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I find myself siding with Republicans more in the last few years than I have in the past, but their continued opposition to marijuana legalization baffles me.
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Originally Posted by Sassybluesy
It doesn't have to be by smoking. There are edibles for example.
Edibles are not controlled very well at all. There are many instances where a person has a low tolerance to THC, and the brownies from one vendor to another vary greatly, resulting in some people experiencing an overdose.
If there were insufficient safety regulations to control the products being produced, I could understand why legislators would vote against it. It just might be that the dems voted for the bill, not caring if the products were not controlled properly, resulting in complete chaos from one vendor's product to another.
If people were buying beer, that was not sufficiently labeled to inform the customer. If some beer were 80%, and some were 4% alcohol, and some had other ingredients that created additional reactions that would be unexpected by customers, then would you be beating up Republicans for not approving a bill that did not regulate the alcohol industry to set proper safety standards?
there are 1001 uses for cannabis than getting high
why did the democrats make it illegal in 1937.... they believed the yellow journalism, the same false propaganda that the republicans are still falling for
Some people aren’t just ignorant, they’re willfully ignorant. Weed is one of the subject that I think a fairly large number of people stay willfully ignorant on.
The Virginia Legislature approved adult-use marijuana legalization Saturday in a historic vote marking the first state in the Old South to embrace full legalization.
The House passed the measure in a 48-43 vote, and the Senate approved it in a 20-19 vote. Not a single Republican voted for the bill in either chamber.
The biggest lobbying group against legalization of pot is the Alcohol and bar industry.
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The Beer, Wine, & Liquor industry contributed more than $17 million to federal candidates in the last election and has funded opponents of ballot initiatives to legalize marijuana.
There should be 3-4 parties in US. Liberal, Capitalist, Socialist*, Conservatives.
Not socialist -- either Social Democrats or Democratic Socialists. Virtually no one in the U.S. supports true socialism where the government owns the means of production.
Not socialist -- either Social Democrats or Democratic Socialists. Virtually no one in the U.S. supports true socialism where the government owns the means of production.
yet "democrats" like Maxine Waters wanted to nationalize (government ownership) the oil industry, specifically BP when the problem arose in the gulf..... the funniest thing is BP is not even American (British Petroleum )
William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane) (Democrat) and the Hearst Paper Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned vast acreage of timberlands. The Hearst Company supplied most paper products. Patty Hearst's grandfather, a destroyer of nature for his own personal profit, stood to lose billions because of hemp.
In 1937, Dupont patented the processes to make plastics from oil and coal. Dupont's Annual Report urged stockholders to invest in its new petrochemical division. Synthetics such as plastics, cellophane, celluloid, methanol, nylon, rayon, Dacron, etc., could now be made from oil. Natural hemp industrialization would have ruined over 80% of Dupont's business.
Harry J. Anslinger, was appointed to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by FDR and approved by the democrat controlled congress
A media blitz of 'yellow journalism' raged in the late 1920s and 1930s. Hearst's newspapers ran stories emphasizing the horrors of marihuana. The menace of marihuana made headlines. Readers learned that it was responsible for everything from car accidents to loose morality.
Films like 'Reefer Madness' (1936), 'Marihuana: Assassin of Youth' (1935) and 'Marihuana: The Devil's Weed' (1936) were propaganda designed by these industrialists to create an enemy. Their purpose was to gain public support so that anti-marihuana laws could be passed.
Reefer Madness did not end with the usual 'the end.' The film concluded with these words plastered on the screen: TELL YOUR CHILDREN.
In the 1930s, people were very naïve; even to the point of ignorance. The masses were like sheep waiting to be led by the few in power. They did not challenge authority. If the news was in print or on the radio, they believed it had to be true. They told their children and their children grew up to be the parents of the baby-boomers.
On April 14, 1937, the Prohibitive Marihuana Tax Law or the bill that outlawed hemp was directly brought to the House Ways and Means Committee. This committee is the only one that can introduce a bill to the House floor without it being debated by other committees.
In September of 1937, hemp became illegal. The most useful crop known became a drug and our planet has been suffering ever since.
Congress banned hemp because it was said to be the most violence-causing drug known. Anslinger, head of the Drug Commission for 31 years, promoted the idea that marihuana made users act extremely violent. In the 1950s, under the Communist threat of McCarthyism, Anslinger now said the exact opposite. Marijuana will pacify you so much that soldiers would not want to fight.
…POT IS ILLEGAL BECAUSE LIBERAL BILLIONAIRES WANT TO REMAIN BILLIONAIRES!
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