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Full site / Mobile. To Top or End. Click Full site for site navigation links at top. Mobile has three-line hamburger menu. Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security all came from Democrats. You pay the taxes while healthier. Republicans prefer you die. 50% in U.S. Fear Bankruptcy Due to Major Health Event. [15]

Canadian single-payer healthcare vs US healthcare. And: Canada has far fewer handguns.
Country Median wealth per adult. 2018. US dollars Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP. 2019 Murder rate per 100,000. 2019
Canada $106,342 $5.418 1.8
USA $61,667 $11,072 5.0
Country Life expectancy. 2019 Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2019 Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2017
Canada 82.3 years 4.9 10
USA 78.9 years 6.5 19
Portugal's drug decriminalization. 2.3.4. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2. 72,000 drug overdose deaths per year in the US. Well below 100 in Portugal. 90,000 is latest US total.

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Portugal's drug decriminalization. 2.3.4. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2.

Two Leading Economists Say Medicare for All Would Give 'Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise in a Generation'. (2. 3.) 24 Mar 2021: 68% of Voters Favor a Public Health Insurance Option. 55% support Medicare for All.
If not for Obamacare, COVID-19 patients with preexisting conditions could’ve been ‘uninsurable’. And: Trump Republicans asked Court to rule Obamacare unconstitutional even as Covid-19 raged. And: Short-term health plans (not Obamacare) leave consumers on the hook for massive medical costs, investigation finds. And: US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [16][17][18].
Medicare spends less than 2 percent on bureaucracy. 1.4% to be exact. See chart. We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars go to something other than health care. See also:

Universal healthcare versus drug war. Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization.

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Canadian single-payer healthcare vs US healthcare. And: Canada has far fewer handguns.
Country Median wealth per adult. 2018. US dollars Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP. 2019 Murder rate per 100,000. 2019
Canada $106,342 $5.418 1.8
USA $61,667 $11,072 5.0
Country Life expectancy. 2019 Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2019 Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2017
Canada 82.3 years 4.9 10
USA 78.9 years 6.5 19
Portugal's drug decriminalization. 2.3.4. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2. 72,000 drug overdose deaths per year in the US. Well below 100 in Portugal. 90,000 is latest US total.


Videos. US Republican myths about Canadian healthcare: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96. Nations with better and healthier quality of life: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14.
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News: US Republicans lead war on cannabis. And near-genocidal US drug war. [19].

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Wikipedia: US drug overdose death rates and totals over time. Many charts. Portugal's decriminalization is the answer.


Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage. It is not socialist. It is Common Sense. (search for "poor" among Thomas Paine quotes). See: List of minimum wages by country. And: Medicare-for-all, like Canada, is not socialist either. See: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. [20]. Republican state governments in 28 states passed laws to prevent cities from raising the minimum wage. Far-right talk radio helps Republicans do this. Republicans block cheap municipal broadband in 26 states. Vote!

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News. Sources. GMM Facebook. Vote for cannabis! [21]. Ballotpedia: marijuana and minimum wage. US minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. [22]. ‘A Tale of 2 recessions’: Rich Americans get richer. Bottom half struggles. [23][24][25][26]. 2022 Global Cannabis March and 420 map. Event links: 2022 talk. & Main talk.

10 June 2021: Some murderous Republicans rebel against needle exchanges, a powerful anti-opioid tool. Drug users (Republican kids too) put up against a wall and shot. Same difference, GOP let them get HIV and hepatitis. And for-profit GOP healthcare likes the business.
5 June 2021: Turkey experiments with cannabis crops to boost hemp production.
2 June 2021: Amazon is stopping employee testing for weed. Amazon will “actively support” the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act.
30 May 2021: Getting hospitalized or dying from COVID-19 after 2nd vaccination is incredibly rare.

