Marijuana: Because We're Not Stupid Enough Already
My libertarian side is pro-legalization, but given the general levels of stupid in today's world, you couldn't pick a worse time.
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So here in Canada, we are in the process of legalizing marijuana across the board.
And this worries me quite a bit.
Now listen, the war on drugs has been a massive failure.
It's created a militarized police force.
The police now are forced to view every citizen wandering around as a criminal.
They are forced into a adversarial relationship with your standard citizen because everybody's got something to hide these days.
All because they're smoking a joint, or they're dropping a tap of acid, or what have you.
See, I'm not exactly a big fan of the war on drugs.
That said, I'm not exactly a fan of drugs either.
The problem with drugs is that you're mortgaging your future when you take them.
If you've ever seen a person that's like one of these burnt-up degenerates in their 30s, fentanyl right now, it's killing a lot of people in Canada.
It's an opioid from what I gather.
I see people that are destroying themselves through methamphetamine.
That's another nasty one.
Meanwhile, we've got people legally taking opiates.
We've got people that are legally taking speed similar to cocaine.
You don't notice it in your early 20s.
You know, if you start taking drugs in your early 20s, your body seems like you can handle it.
It seems like everything's going okay.
But you look at that person 10, 15 years later, and that's when the hangover kicks in.
And there's this big thing about, well, marijuana is no different than alcohol.
Alcohol causes cirrhosis of the livers.
Alcohol causes drunk driving deaths.
Alcohol does X, Y, and Z.
And if you talk to any cop, you know, it's 95% of what the cops deal with, it's alcohol.
Alcohol is involved somehow.
You know, and I once had a cop say to me, I don't know why you drink alcohol anyway, it just makes you stupider.
Again, correlation causation.
You know, it's like a doctor saying that this person died because of excess speed.
And so excess speed is the problem, like driving on the highway, excess speed.
If it's an open, clear highway, you have good tires on your car, and you are an experienced driver, guess what?
Doing 50% over the speed limit, not really a problem if it's an empty highway.
And a doctor is not an expert on automotives.
So yes, of course.
Of course, the assholes the cops have to deal with.
95% of the time alcohol is involved.
Of course.
Why wouldn't it be?
Same thing.
It's not the drunk man driving 10 under the limit that dies.
It's the drunk man driving 20 over the limit who dies.
Well, yeah, duh.
You know, if you're doing 15 miles an hour, it doesn't matter whether you're sober or hammered.
You know, it's not going to be a fatality.
So the weed proponents love to trot this out.
They love to trot out the destructive effects of alcohol.
As if it's the alcohol that forces you to drive, as opposed to you being an idiot and choosing to go get drunk and then choosing to drive, and choosing to get drunk somewhere where you need to drive back from.
It's not like we have a bunch of people sitting at home with their bottle of weasel whiskey and all of a sudden, shoot, I need to go drive.
But let's get to the bloody point here.
Weed really concerns me.
Because alcohol, well, alcohol, you pay for it the next day.
You know when you were drinking because you feel terrible the next day.
With weed, the hangover isn't so obvious.
So number one, my number one problem with weed.
It's actually not the hangover.
My number one problem is that weed does make you stupid.
Alcohol relaxes you.
Alcohol, in my case, it makes me a bit more loquacious.
It's easier to speak when I'm drinking.
Which is why I'm usually drinking in these videos.
Makes me less analytical.
And if I drink too much or if I'm emotionally unstable, I'm prone to doing something stupid, absolutely.
But on its own, alcohol has a distinct effect.
It relaxes me.
I know what it's doing.
And that's it.
Weed turns shitty television into top-notch entertainment.
So when you come home from a long day at the job site, and you're tired and sweaty, and your boss yelled at you, and you hate your life, I'm going to have a drink to take the edge off.
Weed makes it seem okay.
Oh man, I'm stressed out about my life.
I'm going to smoke a joint.
I'm going to watch a stupid comedy.
And I'm going to giggle like a retard.
Alcohol has some mild euphoric effects, but it's nothing compared to weed.
Weed, you can piss away five years of your life going absolutely nowhere because you're smoking a joint every evening.
You're not even smoking that much.
