# Posts that aged poorly **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 22, 2026, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-poorly/1029503 "2026-04-22T23:28:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 23
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-poorly/1029503/23 "2026-04-24T13:36:14Z")
I thought I remembered a post from long ago that said, “There’s no way in hell that pot will be legalized in the next 20 years.” I was a little off: > [@People Who Buy Pot Fund Murderers, Discuss](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-buy-pot-fund-murderers-discuss/292911/108): > > As for pot, though, care for a wager? If, 20 years after pot’s legalization, it’s not the dominant drug, you owe me a bottle of fine cognac; if it is, I owe you an eighth of sticky greenbud. > > Daniel That said, the post is still aging poorly: > **[Daily or near‐daily cannabis and alcohol use by adults in the United States:...](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11907322/)** > > Patterns of daily or near‐daily (DND) use of alcohol and cannabis among adults in the United States have been changing. The current study measured how these shifts have occurred across developmental periods of adulthood. U.S. national data from the... > [@](#): > > As of 2023, DND cannabis use was nearly three times as prevalent (10.4%) as DND alcohol use (3.6%) among young adults ages 19 to 30. Early midlife adults have had a convergence but not yet a crossover; there were similar prevalence levels of DND use of cannabis (7.5%) and alcohol (7.8%) among those ages 35 to 50 in 2023. Among late midlife adults ages 55 to 65, DND alcohol use remained more than twice as prevalent (11.4%) as DND cannabis use (5.2%) in 2023. I don’t know the exact parameters, but I really miscalculated how popular THC would become. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-that-aged-poorly/1029503)._