{"id":9768,"date":"2023-09-09T13:04:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T13:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diigital.press\/?p=9768"},"modified":"2023-09-09T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T13:04:48","slug":"congress-pulls-a-fast-one-on-washington-d-c-democrats-the-gop-just-banned-the-capitols-mary-jane-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/?p=9768","title":{"rendered":"Congress Pulls A Fast One On Washington D.C. Democrats \u2013 The GOP Just Banned The Capitol\u2019s Mary Jane Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats waited until the 11<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0hour to put together their massive spending bill. They needed to pass something by the end of the week, or the government would shut down. So, they waited until it was too late to protest, putting forward a 2,700-page bill loaded with earmarks. Even Republicans rushed to vote for this bill, without even reading it.<\/p>\n<p>But if Democrats thought they pulled a fast one on Republicans, they are sorely mistaken. Because Republicans used their eagerness to put in measures they wanted. Local Democrats were eager to get through a measure that would have doomed the city. But Republicans ensured it would not see the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>From The Hill:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>A GOP-backed ban on weed sales in Washington, D.C., was preserved in a sprawling government funding bill passed by Congress on Thursday\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The Harris Rider, a provision barring the legalization of recreational marijuana sales in the nation\u2019s capital named after its chief proponent, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), sailed through the Senate late Thursday, a day after passing the House, as part of a larger $1.5 trillion spending omnibus package to fund the government through fiscal year 2022.<\/p>\n<p>While Democrats were patting themselves on the back for getting this massive spending bill through, Republicans put in a measure to keep marijuana sales illegal in D.C. Democrats had counted on the narrow deadline to ensure the bill was passed. But that\u00a0<em>also<\/em>\u00a0meant they didn\u2019t have time to block this rider, which would make recreational marijuana sales illegal in the capital city.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have been pushing to legalize recreational weed all throughout the country. They claim it\u2019s a \u201csocial\u201d and \u201ccriminal justice\u201d issue. But they haven\u2019t looked at how legalizing this drug would impact communities. It\u2019s a wildly contested issue, with data suggesting it doesn\u2019t pay out for most states. It seems like Democrats wanted to legalize it in D.C., in order to win over local voters.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans didn\u2019t agree. Had Democrats taken the time to draft a spending bill, in a reasonable amount of time, this wouldn\u2019t have happened. Both sides could have put together a bill without this mad rush. But liberals clearly wanted to bamboozle Republicans with a bill packed with pork. So now, they\u2019ll have to explain to locals why they can\u2019t toke on Mary Jane after all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats waited until the 11th\u00a0hour to put together their massive spending bill. They needed to pass something by the end of the week, or the government would shut down. So, they waited until it was too late to protest, putting forward a 2,700-page bill loaded with earmarks. Even Republicans rushed to vote for this bill, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/943u683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}