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22 and 29 May 2021: Grenoble and Paris, France. CannaParade and Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. World Cannabis March. [27][28][29][30][31].
25 May 2012: As Lumber Prices Surge, Hemp Blocks Get a Closer Look.
24 May 2021: 8 States Side With Cancer Patients In Psilocybin Lawsuit Against DEA.
19 May 2021: Since legalization 2 years ago, Arkansans have spent $300 million on medical marijuana. "38 dispensary licenses and the full limit of eight growers licenses."

Source and comments. [12].

14 May 2021: The total wealth of billionaires worldwide rose to $13 trillion in 12 months. It was at $5 trillion. Wealth inequality at levels not seen since just before the Great Depression. Republican tax cuts for the rich. Record low inflation-adjusted US federal minimum wage.
13 May 2021: Minnesota House passes legal cannabis bill; no future in Republican Senate.
11 May 2021: USA. 15% of Black female high school students attempted suicide in a year. 9% of white female students. 12% of Hispanic female students. Time magazine. Republicans block universal healthcare.

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1 May 2021: Shoutwiki: New York City. See 2021 section. Cannabis Parade and Rally. 420 links too.
1 May 2021: New York City. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will headline this year's NYC Cannabis Parade & Rally on May 1. As well as other dignitaries.
29 Apr 2021: He Fought for Decades to Make Marijuana Legal. Now What?. By Colin Moynihan. About Dana Beal. From New York Times.

April 20. AOC and Earl Blumenauer wore pot leaf masks at the Capitol.

Packed, maskless rallies and marches are Covid super-spreader events. Though less young people are dying, they still spread Covid to others. More spread equals more deaths. See map of world vaccination rates by country. Many events are virtual online events.

23 Apr 2021: Five States Where Republicans Are Trying to Block Marijuana Legalization.
20 Apr 2021: New York City. Got vaxxed — get grass; Free joints in Union Square for proof of jabs. Many photos. [32][33][34][35][36][37].
20 Apr: Food Network's 'Chopped 420' stars Phoenix cannabis chef Derek Upton.
19 Apr 2021: House Passes Marijuana Banking Bill With Bipartisan Support . "The legislation passed the House with bipartisan support in 2019, but it was ignored by the Republican-controlled Senate."
16 Apr 2021: Biden’s Already On Board With Federal Marijuana Legalization Even If He Doesn’t Use That Word, according to Senators Booker and Schumer. "At the federal level, you call it 'decriminalization' because that lets the states legalize".

Jeff Mizanskey.

15 Apr 2021: Nationwide Poll: More Americans Than Ever Before (69%) Say That Marijuana Should Be Legal.
14 Apr: Jeff Mizanskey on Life After a Life Sentence for Marijuana. "I was actually the first one here to buy legal cannabis in Pettis County [Missouri]. It was strange — I mean, after spending almost 23 years in prison for cannabis, and now all of a sudden I can go into the store right here? It wasn't a mile from where I was originally arrested in 1993. I was almost afraid to go in the dispensary,"
14 Apr 2021: Montana Passes Landmark Bill Advancing Hemp as Animal Feed.

12 Apr 2021: New Mexico becomes latest state to legalize marijuana, a rebuttal to America's 'failed war on drugs'. "While marijuana will become legal on June 29, New Mexico residents will, for a time, need to grow their own (under the new law, they are allowed up to six plants each). That's because the state will first need to develop both a regulatory infrastructure and sufficient commercial supply before allowing retail sales, which could begin as late as April 2022. ... the state's [dumbass] Republicans are displeased."

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9 Apr 2021: Nikki Fried: Florida Republicans declare war on medical marijuana | Opinion. "House Bill 1455, put forward by [Republican] Representative Roach (ironic, right?), declares war on Florida’s medical marijuana program and patients."
8 Apr 2021: Virginia legalizes marijuana. "Adults 21 and older will be able to use and grow marijuana, starting in July. The state will also launch a legal, regulated market".
7 Apr 2021: Virginia, 16th State To Legalize Recreational Pot, Latest To Emphasize 'Social Equity'. "Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, also a Democrat, broke a 20-20 vote tie in Virginia's Senate to pass the bill. No Republicans supported the measure."
5 Apr 2021: Mexico Marijuana Legalization Bill Clears Key Senate Committee, With Floor Vote Expected This Month. "Under the proposal, adults 18 and older would be allowed to purchase and possess up to 28 grams of marijuana and cultivate up to six plants for personal use."

