Tucker Carlson’s monologue insults his viewers

In this telling, greedy elites are pushing marijuana legalization on the public to line their pockets, never mind Johnny’s dead eyes at the dinner table. And that narrative is absurd—it is flat out, demonstrably untrue.

The American public is not a powerless victim of elites on marijuana legalization. Sixty-two percent of Americans believe that marijuana should be legal!

Where the recreational use of marijuana is legal, odds are very high that it got that way via ballot initiative. Voters in Washington and Colorado legalized marijuana in 2012. Voters in Oregon legalized marijuana in 2014. Voters in California, Nevada, Maine, and Massachusetts legalized marijuana in 2016. And Michigan voters did it in 2018.