WEBVTT - High on Denial? America’s Weed Problem & a 2026 Wake-Up Call 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.360 My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:09.960 American student organization in the country, fighting for the future 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.360 of our republic. My call is to fight evil and 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.520 to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.919 is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:23.200 if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.400 up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:28.600 stop sending your kids to college. You should get married 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.160 as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.280 Go start at turning point. 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Blake nef holding it down in the Bitcoin 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.839 dot Com studios, your one stop shop to buy, sell, 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:21.039 and trade bitcoin. Thanks for holding it down, Blake, keeping 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.600 keeping the studio warm. I'm here in Palm Beach. I'll 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.679 be back in the studio tomorrow. We have Alex Bearnson 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:30.680 joining us. Check out his sub stack and his book. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.839 By the way, call it Tell Your Children The Truth 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:38.120 about Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence. Alex, welcome back to 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.520 the show. You are sort of our resident expert on marijuana. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.560 You and Charlie saw very much eye to eye on 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:46.520 this topic, and it is now back in the news. 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.280 And I hope your book is selling like hotcakes because 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.919 it's so important. I hope you're getting a fresh infusion 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.520 of that because the New York Times is admitted that 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.000 we've been right all along. Four point fifty two is 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.520 the image it's time for America to add it has 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.960 a marijuana problem. Big, big admission from the New York Times, 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.360 your former employer, by the way, almost like maybe you 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.720 still friends back there that are listening to you. Alex, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.200 tell us what the New York Times admitted and why now? 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:16.960 Sure so? I mean, by the way, it's interesting you 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.960 mentioned about the book because even before The Times put 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.120 this out, it seemed to me that there was something 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.280 in the ether happening with people becoming aware, increasingly aware 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.720 of the problems with cannabis and THCHC. I think probably 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.320 because so many, you know, so many young people are 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:37.600 using and using very high potency vapes what's called dabbing, 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.120 which is essentially smoking chunks of THCHC, which is the 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.480 active chemical in cannabis. And when you use that way 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.760 in particular, you can really knock yourself out and become 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:52.680 psychotic very quickly. And so I do think that this is, 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:57.040 unfortunately to something that's happening to people that their friends 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.840 are seeing, that their family members are seeing, that they're 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.680 parents are seeing, and and you know, for whatever reason, 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.639 the book was starting to sell a little bit more 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.680 even before the Times thing, and now all of a sudden, 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.160 it actually has sort of taken off again in terms 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:13.880 of sales, which is pretty amazing because it came out 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.560 to tell your children seven years ago. And I promise 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.160 you I will tell you the Times my view on 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:20.840 the Times, which I think it's very important that they 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.880 did this, But I want to tell you something even 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.280 more important that happened in the last forty eight hours, 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.480 which is at a conservative commentator, a young woman named 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:33.919 Brett Cooper who you may know, post it. 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.280 Yeah, we actually have this post. Let's throw it up, guys, 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.720 four ninety four. Yes, here, I'll read it out. My 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.960 mom and I have been told that my brother's psychosis, 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:49.040 now full blown diagnosed schizophrenia, is most likely drug induced 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.760 from his years of smoking weed. This drug isn't harmless, 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.320 no matter what our culture and screening people in comments 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.360 sections tried to tell us. 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.520 Yes, So no important and right because in the end, 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.520 you know, the Times can write what it writes, and 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.400 I can write about statistics and journal articles and stuff. 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.960 But people react as individual stories. They react to the 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:14.000 stories of people, and you know, especially when when it's personal, right, 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.400 when it's this is my brother and look what happened 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.960 to him. And that's been viewed almost five million times 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:23.400 on x right now. And so unfortunately, that is what's 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.680 happening out there, is that people are seeing you know, 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.720 family members or friends or friends of friends who've had 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.800 real problems and they say, well, you know, this person 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:36.240 wasn't using cocaine or methamphetamine or you know, or mushrooms 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.680 they were using, they were using THC, they were using 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.680 these vapes and suddenly they wound up in the er 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.440 and or maybe they have a diagnosis of bipolar disorder 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.520 or schizophrenian, you know, and their lives are really wrecked 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.920 by this, and their families are getting messed up by 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.200 it too, and I need to figure out I need 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:56.080 to learn about this drug. So so what the Times 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.400 wrote was the broader, you know, the bigger picture question, 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.120 which is this is happening against the background of the 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:11.839 legalization of cannabis. Charlie new right, Charlie new and so legalization. 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.440 You know, many states have legalized in the last ten 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:19.640 to fifteen years. There's been a very aggressive, very pushy, 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.599 very effective for you know, for lack of a better word, 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:28.839 propaganda campaign selling cannabis and THC as medicine. It's not medicine. 