Elton John is right, marijuana legalization was a ‘great mistake’

Do you have anything other than your low IQ, uneducated opinion to back that up?

However, an alternative explanation is that people who are more susceptible to drug-taking behavior are simply more likely to start with marijuana because of its accessibility and that their subsequent social interactions with other drug users would increase the probability that they would try other drugs.
"...more susceptible..." Can't you read?
 
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.”


Oh god I'm so fucked, I been toking constantly since 1968 in Vietnam?!!

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Folks listen to John, marijuana is dangerous and deadly too,
it's too late for me, but like Nancy Reagan said back in 1987, Just Say No!:rolleyes2:
 
That's what h1bs do to Americans.
Maybe you're ignorant about it but when you espouse h1bs that's what you're espousing.
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Legalizing weed has been the biggest tool in the dea's arsenal to fight hard narcotics. It was the biggest mistake the junky bastards ever made. They lost the best tool in their arsenal to the dea. The reason why alcohol defeated the prohibitionist is because it's too easy to manufacture and too many people used it since it was addictive and thereby so ubiquitous. Weed however isnt honestly habit forming and also almost harmless. It's only slightly more difficult to get than alcohol. It was only because it isnt habit forming that it couldn't defeat prohibition just as alcohol was able to do all on its own. Drug dealers are all going out of business everywhere weed is legal. I just want it known, this was my intention all along.
 
Explain why you and Elton John think marijuana legalization in Canada and a dozen US states is right up there alongside slavery, genocide, the Great Depression.

Explain to me why you fabricate brainless strawmen instead of a coherent, reasonable thought out and coherent counter argument?
 
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