Cartels and Marijuana

0:00 Speaker 1 Well, Sunday morning. What is today is doctor Mark Siegel, and he has a few things to get off his chest. But doctor Siegel, I understand you are traveling, and I want to thank you for calling in this Sunday morning.

0:14 Tell us what is bothering you and you had to get it off your chest on a Sunday morning.

0:20 Speaker 2 First of all, I want to talk about marijuana because the manager of this hotel where I’m at says to me that more people lose money at this casino because of marijuana than anything else. And it’s been legal here, recreationally legal here since twenty seventeen. We’re up to twenty four states plus DC. Another seven are decriminalized, which I

0:42 have no problem with. But there’s a big thrust and it’s bipartisan to get marijuana recreationally legalized throughout the country. It’s going to happen no matter what I say to you on the radio this morning. But what I’m concerned about is the THC content, John, That’s my concern. In Western Europe, it’s legal everywhere. I mean Switzerland, it’s one

1:02 percent of that active chemical in France’s point zero three percent, zero point three percent in the in the in the in the headshops here. You know, Florida’s got it on the ballot. It’s gonna pass for sure. But it’s we’re talking thirty percent and edible sixty percent. That’s not the marijuana I remember when I was in high school in college.

1:24 And what it’s leading to is a lot of anxiety, a lot of poor performance on tests. It’s not good for pregnant women that are having morning sickness. You know, it’s got developmental problems involved with it if you if you take it chronically and daily. And I’m concerned about this.

1:42 I’m not concerned about the legalization issue. I’m concerned about the amount of THC. Now this is happening because it’s a big business. It’s thirty to forty billion dollar business right now. It’s gonna go.

1:54 Speaker 1 Try to stop that. What try to stop a thirty or forty billion dollar business.

2:00 Speaker 2 H Little old me can’t stop it.

2:03 Speaker 1 I don’t think anybody can with the amount of money they push around in Congress.

2:11 Speaker 2 No, it’s and they’re huge lobbyists. That’s that’s the point. And it’s bipartisan.

2:16 Speaker 1 So let me say some one more thing, doctor. And when I’m I’m in an office building, in midtown, like you know, and when I’m going into the elevator before it was full of uh, marijuana smoke, and it’s full of marijuana smoking the lobby and fully and I have to inhale that stuff. I mean, it’s not fair to me.

2:42 Has that anybody brought a class action suit?

2:44 Speaker 2 Yet, that’s a great point. As usual, that’s a great point. You know, we went haywire over secondhand smoke, but what about secondhand pot smoke. Maybe it’s why nobody’s collecting the garbage in our streets because they’re all stoned. I mean, and and like you said, secondhand pot smoke at this level of THHC content is it is definitely going to

3:09 inebriate people, whether they’re smoking it or not. The other thing, by the way, that’s on my mind today that I want to talk about is I just found out that the cartels Sinelea Cartel and the Jalisco cartels down in Mexico are actually branching out John into other businesses besides just fentanyl. I mean, we’ve been focusing on fentanyl. Apparently

3:30 they got concession on all the methamphetamine, the fake adderall all these pills. They’re they’re they’re hijacking the production lines of it. In Mexico. They’re making a party drug called TUSSI, which is meth amphetamine, ketamine and cocaine. They’re making they’re growing cocaine. They used to grow poppies. Now they’re growing the cope of the cocaine plan.

3:53 Speaker 1 So they’re smart enough. Well, you know, they’re smart enough to be one step ahead of law enforcement. And it’s wrong.

4:03 Speaker 2 And there’s nothing that well, yeah, I feel sorry for the DEA because the DEA is constantly confiscating this stuff, millions of pounds of it, and it’s only the tip of the iceberg. I don’t think we could win. We can’t win. Oh, the only way we can win is closing the border, of course, and of course we have

4:21 to do that.

4:23 Speaker 1 Unbelievable, uh, doctor, I mean we and you have talked before that, especially for young kids from twelve or fourteen to about twenty four, marijuana reduces their IQ, their intelligence quotion by about what what was it, fifteen percent?

4:44 Speaker 2 Yeah, it’s chronic use, and it interferes with all test taking. And on top of that, we’re now learning that anybody that has an underlying tendency towards anxiety or depression, or psychosis or paranoia, any kind of psychiatric problem is brought out quadruple time if you start smoking pot regularly. That’s the worst of all.

5:04 Speaker 1 And the other thing with young kids and your wife is I think neurologist the other young kids boxing if you hit the If you have young kids from twelve to twenty four and you keep hitting them in the head, they’re a que can be reduced another fifteen percent. So if you have a kid that’s boxing in smoking marijuana,

5:24 you’re not going to have a successful life.

5:28 Speaker 2 And look at that right before they even get out of the starting gates. They might not go to college, they might not get a career, They just get moored into this. And then again, you put the two stories I’m telling together, and you got the marijuana piece together with the other piece, which is cocaine or methamphetamine. You

5:46 have to understand there’s an adderall shortage in this country and we’re a speed addicted society. So now guess who’s supplying set a lay a cartel?

5:55 Speaker 1 Yep, yep. What else would you like to tell you American people on Sunday.

5:59 Speaker 2 Morree, I actually want to talk about one more thing. I think that I don’t think it’s gotten enough attention that the Trump campaign is focusing on when they say make America healthy Again, John, they’re focusing on the idea of what is really prevention. You know, under the Democrats, prevention was a cooleonoscopy. I’m all for that, you know,

6:22 I’m all for a mammogram. I’m I’m all for this kind of prevention. But prevention can occur before you ever even see a doctor. We spend four trillion dollars a year on healthcare, and most of it is when people are already really sick. But if you actually get the ultra process foods out of there, and if you actually

6:42 increase the amount of vegetables and fruits you eat and exercise more and sleep better and lose weight because we have an obesity epidemic, you’re actually going to decrease medical costs dramatically. So instead of falling into the trap of insurance, big government and big insurance, it’s really wise to shrink the government’s space on healthcare and focus on true prevention,

7:03 which occurs on a bicycle, not in the doctor’s office.

7:07 Speaker 1 Doctor Mark Siegel, thank you for your input. Good luck in Las Vegas. And we’ll see you when you come back.

7:15 Speaker 2 Well, I’m going to a good restaurant. I’m not going to a casino table anyway. Great to see you. Job beg you see it.