Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., made his case for marijuana legalization ahead of April 20, known as a holiday of sorts for those who enjoy smoking or otherwise consuming the drug.
"Right now, we're doing this interview in Washington, D.C., and right now I could leave [and] go buy marijuana legally," Fetterman told Fox News Digital in an interview on Friday. He compared the capital's policy on the drug to that of his home state Pennsylvania, which only allows residents to legally use marijuana for medicinal purposes.
"Pennsylvanians wanted this five years ago," he claimed, recalling his time campaigning throughout the state. "We're still not there."
Fetterman noted that most of the states surrounding the Keystone State had already made the drug legal for adults. "It's not complicated. Other states have done that," he said.
Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, which surround Pennsylvania, have legalized marijuana for adult recreational use in small amounts.
The origins of 4/20's association with marijuana are not agreed on, but it has been speculated that the holiday could have started in several ways. Some theorize that the number 420 was used by police to reference the drug, while others point to Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35," noting that when the numbers are multiplied they equal 420. Despite the various theories, there does not appear to be consensus on how the day began.
"It needs to be safe, pure, taxed and available," Fetterman said, explaining that illegally purchased versions of the drug are difficult to trace and could be cut with dangerous substances, such as fentanyl.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, marijuana in small amounts has been made legal for recreational use by adults in 24 states, as well as Washington, D.C., and two U.S. territories.
Taxed is the key word... they don't really GAF as long as they get their cut...
You knew he wasn't just born a tard. Decades of pot made him that way.
The PTB want to keep people stupid and stoned.
This is a stupid sheit idea. The drug dealers absolutely LOVE it. Come in a few $ leas than government dope and nobody knows the difference. Keeps both the cartels and their politicians and bureaucrats in bux too while allowing the market to expand. Just hope you don’t get any laced with fentanyl. Government is amoral when it comes to tax revenue!
The resulting higher priced dope will just fuel more homegrown dope, without the tax and purity markup in price. Anyone with common sense could tell them that.
They never consider cutting spending, just more taxes. Makes the steal from pot bigger. miles
That's been the plan in Pennsylvania all along. Started with medical marijuana but the list of approved medical reasons stops just short of "I'm bored".
Hell, This might be the biggest $$$$ maker since Prohibition!... farming anyone ???
Just start over pre-ReeferMadness and call it good
We need the gov't to secure our border and stop trampling on our rights a hell of a lot more than we need legal pot.
We need the gov't to secure our border and stop trampling on our rights a hell of a lot more than we need legal pot.
They are not mutually exclusive.
We need the gov't to secure our border and stop trampling on our rights a hell of a lot more than we need legal pot.
Yes👍
Legalize pot and send a rolyalty on all of it sold to fund the wall and border security
Legal pot is the biggest nothing Canada ever saw.
They're gonna have to tax it to take care of all the paranoid crazies pot consumption will produce.
Got one dad in our kid's program who smokes for "anxiety". So paranoid he thinks everybody is hitting on his wife and was spouting off the most ribald remarks in front of the kids. Luckily, his wife doesn't partake and was clear-headed enough to make sure he stopped coming to our functions. It's a shame, because otherwise he's a good man.
Paranoia, deep destroyer.
Money.
Taxing marijuana would bring revenue into the Government cookie jar.
Keeping Marijuana "illegal" will bring Cartel money and other financial kickbacks into the pockets of The DC Politicians.
You do the math.
Besides, legalizing it on the Federal level will remove a Yuge arrow in the quiver of the Uniparty's Anti-Second Amendment agenda.
You knew he wasn't just born a tard. Decades of pot made him that way.
The PTB want to keep people stupid and stoned.
Sad thing is that Fetterman still makes more sense than most of the democRATS that are in power and running this nation right now... AOC and/or Joe Biden for starters... and lets not leave out a host of others... Ilhan Omar, Maxine Waters etc.
Maybe dope would make them so stupified, they'd be harmless any more, instead of wrecking this nation day after day.
