Harris says she backs legalizing marijuana, going further than Biden
Harris says she backs legalizing marijuana, going further than Biden
As a medical user, I really hope she will stick to this if elected. Trump is doing more "leave it up to the states" bullshit except specifically for Florida and no other state.
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I love how it's a bit of a stretch to back legalising a substance which has become legal in a fair number of states without any issue (that I'm aware of).
How many elections before a candidate is praised for saying something like, "I, unlike the others, am prepared to accept that the populace generally believes that vegetables are part of a healthy diet?", because we live in a world where the vast majority of candidates are just saying any old stupid shit that is viral on social media.
Those states still have dispensaries and grow operations raided all the time, putting people who work at them at risk. There's also the fact that people like me, who need it for medical use, are breaking both state and federal law by going from Indiana to Illinois to buy it. It could potentially put me in federal prison (probably not, but that is the way things stand legally).
The only way I can explain such stupidity is by assuming malice, e.g.: "We must put endless fear into the poor people. Our decisions are moral, theirs are not."
And because of that possibility for malice, it needs to be federally legal.
Cops should not be given tools of oppression.
I fear that cops ARE tools of oppression.
So you don't give them ways to make it worse for people.
If there was a law allowing cops to drone bomb places where they decided criminal activity was occurring, I would assume you would want that law gone.
I think 40 states have medical and 25 have recreational. It's insane that it's even a question about federal legalization at this point.
And several more have it in a bizarre legal gray area where no one really knows if it's illegal
without any issue (that I'm aware of).
Not only that, but states and municipalities have made a killing on taxing it.