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6 In 10 Americans Are 'Surprised' Marijuana Hasn't Been Legalized Across The U.S. Yet, Poll Finds

www.marijuanamoment.net 6 In 10 Americans Are 'Surprised' Marijuana Hasn't Been Legalized Across The U.S. Yet, Poll Finds - Marijuana Moment

A new survey of Americans’ habits, opinions and expectations around cannabis finds that nearly 6 in 10 adults are “surprised marijuana hasn’t been legalized across the United States yet.” The new Harris Poll report, released on Thursday, further found that 4 in 10 U.S. adults are current cannabis co...

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I'm one of the four in ten I guess that isn't surprised, just disappointed.

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- Yeah it's a vague question for a poll. One can interpret it in a few ways and I'd count myself part of the four as well. The US progresses as if it's walking through quicksand, so it's really unsurprising to me.
  
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- Yeah do they mean “surprised” as in they didn’t know, or surprised as in they are disappointed it hasn’t happened yet?
  
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Surprised is the wrong word. Angry is the right word.

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- I think a lot of them are surprised because they can buy cannabis legally in their state and they haven't thought more about it than that.
  
  A lot of people are not especially politically aware.
  
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- "What? How did this butt plug appear in my butthole without my consent??? To be honest, I am a bit surprised...."
  
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- What if they are surprised because they were pearl clutching so hard they thought it was gonna be worse?
  
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It was legalized federally in Canada in 2018, so it'll probably be around 2028 when it's legalized federally in the US, just like it took a decade for the US to legalize gay marriage after Canada did it.

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- Lets see how long we'll get to keep it with a MAGA SCOTUS majority. Kim Davis already started the process to get it up to them and Thomas will definitely be a no.
  
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  How would SCOTUS even be able to rule that marijuana has to be illegal, when Congress repealed the law making it illegal? That is not how law works.
  
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- Different culture. Canada is far more liberal than the United States.
  
  But with the ongoing migration crisis and continuing stupidity of Trudeau administration, I'm afraid that the momentum gained for the Canadian right to eventually become mainstream.
  
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  Don't worry, when we eventually get basic human needs down such as universal healthcare and other social welfare, worker's rights, and liveable non-car dependent infrastructure, I'm sure everyone will start moving to the US instead of Canada and you'll be saved. I give it... a few decades, when the climate catastrophe starts becoming apparent.
  
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Are you crazy? Marihuana makes people relax and spend more time thinking about the current state of the world in a way that usually turns them woke! We can't have that! We need people to stay stupid, otherwise we will lose our cheap hand labour!!

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- There is absolutely zero reason to think that cannabis makes you more "woke".
  
  I have met no shortage of shitty assholes who smoke weed.
  
  It doesn't make you an asshole either, mind you, but don't kid yourself into thinking weed makes you a better person. The people you smoke weed with are good people, not because they smoke weed, but because you don't hang out with shitty people regardless of context.
  
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- Kamela is a prosecutor that loves private profit prisons. She aint going to legalize shit.
  
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  So beyond her being a prosecutor and a kinda hardline AG, but where does accusation of the love of private prisons come from?
  
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THCA is legal in all but a handful of states that have specifically outlawed it. Eight horses hemp, flow gardens, and plenty of other online vendors. It will show up in your mailbox with no issue. I'm in Texas and i get an ounce delivered on subscription every month. If you prefer vapes to flower, check out secret garden.

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- The problem is you still fail drug tests for work or for certain medications (like adderall) when consuming THCA. I’m lucky and my job doesn’t test and I know when my doctor will test me. But it’s not a comfortable feeling knowing it could be used against you in a bunch of scenarios.
  
  Playing the will this bite me game with a drug most of us agree should just be legal by now sucks.
  
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  ....why is your doctor drug testing you?
  
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  like adderall
  
  Finally, something good comes out of my ADHD. I'm invincible against THCA drug tests!
  
  (I'm kidding)
  
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  Yeah, you shouldn't use weed if it's gonna create a problem for your job, healthcare or life, but there's plenty of it out there if you do choose to partake.
  
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- It will show up in your mailbox with no issue.
  
  This is the part that absolutely blows my mind. I gather they're avoiding sending product across state lines?
  
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  No. The 2018 farm bill that legalizes it is federal. DEA tried to say thca doesn't count as hemp because it converts to Delta 9 with age and heat, but the court said the law means what it says - less than. 3% Delta 9 is hemp. Most of my purchases come from the Pacific Northwest i think, which is funny because some of those states are/are trying to outlaw hemp because it's the same as what you get in a dispensary, but without the government oversight, lot numbers, etc. so it cuts into the traditional cannabis companies and taxes.
  
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I'd be interested to see a map showing the states where weed is illegal, crossed with one showing where child marriage is legal.

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I'm sure 6 in 10 Americans don't understand that federal law trumps state law.

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They’ll need to vote more Democrats into Congress for that to happen. The stalled bill has 113 Democratic cosponsors and Matt Gaetz.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3617

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The leaf in that photo has some serious deficiencies going on, just saying.

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Idk why it has been stuck so long in the Executive branch for review.

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- Because the dumb system of rescheduling just works this way.
  
  The DEA shouldn't even be in the bureaucratic pathway. They're cops, and they shouldn't have a say in what counts as medicine. The FDA is far from perfect, but they are the scientists.
  
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  I think the DEA is the only entity at the Federal level that cares about marijuana. Drug warriors are gonna drug war.
  
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Also can we get our student loans forgiven, punish the exopresident Trumpfus for the jan6 thing, limit the justices to like 5 years, remove all religious terms and uses from government docs and processes...etc...many other things that are much more relevant than the stickiest plant one could ever have imagined anyone would ever try to smoke.

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- I hear you, but consider it goes well beyond the sticky plant - simply possessing marijuana in many areas of the US can still get you thrown in jail. With many of those same states enforcing "mandatory terms" for drug crimes, we have thousands of people jailed for years for non-violent offenses. We have a lot of huge issues to deal with, but the "War on Drugs" from the start was a thin veil for persecuting minorities, and it's still going.
  
  I'm hoping for the rest of your list of requests, too, but personally I think federal weed legalization would have a wider-reaching, far more profound impact on our population than forgiving student loans.
  
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- I forget the math but it should actually be 18 years for the justices so they can't all get swapped out
  
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  Yeah, you probably don't want 8 because a two term president could do lots of damage. So 18 sounds fine. It should be retroactively implemented, let's say 2 of the current judges per year?
  
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And yet 5/10 keep electing fuckwits.

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The US tackles it's tech debt

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Those 6 in 10 probably all live in legal states and are just used to it. Be careful where you drive with it though.

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