Not The Onion

12529 readers

1090 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay

186

Elton John Says Legalizing Marijuana in America and Canada Is “One of the Greatest Mistakes of All Time” (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 5 days ago by FlyingSquid to c/nottheonion

157 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Its de facto legal, but only because there aren't enough federal agents to enforce it, but de jure illegal, because the law is still on the books, marijuana is still a Schedule I Controlled Substance.

Also, its only if you are a citizen, that you can just smoke weed, the risk is low for any legal reprocussions. But for non-citizens, that little weed can get you deported. Its silly, but its true. That's why I don't like people saying "weed is legal", since it's technically not true.