Rolling Cannabis Politics Thread

no, you need to be a legal resident of CA

lol this was a bum steer that I wish I'd ignored earlier than a few hours before I left

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/taken-pot-smoking-parents-2-year-old-murdered-foster-care

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana/

^^ yes

At the very least, I cannot see it remaining a Class I drug much longer

it's pretty clear that Gupta finally smoked some good shit

haha i watched that too.

sorry didn't see the link. but yeah i was flipping through and saw him on anderson cooper and he laid out his new positions. i don't know if this is a big deal or not in turns of changing public opinion.

Interesting rumor, don't know how much truth there is to it:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/08/eric-holder-drug-sentencing_n_3727389.html

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/john-mccain-maybe-we-should-legalize-marijuana

I can't wait until I'm old and I can buy the stuff w my social security check.

i heard that camel has factories of pot just waiting to be sold, they already know exactly how to make camel joints and have the prototypes and marketing and everything. i heard that marlboro, on the other hand, is lobbying hard against it

at least this is what my friend told me when i was 12

I'll be fucked if I'm ever buying anything from a goddamn tobacco company

fucking Feinstein

just die already

Some of this might hinge on the Nixon Effect, where a politician with a proved record of reactionary conservatism can get away with talk of legalization, while a politician constantly attacked as super-liberal fears giving more ammunition to her opponents.

otoh, Feinstein can just fuck right off for supporting endless idiotic prohibition.

when has Feinstein ever been "super liberal"

I mean okay gun control (wildly successful there, FiDi) but that's kind of it. abortion too I guess.

I never said she was super liberal, but only "constantly attacked as super-liberal".

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/09/in_jamaica_a_twist_on_wine_tours_for_pot_connoisseurs_ap/

They got some crazy stuff in Seattle:

http://blog.seattlepi.com/marijuana/2013/09/07/the-kinds-of-things-you-might-eat-from-state-pot-stores/#15714-2

http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-legal-high-is-a-cheaper-high/

whole new era here for questions of law enforcement

http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2013/10/18/psa-thrift-stores-cannot-resell-your-giant-bags-of-weed/

An officer took the marijuana and placed it into 'evidence' for 'destruction'.

http://thenewinquiry.com/publications/magazines/weed/

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9825376/a-trip-hempfest-pioneering-cannabis-breeder-dj-short

http://gothamist.com/2013/11/14/yuppies_like_to_smoke_marijuana_in.php

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/18/131118fa_fact_keefe?currentPage=all

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http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/10/world/americas/uruguay-marijuana-legalization/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-03/i-like-david-brooks-have-smoked-marijuana.html

only 100% good goldberg column ever?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/01/05/gov_andrew_cuomo_to_legalize_medical_marijuana_in_new_york.html

http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/it-is-immoral-to-cage-humans-for-smoking-marijuana/282830/

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/01/19/president_obama_pot_is_no_more_dangerous_than_alcohol.html

!!!

Based in his own scientific tests

*on

Not cannabis specifically, but a good report on the general lunacy of US mandatory first-time-drug-offender laws and their enormous cost to society and to taxpayers:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/politics/why-this-grandmother-spent-17-years-in-prison/2014/01/16/9ea9fe28-7eb4-11e3-93c1-0e888170b723_video.html

Newyorker Obama article
http://m.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/27/140127fa_fact_remnick?currentPage=1

pot makes hangovers less dangerous, that's for sure

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/21/ending-the-war-on-pot-is-obama-s-last-chance-for-a-legacy.html

nick gillespie may be a libertarian asshole, but he does have a point for once

sadly i don't see it happening (re: gillespie's suggestion). obama made some cool comments, that's wonderful, but the realities of enforcement and the liklihood that this would happen are pretty slim, sadly. also, even after he made those promising comments, the next paragraph in that interview he just offers the slippery slope counter-argument. it'd be nice if there was some real action to come from his comments.

it'd be nice if there was some real action for sale at the gas station and 711. some day we'll stop being puritans about people getting high and this prohibition episode will be regarded as a sad joke

feel like legalisation of cannabis is really inconsequential vs the real pressing need to decriminalize possession of hard drugs and the end of the war on drug addicts. probably stating the obvious.

i disagree. i think they're separate issues + that legalizing cannabis will alone make a huge immediate + positive impact on our legal system and our communities. it could be decriminalize hard drug possession will also have a huge impact, but i see no reason to believe it'll eclipse the former.

if you have an MBA and work on wall street and you're caught with coke, you should get your balls cut off and shoved in your mouth. everything else should be legal for everyone else

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cocaine is not a good drug for powerful people with subzero morality

http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-cocaine-stories-2012-7?op=1

good for morning rage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Bqob-weFk#t=226