May 8, 2004 in Madrid, Spain. Million Joint March (La Marcha del Millón de Porros en Madrid, Mayo 2004). See source.[7]. For more info and photos: [8][9][10].
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.
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."
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."
31 Mar 2021: New York Becomes 15th State To Legalize Marijuana.[36]. "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]."
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."
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.[60]. "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."
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."
22 Dec 2020: Overdose deaths outnumber COVID-19 deaths more than 3 to 1 in San Francisco. From article: "In 2020 alone, 621 people have died from drug overdoses in San Francisco, while the number of coronavirus fatalities were 173, The Associated Press reported. ... While all data for 2020 is not yet publicly available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published last week more than 81,000 drug overdose deaths in the 12 months ending in May [in the US] indicating the highest level recorded in a single year, the AP reported." Run cursor over graph for 81,000 number.
12 Dec: What Polls Say About David Perdue and Jon Ossoff 3 Weeks Before the Georgia Election. Georgia has no-excuse absentee mail-in voting. "January 5 runoff election is just three weeks away ...In-person early voting is set to begin on December 14, ... Under Georgia's election rules, absentee ballots must be requested by January 1 and for them to count in the election, they must be received by January 5."
Action Alert: Start Making Calls for Georgia GOTV! (Get Out The Vote!) - SSDP. Students for Sensible Drug Policy. And donate money.[79][80]. "Students for Sensible Drug Policy is encouraging all of our U.S. members, alumni, and supporters to start making calls and get out the vote for Georgia’s special election on January 5th. ... The MORE Act, ... is looking to face a much more difficult fight in the Senate. ... We can not afford to wait two, four, or six more years for better legislators while marginalized people are being arrested for minor marijuana offenses."
11 Dec: What 100 Years of History Tells Us About Racism in Policing. "Again and again, commissions convened to examine why police brutality sparks unrest have come to the same conclusion: We must address the poverty and systemic racism that go hand in hand with policing communities of color."
11 Dec 2020: What’s at stake in the Senate runoffs. "Add to that the fate of the Affordable Care Act, marijuana decriminalization, criminal justice legislation ... Obama needed a Democratic House and Senate to pass the Affordable Care Act in 2010, while Trump could not have passed his massive tax cuts [for the rich] in 2017 without Republicans controlling both chambers."
Romance novelists raise $400,000 for Georgia Senate races – with help from Stacey Abrams 25 Nov 2020 article. Senate cannabis reform depends on Democratis winning. "Abrams’ work fighting against suppression of black voters and organizing voter registration efforts is widely credited with helping Joe Biden become the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Georgia in more than a quarter century. Democrats have said her work was 'pivotal' in flipping Wisconsin and other battleground states."
Take back the Senate for the Democrats. Then the most hated politician in America, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, will no longer be the Senate leader, and will no longer be able to block the many cannabis reform bills, and minimum/living wage bills, passed by the Democratic House of Representatives. 6 Nov 2020: Why Georgia is about to become the center of the political universe. CNN.
Chuck Schumer Says Marijuana Legalization Will Be Prioritized If Democrats Retake Senate. October 27, 2020: "last week, [Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer discussed his cannabis reform bill, which would federally deschedule the plant, reinvest tax revenue into communities most impacted by the drug war and fund efforts to expunge prior marijuana records."
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The quote from John Ehrlichman (in 1994) is from an April 2016 Dan Baum article in Harper's Magazine:Legalize It All. How to win the war on drugs. Quote: “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
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