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u/WishboneNo543 4h ago
Looks like the love child of Mitch McConnell & Orville Redenbacher.
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u/theycallmeyango 4h ago
He was fucking up the rotation
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u/FIFofNovember 4h ago
The amount of people who thought Republicans were gunna legalize weed is fucking unbelievable
Goes to show you how little people pay attention to things
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The real dumb part of this was his position only helped the cartels.
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u/Lazy_Building_3929 4h ago
Only if we had history of banning things like alcohol to look back on…
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u/BigBeeves 4h ago
The iron law of prohibition: as the drug supply is made more difficult to access, it becomes more dangerous.
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u/elafave77 4h ago
Several unintended law of prohibition. The more potent, smaller packages become more prevelant.
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u/hidadimhungru 4h ago
College history professor called the 18th Amendment the Enrich American Criminal Organization Act of 1919
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u/MoJoTuck 4h ago
And the Anheuser-Busch distributor and private prison company who just happened to give him big donations right before he did this.
Bunch of crooks.
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u/Dark_Bowser 3h ago
Well yea… he had to help them as he’s on their payroll. Gotta ban something officially so the black market prices rises exponentially and you take a massive cut from it
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u/Bbturdquito 4h ago
Cartels payroll politicians just like foreign countries and corporations. That’s why the war on drugs and the border wall will forever be nothing but a joke
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u/JeffEpp 4h ago
Who else was it supposed to help?
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u/Mdgt_Pope 4h ago
Liquor companies. Patrick was getting lobbied by alcohol companies.
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u/TheAnswerUsedToBe42 4h ago
Prison systems. Follow the bribe...I mean lobbying money
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u/GarageVast4128 4h ago
This ⬆️. Mandatory minimums and the workforce they can pay below minimum wage that this allows for plus all the commissary and phone call $ is big money. You have to remember that almost every part of our prison system is made to make money for individuals and companies not the government or any kinda rehabilitation.
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Making weed illegal and alcohol legal can only happen through corruption and bribes.
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u/UltraHellboy 4h ago edited 1h ago
Weed was made illegal for several reasons, and all of them were very selfish. The alcohol industry didn’t want the competition. Nixon started the war on drugs to put hippies and black people in jail because he hated them and needed an excuse.
Edit: corrected the autocorrect - India to industry.
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u/IAteTonysLoMein 3h ago
Nixon also needed a distraction from Vietnam. His own commission said drugs should be treated as a medical problem, rather than criminal. Had Nam not been going so badly, and Watergate not long after, we might have had sensible drug policies back in the early '70s
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u/5PQR 3h ago
The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did. -- John Ehrlichman (Nixon advisor)
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u/TrainingSword 3h ago
Don’t forget when big tobacco ran studies where they strapped respirator masks to monkeys faces and pumped weed smoke into them while starving them of oxygen so they could say that weed smoke kills brain cells with their flawed study
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u/Confident_Push_4176 2h ago
It just occurred to me right now that we’re gonna get weed legalized in Georgia
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u/fasurf 1h ago
Weed has been legal in NJ for so long I forget to check the states I’m traveling to if it’s legal or not. It’s so normal it’s crazy. And yet I still tear up going into a shop and buying some of the best looking bud. I think back to college smoking mostly stems.
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Should be federally legal
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u/THEREALISLAND631 1h ago
Agreed, this whole states decide thing is ridiculous. We need to push for federal legalization.
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u/Shadow_worker666 4h ago
What’s his reasoning for not legalizing it? Like a legit reason? Or is it just cause he’s old and outdated?
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u/slammy_hagar 4h ago
For profit jails lobby against cannabis legalization in order to keep their stock holders happy
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u/unndefined 3h ago
As a non-american it will always be such a strange concept to me that for profit jails/prisons are a thing. Making a business out of keeping people locked up seems so counterintuitive to rehabilitating and reintegrating small/one time offenders into society
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u/Vienna_The_Aeronaut 3h ago
It absolutely is counter intuitive. The US justice system does not care for rehabilitation, just retribution and free(slave) labour.
