r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/greenearrow 1d ago

and felons SHOULD be able to run for office, I would even say during serving their term. Otherwise, we incentivize making our opponents into felons (you know, like through making marijuana a Schedule I drug).

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u/PaulTheMerc 1d ago

Just one question. Its fucking weed. WHY is that worth 10+ years to so many fucking people? I don't get it.

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u/Mavian23 1d ago

Because it was originally used as a way of targeting anti-war hippies back in the Nixon era. The War on Drugs was political.

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u/greenearrow 1d ago

Hippies, black people, and Latino people. It was to remove voting rights from groups that didn't align with Nixon, and to fill the prison system, which is the only place constitutionally allowed to provide slave labor.