Posted on 05/19/2023 7:24:33 AM PDT by Red6
The use and possession of marijuana is illegal under U.S. federal law, but in recent years a growing number of states have legalized the drug for medical or recreational purposes. The changing legal landscape has coincided with a dramatic increase in public support for legalization, which a majority of Americans now favor.
Here are seven facts about Americans’ views of and experiences with marijuana, based on Pew Research Center surveys and other sources.
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Don't get me wrong, bandwagon is no logical rationale. However, neither is another federal study (there have only been roughly 3,000 since 1969) which from the onset is designed to create another pseudo-scientific argument akin to phrenology (gateway drug / psychological addictive) in order to come up with an argument for why they need millions to fight the threat posed by this schedule one drug.
https://www.dea.gov/drug-information/drug-scheduling Can someone please explain the logic behind marijuana being schedule one, in the same group with heroin, methaqualone, LSD?
So called conservatives are great at shooting themselves in the foot. Republicans and many of the folks that claim to be conservative, are not conservative at all. A true political conservative has a more strict and literal interpretation of the US Constitution. That said, just like abortion is an issue which should be under the states, so should something like marijuana, in fact drugs all together. But of course you can concoct a national security, public safety, health or environmental argument on just about any subject, since true correlation or causality, even provable damages are no longer necessary in today's political and justice environment.
But where do those who call themselves conservative but want big government and more regulations (where and when it suits them) shooting themselves in the foot? When you are part of a group that has a view shared by merely 12% of the population, you should think about the damage done to yourself politically. With the support for criminalization (where deep down inside you know it's all BS), you are disenfranchising a large group of potential voters, and ESPECIALLY some where you have been trying hard to make inroads with, i.e. younger voters.
It's to the point where even the most hard core states like "get tough on crime" Texas have eased up on their stance regards marijuana, not because the leadership really had some epiphany, but because they were literally shamed into conceding that this drug has medicinal uses and specifically young children with seizures: https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/a-9-year-old-girl-is-about-to-become-the-face-of-medical-marijuana-activism-in-texas/
Here's the problem for those that still support the ban on marijuana. All the pseudo-science and medical BS babble aside, at this point almost everyone knows that every single argument used against marijuana, past and present, is garbage. 49% of the adults have tried it. And nearly all the others have friends, family, or acquiescence in their life who they have seen use marijuana, sometimes for years and just decide to quit, they have seen highly successful people use it, highly educated, and the ignorance based fear campaigns simply have become laughable. No one believes the junk anymore. I don't think even the folks coming up with some new add campaign believe the trash they are putting out, but in those cases it's all about following the money. So while the government tries it's newest angle in constructing what are really rhetorical arguments, all of these have lost traction with the public. The people know the truth, they see it, and at times annoyingly have to smell it.
This is not an argument of science, medicine, public safety, or national security, nor is it about saving the children. It's an argument of traditionalists and ethnocentrism, where one drug is demonized because it's not ones own drug, i.e. alcohol. It's in reality an argument where government has huge budgets tied to this issue and they do not want to see that go away, may that be the DOJ, FBI, or DEA and even local law enforcement which get federal money for this cause (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas). There are billions tied up in managing this make belief threat and crisis, and of course those making the money year after year show how they need more to protect us from this imaginary threat, no differently than NASA seeing the danger in climate change once they got a budget to study it. Marijuana is for many on the right no different than climate change for those on the left.
Find a real cause.
Find a real battle to fight which actually makes a difference. Realize that none of this made sense, not even from day one! It was a political maneuver by the Nixon administration: https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html Even before that, it was junk: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harry-anslinger-the-man-behind-the-marijuana-ban/ Don't contradict yourself, claiming you support the maximizing of liberty and minimizing of bureaucracy and regulations, support state rights, property rights and self determinism all while you violate every idea in pursuit of this made up threat. The government has no right to tell you that you can't grow a naturally growing plant on your property, which you want to use for yourself, where they can't really show any damage to anyone else, and frankly not even you, but where you can show medicinal uses.
