• Bonesince1997@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    “Our society thrived when everyone was smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey,” wrote Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh, completely ignoring the countless, well-documented, negative impacts (violence and death) of those two American vices. “We became the most powerful nation in the world with liquor and nicotine. No country of potheads has ever thrived, or ever achieved anything at all. Every city that legalized it became an even bigger shithole basically overnight. The entire history of western civilization tells us that marijuana is far, far worse for society.”

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      “Our society thrived when everyone was smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey,”

      Correlation vs causation.

      You could say “we became the most powerful nation in the world with leaded gasoline and asbestos”. They were around at the same time too.