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[Haggard Celine]

1. Yes, and Congress needs to act on it!

[Fritz Walter]

34. Ain't. Gonna. Happen.

Big Pharma is directly threatened by legalized (medicinal) cannabis. They would lose millions in revenue if American adults could choose an herbal/natural remedy for pain, insomnia, and a plethora of other conditions for relief.

And Big Pharma has generously lined the coffers of Congress members for decades. Their lobbyists' numbers are on these public servants' speed dial, who'd drop everything to take their calls.

Until that changes, it's bu$ine$$ a$ u$ual.

[Midnight Writer]

2. And this doesn't include the human toll, of folks trying to get on in life with a criminal record.

Or people losing their jobs or benefits from drug tests, which are notoriously unreliable.

Meanwhile, the projected societal destruction from legalized marijauna does not seem to have materialized.

[Jedi Guy]

15. Canada has had legal pot for over two years now.

If there was a weed-induced apocalypse, I seem to have missed it. Oh well.

[lagomorph777]

28. And to the families devastated by loss of members to incarceration.

[SamKnause]

3. This doesn't include the deaths, the orphans, the widows or widowers, the inability to attain a job,

the torture endured in our jails and prisons, the brutality and lawlessness of our police, the racism towards blacks, being

blacklisted from federal money for educational grants, food stamps and housing.

This country's stance on cannabis is criminal.

This fucking country is insane.

[Demovictory9]

17. k&r

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. It was all started

by the corrupt, racist criminal J. Edgar Hoover and his "Reefer Madness" boys. Time to end it.

[malaise]

6. It was started by the British towards the Indians in their own homeland and the indentured Indians

from South Asia in Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and to a lesser extent Jamaica.
It is they who brought ganja to our hemisphere.

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. I was talking about

the federal prohibitions in this country.

[malaise]

19. i know but there is history based on contempt for other cultures

[lookyhereyou]

14. harry anslinger

was on Prohibition but that stopped and he needed a job.

hated blacks and thought JAZZ was the work of the devil

these people ruin so many lives with there maniacal ways

[malaise]

5. Love your signature NoShit OPs

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21. Love ❤️ back atya....

[3Hotdogs]

8. Dunno. I saw this documentary around 1938.

And this guy in it, he was puffing some kind of cigarette like thing and his eyes got wide and he got a strange wild look on his face

And I think he ended in jail.

I think the stuff was marijuana and if that’s what it does to people like my grandkids, we should have no part in it.

[Mr.Bill]

9. Yeah, the movie that said

the third time you visited the guy who sold you weed, he would sell you heroin. And after using it once, you would be an addict.

I've been smoking weed for over 50 years and I've never been in the same room with heroin. Two different worlds.

[jaysunb]

29. +1. n/t

[KS Toronado]

12. You talking about Reefer Madness?

The movie was an attempt to create a narcotics scare and, in particular, to paint marijuana as a narcotic that
was as dangerous as heroin and cocaine. Anyone who has seen this movie knows it's basically fiction.

[3Hotdogs]

18. Yes.

[Towlie]

10. Addiction is expensive. The Republicans need to kick their addiction to injustice.

 
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[ladym55]

11. It never ceases to amaze me

What we CAN fund in the country ... weapons--you bet!!! Prisons--we're on it!!!

Schools--health care--infrastructure--child care--OMG!! There is no money for THAT!!

[multigraincracker]

13. Free all POWs

Prisoners Of War on drugs.

[lookyhereyou]

16. really, many still in gail for Rockefeller's 3 strikes drug laws

it was used and abused politically ; fear etc.

let my people go.

[questionseverything]

20. It has to be legalized at the federal level

Biden only wants de criminalization…..that is not enough

For one thing….because mj is illegal nationally, legal legitimate expenses can not be deducted which makes legal pot more expensive than necessary

[csziggy]

23. I'm surprised the banks aren't advocating for federal legalization

They are losing out on a huge amount of money just in the states that have legalized weed - and you know they want at cut of that action.

[questionseverything]

25. Agree plus it makes it more dangerous for the workers

The cash only aspect

[pansypoo53219]

22. prohhibition taught us nothing.

[TheBlackAdder]

24. No Shit 💩, just Good Shit 🚬😋

[live love laugh]

26. Reefer madness indeed. nt

[flying_wahini]

27. Prohibition laws and enforcement only put $$$$ in their pockets.

It’s time to legalize it. Alcohol is much more dangerous.

[Blue Owl]

30. Such a colossal waste of money, resources, time, and lives

[PatrickforB]

31. Ah, Robert Reich is one of my very favorite economists.

He's right on the money here, for sure.

[The Jungle 1]

32. We need more jury nullification of pot laws.

We get the final say.

[Joinfortmill]

33. Let's focus on real crimes like, murder, rape, insurrection.