Why isn't Trump announcing support for Marijuana decriminalization?
It's an honest question. I'm genuinely looking to understand what the other side of it is. He can do it on conservative principles, it would take his black approval numbers higher, it would force Biden and Pelosi to support the opposite because they're mindless automatons, and he can easily spin it as a legitimate answer to the BLM movement (whereas the Democrat answer has been to riot more).
It feels like it ought to be a win/win, which makes me think I'm missing something.
I don't think Trump sees it through the lense of Libertarianism; he genuinely wants people to be clear minded and to reach their individual apex, full fulfilment. That's my take, that he views substance abuse as holding people back from achieving and winning.
I agree with that. But, he also sees value in individual freedom. He's can just as easily come down on the other side, no?
Okay. How about someone a little less in the know, then?
Personally, I’m against marijuana. Last thing we need is more people high out of their minds and not wanting to do anything. I have a few friends who have a problem with weed and they burn through their spare cash trying to get high whenever they aren’t working. I feel like this will become the new “cigarettes” in a decade or so. That’s just my opinion though.
I've smoked pot twice, I've been drunk exactly once, so I'm with the president on being against it. But, there's a lot of benefit from letting burnouts do their thing in peace. I think, if anything, pot and cigarettes are about to switch places, why not just get ahead of that?
I honestly don’t know. Regardless of how people say that “weed itself isn’t addictive,” the feeling of getting high is the addictive to people. My friends who smoked it couldn’t relax without it. They became dependent on it. It’s ruined some of my friends lives. Replacing one bad thing (cigarettes) with another bad thing (marijuana) doesn’t seem like that great of an idea... mostly because it will likely just end up as you having 2 bad things at the same time.
Boils down to states rights in his mind. One of the bigger things I disagree with GEOTUS about. Similarly to what you said; if he decriminalized and actually followed through on commuting sentences of people arrested SOLELY for cannabis charges he would even more assuredly win the minority vote and probably.grift a decent chunk of the disenfranchised Bernout voter base.
The BEST case is decriminalization similar to homebrewing. Deregulation and end the tax rape in WA/NV. Incentivize SMALL farms they know what they're doing. Not green rush/investment firm run massive farms that fuck things up with monoculture and shit tier farming practices. then price rape and offshore profits to either China or the Caymans.
President Trump is a teetotaler. The man is the greatest President of my time, and maybe all time, but I wouldn't expect him to radically go against his own personal morals on that front. Especially not just to get votes.
Beyond that, I think it's at the very best low priority compared to all the other things he's juggling. On an intellectual level, I support decriminalization, but it's far from the most important thing right now. There's a long list of things I'd rather see taken care of first, and I think many of those things might be negatively impacted if we went that route first.
Decriminalization seems like small potatoes when you weigh it against, say the low-scale cyber war China is waging, but it's a big thing for voters. I'm there with the president on pot and alcohol, I've tried them, they're not really for me. But, he and I are also on the side of freedom to make bad choices. Conservatives in general on the side of personal responsibility and choices. It seems like an easy win.
Thanks for your answer, btw. I was thinking there was maybe more to it, but you (and others here, aside from Mossad guy up top) said stuff I was thinking, too.
where do you draw the line? why marijuana? why not other drugs? how do you decide or measure which one is OK?
I don't understand why it's so important for so many people. it's addiction you shouldn't have.
You ask me, it should be everything. I don't think the US is ready for such a thing, though. I don't know why it's important for people, but it's clear that it is-- and if it is, you can win them over with something so simple.
is this a single-issue voter thing?