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U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar: Marijuana Must Be Legalized Nationwide to Fight Economic Inequality
Cannabus Business Times/Newsweek ^ | 7-9-19

Posted on 07/10/2019 3:40:55 PM PDT by SJackson

Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar called on the federal government to take the lead in legalizing marijuana nationwide, warning that legal differences between states was exacerbating economic inequality.

The progressive Minnesota representative told BET that the federal government — which has long considered marijuana a medically unnecessary, illegal drug on par with heroin and cocaine — should strive to ensure consistency between states on the issue, according to the Star Tribune.

"What happens [without full legalization] is you will have a state where someone is publicly and professionally able to profit and the next state, someone could be sent to life [in prison] for it," Omar told BET.

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To: SJackson
She figures she’ll get votes for using two buzzwords in the same sentence.

She's a walking "twofer"---popular with Dems. Actually, three (black,female,Muslim).

Omar's draft of original version of speech:

Doobie ready to hear me. Let me be blunt. I reefer you to the unfair drug laws Rep.Tlaib and I mentioned in a joint statement. It is high time we stopped letting grass grow under our feet and took some action. Our country can go to pot.

Note: There are 4,200 slang terms for marijuana and smoking it. Doobie is from the 16th Century (Time Mag,Apr.20,2017 article).

21 posted on 07/10/2019 4:30:00 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we afought for theire finished.)
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To: monkeyshine

If marijuana is going to combat income inequality, then that means you’d have to make all the poor people dealers.

I wonder how long that would last before some dealers want to be richer than others and begin to shoot their own.


22 posted on 07/10/2019 4:40:28 PM PDT by wildbill
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To: SJackson
TRANSLATION:

"STONED VOTERS VOTE DEMOCRAT!"

23 posted on 07/10/2019 4:49:24 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: SJackson

Wow. Just wow! Legalize marijuana to address economic inequality?! As I have said before, she is as stupid as she is hateful.


24 posted on 07/10/2019 4:53:48 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: SaveFerris
I can just imagine her traveling to Saudi Arabia, Iran or Singapore while toting a couple pounds of grass. Probably wouldn’t see her for 7 years or more.

In Saudi Arabia that's a capital crime. Especially when committed by a foreign female.

25 posted on 07/10/2019 4:55:45 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: SJackson

has this foreigner ever heard of states rights or what it is all about?

Nope but ignorance has never stopped her from running her mouth.

I’m wondering how her husband\brother is doing.

Isn’t incest a federal crime in this country?


26 posted on 07/10/2019 4:56:09 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: Rummyfan

I would imagine so.


27 posted on 07/10/2019 4:59:01 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: wildbill

I have no idea what she meant by income inequality as it relates to marijuana. That’s why I said it sounded like a sentence generated by a grievance bot.

From my first read of the story I thought she was complaining about income inequality by the states - e.g. those that haven’t legalized it don’t have the extra tax revenue.


28 posted on 07/10/2019 5:16:41 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: frank ballenger
Your comment is wasted on me. We'd be better off as country inventing new things than trying to profit from such a seedy business.
29 posted on 07/10/2019 5:20:16 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: SJackson

Look. Pot should not be legal. If you want it, man-up and get it on the black market like everyone else. Government is just trying to get their taste of the action. Wet their collective beak, As it were.


30 posted on 07/10/2019 5:27:11 PM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: wildbill
that means you’d have to make all the poor people dealers

On my second read of the story, that is sort of what she is saying. Except she isn't talking about poor people per se - just people. Thing that escapes her logic is that poor people don't generally invest in new businesses of any kind. There is probably more money for people in the weed game keeping it illegal. But also more risk. In the legal trade there are now many layers and lots of overhead from growers to distributors to retailers to the landlords to the state taxes to the income taxes paid by all. In the illegal game there are levels of distribution I'm sure too but not as much regulatory oversight or overhead costs. Personally don't think its worth sending anyone to prison for weed but that wasn't her point.

31 posted on 07/10/2019 5:27:35 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: monkeyshine

Legalize drugs for everyone over age 65.


32 posted on 07/10/2019 5:28:54 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: SJackson

Damn I need a Primo Cigar!!


33 posted on 07/10/2019 5:29:24 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: monkeyshine

How does marijuana fight economic inequality? didn’t i just read where oregon has 6 YEARS yes YEARS of surplus smoke laying around?. How does giving dope heads legal permission to grow a WEED help them? They would to better to collect aluminium cans and sell them


34 posted on 07/10/2019 5:37:34 PM PDT by Ikeon (My white privilege was my momma wasnt a ho and my daddy lived with us and kicked my ass as needed.)
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To: butlerweave

The break between Islam and Christianity in Eastern Europe and Asia is referred to as the VH Line. Vodka to the north. Hashish to the south.


35 posted on 07/10/2019 5:43:28 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: SJackson

She probably will.


36 posted on 07/10/2019 6:04:18 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: SJackson

aww hell girl, leave weed out of your perv religion stuff


37 posted on 07/10/2019 6:11:30 PM PDT by aces (and)
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To: SJackson

It’s already legal dumbass Muzzie fool


38 posted on 07/10/2019 6:24:27 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Ikeon

Does weed even last that long before growing fungus or otherwise spoiling? I know that you can get a fresh crop every 10-12 weeks or so. Grows fast. Like weeds. Why stockpile it?


39 posted on 07/10/2019 6:26:38 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: frank ballenger
There are 4,200 slang terms for marijuana and smoking it.

I thought there were only 420 terms.

40 posted on 07/10/2019 6:29:26 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Heaven has gates and walls but Hell has an open border policy. Food for thought.)
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