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Or you know, just legalize recreational use and call it a day.
Definitely aim for recreational, but it's still important to expand its medical purposes so that it can be protected for those who need it. What I mean by protected is that its use would be allowed for patients in situations that recreational use would still be prohibited, that it can be claimed as a medical expense on taxes, or subsidized for low income people.
Edit: Sorry, not to imply that you're against the medical part happening too!
In Missouri if you have your medical card, you are protected from being fired for it.
If you’re just buying it recreational, you do not have that.
We made it the difference between alcohol and a prescription.
It’s one of the few things I’m proud of us for.
S’all good, you’re right. Baby steps!
As the other poster said, it's a step in the right direction. But it's also important to keep in mind that he's a Democrat governor in a pretty red state. He can't exactly afford to be unilaterally making big moves like that.
If Matt Bevin or Daniel Cameron were governor we wouldn't be making progress at all. Personally I've been very happy with Daddy Beshear's governorship.
I used to think pre-Trump/reactionary right wing cultures wars, that legalization was only a question of when, not if. Idk now.
When a parent in middle America sees their child come home from deployment with severe PTSD, who stops using booze to numb their pain while marijiuana helps them function and sleep, that’s real change in their living room. Not only used by “dirty stoner hippies getting high” but their child, or their friend with chronic pain after battling opioid addiction, or grandma’s eyesight not destroyed by glaucoma - that moves people from entrenched dogma.
Im genuinely afraid that medical-with-cause-only becomes the finality, or that it’s so locked down it stays scheduled in some way forever, and the broader societal impacts of continued criminalization get ignored, and the damage continues in marginalized communities.
A good move from him here. Great to see.
Living in Kentucky is reason enough.
Chronic pain is a good qualifier for a lot of people who think they may not qualify. It's also cool that The Chronic helps with chronic pain.
Funny how people's attitudes won't change. Just weed, not a big deal. Safer than alcohol.
Being Republican is a symptom. It’s a disease I inherited myself. Thankfully, I grew out of it, but I still take marijuana as a precaution.
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