President Donald Trump stands by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, ICE raids intensify in scope and reaction, and California wages a multi-front legal war with the Trump administration.
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<h2>Tensions Escalate Within Trump World In The Fallout Of The Epstein Case</h2>
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Topline: President Trump is standing by his attorney general, even as MAGA loyalists call for Pam Bondi to be ousted over her handling of the Epstein files.
Ever since the White House declared the Epstein investigation closed, concluding that there was no evidence the billionaire sex criminal died by murder, blackmailed powerful individuals, or had a “client list,” we’ve seen unprecedented backlash from the president’s most diehard supporters. They are confident there’s more to this story and want to know why there hasn’t been more transparency – and more importantly, why Bondi went from saying the Epstein client list was on her desk awaiting release, to saying there was never a list to begin with. 
Now we appear to be seeing legitimate signs of fracture within the administration. 
On Friday, we learned that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino got into a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/details-emerge-from-bonginos-reported-tense-meeting-with-bondi-trump-chief-of-staff">shouting match</a> with Bondi at the White House last week. Bongino reportedly accused her of misleading the public, while Bondi reportedly accused him of throwing her under the bus and planting negative stories about her in the press. A source close to Bongino told Daily Wire White House Reporter Mary Margaret Olohan that he is so incensed by the Epstein debacle that he’s threatening to resign if Bondi is allowed to remain the chief legal officer of the federal government.
According to officials at the DOJ, FBI Director Kash Patel is also considering resigning if more documents are not released, and he wants Bondi out as well. However, Patel broke his silence on Saturday, saying he&#8217;ll continue serving Trump &#8220;as long as he calls on me&#8221; and the Epstein &#8220;conspiracy theories just aren&#8217;t true.&#8221;
In a lengthy <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114842356238631061">Truth Social</a> post on Saturday, Trump defended Bondi, who he said is doing a “fantastic job&#8230;We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening… ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration.” The President went on to say the FBI would be better suited focusing on investigating voter fraud and political corruption as opposed to Epstein, before ending with a line that drew perhaps the most outrage from his base: “Let’s not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.”
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<h2>ICE Raids &amp; Protesters</h2>
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Topline: More details are emerging about the ICE raid of a marijuana farm in Camarillo, California, last week that resulted in the arrest of hundreds of illegal aliens. Officials say at least 14 children were on the farm, most of them unaccompanied and potentially victims of forced labor.
During the raid, anti-ICE protesters attacked agents with rocks and bricks; one person seemingly shot at officers. The government is now offering a $50,000 reward for that suspect. Videos of the raid show protesters attacking federal vehicles as agents drive away. One protester appeared to use their bike to try to block the road. Authorities deployed tear gas and smoke bombs to disperse the estimated 500 people there to protest or impede federal agents. At the end of the day, ICE arrested more than 300 illegal aliens.
The chaotic clash caught special attention from President Trump, who on Friday authorized any ICE agent who is attacked to “stop their car, and arrest these SLIMEBALLS.”
Democrats have blamed violent anti-ICE demonstrations on the Trump administration and its immigration enforcement tactics and policies. In the aftermath of the Camarillo raid, California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom <a href="https://abc7.com/post/federal-agents-conduct-immigration-raid-camarillo-farm/17056098/">singled out</a> Stephen Miller, Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff and an immigration hardliner. The governor called the raid “inhumane” and said Miller’s methods “evoke chaos, fear and terror within our communities at every turn.”
“Everywhere you look in California, you see industrial child exploitation on a massive scale,” Miller told <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=27&amp;v=kcXLXVy5HQQ&amp;feature=youtu.be">Fox News</a> in response to the governor’s remarks. “There are likely hundreds of thousands of children in California who are being exploited for their labor or sexually exploited as part of sex trafficking. This administration is liberating these children and helping reunify them with their parents back in their home country.”
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<h2>California vs Trump</h2>
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Topline:  California is doubling down on its war with the Trump administration, over everything from ICE raids to women’s sports, while several of its cities face growing crises.
Key areas of contention include environmental policy, where California has sued over rollbacks of emissions standards and protections for endangered species. The state has also challenged federal immigration policies, including the construction of a border wall and the treatment of asylum seekers. 
Houman Hemmati, a California political commentator, highlighted the state&#8217;s internal crises. 
&#8220;We have the public safety issues and then we also have the affordability issues,” Hemmati said. “On the public safety front, we still have exceedingly high crime and homelessness&#8230; And on top of that on the affordability front we have energy prices – electricity, gasoline – that are sky high, highest in the nation, going through the roof and with no end in sight. Water rates that are very high. Insurance rates that are sky high&#8221;. Hemmati noted that &#8220;every one of these crises is something that&#8217;s either preventable, predictable, or manufactured.&#8221;
Hemmati commented on the response of city and state officials to the escalation of violence against ICE, stating that leaders like Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Newsom are &#8220;openly calling for people to resist ICE and they&#8217;re using vilifying terms, fighting terms&#8221;. He added that Cynthia Gonzalez, the vice mayor of Cudahy, &#8220;actually asked for gang members to come out and fight them in the streets in no uncertain terms. So they&#8217;ve declared open war on federal officers, who are really there enforcing federal law and doing their jobs.&#8220;

