{"id":46779,"date":"2019-08-05T17:18:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T17:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/prohibitionist-politicians-blame-mass-shootings-and-homelessness-on-legal-weed\/"},"modified":"2019-08-05T17:18:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T17:18:33","slug":"prohibitionist-politicians-blame-mass-shootings-and-homelessness-on-legal-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/prohibitionist-politicians-blame-mass-shootings-and-homelessness-on-legal-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"Prohibitionist Politicians Blame Mass Shootings and Homelessness on Legal Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Support for cannabis reform is growing every year, with recent polls showing that Americans are <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/americans-now-support-pot-legalization-more-than-free-healthcare-or-dollar15-wages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>more likely to support legal weed<\/u><\/a> than they are to support free college tuition or assault rifle bans. Regardless, Republican lawmakers are continuing to resort to fear-mongering tactics to convince people that marijuana is to blame for the country&#8217;s social problems.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, just one day after the racially-motivated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trumpsterrorists-trends-americans-blame-president-trump-mass-shootings-blood-his-hands-1452507\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>mass shooting in El Paso<\/u><\/a>, another young white man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/police-chief-it-seems-to-defy-believability-that-dayton-shooter-would-kill-his-own-sister\/2019\/08\/05\/920a895c-b79e-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html?utm_term=.fea06d204e90\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>shot and killed nine people<\/u><\/a> in Dayton, Ohio. Shortly after this tragic assault, Ohio state Rep. Candice Keller took to Facebook to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/dayton-ohio-shooting-candice-keller-1452526\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>pin the blame<\/u><\/a> on a number of unrelated causes and marginalized groups.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gallery \u2014&nbsp;Politicians Who&#8217;ve Puffed:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/embed\/gallery\/politicians-whove-puffed\/1\" ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter every mass shooting, the liberals start the blame game,\u201d Keller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marijuanamoment.net\/lawmaker-wrong-to-blame-shootings-on-marijuana-legalization-ohio-attorney-general-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>wrote<\/u><\/a>. The GOP lawmaker then initiated her own blame game, calling out the &#8220;breakdown of the traditional American family (thank you, transgender, homosexual marriage, and drag queen advocates),\u201d video games, former President Obama, Democrats in Congress, \u201copen borders,\u201d and the GOP&#8217;s favorite scapegoat: \u201cthe acceptance of recreational marijuana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several state officials, including some of the state&#8217;s Republican leaders, quickly distanced themselves from Keller&#8217;s rant. \u201cNo, ma&#8217;am,\u201d Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yost4Ohio\/status\/1158352003636113408\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>tweeted<\/u><\/a> on Monday. \u201cThe blame belongs to the evil man who killed those people.\u201d Butler County Republican Party Chairman Todd Hall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/08\/04\/ohio-shooting-state-rep-blames-shootings-drag-queen-advocates-and-open-borders\/1918106001\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>told the <\/u><u><em>Cincinnati Enquirer<\/em><\/u><\/a> that he \u201ccannot condone such comment and behavior,\u201d and Butler County Sheriff Rick Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/butlersheriff\/status\/1158207260998406145\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>tweeted<\/u><\/a>: \u201cShame shame shame Candice Keller.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shame shame shame Candice Keller.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard K. Jones (@butlersheriff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/butlersheriff\/status\/1158207260998406145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To blame these shootings on some of the very people who have been targeted is offensive to those victims, as well as the nine people who were murdered in Dayton this morning and to their grieving friends and family members,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/08\/04\/ohio-shooting-state-rep-blames-shootings-drag-queen-advocates-and-open-borders\/1918106001\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>said<\/u><\/a> Butler County Democratic Party Chairman Brian Hester, noting that LGBT communities and immigrants have been the targets of recent mass shootings, including this weekend\u2019s El Paso attack. &#8220;It is disgraceful this is what passes for Republican rhetoric now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin launched into his own weed-blaming tirade during a recent local radio interview. Asked whether tax revenue from legal adult-use weed sales could rescue his state from its serious financial woes, the governor called the idea a \u201cridiculous proposal,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/news\/politics\/kentucky-gov-floats-a-bunch-of-batshit-crazy-cannabis-theories\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em>Leafly<\/em><\/u><u> reports<\/u><\/a>. Bevin claimed that \u201ceverybody in Kentucky would need to smoke pot for the next 600 years\u201d in order to raise enough tax revenue to bail out the state&#8217;s pension fund, which is $43 billion in debt.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether he might consider even legalizing medical marijuana, Bevin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/news\/politics\/kentucky-gov-floats-a-bunch-of-batshit-crazy-cannabis-theories\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>responded<\/u><\/a> with an uninformed rant against legalization: \u201cLook at the homelessness, look at the increases in the emergency rooms. Look at the problems they have in law enforcement in bordering states. Look at the amount of disease and things that have spiked up as a result of people who are coming for the fact that they can smoke pot legally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, few of these comments are grounded in reality. Many prohibition states are seeing an influx of black market weed grown in adult-use states like <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/pot-smuggling-has-spiked-like-crazy-at-lax-california-cops-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>California<\/u><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/federal-government-threatens-crackdown-on-colorados-legal-cannabis-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Colorado<\/u><\/a>, but these states have been working with federal officials to shut down these illegal grows. There is one study that showed an uptick in <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/health\/colorado-top-five-causes-cannabis-related-emergency-room-visit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>emergency room visits<\/u><\/a> in Colorado shortly after legalization, but none of these visits resulted in death. And the claims linking legal weed to homelessness and the spread of disease are <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/does-legal-weed-increase-homelessness-colorado-pueblo-march-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>completely unsupported by evidence<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gallery \u2014 Fuck-Tons of Weed That No One Is Smoking Except for Cops:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/embed\/gallery\/fuck-tons-of-weed-that-will-never-get-smoked-except-maybe-by-cops\/1\" ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson recently joined the prohibition chorus with a less offensive, yet equally implausible claim that medical marijuana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marijuanamoment.net\/nebraska-attorney-general-argues-legalizing-medical-marijuana-is-unconstitutional\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>violates the state constitution<\/u><\/a>. In response to a recent petition to put a medical marijuana initiative on the state\u2019s next election ballot, Peterson wrote an 8-page opinion stating that any form of cannabis legalization would be unconstitutional because the federal government&#8217;s prohibition of marijuana technically preempts any state&#8217;s authority to legalize the drug.<\/p>\n<p>State Senator Anna Wishart, sponsor of Nebraska\u2019s medical marijuana initiative, countered that she had already consulted with legal and law enforcement experts on the implications of legalization. \u201cTwo-thirds of states have medical marijuana laws, the first enacted 23 years ago and no one has successfully challenged them,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marijuanamoment.net\/nebraska-attorney-general-argues-legalizing-medical-marijuana-is-unconstitutional\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>told <\/u><u><em>Marijuana Moment<\/em><\/u><\/a>. \u201cIn fact, Congress has directed the DOJ to back off these programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nebraska Attorney General\u2019s argument is nonsensical and motivated by his anti-marijuana ideology,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marijuanamoment.net\/nebraska-attorney-general-argues-legalizing-medical-marijuana-is-unconstitutional\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>said<\/u><\/a> Matthew Schweich, deputy director of the Marijuana Policy Project. \u201cNebraskans understand that many other states have functional medical marijuana programs, which demonstrates the baseless nature of this preemption argument.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two top Republican leaders made headlines this month with wild rants blaming everything from mass shootings to homelessness on cannabis reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3036],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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