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.960 If we're going to legalize it on any basis, it's 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.440 got to be as a recreational intoxicant that's gotten downsides 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.599 and that needs to be regulated carefully. But that's not 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.520 how the industry got people to legalize. They got people 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.599 legalized by telling them this is medicine. And if you 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.120 have seizures. It's good for you, and if you're you know, 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:46.920 if you have cancer, it's good for you. And it's 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.839 going to keep people away from opioids. All this stuff, 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:53.640 most of which has essentially no basis in science. There's 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.440 a couple of things where there's some evidence that cannabis 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.760 and team you might be valuable, but mostly it doesn't. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.040 Yeah, I was just thinking, I remember, I remember being 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.160 online kind of in that two thousand and two, two 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.880 thousand and eight, you know, that early Internet window, and 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.800 it felt like weed was coming up all the time online. 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.039 There was this huge consensus among young people except for me, 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.240 where they were saying, oh, marijuana is basically harmless. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:18.560 It was like a whole spiel. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.560 It was only ever banned because racist lawmakers in the 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:25.039 twenties had like a moral panic about Mexicans bringing this 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.160 drug over the border. And yeah, as you said, it 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.039 was medicine, it would cure cancer. It basically was like 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:35.000 a super drug if anything. And yeah, and the New 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.160 York Times it says in this article here. You know, 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:41.960 in our editorials we described marijuana addiction as relatively minor problems. 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.520 Many went further and claimed marijuana was a harmless drug 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.360 that might even bring net health benefits, and we said 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.000 that legalization might not lead to greater use. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.080 And the number they have here is insane. 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.320 It went from about one million daily users in nineteen 0:06:56.400 --> 0:07:01.440 ninety two to more than eighteen million daily users today. 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.840 So the thing about canvas is actually more addictive than alcohol, 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.160 considerably more. If you look at the number of people 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.880 who use compared to the total number of the number 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.040 of people who use daily, let's say, compared to the 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.280 total number of users. Okay, there's about one hundred million 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.800 adults in the US who use alcohol on a regular basis, 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.840 about half the population, a little bit more than half, okay, 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.040 so maybe a little bit more than one hundred million. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:29.120 Of those people, fewer than twenty million drink every day, okay, 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.880 based on the studies. And most of those people aren't 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.600 drinking all day every day. If they do, we call 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.640 them alcoholics. We know they have a problem. They know it. 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.920 They have a problem. When it comes to cannabis, there 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.960 are more people using every day than use alcohol every day, 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.560 even though the total number of cannabis users are much 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.280 smaller than the total number of alcohol users. And those people, 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.480 those cannabis users, when they're using every day, they are 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.520 waking and baking. For the most part, they are not 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.760 doing this. I'm gonna have like one hit. I mean, 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:00.880 there's some people who do, but I have one hit 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:02.360 at night and I'm going to go to sleep. 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:02.560 No. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.200 This is this is this is a major part of 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.560 my life. I wake up to this. I schedule my 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.960 life around my you know, my vape breaks. I may 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.400 you know, maybe I don't have a girlfriend anymore because 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.640 I decided I liked cannabis more than having a girlfriend. 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.920 You know, maybe I just hang out playing video games 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.480 and getting high all the time. That is not you know, 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.400 your your viewers, your viewers, no, that it's a typical pattern. Yeah. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.200 Well, and Alex, you're kind of zeroing in on the 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.000 young male cohort when you're talking about video games, vaping 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:37.319 and this team. This actually tends from what I'm gathering online, 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:43.040 this young male super high dose of THHC developing brains 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.880 leading to schizophrenia. This actually, to me is one of 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:52.120 the more terrifying aspects of increased pot usage and US 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.480 normalizing it and us sort of deifying the drug. Is 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.319 like the only drug in the universe that doesn't have 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:01.679 any side effects it. Young men seemed to be particularly 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.480 vulnerable to schizophrenia. Let's go ahead and play this cut. 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.680 We actually have a cut here from Brett Cooper talking 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:07.880 about it four ninety five. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.839 My mom and I have been told that my brother psychosis, 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.240 now full blown diagnosed schizophrenia, is most likely drug induced 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.280 from his years of smoking weed. This drug isn't harmless, 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.520 no matter what our culture and screaming people in comment 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.120 sections tried to tell us. The story is that my 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.160 brother Reid, who was twelve years older than me, he 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.920 became a pothead I would say late and high squire 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.959 to this. He never showed any signs of mental illness. 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.040 He never showed any signs of psychosis. But for the 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.679 last decade, my brother Reid has been in and out 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.559 of psychiatric facilities. He has been on and off the streets. 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.160 And say it's like California and Idaho and Tennessee. He's 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.360 been all over the country. This is what my family 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.720 has been dealing with for a decade. My brother Reid 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.439 is now a diagnosed schizophrenic and he is mute. As 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.559 it stands right now, currently, he is unable to participate 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.360 in society unless he is medicated. 