This is a stupid sheit idea. The drug dealers absolutely LOVE it. Come in a few $ leas than government dope and nobody knows the difference. Keeps both the cartels and their politicians and bureaucrats in bux too while allowing the market to expand. Just hope you don’t get any laced with fentanyl. Government is amoral when it comes to tax revenue!
No, it's actually a good idea. It wouldn't be a good idea if we didn't "ALREADY" have the situation you are describing. Anybody who wants weed can buy weed right now. Keeping it illegal just allows the bad side of it to stay hidden.
The problem with legal pot is every where you go, it stinks like pot.
Legalizing drugs is a horrible idea that should never be accepted or promoted!!!!!!!!!!
We need the gov't to secure our border and stop trampling on our rights a hell of a lot more than we need legal pot.
They are not mutually exclusive.
That's right.
Smoking pot is as "safe" as smoking cigarettes.
The same people that booed cigarettes off the stage want to legalize pot. Effing idiots.
How would you smoke a gummy?
How would you smoke a gummy?
It's a bitch to keep them thangs lit
Money.
Taxing marijuana would bring revenue into the Government cookie jar.
Keeping Marijuana "illegal" will bring Cartel money and other financial kickbacks into the pockets of The DC Politicians.
You do the math.
Besides, legalizing it on the Federal level will remove a Yuge arrow in the quiver of the Uniparty's Anti-Second Amendment agenda.
No it won't. They will just re word the 4473 to get the results they want, like they always have.
Legalizing drugs is a horrible idea that should never be accepted or promoted!!!!!!!!!!
Same as Alcohol it's worse than weed Imo but they keep it legal.
Mental case Fetterman is ten years late with his 'idea'.
It's not getting any space in the news media...but here in Northern Calif, the Hmong have been moving out, and the Chinese taking over the big illegal grows. Fine...who cares? But the local Sheriff and Public Health officer are warning that they have identified Chinese manufactured pesticides, banned in the US for over 40 years, that are being used in the grows. Heavy residuals are being found in seized bud shipments. Sufficiently high amounts of deadly toxins that require the seized bud to be treated as hazmat for disposal.
The promise of legalizing cannabis on the ballot didn't work out...it was over regulated and over taxed from the get go...hence the black market is booming with a drug of questionable safety. The pictures of the filth and squalor when the Hmong moved out were unsettling...the pictures and video of the Chinese grow site busts are scary...cleanup crews in coveralls, boots and respirators.
Wasn’t it California did this very thing for the same reasons and same theoretical result? I believe I’ve read just the opposite has happened. Somehow the results will be different because it’s Pennsylvania.
Sounds like the same insane logic places like oh say Minnesota might use.
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The habitual users around here know the risks of cartel grown pot...they either grow their own or buy from the old school hippy growers who smoke their own and produce a quality product.
We need the gov't to secure our border and stop trampling on our rights a hell of a lot more than we need legal pot.
They are not mutually exclusive.
That's right.
Jeez you guys,
this is the Hunter's Campfire.
Stop trying to make sense.
The habitual users around here know the risks of cartel grown pot...they either grow their own or buy from the old school hippy growers who smoke their own and produce a quality product.
Gee, what a concept.
Grow a plant in your garden, and bypass all the chemical scheidt?
Now, who would do that?
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Just what we all need....more and more brain fried people running around.
The habitual users around here know the risks of cartel grown pot...they either grow their own or buy from the old school hippy growers who smoke their own and produce a quality product.
Gee, what a concept.
Grow a plant in your garden, and bypass all the chemical scheidt?
Now, who would do that?
That alone will sink the tax windfall schemes. It's a weed, everyone will be growing it.
The habitual users around here know the risks of cartel grown pot...they either grow their own or buy from the old school hippy growers who smoke their own and produce a quality product.
Gee, what a concept.
Grow a plant in your garden, and bypass all the chemical scheidt?
Now, who would do that?
That alone will sink the tax windfall schemes. It's a weed, everyone will be growing it.
