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Please tell me Fat Joe is Joe Biden. Please god please

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🤣 that made me spit

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Convenient timing given everything else going on. You know they’re really scrambling to get the youth vote when they start talking about nationwide marijuana legalization.

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All they seem to do is talk, zero intent behind the words.

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The DEA is currently investigating rescheduling marijuana which was prompted by Biden’s HHS doing the preliminary lab work to present to them.

Then Biden has pardoned everyone who was charged federally for possession of marijuana.

And then he urged states to consider doing the same. Just this week, Massachusetts followed through with that.

Obviously he’s doing this to get more voters, but there’s real progress happening and it’s not a reaction to anything recent. This was all indicated during his campaigning.

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Yeah, like, what do people expect? Of course they’ll do good things to get re-elected. That’s literally how this works! I don’t get the people who argue “it’s just for getting votes”. Yes, that’s how it works.

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Isn’t “doing this to get more votes” what politicians are supposed to be doing, though? They are supposed to be responsive to people’s concerns, so those people prefer them to the other alternatives when it comes time to vote?

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If the Democrats wanted to do something for the people, they’d really lean into legalizing cannabis at the federal level.

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We need workers rights more than legal weed, but you’ll notice the Democrats never talk about that.

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Sure they do! They talked about how if rail workers were allowed to strike, the entire economy would instantly collapse forever.

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If rail workers are so critical to the global economy, how about we may them their worth and give them the benefits they need. Weird right?

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So when is it time to start talking about all the reparations the US owes to the millions of people it victimized throughout it’s (so-called) “War On Drugs” terror campaign?

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Illinois codified in law when it legalized cannabis that licenses for product development (the grow houses, dispensaries, maunfacture, etc) was supposed to go to the people most affected by the war on drugs. These communities were 90% Black. There’s a new dispensary opening by me, and it’s ownership is 100% white male lawyers, and they sell nothing but Cresco Labs products, which is run a buncha rich white dudes.

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As a white male, I’ll have you know that the war on drugs did affect us more than anyone else!

Also the war on women, the war on Christmas, the war on terrorism, the war on freedom, the US Civil War, Edwin Starr’s song “War”, Angels and Airwaves’ song “The War”, the war room scene from Dr. Strangelove, Star Wars the movie, Star Wars the missile defense initiative, and the war on belly fat all disproportionately affect we white males more than any other group. Don’t you know how we’re the most oppressed?

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which is run a buncha rich white dudes.

It’s the same damn thing here in South Africa - the politicians are constantly talking about “legalizing” marijuana use for the politically-connected (and mostly white) rich people who have the infrastructure to sell it en masse to foreign countries while still leaving enough legalese in there to allow the pig to wage war on the impoverished black and brown folk who farms the stuff.

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Ohio did similarly but with the groups. Anyway since it was a ballot measure and not a constitutional amendment and it’s Ohio that money is probably going to cops instead because our state government is like that

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Don’t hate the capitalist, hate the capitalism.

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I’m perfectly capable of hating both.

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The war on drugs created so many problems across multiple generations and multiple continents. Millions is a very low estimate.

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32 points

So the Biden campaign is running on abortion and pot. Yeah, I’m OK with that.

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13 points

Don’t forget climate, and democracy.

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Importantly, Harris is. This will give her beer positioning to step up if needed this campaign season.

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Importantly, Harris is. This will give her beer positioning to step up if needed this campaign season.

I know it’s a typo, but I can see Brett Kavanaugh swearing her in on a stack of kegs

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Yep typo, I’m leaving it though. I’m sure many Americans would accept being sworn in on Beer instead of the Bible.

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5 points

Just like last time

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And Genocide

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