“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.”
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Zero thought involved. Remember that time we outlawed booze?
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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.
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Lol good luck
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.
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Lol. This is probably the only reason people haven't revolted. Take away this, and they'll overthrow you.
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.
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
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.
There’s surely enough to share, right?
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.
Cool, but sometimes I just want pot. Like, best case scenario dealers have been women I occasionally hit up for weed and occasionally hit up for sex, which was pretty great in my early-mid 20s, at which point I'd get whatever they had to offer (their favorite bud, or maybe edibles from Michigan). It was pleasant but it was a whole ass thing and usually I had to buy in small quantities.
I'm in my 30s now, everywhere I've lived recently has had fully legal pot. It's a minor errand no different from when I notice I'm a bit low on whiskey. Thanks to the legality and ease of purchase I just keep some on hand as a general analgesic for me and sleep aid for my wife. Also I don't have to go find dealers anymore which is nice.
Not if you're black or have a disease that needs it and you're in a prison cell
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
Yeah sure he is.
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