Yes, and it should be no more illegal to grow than me letting the wild lettuce and dandelions grow in my yard for my salad. Those aren't taxed either.
Legalizing drugs is a horrible idea that should never be accepted or promoted!!!!!!!!!!
What you really mean is that consuming drugs in such a way that you are harming yourself or others should never be accepted or promoted. Drugs are legal already with a government that promotes and profits from them. The goal should be to legislate to the best of your ability to do the most good while doing the least harm.
My opinion is that given our current situation legalization would accomplish that much more than keeping pot illegal. My personal advice would be not to smoke it or drink alcohol, or use tobacco, or take or consume many other potentially harmful substances. Marijuana however compared to many legal substances is very low on the harmful scale.
Obviously you never unknowingly hired a framing crew of daily weed smokers to frame a house for you. That was a not so funny joke. 30 days contract to dry in a 4,500 ft house which was only 30% complete in 45 days. They all got fired when I discovered every single hole for every door and window was out of square, out of plumb and not level. They had also laid out one exterior wall on the wrong side of the chalk line. I had to fix all of the work they had done, hire a new six man framing crew and run the job until the house was totally finished, myself. I am still laughing....yeah, right, 20 years later.
Pot destroys the short term memory, these guys could not even measure for a board cut, then actually cut the board the right length. Could not remember how to make a corner or a T, or use a framing square to cut rafters, it was pitiful.
Then when FL voted to legalize medical weed, after several failed attempts, I, as a farm owner, looked at the legal weed grow permitting process and found that all the permits for the state had been bought up long before by politician's family members along with the land to grow on. No politician's names, but in a state, with public info licenses and registry plus the internet it is easy to track who is who. Funny how that happens, a state license for control, ends up in the hands of the law makers.
Obviously you never unknowingly hired a framing crew of daily weed smokers to frame a house for you. That was a not so funny joke. 30 days contract to dry in a 4,500 ft house which was only 30% complete in 45 days. They all got fired when I discovered every single hole for every door and window was out of square, out of plumb and not level. They had also laid out one exterior wall on the wrong side of the chalk line. I had to fix all of the work they had done, hire a new six man framing crew and run the job until the house was totally finished, myself. I am still laughing....yeah, right, 20 years later.
Pot destroys the short term memory, these guys could not even measure for a board cut, then actually cut the board the right length. Could not remember how to make a corner or a T, or use a framing square to cut rafters, it was pitiful.
Then when FL voted to legalize medical weed, after several failed attempts, I, as a farm owner, looked at the legal weed grow permitting process and found that all the permits for the state had been bought up long before by politician's family members along with the land to grow on. No politician's names, but in a state, with public info licenses and registry plus the internet it is easy to track who is who. Funny how that happens, a state license for control, ends up in the hands of the law makers.
Yea, that's unfortunate. The mistaken assumption you are making however is that legality mattered to those jerk off's you hired. You honestly think those idiots wouldn't be high except for the law? Yes, the government will operate it at their usual level of corruption. I think it boils down to whether you believe we are better off now with the government in control of alcohol than we were in the days when alcohol was illegal. Marijuana legalization bears much the same parallels in history except that it is less lethal.
Anybody ever met a smart, successful, professional, attorney or doctor or business owner who consumes marijuana? Personally I know dozens. Some of you folks are associating with the wrong crowd. But I can see both sides of the coin. Pieces of [bleep] who drink alcohol and consume marinuana were pieces of [bleep] before that.
Considering how effective the “War on Drugs” has been over the past 40+ years I find it beyond ignorant to support the further erosion of personal freedom and the exponential expansion of the DRACONIAN POLICE STATE! That alone should cause anyone with a room temperature IQ pause…
Anybody ever met a smart, successful, professional, attorney or doctor or business owner who consumes marijuana? Personally I know dozens. Some of you folks are associating with the wrong crowd. But I can see both sides of the coin. Pieces of [bleep] who drink alcohol and consume marinuana were pieces of [bleep] before that.
