Marijuana legalization is popular, more popular than Trump.

[dada]

Decriminalizing pot directly addresses racial injustice.

That's the story. Not 'why is congress wasting its time, asked some people on social media.'

[JackRiddler]

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Fifty years of political struggles to get to this point, a global apparatus of terror built on "war on drugs", death-squad governments in too many countries to count, millions of people locked up, dispossessed, disenfranchised and ruined, and there might be those foolish and small-minded, heartless souls whose response is to mock this penultimate victory (we're still not there yet, it's liable to take years yet) as trivial. And state-corporate media whores (yeah, RT counts too) are willing to manufacture some social media comments from them into a "news story."