Could all the Republicans who are "outraged" by the President's pardons for marijuana

[Atticus]

possession TRY to wrap their heads around this FACT: by far the most widely used and abused drug in this country is now and has always been---ALCOHOL !

If there is a "gateway drug", it's warm beer guzzled while sitting on a tailgate.

And, ask a cop who he'd most expect trouble from: someone who's baked or someone who's drunk.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Biden jumped the Republican legislative logjam.

Total win for sane people.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. This has nothing to do with marijuana in 96% of the cases on the right, it is

about doing what a 9 yr old does when the parent says they cant have something, they cry and whine that they want it even if it is something they dont want.

[pwb]

3. A lot of pukes around here are mean liquor drunks.

No wonder they are pricks. They need a toke more than anybody. Cannabis is legal in my state. My whole life I worried about getting busted, good that our young will not have to worry. Go Joe...

[Mike Nelson]

4. I think...

... we shouldn't have to pay for prisons for pot smokers. If that's all they've done, let them out... and make room for the dangerous criminals, like the militia groups threatening to take over the government!

[mobeau69]

5. Ask where their outrage was when it pardoned

Joe Arpaio?

Dinesh D’Souza?

Michael Flynn?

Roger Stone?

Paul Manafort?

Steve Bannon?

[SergeStorms]

18. Well, if their lord and savior pardoned anyone...

you can be sure they totally deserved it.

Their reasoning (if you can pretend they use reason in any decision making process) is that Trump is never wrong, so nothing he says or does could possibly be wrong either.

They really do treat him as their god. They question nothing.

[tenderfoot]

6. Are they outraged by all those insurrectionists lighting up in the Capitol on Jan. 6th?

eom

[walkingman]

7. Finally a POTUS that is willing to say what everyone who has used knows.

[GenThePerservering]

8. There is very strong across the board

support for legalization of marijuana - it's just getting it past some of these repub neanderthals who prefer their own agenda to that of the people who voted them in - they probably think Reefer Madness is real.

Jailing people for weed is a huge fraud on the taxpayer dollar.

[imaginary girl]

9. Funny, but I don't remember their outrage ...

... When tfg pardoned Manafort, Bannon, and other crooks!

[liberal N proud]

10. It would be impossible to jail dying or alcohol possession

Republicans are in bed with prison for profit. Marijuana was demonized in the 50s and 60s making it easy to demonize the user Ang justify locking them up.

It also gives them control over the convicted, keeping them from getting a head in life. No loans, no business license and any other actions they could do to keep the population poor.

Remember republicans are all about controlling the population.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. Spot on. Actually started before "Reefer Madness" was filmed, but that carried forward until .. now

Lots of money is made in privately controlled prison "systems." Ask the Bush family crime syndicate who invested in it. Don't expect an answer. Right Jeb? W? CCA Corrections Corporation. And AWOL W was into cocaine for decades.

[crickets]

22. Bingo. And it is specific populations they want to control.

Biden's mention of this was brief, but it was there, and I am proud of him for it.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

11. Fuck them.

Next…

[BOSSHOG]

12. Do something kind or humane or christian

Conservatives will be outraged in maga numbers

[Mr.Bill]

14. Marijuana...

The drug that makes you drive slower.

[plimsoll]

15. Don't forget Federal possession charges are from Federal jurisdictions.

So those would be largely Washington DC and largely black if I recall those statistics properly. These folks don't need to worry, they'll still be able to keep black folks in Florida disenfranchised for having a joint.

[EYESORE 9001]

16. I have a 'thought experiment' about ethyl alcohol just now getting discovered

and having to run the gamut of FDA testing and approval. I think if the FDA applied their standards to ethanol as if it’d just been discovered, it would be nearly impossible to find it safe for human consumption. They may find limited medical applications, but I expect it would be a regulated substance.

[krkaufman]

17. "gateway drug"

The only thing that would make marijuana a “gateway drug” is where it is placed relative to the gate. (Well, that and misrepresenting its effects and dangers to youth, who would then have less faith in warnings against other drugs.)

[Gore1FL]

21. I submit that MJ was a self-fulfilling gateway drug.

Weed was equated with cocaine, heroin, LSD, et al. When people found out they were lied to about weed, of course there was less of a barrier for many to try more.

I will concede that the lies and hysteria meant to curtail the use of weed made weed a gateway drug. Marijuana isn't the gateway though, in reality. The lies are.

If you'll excuse me, I still have about 1/3 a bowl of member berry to consume.

[markie]

19. hmmm

I grow cannabis and CBD Hemp... I do not sell it but give it to neighbors that ask... I have a few people from the "Villages" (here at their camp) that get it from me... haven't asked their political persuasions

[Gore1FL]

20. This was a brilliant move on the part of Biden.

The same can be said when he came out in favor of gay marriage as VP, well ahead of the "official" administration similar position on the matter. (I'm pretty sure that was a planned "gaffe.&quot

The dude knows he can move the needle when he needs to, and when he does, he knows the opposition will look foolish in their foot-stomping.

Biden wasn't my first choice in the 2020 nomination phase. I'm not sure he was in my top five. The dude is delivering. He is winning issues while he is doing it.

[NullTuples]

23. The GOP brand at this point is to deny other people bodily autonomy.

President Biden neatly sidestepped around that. Well done, Joe!