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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.

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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.

They are not mutually exclusive.

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.

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.

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.