"Your Liberty To Swing Your Fist Ends Just Where My Nose Begins" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVVm3b-XaJ4 Those who call themselves "conservative" today should think about what those words mean.
But here is the irony of it all! Biden, the same clown who helped write the 1994 crime bill (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration) which locked many folks away for a long time including people who merely possessed marijuana, scored huge when he pardoned folks last year:
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/presidential-proclamation-marijuana-possession
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/marijuana-decriminalization-white-house-joe-biden/index.html
Meanwhile, so called "conservatives," champions of personal liberty, state and property rights stood on the side lines and supported its criminalization. Hahahaha
But at this point you might as well stick with the lunacy. You've already lost that battle and in reality a lot of voters. What you achieved for public safety, health, national security or for the children I cannot quantify or even logically argue, but you did lose a lot of voters.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/opportunitycost.asp Some of this applies to politics as well.
Fact #1. The marijuana of today is vastly different from what was available 20 years ago. Today it’s a bonafide hard narcotic. It’s like unleashing psilocybin mushrooms on the general population.
not this s#1t again. 😕
There’s an epidemic of schizo teens from this crap. The ERs are full of stoners with uncontrolled vomiting (i.e., Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, CHS). And yet the Soros-funded left tirelessly demands acceptance of their drug... even duping alleged conservatives.
Gungrabbers like to say the guns of today are much more lethal than when the Constitution was written. So that’s a crap argument. Plus of course it’s a hard narcotic at all. And nothing is unleashed on the general population. It’s not going in the water, if you don’t want any you don’t get any.
Exactly. Cause any thread about dope always brings out the liberTARDian trolls that infest FR. Dunno why the mods allow them because they (liberTARDians) should not be welcome on a conservative forum. They should all be banned.
Blah Blah Blah. You big government conservative drug warriors are a broken record.
Thank you. Emergency rooms are seeing a huge spike in psychotic episodes. High THC edibles can produce serious hallucinations in some people. It ain’t your grandpa’s weed anymore.
All big government conservatives should be banned.
I’m expecting Biden to move toward legalization at the federal level. It just seems like something he would do.
Debunking fact # 1: The black market is over. Folks do not blindly buy MJ from a sketchy homeless dude on the street corner in states where it is legal.
Pot stores sell many strains of different strengths. The more expensive it is, the more powerful it is.
Personally, I would not encourage people to start smoking marijuana any more than I would encourage them to start drinking. I’d leave it up to them. But all this disinformation isn’t helping. Get a grip. Stop gaslighting.
Why? Because it aids in overthrowing the white male, captalistic patriarchy. In almost ALL cases it makes people apathetic and easy to manipulate. It drives people away from Christianity and God becuase now they have a religious "experience" they can have any time they want...just light up a doobie. But this experience is really just old rehashed paganism...false gods who leader is Appolyn...the destroyer. The devil. And he wants nothing more than to destroy knowledge of the true God which he does by destroying the societies that profess to believe in Him.
Simply put...you're on the wrong side of this issue if you're a conservative.
Amen brother!
This is another liberal experiment gone wrong. Everything used to be legal. Lots of bad consequences. That is why it is illegal now. MJ wipes out the part of the brain in the youth that keeps them from doing stupid or evil stuff.
A good Scotch will calm you down.
It’s a state’s rights issue.
There is NO reason for the Feds to have any say.
you sound like an authoritarian asshole
It is to conservatives what gun grabbing is to the left: an idiotic red herring that puts them against the majority, serves exactly NO functional purpose, imposes on liberties that the government has no rights to be involved with and- most importantly - motivates the other side to vote when they might not otherwise bother to do so.
Most conservative websites ban you creeps. FR does not. Go figure.
Keep smoking and snorting your dope. But leave us alone.
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