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High death rates in Republican south. Source.
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News. Sources. GMM Facebook. 2022 GMM. Ballotpedia: marijuana and minimum wage. US Congress could legalize or deschedule adult-use cannabis at the federal level if the Republican filibuster was gone. Do not vote for US Senate candidates that support the filibuster. [19]. 11 May 2022: Thailand to Give Away 1 Million Free Cannabis Plants for Home Cultivation.
  Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin could save abortion rights but ... they won't.
Multi-city 420 lists
18 Apr 2022: Legalizing marijuana lowers demand for prescription drugs, study finds. "The reductions in drug utilization that we find could lead to significant cost savings for state Medicaid programs."   Mitch McConnell. More info. 26 Mar 2022: Mitch McConnell’s Confederate Flag Photo Resurfaces as He Announces He Will Oppose Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Confirmation. [29][30] [31][32]. The Republican roots of the racist drug war go all the way back to President Nixon. See: Race, ethnicity, and drug war.
25 Mar 2022: Native Americans Are Operating New York State’s First Legal Cannabis Dispensaries.      Life expectancy vs healthcare spending. US wastes so much money. Source.   16 Mar 2022: Delaware. Cannabis legalization backers question ‘suspicious’ amendments before bill fell short in house vote. [33]. Republicans actually lost this vote. But their anti-democracy rule killed the bill: "The three-fifths vote is required on legislation that raises revenues."  8 Mar 2022: Virginia Bill to Allow Marijuana Resentencing Killed by Republicans.
4 Mar 2022: Upstate New York’s Cayuga Nation expands its legal marijuana business. Several of the state’s Indian nations sell cannabis.  25 Feb 2022: Louisville family held at gunpoint during botched SWAT marijuana raid settles lawsuit for $460K. Some of these cops were later involved in the Breonna Taylor killing.
9 Feb: Ohio. Proposal to legalize marijuana faces yet another roadblock in Senate Republican leader.   See: Wikipedia: Firearm death rates in the United States by state. 25 Jan 2022: The Anti-vaccine Right Literally Brought Human Sacrifice to America. Article: Tucker Carlson discussed vaccines on half of his nightly broadcasts after Joe Biden became president, “and all but one of those episodes featured a claim that undermined vaccines or vaccination efforts.”      
Today: Google News search: Republicans refuse to get vaccinated. The Covid pandemic would be over by now in the US if not for the lies of the Republican echo chamber. Unvaccinated Republicans are dying in droves.
19 Dec 2021: Straight out of Inwood: ‘Legacy’ New York City pot dealers going legit — ‘We got that good work. The best of the best.’   Philippines. Proposed bill to produce and export medical cannabis. Tax the rich! End drug war! The drug war is a control tool of the Republican Party. Nov 2021: 40 under 40 Outstanding BIPOC leaders in Drug Policy - SSDP. BIPOC stands for "Black, Indigenous, and People of Color". SSDP = Students for Sensible Drug Policy.
20 Nov: Oregon raid seizes an epic amount of illegal marijuana. 500,000 pounds. [54][55].   Putin's prisons in Russia. Almost as bad as Syria's torture death camps.  
10 Nov 2021: Senator Warren presses Biden on pardons for nonviolent cannabis convictions. Article: The letter cites the Democratic primary debate in November 2019, during which Biden laid out his views on marijuana reform. "Number one, I think we should decriminalize marijuana, period," Biden said at the time. "And I think everyone — anyone who has a record should be let out of jail, their records expunged, be completely zeroed out."
5 Nov 2021: Australia. Mathias Cormann calls for fossil fuel subsidies to be abolished. And: World spends $423 billion a year to subsidize fossil fuels.
4 Nov: 5 more drug convictions tied to corrupt Chicago cop vacated. 110 convictions vacated so far. Ongoing investigation into more cops. Prison terms already served by some cops.
2 Nov 2021: Judge throws out man’s guilty plea after bodycam footage reveals New York City cop planting cannabis in cupholder of car of a couple of color. Racist prosecutors delayed releasing footage. Cop had done this before. Calls for prosecuting the cop.   28 Oct: Here’s how Biden’s Build Back Better framework would tax the rich. [60]. "The IRS would hire enforcement agents trained to pursue wealthy tax evaders, ... It estimates these measures would raise $400 billion over 10 years."
27 Oct 2021: Private Prison Operator GEO Group Must Pay Inmates Minimum Wage, Jury Rules.
25 Oct 2021: BBC UK. Minimum wage for 23 and above to rise to £9.50 an hour ($13 an hour). [66]. "Independent experts maintain there has been little or no evidence of job losses as a result of rising minimum wage levels."
