Mairead Elordi
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Border Wall Fire Sale & New Jersey’s Drone Mystery | 12.13.24
It looks like they might be hitting some resistance in red states. Florida and both North and South Dakota rejected ballot measures that would have legalized recreational marijuana. Here's Governor Ron DeSantis talking about how one big weed company put nearly $100 million towards the failed push for legalization in Florida.
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Border Wall Fire Sale & New Jersey’s Drone Mystery | 12.13.24
In Nebraska, voters approved a measure allowing medical marijuana but not recreational cannabis. Currently, 24 states permit recreational use of marijuana and 38 states plus Washington, D.C. allow medical marijuana. As John mentioned, music icon Elton John called legalizing marijuana, quote, one of the greatest mistakes of all time.
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Border Wall Fire Sale & New Jersey’s Drone Mystery | 12.13.24
He's been sober since 1990 and said he believes marijuana is addictive and leads to other drugs. It looks like he's not alone in that assessment.
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Border Wall Fire Sale & New Jersey’s Drone Mystery | 12.13.24
While there's still broad support, about 57% of Americans support legalizing recreational marijuana as of March of this year, and only 1 in 10 say it should not be legal at all, even for medical purposes. We're over a decade into the push to legalize recreational pot, so it's been normalized in quite a few states by now.
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Border Wall Fire Sale & New Jersey’s Drone Mystery | 12.13.24
Plus, legalizing recreational marijuana is often presented as a way to reduce incarceration, particularly of minorities. We should note, too, a majority, 56% of Florida residents, voted in favor of recreational cannabis, but the measure needed 60% to pass.
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Border Wall Fire Sale & New Jersey’s Drone Mystery | 12.13.24
But not only did several states reject recreational marijuana last month, polling shows people are getting sick of it in states where pot has already been legalized. And where are we seeing that? Well, the pungent smell of pot has become a huge complaint in places where it's popular.
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Border Wall Fire Sale & New Jersey’s Drone Mystery | 12.13.24
In many cities across the country, people complain that they can smell weed everywhere, on city sidewalks, in parks, drifting into people's homes, and even in places where children are around. The smell is making people rethink the whole idea of smoking weed anytime, anywhere. A Washington, D.C. woman won a lawsuit against her neighbor for the smell of pot drifting into her apartment.
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Border Wall Fire Sale & New Jersey’s Drone Mystery | 12.13.24
And New Jersey residents say the smell of pot is everywhere there. One in five New Jersey residents say it bothers them a great deal, and over a quarter, 28%, say it bothers them slightly, according to a poll from last year. Last year, two Minnesota cities, St. Paul and Duluth, banned smoking marijuana in parks, and St. Paul banned smoking it close to the entrances of businesses.
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Border Wall Fire Sale & New Jersey’s Drone Mystery | 12.13.24
Another notable shift is that the legacy media is starting to call out the dangers of marijuana. The New York Times recently reported in depth that doctors are seeing a spike in marijuana-causing psychosis, addiction, and a rare syndrome called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, which involves severe vomiting and pain and is caused by heavy pot consumption.
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Border Wall Fire Sale & New Jersey’s Drone Mystery | 12.13.24
Marijuana misuse is especially common among young adults. The culprit appears to be readily accessible marijuana products that are often stronger than the weed that was available in the 90s.
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Border Wall Fire Sale & New Jersey’s Drone Mystery | 12.13.24
Yes, Oregon voters are definitely walking back their progressive drug policies. They effectively legalized even hard drugs back in 2020, but voters changed their minds this year. Back in March, they voted to recriminalize those drugs. There was only one ballot measure relating to harder drugs in November of this year. That was in Massachusetts.
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Border Wall Fire Sale & New Jersey’s Drone Mystery | 12.13.24
Their voters also rejected a proposal to legalize certain natural psychedelics by about 57%. Psychiatric experts in the state warned that patients with depression or trauma might actually be destabilized further by psychedelics not helped by them.