Just days after their historic election victories, Democrats are pushing sweeping cannabis reform in a state where legalization once seemed impossible.
Talk about the nationwide airport shutdown that was cause by the Trump appointed transportation secretary awarding a non bid contract to his brother in law to deploy an AI system onto a copper based information system that didn’t have the throughput necessary which any idiot should have known. This “mistake” cost billions as well as the AI system itself. These people shouldn’t be trusted pouring a latte let alone rolling out AI systems when millions of lives are on the line.
THE PERVASIVE ABUSE OF POWER AND CORRUPTION HAS CONVERTED THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION INTO A POLITICAL SEWER
On November 14, 2026, the NY Times reported that NextEra Energy of Juno Beach, Florida is seeking to acquire Dominion Energy of Richmond, VA that would result in the world’s largest retail electric utility . ( It had previously been reported that the Washington D.C. area would be the largest consumer of energy in the U.S. to support ai processing).
Needless to say, there is much local opposition to this colossal merger due to expected increases in utility costs.
During Trump’s 2 administrations there have been countless examples of how Trump has abused his power and authority to shake down or solicit personal financial benefits from corporations and other entities, individuals and even foreign countries for his benefit and the benefit of those rich oligarchs and political contributors seeking favors, licenses, exemptions, government contracts and other government benefits that have now come with a price.
There are also reports galore of how Trump has personally enriched himself and his family through the abuses of his office in the hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars.
The nature and extent of the corruption within this Republican administration comes as no surprise to anyone. As a matter of fact, the exit polls on November 3rd revealed that corruption was the most important issue among the electorate.
Getting back to the NY Times report that Next Era Energy is seeking to acquire Dominion Energy, the Times reported that NextEra “was the only U.S. power company listed as a donor to the construction of the White House ballroom”. Are we so dumb as to believe that NextEra expected nothing in return or that Trump would not be expected to return the favor? This payment was recognized by both as a “quid pro quo” ( something for something) and now it’s payback time for Trump to intervene on behalf of NextEra.
When the new Congress convenes, in January their first order of business should be to conduct investigations to identify how the President and those riding on his coattails abused their positions for personal or political gain and to draft legislation to reveal and prevent such abuses in the future.
Having served as a federal prosecutor, I believe that a large portion of the abuses that amount to criminal misconduct could be federally prosecuted under the federal RICO legislation, embodied in Title 18, US Code Section 1961 et seq. The prosecutions would allege that they committed specified crimes in furtherance of running the administration or their departments as a criminal enterprise. Given the DOJ’s complicity in some of that conduct, however, it would be necessary to defer such prosecutions until Trump and the other perpetrators have left office.
Certainly, we all know that Trump’s stooges on the Supreme Court have shrouded him in almost total immunity from federal prosecution and that, just before ignominiously leaving office in January, 2029, it is expected that he will pardon his accomplices and co-conspirators for their federal crimes.
However, what they may not be aware of is that the federal RICO statute can be used by the Civil Division of the next Democratic administration’s DOJ to sue the perpetrators to claw back their ill-begotten gains. Presidential pardons are no defense to such suits.
Uruguay, a conservative Catholic country, was the first country in the world to fully legalize cannabis in 2013, motivated by the desire to rid the market of organized criminal elements. Canada followed in 2018. The South is rising again - in ways nobody expected.
The most important thing is the public can now have the conversation openly with each other & their legislators, who now have a reason to listen to their constituents. The Texas Senate's power is diminished.
Why is weed so important that it's such a priority? Unnecessary arrests? Otherwise I imagine that there are many more, and more important, projects to resolve. Really, I'd like to know.
Interesting. Ohio legislators fought to not legalize cannabis for years. Then Republicans realized they could make money off the enterprise by covertly investing in the profit.
Marijuana legalization sounds great -- until you're stuck for miles and miles behind a huge caravan of vehicles with someone going 25 in a 55 on a two-lane, very curvy road at the front, who doesn't realize that all those funny places where the road suddenly widened were, wait for it...pullouts! It's hard to guess how many of the people who do this are loaded, but when you finally get to pass, that stunned look gives a pretty good indication. It's not all roses.
We have the Willie Nelson wing of the Texas Democratic Party to thank for moving forward on recreational marijuana in the state of Texas.
Now do abortion care for women
Texas Women need Body Autonomy before weed!!!
I hope to hell they are pushing voting rights, abortion rights & civil rights & not just weed. Priorities, folks!
Talk about the nationwide airport shutdown that was cause by the Trump appointed transportation secretary awarding a non bid contract to his brother in law to deploy an AI system onto a copper based information system that didn’t have the throughput necessary which any idiot should have known. This “mistake” cost billions as well as the AI system itself. These people shouldn’t be trusted pouring a latte let alone rolling out AI systems when millions of lives are on the line.
