind of stuff.
00:10:24.380That being said, alcohol, the gift of Dionysus, it's culturally embedded in the world, and you can at least sort of defend it.
00:10:37.340Alcohol is not going to make you a schizophrenic if you have a cocktail at night or you're drinking some wine with dinner.
00:10:45.020It's not going to bring on some terrible schizophrenia.
00:10:48.700It's certainly not good for you, but you get my point here.
00:10:52.920It's about celebrating and enjoying life.
00:11:14.900I think something really bad is going on with Gen Z in the sense that they're watching porn, they're men in their 20s suffering from erectile dysfunction.
00:11:27.200I mean, there are some really clear indicators that they are not enjoying life or experiencing life in all its moments.
00:11:36.400Alcohol is social, and that is redeemable.
00:11:39.840Now, I would say this, I was actually talking with a woman, I think this was about a year and a half ago or so, I can't quite remember.
00:11:48.720No, it was, I guess, almost a year ago.
00:11:51.280And unless I've, well, when you get old, you lose track of time.
00:11:56.500Something that happened four years ago happened like four months ago and vice versa.
00:12:00.760Anyway, I think it was around a year ago.
00:12:02.460And she was talking about the, her alcoholism that she went through in college where she was a just dead ass drunk through college.
00:12:14.180She would go to a party, get wasted by 8 p.m., blackout by 10 p.m. and wake up somewhere the next morning.