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We&#8217;ve reached the point now where the entire leftist program is performative outrage.
Today&#8217;s example is the raid by ICE at a large marijuana farm in Southern California.
According to the New York Times: “Federal agents raided a large cannabis farm in Southern California on Thursday, clashing with protesters and arresting multiple people.”
That sounds like these are just normal people. “Yeah, sure, they&#8217;re illegal immigrants, but they&#8217;re picking the marijuana that America needs.”
But marijuana is damaging our country. If you don&#8217;t believe me, visit LA, visit Denver.
This pot farm was allegedly using illegal underage labor. It&#8217;s hard to think of a place more deserving of a federal law enforcement raid than a pot farm that is engaging in illegal underage labor.
The Left freaked out. Protesters showed up because they heard that ICE was showing up. At least one person showed up with a gun and fired at an ICE agent.
That person is no longer a “protester.” He’s now an attempted murderer.
But a video that went viral on social media was not the video of the so-called protester shooting a gun or the idiots who were attempting to stop an ICE vehicle using flagpoles.
It was children running from tear gas, which ICE used to disperse the crowds.
But when they say children were running away, they should point out that some of the children who were running away were presumably brought there as protesters, because if they were there as child labor, the parents should be in jail.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-2236-democrats-defend-illegal-immigrant-child-labor-on-pot-farm?elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=The+Ben+Shapiro+Show&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Carousel">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h3>
It&#8217;s a violation of federal and state law to use your small children as child labor at a cannabis farm, we should point out.
But this caused Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, who desperately wants to run for President of the United States, to tweet, “Kids running from tear gas crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields. Trump calls me ‘Newscum’ — but he&#8217;s the real scum.”
Amazing performative outrage.
What are the children doing there in the first place? That should be the real question.
Why have leftists incentivized parents to bring small children to protest immigration raids at a cannabis farm employing underage labor? That&#8217;s question number one. Question number two: Is Newsom suggesting that kids are crying because mom is being taken away? The only person on tape I could see who was crying about this appeared to be a young man whose mom was taken away.
If you&#8217;re a legal immigrant, the administration is not going to arrest you. You have to violate the law in some way that calls for your deportation in order for them to pursue the arrest.
President Trump has mentioned the idea of providing some sort of temporary shield for illegal immigrant farmworkers and hospitality workers, or people working in hotels. He has insisted there will be no amnesty, but also suggested that some workers might be allowed to stay if their employers take responsibility for them.
The policy that the media claim Trump is pursuing is not the policy that he is pursuing.
But because the media are lying about the actual policy and because there are people on social media who are able to blow those lies up into full-fledged stories, you end up with violence against ICE agents, people showing up en masse to stop what are clearly legitimate law enforcement raids.
The performative outrage is the entire gambit for the Left.
It&#8217;s all performative outrage.

