How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural language analysis

Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by Muuuchem on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:18PM (#14158073)

Funny how marijuana was most mentioned with Donald Trump. I know the /r/trees subreddit thought Trump would be good for recreational Marijuana but doesn't look like that is true. The Trump subreddit (The_Donald) was also extremely pro marijauna and often boasted that Trump was better for legal marijuana than Clinton. Then enter Jefferey Bouraguard Sessions III.

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Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by cavanasm on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:44PM (#14158305)

I don't really understand why people would think Trump would be supportive of any kind of intoxicant. His older brother was an alcoholic and died before their dad (which depending on the source you're reading, had a big impact on him).

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Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by JBReefer on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:50PM (#14158372)

Well, he said a bunch of pro-weed stuff at one point, so it's not coming from nowhere:

https://www.merryjane.com/news/want-marijuana-legalized-then...

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Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by OscarCunningham on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:09PM (#14160948)

Many of the biggest benefits of marijuana legalisation come from the fact that it tends to displace alcohol.

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Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by code_duck on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:21PM (#14158737)

Many believed Trump to be a libertarian or even a closet Democrat, who supported saner policy for the practical reasons that many do, setting aside their personal beliefs about whether individuals should consume drugs.

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Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by ktRolster on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:17PM (#14161007)

More than a closet Democrat, he was an active Democrat who voted Democrat and donated to the party. Overall philosophically he's probably more 'opportunist' than anything.

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Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by code_duck on Friday April 21, 2017 @12:56PM (#14167244)

Sure, in the past. If he's a Democrat now or in the past 8 years, it's definitely a well-kept secret.

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Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by jpttsn on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:11PM (#14159832)

Trump's media prominence means Trump is mentioned a lot in any topic.

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Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by jerf on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:23PM (#14159948)

And I'd note this is not a political point; it's a base-rate comment [1]. Political comments will tend to have other political topics arise in them, and it would require more detailed analysis to know if there is any true signal here. (Not necessarily a lot more detailed... just more than an eyeball glance.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate

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Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by wtf_is_up on Thursday April 20, 2017 @11:23PM (#14162870)

>Then enter Jefferey Bouraguard Sessions III

People haven't been this obssessed with a politician's middle name since Barack hit the scene almost a decade ago. I'm really glad you felt the need to add it, since I don't think I would've felt the full dramatic effect of your comment otherwise.

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Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by abraves10001 on Friday April 21, 2017 @07:51PM (#14170329)

I love the 3 named presidents.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Warren Gamaliel Harding.

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Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by gozur88 on Friday April 21, 2017 @05:18PM (#14169492)

Trump can't legalize marijuana. Only Congress can do that. If Sessions is enforcing the law, well, that's his job.

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