re: Missouri legalized recreational marijuana....a local news crew went to a dispensary.

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Ain't a blue vs. red thing.

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It used to be. When did this change?

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Smell a rat when you find someone opposed to weed legalization who isn't also pushing equally as hard for the return of Prohibition.

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I've been smoking weed on and off since 1977. I remember when the price of a lid quadrupled from $30 to $120 in 1981 when Reagan re-declared Nixon's War on Drugs. Not only had the price of weed gone up, but I couldn't even buy bongs at Peaches anymore. As the 80s wore on, I was told that Republicans were the party of liberty, and less government intrusion. That went entirely contrary to my personal experience. All of the Republicans I knew were for the War on Drugs but yet drank.

So when you say smell a rat when I see this hypocrisy, I'd say the Republican party is FULL of rats. I've never known any Republicans who smoked weed until quite recently. This is the main reason I could never get on board with the Republicans because while I supported their talk of less government intrusion, it's their walk of more government intrusion that belies their hypocrisy.

Both parties support more government intrusion. It's the very thing that allows them to maintain power.