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MAGA Is Coming for Legal Marijuana

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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.
- So Hamilton was probably a stoner? Cool!
  
  "Give me the chronic, or give me death!"
  Patrick Henry probably.
  
  Hamilton was a huge piece of shit.
  
  I am not throwin' away my pot! 🎵
- Trump has never once in his life made an effort to know a single thing, and if there's one thing he knows the least about, it's the history of the country he leads.
  
  Leads is doing a lot of heavy lifting there lol
- I guess they might also want to revert back to the glory days when the nation was so consistently and pervasively drunk off its ass that prohibition actually passed.
- Glad you posted it, cause I was about to
- Does this person have a child? That child won't make it as an adult because they've historically never made it as an adult :3
  Edit: this is a random example :333333333
- https://youtu.be/t-mEDPlJHEM
- Fun fact Herodotus hot boxed with the Scythians.

- The image was loading slow for me, but before it even loaded I knew what it said lol

Can’t have people getting high and start being introspective and caring about others
- Can't have people get high and start thinking
- Ngl I smoke pot to stop thinking, not start it.
  
  I use weed to not feel as much emotion while I think things through. It does sometimes distort my thinking though

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

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
- It's just a matter of time. Fascists are not kind to their neighbours.
  Elbows up.
- Already there, in MI sadly so they can pry my bong from my cold dead hands.
- Glad you added the yet

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.
- They should have supported full legalization from the very start. Almost everyone supports it yet no politician ever really cared. It never made sense.
  
  It makes sense when you can easily put someone into forced labor for years for having a normal amount of it on them.
- And democrats will still find a way to lose.
  
  Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is their brand.

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.

No country of potheads has ever thrived, or ever achieved anything at all.
Dude's obviously never been to Silicon Valley, lol.

“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.
- He wants to go back to a "utopia" where it's ok to beat your wife
  
  ~~Its ok ~~ It's EXPECTED to beat your wife, how dare she get uppity??? /s
- Yeah, it's Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire. A dumb shit take is an achievement for that crowd.
  
  Nah, a good take would be an achievement. Dumb shit takes is their bread and butter over in editorial land there.

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.

Someone must have found out it contains benefits and brings good to the world. Better kill it!

“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.”
- “Our society thrived when everyone was smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey,”
  Correlation vs causation.
  You could say "we became the most powerful nation in the world with leaded gasoline and asbestos". They were around at the same time too.
  
  Honestly, those aren't that much crazier than thinking smoking and drinking are somehow good for you. If this goes on, it's only a matter of time.
  
  Got it, bring back huffing gasoline and smoking asbestos cigarettes.
- Zero thought involved. Remember that time we outlawed booze?
- Combine it with this quote:
  Far-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec called people smoking weed outside a “huge factor” in violent crime in Washington, D.C. “States with legal weed you can just smell it all over in public,” he continued. “Can’t take kids anywhere.”
  Because everything was so great when there was a nicotine haze in every restaurant. I don't even like the smell of burning a joint, but I'll take it over shitty cigarettes.
  I do admit that a good cigar can smell really nice. But I have a family history of asthma as it is, and there's no way I'm touching one.

This is a fantastic way to get non violent citizens locked up in for profit prisons for years on the taxpayers dime where shareholders profit.
- This. We are back on the hunt on behalf of for-profit prisons.

A guy at my work place swore that Trump was about to legalize pot
- 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.
  
  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...
- Read the article. He is talking about changing its schedule, yes.

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

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.
- Buy seeds and all the stuff to grow tomatoes
- You can still get it from Janice down the block. So what if it is a little seedy.

The 5 conservatives that actually give a shit about state's rights are gonna be so pissed.

Matt Walsh is one of the most smarmy fucks around. I swear, some people listen to him because he has a nice haircut and smile.
I only wish he was older, like Trump, so we wouldn't expect to have him on the earth for another two decades.
Trying to rewind the USA back to when we were all smoking cigarettes and drinking whisky is insane.

lol good luck. The supply chain is so big that the growers and supplies won’t go away any time soon or 10 years. You’re just being back 90s drug deals. I guess dumbass republicans hate money.

Dumb af, if MAGAts smoke enough weed they’ll forget that trump raped kids.
- Ackshtually, if MAGAts smoked enough weed, they'd deeply introspect their preconceived notions. Entheogens are probably highly effective at combating disinformation, just as we know they work well on trauma. Widespread use of them would be catastrophic to the entire Republican agenda.
  It's how I found irreligion myself.

I hope they are ready to have their faces torn from their heads when they come for me because I am livid. I have noticed quite a spate of anti-marijuana articles including one yesterday talking about a hidden link between marijuana and schizophrenia which is just nuts.

President Trump’s vaguely positive views on marijuana use and legalization have opened up yet another schism within the MAGA movement, as some hard-liners are reverting back to war on drugs–adjacent rhetoric to express their opposition to perhaps the most popular plant in America.
Last Friday it was reported that Trump told donors at an event that he is considering reclassifying marijuana from its current Schedule I level.

Matt Walsh talks about whiskey so performatively I don't think he actually likes it.
Also legalize pot to the same degree as alcohol and create a sustained treatment category of schedule 2 while you're at it.
- That's what the article says Trump is considering doing

There’s surely enough to share, right?

Well he just lost his genz voters! Also lots of other generations.

Lol. This is probably the only reason people haven't revolted. Take away this, and they'll overthrow you.

Last Friday it was reported that Trump told donors at an event that he is considering reclassifying marijuana from its current Schedule I level
That contradicts the title. Trump is looking at making it more legal, not less.
- Trump said, "I've heard great things with it and medical, and terrible things with it and everything else"
  So the plan would be to allow medical licenses for the rich white folks while cracking down on everyone else.
- No contradiction at all:
  https://www.dea.gov/drug-information/drug-scheduling
  
  Today I learned that the DEA doesn't consider weed to have accepted medical use while cocaine does for the same use case (pain relief).

Lol good luck

As the article states, Trump is considering rescheduling marijuana making it easier to sell. It's the right wing influencers who oppose it. The GOP politicians love weed because it makes people apathetic and sit out elections
- I have been stoned every day since August 1995. I assure you, I have never sat out an election.
  
  Based
- Man, there's some biases in there you should probably unpack.
- Yeah sure he is.

That’s OK the illegal kind is still better
- Nah fuck that. Illegal pot kinda sucks and forces you to hang out with pot dealers which is such a coin flip. But regardless it's still way better to just swing by a shop and pick up a thing of edibles to keep around.
  
  You just need better people to get it from. I don’t deal with sketchy people.
- Not if you're black or have a disease that needs it and you're in a prison cell

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