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catbyte

(36,198 posts)
15. It's time to legalize it on a federal level. It blows my mind that in so many states a person could get
Fri Dec 22, 2023, 07:36 PM
Dec 2023

prison time for possessing something I can buy in any area dispensary. It's all so convoluted. For instance, I occasionally watch court proceedings on YouTube (guilty pleasure, lol) and there was a case where a guy bought weed in Beaumont, Texas where it's legal, and got busted for possession when he was out of the city limits and is now facing jail time. It's nuts.

Weed has been legal here in Michigan since we voted to legalize it in 2018 and it hasn't sent us careening in a handbasket to hell. In fact, the tax revenue from the sales is helping the state budget and we've completely thrown out the MIGOP from all State Offices, took control of both houses of the State Legislature, and flipped the majority on the MI Supreme Court to the Democrats. It's probably just a coincidence about the political reversals, but you never know.



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