The 2022–2052 Predictions of “Nostra-Dumbass”

Mushrooms, God & Guns, and The Final Frontier

I’m going to make some predictions for the next 30 years. Mostly for my own amusement, and also because I think it’s important for all of us to make some educated guesses about where life on our little blue rock is headed in the future — while still being open to the possibility that we’re dead wrong.

If we go back 30 years to 1992, when I was 22, I was just starting to form some opinions about where I thought the world was going, and it turns out I was right about a few things. I thought that weed would eventually be legalized, mushrooms and psychedelic drugs would be used as therapeutic medicine, and the “War On Drugs” would be seen as the abysmal failure that it is. This prophecy hasn’t been fulfilled completely — but you don’t have to be Nostradamus to figure out that it’s where we’re headed. You can just be a normal dumbass — like me.

Admittedly, I was way off on some other things. For instance, I had no idea that the mullet would one day make an inspiring comeback, but this just goes to show how cutting edge I was when I sported my own Kentucky waterfall back in 1992. Being a man ahead of your time is hard enough as it is, but it’s even more difficult when you look like Billy Ray Cyrus in old photographs. At least Nostradamus had the…