Iron Mike Tyson has called for the reclassification of cannabis from a Schedule 1 to a Schedule 3 drug, which would make it the same as drugs like cocaine and heroin in the United States. President Trump has proposed a bill that would do just that.
00:02:20.620When my father was dying of cancer and lost his appetite,
00:02:26.540went from about 240 pounds down to about 135 pounds due to his lack of appetite and was also in horrific pain.
00:02:39.980And the Oxycontin the doctors were giving him doing nothing other than constipating him and making his life miserable,
00:02:47.520my sister and I decided on the recommendation of a friend to get him some marijuana.
00:02:54.520He had his appetite restored and he dealt with the pain, even though at that point he was terminal.
00:03:04.120Since that point, I have been a believer in the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.
00:03:11.900Americans for Safe Access reports that the fiscal year 2026 budget proposed by the Trump administration
00:03:20.620omits longstanding spending restrictions by the DOJ and the DEA included in the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill.
00:03:34.760This will impact the Rohrabacher-Fahr Amendment that was passed by the Congress that restricted federal funds being used to interfere
00:03:43.620with medical cannabis programs operated in compliance with state laws in the 40-some states where medicinal marijuana is currently legal.
00:03:57.500Again, Americans for Safe Access is calling for a renewal of this amendment in the fiscal year 2026 budget
00:04:07.380until substantial reform can be passed in Congress that protects medical cannabis patients nationwide.
00:04:15.960It has certainly become popular to talk about the corruption of deep state entities like the NSA, the FBI, the CIA, the CDC, and the ATF, and rightfully so.
00:04:30.300These bureaucrats are the scorn of patriots nationwide for their crimes against the republic.
00:04:36.200But we must not forget about the DEA, the Drug Enforcement Agency.
00:04:42.480Unfortunately, they're just as crooked as any of the other alphabet soup organizations in the Washington, D.C. swamp.
00:04:51.020The sad truth is that millions of veterans count on cannabis to treat their PTSD.
00:05:00.160It has proven to be far less dangerous than the other pharmaceutical drugs that are often prescribed for that purpose.
00:05:11.960The DEA has been known to work with dirtbag confidential informants and frame innocent people with drugs.
00:05:19.280They also allegedly worked with the CIA to create the crack cocaine epidemic that ravaged the inner city communities during the 1980s.
00:05:28.120And these DEA thugs do not want to lose their war on drugs gravy train.
00:05:35.360Let's remember that it was President Donald Trump who sponsored and pushed the First Step Act and the Second Chance Act,
00:05:44.640though that was to undo the 1994 crime bill that was written by Judiciary Committee Chairman Joe Biden
00:05:54.700and signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
00:05:58.720That is the law that first for the first time targeted not drug dealers, not drug traffickers, but end users.
00:06:08.280In other words, it passed harsh mandatory penalties for the possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use.
00:06:18.380So the single mom who has three kids and is working two jobs gets arrested with a small amount of marijuana in her purse
00:06:28.200and can be sentenced without any discretion by a judge based on the circumstances to many years in jail.
00:06:38.020Now, this is a travesty and the 1994 crime bill, as written by Biden and signed by Bill Clinton,
00:06:46.900has been used to incarcerate hundreds of thousands, if not at this point millions, of poor people and disproportionately African Americans.
00:06:58.260It was Donald Trump who began the first serious criminal justice reform.
00:07:06.860But the members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who'd been talking about this kind of reform for decades,
00:07:15.060they voted against Donald Trump's reforms simply because they were proposed by Donald Trump.
00:07:23.080The well-intentioned war in drugs that first passed under President Richard Nixon,
00:07:30.020but was at that point focused at drug traffickers and drug dealers,
00:07:35.220opened a Pandora's box on the Constitution.
00:07:38.780Due process was turned on its head by abuses like asset forfeiture that declared an individual's property
00:07:45.940who had not been found guilty of a crime could be seized prior to their trial even beginning.
00:07:53.480The abuses that have spread because of the DEA are hard to believe.
00:07:58.760The founding fathers would never have stood for such a thing.
00:08:02.880Now, it should go without saying that when the DEA does a huge bust interdicting meth, heroin, or fentanyl,
00:08:44.660They should take cannabis off the Schedule I drug list or deschedule it altogether.
00:08:51.600Regulating and taxing cannabis like tomatoes makes sense and let the states take it from there.
00:08:58.580In the meantime, President Donald Trump has issued retaliatory tariffs against Brazil over the country's mistreatment of Jair Bolsonaro,
00:09:09.020the country's former president, who was ousted under dubious circumstances in 2023.
00:09:16.160Trump slapped a 50% tariff on Brazil because of the lawfare waged against Bolsonaro following his questionable defeat at the hands of Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva,
00:09:31.420a criminal who was convicted of corruption, but who the politicized Brazilian Supreme Court ruled through a change in law would be allowed to run for president again.
00:09:48.460Interestingly, Bolsonaro won re-election in every region of the country except for the capital region where we are expected to believe that Lula ran up such a margin that Bolsonaro was defeated.
