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.
Yeah, I think if you need it medically that's okay. People who need it medically in my experience tend to be more considerate of their neighbors, but this obviously doesn't go for everyone. There are also better ways than smoking it (no matter what people say, smoke is smoke and it's bad for you) which helps.
I am for decriminalizing it because I don't think people should be penalized or imprisoned for it, but I don't think we need to have a pot shop and growers on every corner like my city has now.
There will always be a black market, for the simple reason of taxation and regulation.
But the people who are pushing for full legalization always end up pushing one side of studies and ignoring any criticism about it, and ignore all of the other effects and impacts a full legalization of all drugs would have. I know that drivers are crazy enough without slamming heroin or dropping acid.
Pot is literally the gateway drug for this purpose.
Decriminalization does not mean ease of acquisition, and you'll still have the same drugs from the same people floating around for cheaper and without being taxed to boot. A war on drugs must include -- plainly -- a direct, open war on the cartels. That is the only way to cut production and distribution.
Until such a time comes, any "war on drugs" can't be disastrous because it doesn't exist -- the drugs aren't the target, you are.