ICE Raid At Southern California Farm Sparks Protests

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Leftist activists and politicians claim that the Trump administration&#8217;s Thursday raids targeting cannabis farms in Southern California are proof that the president&#8217;s immigration enforcement operation is &#8220;self-sabotage,&#8221; ripping workers away from critical American food supply chains.
Federal agents conducted raids at two cannabis farms in Ventura County, where they were met by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/violent-leftists-attack-federal-agents-during-immigration-raids-at-california-pot-farms?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Violent+Leftists+Attack+Federal+Agents+During+Immigration+Raids+At+California+Pot+Farms">violent leftists</a> — some of whom attacked the agents by pelting their vehicles with rocks — and one man appeared to fire a handgun at authorities. After the attacks, some on the Left vilified the feds for detaining suspected illegal immigrants working on the marijuana farms, arguing that the workers are &#8220;the backbone of our food chain.&#8221;
&#8220;ICE just swarmed Ventura County fields, hauling away the very farm workers who keep America’s produce aisles stocked,&#8221; wrote leftist political commentator Brian Allen. &#8220;We’re arresting assets; treating the backbone of our food chain like a threat. That’s not &#8216;border security.&#8217; That’s self-sabotage in uniform.&#8221;
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🚨BREAKING: ICE just swarmed Ventura County fields, hauling away the very farm workers who keep America’s produce aisles stocked. 
We’re arresting assets; treating the backbone of our food chain like a threat. That’s not “border security.” That’s self-sabotage in uniform. <a href="https://t.co/GgZvnXbVsd">pic.twitter.com/GgZvnXbVsd</a>
&mdash; Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) <a href="https://twitter.com/allenanalysis/status/1943436496926847452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez, who represents parts of Los Angeles, reposted Allen on X, claiming that federal agents are targeting migrants picking strawberries.
&#8220;How many MS-13 gang members are waking up at 3 a.m. to pick strawberries? O’yeah, zero!&#8221; Gomez <a href="https://x.com/RepJimmyGomez/status/1943523801578508320">said</a>. &#8220;Trump said he’d go after &#8216;bad hombres,&#8217; but he’s targeting the immigrant farm workers who feed America. Either he lied — or he can’t tell the difference.&#8221;
Leftist social media influencer Harry Sisson, who gained a large following after making videos in support of former President Joe Biden&#8217;s 2024 campaign, <a href="https://x.com/harryjsisson/status/1943444361649492019">accused</a> the Trump administration of &#8220;arresting farmers.&#8221;
&#8220;My god… Trump’s goons are throwing tear gas at people and arresting farmers in California during an immigration raid. Trump has turned this country into a military state,&#8221; Sisson said. &#8220;This is what happens when a wannabe dictator gets elected.&#8221;
The White House ripped leftists for claiming that the Trump administration was threatening the food supply by going after suspected illegal immigrants working at cannabis farms.
&#8220;Marijuana is not the &#8216;backbone of our food chain,'&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/ATJackson47/status/1943488036324409469">wrote</a> White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson.
&#8220;It’s a marijuana facility. What will we do without illegals to pick our weed? Moron,&#8221; the official &#8220;Rapid Response&#8221; account for the White House <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1943493659271307398">said</a> in response to Allen&#8217;s post.
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted President Donald Trump following the Thursday raids.
“Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields,” Newsom wrote. “Trump calls me ‘Newscum’ — but he’s the real scum.”
According to Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott, agents at one of the Ventura County cannabis farm raids found 10 children at the marijuana facility, eight of whom were not accompanied by an adult. The farm is &#8220;now under investigation for child labor violations,&#8221; Scott said.
Multiple protesters who were &#8220;impeding&#8221; federal agents were arrested, according to Bill Essayli, the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. A news helicopter <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WKRvYmtWOE&amp;t=159s">video</a> showed the moments when leftists slung rocks at federal vehicles, smashing the windows, as the agents attempted to leave the farm with detainees. Another video captured the moment a man appeared to open fire on federal agents. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the suspected gunman.
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FBI has issued a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an Unknown Subject who appeared to fire a pistol at Federal Law Enforcement Officers near Camarillo. The shooting occurred on 7/10/25 at approximately 2:26pm on Laguna Rd between Wood Rd and Las Posas Rd.… <a href="https://t.co/XG94sTQEVR">pic.twitter.com/XG94sTQEVR</a>
— U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) <a href="https://twitter.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1943522825194868753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Federal agents with a search warrant for suspected immigration and labor violations at cannabis farms in Ventura County, California, were met by hundreds of protesters on Thursday, including one man who appeared to fire a gun at them.
The feds conducted immigration raids at two Glass House Farms, a state-licensed marijuana facility that is allegedly employing illegal immigrants, including children, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/immigration-operation-california-cannabis-farms-leads-clash-federal-agents-protesters">Fox News</a>. After getting word of the immigration operations at a cannabis farm in Camarillo, approximately 60 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, around 500 protesters arrived to confront federal authorities, The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-10/federal-immigration-sweep-ventura-county-farms">reported</a>. The other farm is located in Carpinteria, about 35 miles up the coast, where a smaller group of protesters gathered.
The standoff quickly turned violent as federal agents attempted to disperse the crowd with smoke canisters, and news helicopter video captured the moment when one man appeared to fire a handgun at authorities.
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As agents were leaving the farm with detainees, a group of protesters pelted their vehicles with rocks, smashing windows. Following the confrontation, four people were taken to the hospital, and three people were treated at the scene, FOX Los Angeles <a href="https://www.foxla.com/news/camarillo-ventura-county-farm-ice-raid">reported</a>. It&#8217;s unclear if any federal authorities were among the injured.
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&#8220;Federal agents are executing a search warrant at this marijuana farm,&#8221; said Bill Essayli, the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. &#8220;Agents have already arrested multiple individuals for impeding this operation and will continue to make arrests. Don’t interfere. You will be arrested and charged with a federal offense.&#8221;
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Federal agents are executing a search warrant at this marijuana farm. Agents have already arrested multiple individuals for impeding this operation and will continue to make arrests. Don’t interfere. You will be arrested and charged with a federal offense. <a href="https://t.co/KMwZ5WToOc">https://t.co/KMwZ5WToOc</a>
— U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) <a href="https://twitter.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1943476954189172893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
In a later post on social media, Essayli said that the &#8220;FBI has issued a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an Unknown Subject who appeared to fire a pistol at Federal Law Enforcement Officers near Camarillo.&#8221;
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FBI has issued a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an Unknown Subject who appeared to fire a pistol at Federal Law Enforcement Officers near Camarillo. The shooting occurred on 7/10/25 at approximately 2:26pm on Laguna Rd between Wood Rd and Las Posas Rd.… <a href="https://t.co/XG94sTQEVR">pic.twitter.com/XG94sTQEVR</a>
— U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) <a href="https://twitter.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1943522825194868753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Video of the immigration raid posted by California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom appeared to show workers and protesters running away as federal agents fired tear gas into the crowd.
&#8220;Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields,&#8221; Newsom wrote. &#8220;Trump calls me &#8216;Newscum&#8217; — but he’s the real scum.&#8221;
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott responded to Newsom&#8217;s post on X, writing, &#8220;Here’s some breaking news: 10 juveniles were found at this marijuana facility &#8211; all illegal aliens, 8 of them unaccompanied. It’s now under investigation for child labor violations. This is Newsom’s California.&#8221;
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Here’s some breaking news: 10 juveniles were found at this marijuana facility &#8211; all illegal aliens, 8 of them unaccompanied. It’s now under investigation for child labor violations.
This is Newsom’s California. <a href="https://t.co/Z1XoRMtBSN">https://t.co/Z1XoRMtBSN</a>
— CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott (@CBPCommissioner) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBPCommissioner/status/1943511972441391376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Other California Democrats also condemned the raid at the cannabis farm. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-CA), who represents the district where one of the raided farms is located, called the operation &#8220;disproportionate&#8221; and &#8220;overkill,&#8221; warning that the federal government&#8217;s &#8220;tactics&#8221; would lead to more violence.
“These tactics are creating an incendiary, hostile environment the way they are being deployed, which could lead to, regrettably, violence in the future,” he <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-10/federal-immigration-sweep-ventura-county-farms">said</a>.
Thursday&#8217;s attack on immigration agents comes as federal authorities face mounting threats. Earlier this week, a gunman in tactical gear <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-gunman-in-tactical-gear-killed-after-opening-fire-on-border-patrol-agents">opened fire</a> on Border Patrol agents in McAllen, Texas, wounding two police officers and a Border Patrol employee before he was killed. Ten people were also <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/10-suspects-charged-july-4-attack-texas-ice-detention-facility">arrested</a> this week after they attacked an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4, shooting and wounding a law enforcement officer.
The Trump administration has blasted Democrats for using &#8220;dangerous, inflammatory rhetoric&#8221; aimed at ICE agents. Some Democrats have compared ICE&#8217;s operations to the Gestapo.
“ICE agents put their lives on the line every day to get the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens off our streets and out of our communities,” <a href="https://x.com/PressSec/status/1942974206880207099">said</a> White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “They are making America safer, and Democrats are shamelessly attacking them for it.”

