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.
I mean, this won Trudeau 3 elections, so I’d say it’s a worth it campaigning point.
They gotta milk the promises for all they’re worth before they actually follow through on them.
I should clarify to those non Canadians out there; Trudeau did legalize weed after the first election he won.
It’s just that it was such a popular move I believe it’s the reason he’s been around for so long. It bought a ton of good will with the public.
Yep. I mean, Harper was shit too and also did not legalize weed.
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
Wasn’t that really the days of Digg? I can’t even remember such eons ago…
I sadly was one of those duped, hot off of reading Atlas Shrugged no less at a more impressionable time in my life. Thank fuck I crawled my way out.
Bit easy to dismiss millions of people because they aren’t cynical or bitter and then equating that to basically being young and dumb. Perhaps reality is what it is because it’s always the Bush’ and Clinton’s, who only marginally affect the status quo, and never the Ron Paul’s, who see inherent issues with the system, or ‘reality’, and at least have somewhat of an inclination to improve it.
To me, a European, he was one of the very few, if any, candidates that made sense and seemed consistent in how he voted and spoke. And I consider myself to be quite libertarian.
I don’t really understand your remark to be honest, other than shoehorning the “he made a racist remark” thing into the conversation. Perhaps you could elaborate.
The point is that Ron Paul was a true, modern, libertarian in that his “freedom” and “liberty” shtick was always about freedom to do segregation via “freedom of association” and other such nonsense. Ron Paul created the libertarian to fascist pipeline because libertarianism has mever been anything but veiled racism
Your entire theory hinges on a racist remark that he didn’t even write and was possibly unaware of. Unless I’m missing something groundbreaking on page 2 and 3 of that article which I can’t read because it’s paywalled.
Is there anything Ron Paul did politically that would suggest fascist ideologies? The word is thrown around a lot these days.
Ron Paul and his son are Russian stooges. They only give a shit about money.
Been waiting a long time for this.
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
I don’t think Tim Walz was chosen to attract left-wing voters. He’s not center left or far left.
I agree with you that the Democrats tend to ignore the left, and it’s incredible annoying, but at the same time in my opinion Harris is a better candidate than Hillary was. It’s a small improvement, but it’s an improvement. (Obviously this depends on your views on various issues, so you could disagree reasonably enough.)
“Results”
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.
Actually the power of executive orders are very broad
Only if the Supreme Court is on your side, otherwise they make up some bullshit about it needing to go through Congress like they did with student loan forgiveness.
Yeah I view these statements more as “I’m going to tell you what you want to hear so you’ll elect me!”
This close to the election…
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.
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.
Good it needs to be done.
Biden went somewhere on this?
He’s having it rescheduled to schedule 3 which puts medical in the clear.
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
But I didn’t want to be a cowboy. :(
Space cowboy? Spaced out cowboy?
Well… Some people call me the Space Cowboy…
Then again, some call me the gangster of love.
Some people call me Maurice and that’s weird because it’s just not my name.
While I complete and totally agree that it should be legalized, or at least federally rescheduled and completely decriminalized, I worry about what happens when it’s federally regulated and taxed.
If it is federally legalized and taxed, it will likely become the domain of the ATF, who will
take overcontinue kicking in doors and doing raids on anyone who is not a huge corporate grower. Marlboro has already trademarked Marlboro Greens and I’m sure every other tobacco giant has their branding ready.Leaving regulation and taxation to each state is probably better long term, otherwise it’s just going to be a corporate cash grab with established local growers and suppliers getting screwed.
Regardless, it should be completely legal to grow it in your back yard.
Oh I didn’t say it made sense, especially in comparison to other legally produced intoxicants. If things made sense, we wouldn’t have gestures widely.
But in the nonsensical paradigm, relegating the legal status of a recreational drug to the state level would be appropriate, and most certainly a step in the right direction. More to the point, I don’t see it being possible for the federal government to command nationwide legality of recreational cannabis. This is why I made a separate statement about medical use.
The federal government doesn’t need to command that though. They can say that it is federally legal but still allow individual states or smaller governmental divisions to make it illegal. That’s not how it should be, but that is how it works with alcohol, which is why there are dry counties and why Utah can regulate the amount of alcohol in its beer and wine.
That’s kind of what I was saying. Recreational cannabis would be appropriately handled just like that, while preserving the right of all Americans to receive certain kinds of medical care (Roe) should be federally guaranteed, regardless of what state you live in.
All these drugs you cite as negative examples have a really good safety profile. So no idea why you do that.
- I didn’t cite them as negative examples.
- Amanita muscaria can, as I said, kill you.
- Let’s see tobacco’s good safety profile.
I agree on tobacco, maybe some DIY type of vaping is OK.
The rest is fine and if you consume any of these plants like fly agaric then you just have to know what you are doing.
Compared to alcohol anamita muscaria may have a better profile.
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 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.
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!
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.
This is such a ridiculous expression and I wish people would quit using it to shut down valid criticism and justify inaction from our leaders.
You see a homeless guy starving on the sidewalk and give him a penny to go buy food. It’s obviously not enough to buy anything and he objects, but you tell him “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. You should be thankful for what I’ve given you.”
Rapist Brock Turner rapes a girl behind a dumpster at school. He’s given probation for the crime. “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Be thankful that he’s being punished for his crime.”
Trump passes his tax bill in 2018 giving permanent cuts to wealthy individuals while middle and lower classes get a temporary cut along with the removal of some credits and caps on SALT deductions. This widens the income inequality in our country but since we got a couple of years of lower tax bills, “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good…”
Just stop it.
I’m sorry, but if you can’t accept legalization of cannabis without a public apology, I would say “letting the perfect be the enemy of the good” is exactly the right phrase to use.
You’re right, no one really cares about a public apology. Just like this entire story, it’s only words.
What really matters is advocacy for those nonviolent drug “offenders”. They deserve release from jail, an end to probation, an expungement of criminal records, and reparations for the losses they suffered.
Kamala issuing a pro-legalization press release is the path of least resistance for her. If she actually stood on principle she would advocate to expunge the criminal records of all nonviolent drug offenders that her DA office prosecuted. But even that is just the words of a politician- what really matters is policy change.
You literally said:
If she actually had a change of heart, she should apologize to the nonviolent victims she chose to prosecute and incarcerate.
Do you care about a public apology or not?
There’s no indication that legalization is happening. What we’ve gotten is a simple statement that may or may not be true.
That’s because she hasn’t been elected yet.
You know she’s just the vice president, right?
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?
I didn’t say I expected her to legalize it right now nor am i looking for an apology. You’re mocking the other poster and claiming “she’s changed her mind” without any evidence apart from a basic statement from her that could prove to be completely false for all we know (which was the whole point of their comment).
I’m not mocking anything. The person I responded to said:
If she actually had a change of heart, she should apologize to the nonviolent victims she chose to prosecute and incarcerate.
That’s what a different user said not the top-level commentor, which is who you were replying to when I replied to you here (though I made a separate reply to you in a different chain so I understand the confusion).
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.
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!