3 Apr 2021: Schumer: Senate will act on marijuana legalization with or without Biden. From article: More than 40 percent of Americans now live in states that have embraced full legalization. ... "The legalization of states worked out remarkably well," he [Schumer] said. "They were a great success. The parade of [Republican] horribles never came about, and people got more [Democratic] freedom."
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31 Mar 2021: New York Becomes 15th State To Legalize Marijuana. [38]. "Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Wednesday [March 31, 2021] ... The legislation automatically clears the records of those with past marijuana-related convictions ... State lawmakers passed the legislation mainly along party lines late Tuesday, [clueless Republicans opposed it]."

31 Mar 2021: New York’s Summer of Hedonism Gets an Early Start As Recreational Weed Becomes Immediately Legal. "New Yorkers are permitted to smoke cannabis [now] in public wherever smoking tobacco is allowed."

New York City. Looks like we legalized marijuana just in time:

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28 Mar 2021: Marijuana takes center stage in New Mexico special session. Republicans oppose social and economic justice issues.
26 Mar: Georgia's Republican governor signed voter suppression law under a painting of a slave plantation. [39][40]. See also: Wikipedia: Gerrymandering.

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26 Mar 2021: France launches 2-year experiment with medical marijuana.
26 Mar 2021: What the Deal to Legalize Marijuana Means for New Yorkers. [41][42][43].
25 Mar: New York: Lawmakers reach deal to legalize recreational marijuana, source says.
25 Mar: ‘They are, in effect, supporting racism’: Black leaders zero in on Dems’ filibuster holdouts. [44].

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24 Mar 2021: 68% of Voters Favor a Public Health Insurance Option. 55% support Medicare for All.
18 Mar 2021: Morocco's Bill to Legalise Cannabis for Medicine and Industry Divides Growers.
15 Mar 2021: Recreational marijuana sales since Jan 22, 2021 bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes for Arizona.
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14 Mar: Stacey Abrams calls Republican efforts to restrict voting in Georgia ‘Jim Crow in a suit’.
13 Mar 2021: Mexico: Congress passes marijuana legalization bill. "Mexican President Obrador supports marijuana legalization. The bill will now have to pass Mexico's upper house of Congress, the Senate. The bill was previously passed by the Senate in November [2020], but it will have to be voted on again following changes made in the lower chamber. ... The drug war has left an enormous human death toll, with more than 300,000 homicides since it began in 2006."
11 Mar 2021: Pennsylvania To Pay $475K To Family In Bulldozer Death Of Berks County Man Caught Growing Pot On Public Land
3 Mar 2021: U.S. Cannabis Sales Hit Record $17.5 Billion As Americans Consume More Marijuana Than Ever Before.

1 Mar 2021: Guess what the minimum wage would be if it kept pace with inflation or productivity? "Today, the 1968 federal minimum wage, which peaked in purchasing power at $1.60 per hour, is the equivalent of $11.53 if adjusted for inflation, and $24.00 if adjusted for productivity."

27 Feb 2021: Virginia joins 15 other states in legalizing marijuana "The House passed the measure in a 48-43 vote, and the Senate approved it in a 20-19 vote. Not a single Republican [dumbasses!] voted for the bill in either chamber."
27 Feb 2021: Youtube. Documental CANNÁBICAS - Cannabis Documentary. Female cannabis activists worldwide. In Spanish, English, Portuguese, etc..
26 Feb 2021: Washington Supreme Court Strikes Down Criminalization Of Drug Possession.
25 Feb 2021: Morocco to legalise cannabis production for medical and industrial use. [45][46].

