Cannabis: Is America Getting Close to Legalising Weed? – TLDR News
Cannabis: Is America Getting Close to Legalising Weed? – TLDR News
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America is slowly edging toward a more liberal attitude toward cannabis, so we wanted to discuss how states are approaching the thorny problem and get into the weeds of the cannabis debate
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Tennessee: yea it’s not surprising this state has not legalized weed
Prohibition used to include alcohol and now doesn’t. The problem of where to draw the line on what is a harmful substance is one of public attitudes and changing those is like steering an ocean liner. The front end has been turning for half an hour before the other end even knows. Cannabis has been legal across Canada for a few years and during lock down was made an essential service. There has been no societal break down and the gray area market has been shrinking. The US is an even bigger ship but that is the direction it will go.
This video made be realize what day it was
Make it legal. Simple as.
Clever to do this on April 20th
Oh Amsterdam is banning tourists from buying weed because that would ‘help’ regulation and these tourists will of course not go to dealers now which may sell synthetic weed…. We started off great but legalization is far away in The Netherlands….
Step 1) Congress passes bill legalising marijuana. Step 2) Law declared unconstitutional on the grounds that "legalize" was misspelled several times throughout the bill.
The US is much more liberal about weed than europe.
Did you miss the recent law congress passed that is now awaiting the senate?
no because Supremacy Clause
Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the U.S. Constitution is commonly referred to as the Supremacy Clause. It establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions. It prohibits states from interfering with the federal government’s exercise of its constitutional powers, and from assuming any functions that are exclusively entrusted to the federal government. It does not, however, allow the federal government to review or veto state laws before they take effect.
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The precedent that the federal government can regulate intrastate commerce should be thrown out; it was made after FDR blackmailed SCOTUS (they had previously said otherwise before being blackmailed)
I’m from Colorado which was one of the first states to fully legalize pot and it happened when I was pretty young so It’s always been a non issue where I live unless you’re driving
links to aggression…LOL the only aggression is tearing into a box of hoho’s =D
Laughs in Canadian while smoking a joint before eating my poutine
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Legalization isn’t the only issue.
Are communities prepared for the negative consequences and costs of adding another self-administered chemical which will have detrimental to many users? I’m not talking about recreational users akin to social drinkers, I’m talking about the soon-to-be-minted daily stoners who are constantly under the influence and unable to participate in a functional adult life.
States issue and except for at the country border and at the state border, via the commerce clause, the fed has no power under the Constitution.
And hilariously the U.K. is now far stricter regarding cannabis, with no plans to change it in the next 10 years with their ramping up policy. Even medically it’s almost impossible to get hold of, even if it’s a known treatment and yet no one can get it on the NHS, it’s shameful
Can’t dispensaries use crypto …
I live in MD here, half of the people here are pot heads and the other half don’t really care. My only gripe with it is the youth and how so many young people use it. Also it smells like crap
Americans got psy-op’d by the elites and owners of the interconnected businesses of the prison system. Prison owners literally MAKE MONEY off of how many people they can fill. Its rigged. Its always been rigged. The working class are cattle to be stuck and bled dry. This is why the general perception of the justice system has turned to one of "you’re guilty until you can prove your innocence".
The raegan and nixon administrations, let alone the individuals themselves, did so much more damage to this country than people fully realize. They literally sold out the american people, black working class to be specific in most cases, to line their pockets.
Its not enough to have a distaste for neo-liberal capitalism. You have to actively disdain it, in order to fully realize what it has become, and it has done to western society.
Next thing you got to worry about is Big pharma regulating.
There are plenty of Republican voters out there that approve of legalizing both medical and recreational marijuana but also all of the Republicans in Congress have consistently opposed marijuana legalization legislation, including, most recently, the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act.
Smoked it for the first time a few days ago. My first thought of the underwhelming experience was "Wait…THIS is what government banned for decades and ruined peoples lives over with prison and convictions????"
The federal government should stay away from marijuana legislation. Let each state make their own decisions. People from different states are entitled to their own opinions.
It’s about time that it gets legalized.
The only reason for it to be illegal is racism and economic protectionism, as there is no medical reason why it should remain, or in fact, ever have been illegal.
Stop using the slang "weed", you’re trying to be a legitimate news outlet.
What about the uk?
today is hitler birthday
"You want to know what this was really all about," Ehrlichman, who died in 1999, said in the interview after Baum asked him about Nixon’s harsh anti-drug policies.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying," Ehrlichman continued.
"We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
Mitch and the Filibuster (thanks to Senator Sinema and Senator Manchin) will make sure, no progress will be made.
Yeah, as someone who despises weed, it still should be legalized. Someone changed my mind on legalization with this simple phrase, "I have the right to be wrong", and in my books that’s probably the best definition of freedom I have heard.
Td;dr news dropping this video today is brilliant
Also I have a question: if states can just do whatever they want with regards to this what’s preventing say Ron DeSantis from telling Joe Biden that he won’t enforce any of his mask mandates?
This will damage average IQ, guaranteed.
POST YOUR SOURCES
There will be plenty of states who refuse to legalize.
Joe Trudeau. I’m in favour of legalization even though it gives me anxiety and I don’t smoke it. It seems ridiculous.
I’m watching this video on 4/20 in California as I’m smoking weed.
Grow it legally and end the cartels.
So you’re just gonna talk about weed legalization in the United States and not even mention the MORE Act which passed the House that would legalize weed on the federal level at all? Wtf????
American society has become too lax on drugs of all kinds.
Smoking of anything is bad for your health. Psychoactive drugs in general(including THC) are also worthy of bans as well. Nation of druggies.
You forgot to highlight Connecticut when mentioning states that legalized recreational cannabis.
The fact that state and federal laws can contradict each other is retarded.
I’m for it if it’s kept behind closed doors (actually might want to leave a door open) and to their own social functions (if they want to socialise).
But does a problem lie in more people taking up this dirty unhealthy habit and becoming pot heads.
Biden’s too big of a "drug warrior", despite having a coke-head son, to de-schedule/legalize weed.
I doubt it. It’s used by the federal government as a tool to disenfranchise and imprison people, why would they want to lose such a useful control tool? You think they’re going to let go of that kind of power willingly?
It has nothing to do with how ‘harmful’ it may be, that is the ‘feel good story’ that they tell to appeal to people’s sense of what is right and good. We still let people smoke as much tobacco as they please and only in recent decades have rules been put in place to try to protect people from getting second-hand cancer. If they really cared about protecting us from harmful smoking, tobacco would have never been legal.
Use of cannabis was made illegal to specifically target and incriminate certain people, and it’s politically motivated.
That’s an interesting historical overview, but was there really no need for a mention of the "War On Drugs" or how persecution of drug users stood as an excuse for the discrimination and stigmatization of minorities? Those are kind of hot topics over on the other side of the Atlantic.
I live in Oregon, where it’s legal, and we haven’t all bursted into flames yet