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> wildly popular things, like legalizing marijuana, are not even considered by anyone in congress?

Because it's not "not considered by anyone".

Democrats have been demonstrably decriminalizing and legalizing weed all over the country, and the Democrats in the federal government have been pushing and submitting and trying to make it happen.

It's republicans. They are the ones that continually stonewall a measure the vast majority of their constituents support, and they are the ones that somehow still get elected despite that.

Show me the democrats preventing legalization of weed federally.

Show me the democrats who invite cop associations to talk at their meetings about how dangerous weed is. Show me the democrats who are taking money from cop associations or prison lobbying organizations who very explicitly want to keep weed illegal.

Stop overgeneralizing! It's literally how things are this bad! Blame who is actually at fault!



I'm confused, only 22 democratic senators tried to stop this, plus Paul and Cruz. They just did outlaw it only because it is not called "marijuana".

Is it necessary to recount how this entire split is partially due to racism, anyway?


This law is about banning hemp companies from selling psychoactive products. It is about protecting weed companies from unregulated competition. The libertarians voted against it because they want to get rid of the regulation the weed companies face, not because they care more about legalizing weed,




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