Barstool Sports founder and self-proclaimed Donald Trump supporter Dave Portnoy is catching some heat following his endorsement of legalizing marijuana for recreational use in the state of Florida. Now, Floridians luckily have an opportunity to vote in favor [00:00:18] of legalized weed in their state through a ballot initiative. And to be specific, Portnoy was referring to Florida Amendment three, which legalizes marijuana for adults 21 years and older and also allows individuals to possess up to three ounces of marijuana. [00:00:35] Now, in the video, he himself is partaking in the devil's lettuce, if you will, and he also says the following. Listen, it's Sunday afternoon. Football on TV, pizza on the way in Massachusetts. Smoking a little weed. Just enjoying my day. [00:00:51] Florida. You can do this. You can't do this in my Miami house. You can't do this. Why? It's about freedom. Half the states allow this legal marijuana. Florida. I want to be able to watch football, eat pizza and smoke. [00:01:07] We're all adults here. 21 plus. Make your own decisions. It's on the ballot. Vote yes on three. Legalize recreational weed. Come on. Where are we? Florida. Wake up now. His take puts him in line with most Floridians who actually do want [00:01:24] it legalized for recreational use. And by the way, Donald Trump agrees with legalizing it for recreational use. So recent polling maybe. Okay, so recent polling found there is overwhelming support for ballot initiatives this year that broadened personal freedoms, including 65% who support amendment three. [00:01:43] And that's up from 63% in April and 76% support for amendment four, which would enshrine abortion protections in the Florida Constitution. So I heard Trump. I forget what the context was. It might have been in a podcast interview that he did where he was kind of singing [00:02:01] the praises of medicinal marijuana. So I don't know. He seems to have opened up to marijuana and has also said that should he get elected, he would legalize it federally. Yeah, he's full of crap because he was president for four years, didn't do anything about it. [00:02:17] The reason he doesn't do anything about it is because his brother had an addiction problem not with marijuana, but with alcohol. And so in his infantile mind, anything that is addictive. No. That's it. It's the worst thing. It's going to get you killed. I'm not going to do it now. It's a good thing that he didn't do it himself. [00:02:33] I can't imagine what his personality would be like on drugs. Right. But that brother, that doesn't affect the rest of us. So if you think Trump's going to legalize it, why didn't he do it for four long years? And by the way, Biden is terrible on this. He reclassified but didn't declassify. [00:02:49] So people defending Biden know just make it legal already. And both Biden and Trump and stuck in the 1970s and 80s and are riding with Nancy Reagan. Oh, just say no. - It's so. - Dangerous. Hey, don't scroll away. Come back, come back. [00:03:05] Because before the video continues, we just want to urge you to lend your support to tight U power. Our honest reporting. You do it at tyt.com/team and we love you for it. Okay, so let me give you the backlash toward Portnoy for supporting [00:03:21] legalizing recreational marijuana. So former football player and current conservative commentator Jason Whitlock responded to Portnoy on X, saying, this is why single people and people without kids shouldn't vote. We tend to think very selfishly with no concern for what we're leaving [00:03:36] the next generation. Married people with kids should be the only voters. We should prioritize families if we want to fix our broken culture. Jason, are you really unaware of how many deadbeat parents there are in this country who not only do not care about the future of the country, they couldn't give a damn about the future of their own children. [00:03:53] And you think that they're more responsible than people who don't have kids? Can we please stop with this BS argument? Okay, you're not a hero because you had kids. Okay. All the parents out there who want to pat themselves on the backs because they had children. Congratulations. You made that decision for yourself. [00:04:08] You're no better than people who decide against having kids. Period. That's what a dumb moral judgment. Oh, you want to live your life in a way that's different than mine, I judge you. Okay, well, then I judge you back. And you're a dumbass right winger Jason Whitlock from the 1800s. [00:04:25] We're like, we should go backwards. Let's go backwards. I judge you for being dumb. And by the way, being deeply unpopular. No one agrees with you, including a majority of Republicans and right wingers. Matt Walsh says, can you point to any state or city in the country [00:04:41] where life has been in any way measurably improved after legalizing marijuana? Where are the legalization success stories? Give me just one, please. Okay, we can do that. So, for instance, in 2019, Colorado, one of the first states to legalize recreational marijuana, generated more than $1 billion in sales from marijuana, [00:05:00] which increased the state's coffers, meaning they had additional tax revenue, which seems like a winner here. And states collected nearly $3 billion in marijuana revenues in 2022 alone. Florida could stand to see some major benefits [00:05:18] if they pass this measure as well. So, for instance, a July 2023 report projected that recreational cannabis would generate sales tax revenues of between $195.6 million and $431.3 million a year. [00:05:34] And the number of people who died from marijuana usage in those states zero. I can show you a lot more that died from alcohol consumption, but we're not going backwards and going to prohibition. Now, look, there's two different sets of right wingers these days. There's what I call the bros like Dave Portnoy, Joe Rogan. [00:05:51] ET cetera. So they have a whole bunch of issues that I disagree with them on, but at least they actually do believe in freedom and smaller government. And there's a traditional conservatives that, you know, apparently people are calling boomer cons. So that's Matt Walsh. Whitlock if you put them together, maybe we can call them the Matlock voters. [00:06:08] Oh my God. Because they're as old as Matlock too. So and so they the Matlock voters are. Like, if we just go back to the 1600s and we listen to what this so-and-so religious leader said, and we stop all progress and make you do what they did 800 years ago, [00:06:25] then everything is going to be great. Well, you guys are the biggest losers of all. No one believes what you're saying anymore. You're a tiny, tiny minority and soon to be a minority within your own party and in your own movement. So keep moralizing telling us about how big government has to run your lives. [00:06:42] You can't do that. Your doctor can't do that. You can't control your body. You can't control your body. You sound like an evil Oprah. Like where you're grabbing everybody's body and saying, no, I rule your bodies, not you. That is not small government that is oppressive. [00:06:59] And we're not interested in your so-called morality. And I've seen your so-called morality. It ain't anywhere near actual moral. So please spare us. If you don't want to smoke weed, then don't smoke it. But for the rest of us, it's called freedom. And apparently you hate it. Sorry. [00:07:16] We win, you lose. You're a tiny minority. You could take your big government and shove it. Thanks for watching The Young Turks. Really appreciate it. Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. You'll get to interact with us more. There's live chat emojis, badges. [00:07:32] You've got emojis of me Anna John Jr. So those are super fun. But you also get playback of our exclusive member only shows and specials right after they air. So all of that, all you got to do is click that join button right underneath the video. [00:07:47] Thank you.