Posted on 08/23/2020 2:20:15 PM PDT by NobleFree
President Donald Trump hosted a campaign rally in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the same night the Democratic National Convention was scheduled to kick off in Milwaukee. While Democrats instead opted for a virtual conference to avoid spreading the coronavirus, Trump drew a crowd of at least 1,000 people.
In off-the-cuff remarks, Trump suggested to Republicans that if they wanted to win elections, they had to keep cannabis legalization off the ballot. Though the Trump Administration has attacked cannabis reform in behind-closed-doors proceedings and by blocking legislative action, this is the first time the President has made negative comments about cannabis in public. The next time you run please dont put marijuana on the ballot at the same time youre running, Trump said at the rally. You brought out like a million people that nobody ever knew were coming out.
The comments were directed at former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who was among the crowd and was ousted in the 2018 midterm election by Democratic challenger and current Gov. Tony Evers. But the 2018 gubernatorial race was heated with just over one percentage point of total votes separating Evers and Walker.
However, statewide legalization wasn't on the Wisconsin ballot in 2018. Instead a number of local advisory questions appeared in 16 counties, which all voted affirmatively they would support recreational or medical cannabis reform. But these voter approvals were nonbinding and only serve to gauge public sentiment on a given topic.
These ballot measures were placed there by elected officials in those individual counties. Walker had no role in placing them on the ballot, as Trump suggested. Data suggests those measures may have tipped the gubernatorial race Evers' favor. Official results show Evers gained significant votes in those 16 counties [...]
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Wrong - learn to read.
Wrong. There are few if any other currently illegal drugs that, like marijuana, are less harmful than the legal drug alcohol. So the case for marijuana legalization is strongest. Also, prudence dictates that we legalize in a measured manner - which means starting with the least harmful drug and seeing what lessons we learn before considering further legalizations.
Then savvy Republicans who support freedom should get a clue and support it. One not need be a fortune teller to figure out it will eventually be legal just about everywhere anyway. This is certainly no secret. Look at the data.
Learn to write, you didn’t specify anything. You were unintentionally right though.
You pick and choose hypocritically. You pick your favorite drug over the rest and then hold the torch for it.
What the GOP should do is let the legislature deal with the issue instead of putting it on the ballot.
At least Trump knows who his enemies are. A lot of here cozy up to them as well. Loser leftists, all of them.
Wrong - to the fully literate, my linking phrase "By contrast" made that specification.
You pick and choose hypocritically.
I make distinctions for the reasons I explain. I don't know if you're to stupid to get it - or if you hope other FReepers are.
For all your proselytizing and effort, I don’t think you’ve managed to change a single person’s mind in 20 years or so.
Legalizing drug abuse leads to more addictions, more mental cases, more out of control crime and big government spending. Look at what’s happening in the pothead states.
No, they don't. America has turned away from feeding the increasing epidemic of crime including the riots.
Irrelevant.
Dopers will vote for Biden anyway,
The ones who turn out only for pot initiatives may be winnable - if conservative candidates display consistency in support for limited government.
and more conservatives know better than to believe them. Compulsive lying is a common behavior in drug addicts.
What does "believing addicts" have to do with anything? Who suggested we believe addicts, and about what?
So are logical fallacies (especially red herrings), projections, false accusations and insults.
The only examples of such on this thread are from the anti-legalizers.
Your unsupported opinion means nothing to me.
Obviously Trump’s doesn’t either, since you pasted a post that bashes people like you.
I'd love to look at that - post the evidence.
Or was your post just more of the same old Reefer Madness hot air?
Well he outdoes you, you’re always wrong.
You’d be a wit if there were two of you.
I know you have to have the last word every time, so go ahead.
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