How The Republican Party Learned To Love Cannabis Legalization

With Donald Trump’s support for Florida’s pro-pot Amendment 3 and the expected federal rescheduling of marijuana, here’s why the GOP finally jumped on the weed bandwagon.

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50 Comments

  1. @Railrider-l5y on January 28, 2025 at 4:00 am

    All about the $$!! 🥱

  2. @michaelwightman4358 on January 28, 2025 at 4:02 am

    No difference than tobacco, just healthy

  3. @petev.2120 on January 28, 2025 at 4:02 am

    Imagine thinking it was ever used by only one party….

  4. @davidhairston1542 on January 28, 2025 at 4:03 am

    Calling patient’s potheads like this author is true to the dirty filthy progressive history of refer madness which did not start with the moron progressive Nixon. It started with progressive prohibitionist in the early 1930’s. Read any objective history of Harry J and longer an WJ Hearst and the true roots of filthy progressivism becomes clear. This piece is pitiful.

  5. @ConnorMcSweeney-n1x on January 28, 2025 at 4:04 am

    Love it.

  6. @markdunigan805 on January 28, 2025 at 4:04 am

    Maybe the ones that learned to love it can talk to the Republican tyrants of Ohio and convince them to stop dicking around with our voter supported recreational legalization of marijuana. They handicapped it going out of the gate and are trying to cripple it with even more restrictions. Same goes for the medical program. You can drive to Michigan and get the same potency Ohio sells as medicinal through their recreational program,no medical card at $200-250 annually,no price gouging there. I’m convinced the states Republican legislators are continuing to do their best to torpedo the program.

  7. @rakridge on January 28, 2025 at 4:05 am

    It’s time to legalize for recreational use everywhere. This has gone on too long.

  8. @23Robusto on January 28, 2025 at 4:05 am

    I am 100% in favor of…..what were we talking about again?

  9. @ElizabethHurtado-py8ur on January 28, 2025 at 4:07 am

    ⬆️🇺🇲🇺🇲🖊️

  10. @9Crow on January 28, 2025 at 4:08 am

    and if you grow it your own in your Garden outside you can test it yourself once you roll it up and light it. What tests? no need for that.

  11. @dontcare3430 on January 28, 2025 at 4:09 am

    Wisconsin is ruled, not represented.
    Our gop would rather send us to prison for a plant than " let us " have what was never theirs to take from us in the first place.
    50000 a year for incarcerated person.
    That’s your tax dollars working against you.
    For somebody else to profit from it.

  12. @levicnall on January 28, 2025 at 4:12 am

    Just Federal legalize it!

  13. @hommie422 on January 28, 2025 at 4:17 am

    Why not all amounts of cannabis? Oh yeah they want all the money. Weird how I could buy 20kegs of beer and 200hundred cartons of cigarettes but I can’t get menthol unless I drive to an Indian owned gas station.

  14. @culperjr.122 on January 28, 2025 at 4:17 am

    If alcohol is legal there is no reason why cannabis should not be.

  15. @ThomasRogers-h4g on January 28, 2025 at 4:17 am

    It should be legal in every state every city and be taxed. Our national debt would be gone in no time. Let’s face it alcohol is more deadly dangerous and can turn even the best man evil quick. You never heard of someone on pot killing a family because they were on the wrong side of the road. Pot is not a gateway drug if anything is its alcohol but we just tax it and it’s legal. Bull cockka 😅

  16. @DarronMitchell-j5g on January 28, 2025 at 4:18 am

    The gov needs to restructure the government like we do our cities some times you got to build to change while other times you got to change in order to grow so change shouldn’t be looked at as bad it should be embraced like a child being born into the world

  17. @4NT0N10MZC on January 28, 2025 at 4:21 am

    Cause what’s more American than marijuana? Even Washington himself had a plantation dedicated to growing the lord’s loud

  18. @tphillips33 on January 28, 2025 at 4:21 am

    How is it fair to be fired for off duty marijuana use. But alcohol is ok for off duty use. Maybe federal workers should not show up for work until it is legalized federally.

  19. @buzzardwhiskey on January 28, 2025 at 4:21 am

    We’ve gone as far as we’re gonna go toward legalization. From here on out, as fascism takes hold here and across the planet, pot will once again be demonized.

  20. @angelajones8153 on January 28, 2025 at 4:23 am

    He only speaks of legalization in Florida. We want it legal federally

  21. @JamesTankersley-l6h on January 28, 2025 at 4:24 am

    🇺🇸

  22. @ghostmantagshome-er6pb on January 28, 2025 at 4:24 am

    good people like it too

  23. @maxcyhicks875 on January 28, 2025 at 4:25 am

    South Carolina would be unstoppable if we legalize thc. This should have been the first southern state to legalize.

  24. @SpenceCurry on January 28, 2025 at 4:25 am

    Christian magas want rollback to fiftirs penalties

  25. @RazaSyed12345 on January 28, 2025 at 4:26 am

    who knows the republicas might actually get legislation passed , the democrats are better at pretending to care

  26. @JoshWoody-w1g on January 28, 2025 at 4:26 am

    Its all about the dollar that is what they want and the people who smoke bud just want to smoke that is it we have no problem with the laws that we all have to follow just the one about ganja

  27. @ConnorMcSweeney-n1x on January 28, 2025 at 4:27 am

    Légalise it.

  28. @stonehalo1632 on January 28, 2025 at 4:27 am

    Still dont hear them saying anything about owning a gun and smoking. If an alcoholic can own one so should a pothead.

