This to me just totally seems like something they would do.
The drug war is a disaster in itself that was started by the deep state in order to wage war on Americans, anyway. Like every deep state plan they phrase it as something that's for our own good. After decades of drug war, overdoses are at an all-time high, drug-use is at an all-time high, deep state was flooding inner cities with crack, using drugs as pretext for violation of 2A, as well as excessive and seizure and civil asset forfeiture. I could go on at length about this but that's what my assessment of what the plan is.
Trump said in office that if congress gave him a bill to legalize cannabis he'd sign off on it, but otherwise took no real action. As someone who works in legal cannabis I was very pleased with how much he left us alone at the state level and only intervened in operations that trafficked stuff into or out of their respective legalized states, therefore breaking the laws of the states that legalized it and infringing on the sovereignty of states that didn't.
Now the deep state is trying to sell conservatives on more drug war by hyping up military intervention against the cartels. Was that ever necessary when Trump was in office? We don't need another long drawn out expensive foreign military intervention, he had a great relationship with the president of Mexico and was working with him to clean up corruption!
But I think the deep state will try this, give a too-little-too-late concession (they've already lost the optics war for the most part and now just appear brazenly tyrannical) on cannabis legalization, and have their controlled op conservative mouthpieces really step up the attacks on cannabis, so it drives the liberty minded people and moderates away from conservatives and back towards Dems.
And it's really fucking funny seeing all these conservatives/GOP who for the last few years were ranting and raving about tyrannical government and appearing to be the "party of liberty" jumping back on the prohibition train and speaking out against cannabis.
God damn I hate RINOs. If it weren't for Trump I would probably vote libertarian, except the Libertarian party is also fundamentally broken.
I live in a legal state, retail just started this year. There were Dems that voted against legalization, we already had medical for about 5 years before. I've been growing for awhile, only for personal use. It really is a feeling to be able to put 3 plants right out there next to the Lupines and Chard and Flowering Tobacco. Before that it was all indoors in tents and stealth. I have a med card since they were available , but the cost at the dispenseries were out of this world. Legalization dealt the cartels quite a blow, and since the CIA works directly with them, they did not want to lose the cash flow, and now fentanyl is everywhere, like crack used to be. People vote against legalization because of myths and scare tactics from pharma and professional groups of doctors, therapists and everything. I am always shocked to hear some liberal women disagree with legalization, so, I don't think the deep state will use that tactic, because it isn't really split on party lines. The women I mention are in 12 step programs, so that may be why, I know them from there. If anything, fentanyl has become such a problem, and that has become politicized for sure. Weed was the steady income but not the major income of the cartels, that would be meth, coke and fentanyl and guns and laundering. There just has not been any serious Libertarian candidates for awhile now, even in the small local elections. Just my opinion. When people see how much taxes it brings in, they end up being convinced, and all politicians like to brag about how much is in their coffers.