Re:House Committee Will Vote on Federal Marijuana Legalizati...
by doliveira on Friday September 24, 2021 @05:45PM
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I try to see these corporate politics more as a thermometer of society. If a huge corporation is willing to throw marketing or lobbying behind your cause, it means it has reached high enough acceptance in society. And that acceptance definitely only came about because of those decades of effort by social movements
So it's a good sign, isn't it? Even though I understand it might taste bittersweet.
Re:House Committee Will Vote on Federal Marijuana Legalizati...
by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Friday September 24, 2021 @05:11PM
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I don't think its cynical at all. It is basically how most of the US policy is being done. It certainly helps that average US household doesn't care about MJ anymore, which allows Amazon not spend PR time on ensuring the populace that their widgets are gathered by non-high individuals.
But yeah, the worker 'shortage' forced the biggest companies to rethink their policies and they do happen to spend a lot in Washington.
the 35 year grass-roots collaborative effort between medical professionals, scientists, and civically minded enthusiasts to modernize and legalize recreational cannabis was a complete and total pointless waste, when one of the five largest corporations in the world can bring legislation that has stalled, failed or never even made it out of committee, to vote in under 72 hours to the house of congress because it cant find enough people willing to drive a truck for poverty wages.