21 Oct 2021: New York employers are banned from testing most workers for marijuana.
 
US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [72][73][74]. Medicare spends less than 2 percent on bureaucracy. 1.4% to be exact. See chart. We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars go for something other than health care. Health insurance companies, for example. See also: See: More News. And: Cannabis is safer. CannabisVoter.info - Click your state to see which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out.
The drug war is a control tool of the Republican Party. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Henrik Vanger: "Isn't it interesting how fascists always steal the word 'freedom'?" Real democracy is ranked-choice voting (instant-runoff). And: Remove Presidential veto power. 2022 Global Cannabis March and 420 map. Event links: 2022 talk. & Main talk. This news feed may have long lapses. Full site / Mobile. To Top or End. News & 2022 GMM & Categories.
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Contents
- 1 Table top
- 2 Top
- 3 Vote out most Republicans
- 4 US Republican cannabis war
- 5 Incarceration rates compared
- 6 Drug overdose epidemic
- 7 Trudeau's Canada legalized
- 8 Portugal's drug decrim
- 9 Single Payer costs less and
- 10 Canada has universal healthcare
- 11 It has higher minimum wage
- 12 US minimum wage facts
- 13 Canada has lower murder rate,
- 14 US; more handgun owners.
- 15 US drug war is expensive
- 16 Pentagon is a money pit.
- 17 Republican Party greed
- 18 US Republican war on poor,
- 19 Record US income inequality,
- 20 Rich pay less taxes than you,
- 21 Massive US student debt
- 22 Republican loansharking
- 23 College at 16 is cheaper.
- 24 Trump's falling wages
- 25 Cannabis is safer
- 26 Categories
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Share links: kleptocracy 2 and state 2. This article was written by Timeshifter. See also: Happy alternatives to US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars. And: Holy war on drugs.
Vote out most Republicans[]
Return to top. Vote out most US Republicans and their cannabis war.
Prosperity for all is not sustainable without universal healthcare, progressive taxation, higher taxes on the rich, lower taxes on the middle class, a high minimum wage, and a sustainable population. Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage. It is not socialist. It is Common Sense. (search for "poor" among Thomas Paine quotes). See: List of minimum wages by country. And: Medicare-for-all, like Canada, is not socialist either. See: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. [76]. Racist Republican state governments in 28 states passed laws to prevent cities from raising the minimum wage. Far-right talk radio helps Republicans do this. Republicans block cheap municipal broadband in 26 states. Vote!
Money wasted on health insurance companies, drug wars, and most ground wars, helps no one.
Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration.
US Republican cannabis war[]
Return to top. See also: Cannabis is safer.
Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war.
Incarceration rates compared[]
See: Wikipedia: List of countries by incarceration rate. And: Wikipedia: Comparison of United States incarceration rate with other countries.
Drug overdose epidemic[]
Wikipedia: US drug overdose death rates and totals over time.
Portugal's drug decriminalization. 2.3.4. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2. 72,000 drug overdose deaths per year in the US. Well below 100 in Portugal. 81,000 is latest US total.
Trudeau's Canada legalized[]
- Wikipedia: Cannabis in Canada. Recreational cannabis is legal in Canada.
Portugal's drug decrim[]
See: Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization.
Single Payer costs less and[]
Canada has universal healthcare[]
See these articles:
- Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
- Happy alternatives to US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.
It has higher minimum wage[]
Canada has a higher minimum wage than the US. See: Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.
US minimum wage facts[]
Return to top. See: More charts.
Canada has lower murder rate,[]
US; more handgun owners.[]
Canada has a much lower homicide rate, and a much lower rate of handgun ownership.
US drug war is expensive[]
Cost of Republican-led U.S. drug war.
Pentagon is a money pit.[]
17 Mar 2019: The Pentagon’s Bottomless Money Pit. By Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. "Despite being the taxpayers’ greatest investment — more than $700 billion a year — the Department of Defense has remained an organizational black box throughout its history. It’s repelled generations of official inquiries, the latest being an audit three decades in the making, mainly by scrambling its accounting into such a mess that it may never be untangled."
Republican Party greed[]
US Republican war on poor,[]
Return to top. Income inequality and drug war.
Record US income inequality,[]
26 Sep 2019: Income inequality in America is at its highest level in more than 50 years.
| Stock owned by richest 10%. | |
| 2016 | 84% |
| 2013 | 81% |
| 2001 | 71% |
The Richest 10% of Americans Now Own 84% of All Stocks. Dec. 19, 2017. Time (magazine). "The top 10% of American households, as defined by total wealth, now own 84% of all stocks in 2016, according to a recent paper by NYU economist Edward N. Wolff."
