Imagine this. You step into a time machine, travel back a few thousand years, and change just one variable in human history: Instead of alcohol becoming the socially accepted “pub substance,” THC becomes the norm. Same rituals. Same celebrations. Same Friday nights. Same social bonding. Different chemistry. Now imagine what the world would look like because of that one switch.

I told my youngest son recently: “White men are a protected species.” And the older I get, the more history backs me up. If I behaved like some of these public figures; loud, unhinged, rambling nonsense into microphones, I’d be escorted off to a psychiatric evaluation faster than you can say “media statement.”