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ANTI-MARIJUANA TED CRUZ SWIGS BEER TO PROTEST POSSIBLE LOWERING OF U.S.
ALCOHOL-CONSUMPTION GUIDELINES: ‘KISS MY ASS’

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Ben Adlin

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) doesn’t support legalizing marijuana or other currently
illicit drugs, but he’s big mad over the prospect of the federal government
advising Americans to drink less alcohol.

During an interview with Newsmax on Wednesday, the senator said that federal
officials “can kiss my ass” if they decide to reduce the recommended maximum
consumption of alcohol to two drinks per week, as has recently been floated.

“What is it with liberals and wanting to control every damn aspect of your
life?” said Cruz, who himself supports government bans on abortion and
trans-affirming healthcare. “If they want us to drink two beers a week, frankly
they can kiss my ass.”



The U.S. senator from Texas then took an on-air swig of Shiner Bock beer, which
is brewed in the state, as a seemingly coordinated group of onlookers behind him
also imbibed their brews.






Despite Cruz’s frustration with the federal government for “wanting to control
every damn aspect of your life,” however, the senator has not co-sponsored a
single piece of legislation during his time in the Senate that would scale back
federal marijuana prohibition.

Cruz would prefer that, instead, state governments get the final say over what
residents can legally do. “I think it ought to be up to the states,” he said
during a 2018 debate. “I think Colorado can decide one way. I think Texas can
decide another.”

To be clear, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not
yet lowered its current two-drink-a-day advice. Cruz and others on the right are
angry because George Koob, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism, told the Daily Mail that U.S. guidelines are “not going to go
up, I’m pretty sure.”

Pointing to Canada’s alcohol guidelines, which recently changed to recommend a
limit of two drinks per week “to avoid alcohol-related consequences for yourself
and others,” Koob said any change in U.S. guidance would likely involve lowering
the recommendation as well—triggering ire from Cruz.



Cruz wasn’t the only GOP politician to attack Koob’s comments as paternalism.
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett also called the two-beer-per-week recommendation
“ridiculous.”

“This is what happens when 30 million Americans don’t vote,” Burchett said,
according to Fox News. “Overpaid unelected bureaucrats sticking their fat noses
somewhere it does not belong.”

“I am a non-drinker, but this is ridiculous,” he added. “If they want to look at
abuse, look at the spending in Washington and the overreach by the White House.”

As for cannabis, Burchett posted on social media Wednesday that “Weed should not
be on the same schedule as heroin,” comments that came in response to news that
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is recommending cannabis
be rescheduled as Schedule III under the federal Controlled Substances Act
(CSA).






Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), for her part, called the situation “absurd.”

“Another Biden ‘czar’ — this one wants to take away Americans’ beer,” the
senator, who does not support cannabis legalization, claimed falsely on social
media.

The term ‘czar’ goes back to a news story in 1982, during the Reagan
administration. It is not the formal name of any U.S. regulatory position.
Alcohol consumption guidelines, meanwhile, are recommendations only and not
enforced at any level of government.

Republican Rep. Brian Mast of Florida—who co-chairs the Congressional Cannabis
Caucus—nevertheless compared the potential alcohol guidelines to the federal
prohibition of alcohol, which lasted from 1920 to 1933.






Other users on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, pilloried Cruz’s
rather forced photo op.

“I don’t drink beer,” posted one-time Jeopardy champion Hemant Mehta, “and I
still know I’d look less awkward than this if I downed one.”

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> Joint-Smoking Bill Maher





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