Now he gets credit.

...where Democrats refused to go after the kind of political low-hanging fruit that might have made a difference in a national election. Does it win the presidency in the last election? No, but could it have made a difference in House races? Maybe.

As is alcohol.

But sure, let’s continue to perpetuate decades old yarns and tall tales. The reality is the overwhelming majority of people who use both don’t go on to be heroin addicts like you think.

Kamala Harris should have promised to do it. She probably would have won.

then it should be a priority for our elected Represenatives. I don't think anyone needs the government to tell them what they need or want, and our votes should reflect that.

are starting to get aches and pains and insomnia and other age related problems that are being successfully
managed by careful self-dosing of THC derived products. Often there are no pharmaceutical alternatives that
are affordable or without complications. I'm older - still working - and occasionally have age related soreness
and insomnia. When this happens, the availability of a gummie is a great thing. The pharmaceutical companies
would like to monetize it and charge you at least 5x as much for a derivative that's not as effective. And fuck that
soulless automaton aka Mitch McConnell. Even your family despises you bitch. Good job.

especially in the gen X age group

and Trump knows it

Pro-pot after misappropriating money away from other programs to fund his anti-pot campaign.

they are for whatever Trump is for.

DU posts in the last few weeks where GQP governors, Dee Whine from Ohio for one, are gonna make weed and all THC products illegal. With just his pen, make it law, damn what the voters have to say. Even overturning polices that the voters had a voice in on state ballots.
United States my ass. Just fifty big chucks of land with idiots in control, over riding constituents.
DICKtators spreading faster than measles.

...of the liquor lobby. Mitch McConnell was essentially responsible for the loophole in the farm bill that's allowed Delta-9 to be openly sold. Thanks to the boycotts of bourbon, he became the guy closed that loophole at the expense of the hemp growers in his state, which is among the largest hemp producers.

A THC and all cannabis extractions to be illegal policy into the BBB, just to fuck us all one more time before he is upside down on his shell for good.
The Canada boycott must be hitting the Bourbon capital in the Tuck pretty hard.
That lobby has big cash to pay for policies that make them cash. Or save their asses right now.

what I thought. Don’t know who put it in (not Trump I don’t think), but seems contradictory to make THC extraction illegal and he’s trying to reclassify THC to a schedule 3 to help those in cannabis industry to lower tax issues, but still will be illegal under federal law. How contradictory.

In Ohio, when we have a vote like that, we literally amend our state constitution, enshrining it into law. Now the GOP here are trying to mess with that as much as they can but anything that steps outside the bounds of what 57% of the state voted on in terms of legal weed will go to the courts and likely be overturned. But the Delta-whatever stuff being peddled in regular convenience stores is a whole other thing. Unlike what we get from the dispensaries, it is very wild west-ish, it needs more regulation and accountability at the least....

I've been a stoner in moderation for just about my entire adult life, so of course I'm pro-legalization and I'm pretty damn happy that I can just drive 3 miles and get quality bud. But we still want quality assurance yea? Its just like food safety, I don't want people selling mystery meats with no oversight.

Thanks for taking the time. Here in WNC we depend on other states to show the economic benefits and maybe these greedy ass repubs will jump onboard.
Not looking like NC will ever get past gerrymandering and every other act to keep power forever. Any that body thinks Virginia Foxx will allow the devils weed is tripping.
But moonshine and meth abounds all around.
Cherokee (legal on tribal land) is only about 20 away, but the damn local rural redneck cops hover around the boarder lines to “capture Hippies” like ICE does brown people.
Happy legal holidays to you.
Check out the 50 year anniversary release of “Wish you were here” yesterday. 3 disc set. Disc 2 are all Roger Demo’s and other takes with versions of songs that are really cool. Disc 1 are remasters and 3 is live. Disc 2 is awesome, my “Wish” is for a real blunt to hear it all. 😭 maybe someday. Local brew beer and wine will have to carry me through.
50 damn years!!!!!!!! Yes, I was a late sixties early seventies Hipper. Alive on original release.
Cheers!!🤜🏼🤛🏼

I have chronic, relentless pain. The doctors would do nothing for me - there's an opioid crisis, don't you know?

