The government has destroyed people's lives for over eighty years with cannabis criminalization. They've raked in untold trillions off fundraising, scare tactics, donations and lobbying.
Libs are already negotiating against themselves by saying that. They think the government is going to tax the weed and somehow not use the money for the defense budget?
I can't really pinpoint why this one really sticks in my craw.
Its like the old saying goes: "give a liberal a magic lamp, and they'll negotiate down to one wish and use it for something they think Republicans would like"
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That's the bare minimum for a starting position imo. It blows my mind that the victims of the drug war are nowhere in the equation for libs. They probably wouldn't even notice if none of them got out of jail. They'd just be buying Green Lantern strains of the Disney/Marvel companies new Magic Kingdom brand prepackaged eighths.
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It's too lucrative for the prison industrial complex. Removing the profit incentive from the judicial system is a task worthy of sisyphus
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A lot of non consumers have a NIMBY vibe whenever cannabis comes up. They see it as a non-issue because it's "just kids wanting to get high". They don't experience the other end of the drug war boot.
Some places, mostly big cities like Detroit and Chicago, have equity programs for the dispos and other cannabis related businesses to be run by people from communities that were typically harmed by the drug wars. When I was in Oakland I always bought my dispo weed from a black owned shop in Berkeley called the Farmacy. They were cool as hell.
That's cool! I'll be on the lookout when I travel. It's about as diverse as a wilco concert where I live
legalize all drugs now. fund free, federally administered addiction assistance programs instead of the constellation of private addiction clinics that mostly just abuse patients and drain them and their loved ones' bank accounts with the false promise of recovery
And provide government sources of all drugs, so the drugs that people are using are known to be unadulterated and high quality. This would have the added benefit of completely destroying cartels overnight.
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