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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
“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.”
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
Cocaine is an analgesic. You can rub it on your skin and then cut into the skin without feeling anything. It's pretty objectively useful for medical uses.
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
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.
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.
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!"
Hamilton was a huge piece of shit.
I mean all the founders were.
Thomas Paine was pretty cool
I am not throwin' away my pot! 🎵
High-five
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
Fun fact Herodotus hot boxed with the Scythians.
https://youtu.be/t-mEDPlJHEM
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.
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.
Glad you added the yet
Already there, in MI sadly so they can pry my bong from my cold dead hands.
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.
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.
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.
Like it should just say no slavery, not slavery with extra steps.
Shits fucked up.
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.
Dude's obviously never been to Silicon Valley, lol.
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 just mean that their average is well beneath dumbshit.
Oh I know I was just making a joke 😅
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!
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.
I, for one, would encourage anyone who believes that kind of drivel to drink as much whiskey as is possible. The sooner they check out the better
We ran a simulation of this up here in Nova Scotia before. Here are some of the results.
Got it, bring back huffing gasoline and smoking asbestos cigarettes.
Zero thought involved. Remember that time we outlawed booze?
Combine it with this quote:
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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).
Cocaine is an analgesic. You can rub it on your skin and then cut into the skin without feeling anything. It's pretty objectively useful for medical uses.
There’s surely enough to share, right?
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
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.
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