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.
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.