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25 Feb 2021: Poll Shows Majority Of Americans Support $15 Minimum Wage.
25 Feb 2021: Bernie Sanders: US sick of subsidizing 'starvation wages' at Walmart and McDonald's.
25 Feb 2021: Poll: Majority of West Virginians support $15 federal minimum wage. "Jayaraman says that small businesses actually fair better in states with higher wages. ... tipped workers like those who hold jobs in restaurant business deserve more. Right now, they are in what’s called the sub minimum wage group, they get about $2.13 an hour." And tips often do not bring that up to the federal minimum wage of $7.25.
25 Feb 2021: Texas power grid was 4 minutes, 37 seconds away from ‘total collapse’ . Clueless Republican leaders: "the state could have been left in the dark for weeks, ... Texas, which is the only state to run its own stand-alone electricity grid."
22 Feb 2021: Gov. Murphy (Democrat) Signs Regulation and Decrim Bills That Officially Legalize Marijuana in New Jersey.
21 Feb 2021: Texas army veteran faces $16,000 bill due to rocketing energy prices as billionaire gas producer and Dallas Cowboys owner stands to profit from it. Trump and Republican deregulation. Reverse Robin Hood.
21 Feb 2021: Massachusetts lawmakers want to decriminalize all drugs, raise soda tax.
21 Feb 2021: Patients Flock To Florida’s Medical Marijuana Program, Driving Surge In Job Growth.

India. Festival of Holi. [13].

20 Feb: India’s love-hate relationship with cannabis. [47].
19 Feb 2021: Lawmakers Voted To Approve Marijuana Legalization Bills In Four States This Week.
19 Feb 2021: Wisconsin. Republican leaders snuff out Governor Evers’ plan to legalize marijuana.
19 Feb 2021:Vive La France? - Is France Finally Going to Legalize Le Cannabis in 2021?
16 Feb 2021: Michigan’s marijuana industry surpasses Oregon in cannabis jobs, report says. And: The US cannabis industry now supports 321,000 full-time jobs. “Since 2017, the U.S. cannabis industry has averaged 27.5% growth each year,” Leafly reports. “No other industry even comes close.”
15 Feb 2021: Australian firm says it will bring HempBLOCK system to USA.
14 Feb 2021: Maine employers no longer require marijuana tests.
11 Feb: Northern Kentucky lawmaker (Democrat) files legislation that would legalize recreational marijuana use for adults. [48][49][50].
11 Feb 2021: A Psychedelic Lawyer Talks Loopholes, Getting High for Research and the Future of the Industry. [51].

A national US power grid would make electricity cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable. "for every $1 invested, ratepayers would see more than $2.50 in benefits. ... connect the regions of the country into a single national grid, so that regions facing difficulty can draw power from neighbors who aren’t. ... transmission development jobs are high-quality union jobs, available in every part of the country."

9 Feb 2021: Bernie Sanders Clears Path in Congress to Raise Minimum Wage. [52][53][54].
8 Feb 2021: Denver successfully sent mental health professionals, not police, to hundreds of calls.
7 Feb 2021: Democrat Governor Evers proposes legalizing recreational marijuana in Wisconsin. [55]. Will Republican legislature pass it? [56].
6 Feb 2021: Virginia Lawmakers Pass Marijuana Legalization Bills. The Democrat governor is expected to sign it.
5 Feb 2021: New Jersey Governor Signs Psilocybin Bill To Immediately Reduce Penalties For Possession.
5 Feb 2021: Cambridge, Massacuhsetts Votes To Decriminalize Psychedelics And All Controlled Substances.
3 Feb 2021: Idaho Senate approves constitutional ban on legal marijuana. And the winner of the 'most backward state' is ... Idaho! Thank you Republicans.Face-smile.svg
1 Feb: Kansas governor (Democrat): Medical pot should fund Medicaid expansion.
1 Feb 2021: Senate Democrats say consideration of cannabis reforms will be a priority. [57].
1 Feb 2021: Rochester Police Seen Pepper-Spraying 9-Year-Old Girl In Newly Released Video : NPR. On a practical level what amazes me is that with all these many police officers standing around the car in the video they can't grapple a 9-year-old girl and put her in the back seat without teargas. Dumbasses. Cops need mental health training, and a brain.

