Why Does a Destructive Drug Like Alcohol Get a Pass?

the Joe Rogan experience crazy I mean in retrospect imagine you were were we let's do a little ranking thing here we have three vices and I'm I know exactly where you're gonna be going with this but we have three things we want to prioritize dope alcohol [ __ ] smoking weight cigarettes cigarettes you can ban one rush to rank them in order you could start from scratch I'm saying Joe we're starting over okay what you say goes rank you weak so right now the way we have dealt with these is smoking is is becoming the most taboo of those three cigarettes mm-hmm marijuana ii and alcohol is the one that we have the least inhibitions about right my argument would be that that list is exactly backwards that it should be alcohol should be the most taboo marijuana should be actually not exactly backwards it should be alcohol the most taboo cigarettes the second most marijuana the third that's how I would do yeah I would agree with that yeah yeah so we're basically we have it completely upside down but I think for some people like look there's obviously obviously terrible things that happen to you when you smoke cigarettes but every time is it is it pi see I've smoked a cigarette or two before shows like I've smoked to say I mean I mean or two I've never smoked two in a row but I've smoked a cigarette before I've done shows like Dave Chappelle gave me one of his cigarettes recently Tony hinge cliffs give me a cigarette I'm not a cigarette smoker but there's something cool about the head rush that you get when you smoke a cigarette I hesitate to say that and this is a person who's done a lot of drugs I've done a lot I've smoked a lot of pot and I've done psychedelics and I'll talk about them openly I have hesitation about telling people that I've enjoyed a cigarette because because it's because I think it's so bad for you it's it's it's I think when I talk about doing mushrooms I think mushrooms are good for you I think it makes you freak out I think it illuminates parts of your consciousness that I think a lot of people guard and protect and shield and I think sometimes doing something that breaks down those walls is good for you ultimately overall there's a little bit of an adjustment period but I think you learn something about the normal state of consciousness I don't think you learn much when you smoke cigarettes I just think there's just a little bit of a head rush that you get out of it but I know so many people that are sick from cigarettes so many people that can't quit them so many people that have died from cancer I mean I personally have known several people that have died from cancer from smoking cigarettes yeah so I hesitate in saying it but I don't want to be dishonest I've had them yeah I don't smoke cigarettes though I've never bought a pack I've that's a cigar of smoke cigars I like um sometimes I just think it's a terrible it's a terrible thing to get hooked on yeah yeah and as I would say the same thing with alcohol I know people that have had real problems with alcohol that have been alcoholics and they have to go to meetings and you know they're on 12-step programs and you know I would never offer them a drink mm-hmm but if you said hey let's do a shot right now let's celebrate we this is a wonderful conversation let's have a glass of whiskey I can have a glass of whiskey and not drink again it doesn't bother me oh yeah I don't I don't have that whatever that is yeah but some people do yeah I hesitate hesitating glorifying that - yeah and for young people it scares the [ __ ] out of me if I see I probably drank for the first time when I was probably I was in high school I think is probably 14 or 15 first time I ever got drunk with my friends you know we got a hold of some Jack Daniels or something and made me throw us the I smell drinking age yes well you know it's just friends you know listen in the classic rock and getting drunk in fosston but the it's it's something I occasionally enjoy I think I enjoy alcohol I like having a drink of wine with a glass of wine with a meal I like having a drink with friends occasionally but I don't have a problem with it and I know people who do and so I feel weird talking about it knowing those people that do have a problem with it yeah yeah with pot though the people that have a problem with pot it's rare and it's usually people that have some sort of and I do believe there there is an issue with people have some sort of an underlying schizophrenic issue that could come from especially high doses if they smoke a lot of pot in one night they can have a schizophrenic episode I've actually seen it particularly from edibles I've seen it but that's to me that's absolutely the least taboo and I think there's a lot of benefits to pot I think pot makes you more sociable I think it makes you friendlier I mean some people get paranoid from it but I think that's what that really is is marijuana illuminating how vulnerable you actually are yeah you know that we sort of protect ourselves from this overwhelming existential angst that you get when you get high on pot yeah and people say oh I don't like it it makes me paranoid well you know the reality is you're vulnerable we're all very very very vulnerable and we just somehow another make it to like how old are you fifty-six I'm fifty two we made it we made this age somehow or another despite all the paranoia we don't have to I mean it's really you know life is crazy we're in these metal boxes with combustion engines you know like trusting the people next to us going 60 miles an hour paying attention not looking at their phone you know it's like it's very in then we get in planes and who else the [ __ ] going on with the engine this guy's flying it over the sky it's we're very vulnerable all the time just diseases and you know not to mention you know war and all sorts of other things that could float weight away yeah I mention everything earthquake fire yeah yeah fires yes no my my thing on this is simply the collateral damage yeah there so leave the individual out of it and ask how much social damage is caused by any of those things okay in alcohol and that number one just by a bullet yeah yeah you know what's amazing to me is how the people who make alcohol have to get a free ride it's incredible to me like if I said to you that I was on the board of Philip Morris you would say that's Malcolm that's pretty screwed up yeah and you would you would be you know a problem with it if I said that oh I'm you know I'm on the board of anheuser-busch you probably would hit me up for tickets to the Super Bowl mmm right is that the same whereas there's no in terms of the amount of social damage what out what anheuser-busch has created has produced a hundred times the social damage than what Philip Morris has produced Yeah right like or you know so it's like it's a it's always puzzled about I don't know how he got it in our heads like to treat one like it's completely taboo and the other we kind of shrug you know the there are a bunch I was reading about this recently how many colleges except not just accept alcohol advertising and sponsorship but you go to a college football game and you know Bud Light will have will be an active sponsor of the event will have some huge relationship with the school this is crazy I mean it's crazy right it's like this is the drug that is causing so many problems for young people particularly on campuses and the schools are hand in glove with the manufacturers of it because it's socially acceptable because they don't have to worry about repercussions because we gave it up in a way that they would never have Marlboro Marlboro yeah oh my god people would pick it yeah where is it's not you know I don't know that's true too strange kind of we're so messy people are so messy and that is that's a very good example of how messy we are [Applause]

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Length: 8min 35sec (515 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 13 2019