No, but I know several who I wouldn't trust to sign their name correctly much less perform professional duties.
Yea, that's unfortunate. The mistaken assumption you are making however is that legality mattered to those jerk off's you hired. You honestly think those idiots wouldn't be high except for the law? Yes, the government will operate it at their usual level of corruption. I think it boils down to whether you believe we are better off now with the government in control of alcohol than we were in the days when alcohol was illegal. Marijuana legalization bears much the same parallels in history except that it is less lethal.
A lot of people base their morality on what's legal and what's not. What legalizing MJ has done/will do is increase the number of users.
I'll have to tell the story of my paranoid college roommate sometime. He was *real* successful. /sarc
Or some of the guys from HS.
Yea, that's unfortunate. The mistaken assumption you are making however is that legality mattered to those jerk off's you hired. You honestly think those idiots wouldn't be high except for the law? Yes, the government will operate it at their usual level of corruption. I think it boils down to whether you believe we are better off now with the government in control of alcohol than we were in the days when alcohol was illegal. Marijuana legalization bears much the same parallels in history except that it is less lethal.
A lot of people base their morality on what's legal and what's not. What legalizing MJ has done/will do is increase the number of users.
Do you think we should make alcohol illegal, again? If not, why? Doesn't the exact same argument apply?
Yea, that's unfortunate. The mistaken assumption you are making however is that legality mattered to those jerk off's you hired. You honestly think those idiots wouldn't be high except for the law? Yes, the government will operate it at their usual level of corruption. I think it boils down to whether you believe we are better off now with the government in control of alcohol than we were in the days when alcohol was illegal. Marijuana legalization bears much the same parallels in history except that it is less lethal.
A lot of people base their morality on what's legal and what's not. What legalizing MJ has done/will do is increase the number of users.
Do you think we should make alcohol illegal, again? If not, why? Doesn't the exact same argument apply?
It's within the bounds of prudence.
One difference, however, is that alcohol is food, THC is not.
Need for Safe, Pure, Taxed, Marijuana.
Two out three ain't bad.
One difference, however, is that alcohol is food, THC is not.
Actually, Genesis 1:29 says that "every plant bearing seed I have given to you as food.". Paraphrased.
One difference, however, is that alcohol is food, THC is not.
Actually, Genesis 1:29 says that "every plant bearing seed I have given to you as food.". Paraphrased.
So if you (not you personally) use the Bible as justification to fund Israel, then you must also justify legalized cannabis as well. Unless you’re just a hypocrite .
Marijuana has been legal in Canada several years.
If you come across a marijuana user, almost to a person they bitch about the government approved product being [bleep]. They hate it. Heavy users likely still have their street dealers.
Yea, that's unfortunate. The mistaken assumption you are making however is that legality mattered to those jerk off's you hired. You honestly think those idiots wouldn't be high except for the law? Yes, the government will operate it at their usual level of corruption. I think it boils down to whether you believe we are better off now with the government in control of alcohol than we were in the days when alcohol was illegal. Marijuana legalization bears much the same parallels in history except that it is less lethal.
A lot of people base their morality on what's legal and what's not. What legalizing MJ has done/will do is increase the number of users.
Do you think we should make alcohol illegal, again? If not, why? Doesn't the exact same argument apply?
It's within the bounds of prudence.
One difference, however, is that alcohol is food, THC is not.
I wouldn't call it food. If you think it's food, just see how long you can live consuming nothing except alcohol. It would be more accurate to call it a dose dependent liver toxin. You can consume enough alcohol to kill you pretty easily. You can't consume enough THC in any natural form to kill you.
Not only that but the Asians have used marijuana as a food source for over 2000 years.
One difference, however, is that alcohol is food, THC is not.
Actually, Genesis 1:29 says that "every plant bearing seed I have given to you as food.". Paraphrased.
Go eat a bowl of poison hemlock then.
