Funny, America was ascending just fine during the days when there were no pot laws.
But we had a totally different culture back then. People actually wanted to grow up and be responsible adults. Kids couldn’t wait. Now everybody (not quite everybody) wants to be a perpetual frat boy, rock musician, adolescent. It used to be respectable to be sane.
“Funny, America was ascending just fine during the days when there were no pot laws.”
During that time, stoners were not part of a political movement that attached itself for support to the people who went out and busted their a@#es for survival. If you didn’t work, you didn’t eat and the only intellectuals were those who went out and made discoveries and innovated through hard intellectual exertion. (If anyone tried to lay claim to the results of anyone else’s efforts, they were not met with hospitality.)
IMHO
It’s not the laws I’m referring to, it’s the level of pot use.
The decline isn’t the legalization per se, it’s the desire on the part of so many people to use a substance that makes them stupider.
We are entering a Brave New World, one that does not include an overly-informed electorate.