Economic growth! Illinois is winning the race to become the capital of the world!
What a weird thing to brag about.
Thanks to JB’s leadership, pot and abortions are the two hottest growth industries in the state of Illinois.https://t.co/KWFijQamda
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) January 22, 2024
One of the greatest ironies of the push to legalize pot has been that all the outlandish warnings about how dangerous marijuana is have turned out to be true. Pot really is bad for you, and not just in the “inhaling unfiltered smoke deeply into your lungs” kinda bad, but as in the “you can get schizophrenia from smoking too much pot” kinda way.
Legalizing marijuana is probably the lesser of two evils, but just barely. The war on drugs has been a bust and it makes sense to divert resources used to go after marijuana to more important tasks such as stamping out fentanyl use (that…