On episode #2470 of The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan sat down with Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre. During the conversation, the topic turned to weed legalization in Canada.
What followed was a full-throated endorsement of Canada’s weed laws and a pointed criticism of American d**g policy, delivered directly to a man who voted against the very legislation Rogan was praising.
The Conservatives, including Poilievre, not only voted against the bill that legalized and regulated weed in Canada but also opposed the process at every step. They refused to even improve or refine the bill during a series of House Committee hearings as it made its way through Parliament.
During the interview, Rogan recalled planning a Vancouver show timed specifically to the date.
“I was supposed to be up there before COVID. I was supposed to do a show up there for 420, for April 20th. I was going to do it in Vancouver. Every year I would do these 420 shows. 420 is the m**ijuana number.”
From there, Rogan turned to Poilievre directly. “And Canada, now you guys have legal m***juana too,” he said.
Poilievre confirmed it had been legal for ten years.
“Which they should have in America. It’s so ridiculous. They just recently decided to make it Schedule 3,” Rogan stated.
When Poilievre asked whether legalization was state by state in the U.S., Rogan confirmed it was. He then continued: “It’s legal in a lot of states, but it’s still not legal federally. It’s goofy. If al**hol is legal, m**ijuana is far safer. It should be legal. It’s ridiculous. It’s also a personal freedom thing. Leave people alone. No one’s robbing banks smoking weed and harming their neighbors. It’s crazy.”
He continued: “It’s not her*in. It’s not opiates. Maybe you shouldn’t do it if you have mental health problems, right? But there are a lot of people that just take a pot gummy and go to bed and it makes them sleep better. Leave them alone. Let people have a glass of whiskey. Let people have a glass of wine with dinner. Leave them alone. Stop coming up with laws where you can impose your values and your morals and your judgments on other people.”
Poilievre sat through all of it without mentioning that his party had spent years in parliament doing precisely what Rogan was describing: using the legislative process to try to stop Canadians from being able to legally purchase and consume weed.
Rogan, for his part, appeared to have no idea.