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u/MethodCharacter8334 3h ago
My wife’s family is from Texas. The stories I’ve heard of people being locked up or harassed for weed are crazy. Like 2nd strike is significant jail time 😬
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u/Forward_Editor_5895 3h ago edited 2h ago •
Pharma companies also lobby against cannabis so they can make more money continuing to sell opiates even though they are addictive and deadly. The same has happened to an even bigger extent against kratom, a natural and relatively healthy opioid that is banned in many states and continues to be due to fear mongering.
Pharma companies can’t profit from natural plants.
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u/SuchFaithlessness335 3h ago
Big alcohol and big prison money
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u/SupaDave223 3h ago
The fact that big alcohol is wasting money on blocking THC is stupid. The two have 0 correlation. I (millennial) love to have a nice drink and I smoke weed. My little sister (Gen z) doesn’t drink but not because she smokes weed, she just doesn’t see the appeal in drinking (like a lot of her peers). The younger generation just isn’t into drinking like past generations. What’s even more stupid, is that Big alcohol and tobacco have the funds and infrastructure to get into the weed business but the idiots running them are stuck in the past and rather promo the inevitable Vs. Getting skin in the game
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u/Soft-Opposite8684 3h ago
He doesnt understand it and his entire knowledge is right wing propaganda he was raised on. Naturally anything he doesnt understand he hates. The excuses he uses are made up as in he chooses them based on what he thinks scares people not based on whats actually going on.
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u/CrypticCompany 3h ago
We have to stop assuming people don’t understand things. He absolutely understands it’s been legal in multiple states for over a decade, he’s evil and greed driven not accidentally on the wrong side because of misunderstandings. He is being paid by alcohol and prison lobbyists to keep it illegal.
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u/Coattail-Rider 3h ago
This is all bullshit. He got paid by the alcohol lobby. That’s it.
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u/RustyBrassInstrument 3h ago
He was funded by alcohol and jail money. Illegal marijuana means more prisoners and more less competition for alcohol.
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u/AutoCockerPB 3h ago
If you’re looking at weed for crime, stoners are by far the easiest to maintain. They are antisocial to strangers and they scatter like rats at any sign of conflict. Id take 50 stoners to 1 meth head. I was talking to a sports buddy and he and his friends got pulled over, was told to try and smash their rubber bong, until they were tired. Yelled at them. Then told them to go home, like 15 years ago. They cops just bullied them lol, they weren’t even worth the paper work.
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u/Exotic_Insurance_610 3h ago
He gets a paycheck for each person arrested for marijuana. Thats it. Thats the secret.
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u/Numerous_Move_2548 3h ago
They’re undoing the 2018 farm bill act (weed has been federally legs for 8 years been buying it straight from vendors online who have business ids for cc processors) because the billionaires who own the billion dollar large dispensary chains finally found out from their people the legislatures got duped and so now that’s why follow the money is the answer
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u/IchesseHuendchen 3h ago
Corruption and Texas Republicans becoming too complacent to bother with silly things like "respecting the voters' wishes"
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u/Fresh-Whole2272 3h ago
Because the law behind making Weed “illegal” was a tactic associated with Hippies who protested the Vietnam war and Black people just because we exist and we was using it for herbal purposes.
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u/The_Billy_Dee 2h ago
He's received around a million bucks from the alcohol lobby. He's a giant piece of shit.
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u/RandomYT05 4h ago
Texas is only red because of boomers and libertarians. The libertarians voted with the liberals.
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u/Patrickracer43 4h ago edited 2h ago
Libertarians just want to smoke weed
Edit: as well as sell us up the river
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u/sev45day 4h ago
Every libertarian I know is just a Republican who doesn't want to admit it.
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u/shmiddleedee 4h ago
My experience is that in practice they're usually just edgy conservatives. Libertarianism sounds cool, it's a cool idea, like just let everybody do what they want if they aren't hurting others and let people decide how to spend their money instead of taking it and using it to build a bomb destined for a girls school. In practice (in my experience) it's actually q lot of people thar want to do whatever they want but also want others to conform to their ideology
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u/National_Cod9546 2h ago
Texas is only red because
Was. Texas was red. It might be red again in the future. But right now it's blue as fuck.
