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Outright legalization of marijuana has consistently been more popular with Americans than rescheduling alone. Legalization Support Public opinion polls show strong and growing support for marijuana legalization. A January-February 2025 Pew Research Center survey found that 88% of U.S. adults support legalization for either medical or recreational use, with 54% favoring both medical and recreational legalization and 33% supporting medical use only. Only 12% opposed legalization entirely. Gallup polls also indicate that 70% of Americans supported legalization in 2023, up from 50% in 2013 and just 12% in 1969. This reflects a broad consensus across political, age, and ideological groups, with even 55% of Republicans and 52% of conservatives favoring legalization in 2023. Rescheduling Support While rescheduling marijuana (e.g., moving it from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act) has gained traction, it is less frequently polled and typically framed as a step toward addressing federal-state law conflicts rather than a standalone policy. A July 2023 post on X noted that 91% of public comments to the Department of Justice supported rescheduling or full legalization, but this reflects a narrower, more engaged audience rather than broad public sentiment. Posts on X from 2024 and 2025 suggest rescheduling has support (e.g., 60-80% in some polls), but it’s often discussed in the context of legalization or as a partial reform. Unlike legalization, rescheduling does not inherently permit recreational or broad medical use, which may limit its appeal compared to full legalization. Key Comparison Legalization encompasses broader access (recreational and medical) and aligns with public demand for comprehensive reform, as evidenced by the 24 states, three territories, and D.C. that have legalized recreational marijuana and 40 states allowing medical use by 2025. Rescheduling, while supported, is a technical adjustment that doesn’t fully address public demand for legal access, as it maintains federal restrictions. The Vera Institute noted in 2024 that rescheduling “isn’t going far enough” compared to descheduling or full legalization, which better aligns with the 70% public support for legalization. Support for legalization has grown dramatically over decades, doubling from 35% in 2000 to 70% in 2023, driven by state-level reforms and changing social norms. Rescheduling discussions, particularly since the 2023 HHS recommendation to move cannabis to Schedule III, are more recent and less prominent in public discourse, often overshadowed by legalization debates. This is causing a notable rift between legalization rescheduling supporters. Legalization has always been more popular than rescheduling among Americans, as it directly addresses broader access and aligns with decades of increasing public support, reaching near-universal approval (88%) for some form of legalization. Rescheduling, while supported, mainly by parties that directly benefit such as large marijuana producers and investors, is seen as a limited reform and lacks the same level of public enthusiasm or comprehensive polling data.

Rows of Blue Dream, about 2 weeks into flower in 2019. I don't recall now what the big plant was I stop at.

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Gorilla Glue #4. Colorado outdoor 2019 season.

@ShadowofEzra You gotta admit, it's kinda funny watching that bald dude larp as an angry man lol.

The new Charlie Kirk show has a major meltdown after learning that Joe Kent is willing to testify in the Charlie Kirk assassination trial. They say the American people are betraying them. The show is demanding that no questions be asked about the assassination and that Israel not be blamed. “This is really personal.” “I am fed up with it.”

@NORML norml.org/marijuana/libr…

Did you know all the exact same points the Prohibitionists try to "make" today were directly addressed by @NORML...23 years ago?

I actually think we’re mostly on the same page here — I wasn’t arguing against the idea that commercial breeding narrowed things down in certain scenes. My whole point was just that any grower’s (or smoker’s) view is still limited to what was available to them at the time — exactly like the boomer stuck on 40-year-old brick weed. Even with your years in the med program, the “greater diversity back then” you saw was still the slice that was circulating in that specific pipeline, not the full global pie of landraces and heirlooms most folks never touched and every other strain you never grew or flower you never smoked. So the inconsistency and non-linear reality I was describing includes that very bottlenecking you lived through. Appreciate you sharing the firsthand perspective though — it actually reinforces why broad “old weed was better” takes don’t hold up when you zoom out.

@LegacyGrower I disagree. Grew for many many years for the medical system in CA. The genetics have been whittled down to such a small slice of the total pie. There was a greater diversity of terp profiles, flower/harvest times back then.Chasing THC pct meant other cannabinoids were bred out.