00:10:05.980The moves against Bolsonaro mirror the effort that happened to Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
00:10:12.600They accused Bolsonaro of planning a coup, even though no such coup took place.
00:10:18.860He'd also been accused of money laundering, altering public health records, and inciting a riot.
00:10:25.240Even though he's never been convicted of any crime, Bolsonaro was already banned for running for president in the upcoming election.
00:10:34.500They've also restricted his movements, denying him a visa.
00:10:38.260They're throwing everything at the wall they can against Bolsonaro, hoping it sticks, trying to set a harsh example so that nobody will run against the authoritarian, socialist, and epically corrupt government of President Lula.
00:10:57.600President Trump is now stepping in to make sure that doesn't happen.
00:11:02.100In a letter issued to the Brazilian president, Trump also cited hundreds of secret and unlawful censorship edicts handed out to U.S. social media platforms.
00:11:32.080As the Brazilian courts attempt an Orwellian tyranny to prevent a discussion of anything that I just said.
00:11:41.220If you live in Brazil and you don't agree with the government and you think Bolsonaro is being unfairly treated, you're not allowed to say that.
00:11:50.840As the president wrote, as you're aware, there will be no tariff if Brazil or companies within your country decide to build or manufacture products within the United States.
00:12:02.360And in fact, we'll do everything possible to get approvals as quickly, professionally, routinely as possible in a matter of weeks.
00:12:10.200The Brazilian president promised retaliation.
00:12:11.840Brazil is a sovereign nation with independent institutions, will accept being taken granted.
00:12:19.060My strong advice to President Lula is don't test Donald Trump.
00:12:28.400He is the toughest negotiator in American political history because he brings the skills and courage of a businessman to the arena of international politics.
00:12:42.160Jair Bolsonaro was cheated out of the presidency and he has a friend in Donald Trump.
00:12:48.220If the Brazilians think that they are going to continue their trend towards globalism, corruption, and tyranny, well, they're going to have problems with the Trump administration.
00:13:04.980You're listening to The Stone Zone here on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
00:13:09.260We'll be back with another important story where Douglas Mackey, a man who simply put up a joking meme urging people to vote on a Wednesday, was actually sentenced to seven years in jail.
00:14:05.720In The Stone Zone, a social media influencer who posted edgy means in the lead-up to the 26th presidential election and was then convicted of federal elected interference as a result of his posts has now had his conviction thrown out of court for a second time.
00:14:23.960Douglas Mackey, known popularly on X as Ricky Vaughn, posted a joking meme urging Hillary Clinton voters to vote from home by texting a certain number.
00:14:34.920In the frenzied hysteria following President Trump's earth-shattering victory against Hillary Clinton in 2016, the deep state needed to find scapegoats and Mackey was one of them, as it was argued that the obvious joke he posted constituted some sort of election interference plot.
00:14:52.920I went and checked, I went and checked, I went and checked and I could find at least nine similar posts urging people to vote for Donald Trump on Wednesday, the day after the election.
00:15:04.640Of course, none of those people were indicted.
00:15:07.440They even tried to imply somehow that Douglas Mackey had been employed by the Russians.
00:15:18.200They waited until Biden took office to charge Mackey with conspiracy to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate persons in the free exercise and enjoyment of the right to vote.
00:15:31.320He would be found guilty of the crime in 2023, and he was sentenced to seven months in prison.
00:15:37.760Listen, U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said that Mackey weaponized disinformation in a dangerous scheme to stop targeted groups, including black and brown people and women, from participating in our democracy.
00:15:52.480But what about all those people who did almost the exact same thing in their urging folks to vote for, against Donald, or pardon me, vote for Donald Trump on a misleding election day?
00:16:07.000This is, once again, the two-tiered justice system, folks.
00:16:10.760The sentencing judge in Mackey's case said it was, that he was one of the leading members of a conspiracy that was nothing short of an assault on its democracy.
00:16:21.140These deranged statements showed that the deck was stacked against Mackey, from the start, and how deep state hacks hate freedom of speech or are at war with the First Amendment of the Constitution.
00:16:35.000Also shows, by the way, that they can't take a joke.
00:16:38.640But after the decision from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Mackey's case has been officially thrown out for lack of evidence.
00:16:46.540The case has been remanded to the district courts, who will be immediately dismissed.
00:16:51.140Mackey posted his response on X yesterday, where he said, thank God I can finally get my guns back.
00:16:59.280You see, when you're convicted of a crime, you can no longer own a firearm.
00:17:04.080Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri is calling for the Biden DOJ to find out who was behind bringing this case against Mackey and have them severely reprimanded.
00:17:15.400Senator Schmidt said, the DOJ should investigate who in the Department of Justice was responsible for bringing and prosecuting a frivolous case like this and take whatever action is necessary to ensure that a miscarriage of justice like this does not happen again.
00:17:32.900Mackey, for his part, intends to sue the DOJ.
00:18:03.660Well, six Secret Service agents have now been suspended over their dereliction of duty during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly one year ago, where President Trump was shot in the ear by an assassin's bullet.
00:18:19.360The president nearly avoided being shot in the head.
