The Big Guy clearly thinks it will get him ten million votes that he wouldn’t have gotten otherwise.
When I was in high school that was a lot of people in my high school getting high and doing all kinds of stuff. I always figured I had to leg up scholastically because they were numbed out... maybe not.
Anyway, fast forward many years and I remember reading Camille Paglia editorials in whatever rag the company I work for at the time subscribed to and she’s pretty astute - I think she’s a Yale graduate, but I remember one thing in particular that she wrote. she was absolutely shocked by the number of people in their upper level College curriculum who failed to even finish college because they got into the drugs of the ‘60s, turned on and dropped out. Paglia maintains that many great minds were completely wasted because of the drug culture.
I took that to heart and I was glad that I took the route that I did, which was to avoid the toxins. A biology teacher explained in class one day about what the body’s reaction really was versus what human beings thought it was. Human beings often misinterpret toxic reactions as a high. Many species of fauna eat something accidentally and will avoid it, because they interpret more accurately after the toxins wear off.
Is marijuana safe? Given the hybrids that are out there today it is nowhere near the standard Mexican weed that was around in the sixties. Some of that from what I understand is approaching psychedelic properties. I’m pretty sure some of that street weed is dusted with who knows what and given that fentanyl is everywhere it’s probably a safe bet that weed is being dusted with fentanyl. Now if the government takes control... like that’s going work out.