RUSH: Well, guess what? (chuckling) There’s a new survey, and the first survey about secondhand smoke, damn it, it was all wrong! There’s not a thing to worry about with secondhand smoke. It’s perfectly timed for now what appears to be the uptick in legalization of marijuana, and so none of the things that attach to cigarettes — i.e., tobacco, Big Tobacco, big corporate, and so forth — apply.
I can’t wait ’til an R.J. Reynolds (laughing) or a Philip Morris or somebody buys a series of marijuana farms and starts selling marijuana instead of some local hippie, you know, in a tie-dyed sweatshop in Denver. (laughing) Wait ’til Big Corporation ’cause you know it’s gonna happen. And then they’re gonna be flummoxed because they’re gonna want to smoke their Mary Jane but they don’t want to be patronizing evil Big Tobacco at the same time.
Or if some of these little tie-dyed independent contractors happen to grow to corporate status, and then when they start uniformly taxing this. I mean, if you’re gonna tax carbon, how do you not tax Mary Jane? So there’s a lot that’s in store for them that they don’t like. I mean, the things that they have done to successfully stigmatize cigarette smoking are all applicable to smoking marijuana. You’ve got to ignore holding it in. These are carcinogens and other things in your lungs.
Now, I know the marijuana people, “No, there’s not a single carcinogen in marijuana, it’s been studied, I know.” In fact, I saw George Stephanopoulos say that there isn’t any carcinogen at all in marijuana. I’m just making that up, but, I mean, he’s one of their source authorities, since we’re talking about him today. But that will be up to you to believe, no carcinogens in marijuana, you can smoke that, you can suck that in, you can hold that in your lungs as long as you want and then you can exhale it and all that secondhand marijuana smoke, harmless, totally harmless, have at it. Blow it out on your dog, blow it out on your cat, it’s harmless.
It’s a genuine conflict that they’re gonna have to come up with some sort of assistance with, and that’s what this secondhand smoke, the new survey, “Hey, guess what? We were wrong. There isn’t anything bad about secondhand smoke.” It’s so easy to see where this is coming from.