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.280 Hi. So listen, men have a higher rate of schizophrenia 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.200 than women. They're more prone to severe mental ill less 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.760 than women. And as we all know, as Charlie talked 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.000 about all the time, young men are having a hard 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.559 time in society today and it's understandable that some of 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.040 them turn to this drug. But it doesn't make their 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.120 problems better. It makes them worse. And I just hope 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.600 that they know they're being sold a bill of goods 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.920 here by the drug legalizers, by the cannabis industry. They 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.320 really should try not to use this. 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But it strikes me I just feel like 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:43.000 so much of these outcomes were obvious that there has 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.000 to be this element where a lot of people realize 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.960 they could make a lot of money off of this, 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:48.480 that they could. 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:51.680 Like they were creating. 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.120 Something they knew would be super addictive and they would 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.200 be a huge market for this, And now a ton 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.560 of people are getting rich off of these eighteen million 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.960 people a day who are using mayor want to every 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:01.720 single day. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:03.440 Like it's kind of like tobacco. 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.599 Tobacco companies knew exactly how addictive their product was, and 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.280 they knew how deadly it was. And I can't imagine 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.000 that anyone was under any illusions who was in the 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.520 know with marijuanare. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.160 There's two issues there, okay, And they're both very interesting 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.160 people in the industry. Yeah, they know, they know how 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.319 addictive this stuff is, and they've been working for thirty 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:27.160 years to make cannabis more potent, to make the you 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.320 know what's called flower cannabis, what's in a joints stronger, 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:34.640 but also to produce these vapes which are essentially pure THC. 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:36.680 And they know exactly what they've been doing, and those 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.480 a lot of those people want to get rich. If 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:42.520 you look at times, you know, unfortunately, it's the same 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:46.480 kind of sort of useful idiocy that these people played 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.679 when they called for schools to be lockdowns during COVID, 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.360 when they went crazy with the Russian collusion hoax. 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.280 You know, there is a group. 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.480 Think on the left in elite journalism that blinds people 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:01.000 to facts that should be obvious. Okay, and you the 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.040 data on this when I'm going to tell your children. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.360 It was twenty nineteen and I was able to draw 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.680 on twenty years of data showing the sort of the 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.800 harmful links between cannabis and severe mental illness. And that's 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.920 counting the links between cannabis and let's say, you know, 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.079 sort of bad life outcomes because you just don't achieve 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.880 very much because you're you're smoking every day and you're 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.120 not working very hard, and your life is just sort 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.120 of passing you by. I'm talking about the really severe 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.400 mental illness outcomes and frankly, the downstream violence from that, 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.160 which is an issue we don't even have to begin 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:33.920 to talk about. We have so much else to talk about. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.680 But people at the Times, people at the Washington Post, 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.720 people at the Atlantic, all these places that think they're 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.839 so smart, they didn't look at the data, and they 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.960 just told themselves over and over again, well, this is 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.240 just being used to put black men in prison. I mean, 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.959 it was it was nonsense. Okay, it was nonsense in 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.680 twenty nineteen. It was nonsense even in two thousand and nine. 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:56.920 It hadn't been true for a really long time. Let 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.640 me tell you one quick thing that I discovered when 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.840 I was tell your children, which was people, as I 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:07.000 think Andrews said, you know, they always said, well, we'd 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.800 got banned in nineteen in the nineteen twenties and thirties, 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.240 because there was a perception that it was a Mexican drug, 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.280 that it was a drug that was being brought up 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.360 from Mexico. There is some truth in that. What people 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.160 don't tell you, what they didn't ever know, all these 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:24.920 supposedly smart people, is that Mixco actually banned cannabis first 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.840 because Mexicans saw what it was doing to their culture 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.040 and country and they didn't like it. So whenever this 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.760 drug has become widely used, whether it's in India, whether 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.920 it's in Mexico, whether it's an African or and North 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.320 African countries, eventually there's a backlash to what it does 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.960 to people. And the fact that we thought we could 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.000 rewrite the rules on this, that a bunch of nice 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.880 liberals who basically had smoked pot a few times in 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:53.560 college thought they could totally rewrite history in human biology 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.120 and legalize this and there'd be no consequences just tells 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.880 you once again what a bubble the left is living. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.720 And now, by the way, you know some of these 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.920 people what's happened is they've seen their kids get completely 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:10.120 screwed up on high potency cannabis and THAC or their friends, 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.000 and now they realize the truth. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:14.640 I think, here, here, let's do like a little rapid 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:18.040 fire question and answer. Here is weed a gateway drug? 