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.

Can’t have people getting high and start being introspective and caring about others

Honestly, it wasn't that hard to get illegal marijuana. All this will do is cut tax revenue and increase crime.

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

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.

No country of potheads has ever thrived, or ever achieved anything at all.

Dude's obviously never been to Silicon Valley, lol.

“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 be noticable above 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 cities 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 rates.

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'd rather my kid smell marijuana than smell cigarettes.

I'd rather my kid grow up and smoke weed, then get blacked out on Whiskey. And I like whiskey.

Someone must have found out it contains benefits and brings good to the world. Better kill it!

“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.”

A guy at my work place swore that Trump was about to legalize pot

Awesome. That's right, MAGA Morons, go after reefer, and wake up the sleeping giant of young people.

We should make this a major deal, and have Dem candidates declare that they will support full legalization. It will attract FAR more votes than it loses, and MANY of this votes will be first timers.

I’m so sick of these fucking dweebs and I don’t want to share oxygen with them anymore.

The 5 conservatives that actually give a shit about state's rights are gonna be so pissed.

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.

Matt Walsh is one of the most smarmy fucks around. I swear, some people listen to him because he has a nice haircut and smile.

I only wish he was older, like Trump, so we wouldn't expect to have him on the earth for another two decades.

Trying to rewind the USA back to when we were all smoking cigarettes and drinking whisky is insane.

I like that people don’t get arrested for weed anymore, but I also don’t like the gentrification of it. I don’t want to buy weed from a VC funded apple store.

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.

There’s surely enough to share, right?

Well he just lost his genz voters! Also lots of other generations.

Lol. This is probably the only reason people haven't revolted. Take away this, and they'll overthrow you.

Last Friday it was reported that Trump told donors at an event that he is considering reclassifying marijuana from its current Schedule I level

That contradicts the title. Trump is looking at making it more legal, not less.

As the article states, Trump is considering rescheduling marijuana making it easier to sell. It's the right wing influencers who oppose it. The GOP politicians love weed because it makes people apathetic and sit out elections

Lol good luck

That’s OK the illegal kind is still better