The New York Times Wants You to Believe America has a Marijuana Problem

The New York Times wants you to believe America has a marijuana problem. I want you to believe the New York Times has an integrity problem. In February 2026, the editorial board of what’s supposedly America’s “paper of record” published a breathtaking reversal of their decade-old position on cannabis legalization. The headline might as well have been written by Kevin Sabet himself: essentially declaring that marijuana legalization was a “mistake” requiring “sober reassessment.”