President Trump Has a Few Things In Common w/ Cannabis I. Both have close to 60% approval.  60% of America now approves of Cannabis  60% of America also approves of Trump, and we know this because he was elected lawfully, and yet he remains; and the fake polls say he's at or around 40%, and we know they can only adjust their statistics with a margin of +/- 33.3% or else people catch on to their gaslighting. In the case of 2016, I recall that they actually inverted the stats in October, the highest poll saying Hillary Clinton had 88% chance over Trump to win the election, when in fact it was actually 100-88% or 12%. (Best example I could find, 4 yrs later) II. Deepstate Will NEVER Approve of Trump.  Deepstate Will NEVER Approve of Cannabis. If we are going to see Cannabis decriminalized in America, it's going to be because Trump is exercising the will of 60% of the people.   There is a reason it has 60% approval now.  This represents the number of people who have realized that anti-Cannabis propaganda like "reefer madness" was not only promoted by the CIA, but that it is patently false, based on the evidence we have now.  And that Cannabis is actually medically useful.  The puported harm; the notion it's a gateway drug--these ideas have proven false, and even THAT has been capitulated by international health organizations like "Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs" and also the WHO and UN the very organizations that made Cannabis illegal in the first place (UN 1971 convention on psychotropic substances, which created the DEA schedules). Regardless of whether you're a very conservative person here, or a Catholic / other very devout religious person; or a 'boomer' with pre-programmed non-evidence-based, anti-pot belief that it is demoralizing or dangerous to society---none of that matters, because we believe that American government exists to serve the will, welfare, and RIGHTS of the people.   Even if there is no will because of religiosity, judgmentalism, and labelling theory (ie: Cannabis is a "drug" only because you label it so and criminalize it.  Is alcohol a "drug"?  Well sure it is.  So what's the difference?  One is an illegal drug and the other is what you do every night. Recall that trafficking alcohol was life-sentence felony at one point in our history....), people still have a constitutional right to access "a plant...an herb" because there are thousands of years of its use going back even beyond Socrates and Pliny the Elder in traditional medicine, and this is supported by science now.   Being anti-Cannabis then, is a largely monotheistic set of 'religious beliefs'--judgementalism based on ideas that no longer wash--that seems to dominate and overrule other people's contradictory religious beliefs.  Anti-Cannabism ignores medical science evidence and politicizes and promotes the continued criminalization of Cannabis to a level of deep dishonesty.  Codifying religious repugnance as scientific dishonesty within criminal policy, at the cost of our rights, is NOT what America stands for, if we the people are to believe integrity and fidelity to the Constitutional notions of freedom and equality are legitimate real things and not simply virtue-signalling 'illusions'.  It's time to update our view based on new information (read: 'get real') But again, that's only 40% of people now.  We need to convince those people that it's going to be OK if we federally decriminalize Cannabis.  And we know this because PORTUGAL is Ok.  They decriminalized all drugs, and found--to the world's surprise--that the percentages of people doing drugs didn't change.  People who were going to do drugs, continue; those who don't, won't.  But crime was way down, because you legalize what was formerly crime.  Also, society is nicer to each other because the stigma is reduced, because drug use is looked at as a psychological or characterological problem and not a criminal problem.  Two plus decades prove the hypothesis that "decriminalizing drugs causes more people to use drugs" is completely false. IIIa. CIA Opioid Trafficking Competes with Cannabis The Straight Dope on Painkillers, Heroin, Gateways, and the Janus Face of the War on Drugs. The deepstate makes money bringing in the hard drugs.  The problem with Cannabis is that it competes with their hard drugs and hard drugs are more profitable.  Also hard drugs are an easier sell, because hard drugs are ACTUALLY ADDICTIVE, while cannabis is actually not physically addictive.  There have been arguments about Cannabis being 'psychologically addictive' or 'creates dependence' it's actually more about identity and lifestyle.  That's like saying "doritos and ice cream' are habit forming.  No, they're a lifestyle choice, dummies.  Being fat and eating trash is a lifestyle choice.  That's not an argument for removing them from the marketplace, unless you want to remove all items with SUGAR in them, because SUGAR has been proven to be physically addictive also (it has). It's just a stupid argument that doesn't wash. One would think that marijuana is a different market from heroin, and since marijuana is not a gateway drug they all hoped it was, indeed they are separate markets.  Heroin user runs in different circles than Pot user.  They also act very different.  Generally speaking, the cannabis user is chill, open attitude, likes to laugh and be social among themselves.  Heroin user does it alone, and essentially goes to sleep.  Opoids, like all painkillers, also diminish empathy in the individual. That is why Opioid users become effectively psychopaths and become cruel, irreverent and cold; while pot users are the complete opposite.  IIIb. Physical Addiction is Deepstate Anti-Competition So why not sell both Cannabis AND opoiods?  Shouldn't the Deepstate try to legalize everything and then they have a greater market share?  Seems logical at first.  But here's why they don't want this.  Cannabis is a mild psychedelic, and all psychedelics 'reduce fear tracing' (reduce irrational fears and phobias), create and foster more "openness to experience", and they rewire the reward system by stimulating neuroplasticity.  Opoids shut the brain down in key areas.  Cannabis opens the brain up.  *Psychedelics generally reverse physical addiction to substances by neuroplasticity and neurogenesis (read: 'rewiring the brain'). For example, Ketamine, has an unprecedented 50% chance to reverse heroid addiction--which says to me that if this study can be repeated, then we should replace methadone clinics with Ketamine clinics and fix the actual problem instead of creating false optics, false hope of fixing the problem while extorting the public But this says that Cannabis (and all psychedelics) THREATEN THE OPOIOD BUSINESS because they reverse addiction Remember: Physical Addiction is Deepstate Anti-Competition There's also the Pharmaceutical lobby that's trying to keep Cannabis off the market too, because THEY KNOW IT WORKS. VICE exposed This: Leading Anti-Marijuana Academics Are Paid by Painkiller Drug Companies IV. Authorities FDA, DEA Continue Using False Cannabis Information to Guide Policy--Exercising Pharma Industry's Will and Will Not Accept Our Government's Own NIH.GOV Studies I proved years ago via FOIA requests that the FDA does not base their decision that "Cannabis has no medical value" on ANY science, but an 8 point criteria that they themselves manufactured out of whole cloth. This is published on reddit