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.880 Yes? Yes, evidence is clear? 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:21.280 Does it? 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:22.280 What? 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:22.920 What? 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.520 What is the rate of schizophrenia do we know? Especially 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.680 in young men that are high drug users? 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.080 So, I mean the base rate is about one percent. 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.360 So one reason this has been able to happen is that, 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.400 let's say, heavy cannoby shoes triples the base rate. Okay, 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.920 even not every young man is using. So even if 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.040 let's say thirty percent of young men are using in 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.880 a dangerous way, that would not result in such a 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.520 huge number that it would be immediately obvious. Even though 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.440 this is a really severe illness, it becomes obvious over time. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:55.640 But what I what I say, and I say this 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.280 with confidence now, is that there are probably hundreds of 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:01.640 thousands of young people people, mostly men, but some women 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.720 in the United States and Canada who have become severely 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.480 mentally ill as a result of cannabis use, who wouldn't 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.480 have been hundreds of thousands of lives ruined, hundreds of 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.800 thousands of families Because what you heard with Brett is 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.560 this destroys families, right. It doesn't just destroy one person 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.600 when you're when you're the family member or the brother 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:23.440 or sister, I mean God forbid you the child, but brother, sister, 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.520 parent of somebody with really severe mental illness, your life 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:27.440 is misery. 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.760 I have a couple, Alex. So, even if you don't 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:35.680 get psychosis, if you're using weed nearly daily from age sixteen, 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:37.880 how bad of an impact is that going to have 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:39.080 on your cognitive baseline? 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:40.480 How many IQ points are you going to lose? 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.880 So really good question. I don't think there's a simple number. 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:48.080 It's bad for memory, it's bad for motivation, it's bad 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.400 for intelligence. But I wouldn't be comfortable saying you know, 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.200 ten points, twenty points. I mean clearly most people who 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.880 use are many. Many people who use heavily find their 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.920 lives disrupted by this in a sence way. If you're 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:02.960 an alcoholic, your life is going to be disrupted. 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:04.879 I've got another question. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:10.520 Where weed has been legalized, have the outcomes been Has 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.120 there been what you touched on violence? 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.720 Have we seen rises in violence? Crime? Criminality? Thirty seconds? 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:17.160 So why can't they. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:17.760 Tell your children? 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.240 There was evidence that in the states that had legalized 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:24.000 early there was a rise in sort of in violence, 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.639 basically essentially in severe violence. Now, nationally we've been on 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:32.320 a down trend in terms of violence. Obviously, cannabis psychosis 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.400 is only one component of violence, right There are many, 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.080 many different components of what make people violent. Whether you 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.960 know how we treat people who are you know, do 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.720 we incarcorty people for a long time? Obviously that gets 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.560 them off the streets. Are the cops getting better at 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.720 solving gun crimes because they, you know, they have more surveillance. 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:54.120 There's many things, but there was evidence in twenty nineteen 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:54.560 of that. 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.160 Alex Bearnson, check them out. Thank you, my friend. We'll 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:57.720 talk to you soon. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.159 Hi, folks, Andrew Colvett here, I'd like to tell you 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.919 about my friends over at why Refi. You've probably been 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.240 hearing me talk about y REFI for some time now. 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.800 We are all in with these guys. If you or 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.479 someone you know is struggling with private student loan debt, 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.439 take my advice and give them a call. Maybe you're 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:21.040 behind on your payments, maybe you're even in default. 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I want to 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.200 get to our next guest, and that is Tom Bevan. 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.400 I got to hang out with him last night at 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:10.200 celebrating freedom of speech with real clear politics. Tom, welcome 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.840 back to the show, my friend. It's good to have you, it's. 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:13.919 Good to be back, and it was going to be 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:15.320 with you last night. That was a lot of fun. 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:20.040 Yeah, and thank you for honoring Charlie and his work 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:22.920 celebrating free speech. And I thought you guys did a 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.479 great job of honoring him and honoring his legacies. So 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.280 and you had you had liberals on stage. I mean, 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:31.000 you guys really run the gamut. You really we had 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:35.239 some spirited debates about trans and it was it was 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.760 it was good. It was really Don Lemon, and it 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:39.439 was he a journalist or an activist. It was a 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.879 it was a really good collision of ideas. All right, Tom, 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:46.840 I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna read something verbatim from 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.399 a very prominent left wing journalist that I was texting with, 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:52.639 and this is everybody would know the name of I 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:54.720 said it, but I'm gonna leave the anonymous, just for 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:59.160 the sake of the relationship. Says there's absolutely no proof 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:00.760 of any significant illegal voting. 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:01.880 He's talking about the Save Act. 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:06.000 You ran a campaign based on fear, demagogue and exaggeration 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:09.399