@SenSchumer · 8m Americans want an end to marijuana prohibition. That's why @SenBooker , @RonWyden

[riversedge]

Hopefully, this Congress will get it done!





@SenSchumer
·
8m
Americans want an end to marijuana prohibition.

That’s why @SenBooker
, @RonWyden
, and I released our Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act to work to end the federal prohibition and undo the harms of the War on Drugs.

Link to tweet

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Link to tweet

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. Eight Million? (Edited)

Is that number right?
According to this Pew poll from April 60% support total legalization & 31% more for medical use only.
That's 91% of adults. That's WAY more than 8 million.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/16/americans-overwhelmingly-say-marijuana-should-be-legal-for-recreational-or-medical-use/

NEVER MIND! I think that 8m means 8 minutes ago!

[ColinC]

3. I think it might mean 8 minutes

As in that is when the tweet was sent? 8minutes ago? The tweet itself says the following:

Americans want an end to marijuana prohibition.

That’s why @SenBooker, @RonWyden, and I released our Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act to work to end the federal prohibition and undo the harms of the War on Drugs.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Yeah, See My Edit

I agree.
In the posted snip, it looked to me like 8m as in 8M.
The small "m" should have been my first clue.
I could have deleted, but I thought it was worth reposting the poll from Pew.

[ColinC]

5. Yeah 8 million these days would be a very very small amount

Lol. Also, at first I also thought he said that before seeing the actual tweet.

[Haggard Celine]

2. The private prison industry doesn't want it made legal.

They get paid according to how many people they have locked up, and making weed legal would affect their bottom lines. They suck up tax money like the weapons manufacturers who didn't want the war in Afghanistan to end. We'll see who supports and who opposes this bill and if they get contributions from private prisons or any other industry that benefits from locking people up.

[Deb]

6. I wonder if they can legislate it's smoke not to smell like sh*t.

I don't care if people use it but man that smoke is obnoxious. Right up there with manure ponds.

[LakeArenal]

7. Mmmmm. I love the smell.

[NightWatcher]

8. I've got a SkunkApe and some Purple Wookie that you can prob smell all the way from my house to you.

I love that skunk diesel smell. I just smoked a bowl of Purple Crippy that didn't stink too bad, but I cant even open that other stuff in the house without my spouse getting upset. That smell is intense.

[MagickMuffin]

9. There're other methods available

Wax, Butters, and others there a lot of other ways to use this valuable herb.

[Mr.Bill]

10. Yes, my wife uses it to help with arthritis pain.

She is completely off of opiods and feeling much better. She also uses it to help her sleep. She's 71 and never really used pot intil recent years. She has Asthma, so smoking it is not good. She has learned, with a little help from me, who smoked it for 50 years to make some fantastic cookies with pot butter.

[MagickMuffin]

11. Indeed Butter makes everything better

Now a days they even have appliances to extract the oils. Exciting times.

Let's just hope that the Dems can make this happen.