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The GOP’s Weed Crackdown Is Blowing Up in Its Face (slate.com)
submitted 6 days ago by Generica@lemmy.world to c/trees@lemmy.world
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Republicans revived reefer madness just as legal cannabis became popular with their own voters.

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 38 points 5 days ago (2 children)

One of the funniest things to me is all the boomers I know who were staunchly anti-weed while raising their kids, are more using weed to help with their various aches and pains.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

The Internet didn't exist when they were younger adults (the propaganda was harder to fight)

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

If they’re anything like my parents or their other other friends, they just hide it and refused to acknowledge it helps.