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The FBI busted a multi-million dollar marijuana trafficking scheme run by Chinese nationals, the Justice Department said Tuesday. 
Seven Chinese nationals were charged over an alleged marijuana conspiracy operating out of Massachusetts and Maine. Investigators said that the operation, which began in January 2020, generated millions of dollars by distributing kilogram-sized quantities of marijuana in bulk.
“This case pulls back the curtain on a sprawling criminal enterprise that exploited our immigration system and our communities for personal gain,” <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/seven-chinese-nationals-charged-alleged-roles-multi-million-dollar-money-laundering">said</a> U.S. Attorney Leah Foley. “These defendants allegedly turned quiet homes across the Northeast into hubs for a criminal enterprise – building a multi-million-dollar black-market operation off the backs of an illegal workforce and using our neighborhoods as cover. That ends today.”
Those charged are 39-year-old Jianxiong Chen, 36-year-old Yuxiong Wu, 38-year-old Dinghui Li, 35-year-old Dechao Ma, 35-year-old Peng Lian Zhu, 35-year-old Hongbin Wu, and 47-year-old Yanrong Zhu. Yanrong Zhu &#8220;remains a fugitive,&#8221; while the others were all taken into federal custody, according to the DOJ. 
They are all charged with conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, and many face money laundering charges as well. Chen, who investigators say was the mastermind behind the operation, is also charged with smuggling aliens into the United States. 
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FBI agent Ted Docks said that Chen, who lived in Braintree, Massachusetts, a city about 12 miles south of Boston, smuggled Chinese nationals over the Mexican border and forced them to work at marijuana grow houses to pay off the smuggling fees and get their passports back. 
In addition to Braintree, there were grow houses in the Massachusetts cities of Melrose and Greenfield. 
In October 2024, investigators recovered more than $270,000 in cash, a Porsche, and multiple Chinese passports and other identification documents inside a safe at Chen’s house in Braintree. Investigators also seized more than 109 kilograms of marijuana, nearly $200,000 in cash, and a $65,000 Rolex watch at the homes of other alleged conspirators. 
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In the last several years, Chinese-backed marijuana operations have cropped up across the United States, and there have been major drug busts in states like New Mexico and <a href="https://www.themainewire.com/2023/11/triad-weed-illegal-chinese-marijuana-grows-are-all-over-maine/">Maine</a>. In Maine alone, Border Patrol has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-chinese-marijuana-grow-operations-worth-billions-cropping-up-in-maine-border-patrol-memo">reportedly</a> identified at least 270 illegal marijuana grow operations that are worth billions of dollars.
Congressional lawmakers have also launched inquiries into the issue, saying that the operations pose significant national security risks.

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FBI Busts Chinese Nationals For Multi-Million Dollar Drug Ring, Exploiting Immigration System

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The Woods, the West Hollywood cannabis shop co-owned by actor Woody Harrelson and comedian Bill Maher, was burglarized in the wee hours of Saturday morning, per <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14731641/woody-harrelson-bill-mahers-cannabis-dispensary-burglarized-west-hollywood.html">the Daily Mail</a>.
Catalyst Cannabis Co. CEO Elliot Lewis shared footage to Instagram of the smash-and-grab burglary taking place.
“Our heart go out to Samba and Woody and their entire crew,” Lewis wrote in the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/catalyst_ceo/reel/DJz5es4Nd1t/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post caption</a>. “Back to back robberies shots fired just another weekend in LA. Does nobody care about the people trying to build something up and they seem to only care about those trying to destroy. Make it make sense. Please bring back some common sense.”
He also added the R.E.M. song “It’s the End of the World As We Know It” in the background.
The video showed five individuals clad in hoodies and masks breaking in at 4:30 a.m. and grabbing merchandise from the store&#8217;s counters and shelves, which the outlet noted had the total retail value of around $2,000 to $3,000.
“They went in and they just randomly took stuff off the shelves,” The Woods co-owner Michael Berman told ABC 7 LA. “While there was a lot of mess from the broken glass, nobody was hurt. They got merchandise, but they didn&#8217;t actually damage too much inside.”
The co-owner <a href="https://abc7.com/post/west-hollywood-marijuana-shop-owned-bill-maher-woody-harrelson-ransacked-thieves/16475192/">said</a> the same group of thieves, who are known as “The Jack Boys,” tried to rob another dispensary in Santa Monica on Sunday, but abandoned the task when a security guard fired warning shots. Berman mentioned that he believed one of the burglars was a child.
There was a previous break-in attempt in November, the outlet noted.
The Woods is advertised as an “oasis where a lush consumption lounge and environmentally elegant design converge, creating a tranquil space to savor California&#8217;s finest organic, sun-grown cannabis offerings.”
Harrelson has long been an advocate for the legalization of marijuana. Although he quit smoking marijuana in 2016, he later returned to using it after <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/woody-harrelson-jerry-maguire-willie-nelson-back-smoking-marijuana-190721408.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHad-ke6OB-aLl4yHefMeCFEo_4IBe4TVCZ-RtSidcso0xWRLI8kL9WwYMGcuAZaBW9jBTFZGMlRRTuYD4jFWgITejZU94vbGONf6Ovf4ywOxk-uuH18Q_7eChQkgo-MHweBNX_t_hl9ob7N8Ru7H6D6tyAYvhIFfAnxoARx6-WD">playing a game of poker</a> with Willie Nelson.