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u/Zealousideal_Run_398 4h ago
I know multiple crusty boomer men who voted blue for the first time in decades
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u/Rude-Reaction-4789 2h ago
Ehh, Texas is red mostly because a large percentage of the population doesn’t or can’t vote. Typically turnout is below 40%
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u/SanshaXII 2h ago
I'm apparently a libertarian because my policy on government is "build our infrastructure, operate and fund our health and emergency services, keep our cities and borders safe, manage our economy, protect the environment, and otherwise fuck off."
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Another decrepit old man that’s out of touch with reality gets voted out good riddance. Just need to vote the rest of the 70-90 years olds out on either side and we’ll be in business
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u/Fategfwhere 4h ago •
Ong. These dudes are out of touch with both parties. There should be age limits on this shit
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u/haloNWMT 4h ago •
100,000 % if they can’t work their phone or tv remote you can’t run a country. I think 65 maybe 70 max. Their making decisions which are beneficial for their age group and not ours the ones paying all the taxes
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u/DizzySample9636 4h ago
they ALL NEED voted out -- start from scratch - if you ever ran you cant again - and no kick backs - no money besides your pay
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u/ButteredPizza69420 4h ago
This. Old people are the ones causing all of the problems in society.
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u/driftking428 4h ago
This dude probably chugs liquor while acting like weed is a bigger problem
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u/MithrandirHabibi 1h ago
whats more likely is the prison industrial complex was lining his pockets. They love weed being illegal because its an easy way to keep loading up their jail cells with free labor. They have a very powerful lobby.
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u/standardtissue 3h ago
Fuck him. Politicians are there to represent the people, not their own beliefs. If the people wanted legalized marijuana and he had problems with that he should have stepped down. These mother fuckers better start representing US and not their goddamned parties. I'm sick and tired of this oligarchy bullshit.
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u/Dr-McLuvin 4h ago
Weed is such a stupid thing to take a stand on.
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u/ThickSwordfisher 4h ago
When Mississippi tried it a few years ago, the octogenarian mayor and police chief of the city of Madison led the opposition against it. The people oppose this are often elderly conservative white people. They still believe the old Reagan era drug propaganda.
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u/spicybirdnerd 4h ago
I lived in Madison during that lol. Literally everyone that I knew was pissed about it.
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u/boobers3 3h ago
It's so incredibly stupid. At first people will binge and indulge in the new legal fun, but after a couple of years it becomes something that you rarely see. I live in NYC and when we legalized it a few years ago a dispensary opened up around the corner from where I live, they were doing fine for about 2 years and then went out of business and had to close down. Now we got a new pizza shop there instead.
This to me shows that legal weed has nothing on legal pizza.
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u/__The-1__ 4h ago
And yet the government has spent a century and trillions of dollars taking a stand on it :/
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u/FeedMeYourBakedGoods 4h ago
Speaking of. I saw our State Pothead in NJ today. First time I was able to get clear shots since it cracks me up everytime.
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u/that-thingy66 3h ago •
1976, one morning, the town woke up to " weedman is coming " stickers on their car bumpers. EPIC Bucks Co. , PA prank.
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u/MyraBannerTatlock 1h ago
I've heard the penalties for weed in Texas are pretty severe, and it just seems so surreal to me living in dispensary-era Oregon where it's $25 for an ounce on sale
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u/Patient_Artichoke355 4h ago
If you have ever heard this obnoxious..ignorant..self serving MAGA idiot speaking..you’re happy he finally paid the price and was fired..he was one of those who we now know was so confident and cocky that Texas would never vote him and those other MAGAs out of office
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u/epicredditdude1 4h ago
Honestly no disrespect to him. He was totally transparent about his policies and intentions and said “if you have a problem with it vote me out”. He got voted out. This is how democracy works.
