Posted on 10/08/2022 6:00:57 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer
On the ropes and with no message about rising crime or the struggling economy to appeal to voters, President Joe Biden has gone to pot. Literally. The president’s election-eve marijuana decriminalization order has him yet again putting politics over people’s lives and health.
In a shameless attempt to buy the votes of young people and lower-income minority communities, Mr. Biden is waving his pen around again to dig himself out of the political cellar.
The American Left, and some on the Right, along with the Big Tobacco companies already responsible for millions of deaths from their products, have spent heavily to convince communities of color that THC legalization is social justice and the people jailed for breaking the law are victims.
Even more bizarrely, they’ve claimed for years that more marijuana amounts to actual empowerment.
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It took years to realize how insidious alcohol use can creep on ones entire mindset and learn to combat it. Marijuana is nothing compared to that force. Yet nothing can't be overcome with will and God's help.
I'd advise avoid AA meetings. So depressing they made me want to drink.
Biden’s America: open borders, open prisons.
For criminals.
Depressing to see how many here believe the .gov should tell an adult what to do.
That said, the pardon scam is a bs pander by the pedorican in the oval.
The writer’s not being honest. They’re are zero people in federal prison today for simple possession, which is who the pardon applies to.
And there’s absolutely nothing in it about decriminilization.
No one is being let out. None of these people are in prison.
Of course the potheads here on FR don't and won't accept this. Not surprising since they live in their own stoned reality like all the other mental defects.
Hey, it's America. . .
An excellent article in Powerline Blog pointed out that the feds do NOT incarcerate people on possession charges. Every single one of these people he is letting out is a drug dealer who pled down to possession and was convicted on that lesser charge. Theses are not just simple users snared by the feds.
Of course, young people are too stupid and/or uninformed to know that and the press dutifully perpetuates the lie this is a gross social Justice violation.
This decision rightfully belongs in the legislative branch. The executive has trampled the legislative under Obama and Biden, but the legislative has raised nary an objection. The Dem legislative branch sees a strong executive making horrendous decisions for the country as benefiting the Dem party, the health and well being of the nation be damned.
Lucky you! I’ve always read that ‘Disco’ was just what she did to earn a buck; it wasn’t her First Love as far as music went, by a long shot.
What does the Federal ‘scheduling’ of drugs do except deny the States the right to determine their legislation?
I don’t understand how any constitutionalist FReeper supports the Federal war on drugs, especially considering how it has been used over and over as a Trojan horse to destroy the Bill of Rights.
What does the Federal ‘scheduling’ of drugs do except deny the States the right to determine their legislation?
I don’t understand how any constitutionalist FReeper supports the Federal war on drugs, especially considering how it has been used over and over as a Trojan horse to destroy the Bill of Rights.
I read that no prisoners would be released. All of these people are already out or in for something else.
I use it topically for arthritis. It’s a mix of CBD and THC. It actually works. We made brownies from this year’s crop but if you eat them at night, you are asleep before they kick in.
I have a friend who gets mean when she gets high so her husband forbid it. I just get catatonic and sleep. CBD has been a miracle worker for me for sleep and it doesn’t have a mind effect.
State’s right to determine legislation.
(profit)
Didn’t work out well for the ones that ended up as stoner states.
grow your own if you need it but don’t expect to burden the rest of the people.
LOL!. Yeah, I don’t mind if they live in their own stoned reality...but don’t encourage it for the rest of us, particularly young people.
I think most of our stoners here are doing it for arthritis pain relief.
A lot of them don’t realize that (a) it’s not your father’s pot (meaning, it’s not like what most of them started on, but about 5 times stronger) and (b) that Americans think if something is legal it’s government-approved and good, so therefore they should smoke (vape or chew) more dope because the government says it’s okay.
I have met people in CO who just want to get out and have pulled their kids out of public school because of the pervasive marijuana use (among CHILDREN!) and the resulting idiocy.
Theoretically it’s legal only over a certain age, but it’s de facto legal (and available) to anybody of any age. When they adopted this attitude in CA back in the early 80’s, all you saw was children (12 through HS) sitting around at recess smoking dope. The teachers did nothing because the parents were dopers too.
BTW, marijuana is much higher in tar than tobacco. I had a Growing up in the mid 60s, I had a friend who actually developed emphysema from smoking so much dope - at the age of 16.
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