Name: What Happen if All Drugs Were Legalized?
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What Happen if All Drugs Were Legalized?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-20. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What Happen if All Drugs Were Legalized?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-20. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience
To go back to where we started today, there's nothing that's worse for
parenting than parents
of young children using drugs. Whether the drug is alcohol, cannabis, or meth,
or heroin,
it is terrible for parenting. It leads to abuse, neglect, it leads to poverty,
it leads to terrible
outcomes. And I don't know how you stop that, but one of the things when you
consider whether you're
going to set up a world where drug use is sort of allowed/encouraged/commercialized
is the effect
on young kids. It's a really good question. And as a person who believes that
freedom is one of
the most important things, I also come from a perspective where I'm in a
different place in
life than I was when I was 20. And what would I be like when I was 20 if heroin
was legal? What would
I be like if cocaine was legal? What would I have done? There's a reality that
if you open the gates
now and you say now all of these drugs are illegal, we're going to regulate
them, and the way to stop
fentanyl coming in in these tainted cocaine is to sell pure cocaine and it'd
actually be better for
everybody. I don't believe that. I truly don't believe it. I don't think the
problem is the tainted
drugs. I think the problem is that drugs just eat people. I think there's both
of those things. But
what I was about to say is if you did do that, you would undeniably have a
certain amount of people
that are going to get addicted that never would. A certain amount of people
that are going to lose
their lives that never would. A certain amount of violent actions, car
accidents, people on meth and
heroin and drugs and coke. They're going to do wild shit. And people are super
unpredictable when they're
fucked up on drugs. And you're going to have real problems. And that's also
true. But would more
people do it if it was legal? I think you're right. I think more people would
try it. But eventually not.
So we just have to sacrifice a whole generation to people learn? You have to go
to Europe and see
like kids are allowed to drink wine in Italy. And so there are instances of
alcoholism and it's not
a big deal to them. For us, it's a big deal. I remember the first time I got
drunk with my friends,
we were listening to Led Zeppelin, my friend Jimmy. And it was like, it was
like, we were like 15 years
old, 14, 15 years old. And I got sick in a cab, like the whole thing. But it
was getting alcohol
was crazy. If you live in Europe, it's normal. Like they get their kids acclimated
to it. Like,
you don't let them drink, but they're allowed to have a sip of alcohol. Have a
little, it's not that big
a deal. Right. Don't think of it as like some forbidden fruit that you can't
wait to get to to get
fucked up. That's right. Yes. But even with, you know, adults, we know that
even with adults that have,
you know, reasonable ways of approaching every other aspect of their life, some
of them can't
have a drink. That's right. They can't. They can't do it. They get fucking gerbilized
and they're gone.
You know, you know those guys. Yes, of course. Those are real people too. And
what do we do about that?
And it's a good question. But it's a question that unfortunately,
there's so many pros and cons of both sides. And the con of both sides is crazy
because you're
empowering a gigantic criminal enterprise. That is, yes. That's crazy. And that
was the prohibition.
That was the thing that was going on in America. They didn't stop people from
drinking whiskey,
but they stopped them from drinking good whiskey. They were making moonshine.
And you know,
that was what NASCAR was created for. They were trying to run away from cops.
Those boys, yeah,
yeah. They developed hot rod cars to run away from cops. And they said, you
know, we should race
these motherfuckers. They just cut off these tracks in a circle. Yes. I mean,
that's literally how
NASCAR started. It's kind of amazing. But it's just, there's no real, there's
no one perfect answer.
There's no one thing we say, you know what, if we do this, we'll have zero
deaths and everyone's
going to be peaceful and the world's going to be a utopia. There's no answer
like that.
No, but here, and I'm not suggesting this. Okay. But you, if you have a regime
that is really strict
on drug use, you don't have much drug use. I mean, I'm talking about, I'm
talking about like,
you know, like Saudi Arabia, you know, if you're cutting people's hands off,
and that would never
fly here. And I don't think it's a good idea. It's definitely not. But this
idea that like,
you can't culturally and societally lower the levels of drug use is not true.
You can't. It's just the
question of the price you pay. Right. But that isn't that the thing about like
peace as well?
Like, as long as you're willing to have like, like, who is the, was it the, was
the, who's the,
was it the president of the Philippines that was killing drug dealers? Yes, yes,
yes. I mean,
yes, I bet that had an impact. Yes. I mean, I wouldn't recommend it, but I bet
it worked to a
certain extent. That's right. No, it's, but so there's just this idea, the drug
legalization
lobby has very successfully argued that basically you can't manage the amount
of drug use in a
society. You just have to manage the consequences. And that is demonstrably untrue.
Here's another,
like drinking and driving used to be pretty society acceptable. And now it's
not acceptable. I mean,
people still sometimes do it, but levels are way down. Have you ever seen that
video from when they first
started telling people you can't have an open beer in your car? No. See if you
can find that video,
Jamie. I think it's from the 1970s. And then this lady's like, basically we're
becoming communists.
And this guy's like, you work all day. It'd be nice. You could have a beer on
your way home.
It's crazy. These people are advocating for openly drinking in their cars. That's
right. You can change
your behavior and attitudes. Well, that's a wild one. That's a wild one that
people want to be able to just
booze it up while they're driving. Listen to this.
Drinking and driving here is viewed by some as downright undemocratic.
It's kind of getting common. It's when a fella can't put in a hard day's work,
put in 11,
12 hours a day, and then get in your truck and at least rain one or two beers.
Where you can't drink when you want to. Baby.
Yeah. You have to wear a seat belt when you're driving. Pretty soon we're going
to be calling this
cake. That is fantastic.
That's when Trump got its first light bulb. Hey. I think I'm going to be
president.
That guy. I didn't even like his accent. I didn't even, I under did it.
Yes. He was over the top. Yeah. But the baby next to the lady.
The baby right there. That's how they used to carry babies around. Just put
them in there.