We might already have a winner for the dumbest remark from a left-wing politician in the year of our Lord, 2025.
During a live broadcast of a government meeting, Gustavo Petro, the left-wing president of the narco-state Colombia, compared cocaine to whiskey and said the latter is “no worse than” the former. (Subscribe to MR. RIGHT, a weekly newsletter about modern masculinity)
“Cocaine is illegal because it is made in Latin America, not because it is worse than whiskey,” Petro said, according to CBS News. “Scientists have analyzed this. Cocaine is no worse than whiskey.”
“If you want peace, you have to dismantle the business (of drug trafficking),” he went on to say. “It could easily be dismantled if they legalize cocaine in the world. It would be sold like wine.”
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro speaks during the eighth commemoration of the signing of the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas at Bolivar Square in Bogota on November 21, 2024. (Photo by Andrea ARIZA / AFP) (Photo by ANDREA ARIZA/AFP via Getty Images)
Of course, Petro is going to pretend like cocaine is on the level of whiskey or wine. If cocaine was legalized and a line of marching powder was treated like a glass of vino, his country would rake in millions, if not billions, in revenue. They would be swimming in cash. Noses would be dripping, and his country’s population would be dripped out to the gills.
But that doesn’t make it any less stupid.
Forget what the science says, anyone with a couple of ounces of commonsense knows that a glass of Jack Daniel’s and a line of blow are radically different. That one is more addictive than the other. That one, in moderation, is fine. But the other, even in moderation, might have disastrous consequences on the body, even in the short term.
Comparing some nasal snow to amber hooch is like comparing European football to American football, the ACC to the SEC, Tiger Woods in his prime to Collin Morikawa — it’s completely delusional.
