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Trump says he's looking at reclassifying marijuana at federal level
(www.usatoday.com)
Yeah sure okay. Wake me up when it actually happens.
If anyone was actually going to do it, it would be trump.
Oh yeah it's certainly possible that he actually will, but on the other hand he just kind of says shit sometimes to see how people will react. Anyway as a general rule I don't pay attention to what politicians promise, only to what they actually do.
I think it's that he's willing to do just about anything right now to divert attention from the Epstein stuff, but hey, a win's a win.
Yeah, I will take the W. But it's just silly how Biden had 4 years to do this at any point he wanted and Trump does it 8 months in to take heat of his pedophilia.
Think if we make enough noise about Epstein we can make him give us recreational weed federally too?
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This is what Justin Trudeau did in Canada to distract from the other broken promises he made. Seems like something was learned about this being a good distraction.
There's really no downside though. Getting arrested for a plant that's legal on the other side of an imaginary line is ridiculous and it ruins people's lives and families.
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Well he's got a new route figured out for arresting minorities ala ice and it's a lot of fucking money left on the table with weed
Legitimately just makes sense, even from an evil perspective. The only ones that wouldn't change it are status quo suckoffers
I think Biden spoke of this the same way. I wouldn’t give Trump any credit here at all because saying something doesn’t mean anything is happening
Yeah we'll see if it happens, but I will say I can see him doing it.
People thought the same about Biden to lock in the vote last year but they didn’t. Maybe this will move faster because there isn’t a strong FDA or CDC to stop them from reclassification, only DEA and police unions would whine.
This just comes across as jingly keys
That was wish casting. Kamala was the pothead sheepdog with her "I used to buy weed from snoop dogg" stuff and Biden was still calling it a gateway drug in 2019
Just dem voters projecting their values onto their politicians who couldn't give a rats ass what we think
In 2024 Biden announced the move to reclassify to schedule III but it simply never happened. My response is more about how this is a distraction and meaningless unless actual movement to reclassification occurs.
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Didn't Biden campaign on never making marijuana legal? I thought he doubled-down on that?
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN
Ain't gonna happen.
It would be nice though, oh also expunge felony convictions for marijuana offenses.
Absolutely. It would be an actually big deal to reclassify it. And of course, everyone with any sort of conviction period, misdemeanor or felony should be expunged. It sickens me to think of all the humans rotting away in jail because of the electric lettuce.
But it isn't gonna happen. For the same reasons it was schedule 1'd to begin with. It's illegality is a tool to destroy families, lives, and more. It's too important a tool for those who would keep us under their thumbs to let go of. It's the same reason Democrats didn't do anything but wave it in our collective faces. That's my opinion on it anyway.
Barron gave him a hit from his weed pen
"Slonkin' it" folks, can you believe it? That's what the kids are calling it, Barron, my beautiful boy, he let's me hit his vape and wow, all I can say is wow, I'm high as a kite, like, frankly, no one has ever seen! 
There's this man, Penjamin, my son talks about him, I'm starting to hear it more and more. He does many good things, folks. Lots of people are saying.
I'm putting a McDonald's in the White House too
Too bad he's brand loyal to the garbage he eats, White Castle would be more appropriate.
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definitely NOT related to the epstein story, which totally isn't important and didn't happen
"At least no one will be talking about my connection to Epstein when they're too stoned to care." 
"Hey guys, remember when Trump gave us legal weed, and it didn't stop us talking about the Epstein files while we were high as a kite?"
If this isn't an obvious attempt at divert away from epstein, I don't know what is anymore.
If Trump gives us legal weed I'm gonna laugh so fucking hard
to a lower schedule right?
They'll do it once they can find a way to make it only apply to middle-class conservative white guys.
the reason they haven't done it is the enforcement already works that way
He's doing for the California 40 something washed up stoner male podcaster crowd who believe free energy was stored in the library of alexandria.
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He's setting the cops loose to beat the crap out of everyone but at least they won't be able to use smelling like Joe Rogan's recording studio as a justification.
I think it is TDS to say he is doing this to try to distract from the files stuff. It just seems so out of character for him to care enough about it
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Shit. If he does that the dems will fight to undo this
the one thing they'll actually follow through on
...to worse than heroin and space coke combined.
closing the hemp/thc-a loophole keeps getting delayed. it's like two speeding trains coming at each other.
might just end up seeing the mail delivery hemp companies absorbed into some larger structure, likely with the huge megacorps that deal with dispensaries.
Costco for weed Costco for weed Costco for weed
Here in Michigan we just call it Lume
Michigan has the best dispensaries in the country, Cali Apple stores don’t have shit on Urb
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