marijuana schedule three. So that is good work, Rachel Levine. And all of you haters with your anti-trans stuff, well the joke's on you because Rachel Levine's doing some good work here according to me. You don't have to agree with that by the way.

Can we do some NPC stuff? I like to do the show for NPCs as well as the rest of you who are actually real people because I have NPCs who watch as well and I like to service everybody.

All right. Now if you're an NPC the way to look at the question of marijuana, either legalization or change in the scheduling, is this: assume that everybody who smokes marijuana is injured or nobody who ever smoked marijuana had a bad experience. And also you must believe that marijuana is either completely good for you all the time or completely bad for everybody all the time and then make your argument based on that.

Now the people who are real people, not NPCs, you are still allowed to look at the pluses and the minuses of all issues. So you could say for example, huh it appears as Scott is getting more benefit than cost out of it because he uses it medically and reports many, many benefits and his life appears is no worse for it. But you could also say equally true I know this teenager who is ruining their life because the marijuana is sucking all the joy out of them and turning them into porn addicts. Also true. Also true.

Yeah and it's a tough question in a free society whether I get the freedom to use it in a way that as far as I can tell is entirely productive and makes me happy and I couldn't be happier. At the same time I do know it's going to kill that teenager. I do know that, right? And I don't want that. So what do you do? Well that's why we have governments. But Rachel Levine, good job on that.

Let's talk about the dumbest story in the news. California reparations. Believe it or not this is still a story. You remember the background that Governor Newsom authorized a commission to go study the question of reparations for descendants of slaves. And when the recommendation came back to give $1.2 million to every person who is eligible for reparations, Governor Newsom said I'm not going to endorse that. I don't hate it. I don't criticize it but I'm not accepting it.

And what he said was not that it was wrong or bad. Instead he said you know it's more, it's about more than money. Reparations is about more than money. It's about fixing systemic racism in a variety of ways. But the issue is still there.

And I would like to point out the following. As long as this issue still exists, in other words it's still an active question in California, he can never be elected president. A Republican would bury him on this even though he didn't accept it. He would be forced to say I do not accept reparations even after I formed that commission. Or he's going to say it's still on the table and I haven't decided. Either one of those, he can't win. He cannot win.

Because there are a lot of white people in a lot of state