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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

No amount of bribery with drugs can make me vote for this genocidal fascist

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Every politician says they will legalize weed if it gets them votes. No politician will ever actually legalize it though because then they lose one of their biggest platforms to draw voters. The single-minded boomer vote also disappears if he does legalize it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Where exactly is this poll? I would like to add to this statistic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

"Breaking News: Polls show that if Biden were better, more people would like him."

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Biden wants to reschedule and decimalize not legalize

that means state by state determination

fifty different "united" states each with differing laws and opinions such as wages, what healthcare you are allowed and how it will be funded, abortion laws, immigration laws, what substances are legal or illegal or otherwise, etcetera

if you are on the wrong side of the state line then you will have less rights then your neighboring state

to go a step further there are already cities in the US where half the city has either medical use and or recreational use and the other half is strictly illegal or a combination there of such as half medical and half medical/ recreational and yes some tax and revenue the government receives from the cannabis industry goes towards prosecution of cannabis users in illegal places

Biden is only doing this for votes and knows the average voter will not know otherwise and we the people deserve better than a sham

These kind of laws and policies lessens consumer protections regarding cannabis while bolstering corporate cannabis and muddying the water further making the dream of legalization even more of a pipe dream

JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I wonder if marijuana news paper dot com has any bias slant towards marijuana

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If Biden ended the war on drugs it would nearly completely clench at least his party's re-election, probably swing the congress on over too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Maybe for weed, but I don’t think that would be so clear cut for other substances. Even here San Francisco, the public is only willing to go so far with decriminalizing.

I would wager that weed, and maybe certain hallucinations would be bump in the polls, but for narcotics and opioids, ending the war on that stuff would hurt him. But maybe I’m wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Not to mention it's absolutely the correct decision.

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