I am not a pot smoker but it does not agree with me along with lots of things that I tend to be allergic to. Pot is not dangerous. I know lots and lots of folks on marijuana and much rather them smoke than drink or take pills for relaxation.. I absolutely agree with medical marijuana.
I hope every pot smoking Trumpster reads how he feels about the weed. Enter the evangelicals. This is part of why they like the guy so much.
He has been wishy washy on his stand with the weed and state rights but he still is very much against legalization and even medical marijuana.
This article was published a year ago but I wonder how many knew this.
Trump Admits Marijuana Is A ‘Pretty Popular Thing’ Even As He Argues It ‘Does Damage’
Former President Donald Trump says that marijuana use does “significant damage,” although he acknowledges that legalizing cannabis is a “pretty popular thing” among voters.
Trump, who is running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, was asked about marijuana policy during an interview on Newsmax’s “Greg Kelly Reports” last week. Specifically, he was pressed on what he thinks the legalization movement is doing to the country’s “competitiveness” and “psyche.”
“I mean, you see the same studies. It’s not helping people,” Trump said. “I mean, studies are saying that it does damage. It does significant damage—and yet, from a voting standpoint, it’s a pretty popular thing.”
Trump also recently angered advocates by suggesting that there may be a link between the use of “genetically engineered” marijuana and mass shootings during a speech at a National Rifle Association (NRA) leadership forum last month.
The former president, who was recently indicted by a grand jury and arrested in New York over dozens of felony charges related to alleged hush money payments to a porn star during his 2020 campaign, has taken a fairly aggressive position on drug policy since announcing his candidacy for 2024.
He’s talked about waging “war on the cartels” and working with Congress to pass legislation to impose the death penalty on “drug dealers” who are “responsible for death, carnage and crime,” for example.
As president, Trump did not pursue a full-scale crackdown of state-legal cannabis programs and he did voice tentative support for modest reform legislation, but his administration made a number of hostile anti-marijuana actions—from rescinding Obama-era guidance on cannabis prosecutions to implementing policies making immigrants ineligible for citizenship if they consume marijuana or work in the cannabis industry.
During his failed 2020 reelection campaign, supporters worked to depict Trump as the criminal justice reform candidate, repeatedly attacking President Joe Biden over his record as an “architect” of punitive drug laws during his decades in the Senate.
Whether he will maintain this anti-marijuana rhetoric is yet to be seen. But while Republicans are less likely to support cannabis legalization compared to Democrats and independents, the issue has become increasingly bipartisan.
Previously, he’s urged Republicans not to place marijuana legalization initiatives on state ballots out of concern that it could increase Democratic turnout in elections.
In terms of the risks of cannabis use, Trump has long held that there are negative consequences. He said in a leaked audio recording from 2018 that using marijuana makes people “lose IQ points,” for example.
Want to vote for the dictator in chief? Guess what? I think He’s coming for your pot.
Truth is, DJT the orange maniac would be the one who would do anything for a vote but once he is the dictator day one….He will do as he pleases. Who knows? He has been all over the place regarding marijuana but he has stood firm on his dislike of the marijuana industry. I wouldn’t put it past him to outlaw not just marijuana but alcohol and even cigarettes or anything the evangelicals find sinful to gain their vote. He doesn’t care who he pisses off once he is in the oval office. EXCEPT the evangelicals because he thinks all so called patriots are evangelical. The truth is, I am not sure how far back in history the man wants America. I would be terrified if I were of the LGBTQ community and I am not that comfortable as a woman. Back in the kitchen, back in the closet and back into the slave quarters. I just don’t know but I know one thing...It won’t be a democrat who comes for your pot or even your guns… It will be a republican who claims to be a stable genius and wants to rule like a king.
This was amazingly OMG stuff.
Former President Donald Trump is suggesting there may be a link between the use of “genetically engineered” marijuana and mass shootings.
At a speech at a National Rifle Association (NRA) leadership forum on Friday, Trump listed a number of controversial and unproven factors that he said he’d direct the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate as possibly causing the ongoing scourge of mass shooting afflicting the country.
Read on...it gets worse in that article.