Hemlock needles were boiled into a tea that provided vitamin C and prevented scurvy and death to early explorers. Some parts of some plants are deadly while the other parts of them are beneficial!…..😉
Yea, that's unfortunate. The mistaken assumption you are making however is that legality mattered to those jerk off's you hired. You honestly think those idiots wouldn't be high except for the law? Yes, the government will operate it at their usual level of corruption. I think it boils down to whether you believe we are better off now with the government in control of alcohol than we were in the days when alcohol was illegal. Marijuana legalization bears much the same parallels in history except that it is less lethal.
A lot of people base their morality on what's legal and what's not. What legalizing MJ has done/will do is increase the number of users.
Do you think we should make alcohol illegal, again? If not, why? Doesn't the exact same argument apply?
It's within the bounds of prudence.
One difference, however, is that alcohol is food, THC is not.
I wouldn't call it food. If you think it's food, just see how long you can live consuming nothing except alcohol. It would be more accurate to call it a dose dependent liver toxin. You can consume enough alcohol to kill you pretty easily. You can't consume enough THC in any natural form to kill you.
Not only that but the Asians have used marijuana as a food source for over 2000 years.
A better comparison would be wine or beer to MJ. Wine and beer are both food. THC is not, not even to the extent that alcohol itself is. Alcohol has calories.
As far as Asians using it as a food source, it would be far better and more viable to use non-psychoactive hemp instead. Perhaps that is what you meant in the first place?
Death isn't the only outcome of poisoning. Poisoning could result in anything from baldness to death or anything in between. In the case of MJ, psychosis seems to me to be it's biggest poisoning risk. That happens in a lot of cases, I believe in a far bigger % of users than with alcohol. Luckily, it seems to be reversible in cases where the user hasn't been using it daily or for great lengths of time.
Hemlock needles were boiled into a tea that provided vitamin C and prevented scurvy and death to early explorers. Some parts of some plants are deadly while the other parts of them are beneficial!…..😉
He can eat it all!
Yea, that's unfortunate. The mistaken assumption you are making however is that legality mattered to those jerk off's you hired. You honestly think those idiots wouldn't be high except for the law? Yes, the government will operate it at their usual level of corruption. I think it boils down to whether you believe we are better off now with the government in control of alcohol than we were in the days when alcohol was illegal. Marijuana legalization bears much the same parallels in history except that it is less lethal.
A lot of people base their morality on what's legal and what's not. What legalizing MJ has done/will do is increase the number of users.
Do you think we should make alcohol illegal, again? If not, why? Doesn't the exact same argument apply?
It's within the bounds of prudence.
One difference, however, is that alcohol is food, THC is not.
I wouldn't call it food. If you think it's food, just see how long you can live consuming nothing except alcohol. It would be more accurate to call it a dose dependent liver toxin. You can consume enough alcohol to kill you pretty easily. You can't consume enough THC in any natural form to kill you.
Not only that but the Asians have used marijuana as a food source for over 2000 years.
A better comparison would be wine or beer to MJ. Wine and beer are both food. THC is not, not even to the extent that alcohol itself is. Alcohol has calories.
As far as Asians using it as a food source, it would be far better and more viable to use non-psychoactive hemp instead. Perhaps that is what you meant in the first place?
Death isn't the only outcome of poisoning. Poisoning could result in anything from baldness to death or anything in between. In the case of MJ, psychosis seems to me to be it's biggest poisoning risk. That happens in a lot of cases, I believe in a far bigger % of users than with alcohol. Luckily, it seems to be reversible in cases where the user hasn't been using it daily or for great lengths of time.
Marijuana doesn't cause psychosis, but it can increase those tendencies in people who already have them just like any other drug. I don't see it as a good thing that everybody needs. I see it as a thing that is with us whether you wish it was or not. So, then the question is what's the best way to deal with it.? legalization with regulation similar to tobacco and alcohol seems to be the best solution IMHO.
The DEA doesn’t have a replacement boogeyman for cannabis. Although I’d be fine with leaving their budgets alone. Put more effort and capital into keeping fentanyl and such outside our borders.
