Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday that he believes the legalization of marijuana will lead to a widespread decline in children’s IQs in a decade, The Aspen Times newspaper reported Friday.
During an appearance at the Aspen Institute in Colorado, Bloomberg was asked for his opinion on the state’s move to legalize marijuana.
“What are we going to say in 10 years when we see all these kids whose IQs are 5 and 10 points lower than they would have been?” the billionaire businessman and former three-term mayor said, according to the newspaper.
Bloomberg described the nationwide push toward legalization as “one of the stupider things that’s happening across our country.”
He said he had smoked marijuana in the 1960s but asserted marijuana today is more damaging, the newspaper reported.
