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Megyn Kelly’s recent sit-down with Alex Berenson pulled back the curtain on a danger too many in the media refuse to admit: today’s marijuana is not the harmless back‑alley flower of decades past, and its psychiatric risks deserve sober national attention. Conservative Americans who’ve watched the cultural left cheerlead for legalization should welcome a mainstream voice finally sounding the alarm about what that celebration has unleashed.
Berenson made the blunt case that potency has changed everything — dispensary flower routinely tests at 20 to 30 percent THC, concentrates and vape products can run above 90 percent, and those changes aren’t theoretical. This is a chemical product engineered to deliver far more mind‑altering THC in a single hit than anyone had access to in earlier generations, and that matters for addiction and brain health.
More alarming still is the growing evidence, which Berenson highlighted, tying heavy, high‑potency use to transient and even long‑lasting psychotic breaks, and linking those breaks to real acts of violence in vulnerable people. This isn’t fearmongering; it’s a public‑safety issue when a subset of users can be pushed into catastrophic mental illness that sometimes ends in tragedy.
The sanitized narrative pushed by legalization advocates — that marijuana is medicine for everyone and utterly benign — has been a carefully packaged political victory that obscures real harms. Berenson and others point out how the medical‑marijuana cover story softened public resistance and paved the way for Big Marijuana to normalize a product that should be treated with far more caution. Conservatives should be furious that parents and first responders were kept in the dark by this cynical play.
This is not an accident but a coordinated cultural campaign, Berenson argued, one that has already moved on to promoting psychedelics and other loosening of drug norms; Americans need to see the pattern before more damage is done. If the left’s answer to every social problem is to broaden access to intoxicants, the country will pay a steep price in broken families and ruined lives.
We should oppose moves like rescheduling that send the wrong signal to young people and strip away tools law‑abiding communities need to protect their children. The conservative approach is clear: preserve public health, support families, and use commonsense regulation to keep high‑potency products out of the hands of teens while holding purveyors accountable.
Hardworking Americans deserve honest public health messaging, not the euphemisms and euphoric marketing of the cannabis industry. Lawmakers ought to listen to clinicians, parents, and investigators who are seeing the carnage firsthand and craft policies that prioritize safety over profit. If conservatives refuse to fight for common‑sense limits now, we’ll be left cleaning up the wreckage for a generation.
