Recent losses for legalizers augur a sea change in pot policy.

In next November’s elections, residents of Massachusetts will have the opportunity to do something strange and unprecedented: re-ban marijuana. The state legalized recreational pot in 2016. But last week, organizers submitted the requisite 74,000 signatures to place on the ballot an initiative that would end the legal sale of the drug without reimposing penalties for mere possession.

Few people are optimistic about the passage of the Massachusetts initiative—although the recent, unexpected defeat of psychedelic legalization in the state gives some reason to doubt a foregone conclusion. But the mere fact that repeal is under consideration at all must be a surprise to the millions of Americans who have long taken the nationwide legalization of marijuana as an eventual historical necessity. It’s not just Massachusetts, either: across the country, there are signs that the seeming inevitability of full federal legalization may not be so inevitable after all.

Massachusetts isn’t the only state where supporters are trying to get repeal on the ballot. There’s also an active effort in Maine. In 2026, Idaho voters will actually be asked whether they want to prohibit legalizing marijuana by ballot initiative, making the state’s prohibition even stronger. In the 2024 elections, voters in Florida and North and South Dakota shot down legalization ballot initiatives (North Dakota for the third time).

And then there’s the other bombshell: in ending last month’s government shutdown, Congress also quietly re-banned a type of marijuana that had been legal nationwide for almost a decade.

https://cityjournal.substack.com/p/everyone-thinks-legal-weed-is-inevitable

Good, it smells like shit and legalization achieved nothing except making potheads even more stoned and lazy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808696&forum_id=2/#49499276)

This is obviously some kikes looking to corner market medical mj you have to be retarded not to see it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808696&forum_id=2/#49499302)

meanwhile, a sizable number of young men get schizo and other mental illness from constant use of very powerful product -- generating a lot of demand on publicly funded health care.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808696&forum_id=2/#49499325)