Joe Rogan addressing recent news of President Trump considering reclassifying marijuana:
“There’s some talk about Trump legalizing marijuana now. Well, it should be. It's so stupid. I can't believe we're still dealing with this.
I would have thought by the time I'm 58, we would have figured this out.
It would take the place of so many different pharmaceutical drugs, and that's a big part of the problem. They lobby. They work on it hard. They do not want marijuana becoming legalized in the whole nation.
The real big problem is who's selling if it's illegal? The CARTEL. As much as 80% of the marijuana in the country in places where it's illegal is coming from these dudes. And they're using all these crazy pesticides that are totally illegal, fucking super toxic shit.
If they had it legal, you could have inspectors who could check the fucking, the farms and the factories. It'd be just like alcohol. If alcohol was illegal, we'd be fucked. We'd be drinking moonshine.
It's dumb. It empowers the people that are criminals
For 13 fucking years, alcohol was illegal in this country. You know how crazy that is, a grown man telling you you can't have a drink? Same thing with a smoke. What's the problem with that?
We're just delusional about it. And we put it under the label “drug”, which is alcohol.Alcohol is a drug, dummy. It's a drug.
It's just knowing how to use each drug. And the only way you know how to use it is if people are honest. And if they do studies, you have actual scientists who aren't being paid off to come up with some sort of negative or positive result.
It’s all just fucking co-opted by money.”
-@joerogan
#TrumpForCannabis
@MikeTyson@itstyson20@Bruce_LeVell@GuntherEagleman@DC_Draino@alexbruesewitz@PressSec@karolineleavitt@joeroganhq
“The origin of this problem is political, not scientific. When Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act in 1970, marijuana's placement in Schedule I was explicitly provisional, a placeholder pending review by a presidential commission. The Shafer Commission, chaired by a Republican governor and composed largely of President Richard Nixon's appointees, concluded in 1972 that marijuana did not meet the criteria for Schedule I and recommended decriminalizing personal possession.
Nixon ignored the report and escalated the war on drugs. The provisional classification became permanent by default. Since 1965, an estimated 29 million Americans have been arrested on marijuana charges, roughly 90 percent of them for possession alone.”
'Prohibition Didn't Stop Marijuana Use. It Stopped Marijuana Research.
Rescheduling marijuana will make it easier to study a drug that tens of millions of Americans already use.'
https://t.co/2S073cYlZu
Joe Rogan and Scott Eastwood on how alcohol and prison lobbies fight to keep cannabis illegal:
“Places that do have legal marijuana, you see diminished alcohol intake. It’s measurable. It costs them money.
You also have the darker thing, which is prison lobbies.
There's a bunch of people that lobby to make marijuana laws- keep them on the books.
Their business is keeping people in cages which is really fucking crazy.
Get locked up for something like marijuana that most Americans don't think should be illegal.”
@joerogan@weldon_angelos@MikeTyson
Joe Rogan and Scott Eastwood on how the majority of Americans support cannabis legalization:
“Most Americans don't think that it should be illegal. Put that into perplexity. See what the universe says.
‘70% of Americans say marijuana should be legal in general according to recent Gallup poll. If you include people who support either medical or recreational legalization, it's 88 to 89%. US adults say marijuana should be legal in at least some form with only about 11% wanting it to be completely illegal’ and those people need to try it.”
@joerogan@MikeTyson
Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee says banking for the cannabis industry is “quandary that we have to solve” and “we’ll get to a solution.” 👇
“There's something called the the Safe Banking Act, which is to allow for the banking question to be solved by making it legal to bank it.
You don't want us to have situation where you have these cash rooms, where you have hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash sitting in a location. Everyone knows you can't bank it, and therefore, the criminal activity is much higher in these places. So there is a quandary that we have to solve. I think we'll get to a solution.”
-@SenatorTimScott@BankingGOP
Kudos to @CGasparino for the question.
'Georgia veterans applaud revamped state medical marijuana program'
'The Veterans of Foreign Wars has long advocated for medical cannabis access for former service members who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder or chronic pain. It’s seen as a safer alternative to opioids.'
https://t.co/Mpn9D6CtOG
'Prohibition Didn't Stop Marijuana Use. It Stopped Marijuana Research.
Rescheduling marijuana will make it easier to study a drug that tens of millions of Americans already use.'
https://t.co/2S073cYlZu
“So, Mr. Prohibitionist, how does cannabis have ‘no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States’ when 40 states have medical cannabis programs?”
A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) judge has released the schedule for next week’s administrative hearing on the federal proposal to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III substance. https://t.co/K6aP3l8aNG
The SAFE Banking Act is a critical step towards ending outdated federal barriers that put legitimate cannabis businesses at a disadvantage. I am introducing this bill today to protect livelihoods and strengthen an industry that employs over 400,000 Americans. @NORML@ABABankers
Bill Maher explaining to Chris Pratt how cannabis companies and their 500k workers are barred from the banking system, forcing them to operate solely in cash and leaving them susceptible to robbery:
“It’s a terrible situation that pot stores are still sort of “bad people” [in eyes of federal government] so we can’t trust them with banking so there’s too much cash which tends to attract robbers.
It’s bureaucratic bullshit. If I told you all the hurdles that we had to try to get over to just establish a marijuana company in [California], it’s just ridiculous. They do not make it easy.
If you want to have an easy low hanging fruit victory with people, just cut the red tape.”
President Trump can cut the red tape with common sense reform like reclassifying cannabis and SAFE Banking.
Source: Club Random Podcast 8/20/25
@billmaher@prattprattpratt@MikeTyson@itstyson20@Bruce_LeVell@GuntherEagleman@DC_Draino@alexbruesewitz@PressSec@karolineleavitt@joerogan@wizkhalifa
As President Trump has emphasized, debanking has hurt legal businesses across the country.
I reintroduced the SAFE Banking Act to keep our communities safe by ensuring state-legal businesses have access to the financial services they need to succeed.
https://t.co/vOvVeebpOR
“On Marijuana and Guns, Clarence Thomas Still Wants To Limit Federal Power
The conservative justice continues to wage a lonely legal crusade over the Commerce Clause.”
https://t.co/rt6MLWai2p
The HHS 252 page report recommending the rescheduling of cannabis included comparative studies showing alcohol produces more “frequent incidence of adverse outcomes or severity of substance use disorder” than cannabis.
Hearings to reschedule cannabis commence on June 29th.
“Frankly, it was an easy decision.
That's why it was unanimous 9 to nothing because there's an obvious material difference between recreational use of marijuana and more serious drug addiction and drug abuse that does create an inherent danger with the use of firearms.
Prosecuting gun owners who smoke marijuana recreationally or occasionally was simply a bridge too far for the Supreme Court, especially since most states have legalized it. And in fact, the federal government has backed off marijuana enforcement.”