We really need to stop with the "weed does this or that to me or this person or say it was better in...." You cannot compare nor average a non-linear thing. Some people are smoking garbage, some are smoking fire, most are smoking somewhere in the middle, and this has always been the case. This can be a regional/logistics thing, leaving people consuming the same thing over and over, with no comparison. I personally knew a boomer that was STILL getting brick weed 7 years ago in Florida—and he revealed he's been getting it from the same person for 40 years, and NEVER smoked anything else. So naturally to him "the weed is too strong these days" when he tried mine. Now apply this to when it was all black market, your social circle, and today even where quality is hit or miss, at best, between dispensaries, etc. and its easy to understand where this logic comes from and why it makes no sense to make the comparison.

@learnaboutsam @KevinSabet So then why do you feel the need to lie on all your petitions for repeal that have failed in every state you tired them in?

A drug that a major study linked to as much as 30% of schizophrenia cases among young men, a drug associated with sharply higher risks of heart attack and diabetes, and a drug increasingly connected to rising crime in communities across the country, writes @KevinSabet. unherd.com/newsroom/nyts-…

@SGTWipper1Each 47' MLB, that girl's a beast and can self-right. Tried to get that station (Cape Disappointment), but ended up in Florida. Semper Paratus.

Sometimes life is 1 step forward and 2 steps back. Just keep swimming.

@learnaboutsam Agree. Grow your own.

Marijuana use increases your stroke risk by nearly 40%, but you won't hear that from weed advocates when they're pushing for big corporations to profit off of your addiction and abuse. thedrugreport.org/2026/03/13/fri…

Math is fun. It's 2026, and Correlation = Causation, right? @scrowder starts pumping out viral binge-drinking games on Louder with Crowder @LouderwCrowder (3-hour live streams of the crew sitting around watching TV for triggers, debate parties, Anti-Oscar binges, etc.) right around 2019. Then: * US excessive alcohol deaths explode 29% to 178k/year * alcohol-induced deaths spike 26% in one year * AUD/mental health crises from booze go through the roof, and binge drinking (the exact thing he normalizes) is linked to more occurrence of alcohol-induced psychosis . Tens of millions of viewers exposed. Looks like he's a least partially responsible, right? And is it not reasonable to assume that at least 1 person may have one of these outcomes participating in his games? Meanwhile, even someone with full genetic predisposition to psychosis has a way lower chance from marijuana than the 3–4% risk of straight-up alcohol-induced psychosis from ONE of Crowder’s drinking games. But sure, it’s the weed making people lazy and crazy. Not the guy turning binge drinking sitting on his ass for 3 hours into entertainment for millions while alcohol deaths and mental illness from booze skyrocket. They’re literally projecting their own crisis onto cannabis. #CorrelationIsNotCausation #AlcoholKillsMore #WeedSafer #CrowderDrinkingGames

Its either 14 or 15 GRAMS is all that's required for a sample considered representative of 49-99lbs in Colorado! The number of samples in the 1970s they tested were less than 1000 TOTAL for 5 YEARS (started in 1975), while hundreds of tons of hash and premium flower was being consumed . Then the prohibitionists want us to believe that the seized marijuana numbers of the past were representative lol.

@LegacyGrower Yup lots of inflated numbers too

Most people don’t realize that many dispensaries store their flower terribly. Over time, cannabinoids degrade and terpenes evaporate which kills the flavor, smell, and overall quality. You can have a 30% THC strain that feels dull because it’s old or it wasn’t stored properly.

@MattWalshBlog Now do the DEA....

The fact that the agency wasn’t disbanded due to a 95 percent failure rate, or even seriously reformed in any way, absolutely confirms that the point of TSA is not to make us safer. They’re barely even trying.

@614clinton FWC in Florida.

Anyone know of a good job for someone who hates people?

Everyone worried about seeds being made illegal, haven't been around very long lol.

@DaveIst3D Yessir the good ole Florida Christmas bud, man I miss those days.

@LegacyGrower I feel this. Late 90s weed in South Florida was hit or miss. Fire weed and kind bud (or Xmas bud) were favs, when you could get them.Mostly brick weed tho. Had a plug that reliably got Mexican red hair. That shit would still put me in a coma. 18 yr old Dave had a great time.

@RetroCoast In 2026, that means nothing will happen to him.

Sheriff Mike Bouchard is an enemy of the American people.

@samtripoli The very next amendment was supposed to ensure this never happened to begin with...

This is literally what the first amendment is for. You can criticize the government and not be arrested.