There are things I disagree with Harris about, but this cycle, I’m a single issue voter.
That issue is “never having to experience Trump in any office ever again.”
Hopefully my politics can be a little more nuanced next time.
I’m voting against worsening climate change. Outside of that they’re both neo liberal shitheads.
Much has changed since then. She sponsored a comprehensive federal legalization bill in the Senate, and she’s called for ending prohibition altogether as recently as this March, at a roundtable event with pardon recipients where she also called on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to quickly reschedule cannabis, as the Justice Department has since formally proposed.
If elected, Harris would become the first president who openly supports marijuana legalization. And the list of potential running mates that she’s reportedly considering also includes a majority who share that position, as well as some who have signed legalization into law in their state.
While Harris has a complicated history with cannabis policy, she has come out in full support of legalization in recent years, sharing that “the War on Drugs was an abject failure. It’s time to legalize marijuana and bring justice to people of color harmed by failed drug policies.”
I think it’s great. That’s one more person in power who will not demonize it more than it deserves.
To be clear, I am not a “If everyone was high, the world would be perfect!” kind of guy. There is a time and a place, and many people should not touch it at all.
It’s ignorant to expect a prosecutor to not do their job just because of their own preferences. I’ve had jobs where I had to do things I didn’t truly believe in, but you gotta do the job as it’s defined.
I was at a Walz rally last night, and while looking at all the security, my wife asked “How many of these cops do you think are Trump supporters?”
I would hope that a Republican cop would do his job to protect a Democratic candidate, and not have assholes online saying “How do you feel about Officer So and So stopping the attack on Kamala even though he claims to be a Republican?”
Mainly I don’t care. I’m voting to keep trump out.
But since you asked, my judgement on that is the same on any crime. If you get caught, you’re not good enough to be doing it. She didn’t get caught, they did. Do you expect a, “sorry, I can’t work this case. It’s a conflict of interest because I get high too.” or something? Workers don’t turn themselves in when they steal from Walmart.
I think that, in a country that is becoming more and more fascist by the day, it’s more alarming than people would be willing to admit that Harris built her prosecutorial career around targeting truants and non-violent drug users.
Her prosecutorial career is a microcosm of the fundamental problems in the US criminal justice system, which observably and disproportionately oppresses the poor and makes vast concessions for the wealthy. Her presidency, should it happen, will not change that.
Care to tell what you are even talking about?
It’s hypocritical, and I don’t like it. With that said, most politicians are hypocrites, which is why I generally dislike politicians.
I wish she just banned public smoking, smokers are disgusting
Most of the liberals on here just want to be back at brunch. So those are the feelings you’re getting.
Personally, her hypocrisy over weed means little to me compared to the children she’s planning to help murder.
And, I’ll still vote for her because more children will die from climate change under Trump.
I’m guessing all that pot found in that bag in the white house that one time was hers then.
In all seriousness, I’m not surprised but still not thrilled. This is becoming a dilemma in of itself and I feel like I disagree with the majority (not that it changes anything). People will say they’re choosing the lesser of two evils “to vote the other person out”, but that just grossly perpetuates a dictatorial system that we deserve better from and it becomes your fault we don’t have it, according to the same democratic logic championed in politics. I’m not voting for this hypocrite.
