According to the American Journal of Public Health 62 million Americans aged 12 or older are using marijuana, and the market for the drug has reached nearly $40 billion.  The increase in marijuana use corresponds with the effort to legalize it, which has now occurred in 38 states and U.S. territories.  The impact of the drug on public health has become difficult to ignore with numerous studies documenting the negative effects both psychological and physical which are common among regular users. One of those negative impacts is fatal vehicle accidents. A Wright State University study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons reports that more than 40% of those who die in car crashes have high levels of THC, the compound in marijuana what makes users high. The average blood level in fatal accident victims was 30.7 ng/ML.  The legal limit among states which have legalized marijuana for recreational use ranges from 2 to 5 ng/ML.  This suggests that users involved in car crashes had smoked or ingested the drug shortly before getting behind the wheel, or while they were driving. Money is driving the marijuana industry’s continued push for more states and the federal government to legalize the drug for recreational use although at least half of the marijuana currently sold in the U.S. is on the black market. It was a mistake for America to start down this path and it’s costing people’s lives.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10 by the radicalized 22-year-old boyfriend of a transgender male roommate has become a polarizing event eclipsing even last year’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a campaign rally. The day after the shooting MSNBC commenter Matthew Dowd said in an on-air interview that Kirk had been “one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups. You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place.”  A day later Dowd was fired for making that statement. On his late night September 15 show, host Jimmy Kimmel told his audience “The MAGA Gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”  Two days later ABC announced it was pulling Kimmel’s show off the air indefinitely after two of ABC’s largest broadcast networks reported they would no longer air it.

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In recent weeks, crime has become the central topic of debate among politicians and the major media. The President is responsible for this. Crime was a primary issue in his campaign and helped get him elected. His decision to deploy the national guard to augment police in Washington, DC and send troops to assist the ICE removal of illegal alien criminals in Los Angeles has been met with harsh criticism by democrats who continue to claim that crime is not a serious problem. While crime rates are lower than during the Black Lives Matter crime explosion of 2020, the 283 murders in Chicago and 186 in New York City this year represent crisis-level violence to most people. The New York Post reports that on September 1, a stolen car pulled up to a popular deli in the Bronx at 7:30 PM and two young black men jumped out and opened fire, killing one and injuring four. All of the suspects were arrested, including a 16-year-old. A week earlier, a 15-year-old repeat offender on an ankle monitor was arrested by New York police for killing a man during a botched robbery. On August 23, four young black men, including a 16-year-old, were arrested for shooting up a basketball tournament at a New York park, killing one and injuring three others , including a 17-year-old girl currently fighting for her life from a gunshot to the face. Is anyone surprised that many New Yorkers don’t feel safe?

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Last November over 68% of California voters announced that they wanted state law enforcement to crack-down on thieves, drug dealers and addicts.  Proposition 36 passed in all 58 counties including the liberal strongholds of San Francisco, Marin and Los Angeles. The measure was opposed by the democrat party, almost every democrat in the Legislature, the Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General and every liberal/progressive public interest and non-profit organization in the state.  It mandated that habitual thieves and drug dealers be charged with felonies and that drug addicts arrested for a third time for drug possession be ordered into either treatment or jail.  So how did democrat lawmakers react? Earlier this year Assemblywoman Sade Elhawary, who represents gang-infested South Central Los Angeles, introduced a bill that ABC News reports would allow habitual felons to go into a rehab program rather than jail or prison. This bill,  AB 1231, the Safer Communities Through Opportunities Act, is a direct rebuke of the California voters, including several million democrats who voted for Proposition 36.  In July during the budget process, media exposure shamed Elhawary and her colleagues in the Legislature into approving a one-time set aside of 1/4 of the funds needed annually to allow counties to fully enforce Proposition 36.  Now they are considering a bill allowing judges to completely ignore it and let the criminals go.  In order to actually restore public safety in California, at the 2026 election voters must burst the bubble that the democrat majority of the state legislature are living in by removing them from office.