Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of

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For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

A few weeks ago, Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports publicly supported a measure that would legalize marijuana

in Florida.

As an adult, he said, quote, I should be allowed to smoke weed, watch football, eat pizza on

Sunday, regardless if I'm at home in Massachusetts or Florida."

To which the Daily Wire's Matt Walsh replied,

quote, can you point to any state or city in the country where life has been in any way measurably improved after

legalizing marijuana.

Where are the legalization success stories?

Give me just one, please, end quote.

It's a good question, and after the rushed social experiment by so many states to

legalize marijuana we know the answer to this important question.

Study after study has demonstrated that legal pot has been even more

disastrous than predicted.

The most obvious consequences have been in basic safety concerns.

Legalizing pot correlates with the rise in auto crashes as well as property and violent crimes.

Also, despite that pot is now a multi-billion dollar industry,

legalizing pot has grown rather than reduced the black market. and all those promises of health benefits

have also proven to be more smoke than substance. But the most devastating

impact of Pot has been in the arena of mental health which has so declined as to now be at epidemic levels

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