4 20 was when the students at a college would meet up after school to indulge.
It’s also the average length of a Willie Nelson song.
NOTHING good comes from legalized marijuana.....NOTHING!
NOTHING good comes from legalized marijuana.....NOTHING!
That also goes for Alcohol.
NOTHING good comes from legalized marijuana.....NOTHING!
That also goes for Alcohol.
And tobacco.
FDR ended prohibition to put the bootlegger profits in the US treasury.
I propose we expand the BATF to be Bureau of alcohol, firearms, tobacco, and sugar.....BATFS... show ID and pay big taxes on sugar containing products.
Smoking pot is just plain dumb, but does not cause as much trouble as A,T,F, or S......ok add pot on ....Bureau of alcohol,tobacco, firearms, sugar and marijuana....BATFSM
Isn’t it interesting how they’ll seek to ban drugs like nicotine that stimulate us to think and work but constantly fight to legalize pot which makes you want to play video games, watch porn, and cry for your mom to warm you a hot pocket?
FDR ended prohibition to put the bootlegger profits in the US treasury.
I propose we expand the BATF to be Bureau of alcohol, firearms, tobacco, and sugar.....BATFS... show ID and pay big taxes on sugar containing products.
Disparate impact is proof of racism to the left, so this proposal, good as it may be, couldn’t ever pass muster for either party.
Isn’t it interesting how they’ll seek to ban drugs like nicotine that stimulate us to think and work but constantly fight to legalize pot which makes you want to play video games, watch porn, and cry for your mom to warm you a hot pocket?
There's no doubt tobacco has caused more harm than many drugs that are illegal. If you want a good stimulant, I can think of a few more powerful and less harmful than nicotine. Everybody knows it's sugar that leads to masturbation and video games. The pot just makes you want the sugar.
Isn’t it interesting how they’ll seek to ban drugs like nicotine that stimulate us to think and work but constantly fight to legalize pot which makes you want to play video games, watch porn, and cry for your mom to warm you a hot pocket?
There's no doubt tobacco has caused more harm than many drugs that are illegal. If you want a good stimulant, I can think of a few more powerful and less harmful than nicotine. Everybody knows it's sugar that leads to masturbation and video games. The pot just makes you want the sugar.
I didn’t say anything about tobacco.
Isn’t it interesting how they’ll seek to ban drugs like nicotine that stimulate us to think and work but constantly fight to legalize pot which makes you want to play video games, watch porn, and cry for your mom to warm you a hot pocket?
There's no doubt tobacco has caused more harm than many drugs that are illegal. If you want a good stimulant, I can think of a few more powerful and less harmful than nicotine. Everybody knows it's sugar that leads to masturbation and video games. The pot just makes you want the sugar.
I didn’t say anything about tobacco.
Where do you think nicotine comes from?
NOTHING good comes from legalized marijuana.....NOTHING!
That also goes for Alcohol.
And tobacco.
And high fructose corn syrup ( or cane sugar etc...)
Want an eye opener, do a little reading on what consuming the various "___roses" do to brain chemicals.
Fruit Loops - the real gateway drug.
FDR ended prohibition to put the bootlegger profits in the US treasury.
I propose we expand the BATF to be Bureau of alcohol, firearms, tobacco, and sugar.....BATFS... show ID and pay big taxes on sugar containing products.
Smoking pot is just plain dumb, but does not cause as much trouble as A,T,F, or S......ok add pot on ....Bureau of alcohol,tobacco, firearms, sugar and marijuana....BATFSM
I personally prefer the bureau of MYOFB, but I can see your point, as per above.
Taxed is the key word... they don't really GAF as long as they get their cut...
ONly 20 years from now there will be a huge need for more jail space, mental health hospitals and cancer treatment centers. Who is going to pay for those ?? Can they tax that dope enough to pay for those ??
kwg
They may be going to hell in a bucket……
But at least they enjoying the ride.