31 Jan: Starting Feb 1, Oregon spearheading drug decriminalization: Here's what you need to know.

Source and comments. [14].

28 Jan 2021: Rise in Storefront Marijuana Dispensaries Associated with Declines in Opioid-Related Deaths. [58][59].
28 Jan 2021: Free Luke Scarmazzo! Now in year 13 of a 22-year federal sentence (feds under Republican President Bush) for running a legal medical cannabis dispensary in California. [60][61]. He is in a maximum security prison in Louisiana, where he just got coronavirus.

26 Jan 2021: Polls find Biden's approval rating higher than Trump's ever was. From article: the week before he [Trump] left office, his approval had fallen to just 34 percent, and Gallup noted that “his 41% average approval rating throughout his presidency is four points lower than for any of his predecessors.”

24 Jan 2021: 14 States Where Marijuana Remains Entirely Illegal. "These 14 states all either currently have Republican leadership or have often leaned red in past elections. Furthermore, only three of these 14 states (Idaho, Nebraska, and Wyoming) use the initiative and referendum process."

22 Jan 2021: Recreational marijuana sales kick off in Arizona. [62]. "Recreational marijuana sales have started in Arizona, with many of the state's medical-marijuana dispensaries getting the OK on Friday [Jan 22, 2021] to open sales to anyone 21 or older. ... It is the fastest that any of the 15 states with recreational marijuana has gone from voter approval [Nov 3, 2020] to actual sales."

22 Jan 2021: Op-ed: Forgiving student debt will help senior citizens, too. Senators Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren See comments. "Student debt isn't just crushing our kids. 6.3 million borrowers 50-64 and nearly a million over 65 are still paying for a loved one’s education or their own."

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17 Jan 2021: France launches public consultation on legalising cannabis. "In 2016, 41 percent of French people aged 15 to 64 had consumed it at least once – compared to the European average of 18.9 percent."
16 Jan 2021: The Republican Healthcare Plan. You die. ~~>>
16 Jan 2021: Racial Justice Requires Ending the War on Drugs, Experts Say. 14 Jan 2021: Marijuana Prohibition Was Designed As Racist System, Virginia Governor Says In State Of The Commonwealth Speech.

Yoko Ono tweet on Dec 8, 2020.

16 Jan 2021: National Rifle Association files for bankruptcy. See also: Republican-NRA-led drug war, mandatory minimum sentences, and handguns. And: Canada's murder rate is 1/3 the US rate. Handguns per household by country. Households with handguns: Canada: 3%. USA: 22%. And Canada does not have the NRA's drug war. Wikipedia: Percent of households with guns by country.

15 Jan 2021:Local Massachusetts Lawmakers Unanimously Approve Psychedelics Decriminalization Measure. "Oakland, Santa Cruz and Ann Arbor—have also decriminalized possession of plant-and fungi-based psychedelics. In Oregon, November’s election saw the passage of a historic initiative to legalize psilocybin mushrooms for therapeutic purposes. ... Much of this reform progress can be traced back to Denver, which became the first city in the country to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms in May 2019."

13 Jan 2021: Virginia's Democratic Governor Unveils Bill To Legalize Marijuana As Democratic Lawmakers Schedule First Hearing. Legislators plan to move quickly to advance it.
13 Jan 2021: New York, Virginia And Other States Consider New Drug Decriminalization Bills.

