I mean, this won Trudeau 3 elections, so I'd say it's a worth it campaigning point.
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Best way to get the young male vote to be honest. Isn't this part of what made Ron Paul popular?
Ron Paul wass popular becausue of his racist newsletter back in the 80's. Everything else was just whitewash.
Ron Paul wasn't popular because of a racist newsletter. He was popular because the libertarian ideals he espoused were appealing to internet dwellers that hadn't experienced real life yet.
Man, I'm happy someone else might remember that time on Reddit which I could only call "peak cringe". Everyone and their mother seemed to love Ron Paul on that site
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boy if i had rights and benefits for every right and benefit Joe Biden "said he backed"
Boy, if you had basic civics knowledge as to how a president in the executive branch cannot pass laws himself but requires the legislative branch (Congress) to pass said laws that he would back.
Say what you will about the Republicans, at least they get results on their absurd culture war bullshit. Best the Dems can do for the left is ignore us completely and give us Tim Walz as a VP like we should be soooo fucking grateful
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Actually the power of executive orders are very broad, and as of 2024, are beyond any limits of law. Official acts of a sitting president cannot be criminalized. He can absolutely order the FDA to immediately remove Marijuana from schedule 1 status, but he won't. What carrot would Harris have to dangle in front of us at that point?
For context, yes, I'm a dem, and yes, I'm voting for Harris, but fuck me I'm tired of such transparent posturing.
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Yeah I view these statements more as "I'm going to tell you what you want to hear so you'll elect me!"
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In before it gets legalized federally and then some republican states start spouting states rights and continue to arrest people that are following the law.
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Been waiting a long time for this.
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.
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It would've been cool if she said this when she was actively putting people in cages for weed.
It would've been cool if she said this for the past 4 years while she was VP.
Now she's saying it for an election. I'm sure she's legit this time. lol.
She co-sponsored a bill to fully legalize it in 2018. Behind closed doors she was advocating for legalizing it as VP, but Biden doesn't support full legalization so it would've been a bad look for him if his VP was publicly going against him when he was still running
How dare someone change their mind! We should definitely teach her a lesson she won't forget and be amongst the 3000 people who who vote for Cornel West in November!
How can you make the claim that she changed her mind? Believe actions not words regardless of who it's coming from.
Actions she can't take until after January 20th? How do you expect people to do that? Or are you really trying to claim that since she hasn't issued a public apology, she's definitely lying and hasn't changed her mind?
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If a politician actually changes their mind that's fine. If they change their mind to become pro-cannabis legalization, that's great.
But they shouldnt try to gaslight the populace into believing that this was their stance all along.
If this was Kamala's position all along, then her actions as District Attorney are very hypocritical.
If she actually had a change of heart, she should apologize to the nonviolent victims she chose to prosecute and incarcerate.
Or you could not let the perfect be the enemy of the good and celebrate a candidate advocating for legalization.
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TBF, "Leave it up to the states" in the context of recreational use is appropriate here. Extending that concept would necessarily include having extremely limited federal regulation, if any at all.
Medical use, in my opinion, should be federally protected, such that you can acquire medical use cannabis for a uniform set of medical purposes in all states.
100% disagree. First because it puts people in prison for spurious reasons and secondly because it's a plant. You can literally just grow it in your back yard. And it will grow really easily. It doesn't even take work.
You know what will totally fuck you up but is totally legal to own and grow and use? Salvia divinorum. You know what else? San Pedro cactus.
Even with shrooms, it's legal to own the spores when you're talking about psilocybin and Amanita Muscaria is 100% legal. It can literally kill you.
We don't even need to go into tobacco.
How does any of that make sense?
You know what will totally fuck you up but is totally legal to own and grow and use? Salvia divinorum.
Salvia is fucking wild. I do not recommend it unless you want to lose your mind for ~10 minutes or so. Like, from sober to "holy shit I'm on the wheel of fortune right now" in an instant.
I only did it once. Apart from tasting absolutely horrible, the trip wasn't even fun. I was laying on the ground and suddenly I was standing upright and was a cowboy leaning against the porch post of a ranch house. And then I was me again. What was the point?
To become a cowboy, very momentarily, pardner
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I mean I would appreciate it if it were federally legal. I live in a state where its legal but I'm employed by the federal government so I can't use it without putting my job at risk.
I will be sad if this means weed is corporatized though
Do you think buying it from a street dealer isn't corporatized? Cartels are basically just black market multinationals at this point. If anything, legalization would make it less corporate since you could grow it in your backyard.
It will seem more corporate once it's legal, but that's just because the business is being conducted in daylight.
Source: Canadian who grows a plant or 2 each summer
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It's a plant that grows in the ground, it'll get about as corporatized as tomatoes. Meaning people will try, but they can't really stop you from growing legal plants in your garden.
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Good it needs to be done.
Biden went somewhere on this?
I remember Biden running on a promise to federally decriminalized Marijuana. Never happened. Don't expect it to happen under Harris either. Dumb cow laughs about locking up people for profit using less than a gram of weed.
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