The Lying New York Times

There are countless reasons to be disgusted with mainstream media these days. The only reason I keep the subscriptions is to support good journalism, but the reality is, I am a puzzle freak, so my daily fix is the crosswords and games, and the NYTimes and WAPO have the best ones ( do the New Yorker too and they are a legitimate media outlet). If they were on another platform, I’d cancel all my subscriptions to mainstream media. As much as I am not a fan of Meta, the young journalists and those who have left old-school media have caught my interest, and that is where I get a lot of my news.

The NYTimes published an article on cannabis that is so infuriating, skewed, and not true. The title of the Oped is ” It’s Time for America to Admit It Has A Marijuana Problem.” The title is the only thing I agree with. Our country, although not Europe, which appears to be ahead of the curve on multiple things these days, is still living under an entirely false narrative when it comes to cannabis. Talking to doctors like Benjamin Caplan and other researchers on the plant would be a start before writing an Oped like this one. Makes me wonder if Pharma is paying the NYTimes for these OpEds? Cannabis has never killed anyone, but alcohol and pharma products certainly have.

Currently, cannabis is the number one growing industry in Europe and Canada, and from a tax perspective, that is good for those countries. The war on drugs was always bullshit. We should be leaning into how to make this new industry profitable, not dissing it. Look at how many people believe in full federal legalization, and how many people are consuming for sleep, for fun, for pain, for sex, and a slew of other things. Research and data are always key, and the information that the NYTimes is espousing is bullshit. This is my favorite line…..” People who are frequently stoned can struggle to hold a job or take care of their families”. Maybe they should come talk to me. I have been getting stoned on a daily basis my entire life (aka since 8th grade) and have had a family, built a company, and had several successful careers along the way.

The media isn’t covering much of what is happening on the paper’s front page, aka the Epstein files or ICE. We should all be asking ourselves why. My daughter refers to the New York Times as the “lying New York Times.” Unfortunately, she is 100% right.