To say that House Democrats have their priorities screwed up would be a gargantuan understatement as suffering Americans who are still waiting for COVID economic relief three weeks before Christmas may have just seen their hopes go up in smoke. 

While a punishing new round of holiday lockdowns puts a serious hurting on those who have already been battered by lost jobs, lost freedoms, and uncertain futures, Nancy Pelosi and her mob went to work on legalizing marijuana. 

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On Friday, House Dems voted to pass a bill that will decriminalize pot at the federal level, a huge victory for special interest groups as well as a sop to the bong-pounding army of Bernie Sanders supporters who fell into line behind Joe Biden. 

No Democrat was more pleased with the 228-164 passage of the MORE Act, an acronym for its formal title of the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2019 than Rep. Jerrold Nadler who is the bill's sponsor. 

According to Nadler:

"The MORE Act is a common-sense bill that will make a tangible, real difference in the lives of millions of Americans. I'm proud of this bill centered around ideals of racial, economic, and moral justice and I look forward to the House passing it today."

Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer who is the co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus who is another of the deep bench of 1960s radicals that Pelosi presides over hailed the moment as the greatest accomplishment of his political career.

Via NBC News:

"It is the right thing to do," said co-sponsor of the MORE Act, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus prior to Friday's vote. "For too long, the war on drugs has targeted young people, especially Black people, and rejected the advice of experts."

Blumenauer, whose congressional district includes parts of Portland, has been working to end cannabis prohibition since the 1970s, when he was in the state Legislature. He said that the drug war "never made any sense" to him and that it was instead born out of President Richard Nixon's "cynical" view on cannabis and other controlled substances.

Nixon declared a "war on drugs" in the early 1970s, calling drug abuse "public enemy number one" following the rise of recreational drugs in the 1960s. He aimed to reduce use, distribution and trade with tough enforcement and prison sentences.

Blumenaer said that unlike heroin and ecstasy, both of which are also Schedule 1 drugs, cannabis is not addictive, and it has been found to have therapeutic properties for managing pain. (Research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other organizations indicates that marijuana can, indeed, be addictive.)

"Public acceptance is at an all-time high," he said. "This is an idea whose time has come."

Rep. Blumenauer's remarks are only one more example of how the dirty hippies and campus commies who have risen to power are still hating on Nixon and trapped in the Watergate years which could go a long way towards explaining their obsession with the impeachment of President Trump.

Oregon just voted for the decriminalizing of illegal substances including cocaine, heroin, oxycodone, and methamphetamine, an early Christmas gift to the ANTIFA freaks who have been running amok in Portland.

Geriatric Democrats may be jubilant about getting another chance to kick Dick Nixon around but the prioritizing of Nadler's devil weed legalization crusade over getting help to real Americans in need didn't sit well with Republicans. 

Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas tore into Democrats:

"I think it's an absolute joke that the United States House of Representatives is putting on the floor of the House today, a bill about marijuana, when we have small businesses that are struggling. Why aren't we voting right now? Why aren't we debating? Why aren't we on the floor of the House working for the people who are struggling?"

The bill faces an uncertain future in the Senate unless Democrats are able to cheat their way to control of the upper chamber in the upcoming Georgia runoff elections.