I was suicidal. My son knew I would not do anything illegal, so he recommended delta 8. It literally was a life saver.

And it has helped some people.

“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? 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?

“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.”

— John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon

Source: https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past-is-never-dead/drug-war-confessional

My mother believed that & I know she kept a close watch on me for a year or so, after she discovered I smoked weed. She finally softened her negative view of weed after watching the movie Nine to Five.

"It looked like fun," she said.

"LMK if you want to try some, Mom," I said.

"No...I don't think so."

Me:

Who are all Magats and all smoke cannabis daily will now tell me this administration is the most weed friendly administration ever. Awesome.

just a couple years ago, but in the most recent poll from October 2025, it had dropped to 40%. And when a bill wa voted on in 2022 which would legalize marijuana nationwide, only 3 Republicans in the House voted in favor of it, while over 200 voted against it. So, no, it has never and still doesn't have much support among Republican Politicians.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3256567-just-three-gop-lawmakers-back-marijuana-legalization-vote-two-dems-vote-no/#:~:text=Greg%20Nash,legislation%2C%20which%20passed%20on%20Friday.
Just three GOP lawmakers back marijuana legalization vote; two Dems vote ‘no’

They are certainly buying at the dispensaries though. They love getting that cannabis...er..CBD

Producers complain that Chinese interests have been buying up old farms and converting them into cannabis grow operations. Not sure how I feel about that if true.

The current situation in which dispensaries have to hold large quantities of cash because banks won't do business with them is dangerous for the businesses and their operators, suppresses investment and de-legitimizes the industry.

I am not American or in the US, but regardless my medical MJ co and doctor are always forefront in my mind in my rage against the machine. They are tentatively experimenting with legalization here, but I protest anything else being piled on top exploitatively or harassingly. It would only delegitimize the effort.

CBD without growing mj????

Rand Paul fought to remove this from the BBB and lost.

...of representing a state where conflicting interests (alcohol versus hemp) makes his vote more valuable, it looks like Rand Paul actually has an interest in serving his constituents most of the time. And please don't take that damning with faint praise as an endorsement of Paul. I consider him to mostly be a broken-clock crackpot.

Feds war on drugs.

to sell in unregulated markets. The law makes a distinction between hemp and marijuana, which is currently still illegal under federal law but tolerated in some states. (That may change on Monday.

Outside of those states, yeah people are out of luck. They will have to do what people do during prohibition, but you didn’t hear that from me.

"light up a big fatty", if that's what you want to call it,
and if any such big fatty actually existed.....!

I recall a coworker telling me that Trump would legalize pot
just before the 2016 election----

I realized that was not true at the time, nor had read about any statements
where he claimed that he would do so, but---
I didn't watch all of his rallies, so maybe I missed that particular lie

an enthusiastic marijuana user, and a lover of rock and roll,
and a Republican voter AT THE SAME TIME.....

The answer is obvious.

Men back and for money. He could care less about anything else.

He was always against it. Next thing he’ll be offering a buy in to Medicare for all.

as i understand he is proposing to reclassify medical cannabis to be the same class as prescription drugs and is likely to result in more federal control of the industry, and is probably only being done so trump cronies can get their cut via a federal tax on the product. trump simply identified a racket that he is not getting his piece of. fell free to mark my (insignificant) words, this will not be a positive move in the cannabis industry.

It's never really a "free market".

... as are the bottles of scotch, rum, vodka, absinthe, etc

bring on the "medical" marijuana.

After we pay for the recycling ... they still make more money off of it.

And don't get me started on Milorganite!!

ban." So what does this mean? One of my favorite candidates sent this to me. He probably will not win. It is Texas and he is a Dem so what should I do with this info.

The dispensaries here are having a fit. They oversaturated the market however. It seems every few miles you see another one.

Even with the new tax, it will still be considerably cheaper than Illinois dispensaries.

He said his views on weed evolved.