Dr. Kevin Sabet weighed in on U.S. drug policy on Newell Normand’s show where he said people don’t realize how much drug culture hurts our communities.
“I’ve never met anyone who said they would be better off if they used more drugs,” Dr. Sabet said, adding, “It’s really just common sense.”
And the stuff that people are smoking today isn’t your father’s weed.
“People don’t realize the potency, the strength,” Dr. Sabet said. The marijuana people buy today is much, much stronger than the stuff people were smoking at Woodstock in 1969.
If you look at tobacco, it was used for thousands of years and never killed at the scale that it has in the last 100 years. Technology allowed mass-produced cigarettes and then coupled that with a mass marketing machine and deaths ensued. “We’ve created a weapon of mass destruction,” Dr. Sabet said.
He added that when it comes to marijuana, the strengths available today are causing psychosis, suicide, and more. “It’s amazing the stories … as marijuana is more normalized and commercialized,” Dr. Sabat said.