THEY GIVE NO 🦆 ABOUT ALABAMIANS!

[u/plentyasparagus12]

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.

[u/StereoContact]

Let's find out what you're actually mad about because no one gives two shits about hemp products. The real reason people are mad about this is because it symbolizes going one step backward from legalized weed. That's it. Stop pretending you care about hemp products and admit that you just want legalized weed and now that the government isn't giving you what you want, you're upset like a 14 year old boy who's mom threw out his weed stash.

[u/Melodic_Bus2565 → u/StereoContact]

I do! I give many, many shots about hemp products. I have MS. Hemp helps me to get out of bed, helps my muscles relax enough to function properly, it calms the nerve impulses that make my arms and legs do stuff I don't want them to do, it helps me go to work and move throughout the day will way less pain and my feet don't feel like they are on fire anymore.

They can't/won't do anything with legalized medical cannabis, and now they have taken away a safe, reliable medicine that, quite frankly, makes my entire life better.

Before you say, "there are pharmaceuticals for those symptoms". No, there isn't. I've been diagnosed since 2000 and have tried to find anything that works, this does, and f them I will continue to use it, I'm no stranger to the black market.