https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1483070539862355976?t=LiZSMq1mLa-eNRutAh_yDw&s=19
The title is the second tweet in the thread, it also contains the video of Starmer poorly explaining why cannabis should remain criminalised.
Yougov source backing up Sarkars claim https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1379469255834484736?t=-Qg1hBq6hiGJuKoZxwYrDA&s=19
Why do you think starmer is so regressive on this issue?
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/19840430.medical-cannabis-patients-forced-onto-illicit-drugs-market/
Cannabis businesses create good jobs for San Franciscans and provide safe, regulated products to their customers,β Mandelman said in a statement published by the San Francisco Examiner. βSadly, the illegal market is flourishing by undercutting the prices of legal businesses, which is bad for our economy as illegal businesses pay no taxes while subjecting workers to dangerous conditions and consumers to dangerous products. Now is not the time to impose a new tax on small businesses that are just getting established and trying to compete with illicit operators.
And guess what? MDMA use was discouraged and labeled as unsafe/deadly too and now it's actually being researched after demonstrated evidence that it HELPS in some cases. Yep, I know it can be harmful but we would have never cared to delve further into its healing, life changing aspects if not for some baseline research from recreational users that showed the value of looking more closely.
That, along with the knowledge that people are rotting in prison for distribution while "entrepreneurs" open a dispensary in every town, a should be enough to piss us all off. If there was anything tangible I could do with a steady job attached (because I'd most certainly be fired for speaking publicly on it), I'd fight full time for federal legalization and patient rights as a social worker. But what can we even do? We're so powerless and it pisses me off. Not my most relaxing highdea..
Just a reminder that I am hosting a petition on Change.org addressed to Drug Science and partners with regards to the proposed price increases from February 2022.
Iβve been asked by a few people why I am not lobbying for full legalisation etc. I support full legalisation however at this time, I have to focus on the present and what is happening now - the price increase will affect hundreds of patients including myself.
Legalisation isnβt going to happen in a few days, a price change could easily be reverted - I live in hope though..
Iβm grateful and thankful for what the project has brought so far - as many have improved their symptoms and can live a normal life, however itβs unfair now to leave these patients behind and seemingly not fully consider the effect this will have.
Friendly reminder to keep all comments in line with the subs rules as previous post was locked due to the comments getting unruly.
Thanks to everyone who has signed so far!
(I wish we all lived near each other and could hang out. So thankful for you guys π₯²ππ€ππ»ββοΈ sometimes it feels like such a lonely isolating divided world.. but it isnβt.. places like this is proof thereβs hope and so much kindness out there~)
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