Sandy Hook Denier Alex Jones Now Backing Legal Marijuana
The conspiracy theorist who called Sandy Hook a hoax joins Big Tobacco, Big Pharma and a former OxyContin executive on the pro-weed side.
The coalition fighting marijuana bans has a new voice. Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist who spent years telling his audience that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax and who promoted Pizzagate and other unhinged conspiracy theories, is now using his platform to argue for the commercialization of marijuana.
On October 28, Jones’s X account posted a clip from The Alex Jones Show under the banner “UNFORCED ERROR: Republicans SMOKED By Hard Stance On Marijuana.” The post warned that banning weed could cost the Texas GOP dearly at the ballot box.
The target is Texas, where a ban on most intoxicating hemp-derived THC products, including delta-8, delta-10 and THCA flower, took effect July 31. Those products have filled gas stations and smoke shops across the state since 2019. Researchers have found that as much as 80 percent of hemp-THC products appear to rely on THC that counts as marijuana under federal law.
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Before marijuana, Alex Jones pushed the Sandy Hook hoax
Before Alex Jones took up the marijuana cause, he built an audience on Sandy Hook. The 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, killed 20 first graders and six educators. Jones told listeners crisis actors had staged it.
Victims’ families sued and won. A Connecticut jury and judge ordered Jones and his company to pay roughly $1.4 billion, and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal in October 2025.
Who else backs legal marijuana
Jones now shares a side with some unlikely company. Altria, the maker of Marlboro, put $1.8 billion into cannabis company Cronos Group. British American Tobacco owns roughly 48 percent of Organigram, which sells hemp THC drinks in Texas. A new tracker of who funds marijuana legalization lists 62 such entries.
Big Pharma is in, too. Pfizer spent about $6.7 billion to acquire Arena Pharmaceuticals, a developer of cannabinoid drugs, one of several deals that show why the addiction industries are all in on weed.
Even OxyContin has a seat at the table. John Stewart, the former president and CEO of Purdue Pharma, left the company in 2013 and co-founded Emblem Cannabis, a Canadian medical marijuana company.
Big Tobacco. Big Pharma. The former head of the company behind OxyContin. And now, Alex Jones.
The marijuana lobby likes to call legalization a grassroots movement. Its roster keeps telling a different story.
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