Rich get richer; while middle class wages are declining (inflation-adjusted), and the federal minimum wage (inflation-adjusted) has declined.
USA. Since 2001, labor’s share of national income has suffered a sustained decline. 11 Sep 2018.
See chart. [14]. And source article.
Chart. Homelessness is increasing under Trump.
Rich pay less taxes than you,[]
9 Oct 2019: America's richest 400 families now pay a lower tax rate than the middle class. CBS News.
8 Oct: For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class. The Washington Post. From the article: "The top 400 families have more wealth than the bottom 60 percent of households, while the top 0.1 percent own as much as the bottom 80 percent. ... the tipping point came in 2017, with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The legislation, championed by President Trump and then-House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), was a windfall for the wealthy: It lowered the top income tax bracket".
6 Oct: The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You. New York Times.
Massive US student debt[]
Facebook video: $1.5 trillion in student debt. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. Read the heartbreaking comments. 10 Dec 2018: People Are Living With An Incredible Amount Of Debt From Student Loans And Credit Cards. By Venessa Wong. BuzzFeed News.
Republican loansharking[]
See Wikipedia: Student debt. Roughly 1 in 4 adults. No bankruptcy rights. Much higher interest rates. Lifetime debt. Modern loansharking and predatory lending, approved by Republicans.
College at 16 is cheaper.[]
Return to top. See: Wikipedia: Age of majority (by country). Wikipedia: Voting age. Voting age of 16 in many countries.
Scotland: Adult at age 16. Prolonged forced adolescence is a waste of time and money. Increased agency is better. Public high school in the USA costs an average of $12,509 a year per student in taxes. The money now spent for high school between the ages of 16 to 18 could be set aside for 2 years of college tuition, room, and board. See: Scotland. What can I do at my age? See: Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991. See: Wikipedia: Education in Scotland: "In 2014, research by the Office for National Statistics found that Scotland was the most highly educated country in Europe".
Trump's falling wages[]
See: Under Trump, inflation-adjusted real wages declined.
| 7 Feb 2020: Real pay data show Trump's 'blue collar boom' is more of a bust for US workers, in 3 charts. |
Cannabis is safer[]
Return to top. See article: Cannabis is safer.
Vote out most US Republicans and their cannabis war.
16 Dec 2019: Majority Of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization, Two More New Polls Show. "Voters who supported President Trump in the 2016 election expressed greater opposition to the policy than Republicans and Republican-leaning independents as a whole."
| 2 May 2019: Time to Admit It: Trump Opposed Cannabis Legalization. He opposed 3 bills for veterans’ access to medical cannabis. |
23 Feb 2019: Trump Continued to Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana.
See: Reagan's war on cannabis. And: Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration.
| Ronald Reagan, 1980 campaign speech: "Leading medical researchers are coming to the conclusion that marijuana, pot, grass whatever you want to call it, is probably the most dangerous drug in the United States, and we haven't begun to find out all of the ill effects, but they are permanent ill effects. The loss of memory for example." |
Share link: Obama.
- Obama correctly said that cannabis is safer than alcohol. See: Cannabis is safer. He also said marijuana should be treated more as a public health issue than a criminal one. And: Obama signals support for legalizing medical marijuana. [77]. See video.
- USA. 1 in 10 deaths of working-age adults are alcohol-related (disease, overdose, car crashes, falls, violence, etc). 87,798 per year, 2006 to 2010. [78][79][80][81][82].
See longer article: Cannabis is safer.
- Imagine if Mitt Romney had been elected President in 2012 instead of Obama.
- Obama on marijuana legalization. [83]. "My suspicion is that you’re gonna see other states start looking at this". The Washington Post. Jan. 22, 2015.
Above quote is from Sanjay Gupta interview of Obama on April 15, 2015. Interview aired on CNN on April 19, 2015. [84][85][86].
- Obama administration asks Supreme Court to reject lawsuit filed by Republican governments in Oklahoma and Nebraska to stop legal marijuana in Colorado [87]. December 2015.
  Obama helped turn around the Reagan-Bush War on Pot, mandatory minimums, mass incarceration. See: US incarceration peaked in 2008. |
- Holder's Legacy: Steering Away From the Drug War and Mass Incarceration. [88]. Attorney General Eric Holder (2009-2015) under President Obama. 25 Sep 2014.
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