Protect the Children. Don't Push this Lifestyle.

Can we get some of today's Mister Moralists off the anti-LGBTQ beat long enough to condemn Aaron Rodgers' actions here?

Rodgers said ayahuasca helped him win back-to-back MVPs after experiencing a down year by his high standards in 2019.

“You know, it’s going to be hard to cancel me, because, you know, the previous year, 26 touchdowns, four interceptions. We had a good season. Ayahuasca, 48 touchdowns, five interceptions, MVP. What are you going to say?” he said.

Rodgers has been mocked for his lifestyle, including a four-day darkness retreat he underwent before deciding to leave the Packers for the Jets. On Wednesday, the quarterback dismissed those criticisms.

“I guarantee you all these bums who want to come after me online about my experience and stuff, they’ve never tried it,” he said. “They’re the perfect people for it. We need to get these people taking it.”

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The four-time NFL MVP, who joined the New York Jets from the Green Bay Packers this offseason, was speaking at a psychedelics conference in Denver on Wednesday. Colorado, along with Oregon, recently decriminalized the use of psychedelic mushrooms, although they remain illegal at a federal level in the United States.

“Is it not ironic that the things that actually expand your mind are illegal and the things that keep you in the lower chakras and dumb you down have been legal for centuries?” said Rodgers, who has spoken in the past about his use of ayahuasca, a strong hallucinogen.

There's a reason they didn't like him in alcohol-soaked Green Bay.