I cannot stand stoners.

And no, that does not mean that I hate everybody who has ever smoked weed in their life or taken an edible, but I hate the stoner culture. I hate weed culture, and I especially hate the people who refuse to admit that there are risks to their culturally accepted, legalized, harmless drug. So let's talk about it. Now, you might have seen, and maybe you even found my channel from this, I had a post pull-up on X yesterday about this exact subject, and we will get to that very shortly. But the reason why I was tweeting about weed in the first place and my personal experiences with this is because of a new piece that just dropped from the New York Times editorial board. And that piece is entitled, It's Time for America to Admit that it has a Marijuana Problem.

Finally, some of us have been waiting years for this information to come out or for this information to become more commonplace.

Now, obviously, right off the bat, we have to say that this is incredibly funny and ironic coming from a publication and organization

that was one of the driving forces behind cannabis being legalized in so many states and really just being normalized across the board.

For example, in a Politico analysis of this op-ed, they wrote that the New York Times editorial board walked back its years-long support for marijuana legalization in a Monday editorial,

writing that the U.S. has recently gone too far in accepting and even promoting its use.

So the people who have always talked about the

slippery slope, they are vindicated once again, honestly, as they usually are. Maybe we should learn from

that. They go on and they say in the piece, the editorial board conceded that some of its past

positions on legalization no longer hold up, including its initial assessment, the marijuana

addiction and dependence are quote unquote relatively minor problems, especially compared with alcohol and tobacco. That is what the New York Times said prior to this op-ed.

And listen, credit where credit is due, people are finally catching on to what so many of us

have been saying for years. But attitudes and perceptions do not change overnight. And so this does

not mean the people online, especially the stoners, are happy. But honestly, this basically happens every single time we call out one of society's vices.

In this new op-ed, the New York Times concedes finally the policymakers have taken too much of a

hands-off approach when it comes to marijuana. And again, after more than a decade of pushing

for this acceptance and legalization across many, many states,

they argue that maybe possibly some regulation might be in order. They wrote, at the time,

supporters of legalization predicted that it would bring very few downsides. In our editorials,

we described marijuana addiction and dependence as relatively minor problems. Many advocates

went further and claimed that marijuana was a harmless drug that might even bring net health benefits. They also said that legalization might not lead to greater use. I also remember reading and hearing from friends that actually it wasn't an addictive substance. People can't get addicted to weed. It's not like alcohol. It's not like other drugs. Again, totally harmless. That was commonplace. That was the dialogue, especially when I was a teenager. They go on and they say it is now clear that many of these predictions were wrong. Legalization has led to much more use. Surveys suggests that about 18 million people in the United States have used marijuana almost daily, or about five times a week, in recent years. That was up from about 6 million in 2012 and less than 1 million in 1992.

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