i remember as a kid it being banged into my head how america was great because it was a giant melting pot… bring us your poor, tired, etc. the numbers bear out that first generation immigrants work harder, cause less crime that ‘natural’ citizens.
and its true, immigrants made this country. it is a country of immigrants… cuz, ya know, mass native population genocide and all.
but here we are… these conservative fuckwads have somehow convinced everyone the opposite is true.
if youre anti-immigration, youre just racist. thats it.
It’s wild how different it is now. Even the people who raised me with those same values (in this case, my parents) are now Trump supporters. Like what the fuck happened to you? YOU MADE MY LIKE THIS!
It’s a massive bummer.
Honestly, this is a reason that I am glad, in a fucked up kind of way, that my father died when I was young. He was intelligent but I’ve seen a lot of intelligent people go off the rails in the last decade as well as from a very religious family. I don’t know that I’d have coped as well as folks like yourself.
I hope that your parents come to their senses and own up to their mistakes.
spoiler: they won’t
Sadly, likely.
racist: Someone who believes that their race makes them better, more intelligent, more moral, etc. than people of other races and who does or says unfair or harmful things as a result:
- Two of the killers are known to be racists.
- She cannot understand how her husband could be branded a racist.
What killers?
Fuck off RIDF
Yeah, fuck rural infrastructure and the people that fund it!
What a shitty future we inherited.
The “legal” marijuana industry only benefits people in the investment class. It’s traded on the stock market, it’s sold in so many states over the counter and yet people sit in jail for it. Biden’s pardons aren’t even close to halfway there but the entire media had a field day with it like we were in some golden era of legalization. People’s rights are still subjugated on behalf of the war on drugs, specifically the war on smelling cannabis burning. None of the workers ever benefit from the runaway profits with certain companies earning six figures a week in revenue for a single state.
I mean, what did she expect? Marijuana is still schedule 1 under the US Controlled Substances Act, and it’s a federal crime, regardless of whether or not a state legalized it. This is a known problem for anyone in the marijuana business; they often have serious problems with banking because they’re “drug traffickers” under federal law. Anyone that’s tried to buy a gun in the last few years has seen that on form 4473, 21.e: “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana [emphasis added] or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance? Warning: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized for medical or recreational purposes in the state where you reside.”
This is a known issue. Anyone that works in a state-legal marijuana business would have to be intentionally ignorant to not know that it’s still a federal crime, and that it’s still prosecuted at a federal level. So why would someone ever think that they’re going to be able to be obtain citizenship when they work in a business that makes them a federal felon?
Obviously the Controlled Substances Act needs to be repealed or amended, but it until it is, maybe don’t do shit like this if you aren’t a citizen and want to be?
Anyone that’s tried to buy a gun in the last few years has seen that on form 4473, 21.e: “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana [emphasis added] or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance? Warning: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized for medical or recreational purposes in the state where you reside.”
This was ruled unconstitutional earlier this year ( https://www.reuters.com/legal/drug-user-cannot-be-barred-owning-guns-us-court-rules-2023-08-10/ )
I believe that case is being appealed. But it’s still not clear that this will be a binding precedent, given that one of the charges against Hunter Biden is that he bought a gun (which he then disposed of very badly) while he was a drug addict. (And if the prosecutor doesn’t drop those charges, it will put Hunter’s legal team in the unenviable position of legally challenging his father’s political policy.)
But, even so, it’s still on form 4473, so seeing that should at least make anyone involved in marijuana business at any level pause for a second.
Again: I’m not saying that I think that it’s right that marijuana is schedule 1. I absolutely support decriminalization of marijuana. But that’s still current federal law, and you aren’t going to get citizenship if you’re knowingly committing federal felonies.
Yeah, I mean, that kind of thing is going to happen when cannabis is Schedule I.
“We didn’t think about the consequences of getting involved, or how the federal law was going to affect us,” Reimers said.
When you want US citizenship, it’s a federal level thing. You should maybe think about how federal law is going to affect you. I’m not saying that the laws around cannabis at the federal level are right, but they are the laws that exist.
I wonder if they had an immigration attorney or if they were doing it themselves. And if they had one, I wonder if the attorney was aware of this possible issue.
Even if weed was federally full up legal, it’s going to take time to readjust the rules and regulations, and directives to make it all fine. The Devil is always in the details and seldom can be sorted at the snap of a finger.
420 up votes. We did it guys
legal at the State level and legal at the Federal level are two wildly separate things - the State cannot grant you citizenship, the Federal Government does that.
it’s her own damn fault