12 Jan 2021: Ann Arbor, Michigan. Washtenaw prosecutor won’t charge people for marijuana, shrooms, other psychedelics. Cannabis is as safe as alcohol, and it’s no more appropriate to charge someone for “too much marijuana” than it is to charge someone for “too many bottles of wine,” Savit said.

12 Jan 2021: Mexico. After 3-year delay, medical marijuana will be legal as of Jan 13, 2021.

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10 Jan 2021: Call for UK prisons to trial free cannabis to see if it cuts drug deaths.
7 Jan 2021: US Senate Flip to Democrats Opens Door for Big Cannabis Reform.
3 Jan 2021: Democratic governor of Illinois erases 500,000 low-level cannabis charges.
1 Jan: NJWeedman Opens First Citizen Dispensary. Sells Marijuana In Trenton, New Jersey.
1 Jan 2021: In 2021, more than twenty states will increase their minimum wages for workers. Most of these changes are effective January 1, 2021. Democrat candidate Jon Ossoff (in the Georgia runoff election on Jan 5, 2021 for the US Senate) supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15. - [63]. Republican candidate David Perdue has yet to say he supports a federal minimum wage at all.


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Ever-increasing US household debt under Republicans, and their huge tax breaks for the rich, but not for the middle class who need it the most. Huge medical and student debt. Low minimum wages in many Republican states. See map. [64].

Republicans have declared War on the Middle Class.

22 Oct 2019: Average French households 'more wealthy than Americans and Germans', new study reveals. See median-wealth chart. See graphic below about how Trump Republicans transferred wealth from average American households to the rich.

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Germany has a much lower murder rate than the USA. Also, Germany has better health indicators, and its healthcare cost per person is half US cost (all costs, public and private).

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US Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [65][66][67].

Medicare spends less than 2 percent on bureaucracy. 1.4% to be exact. See chart. We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars go to something other than health care. See also:

Universal healthcare versus drug war. Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization

USA. The state of the nation.

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Real democracy is ranked-choice voting (instant-runoff). And: Remove Presidential veto power. And: The evil history of the US Senate filibuster, or why the US no longer has simple majority rule. [68].

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1035 cities have participated from 85 nations or subnational areas since 1999.

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Latest links for Global Marijuana March. See GMM: basic city lists, detailed city lists, graphics, photos, maps, regions, links, years. Google images: Crowds, flyers: Marcha da Maconha. And: Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. And: Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana. And: Global Marijuana March. Add city name to searches.
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Calgary: Keith Fagin Events(at)Calgary420.ca 403-863-2071 http://Calgary420.ca/ . Meet at Çity Hall- 800 Macleod Tr. SE 1 PM.

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Calgary: Keith Fagin Events(at)Calgary420.ca 403-863-2071 http://Calgary420.ca/ . Meet at City Hall- 800 Macleod Tr. SE 1 PM.

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Calgary: Keith Fagin keith(at)Calgary420.ca (403) - 863-2071 http://Calgary420.ca/ Meet at Mount Royal Park on 17th Ave. and 8th Street S.W. March to Olympic Plaza

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Keith Fagin founder of Calgary 420 Marijuana Community organized the 2006 Calgary Global Marijuana March.

Attendance increased tenfold this year. The biggest pro marijuana event Calgary has ever experienced to date. It was real nice to see the pro marijuana support growing in the most long term hard core conservative city in Canada.

Four local hemp stores and five marijuana magazines committed donations for prize give aways.

Many people did light up joints and pipes openly and were not bothered by the Calgary Police Service (CPS). I had took the time to negotiate with the CPS and the City of Calgary long before the event took place. The best sight I have ever seen is when the marchers started to pour in to the Olympic Plaza concrete bowl with many more marchers behind them pouring in the huge Olympic Plaza bowl. Like a sea of people growing by the second, it was an awesome sight.

2007 Calgary Global Marijuana March will attract thousands. Live bands at Olympic Plaza starting at 12:00 PM then the March starts at 2:00 PM around Calgary streets until the marchers end back at the Olympic Plaza for free prizes and entertainment.