00:18:24.020Coincidental that CNN, that never covered any of Trump's campaign rallies, not only covered the CNN, not only covered the Butler, Pennsylvania rally, but they had a very special slow motion camera that they brought for the occasion.
00:18:43.840Kind of reminds me of how they just happened to be outside my front door the morning, 29 heavily armed FBI agents brandished.
00:18:54.220Fully automatic M4 assault weapons wearing full SWAT gear, including night goggles, surrounded and stormed my home to arrest me for the first time nonviolent crime of allegedly lying to Congress.
00:19:15.220What were they hoping to capture on videotape?
00:19:18.980Yes, it was July 13th, 2024, when gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, allegedly, climbed up to the roof of a building close to where President Trump was speaking.
00:19:31.040He fired eight shots with an AR-15 rifle, and only by the grace of God did he not kill President Donald Trump, as Secret Service agents essentially just looked on, apparently willing to let it happen before killing the gunman.
00:19:49.540There is the key point, the counter-sniper had crooks, or whoever the man who shot Trump was, in his sights.
00:20:00.800The Secret Service regulations and manual would require him to kill a man pointing a gun at the President of the United States, but the counter-sniper waited until the shooter got off eight rounds before taking him out.
00:20:19.740An independent review of the Department of Homeland Security after the fact chronicled the many mishaps and failures that Secret Service and law enforcement committed that day in order for Trump to be nearly executed by a mad leftist gunman.
00:20:41.400There are so many anomalies here, they're hard to understand.
00:20:45.580The Secret Service, the State Police, and the local police were all on different radio frequencies, so they couldn't communicate with each other.
00:20:57.720But the Secret Service knew that there was a man with a gun who had been seen with a rangefinder inside the perimeter of the Trump event for 92 minutes,
00:21:10.560and nobody informed President Trump's initial direct Secret Service protection detail.
00:21:19.360Under the Secret Service manual, President Trump should have been evacuated from the scene the instant there knew that a man with a gun had penetrated the perimeter of the event.
00:21:31.720The review by the Department of Homeland Security stated that the Secret Service does not perform at the elite level needed to discharge its critical mission.
00:21:42.160The Secret Service has become a bureaucratic, complacent, and static, even though risks have multiplied and technology has evolved.
00:21:52.740The local police offered twice to conduct a drone surveillance of the entire area, and twice the Secret Service declined, saying they had it under control.
00:22:08.060Then, when the Secret Service tried to conduct a drone surveillance of the area, they learned that they didn't know how to operate the new program that the Secret Service had acquired,
00:22:23.900and they ended up calling an 800 number of customer assistance from the company who built the drone surveillance system.
00:22:32.880That is incompetence and extraordinarily dangerous.
00:22:38.340Secret Service director Kimberly Cheadle was the sacrificial lamb at the time.
00:22:44.160She resigned 10 days after the assassination attempt.
00:22:47.860But the bizarre circumstances suggested the entire ordeal may have been more than just routine government incompetence, in my opinion.
00:22:58.100Trump may have been set up to be assassinated that day, as the Secret Service lapses, in my view, quite possibly could have been deliberate.
00:23:08.800The whole thing is a comedy of errors.
00:23:11.600A Senate report listed that comedy of errors that happened on the day of Trump's attempted assassination.
00:23:18.520Counter snipers were not equipped with workable radios.
00:23:21.820Visual barriers were not erected around the rally to block the Sessions' potential view of Trump.
00:23:29.900It showed an elevated risk once the shooter was identified.
00:23:34.580Secret Service agents were not made aware of the suspicious person before the shooting,
00:23:39.720although many rally attenders saw the shooter climbing to the roof of the building and yelled to the Secret Service that there was a man on a roof with a gun.
00:23:53.900Still, the Secret Service did nothing.
00:23:56.980Those are just some of the incredible errors that occurred that day.
00:24:01.580But then there are events that took place after the attempted assassination.
00:24:06.100Why would they hose down the roof of the building from which the alleged shooter, who they tell us is Thomas Matthew Crick's shot?
00:24:18.420Unless, of course, they wanted to make sure that there was no DNA there to test.
00:24:24.020Why would Crick's body be quickly cremated when there was no request from his family for such cremation?
00:24:32.280These are just some of the anomalies and errors that occurred that day.
00:24:37.900In many cases, incompetence is just an excuse that the government hides behind so that those who conspire are not held criminally accountable.
00:24:48.540Suspending these six agents is a good start, but more must be done to uncover what really happened in Butler, Pennsylvania,
00:24:56.560as well as the other incident in West Palm Beach at President Trump's golf club,
00:25:04.300when we're told Ryan Routh, a man who was allegedly indigent, behind in his alimony payments,
00:25:14.520behind in his rent payments, living in Hawaii,
00:25:19.160somehow managed to fly to North Carolina, then drive to West Palm Beach,
00:25:27.360where only yesterday two individuals were charged with selling him a gun.
00:25:34.360Where did he get the car to drive from North Carolina with?
00:25:37.160Who paid for his ticket to get to North Carolina from Hawaii?
00:25:41.760I interviewed a pastor the other day, who I'm going to have on the show,