• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    Awesome. That’s right, MAGA Morons, go after reefer, and wake up the sleeping giant of young people.

    We should make this a major deal, and have Dem candidates declare that they will support full legalization. It will attract FAR more votes than it loses, and MANY of this votes will be first timers.

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      They should have supported full legalization from the very start. Almost everyone supports it yet no politician ever really cared. It never made sense.

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        It makes sense when you can easily put someone into forced labor for years for having a normal amount of it on them.

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          I’ve always thought the idea that we could stop wasting money on interdiction, and start making money on taxing it, and creating a new multi-billion dollar industry to help drive the economy. What more could they want?

          But it turns out that there is actually something politicians like more than money - Control. Keeping weed illegal, and part of the War On Drugs, and making it as dangerous as Heroin, allows them to go after lots of young people, especially minorities.

          Lock them up, put a felony on their record, and they can no longer vote against you, and their employment options are limited, so you always have low-wage slaves to hire or fire at will. Do that day in, day out, across the country for decades, and you have successfully restricted the ability of a demographic group to get results at the ballot box.

          The ability to restrict minority votes takes precedence over creating a new economic powerhouse.

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            Yeah the “war on drugs” is just a way to keep having legal slaves. Which still blows my mind it was written into the thirteenth amendment, that amendment should be amended.

            Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

            Like it should just say no slavery, not slavery with extra steps.

            Shits fucked up.

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    I’d rather my kid smell marijuana than smell cigarettes.

    I’d rather my kid grow up and smoke weed, then get blacked out on Whiskey. And I like whiskey.

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    Honestly, it wasn’t that hard to get illegal marijuana. All this will do is cut tax revenue and increase crime.

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      Republicans don’t actually want to stop crime. They want to act like tough guys, punish those they don’t like and make sure their “team” can get away with crimes.

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        If anything, they REALLY want an “easy” crime to crack down on, so this is why they are making literally everything illegal, like porn and weed and having a penis in the wrong room or glancing at a cop without a smile on your face.

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    No country of potheads has ever thrived, or ever achieved anything at all.

    Dude’s obviously never been to Silicon Valley, lol.

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    No country of pot heads ever thrived

    Uh… Dude doesn’t even know US history. Our biggest cultivated product pre-revolution was hemp. Several founding fathers, including Washington, cultivated and consumed cannabis. We are a country of pot heads. While the driving forces to ban it here were entirely because of racism and greed.

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    I like that people don’t get arrested for weed anymore, but I also don’t like the gentrification of it. I don’t want to buy weed from a VC funded apple store.

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    “Our society thrived when everyone was smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey,” wrote Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh, completely ignoring the countless, well-documented, negative impacts (violence and death) of those two American vices. “We became the most powerful nation in the world with liquor and nicotine. No country of potheads has ever thrived, or ever achieved anything at all. Every city that legalized it became an even bigger shithole basically overnight. The entire history of western civilization tells us that marijuana is far, far worse for society.”

    Dumbest fucking take I’ve read regarding weed in the U.S. in probably the past two decades. This is another one of those things that’s like so low on the list of outrageous things that require attention right now, but it’s just so fucking unbelievably dumb that it somehow becomes salient enough to be noticable above the chaos that is the normal background.

    The way he is so confidently trying to gaslight society like an overbearing parent, as if we have no frame of reference regarding marijuana policy other than what we learned in D.A.R.E.

    Those shithole cities with their absurd abundance of tax revenue from marijuana sales.

    Opioid sparing effects in Medicare enrollees with access to medical marijuana.

    Fewer lives ruined due to a reduction of nonviolent incarceration rates.

    I’m not sure what kind of utopia Matt Walsh believes he is advocating for by rolling back even more evidence based progress, but it sounds like a shithole.

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    No shit, it’s a fantastic excuse to arrest and detain/deport people for holding plants while you’re out there obliterating 4th amendment rights.

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    Well, now I’m gonna have some weed tonight just to spite them. I’m in Canada so they aren’t coming for mine…yet

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      Which does have backing. This is coming out because Trump said he wanted to reschedule THC. Not all of MAGA is behind this.

      Anyway, release the Epstein files.

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        Between rescheduling THC and calling the UK out on its bullshit, Trump’s dangerously close to being chill for once…

        …Is what I’d say if this shit wasn’t going on Points to ICE treating brown skin like a crime in and of itself Oh and ya know those threats to send the military into blue states…

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    I’m so sick of these fucking dweebs and I don’t want to share oxygen with them anymore.