With the Iranian military having mined the Strait of Hormuz and a classified Pentagon briefing warning it could take six months to clear — a timeline the Defense Department is publicly dismissing — President Trump signed an executive order on psychedelics with Joe Rogan at his side, then moved to reclassify marijuana, handing cultural wins to the coalition most central to his political survival, and the one that arguably swung the 2024 election: MAGA’s so-called “Manosphere.”
The crisis in the strait has intensified since U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 prompted the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to lay mines throughout the waterway and threaten any ship attempting to pass. The Strait carries roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply. The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing three officials who were present at a classified briefing, that a senior Defense Department official told members of the House Armed Services Committee it could take six months to clear the mines.
