For decades, junk science has fueled cannabis prohibition, from bogus chromosome scares to today’s clickbait about weed causing diabetes. Despite billions in tax revenue and no overdose deaths, scare studies dominate headlines while real-world data proves otherwise. This piece exposes how research funding, media bias, and political agendas keep cannabis criminalized against all evidence.
High Lies, Dirty Money
A billionaire’s media empire, a prohibitionist Congressman, and an op-ed full of fear. The Washington Examiner’s latest anti-cannabis rant exposes how profits and propaganda keep prohibition alive. With alcohol use falling and support for cannabis reform rising, fearmongering is their last defense and it is crumbling fast.