I’m 100% behind Biden, but if he wants to cure our growing loneliness and isolation, he can start by legalizing pot and letting pot bars show up as much as regular bars.
We also need some serious investment in community activity centers, safe places for young people, old people, middle aged people, to meet, socialize, and enjoy activities together, within their age groups while also allowing folks to mix with other age groups.
The big problem is the social isolation that began not only with the rise of the Internet, but also with the culture war bullshit, and with parents controlling their children because they are afraid of what they’re seeing on the news every day. We need to find new ways to get people out there mixing again.
Vast improvements in public transportation would help greatly here too, most of the barrier these days is getting to places to do socializing, people can’t count on their family for transportation, cars and everything else is expensive and jobs aren’t paying well, and neither citiies or rural areas are built for easy getting around, outside of the few American cities with solid public transportation systems no American city is very walkable. Also ensure that people aren’t going to get arrested for dumb shit, especially on public transportation, there was just an article this week about all of the money the NYPD is wasting enforcing bus fares when the bus fare machine isn’t functioning properly, just let those people ride and stop hassling poor people.
The reason they’re not legalizing weed is that corporatists and neoliberals are running the show, and pharmaceutical companies lobby against it because they don’t want to have to compete with legalized THC
The private prison, alcohol, tobacco, gun, and gambling lobbies and police unions are the main opponents to legalization, and they all have far too much power over the rest of us.
I’m 100% behind Biden, but if he wants to cure our growing loneliness and isolation, he can start by legalizing pot and letting pot bars show up as much as regular bars.
We also need some serious investment in community activity centers, safe places for young people, old people, middle aged people, to meet, socialize, and enjoy activities together, within their age groups while also allowing folks to mix with other age groups.
The big problem is the social isolation that began not only with the rise of the Internet, but also with the culture war bullshit, and with parents controlling their children because they are afraid of what they’re seeing on the news every day. We need to find new ways to get people out there mixing again.
Vast improvements in public transportation would help greatly here too, most of the barrier these days is getting to places to do socializing, people can’t count on their family for transportation, cars and everything else is expensive and jobs aren’t paying well, and neither citiies or rural areas are built for easy getting around, outside of the few American cities with solid public transportation systems no American city is very walkable. Also ensure that people aren’t going to get arrested for dumb shit, especially on public transportation, there was just an article this week about all of the money the NYPD is wasting enforcing bus fares when the bus fare machine isn’t functioning properly, just let those people ride and stop hassling poor people.
Blows my mind that at the very least he can’t do cnanbis. Don’t they want that sweet tax money?
The reason they’re not legalizing weed is that corporatists and neoliberals are running the show, and pharmaceutical companies lobby against it because they don’t want to have to compete with legalized THC
The private prison, alcohol, tobacco, gun, and gambling lobbies and police unions are the main opponents to legalization, and they all have far too much power over the rest of us.