  29. @Cityplace2711 on January 28, 2025 at 4:28 am

    I get the sense, especially because they elected a felon, it’s part of the "pro-crime party" spirit.

  30. @orlandocastaneda4107 on January 28, 2025 at 4:29 am

    $$$

  31. @tompatterson5453 on January 28, 2025 at 4:30 am

    Could you talk to the Indiana governor?

  32. @Mason-i8b9i on January 28, 2025 at 4:32 am

    Weed helped me quit drugs and cigarettes

  33. @timothymccarthy7378 on January 28, 2025 at 4:32 am

    Medical marijuana should be available to disabled, in All of the USA… If you really care

  34. @WhoWhatWhenandWhy on January 28, 2025 at 4:34 am

    ECONOMICS, pure and simple

  35. @Mossy-lm2qs on January 28, 2025 at 4:34 am

    Buy $IGC IT IS READY FOR A HUGE RUN😊

  36. @CROWGUN on January 28, 2025 at 4:36 am

    Opiates are killing people

  37. @eddieo2824 on January 28, 2025 at 4:39 am

    It appears that the endocannabinoid system is intimately involved in tissue healing in the face of inflammatory conditions, correlating clinically with prevention and treatment of inflammation-mediated painThanking all growers breeders cultivators lovers of the master plant. She breeds passion and homeostasis cb2 receptor inhibits sars2. Ganja is a medicinal treasure trove. Support your local farmers peace and love.

  38. @Rork333 on January 28, 2025 at 4:41 am

    Every state needs to legalize recreationally or we will never have this become legalized. The united states signed a united nation international treaty in 1961 which both prohibits marijuana as well as negating the deas rescheduling procedure and locking marijuana in at a schedule one or two and is not allowed to be rescheduled lower based on this treaty referred to as the single convention on narcotics of 1961. Until this treaty is ratified to supersede the deas scheduling by utilizing known facts on whether the drugs meet the actual criteria for classification as a controlled substance weed will never be federally legal as it’s internationally illegal

  39. @dominator5621 on January 28, 2025 at 4:42 am

    I vote conservative and have supported legalization. Problem is the politicians want to stuff their pockets and protect the wealthy to be the only ones able to sell. Sadly most politicians both democrat and republican do the same thing. If the government was a private organization we would have fired it yesterday!

  40. @janiceelder7066 on January 28, 2025 at 4:42 am

    Should be legal, safer than alcohol and opioids, saves your Liver

  41. @The_Oblivion_Light on January 28, 2025 at 4:43 am

    Here is a thought…You can legalize it 100% all you want, but you can still lose your job. Working people smoke weed too, but it is a high risk, with pun intended regardless of legality. Even with non-infused hemp, a spectacular option for people to enjoy a short live euphoric trip without a ridiculous mind altering high, it is non-psychoactive, though with .3% of Delta 9 THC, it can and will show up in your system for drug test because they are just looking for THC period and don’t distinguish between D8, D9, HHC and other THC related cannabinoids. The problem is the THCa in hemp adds on to delta 9 when heated where it can turn that .3% into up to 10%-15% of Delta 9 and even higher depending on the percentage of THCa that is present. Perhaps they need to adjust the 50ng threshold to drug test where the THC in hemp wont trigger a fail. You may have learned something as well. THCa is a natural cannabinoid in buds that is legal, but can technically turn hemp flower into marijuana just from heating it up e.g. smoking it. That is why THCa flower has become popular in the past year. It is like a tootsie roll pop… Its two candies in one.

  42. @MrNetnut on January 28, 2025 at 4:43 am

    Alcohol Kills , Cannabis Heals ! Which Is Legal ?
    Home Grown Is Good , Teaches Folks To Be Sufficient .
    Big Monies Talk ,To Politicians /;-((
    The Lies Run Deep , In This World..
    I’m 71yrs Old , Been lied To For 60+yrs, Both Parties ! Do The Damn Thing.

  43. @hrvstmusic on January 28, 2025 at 4:44 am

    This is bullshit tho cause you just gotta look at Texas to know republicans still hate weed

  44. @vedacarmony5754 on January 28, 2025 at 4:46 am

    When I brewed beer at home, I never worried about the cops busting me for HAVING TOO MUCH BEER.

  45. @trekkintexan5160 on January 28, 2025 at 4:47 am

    Someone needs to tell Dan Patrick, down here in Texas. Even when the citizens vote for decriminalization, he sues the city. Despicable man

  46. @chottozumi on January 28, 2025 at 4:51 am

    Please place absolute and total ban on tobacco and alcohol products, including mouthwash.
    They insist the above two are so bad and marijuana is just so great and dandy.
    And, magic mushrooms are just fine, too, are they not??
    Investigate why Americans have been force other countries to legalize all those dope products.
    Just an aside, even the announcer in this video sounds like he is doped up.

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    Amazing video, A friend of mine referred me to a financial adviser sometime ago and we got talking about investment and money. I started investing with $120k and in the first 2 months , my portfolio was reading $274,800. Crazy right!, I decided to reinvest my profit and gets more interesting. For over a year we have been working together making consistent profit just bought my second home 2 weeks ago and care for my family..

  48. @VideosBanales on January 28, 2025 at 4:55 am

    Im tired of smoking acetate vitamin E it makes me sick

  49. @juliogallo9920 on January 28, 2025 at 4:59 am

    we want to feel better so give us chance to seek contentment lay off repubs

  50. @MaryHardymsmary_h on January 28, 2025 at 5:00 am

    Money

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