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Woody Harrelson And Bill Maher’s LA Weed Shop Hit By Burglars

Woody Harrelson And Bill Maher's LA Weed Shop Hit By Burglars

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Public Health ‘Experts’ Set The Stage For A New Prohibition

Public Health 'Experts' Set The Stage For A New Prohibition

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Singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elton-john">Elton John</a> recently said legalizing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marijuana">marijuana</a> in parts of the United States was misguided because it leads to the use of harder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/drugs">drugs</a>.
The 77-year-old EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) award winner expressed his thoughts during an <a href="https://time.com/7201151/icon-of-the-year-2024-elton-john/?linkId=685585144">interview</a> with TIME magazine after being named the &#8220;2024 Icon of the Year.&#8221; John said he didn’t think cannabis should be legalized.
“I maintain that it’s addictive. It leads to other drugs,” John told the outlet. “And when you’re stoned — and I’ve been stoned — you don’t think normally. Legalizing marijuana in America and Canada is one of the greatest mistakes of all time.”
The outlet noted that John, who practices a sober lifestyle, has helped other famous artists who were experiencing addiction. He was rapper Eminem’s sponsor and helped pop star Robbie Williams get to his first rehab stint. The “Rocket Man” singer tried to help out singer George Michael with his addiction battle but was ultimately unsuccessful. 
“It’s tough to tell someone that they’re being an a**hole, and it’s tough to hear,” John said. “Eventually I made the choice to admit that I’m being an a**hole.”
The singer went on to discuss how he holds these views on marijuana because of his cocaine addiction, which began in the 1970s. 
“You make terrible decisions on drugs,” John continued. “I wanted love so badly, I’d just take hostages. I’d see someone I liked and spend three or four months together, and then they would resent me because they had nothing in their life apart from me. It really upsets me, thinking back on how many people I probably hurt.”
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John discussed the specifics of his addiction, including abusing alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine, during an interview with Piers Morgan in 2010.
“This is how bleak it was: I’d stay up, I’d smoke joints, I’d drink a bottle of Johnnie Walker and then I’d stay up for three days and then I’d go to sleep for a day and half, get up, and because I was so hungry, because I hadn’t eaten anything, I’d binge and have like three bacon sandwiches, a pot of ice cream and then I’d throw it up, because I became bulimic and then go and do the whole thing all over again,” the recording artist <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/elton-drugs-nearly-killed-me-20101212-18tuh.html">said</a>.
“And I’m not being flippant when I say that, when I look back I shudder at the behavior and what I was doing to myself.”
John added that he would be “very close” to death during the height of his drug use. “I mean, I would have an epileptic seizure and turn blue, and people would find me on the floor and put me to bed, and then 40 minutes later I’d be snorting another line.”

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Elton John Said Legalizing Marijuana Is ‘One of the Greatest Mistakes of All Time’

