I have never been in support of legalizing psychotic inducing drugs and never bought into the bullshit from the left that Marijuana is harmless. We are getting more facts on this and the outcome has not been good for this nation.
Elton John is right, marijuana legalization was a ‘great mistake’
Like a “candle in the wind,” Elton John extinguished the contemporary positive chatter surrounding marijuana legalization in an interview with Time Magazine published last week. He claimed efforts to legalize the drug were a huge societal error. Apparently, he finally realized what anti-weed proponents have known for quite some time: Marijuana is harmful.
“I maintain that it’s addictive. It leads to other drugs,” said Time Magazine’s “Icon of the Year” for 2024. “And when you’re stoned — and I’ve been stoned — you don’t think normally. Legalizing marijuana in America and Canada is one of the greatest mistakes of all time.”
John’s epiphany on marijuana represents, shall we say, the “circle of life” of many marijuana legalization proponents. First, they use the drug. Then, they support legalizing the drug. Then, after enough harmful things have occurred as a result of using the drug, they realize marijuana was terrible all along. Then, they acknowledge it should have never been legalized.
But while many marijuana enthusiasts might tell the rock and roll Hall of Famer to “don’t go breaking my heart,” they should heed his advice. Despite its rebranding in pop culture as a kind of benevolent drug, studies have found that the regular use of marijuana has been linked to many harmful health conditions. One of the first was published shortly after Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize the recreational use of cannabis in 2012.
Consider this study by Northwestern Medicine in 2013, which found a link between regular marijuana use by adolescents and “abnormal changes in their brain structures related to working memory and performed poorly on memory tasks.” Moreover, damage to the brain includes memory-related structures that “appeared to shrink and collapse inward,” with a possible decrease in brain neurons, according to the study. Additionally, these abnormalities became synonymous with “schizophrenia-related brain abnormalities.”
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Elton John is right, marijuana legalization was a ‘great mistake’
Like a “candle in the wind,” Elton John extinguished the contemporary positive chatter surrounding marijuana legalization in an interview with Time Magazine published last week. He claimed efforts to legalize the drug were a huge societal error. Apparently, he finally realized what anti-weed proponents have known for quite some time: Marijuana is harmful.
“I maintain that it’s addictive. It leads to other drugs,” said Time Magazine’s “Icon of the Year” for 2024. “And when you’re stoned — and I’ve been stoned — you don’t think normally. Legalizing marijuana in America and Canada is one of the greatest mistakes of all time.”
John’s epiphany on marijuana represents, shall we say, the “circle of life” of many marijuana legalization proponents. First, they use the drug. Then, they support legalizing the drug. Then, after enough harmful things have occurred as a result of using the drug, they realize marijuana was terrible all along. Then, they acknowledge it should have never been legalized.
But while many marijuana enthusiasts might tell the rock and roll Hall of Famer to “don’t go breaking my heart,” they should heed his advice. Despite its rebranding in pop culture as a kind of benevolent drug, studies have found that the regular use of marijuana has been linked to many harmful health conditions. One of the first was published shortly after Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize the recreational use of cannabis in 2012.
Consider this study by Northwestern Medicine in 2013, which found a link between regular marijuana use by adolescents and “abnormal changes in their brain structures related to working memory and performed poorly on memory tasks.” Moreover, damage to the brain includes memory-related structures that “appeared to shrink and collapse inward,” with a possible decrease in brain neurons, according to the study. Additionally, these abnormalities became synonymous with “schizophrenia-related brain abnormalities.”
Elton John is right, marijuana legalization was a ‘great mistake’ - Washington Examiner
Like a “candle in the wind,” Elton John extinguished the contemporary positive chatter surrounding marijuana legalization in an interview published last week.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
