The following article, Report: Daily Marijuana Use Is Greater Than Alcohol Consumption In The United States For The First Time In History, was first published on Big League Politics.
Per data put forward by the Society for the Study of Addiction, daily marijuana consumption has surpassed daily alcohol consumption in the United States. This marks the first time in American history.
Researchers discovered that roughly 17.7 million Americans reported using marijuana on a daily basis or nearly every day in 2022. Only 14.7 million stated they consumed alcohol at the same rate, per the report, which was published on May 22, 2024.
Drug consumption habits have clearly changed in the last three decades. In 1992, fewer than 1 million people reported smoking marijuana on a daily basis. This figure has increased 15-fold, largely due to growing public acceptance and legalization of the marijuana in multiple states.
Jonathan Caulkins, a cannabis policy researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, highlighted, “A good 40% of current cannabis users are using it daily or near daily, a pattern that is more associated with tobacco use than typical alcohol use.”
“Most states now allow medical or recreational marijuana, though it remains illegal at the federal level,” per a report by the Associated Press. “Florida voters will decide on a constitutional amendment allowing recreational cannabis, and the federal government is moving to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.”
The Biden regime recently announced its decision to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to Schedule III substance. Under this plan, the White House would grant pardons to even more individuals convicted at the federal level for simple possession of weed. The proposal is currently undergoing a 60-day public comment period, but if it is implemented, it will lower federal penalties connected to marijuana possession, per a report by ABC News.
America’s degenerate elites love weed and want to push it on the population in order to create an increasingly obese, inert, and schizophrenic populace that’s easy to control. On top of that, cash-strapped states are desperately trying to find a new revenue source, and taxing weed, is just one way of doing this.
The drug war should ultimately be devolved to the state level but let’s not pretend that the normalization of weed is a net benefit for society.
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