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There have been a lot of moments in American politics when candidates realize they&#8217;re trailing badly in the polls, so they do something extreme in an effort to win some support. It usually doesn&#8217;t work out too well. Think of the &#8220;Dean Scream&#8221; back in 2004, which was supposed to rally the base after a tough loss in the Iowa caucuses. It ended up being played about 600 times on cable news until Dean dropped out of the race. Or if you want to go back further, think of George McGovern&#8217;s plan to shake up the race in 1972 by picking a totally unvetted running mate. That was exciting right up until it emerged that his running mate had received electro-shock therapy several times to treat his chronic mental illness. McGovern ended up losing 49 states. 
As we enter the homestretch of the 2024 presidential election, it&#8217;s clear that the Kamala Harris campaign now finds itself in a similar desperation mode. They&#8217;re trailing badly in pretty much every important poll and prediction market that matters. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz admit that they&#8217;re now the &#8220;underdogs&#8221; in the race. And so, inevitably, they&#8217;re feeling the pressure to do something unthinkable in a desperate attempt to win back votes. They have to throw out the playbook and try a new strategy.
In recent days, we&#8217;ve learned what this last-minute Hail Mary looks like. It means that Harris will actually go out in public and speak without a script. This clearly wasn&#8217;t the plan when she first entered the race. For the first month of her candidacy, Kamala Harris was completely shut off from the media. It was one of the most surreal periods in modern presidential politics. We had a presidential nominee who wouldn&#8217;t talk to any journalists at all — even journalists who are friendly to her campaign. 
But now Harris has no choice. She&#8217;s facing a blowout loss. So, now she has an interview with Fox News planned for tonight. She&#8217;s also participating in &#8220;radio town halls&#8221; with hosts like &#8220;Charlamagne Tha God.&#8221;
Unfortunately for Harris, already, this strategy isn&#8217;t going well. Like so many other Hail Mary&#8217;s in presidential politics, it&#8217;s backfiring. And it&#8217;s backfiring because every single time Harris opens her mouth, it becomes very clear why her campaign was hiding her away for so long. 
Let&#8217;s start with one of the questions asked on &#8220;Charlamagne tha God&#8217;s&#8221; show, because the question raises a bunch of its own issues. It concerns taxpayer-funded reparations for black people. Watch:
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Vice President Kamala Harris says she&#39;s open to using taxpayer&#39;s money to pay racial reparations: &quot;It has to be studied, there&#39;s no question about that.&quot;
She adds: &quot;In terms of my immediate plan &#8230; as it relates to the economy &#8230; I grew up in the middle class&quot; <a href="https://t.co/HPjdHSgB29">pic.twitter.com/HPjdHSgB29</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1846308621270888947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The first thing he says is, &#8220;We all know that America became great on the backs of free black labor.&#8221; So, I guess we&#8217;re pretending that slaves didn&#8217;t cost anything, for starters. That&#8217;s being conflated here with the idea that &#8220;black people weren&#8217;t paid.&#8221; That might seem like an irrelevant distinction but actually, it matters quite a bit in relation to the argument he&#8217;s making. As a factual matter, slavery involved massive investments that ultimately slowed the progress of this country dramatically. It turned out to be a much worse investment than the alternative.
A professor at Brown University named David Meyer has <a href="https://fee.org/articles/no-slavery-did-not-make-america-rich/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that, in the South prior to the Civil War, “investments were heavily concentrated in slaves,&#8221; relative to the North. And that led to the South&#8217;s failure to, “to build a deep and broad industrial infrastructure.&#8221; That includes services like railroads and schools. Once slavery was abolished, that infrastructure is what led to this country&#8217;s success in the generations following the Civil War. We became the top economy in the entire world once we jettisoned slavery.
What didn&#8217;t lead to this country&#8217;s success — before or during the civil war — was slavery. The majority of slaves were involved in growing or picking cotton. But as the Foundation for Economic Education has <a href="https://fee.org/articles/no-slavery-did-not-make-america-rich/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, cotton didn&#8217;t account for a big portion of the overall U.S. economy. Economic historians, &#8220;have observed that although cotton exports comprised a tremendous share of total exports prior to the Civil War, they accounted for only around 5 percent of the nation’s overall gross domestic product, an important contribution but not the backbone of American economic development.&#8221;
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So, if you&#8217;re saying that slavery was instrumental to this country&#8217;s success, you&#8217;re vastly overstating the case. And it&#8217;s an argument that applies to many other countries far more credibly than it applies to ours. Africa was the last continent to officially abolish slavery, and that didn&#8217;t happen until the 1980s. So, why exactly is this America&#8217;s burden to bear? Why are we uniquely responsible for slavery? And why would we want to stoke the kind of generational race hatred that&#8217;s led to the murders of white farmers in places like South Africa?
And for that matter, when is Kamala Harris going to pay her reparations? The Washington Free Beacon has reported that Harris was the &#8220;descendant of an Irishman who owned a slave plantation in Jamaica.&#8221; So, why hasn&#8217;t she pulled a Robin DiAngelo and opened her purse to offer black Americans some of her own money? She hasn&#8217;t even handed over a single dollar as far as I can tell, much less 20 dollars. It&#8217;s an outrage.
But it&#8217;s not one that Harris has ever addressed. Maybe she&#8217;ll explain her reasoning in my next movie. 
Instead, in this &#8220;radio town hall,&#8221; Harris predictably chose to focus on the &#8220;systemic&#8221; ideal of reparations. And here&#8217;s her plan in that regard:
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Vice President Kamala Harris says she&#39;s open to using taxpayer&#39;s money to pay racial reparations: &quot;It has to be studied, there&#39;s no question about that.&quot;
She adds: &quot;In terms of my immediate plan &#8230; as it relates to the economy &#8230; I grew up in the middle class&quot; <a href="https://t.co/HPjdHSgB29">pic.twitter.com/HPjdHSgB29</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1846308621270888947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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She starts rambling again about growing up in a middle-class family or whatever, even though she didn&#8217;t actually grow up in a middle-class family, and even though (as always) it&#8217;s completely irrelevant to what she&#8217;s talking about. But already — just from this short, 30-second answer — it&#8217;s clear that Harris herself doesn&#8217;t even know what she&#8217;s saying. In response to that question about reparations, here&#8217;s what she just said: &#8220;It has to be studied. I&#8217;ve been very clear about that position.&#8221;
But she hasn&#8217;t been &#8220;very clear&#8221; about that position. In fact you can find multiple clips of Harris stating that she supports reparations. She doesn&#8217;t support a &#8220;study&#8221; of reparations, she actually thinks they should be paid out, in some form. Watch:
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Kamala says she’s in favor of reparations because America is racist and there are inequities including Black people not being able to vote <a href="https://t.co/DFlafInsJd">pic.twitter.com/DFlafInsJd</a>
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&quot;There have to be some form of reparations&quot;
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So, this is, once again, a complete retreat from what Kamala Harris previously claimed to believe. We can add it to the list of policies that she supported back in California, but disavows now. That&#8217;s a list that includes decriminalizing illegal immigration, providing free healthcare to illegals, abolishing private health insurance, banning gas-powered cars, banning fracking, confiscating guns, and so on. Now &#8220;taxpayer-funded reparations&#8221; are on the chopping block, at least temporarily. Now Harris says that reparations must be &#8220;studied.&#8221;
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But that&#8217;s already happened too. And it happened in Harris&#8217; home state of California, as I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-reparations-grift-is-finally-collapsing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a> earlier this year, all the way back in February. California established a &#8220;reparations task force.&#8221; That task force suggested that it would be a good idea to pay more than a million dollars to every descendant of a slave — which, altogether, would cost something like a trillion dollars. And then a bunch of lawmakers decided to reel that back in. They suggested that &#8220;reparations&#8221; shouldn&#8217;t consist of cash payments after all, after Gavin Newsom pointed out that the state is broke and doesn&#8217;t have the ability to pay anything. This was a whole conversation that lasted for years, in Harris&#8217; home state. But apparently she&#8217;s not aware of this conversation. She wants to keep having it, again and again, for the rest of time.
This is a dodge that&#8217;s meant to hide the fact that the Biden-Harris administration has already announced massive race-based reparations plans, and continues to do so. They started with billions of dollars in race-based aid to black farmers. They continued with various affirmative action programs in the government — which, as I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-shockingly-easy-test-has-been-deemed-racist-heres-why" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outlined</a> last week, now involves filing a lawsuit against any fire department or police department that declines to hire black people, regardless of how unqualified they are. And just the other day, Kamala Harris herself personally announced an openly racist policy to send money directly to black people, solely because they&#8217;re black. Here&#8217;s an image of the plan Kamala Harris&#8217; account posted on social media:
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Black men deserve a president who cares about making their lives better. <a href="https://t.co/cUCdsvvYZ6">pic.twitter.com/cUCdsvvYZ6</a>
&mdash; Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1845993766441644386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Here are the key bullet points: &#8220;Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business. &#8230; Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe. &#8230;. Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry.&#8221;
So, first of all, a loan that&#8217;s &#8220;fully forgivable&#8221; isn&#8217;t actually a loan. It&#8217;s a cash payout. The government is never going to see any of that money back. But even if this were just a loan, it&#8217;d still be a completely unconstitutional, overtly anti-white policy, to the point that it&#8217;s insane that any presidential candidate would ever put this in writing. This is a stage of desperation that has no parallel in American politics. Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign is now so underwater among black voters that they&#8217;re straight-up offering to hand them cash, and get them some weed.
Oh, and they&#8217;re going to &#8220;protect cryptocurrency investments so black men know their money is safe.&#8221; You can read that 20 times, and still have no idea what they&#8217;re talking about. Does Bitcoin work differently for black people? And why wouldn&#8217;t we want to make sure that everyone — not just black people — feel that their crypto is &#8220;safe&#8221;? No one knows. Kamala Harris doesn&#8217;t know. Imagine asking her to explain what that line means. She probably has no idea someone wrote that and posted it to her account.
What&#8217;s underlying all of these proposals isn&#8217;t just anti-white racism, although that&#8217;s a big part of it. This is also about Kamala Harris&#8217; deep and abiding disdain for America and its history. This alone makes her unqualified for the position she&#8217;s seeking. It&#8217;s the same reason she posted on social media the other day about &#8220;Indigenous People&#8217;s Day,&#8221; instead of Columbus Day. She&#8217;s previously gone on the record saying Columbus Day should no longer exist:
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Kamala Harris: I&#39;ll eliminate Columbus Day, make it Indigenous People&#39;s Day <a href="https://t.co/sM2Um8YrFF">pic.twitter.com/sM2Um8YrFF</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1845808197799420019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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We&#8217;re at a point in this country where the political Left and Right celebrate different national holidays. And we&#8217;re in this position because of politicians like Kamala Harris, who have nothing to offer. So, in the absence of any substance, she&#8217;s trying to destroy anything Americans have in common. She&#8217;s trying to revise America&#8217;s history, which is the go-to move for communist dictators throughout the ages. And for good measure, she&#8217;s looting the treasury for the benefit of her preferred racial groups. 
Fortunately for the Trump campaign, Kamala Harris isn&#8217;t capable of hiding any of this. Every time she sits down for an interview, Kamala Harris makes it very clear she doesn&#8217;t know anything. She also doesn&#8217;t have any idea what she&#8217;s saying. She wants to simultaneously signal that she&#8217;s backing off reparations, even as she proposes explicit payments to Americans on the basis of their skin color. This is the kind of incoherence that defines the last days of a desperate campaign. And it&#8217;s a sign that Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign — like so many other transparent train wrecks in modern politics — is on a path to a very public implosion in just a couple of weeks.