You're smoking a single joint every evening and you just pissed away five years of your life doing nothing.
Second, weed does trigger schizophrenia.
Acid doesn't, by the way.
Acid makes you more open-minded, which can be a problem in itself, but no, weed triggers schizophrenia in people.
Sometimes it's really, really bad.
You know, somebody's gone their entire life, they're 40 years old, never smoked a joint.
They smoke one, boom.
Schizophrenic hearing voices.
Other people, it's more of a gradual thing.
What's obvious?
The brain is still developing when you're 15, 16.
You know, it doesn't really mature into an adult form until you're 21.
And even then, it doesn't solidify until your late 20s.
And unlike alcohol, which, you know, when you hit about 14 to 20, around there, if you drink a little bit, it's not going to destroy you.
If you drink a lot, it will, but if you drink moderately, it won't.
Weed will really mess with the development of a young mind.
And the more you smoke of it, the more you start to lean into that schizophrenic mindset.
This leads to the third point.
And this is the hangover.
You don't feel the hangover from weed.
You do get a hangover.
I can usually gauge people that smoke weed, even if they haven't smoked in a few days, because they're emotional.
People that smoke weed, yeah, they're not violent.
Yeah, they're not out of control the way an alcoholic might be.
But they are intemperate with their emotions.
They get mad.
Not angry.
They get mad really easily, really upset.
They get upset about things.
They'll start crying about things.
they tend to lack emotional regulation.
And we're going to create a whole generation now that we just legalized that grows up with no emotional regulation.
They're just crybabies the whole damn time.
They won't get angry about things.
They'll just get upset all the time.
Like, man, why are you harshing my buzz?
This upsets me.
I'm going to cry a little bit.
Somebody needs to come sh sort this out.
You know, and this leads into the final, final point.
This wonderful drug unfortunately comes from a plant that's a greedy little son of a bitch and loves sucking up radon with everything else from the soil.
And, you know, it maybe takes six months off your life or so.
But at the same time, tobacco, nicotine, it increases concentration.
It regulates appetite.
It's been shown to boost your IQ by about three points.
And it just so happened that Europeans started smoking tobacco right before the Industrial Revolution started.
And now, now everybody's quitting smoking.
At the same time, asthma rates are going through the roofs.
Because non-smokers just close all the windows, don't even worry about any of that nonsense.
They don't like fresh air.
And on top of that, society is getting dumber.
As I understand it, when you correlate for the Flynn effect, where the measurement of IQ goes up because over the past century we've become better at taking tests, nonetheless...
IQ is going down.
IQ is plummeting.
Now, is this because we're inviting third-world savages into our countries?
Is it because the stupid are outbreeding the smart?
Could it be something else entirely?
Is it the soy in our diet?
I have no idea.
Fact of the matter is, IQs are plummeting right now.
And instead of encouraging tobacco, which boosts IQ, which boosts concentration, which prevents obesity, and by the way, it also prevents neurological disorders in your old age.
It prevents mental breakdowns.
A very good chemical for the brain, just that bloody radon that's not so good for you.
Plus all the chemicals they use to dry the leaves.
We're discouraging this drug that makes people smarter, but takes six months off their life.
And now we're encouraging a drug that not just makes you stupider, not just makes you more obedient, but also makes you more childish, more emotional.
And not just temporarily.
Alcohol temporarily makes you a bit more emotional.
And you pay for it the next day.
With marijuana, you pay for it when you're 35 And you've been working a dead-end job your entire life because you were too busy giggling at whatever crap was coming out of the television screen.
So yeah, we're legalizing a drug.
Doesn't temporarily make you stupid like this one.
It, if you do it consistently, makes you permanently stupid as long as you're doing the drug.
Do it once a week.
You're stupid four days out of the damn week.
And that's if you don't develop schizophrenia from the bloody thing.
I mean, Christ, legalize ecstasy, legalize acid, LSD.
Don't legalize weed.
The last thing we need right now is weed.
And yet, that is exactly what we're legalizing.
Because, like the man said, everybody gets what they want.
And what we want is something that will numb us during our decline and our slide towards the grave and becoming a historical footnote.
The glories of Western civilization, the rise and fall of Christendom.
