00:00:07.000So if you're out in public smoking pot, like in large groups, maybe when I was like 16 at UCLA, I might have called the campus, but they didn't do anything.
00:00:16.000But here's the thing I was right about pot.
00:00:18.000According to a new federal report on drug use, America's consumption of weed is at an all time high, its side effects are at an all time high as well.
00:00:26.000I'll say it over and over again weed is terrible for you and also for your life, not just because it makes you a lazy loser, but also because it's actually bad for your brain.0.99
00:01:55.000So, Charles Fane Lehman over at the Free Press has a piece on this, and he points out the National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated that marijuana eclipsed alcohol a few years back.
00:02:05.000In 2025, Daily users accounted for 80% of marijuana consumption compared to 90% of cigarette smoking, but less than half of all alcohol consumptions.
00:02:14.000When we say marijuana is less bad than alcohol, well, I mean, most people were not, you know, downing, guzzling the beer every single day.
00:02:21.000The vast majority of people who are using marijuana were using it regularly.
00:02:26.00074% of Americans now live in a state with recreational access to pot.
00:02:29.00079% of Americans live in a county with at least one dispensary.
00:02:34.00018 million people, that's one third of all users aged 18 and up, have reported symptoms of cannabis use disorder.
00:02:47.000Time spent consuming, obtaining, or recovering from cannabis use is real.
00:02:51.000You neglect your primary obligations at work, school, at home.
00:02:54.000You scale back your social or recreational activities.
00:02:58.000And again, you have to work harder to get to the same place.
00:03:01.000Americans, by the way, aren't just using pot, they are using more of it and it is significantly more potent than it ever was.
00:03:06.000The active concentration of THC, which is the main psychoactive component in pot, has quadrupled in traditional plant matter and skyrocketed in processed products as well since like the 90s.
00:03:16.000And hypotency THC is what is driving a lot of this.
00:03:20.000It creates significantly more problems of perception and sense of time and short term memory.
00:03:26.000It can induce severe anxiety, panic attacks, paranoia, or acute psychosis.0.99
00:03:30.000And again, because so many young Americans have been using it, it just makes you dumb.1.00
00:03:34.000So remember all of those PSAs back in the 80s and 90s saying the drugs make you stupid?1.00
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00:05:35.000The best policy prescriptions to get Americans to stop using weed is to make it illegal again.
00:05:39.000That would be the actual best prescription with regard to pod.
00:05:42.000Again, the idea that medical dispensaries are predominantly selling to people because they have medical problems, that was always a ruse to just increase the dissemination of pod.
00:05:52.000And it turns out that when there's a market, then people are going to try and develop more potent drugs for the market.
00:05:56.000This is where, again, I'm a conservative, I'm not a libertarian.
00:05:59.000When it comes to drugs, this is a perfect example of how the market will make things more efficient and cheaper.
00:06:04.000And that is what has happened with marijuana.
00:06:07.000There's more THC and it is less expensive.
00:06:10.000Also, it turns out it's really bad for you.
00:06:12.000But again, I am a conservative, so I believe that your local community should be able to ban pot dispensaries.
00:06:17.000And frankly, I think that your local community probably should.
00:06:21.000The notion that pot dispensaries and the takeover of our cities by marijuana has somehow been a gigantic boon.
00:06:28.000All the things that were promised do not materialize.
00:06:30.000If you've been in Denver recently, I gotta say, Denver is a terrible place to be.
00:06:33.000You walk around and the waft of pot is just everywhere.
00:06:37.000And listen, I don't think that I should have to walk around with my children, and my children are just walking by people smoking pot out in the open.
00:06:57.000You know, this does go to what rights are for.
00:07:00.000Now, again, I'm a fan of rights, but the kind of right that I'm a fan of is an immunity from the government because the government should not have enough power to do X.
00:07:06.000But I think that the government should have the power to restrict substances in the chain of commerce.
00:07:24.000So, again, is there a great way to cut down on pot usage?
00:07:29.000I mean, the answer is the best way would be to make it illegal again to go after dealers, to cut down on the supply of pot across the country.
00:07:38.000The argument, by the way, that's been used for as long as I've been alive is that prohibition never works, that people just use it more and more and more.
00:07:45.000That wasn't true during prohibition, and it's not true now.
00:07:48.000It turns out that when government makes something illegal, yes, a black market is created, but the amount that is distributed via the black market is far lower than otherwise would be when you've got, for example, a liquor shop on every corner.
00:07:58.000It turns out that during prohibition, overall, it did work in the sense that Americans drank less overall.
00:08:05.000They can make the argument that alcohol shouldn't have been banned by the federal government.
00:08:09.000In retrospect, people tend to think that that's true.
00:08:11.000But I think in retrospect, we can also see that the addictive nature of pop, particularly for teenagers who are getting a hold of pop when they're 13, 14 years old and then poisoning themselves, that that's been quite terrible.
00:08:21.000And by the way, That's leaving aside any of the additives that sometimes drug pushers will add to the pot.
00:08:29.000An inordinate number of fentanyl overdoses have been from the lacing of marijuana with things like fentanyl, and it kills the kid.
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