I’m dumbfounded that this seems to have gone completely under the radar. Does being passed by Trump make it immune to the culture war? Does it just feel right to people that weed is loophole-legal, such that it seems totally unremarkable?
Legalization was one thing, but valorization is another.
THC potency levels are going through the roof and availability of analogues is too. I feel like there will eventually be problematic societal consequences and a pushback a generation from now, much as happened a few decades after cheap hard liquor distillation was invented, or a few decades after we hit peak tobacco.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane
Also, here's an ad from a century ago selling whiskey, claiming it is a medicinal cure all for any and every condition, much as is common today with cannabis
https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer...
In any medical state, there is a list of specific conditions for which you must have a medical diagnosis in order to get medical cannabis. No doctor will tell you it is a "cure" for anything and nobody is permitted to advertise this either.
People tell each other that everything from homeopathy, to crystals, to keto diets to meditation can cure specific diseases all of the time. I do not believe that you could lump probiotics, to make another example, in with the absurd patent medicines of the 1920s.
Additionally, there plenty of promising peer review regarding cannabis. We've had high potencey weed for decades.
Have you seen dispensary advertising my friend?
https://norml.org/news/2024/05/30/federal-house-committee-ap...
May still allow for THC-A but time will tell where it lands.
but also in the midst of opioid deaths, alcoholism (of older Americans) - with a seemingly well regulated, American grown, not physically addictive, impossible to overdose to death - for a muscle relaxer and/or mild hallucinogenic effects.
Marijuana is popular on both sides of the political spectrum.