from the prison industrial complex. Once someone has a record, it's a pipeline to prison and money for private investors. The USA has the largest incarceration rate in the world.

Republicans are basically scared of social changes.

Stopping social change for its own sake is, after securing deficit-fueled tax cuts, probably the most important item on the GOP agenda.

If all else fails, the Republican argument against any proposed social shift will always reduce down to a pathetic “this endangers CHILDREN, do you hear me, CHILDREN!!”

inbred rednecks that would have wanted me fired if they knew I smoked weed as a younger guy. Of course they were usually alcohol junkies that showed up hungover on their asses. This was at a Budweiser distributor.

If legalized, when the sky doesn't fall, it shows how full of shit they have been all along. That's what they are frightened of.

brainchild of William Randolph Hurst as hemp threatened his monopoly on wood based newsprint. Hemp was Hurst's only competitor, and Hurst used his media empire to rail against hemp. This led to the destruction of millions of innocent victims' lives and the negative effects on their families. It's always about the money.

He was Mr Prohibition and when the liquor laws were repealed he did not have much of a job left,.
So being the anti MJ guy was right up his ally..Before Hurst and Anslinger MJ was no big deal..YMMV
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were primarily concerned with their income. They set the wheels in motion to destroy innocent lives. and the did it for money. It's not a gateway, but rather an exit ramp from opiates . It's also a very effective remedy for PTSD with few side effects.
Big Pharma's ability to bribe law makers is seriously impinged by legal cannabis.

Super happy hemp is now legal. It’s a great crop and has so many uses.

Republicans claim to be all about personal freedoms, but in fact they mean freedom to force you to do what they think is right.