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Tucker Carlson: “So there was something behind the whole leech idea.”

Featuring: Tucker Carlson, Conservative, Right-wing | Political Commentator, Former Fox News Host | National

Big Pharma's Most Dangerous Lie and the Dark Truth About Weed

Published November 17, 2025 | Video Starts at 1:21:59

And if your iron is high, it promotes aging and you should donate blood twice a year. So donating blood twice a year for people who have high veritin levels, good for their brain, good for the. So there was something behind the whole leech idea. Wow, it's so funny. Tana and I were in Istanbul, we went to the spice market and had leeches for sale in the spice market. (1:21:59–1:22:02)

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Suggests there is a historical basis for using leeches in medical treatments.

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“And now, all of a sudden, there seem to be all these studies showing a direct connection between heavy marijuana use and psychosis.”
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“You can tell from a brain scan of a 16 year old whether that child's using drugs.”
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“And it lowers your testosterone.”
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“California is the largest marijuana growing state in the country, maybe the world, certainly the highest potency.”
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“You can tell if someone is pre diabetic, overweight. It's evident on the brain scan.”
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“But. So marijuana is, in your opinion, as a physician, helpful for a few. Just specific illnesses, glaucoma and low appetite.”
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“We're all of a sudden seeing because marijuana is not a drug, it's a medicine. We've been told it's the most healing medicine ever…”
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“So have, have you noticed, since you do treat children as well, an increase in damaged brains that you can attribute to marijuana use?”
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“Because they're getting rich from it, probably.”
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“How are they different from the Sacklers at Purdue Pharma, then? Like, lying to people about the health effects of the drug they're…”
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“Even then when weed was way less potent than it is now, that it slowed you way down.”
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“What does marijuana do to testosterone levels? Lowers it conclusively.”
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“The president of Mexico said that Mexico doesn't have pervasive drug use problems because they have a very aggressive drug education…”
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“Mexicans don't use drugs at the rate Americans do because they have a very aggressive drug education program.”
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“We also have a drug education program run by the drug peddlers that is super effective.”
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“So glaucoma, which is swelling of the eye, maybe.”
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“Why wouldn't the answer be to isolate whatever the compound is in marijuana that helps with appetite and glaucoma and literally medicalize…”
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“The government of Canada, the government of the United States is encouraging [marijuana use among older people].”
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“Why aren't public health authorities, federal and state sounding the alarm about cannabis? Or are they?”
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“When was the last time you heard a public health authority in the state of California say, you know, legalizing marijuana has been a…”
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“The best wheat is grown in California, Mendocino, humble counties, all that famously.”
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“You can flip right out on mushrooms. Like they eat enough and they're hallucinogenic, they inspire actual hallucinations.”
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“It doesn't seem to be regulated in most places [referring to Kratom].”
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“Could you roll it back in the state of California right now? No, you couldn't? Oh, it's just, it's that powerful.”
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“Let's say you had a population that had been promised it was control. It had control of its own government, owned its own country. And then…”
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“People who get off, particularly alcohol, tend to go bonkers with sugar.”
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“But we've been told that skin cancer is the real threat.”
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“I mean, I think that's true. I mean it's true anecdotally in my life get people at the, you know, the low point of COVID worked, people who…”
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“Well, that's my distinct impression, that [we're] under, you know, attack, or at [least outside influence].”
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“But what you're saying is not just that they picked it up at the dinner table. You know, mom and dad are traumatized, therefore I am too…”
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