• BoscoBear
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    68 months ago

    Rescheduling or legalizing it exposes a huge amount of injustice. I don’t see how they unwind this.

    • @[email protected]
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      48 months ago

      I’m not sure I follow. Do you mean it would expose the injustice of all the black people thrown in prison for doing something that so many of us white people have been doing for years with far fewer consequences? That makes sense, but isn’t that a good thing? They should totally still try to unwind it. Better insanely late than never, right?

      • BoscoBear
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        68 months ago

        It would expose all the injustices. I’m not saying it shouldn’t be done. Hell yes it should be done. I’m saying I don’t see a way for it to happen.

        • @[email protected]
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          38 months ago

          Ah gotcha, then yeah I agree. I also don’t see how Joe and Kamala can make it happen, especially because of how shitty they’ve both historically been on the issue. Unless they own up to their past mistakes, this strikes me purely as political posturing. And that’d be fine if they actually tried to deschedule it, but we’ve all talked about this issue enough—we don’t need another “round table” or “fact finding commission” or whatever. So yeah, I’m not confident that they’re planning to actually take action.

          • BoscoBear
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            48 months ago

            Thanks for your replies. I didn’t understand the downvotes.

            • @[email protected]
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              48 months ago

              Totally. I wish people would actually take a second to try and understand where others are coming from, rather than just smashing the downvotes.

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      17 months ago

      It’s really not some impossible task, but you’d better believe private prisons are lobbying against it hard to pretend that it is.

      Just legalize it, and fuck off with this schedule 3 nonsense. Let everyone out of prison who’s locked up on pot charges immediately, and pay them money in the form of reparations proportionate to the amount of their lives stolen by the injustice of criminalizing a plant.