If cannabis is legalized then everyone in prison for cannabis possession should be released!
YES‼️
By legalizing Cannabis in Texas, they could have FREE HEALTHCARE ALONE, just from the sales taxes collected from it… 😩🤬
Thanks for this David, cannabis has been legal here in Canada since 2018.
I didn’t know that
In my state they are practically giving it away, even with the taxes. Texas will like all that $$
THE PERVASIVE ABUSE OF POWER AND CORRUPTION HAS CONVERTED THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION INTO A POLITICAL SEWER
On November 14, 2026, the NY Times reported that NextEra Energy of Juno Beach, Florida is seeking to acquire Dominion Energy of Richmond, VA that would result in the world’s largest retail electric utility . ( It had previously been reported that the Washington D.C. area would be the largest consumer of energy in the U.S. to support ai processing).
Needless to say, there is much local opposition to this colossal merger due to expected increases in utility costs.
During Trump’s 2 administrations there have been countless examples of how Trump has abused his power and authority to shake down or solicit personal financial benefits from corporations and other entities, individuals and even foreign countries for his benefit and the benefit of those rich oligarchs and political contributors seeking favors, licenses, exemptions, government contracts and other government benefits that have now come with a price.
There are also reports galore of how Trump has personally enriched himself and his family through the abuses of his office in the hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars.
The nature and extent of the corruption within this Republican administration comes as no surprise to anyone. As a matter of fact, the exit polls on November 3rd revealed that corruption was the most important issue among the electorate.
Getting back to the NY Times report that Next Era Energy is seeking to acquire Dominion Energy, the Times reported that NextEra “was the only U.S. power company listed as a donor to the construction of the White House ballroom”. Are we so dumb as to believe that NextEra expected nothing in return or that Trump would not be expected to return the favor? This payment was recognized by both as a “quid pro quo” ( something for something) and now it’s payback time for Trump to intervene on behalf of NextEra.
When the new Congress convenes, in January their first order of business should be to conduct investigations to identify how the President and those riding on his coattails abused their positions for personal or political gain and to draft legislation to reveal and prevent such abuses in the future.
Having served as a federal prosecutor, I believe that a large portion of the abuses that amount to criminal misconduct could be federally prosecuted under the federal RICO legislation, embodied in Title 18, US Code Section 1961 et seq. The prosecutions would allege that they committed specified crimes in furtherance of running the administration or their departments as a criminal enterprise. Given the DOJ’s complicity in some of that conduct, however, it would be necessary to defer such prosecutions until Trump and the other perpetrators have left office.
Certainly, we all know that Trump’s stooges on the Supreme Court have shrouded him in almost total immunity from federal prosecution and that, just before ignominiously leaving office in January, 2029, it is expected that he will pardon his accomplices and co-conspirators for their federal crimes.
However, what they may not be aware of is that the federal RICO statute can be used by the Civil Division of the next Democratic administration’s DOJ to sue the perpetrators to claw back their ill-begotten gains. Presidential pardons are no defense to such suits.
Uruguay, a conservative Catholic country, was the first country in the world to fully legalize cannabis in 2013, motivated by the desire to rid the market of organized criminal elements. Canada followed in 2018. The South is rising again - in ways nobody expected.
The most important thing is the public can now have the conversation openly with each other & their legislators, who now have a reason to listen to their constituents. The Texas Senate's power is diminished.
Why is weed so important that it's such a priority? Unnecessary arrests? Otherwise I imagine that there are many more, and more important, projects to resolve. Really, I'd like to know.
It's a long list
Google “cost of weed being illegal”
The benefits have been studied for ages
https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/hundreds-economists-marijuana-prohibition-costs-billions
https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1128436?ln=en&v=pdf
https://www.mpp.org/issues/legalization/top-ten-reasons-to-end-marijuana-prohibition/
Thank you. I read the references and they were helpful.
Awesome. It's been legal here for years and it's made such a positive change.
Can you imagine a world 🤔🌍 in Texas where people OTHER THAN the Oil 🛢️ executives have health insurance?? 🤔🧐🤣🤣
Interesting. Ohio legislators fought to not legalize cannabis for years. Then Republicans realized they could make money off the enterprise by covertly investing in the profit.
Republicans are against anythibg and everything that actually helps regular people.
After they fix MJ they need to re-legalize abortion rights so women can stop dying from lack of basic care related to pregnancy complications.
Marijuana legalization sounds great -- until you're stuck for miles and miles behind a huge caravan of vehicles with someone going 25 in a 55 on a two-lane, very curvy road at the front, who doesn't realize that all those funny places where the road suddenly widened were, wait for it...pullouts! It's hard to guess how many of the people who do this are loaded, but when you finally get to pass, that stunned look gives a pretty good indication. It's not all roses.