Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2023-10 to 2026-06.
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The alcohol lobby is the primary force working to keep marijuana illegal to protect their market share.
“It's the alcohol lobby. It's the same people that are trying to keep um marijuana illegal in Texas. It's the alcohol lobby. This is the fact. The fact is when people start smoking weed, they they drink less.”
Joe Rogan Experience · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 5.2M views on this topicAfroman argues that marijuana should be federally decriminalized.
“If you're going to let this dude get away with all of this let me smoke my weed decriminalize marijuana federally you know what I'm saying”
StevenCrowder · May 2024 · 1 episode · 53K views on this topicHe believes that the government is inconsistent for categorizing cannabis as a dangerous Schedule 1 substance while holding a patent on it for medicinal use.
“the government can't have it both ways they can't say like this is the hardest drug there is which is just ridiculous but also in 2001 put a patent on it for recognizing its medical qual quality qualities”
Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime · Oct 2023 · 1 episode · 34K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.