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16 Dec 2019: Majority Of Americans Support Marijuana Legalization, Two More New Polls Show. "Voters who supported President Trump in the 2016 election expressed greater opposition to the policy than Republicans and Republican-leaning independents as a whole."

2 May 2019: Time to Admit It: Trump Opposed Cannabis Legalization. He opposed 3 bills for veterans’ access to medical cannabis.

23 Feb 2019: Trump Continued to Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana.

See: Reagan's war on cannabis. And: Holy War on Drugs, Republican-led mass incarceration.

Ronald Reagan, 1980 campaign speech: "Leading medical researchers are coming to the conclusion that marijuana, pot, grass whatever you want to call it, is probably the most dangerous drug in the United States, and we haven't begun to find out all of the ill effects, but they are permanent ill effects. The loss of memory for example."


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Obama helped turn around the Reagan-Bush War on Pot, mandatory minimums, mass incarceration. See: US incarceration peaked in 2008.


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News: Americans want universal healthcare and progressive taxation. Democratic Presidents Roosevelt and Truman worked for both. Roosevelt and Truman, followed by Eisenhower, a progressive Republican, had steep progressive taxation where the prosperous middle class paid less taxes as a percent of their income, because the rich paid more. All 3 Presidents increased the minimum wage, [81], which pushed up middle class wages too. Under Trump, inflation-adjusted wages declined [82].

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Trump signed tax law that gave 83% of benefits to the top 1%.


Chart below. 2017 Republican tax and individual mandate repeal bill. Yellow is for an average increase in cost for people in those groups. Higher costs hitting more people each year. Up to incomes of $75,000.

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Chart source.
Republican tax bill hurts the poor more than originally thought, Congressional Budget Office finds. "By 2019, Americans earning less than $30,000 a year would be worse off under the Senate bill, CBO found. By 2021, Americans earning $40,000 or less would be net losers, and by 2027, most people earning less than $75,000 a year would be worse off. On the flip side, millionaires and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 would be big beneficiaries".
2 polls: Only 29% of Americans approve of Republican tax plan. 2.
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US has stingiest minimum wage[edit source]

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2 Jul 2019: There’s More Evidence That Raising the Minimum Wage Won’t Cost Jobs.

"The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation." Dec. 29, 2017. Washington Post. Chart below is from the article.

Chart below. USA. Inflation-adjusted federal minimum wage over the years.

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Source. See also: Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.


17 June 2019: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. CNN. [83].

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Image graphic source and comments.

US federal minimum wage timeline below. Top line is adjusted for inflation. Middle class prosperity peaked under Truman and Roosevelt in the 1950s due to steep progressive taxation where the middle class paid less. And the minimum wage was increased. That also pushed up middle class wages.

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US has high wealth inequality[edit source]

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See the median wealth by country chart:

Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult - 2019 publication: The average median wealth per adult for Canada ($107,004) is much higher than that of the former great nation, the USA ($65,904). It's due to Republican trickle-down voodoo economics: Giving tax cuts to the rich instead of to the middle class and poor who actually need them. Plus predatory mortgage loans and foreclosure. And predatory unforgivable student loans. Google News search: student debt.

Chart below. USA. 1989-2018. Top 1% Up $21 Trillion. Bottom 50% Down $900 Billion.

USA. 1989-2018. Top 1% Up $21 Trillion. Bottom 50% Down $900 Billion.png

Republicans wasted $$-trillions on health insurance companies, and ground wars ($5.6 trillion) based on Bush/CIA WMD lies. Instead of paying higher wages, and higher minimum wages. As Canada does.

US middle-class wealth has collapsed. [84]. See chart below. See: Income inequality and drug war. And: Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult.? Median wealth is exactly in the middle. 50% of adults have more, and 50% have less. Wealth is all assets (money, stocks, property, etc.) minus all debts.