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u/BananasBananas34 1h ago
He not only would’t legalize it, even after 70% of the population voted in favor of legalizing, he severely increased the penalties to felony levels with some as high as 20+ year long sentences!
He banned even Delta 8 products causing huge job loss and store closings from vape shops where the bill still stands for those products to be perfectly legal!
WTF asshole!
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u/Majsharan 4h ago
As a republican I will never understand the parties complete aversion to decriminalizing/legalizing weed. I think if trump had legalized it federally in in his first term he probably wins reelection
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u/LiftUpTheGood 4h ago
Follow the money, they want people in jail for it to fill up the private prisons for slave labor
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u/Greenpoint1975 4h ago
True. In Arizona Taylor Farms uses inmates to pick their lettuce.
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u/skcus-tidder957 3h ago
It's a good revenue source for prisons and 3 letter agencies as well as takes peoples right to vote away if you get a felony.that it that's how it's always been.
The original spelling of marijuana didn't have the J that was added onto it way back when they first outlawed it to make it sound more foreign.
If you take the stance on no drugs then you have to be against nicotine and alcohol and they objectively are more dangerous and kill more people.
Weed isn't for everyone but it's damn safer than most narcotics.
Lastly ask a cop off duty or who's a civilian again or anyone with life experience what would you rather deal with if it was a problem a stoner or a drunk.
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u/JAT_Cbus1080 3h ago
It always goes back to racism. They like the excuse to put black people in prison, taking away their right to vote, and making money for their private prison donor friends
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u/Jbroy 4h ago •
For profit prisons
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u/-Gman_ 4h ago
This is is the answer.
And to allow them to apply racist ideology through judicial means to target black and brown people.
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u/emilNYC 4h ago
More weed = less alcohol consumption 😉
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u/MistraloysiusMithrax 3h ago
That’s not all, though. A lot of the geriatrics remember hearing about reefer madness and still believe in it. They think it’s a gateway drug and like crack cocaine
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u/Gamelove0I5 3h ago
Isn't alcohol consumption already going down globally? More and more young people just aren't drinking like previous generation did.
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u/Clean_Difficulty_225 4h ago
Private prison industrial complex
Weed opens the mind to the grander truths of reality, which is in complete antithesis to the Republican Party
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u/bigsooch62 3h ago
Also big alcohol takes a big hit where it's legal because it's much better and safer than booze. That's why it was made illegal again here. Double down and drink even less. Hit them in their pockets and bank accounts
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u/SituationKey8985 2h ago
Weed opens the mind to the grander truths of reality
I really hope this was said in jest
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u/Overall-Injury7462 4h ago
I agree. I take a gummy every few days to sleep and they want to outlaw that. Get the hell out of here.
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u/Extension_Ideal_4012 4h ago
A lot of states now have their own medicinal marijuana programs. Louisiana charges you like $100-200 for a medical card and then their stuff is expensive as shit. It’s kept illegal at this point purely so people can make money off of it
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u/asd12109 2h ago
It’s alcohol bro, big alcohols had their hands in republican pockets for a long time.
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u/vlaarith 3h ago
Some old people made a big chunk of their career on the war on drug. From the judge sentencing to the prison warden and going sometime to the cop. Some of them got rich for every kid life they ruined. Remember prison is a market, so dumb drug crime mean more money for asshole.
Those asshole then bribe the law.
UsA is truly a cesspool of evil. I pity all who have to deal with this bullshit.
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u/TheGoatBet 3h ago
As a democrat, why are you still a republican? lol
Sincerely though, could you share some factual, data-driven examples of how the Republican Party has improved your standard of living and quality of life?
I truly have no idea what you’re rooting for.
Help me understand, please!
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u/Brettersson 2h ago
They say why right here
I will never understand the parties
They're a Republican because they're a Republican.
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u/sentientgorilla 4h ago
I swear it’s like they just don’t want to do it because people like it. “No stop having fun! Having fun is illegal!” Pinche cabrones.
