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    Last Friday it was reported that Trump told donors at an event that he is considering reclassifying marijuana from its current Schedule I level

    That contradicts the title. Trump is looking at making it more legal, not less.

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    Lol. This is probably the only reason people haven’t revolted. Take away this, and they’ll overthrow you.

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    No country of potheads has ever thrived, or ever achieved anything at all.

    Dude’s obviously never been to Silicon Valley, lol.

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    Honestly, it wasn’t that hard to get illegal marijuana. All this will do is cut tax revenue and increase crime.

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      Republicans don’t actually want to stop crime. They want to act like tough guys, punish those they don’t like and make sure their “team” can get away with crimes.

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    Matt Walsh is one of the most smarmy fucks around. I swear, some people listen to him because he has a nice haircut and smile.

    I only wish he was older, like Trump, so we wouldn’t expect to have him on the earth for another two decades.

    Trying to rewind the USA back to when we were all smoking cigarettes and drinking whisky is insane.

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    “Our society thrived when everyone was smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey,” wrote Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh, completely ignoring the countless, well-documented, negative impacts (violence and death) of those two American vices. “We became the most powerful nation in the world with liquor and nicotine. No country of potheads has ever thrived, or ever achieved anything at all. Every city that legalized it became an even bigger shithole basically overnight. The entire history of western civilization tells us that marijuana is far, far worse for society.”

    Dumbest fucking take I’ve read regarding weed in the U.S. in probably the past two decades. This is another one of those things that’s like so low on the list of outrageous things that require attention right now, but it’s just so fucking unbelievably dumb that it somehow becomes salient enough to be noticable above the chaos that is the normal background.

    The way he is so confidently trying to gaslight society like an overbearing parent, as if we have no frame of reference regarding marijuana policy other than what we learned in D.A.R.E.

    Those shithole cities with their absurd abundance of tax revenue from marijuana sales.

    Opioid sparing effects in Medicare enrollees with access to medical marijuana.

    Fewer lives ruined due to a reduction of nonviolent incarceration rates.

    I’m not sure what kind of utopia Matt Walsh believes he is advocating for by rolling back even more evidence based progress, but it sounds like a shithole.

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    I’m so sick of these fucking dweebs and I don’t want to share oxygen with them anymore.

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      Which does have backing. This is coming out because Trump said he wanted to reschedule THC. Not all of MAGA is behind this.

      Anyway, release the Epstein files.

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    No country of pot heads ever thrived

    Uh… Dude doesn’t even know US history. Our biggest cultivated product pre-revolution was hemp. Several founding fathers, including Washington, cultivated and consumed cannabis. We are a country of pot heads. While the driving forces to ban it here were entirely because of racism and greed.

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    No shit, it’s a fantastic excuse to arrest and detain/deport people for holding plants while you’re out there obliterating 4th amendment rights.

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    Well, now I’m gonna have some weed tonight just to spite them. I’m in Canada so they aren’t coming for mine…yet

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    “Our society thrived when everyone was smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey,” wrote Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh, completely ignoring the countless, well-documented, negative impacts (violence and death) of those two American vices. “We became the most powerful nation in the world with liquor and nicotine. No country of potheads has ever thrived, or ever achieved anything at all. Every city that legalized it became an even bigger shithole basically overnight. The entire history of western civilization tells us that marijuana is far, far worse for society.”

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      Combine it with this quote:

      Far-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec called people smoking weed outside a “huge factor” in violent crime in Washington, D.C. “States with legal weed you can just smell it all over in public,” he continued. “Can’t take kids anywhere.”

      Because everything was so great when there was a nicotine haze in every restaurant. I don’t even like the smell of burning a joint, but I’ll take it over shitty cigarettes.

      I do admit that a good cigar can smell really nice. But I have a family history of asthma as it is, and there’s no way I’m touching one.

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      “Our society thrived when everyone was smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey,”

      Correlation vs causation.

      You could say “we became the most powerful nation in the world with leaded gasoline and asbestos”. They were around at the same time too.

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    This is a fantastic way to get non violent citizens locked up in for profit prisons for years on the taxpayers dime where shareholders profit.