Rolling Cannabis Politics Thread

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

the best part is at the end when nancy claims that she doesn't let her husband drink diet coke out of the can bc it's a bad influence on their kids! poor husband :(

how can she let her kids see her with scary ass make-up and hair like that?

she always looks as if she's just gotten a whiff of excrement

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

^ winning here

uk cop humour otm

my mom just watched that documentary about the girl w/ seizures whose parents treat w/ pot (charlotte's web iirc?) and now she's super politically charged = gung ho about cannabis politics. first she wanted to start clandestinely growing but i put the kibosh on that and pushed her in the direction of norml as a more legally safe way of protesting the unjust laws that keep ppl from getting medical relief.

aw

first she wanted to start clandestinely growing but i put the kibosh on that

missed opportunity imo

http://marplenewtown.patch.com/groups/elections/p/legalize-marijuana-dem-candidate-for-pa-governor-says-marplenewtown

Legalizing marijuana is the right thing to do for Pennsylvania for reasons of justice and state finances, according to one Democratic candidate for governor.

And, according to John Hanger, it is also a key to the Democratic party’s political aspirations in the commonwealth this November.

“This issue is moving and Democrats better get on board or we’ll lose this election to Tom Corbett because people will not come out and vote,” Hanger said Wednesday night at Lehigh University in Bethlehem. “We must expand the voting population.”

he's otm i'll so get out the vote for this dude if legalization is on the menu

I think it's realistic to assume that legalization of pot will bring in its wake a different set of problems than the set caused by the war on (some) drugs, but imo at least they'll be the right set of problems, because their solutions will make 100x more sense than the present system of financing violent drug cartels, engaging in mass imprisonment, and corrupting police through property confiscations. The new problems will just be the more obvious ones caused by overuse among a limited set of people who would overuse drugs anyway.

we know that any new problems will still be on a much, much smaller scale than alcohol abuse

afaict the research indicates that in states where cannabis is semi-legalized it's replacing alcohol among a certain group of people and as a result both DUIs and disorderly / violent conduct has gone down slightly

did I get the wrong impression?

I'd be really interested in seeing how that pans out numbers-wise. I live in a small town in Washington with a disproportionate amount of college students and lots of insane drunken antics, including plenty of serious shit like people falling out of buildings, assaults, tazings, and so on. I'm curious if there will be a noticeable drop in egregious drunken problems or if those people would get drunk and do dumb shit anyway.

I kept hearing unsubstantiated rumors this fall that there were some number of students who went to the ER or otherwise freaked out after smoking concentrates and getting way too high, which everyone seems to realize is much better than drinking a bottle of everclear and dying.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/25/justice/california-teacher-pot-arrest/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

sigh. here's something for nancy grace to jerk off to, i guess.

Badger chose not to speak to arresting officers

on wisconsin!