We The People: An Audio Townhall With Kamala Harris And Charlamagne Tha God

Kamala’s Pathetic Plan To Bribe Black Voters With Reparations And Marijuana

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A decade after the first state moved to legalize recreational marijuana, the dangerous effects of the drug are coming to light.
Across the country, physicians are seeing more people with marijuana addiction, psychosis including delusions or paranoia, schizophrenia, and a serious syndrome involving severe vomiting as more people use the drug, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/us/cannabis-marijuana-risks-addiction.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a>. The outlet examined medical records, insurance data, and spoke to hundreds of doctors and marijuana users.
Emergency rooms are seeing more people present with cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, a condition involving &#8220;severe vomiting,&#8221; nausea, and pain caused by heavy marijuana consumption. The condition can cause extreme dehydration, seizures, kidney failure, cardiac arrest, and even death. At least eight people have died in the U.S. from the condition, the Times reported.
One Maine pediatrician said she sees teenagers who use marijuana almost all day, every day, “a remarkably scary amount,” and are dependent on it. A Massachusetts psychiatrist said she is seeing more cases of schizophrenia related to cannabis use. Even temporary psychosis from marijuana use can last months in some cases.
Some research suggests that about six million people who use the drug almost daily could have symptoms of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome.
One emergency room doctor in Aurora, Colorado, said his hospital treats people with the condition daily. A Michigan pediatrician said she sees the syndrome all the time as well.
About 18 million people, nearly a third of all adult users, reported symptoms of cannabis use disorder, meaning they continue to use the drug despite significant negative effects on their lives, a new data analysis of the 2022 U.S. national drug use survey <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/us/cannabis-marijuana-risks-addiction.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a>.
Younger users especially tend to misuse the drug. Nearly 17% of people 18 to 25 have cannabis use disorder, now higher than the 15% rate of alcohol use disorder, according to last year&#8217;s National Survey on Drug Use and Health. More than 4.5 million of these young people use the drug every day or almost every day.
This is also concerning since marijuana use affects brain development until around age 25.
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More people also use marijuana to ease anxiety and depression amid <a href="https://www.psychiatry.org/news-room/news-releases/annual-poll-adults-express-increasing-anxiousness#:~:text=—%20The%202024%20results%20of%20the,2023%20and%2032%25%20in%202022." target="_blank" rel="noopener">rising</a> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9483000/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rates</a> of those mental health disorders.
Marijuana is a $33 billion industry in the U.S., and the new products are much more potent than the versions of the drug that were around several decades ago. In the 1990s, marijuana had about 5% THC, the substance that causes the drug&#8217;s &#8220;high.&#8221; Today, some products sold include concentrates with as high as 99% THC.
Only two states limit the amount of THC in most recreational marijuana products.
Recreational marijuana is now legal in 24 states, but it is still illegal under federal law.
Initially, advocates pushed to legalize medical marijuana to ease the suffering of chronically ill people. However, the push largely in Democrat-led states for recreational legalization did not take long, spurred by activists who opposed keeping people convicted of lower-level marijuana offenses in prison, particularly black offenders.

