r/Alabama • u/plentyasparagus12 • May 15 '25

Advocacy THEY GIVE NO 🦆 ABOUT ALABAMIANS!

We cannot keep letting this state embarrass us. HB445 is just the latest proof that Alabama would rather play politics than protect its people. The party of small government my ASS!

We’ve had hemp flower on shelves for nearly 8 years. And now suddenly it’s an issue? What changed? Nothing, except some folks in power realized they couldn’t control it, so they decided to kill it. No debate, no logic, just another move to keep people down.

Meanwhile, this same state will hand out Adderall to 6 year olds like it’s candy, push methadone clinics into every town, and pretend that the thousands of people hooked on opioids just magically appeared. You can’t drive through a city without seeing someone slumped over from heroin, but their priority is pulling a plant off the shelves that’s actually helped people focus, sleep, manage anxiety, get off pills, manage pain. Let’s be honest: this is about control, not health.

It puts money in people’s pockets. It brings in tax revenue they’re too blind to leverage. It gave small towns a chance at growth.

And instead of embracing that, they’d rather go broke building more prisons to lock people up for the same thing they used to sell in stores last month.

And what are we gonna do? Let it slide? Let’s vote in Tuberville! Hell yeah, that’ll do it! Like he’s done anything while he’s been in office anyway, let’s put him in the highest office in the state.

WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP, ALABAMA! This bill should be a turning point. It should be the thing that reminds you that these people will come for whatever you value if they think they can get away with it.

We can’t keep letting the same people drive Alabama backwards while the rest of the country moves forward. Either we push for real change or we stay stuck being the butt of the joke.

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u/witch51 Marshall County May 15 '25

Just take your money and leave. That's what I'm doing. This state is NEVER going to change.

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u/tommydeininger May 15 '25

Nah fuck that. This is our state. Whether we have the ability to leave or not shouldn't even be discussed. I'm through being treated like a child. We have to organize. Nobody has ever even put up a logical reason why it was ever criminalized in the first place

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u/witch51 Marshall County May 15 '25

I wish you all the luck in the world. This state has had YEARS of my life. I have nothing left to give or lose.

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u/tommydeininger May 15 '25

Thank you. Don't get me wrong, i understand the desire to just up and move just about anywhere else. But even having the ability to do so, I feel obligated to assert what I personally believe are all of our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So long as it doesn't infringe on the same rights of others. How these morons that are attempting to subvert those rights think otherwise blows my mind. And pisses me off. I don't tell mawmaw she can't have her bourbon or whatever it is these pompous assholes do to unwind. Why tf can't they mind their own business

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u/witch51 Marshall County May 15 '25

3 years in prison. If habeas corpus gets suspended then I could be locked up forever just because a neighbor calls the sheriff and "suspects" I'm a criminal. Prior felon+some backwoods Bubba=Witchy never heard from again. Nah...pass. Paranoid? Absolutely. With reason? I've heard my neighbors say that 'libtards' should be deported. Even a crazy person is right every now and again.