I mean, when you look at the numbers, it’s easy to see why.

States are making hundreds of millions off marijuana regulation, and when there’s an openly fascist president and Congress, it’s going to be way easier to legislate that money into the hands of the wealthy in the form of tax cuts.

Yes. Different people have different value structures, and must still live and work together.

Thank god people’s interests only need to align in the physical manifestation, in order for people to cooperate.

You can partially blame the pro-marijuana (as opposed to the pro-legalization) crowd, because that’s largely how they’ve been pitching it after decades of “it’s natural” not working.

I’ve seen WAY more “imagine all the tax revenue” arguments from weed heads who were trying to get others on board, than any arguments about justice. Arguments about justice tended to be an afterthought, or only deployed ‘strategically’ when they thought they were talking to someone progressive.

The very vocal pro-marijuana people I personally knew, pre-legalization, here in California were definitely more concerned with getting access to it for themselves, rather than helping people who marijuana criminalization was deployed against as a weapon by the state.