• Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 hours ago

    The farms would be funded, he said, with money generated through a sales tax on cannabis products. (As of now, cannabis is still illegal at the federal level; sales taxes are state and local.) “I’m going to dedicate that revenue to creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country,” Kennedy said.

    Tangential to the main point, but this sort of suggests Trump is planning to legalize cannabis at the Federal level. If they do that, they’ll probably cement Republican supremacy for at least a few election cycles. It’s really low-hanging fruit at this point that the Democrats are (as usual) totally negligent for having left on the table.