{"id":389440,"date":"2021-03-29T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=389440"},"modified":"2021-03-30T15:40:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:40:28","slug":"rush-debates-a-libertarian-on-the-politics-of-medical-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/29\/rush-debates-a-libertarian-on-the-politics-of-medical-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Debates a Libertarian on the Politics of Medical Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: One other lesson from the separate countries of Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, and other liberal cities is legalizing pot and taxing it. Okay, you get the money. You know what you don\u2019t get? You do not get a decrease in the activity of cartels. You know what they go do?<\/p>\n

They go break into the stores that have to pay tax on the weed and then they use their sales cycles to sell it and graduate people up into heroin. Rush helped a young man in Florida learn that to political people, everything is political, even issues young people connect to liberty, like weed.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Matt in Jacksonville. You\u2019re talking about medical marijuana. You want to know why it is a liberal issue. You want to know why there\u2019s politics attached to it at all? Is that your question?<\/p>\n

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CALLER: I\u2019m a Millennial. I\u2019m 26 years old. I watch Fox News all the time. Every time it\u2019s an issue about social issues it\u2019s like, you know, the conservatives, all these talking heads, “Oh, medical marijuana,” why is it such an issue? It\u2019s more than just medical marijuana.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about liberty. It\u2019s about liberty to do what I want to do, as long as I don\u2019t affect anybody else. It can be controlled, you know, 18 years old, if you\u2019re caught with it before 18, then, you know, all that, just like cigarettes, 18 years old you make your own decision.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m gonna answer your question for you. In the first place Matt, learn something, please. Everything is political to political people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But why?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Everything is. The reason medical marijuana is — medical marijuana is seen as simply a ruse to be able to get marijuana, period. Now, if you\u2019ll notice, nobody ever mentions how having marijuana on the ballot in a lot of states in 2012 helped drive the Millennial turnout, but it did. Having medical marijuana or marijuana, period, on the ballot in 2012 really ratcheted up the turnout of people your age.<\/p>\n

To people in politics, that\u2019s politics. There\u2019s a political reason why you showed up. Therefore there is a political appeal they think will resonate with you. Now, to you, if you\u2019re being honest, you just want the freedom and liberty. If you need some marijuana for a medical reason, or whatever, you should be able to get it. It\u2019s your life, it\u2019s your body, you\u2019re not hurting anybody.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. I\u2019m free. I\u2019m a free citizen. What I put in my body — I don\u2019t — okay, drug dealers dealing to kids, yeah, that\u2019s bad. But when you get rid of the criminal element and it\u2019s been proven, when you get rid of the criminal element, it\u2019s not a big issue. My point is, it\u2019s my choice whether I do it. But keep in mind, this goes beyond just medical marijuana. It\u2019s the biggest issue right now —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, I understand. What about if you liked heroin instead of marijuana, would you have the same attitude about it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That becomes debate, and there\u2019s debate. I don\u2019t agree with it, but I believe someone should be at liberty to make their own choice.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that\u2019s why you\u2019re a Libertarian?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Liberty is to make your own choice without government intervention.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. I understand that. It\u2019s an age-old argument, and it often delves into the role of public morality. The most common refute or refutation to your argument would be, “But it\u2019s not just affecting you, Matt. By your using this drug, it\u2019s affecting your employer, if you have one, because it\u2019s gonna impact your performance.”<\/p>\n

\"\"This is what they say. It\u2019s gonna impact your family. You don\u2019t do anything in a vacuum. Nobody does. And whereas you may think it\u2019s a totally personal choice that has no effect on anybody else, public morality says otherwise. But regardless, whether that is something you believe or not, if government realizes that there\u2019s money in it via regulation, then they\u2019ll turn it as political as necessary to get the money out of it.<\/p>\n

And if they see that the primary constituency group that wants this is young people, then, bammo, they\u2019re gonna really politicize that. They\u2019re gonna turn it into an issue to make you a voter. If they determine that\u2019s all you care about, then there\u2019s gonna be a political party that comes along to make you think that\u2019s all they care about, you getting your marijuana, and they\u2019ll promise you, and they\u2019ll do whatever they can to get you to turn out and vote.<\/p>\n

Everything becomes political in that regard.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that people who sell marijuana legally, the government\u2019s gonna make more money off of them in taxes than they\u2019re gonna make selling the product to customers. Drug-war-era law gives the government the right to tax the profits of the sale of it at 80 to 90%.<\/p>\n

And if you want to know why there are efforts to legalize it, that\u2019s all you need to know. It\u2019s not about you exercising your freedom. It\u2019s not that people want you to be able to get it, Matt. It\u2019s not that people want you to get medical treatment. That\u2019s all a bunch of BS.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re looking at it as a source of new revenue because we\u2019re out of money, and they\u2019re gonna exploit you and everybody like you as best they can. So now we\u2019re not talking about just medical marijuana in these states that\u2019s on the ballot.<\/p>\n

This is recreational, because the federal government, the IRS, is looking at a tax rate of 80 to 90% on it, on the profits in legal marijuana stores. Follow the money, Matt, particularly in politics, and practically every question you have will be answered.<\/p>\n

TODD: Follow the money and follow the liberty. So we\u2019re keeping track. New York state now wants to legalized pot. It\u2019s been legalized in the separate country of Washington state. The same areas that are championing a covid passport — yes, a covid passport in New York in order to enter a store — want guns taken away.<\/p>\n

They want us tracked in our cars and blackmail pricing applied to our movement. You notice a commonality with the modern Democrats? That which builds up life or sustains freedom is to be attacked; that which does the opposite, is to be fostered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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