MAGA Is Coming for Legal Marijuana

No country of potheads has ever thrived, or ever achieved anything at all.

Dude's obviously never been to Silicon Valley, lol.

Lol. This is probably the only reason people haven't revolted. Take away this, and they'll overthrow you.

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.
- If anything, they REALLY want an "easy" crime to crack down on, so this is why they are making literally everything illegal, like porn and weed and having a penis in the wrong room or glancing at a cop without a smile on your face.

Last Friday it was reported that Trump told donors at an event that he is considering reclassifying marijuana from its current Schedule I level

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.

“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.

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

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.

I’m so sick of these fucking dweebs and I don’t want to share oxygen with them anymore.

A guy at my work place swore that Trump was about to legalize pot

Read the article. He is talking about changing its schedule, yes.
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.

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.

Can’t have people getting high and start being introspective and caring about others

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
Can't have people get high and start thinking

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.

“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.”

Combine it with this quote:
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.
“Our society thrived when everyone was smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey,”
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.
- Got it, bring back huffing gasoline and smoking asbestos cigarettes.
- 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.
Zero thought involved. Remember that time we outlawed booze?

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.

Someone must have found out it contains benefits and brings good to the world. Better kill it!

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

Yeah sure he is.
I have been stoned every day since August 1995. I assure you, I have never sat out an election.
- Based
Man, there's some biases in there you should probably unpack.

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.

I hope they are ready to have their faces torn from their heads when they come for me because I am livid. I have noticed quite a spate of anti-marijuana articles including one yesterday talking about a hidden link between marijuana and schizophrenia which is just nuts.

That’s OK the illegal kind is still better

Not if you're black or have a disease that needs it and you're in a prison cell
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.

Dumb af, if MAGAts smoke enough weed they’ll forget that trump raped kids.

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

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.

There’s surely enough to share, right?