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Middle class wealth collapsing. [85]. And: Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world. See Wikipedia: Wealth in the United States.

US has high income inequality[edit source]

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Timeline below of real (inflation-adjusted) average US household income by quintile and top 5 percent in 2018 dollars. Note that the bottom 60% of households (bottom 3 quintiles) have had little improvement in real income. While the top 20%, and especially the top 5 percent, have had large, even exceptional, increases in real income.

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Real wages are not just flat, they are falling. 15 Jun 2018. Jeff Stein and Andrew Van Dam. Washington Post.

Increasing income inequality over time. Chart below from:
17 Dec 2017: A Republican Tax Plan to Turbocharge Inequality, in 3 Charts. New York Times.

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1 Jul 2016: Income Inequality Is At The Highest Level In American History. By Bryce Covert. ThinkProgress. "Incomes for the 99 percent have only recovered about 60 percent of what they lost. But the rich are doing great. ... They captured more than half of all the income growth in the country."

Massive US household debt[edit source]

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US household debt at all time high. Chart below is from the PDF.
Total household debt. From 1st quarter 2003 through recent times.

Total Household Debt by Type:

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Click to enlarge. Timeline is by quarters.

Massive US medical debt[edit source]

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This doesn't happen in Canada, due to single-payer universal healthcare.

17 Jan 2019: US. 34 Devastating Stories About How People Are Still Crushed By Medical Debt. By Venessa Wong. BuzzFeed News.

Stagnant US wages[edit source]

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USA. Since 2001, labor’s share of national income has suffered a sustained decline. 11 Sep 2018.

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See above chart source. [86]. And source article.

Chart below: Top 10% of earners receive 50% of all income. When capital gains are included.

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Above graph source. And: Source 2.
10 Jul 2018: National (US) Pay Trends. "Since 2006, wages have risen 12.9 percent overall in the US. But when you factor in inflation, real wages' have actually fallen 9.3 percent. In other words, the income for a typical worker today buys them less than it did in 2006."

2 Jul 2018: An Update for 2018: More Evidence That Half of Americans Are In or Near Poverty. Paul Buchheit. Common Dreams.

For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. 7 Aug 2018. By Drew DeSilver. Pew Research Center. Chart below is from the article. Bottom of chart says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."
Top line in timeline below is hourly wages adjusted for inflation. It is flat: Bottom of chart below says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."

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President Eisenhower. 1953[edit source]

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His 91% top marginal tax rate[edit source]

Equaled prosperity for more[edit source]

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Eisenhower, the progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s.
That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.

Chart below. Higher average effective tax rate on the top 1 percent of US households in the 1950s (42% average effective tax rate). Total of federal, state, and local taxes. In 2014 it was 36.4%.

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Chart below. Highest marginal income tax rates over time.

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Above chart source. And: Source 2.

President Abraham Lincoln[edit source]

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Republican president Abraham Lincoln's economically progressive message. What a contrast to today's Republican leaders. From a message to the U.S. Congress, 3 December 1861:

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

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More sources: [87]. The full speech. See: Facebook image.

Overpopulation = Warming[edit source]

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Overpopulation equals less greenspace, more stress, more pollution, less biodiversity, less rainforests, fewer parks, more noise, more carbon dioxide, more global warming, higher seas, more frequent hurricanes, more climate change, more drought, more climate refugees, less resources, more poverty.

Many clueless Republican leaders deny it all. They also block simple single-payer, public-option healthcare without deductibles, copays, and premiums. Something that seniors, and everybody else with health problems, needs in order to work part time as one is able. Healthcare completely separate from work and income level.

So dumbass politicians need to work on that instead of trying to incentivize more babies. And truly universal healthcare costs less since it encourages more preventive care, and doesn't need big wasteful health insurance bureaucracies. And politicians need to incentivize more hempcrete construction, so that carbon levels go down.

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