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Well, speaking of marijuana, Mario Nawfal had some interesting posts that he surfaced on X. The AP is talking about this one. There's a new 800-person study that found that a cannabis-based drug slashed chronic lower back pain effectively with fewer side effects than opioids. Do you believe that? That THC, the active component of marijuana, reduced back pain more than opioids.

Well, you know who they could have asked? Me, because I have lower back pain and I have taken opioids on prescription, of course. And I have taken marijuana in large quantities. Guess which one makes me feel better. It's not even close. It's not even close, people. First of all, the marijuana you can take as much as you want, you know, as long as you're not responsible for work or driving or kids or anything like that. But you can just sort of say, "That didn't make a difference. How about this?" Until at the very least, you're not caring about it as much, which might be the secret. Might not. It might not be the pain. Maybe it's just the caring about the pain. I don't know how you divide that.

But next time AP, you want a story? Just ask me. I can tell you.

Meanwhile, Spain is moving to legalize medical cannabis. It's not passed yet, but I guess the Council of Ministers has approved it and it's on its way to getting passed. But over in Germany, they're going the opposite direction. So Germany was one of the most liberal countries and they allowed total legal cannabis including you could just buy it online. Now what they're trying to walk back is the buying it online part I believe which I agree with. I would agree with that. As long as you can go to a dispensary and show your ID and as long as they have delivery service for people who need it for medical reasons but are not well. I'm a perfect example. If I needed more medical marijuana, chances are I wouldn't want to drive because you know if you have a medical problem you might be on other drugs that are bad for driving. So delivery is pretty important. Delivery is very important for the medical people. Very important. It's critical really.

So I think that's a good move by Germany. They tried it. The online part was a problem. So they're just walking back the problem part. Good on you, Germany, for at least being a rational player.

Then I guess Sean Duffy was on Fox News. Was it Outnumbered or something? Whatever it was this morning. And Sean Duffy, he's the head of transportation, right? And he said talking about legalizing marijuana he said quote I think it would be a huge mistake for the federal government to legalize it now. Here's my take. The argument, his argument was that unlike alcohol where you can test somebody and find out if they were driving drunk, so you have something like a deterrent, a legal deterrent, which is good. You know, you might still want alcohol to be legal. Most people do. But wouldn't you like a little bit of deterrent against driving because that's deadly. So that makes sense. But you can't quite get that deterrent with marijuana because people's individual responses are all over the place and there's no easy way to test to find out if a person had too much.

For example, somebody like me who's a lifelong adult user, you could just pack me with marijuana before it would have any effect on even sports. I can play tennis with as much marijuana as you want. Now obviously tennis is a very difficult thing. I don't recommend driving under marijuana, by the way. Just to be clear, I don't recommend driving if you're under the influence. Don't drive. But it's not true that everybody's going to have the same amount of impairment. So it makes it a problem for deciding whether you should go to jail. Are you really high or are you still a better driver than most people over the age of 60 just because you're not over the age of 60? So you know, it doesn't really work as a standard.

But I believe that's a terrible argument. The good argument is that if you keep it illegal at a federal level, that sends a better message to teena