People bitch about Mitch McConnell, and he is a real scumbag. Like Pelosi, a guy who makes $174,000 per year somehow has a net worth of several hundred million dollars. But he also accidentally legalized weed nationwide...as long as you call it hemp. I need to try some of that 25% THCA flower still.
I'm entirely too jaded about national politics. Republicans are never gonna play ball with cannabis legalization. Their voters all watch Fox. They tell their audience that weed turns users into schizophrenic mass shooters. No incentive for them to do the right thing.
And the Demonrats... I mean, like any other "good" thing they say they stand for but are never able to make appreciable progress on...I'd cut them a lot more slack if I saw them out there doing a full court press only to fall short. But with legalization (and everything else), they just half ass it. No big press in the media. No pressure on the Right. Nothing.
50/50 Congress or not, someone like LBJ could've got it done. Modern Democrats think politics ends the day after the election. They just blame us, "oh well, you all should've voted harder, lol!"
Seems like it's the corporate assholes trying to justify preferential legislation to guarantee a profit for half-ass work.
Corporate assholes are the ones who can afford to buy regulators and legislators. And yup, they're gonna make sure the rules are set to benefit themselves. That's the free market, baby. Everything has a price.
They can both coexist imo
I'd like to think so, but looking at other sectors it doesn't seem to really work out that way. Some "little guys" are able to hold out against the corpo tide, but it gets a little harder to make ends meet every year. I hope you're right though.
