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6 In 10 Americans Are 'Surprised' Marijuana Hasn't Been Legalized Across The U.S. Yet, Poll Finds
(www.marijuanamoment.net)
And yet 5/10 keep electing fuckwits.
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2024
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14.6 in 10 Americans are 'Surprised' they don't have universal healthcare yet, poll finds
The leaf in that photo has some serious deficiencies going on, just saying.
I'd be interested to see a map showing the states where weed is illegal, crossed with one showing where child marriage is legal.
Also can we get our student loans forgiven, punish the exopresident Trumpfus for the jan6 thing, limit the justices to like 5 years, remove all religious terms and uses from government docs and processes...etc...many other things that are much more relevant than the stickiest plant one could ever have imagined anyone would ever try to smoke.
I forget the math but it should actually be 18 years for the justices so they can't all get swapped out
Yeah, you probably don't want 8 because a two term president could do lots of damage. So 18 sounds fine. It should be retroactively implemented, let's say 2 of the current judges per year?
I hear you, but consider it goes well beyond the sticky plant - simply possessing marijuana in many areas of the US can still get you thrown in jail. With many of those same states enforcing "mandatory terms" for drug crimes, we have thousands of people jailed for years for non-violent offenses. We have a lot of huge issues to deal with, but the "War on Drugs" from the start was a thin veil for persecuting minorities, and it's still going.
I'm hoping for the rest of your list of requests, too, but personally I think federal weed legalization would have a wider-reaching, far more profound impact on our population than forgiving student loans.
Idk why it has been stuck so long in the Executive branch for review.
Because the dumb system of rescheduling just works this way.
The DEA shouldn't even be in the bureaucratic pathway. They're cops, and they shouldn't have a say in what counts as medicine. The FDA is far from perfect, but they are the scientists.
I think the DEA is the only entity at the Federal level that cares about marijuana. Drug warriors are gonna drug war.
The DEA's administrative law judge already said it shouldn't be Schedule I, after a lengthy review, and (surprise!) the DEA administrator ignored them. What a genius system; leave it up to the person wielding power to be the one making the final decision to wield less power 🤦
I'm sure 6 in 10 Americans don't understand that federal law trumps state law.
The US tackles it's tech debt
Surprised is the wrong word. Angry is the right word.
I think a lot of them are surprised because they can buy cannabis legally in their state and they haven't thought more about it than that.
A lot of people are not especially politically aware.
What if they are surprised because they were pearl clutching so hard they thought it was gonna be worse?
"What? How did this butt plug appear in my butthole without my consent??? To be honest, I am a bit surprised...."
It was legalized federally in Canada in 2018, so it'll probably be around 2028 when it's legalized federally in the US, just like it took a decade for the US to legalize gay marriage after Canada did it.
Different culture. Canada is far more liberal than the United States.
But with the ongoing migration crisis and continuing stupidity of Trudeau administration, I'm afraid that the momentum gained for the Canadian right to eventually become mainstream.
Don't worry, when we eventually get basic human needs down such as universal healthcare and other social welfare, worker's rights, and liveable non-car dependent infrastructure, I'm sure everyone will start moving to the US instead of Canada and you'll be saved. I give it... a few decades, when the climate catastrophe starts becoming apparent.
Lets see how long we'll get to keep it with a MAGA SCOTUS majority. Kim Davis already started the process to get it up to them and Thomas will definitely be a no.
How would SCOTUS even be able to rule that marijuana has to be illegal, when Congress repealed the law making it illegal? That is not how law works.
Oh I was talking about the latter (marriage equality)
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