Nobel Peace Prize, but it also works for us because when he goes into the next negotiation, I want the people that he's negotiating with to say, oh, here's that guy who always makes the peace deal work. And then he has more chance of making it work because everybody just believes it will work. That will be extra important this week probably. We'll talk about that in a minute.

According to, I saw Chanel Rion on OAN talking to Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general, and apparently the Trump Department of Justice is going to review all the 50 states and make them clean up their voter rolls and restore public confidence in elections. How much difference do you think that will make? I'm a little undecided if cleaning up the voter rolls is going to just wildly change the outcome of elections. It might wildly change the outcome because we believe, but I have no evidence to support this. It's just a belief that Democrats are more likely to game the system with names they should not be on the election voter rolls. Now, I don't know if that's true, but if they clean up the voter rolls, we might find out. So I love that.

There's also some mystery going around Trump's view of marijuana. Axios is reporting that it might be another one of those situations where the Republicans can steal a topic that normally you'd expect the Democrats would be more progressive on like marijuana legalization and/or decriminalization. And Axios points out that the Trump administration banned food dyes which you'd sort of expect would be a Democrat thing, calls for an end to animal lab testing, which you would imagine would be a Democrat thing, and embraced psychedelics for mental health, which again, you would assume would have been a Democrat thing, but they missed all three of them. I assume RFK Jr. is the reason that Trump is doing some of the things that you'd expect would have come from Democrats.

But the conversation about marijuana is not to make it legal at a federal level, but to reschedule it. And there's a little ambiguity about what that really means. But if you reschedule it, it will look like you did something, but it won't change the world that much because it's not legalizing it. It's just rescheduling it, which would be it might be officially recognized for medicinal use. So the federal government could say, well, it's not legal, but if you're using it for medicinal use, and maybe if you've got a prescription from a doctor, then the feds are okay with it. And that might be enough to allow the weed manufacturers to have a little extra freedom for banking and whatever else that they've been restricted from doing.

But certainly you're probably aware that Republicans are not unified on this. However, how much of the world is unified on it? I think 88% according to a Pew Research Center poll, 88% of people favor medical or recreational use. 88%. Now, it's medical or recreational use. So my guess is that almost everybody's in favor of medical use because almost everybody knows at this point they almost all know somebody who used it medically and it worked. So I can see why there'd be 88% support.

I will say again that my view on marijuana and legalization is it's a lot like guns. There's no such thing as guns are good or guns are bad. Guns are good for some people. It makes them safer and it's definitely bad for other people. So if somebody's in favor of guns and somebody's not in favor of guns, it's not like you can take the average. The best you can do is hope that there are more people who agree with your take on it and then that's where the law goes. So marijuana is like that. It would be catastrophic for some people's lives if you make it easier and less stigmatized. Almost certainly that would result in just killing some people. But that would be the same with guns. It'd be the same with having swimming pools. It's legal to build a swimming pool in your backyard and that's just a death trap. You know, sometimes you have to put a gate around it and stuff, but still it's still sort of a death trap. So a swimming pool could be the greatest thing for people who really like it and can afford it and all that, but also it's a death trap reliably. I mean, you can know for sure a certain number of people drowned in swimming pools, most of them children.

So marijuana is neither bad nor good. It's life-changingly good for some people and I'm one of them. I should just admit to you, I wouldn't be able to do my podcast without it. This morning, as every morning, I'm on some meds right now that give me just insane cramping and stomach aches. And it just pops up maybe three times a day, but marijuana makes it go away. And since I'm a chronic user, I don't get all the psychedelic, that's the wrong word, but I don't get strong reactions from the drug. All it does is calm my stomach. So I'm very high right now. Could you tell the difference? Probably not. If you had never had marijuana before and you tried doing it right before you did a podcast in front of tens of thousands of people, would that be a good idea? No, that would be a very bad idea. But I happen to be a chronic lifetime user and it has very predictable benefits to me. So my stomach right now, perfect, completely cured, takes about 15 minutes. So I just give myself the cure, wait about 15 minutes, and a tremendous amount of pain, I mean it's a lot of pain, just goes away. So right now I have no pain in my stomach. So I would like people like me to have access to it, but I acknowledge that in a free world, it will cause other people to die. And that's not ideal, but it's a way we make decisions about all the stuff that's go