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[TheSeks]

He just won.

I wouldn't say that. He still needs to be nominated for the party first.

In any case, the bill still allows states to ban it. So while it's a good first move, it's not going to change very much yet. If anything, I wish he'd put a bill that has a "standardized system" for it similar to Colorado. I read an article about Seattle/Washington state harassing legit medical growers because the state law there is all muddled and not like Colorados.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Please proceed, Hillary.

 

[Madness]

There is always going to be growing pains, but as we've seen now, Marijuana is 'safe', much safer than alcohol and tobacco and OTC drugs. It's about legalizing it, regulating it, and taxing it. Think about how many lives have been ruined because they were arrested with possession of Marijuana? All those teens and people charged with essentially a victimless crime.

Think about the impact of alcohol on crime. How many assaults, public intoxication, drunk driving deaths, murders, wife beatings and spousal abuse that alcohol has contributed to? How many cases of FASD in infants, how many cases of liver cirrhosis etc.

Legalizing Marijuana allows law abiding citizens to purchase it legally, it contributes tax money to the state and municipal economies, keeps citizens out of jail, allows for an in-state boost to jobs and production, and removes profits from organized crime and drug dealers.

I've never done Marijuana, I'll never do it because I don't see the need to. But I am VEHEMENTLY FOR LEGALIZATION of it nationwide, in Canada and the US.

 

[old manatee]

Marijuana is a disaster for the nation's mental health.

Yeah it's a good thing that outlawing it has stopped people from smoking it.

 

[Monocle]

These socialists are out of control. First they legalized anal sex and rock music, and now they want to corrupt our youth with the weeds. Stop the madness.

 

[Mr. Giggles]

Time to bern one down

 

[FartOfWar]

 

[RoyaleDuke]

That's a vote for me Sanders.

 

[Bronx-Man]

These socialists are out of control. First they legalized anal sex and rock music, and now they want to corrupt our youth with the weeds. Stop the madness.

Can't stop this train, old man!

 

[ChosenPredator]

This reaction...

https://vine.co/v/eLqL2wxJYqm

my god lmao that has to be one of the best reactions ever

 

[billeh]

Would really like to see it rescheduled at the least. At least in that scenario we can bypass the congress for of good for nothings.

 

[Duane Cunningham]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...dly-anyone-dies-from-overdosing-10301780.html

What's up with Estonia?

 

[Tesseract]

next up, shrooms and other psychedelics

we're supposed to be taking these drugs, nature is calling to us

ego annihilation is a good thing

 

[Foffy]

next up, shrooms and other psychedelics

we're supposed to be taking these drugs, nature is calling us

ego annihilation is a good thing

Friend, you and I both know quite well this culture is still enamored in the ego is everything phase.

We ain't got no McKenna's or Watts' or Sagan's part of the mainstream speaking about decriminalization of these drugs today. Or at least I'm unaware of them. We kind of stopped looking at those drugs as serious helpful, personal tools after the 1960's too, didn't we? Quite a shame, all that potential progress inhibited.

I watched a documentary about Alexander Shulgin a few months ago, and to see the taboo the cops had about standing next to a plant floored me. After he told them that plant helps make the drugs he was testing, they jumped away as if it were a bomb. That is the culture in our way, friend. People that ignore-ant and unaware of the real stuff and more importantly, its beneficial effects.

We have a battle and a half ahead of us.

 

[Fenderputty]

Time to bern one down

Let us burn one
from end to end
and pass it over
to me my friend
burn it long, we'll burn it slow
to light me up before I go

if you don't like my fire
then don't come around
cause I'm gonna burn one down
yes I'm gonna burn one down

 

[possiblyphil]

its a good step, but for the war monger he is... he will never get the ticket

 

[biosnake20]

This reaction...

https://vine.co/v/eLqL2wxJYqm

LOL

 

[zulux21]

I'll be quite curious how this goes. I know it likely won't get passed, but ideally it will speed things up.

I don't use the stuff, but I want the tax money already damn it >.<;

 

[Neuromancer]

Let us burn one
from end to end
and pass it over
to me my friend
burn it long, we'll burn it slow
to light me up before I go

if you don't like my fire
then don't come around
cause I'm gonna burn one down
yes I'm gonna burn one down

Relevant: Bernie Sanders Playing The Bongos

 

[Valhelm]

The vast majority of Clinton supporters DO like Sanders. We just have zero confidence that he can:

A. Get the nomination
B. Get any of the shit he wants actually done.

I don't think that's true. Maybe of Clinton supporters on Gaf, but most Clinton supporters I've met prefer Clinton because she's more capitalist and "less radical".

 

[Monocle]

The vast majority of Clinton supporters DO like Sanders. We just have zero confidence that he can:

A. Get the nomination
B. Get any of the shit he wants actually done.

Those are the two main reasons I supported Hillary over Bernie, until I watched that entire Benghazi hearing and came away supporting Hillary on her own merits.

 

[shinra-bansho]

It's a 6-page bill on a controversial issue. I don't really know why anyone is even pretending it was meant to pass. Take it as a useful symbolic move or an electioneering stunt, but it's not much more than either.

 

[facelike]

This bill should be expanded to all drugs, not restricted to just pot. Those articles noting the increase in herion in white neighborhoods are starting to pick up traction and has been mentioned by Christie in some speech recently. They could ride that out into the white house and essentially end the federal "War on Drugs".

The Republicans can take the "state's rights" angle, they'll only have issues with the evangelical.

If done right, this could be done and the candidates could get something out of it.

 

[Big Green Anus]

I wonder if Hillary will changed her position on this. I don't think should will though.