Twitter & Hashish
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2021 was a comparatively good yr for hashish – all issues thought-about, with quite a few international locations and U.S. states shifting ahead with legalization and laws, authorized gross sales reaching report highs, an unprecedented quantity of public figures and the final inhabitants popping out in help of the plant, and cash flowing into analysis and the trade as a complete prefer it by no means has earlier than.
Nonetheless, there’s nonetheless so much to be achieved. Roughly 40,000 People are nonetheless incarcerated for cannabis-related offenses, and tens of millions everywhere in the world are nonetheless missing entry to a lot wanted medication.
As we stroll into 2022, right here’s a glance of what 2021 has left us within the hashish world, based on Twitter. Under are a number of the hottest tweets of the yr, as measured by the quantity of likes and retweets they obtained.
January
The yr began with former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo promising to “legalize hashish and create an equitable adult-use hashish program in NYS.”
The rollout would show to be gradual, however his successor, Kathy Hochul, would in the end get the job achieved.
Throughout the USA Capitol assault, a person lit up a joint in the Capitol, and one photographer’s commentary went viral: “When numerous residents misplaced voting rights to legal offenses over marijuana possession, a White man trespasses onto the lawmaking chambers of the supposed free nation and lights a joint to parade his privilege. Learn that as many occasions as you’ll want to.”
Even earlier than the assault on the Capitol, issues had been getting political.
Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta had additionally highlighted the hypocrisy of America’s marijuana legal guidelines: “There are of us in jail proper now for a bag of weed, whereas Trump sits within the Oval Workplace committing crimes with the assistance of presidency workers.”
Nonetheless, some most popular to maintain it gentle: “The UK doesn’t need to be an island. It’s not scorching, it’s not completely happy, I can’t smoke weed legally and our lakes are brown.”
And others took any likelihood they obtained to take a swing at Elon Musk.
February
February took off with some folks making early New 12 months’s resolutions.
Others challenged Senator Amanda Chase’s (R-Virginia) outdated views on marijuana.
Jim Belushi went viral by merely suggesting we legalize hashish.
And it looks like the nice folks of New Jersey listened.
March
March kicked off with one other Belushi viral. This time, it was comedic, though the artist is a well-known advocate for legal report expungement and takes the problem of hashish very critically.
Additionally dedicated to social justice, Alec Karakatsanis, founder and govt director of Civil Rights Corps, made headlines after shining a lightweight on the injustices and racial biases of our legal justice system.
Different notable supporters of legalization that month had been Senatorial candidate Charles Booker.
Ohio State Senator Nina Turner.
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried.
And Ilhan Omar.
In the meantime, the injustices proliferated. Round mid-March, Marvin David Scott III was killed by the police whereas in custody over a marijuana cost.
Oh, and all through the month, some good stuff from Seth Rogen.
From his weed and home items model, Houseplant.
To the vinyl data to accompany the herb in query.
To photos of him in cool attires.
April
In April, Rep. Barbara Lee took a stand.
“Steve Urkel” actor Jaleel White launched his personal model.
Snoop was preparing for 4/20
Whereas others shared sound recommendation for marijuana’s haters.
On the unofficial weed vacation, 4/20, folks as soon as once more reminded us that many nonetheless rot in jail whereas we’ve got enjoyable.
And others took benefit to push a great trigger: vaccination.
Might
Might was kind of a gradual month on the hashish twitterverse. However, hey, the “vegan chef man” made some hashish infused cannolis.
Wiz Khalifa took an enormous bong hit on digicam.
One man puzzled what it might be wish to smoke in a Mario universe.
And, in fact, the injustices continued.
June
In June, NBA participant Alex Caruso was arrested in Texas for possession of marijuana.
Rapper Curren$y reminded us weed is there for us, at all times.
Somebody had a nice thought concerning weed and credit score scores – in all probability whereas excessive.
Seth Rogen smoked up with Conan O’Brien.
George Wallace was in cost or reminding us there are nonetheless 40,000 folks in jail in America for hashish.
And Bernie Sanders had a high-quality alternate with our esteemed Politico colleague Natalie Fertig.
July
Summer time storms hit laborious this yr. On July 2nd, Sha’Carri Richardson examined optimistic for hashish.
Right here’s what she stated about it.
Whereas WADA authorities condemned her, in the end disqualifying her from the Olympics, the general public and her sponsors got here out in her help.
Others known as for extra help.
Some highlighted the hypocrisy of all of it.
And even politicians weighed in.
AOC highlighted that “The criminalization and banning of hashish is an instrument of racist and colonial coverage.”
Lastly, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich identified the large price of prohibition, this time from an financial perspective.
August, September & October
August, September and October glided by with no large viral tweets past some random commentary on Beyoncé.
A reasonably unhappy story that, but once more, reminded us the system is all tousled.
And a pair photos of Miley Cyrus enjoying with Machine Gun Kelly’s current “I’m weed” quote.
November
November lastly introduced again some motion. On the 4th, rapper Noname urged we smoke extra weed.
Germany moved ahead with legalization.
And Elizabeth Warren known as on President Biden “to pardon everybody convicted of nonviolent federal hashish offenses.”
December
The final month of the yr began with some profound questions.
From this man.
Wiz Khalifa.
And this different man.
In addition to some early Christmas needs.
Some gimmicks that, whereas enjoyable, as soon as once more reminded us of the many individuals nonetheless in jail for a plan that’s authorized in a really giant portion of the U.S.
And yet one more name on President Biden to legalize.
To shut it up, Kevin Nash shared his Christmas plans.
And Unmatched Manufacturers’ Colin Landforce shared his motivational story. Take a look at the complete thread.
Now that we’ve gone over essentially the most viral cannabis-related tweets of 2021: Which one was one of the best? What do you suppose was lacking on this listing?