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Republican presidential nominee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> announced his support for legalizing marijuana in the state of Florida, but said that it should be banned from being consumed in public.
Trump made the remarks in a post on Truth Social Saturday afternoon in response to Amendment 3, which will be on the ballot this fall.
“In Florida, like so many other States that have already given their approval, personal amounts of marijuana will be legalized for adults with Amendment 3,” he said. “Whether people like it or not, this will happen through the approval of the Voters, so it should be done correctly. We need the State Legislature to responsibly create laws that prohibit the use of it in public spaces, so we do not smell marijuana everywhere we go, like we do in many of the Democrat run Cities.”
He said that using marijuana should no longer be criminalized in the state of Florida considering that it is legal in some other states.
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“We do not need to ruin lives &amp; waste Taxpayer Dollars arresting adults with personal amounts of it on them, and no one should grieve a loved one because they died from fentanyl laced marijuana,” he said.
“As everyone knows, I was, and will be again, the most respected LAW &amp; ORDER President in U.S. History,” he added. “We will take our streets back by being tough &amp; smart on violent, &amp; all other types, of Crime.”
Floridians will have the opportunity to vote “yes” or “no” on the measure this fall, with the measure needing 60% to pass.
If passed, estimates show that legalizing marijuana could generate between $200 million and $430 million a year in tax revenues for the state.

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Maryland Democratic Governor Wes Moore signed an executive order pardoning more than 175,000 marijuana convictions on Monday.
Moore&#8217;s mass pardons come a year after the state legalized recreational marijuana and are estimated to affect around 100,000 people who have misdemeanor convictions for simple possession of cannabis or for possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/maryland-governor-announces-pardons-175000-marijuana-convictions-rcna157466" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. With Moore&#8217;s executive order, Maryland became the first state to issue mass pardons for people convicted of crimes related to owning drug paraphernalia.
&#8220;We cannot celebrate the benefits of legalization if we do not address the consequences of criminalization,&#8221; Moore said. &#8220;So I want to be clear: When it comes to cannabis, rolling out one of the best and most equitable legal markets in the country is incredibly important. But that rollout must go hand in hand with pardoning past conduct, and Maryland is going to lead by example.&#8221;
The governor&#8217;s office added that it &#8220;is committed to promoting social equity and ensuring the fair and equitable administration of justice. Because the use and possession of cannabis is no longer illegal in the state, Marylanders should not continue to face barriers to housing, employment, or educational opportunities based on convictions for conduct that is no longer illegal.&#8221;
Maryland Democratic Attorney General Anthony Brown said Monday&#8217;s pardons are &#8220;about racial justice.&#8221;
“While the order applies to all who meet its criteria, the impact is a triumphant victory for African Americans and other Marylanders of color who were disproportionately arrested, convicted and sentenced for actions yesterday that are lawful today,” Brown said, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/us/maryland-marijuana-pardon-wes-moore.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
Maryland is one of 24 states, along with Washington, D.C., that has legalized recreational marijuana. While other states and jurisdictions have issued pardons for low-level marijuana offenses, Moore&#8217;s executive order stands out as one of the largest pardons for those convicted of cannabis-related crimes, <a href="https://norml.org/marijuana/fact-sheets/marijuana-pardons-and-expungements-by-the-numbers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Earlier this year, Massachusetts Democratic Governor Maura Healey also <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/03/14/1238653870/massachusetts-gov-maura-healey-pardons-marijuana-possession-convictions#:~:text=Maura%20Healey%20pardons%20marijuana%20possession%20convictions%20Massachusetts%20Gov.,or%20driving%20under%20the%20influence." target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> mass pardons for marijuana possession convictions.
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President Joe Biden is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-moves-to-reclassify-marijuana-as-less-dangerous-drug" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> looking to reclassify recreational marijuana as a Schedule III substance, downgrading the drug from Schedule I, where it sits alongside heroin and LSD. According to Campus Drug Prevention, an official U.S. government website, Schedule I drugs &#8220;are <a href="https://www.campusdrugprevention.gov/content/drug-scheduling-and-penalties" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defined</a> as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse,&#8221; while Schedule III drugs &#8220;are defined as drugs with a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence.&#8221;

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