When Joe Rogan got into heated podcast argument with Steven Crowder over marijuana: “Don’t interrupt me you f*ck”
Joe Rogan and Steven Crowder refused to back down from their arguments while discussing the marijuana issue during an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in 2017. Rogan has advocated the legalization of marijuana, which remains a banned substance in many parts of the USA and the rest of the world.
While discussing the issue, Crowder disagreed with the overamplification of marijuana's potential medicinal benefits. The discussion slowly escalated into an argument as Rogan said that the pharmaceutical lobby has a vested interest in restricting marijuana. He said:
"There are absolutely people who have lobbied, as we talked about how the prison guard union has lobbied to keep marijuana illegal, there's absolutely pharmaceutical companies that have done the same thing. It was revealed in the Wikileaks memos."
The discussion had escalated into a full-blown argument by this point and as Crowder tried to counter Rogan, the 56-year-old said:
"Hold on, don't interrupt me you f*. Hillary Clinton said she's against marijuana in every sense of the word, right?"
Check out Joe Rogan's comments below (2:05):
Joe Rogan fact-checks the validity of claims about the relationship between marijuana decriminalization and traffic casualties
The state of Colorado in the USA legalized the use of marijuana for adults over the age of 21 in November 2012. The marijuana argument continued to rage in the aforementioned episode of the Joe Rogan Experience as Steven Crowder claimed:
"Traffic fatalities regarding marijuana have skyrocketed [after the sale was legalized in Colorado]." [2:58]
Rogan argued that the stats could be misleading due to the increased marijuana use after decriminalization:
"It could be that you have increased incidents of people doing marijuana and altercations that could not have been avoided [are now being counted as marijuana-related traffic casualties]." [3:41]
Rogan's podcast producer Jamie Vernon pulled up a Washington Post article to fact-check Crowder's comments and Rogan read the article's title to rest his case:
"Since marijuana legalization, highway fatalities in Colorado are at near-historic lows." [5:52]
Decriminalization of marijuana is a highly debated topic in society. While Rogan and Crowder both had convincing arguments, this article only intends to share the dialogue between them and does not intend to propagate or prohibit the use of marijuana.