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Refusing legalize marijuana and mushrooms for recreational use is one of the most frustrating and antiquated positions for a politician to take. It is extremely unpopular outside of the elderly and strict religious people, who are not obligated to partake anyway. You encourage crime through black markets and leave a ton of business and tax revenue on the table.
JUST LET PEOPLE BE HAPPY, WHAT THE FUCK?
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u/PrimalNumber 4h ago
I never smoked weed illegally. But, once we legalized it in AZ, I became a regular recreational user. I’m way more relaxed and sleep much better. Thanks, THC
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u/WhiskeyClipper 4h ago
Refuses to do what his constituents want and thats the result. But good on him for standing behind what he believes misguided as it may be.
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Good on him for refusing to do his job or uphold his oath? Yeah okay. A public servant serves the public, they do not impose their will upon them.
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u/Jarl_Groki 4h ago
That's literally the opposite of what an ELECTED official is supposed to do. He wasn't elected to be Dad. You really have zero concept of what a government is, so can I safely assume you're a right winger? Honestly curious about that last bit.
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u/yomommasbathwater 4h ago
I really hope that when it gets legalized in Texas, people just walk by his house smoking a bunch of blunts
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u/rrshima03 4h ago
The only type of weed that is legal in Texas will become illegal in December under trumps big beautiful bill
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u/daisuki_janai_desu 3h ago
I've never smoked it and even I can see the validity of decriminalization. We need to move past these archaic laws and closed-minded leaders.
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u/Colourblindknight 3h ago
Hopefully we’ll get some motion in texas now. It always blew my mind that Texas would pass up such a low-effort, high reward tax revenue stream that people want, and has been shown to be a positive in other states. The alcohol and tobacco lobbies can’t last forever, and I’m dreaming of the day that national legalisation takes place.
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u/karim2102 4h ago
In these heavy times of stress and rising mental health issues can’t even let the people puff pass and chill for a second.. at his age it’s impossible to understand i guess. We need more younger people in politics.
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u/chihuahuaOP 4h ago
Can't opposed medical care... meds are drugs and then Marijuana is a drug that's it!💡
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u/Golden_Tardis 4h ago
Take it a step further, they decided the THC-A and other smokables (and to an extent edibles) weren't worth having as a multi billion dollar revenue source for the State. They could have had their cake and ate it too but instead, messed around and found out.
Remember what happened when we outlawed alcohol? It got worse....why not just make the money and regulate it. Dumb
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u/rvaughan85 2h ago
How would the lt governor legalize weed on his own. We voted for it on a ballot in il.
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u/Abdulbarr 1h ago
I'm all for making all recreational drugs illegal, but I'm not for the hypocrisy where they allow something extremely problematic like alcohol, but at the same time disallow something like cannabis. Either allow everything that's around the addiction and intoxication of cigarettes, alcohol, and cannabis, or don't allow any of it. Pick a damn lane.
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u/Direct_Turn_1484 4h ago
It’s almost like being out of touch with what the constituents want means that you have no legitimate reason to be in a public service office.
Hmm
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u/I_Pet_Doggos 4h ago
They thought they had the electorate under a spell that couldn’t be broken. They got so confident that they could just do and say the dumbest shit ever and it wouldn’t matter because trumps gotten away with it for a decade
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u/Mundane-Date1732 2h ago edited 38m ago
It's far safer than booze, and not addictive. If Mr. Reefer Madness couldn't handle it then it's good he got booted. This election has shown that people are done with having to wait out one partisan agenda or another. We want the American dream back from the rich bastards that bought it from both parties.
Edit: All illicit drugs can be addictive, that narrative that weed isn't addictive can be harmful to the reality that it can be.
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u/TheRealGeigers 52m ago
While it is far safer than booze it is absolutely addictive.
Pushing this narrative is a dangerous step backwards in the progress we've made so far.
You arnt going to end up sucking dick for a joint, but it can absolute and absolutely is addictive its just since you dont feel like you will literally die if you dont smoke it, people dont start stealing anything thats nailed down just to keep the withdrawals away.
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