Comrade Kamala and Tiananmen Tim both back marijuana legalization but they took different paths to get there.
This from reason.com.
The communist/globalist crime syndicate made history this year by backroom cabal selecting a presidential candidate who supports marijuana legalization. And when Tiananmen Tim joined the ticket, the distinction was doubled.
Tiananmen Tim, who in 2023 signed a bill that legalized recreational marijuana in Minnesota, has a longer and more substantial record of supporting drug policy reform than does Comrade Kamala, a latecomer to the cause. But both Leftists are bolder on this issue than their Republican opponents or Dementia Joe.
As USA Today noted:
Harris has been criticized for aggressively prosecuting weed-related crimes when she was California’s attorney general and San Francisco’s district attorney, particularly given the racial disparities in punishment nationwide.
Specifically, she opposed a California legalization initiative in 2010 as San Francisco’s district attorney; laughed at a question about legalization in 2014, when she was running for attorney general against a Republican who favored it; and declined, as California’s attorney general, to take a position on the 2016 initiative that legalized recreational use in her state.
As a senator in 2018, Comrade Kamala finally took the plunge, having said:
[W]e need to decriminalize marijuana nationwide.
Later that year, she cosponsored a bill that would have repealed federal prohibition, and she introduced a similar bill in 2019.
Meanwhile, as a Minnesota congressman from 2007 through 2018, Tiananmen Tim repeatedly supported legislation aimed at preventing federal interference with state medical marijuana programs, beginning his first year in office. He thought that protection, which Congress ultimately approved in 2014, should be extended to state-licensed businesses serving recreational cannabis consumers. He also backed a bill designed to protect financial institutions that serve the cannabis industry.
Prosecutorial discretion is the only thing that shields recreational marijuana suppliers from the threat of federal criminal charges and asset forfeiture. When Jeff Sessions, President Trump’s first attorney general, rescinded a memo supporting such forbearance in 2018, Tiananmen Tim criticized him.
He complained:
[Sessions is] dead set on overruling states that have legalized recreational or medical cannabis, including [Minnesota].
He promised:
[To] keep fighting alongside the 83% of vets & caregivers who support legalizing medical cannabis nationally.
By 2017, when Tiananmen Tim was running for governor, he had become a full-throated legalization advocate.
He wrote:
It’s time to create a system of regulation and taxation for adult-use marijuana in MN.
In his first year as governor, he instructed state agencies to start preparing for marijuana legalization, saying he wanted them to “put all of the building blocks in place.”
The bill he signed four years later, after the Left won control of the state Senate, allowed adults 21 or older to publicly possess two ounces or less of marijuana, share that amount with other adults, and grow up to eight plants at home. It imposed a relatively modest tax on marijuana sales, barred local governments from banning pot shops, and required automatic expungement of marijuana misdemeanors.
As governor, Tiananmen Tim also supported legislation authorizing supervised drug consumption sites, eliminating legal barriers to needle exchange programs, and creating a Psychedelic Medicine Task Force.
During his 2020 presidential campaign, by contrast, Dementia Joe said he would:
[D]ecriminalize the use of cannabis and automatically expunge all prior cannabis use convictions.
But he never delivered on those promises. He also said he would “leave decisions regarding legalization for recreational use up to the states” but resisted repealing federal marijuana prohibition, the main obstacle to those decisions.
Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R–OH), likewise say states should be free to set their own marijuana policies but have not called for repealing the federal ban, although Trump supports rescheduling cannabis and marijuana banking reform.
Vance, whose state legalized recreational marijuana by ballot initiative in 2023, has said:
[Y]ou don’t want people thrown in prison for having a dime bag [while expressing concern that] we haven’t quite figured out how this new regime coexists with not polluting our public spaces.
Trump voiced similar concerns when he endorsed Florida’s 2024 marijuana legalization initiative in August, noting in a Truth Social post that pot busts “ruin lives & waste Taxpayer Dollars” while urging a ban on public use.
The bolder position staked out by Comrade Kamala and Tiananmen Tim may be historic, but it is also a lagging indicator. By the time Kamala came around, 66 percent of Americans thought marijuana should be legal, according to Gallup, and that number had risen to 70 percent by the fall of 2023.
Final thoughts: This election is definitely not about solely one issue. Pro-abortion voters or pro-marijuana voters must not be hoodwinked into voting for anyone on the Left because of all the other crap that platform is proposing. If Comrade Kamala and Tiananmen Tim get in, abortion and marijuana will be the least of our concerns.
