AP: Marijuana decriminalization bill to be offered in Congress

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The DEA Is Dropping Some Big Weed News Tomorrow

So, this is something: The US Drug Enforcement Administration will be "making some important announcements" on "marijuana related topics" tomorrow morning, August 11, according to a statement from DEA spokesperson Russ Baer.

Whatever the announcements are, they will be lodged in the Federal Register. That doesn't happen everyday.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/dea...ent-stay-tuned

[Winehole23]

beginning of the end of prohibition?

U.S. voters next month in five states, including bellwether California, are poised to expand the legal use of recreational marijuana to almost a quarter of the American population, a move that could prove to be one of the most consequential shifts in U.S drug policy since the 1930s.


Passage in California, where polls show it has wide support, would make pot legal along the entire West Coast and give momentum to efforts to lift the ban nationwide. The state, the most populous in the U.S. with 39 million residents, was the first to allow medical marijuana two decades ago. In all, nine states will consider marijuana-related ballot measures on Nov. 8, which could more than double the $7 billion market for pot products by 2020.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/ar...rohibition-era

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beginning of the end of prohibition?

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/ar...rohibition-era

... depends on the Feds' laissez-faire

I suppose the usual NOs on CA Prop 64 are the usual, BigPharma, Big Alcohol, Police/Prison Unions

[Winehole23]

after November 8th, pot could be legal for 25% of the US population. it's hard to tell where the tipping point is, but legalization in a big state like Cali brings us closer to it.

[Winehole23]

Seattle may scrub hundreds of pot convictions:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ana/559577002/

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This may be why racist JeBo is hanging around and being humiliated.

The War on Drugs was initially and has always been racist war on blacks and "Mexicans",

so it's racist JeBo's wet dream to lock up 100Ks more blacks and browns and for as long as the law permits

Why Is Trump Ramping Up His Unwieldy War on Weed?

Trump’s new “marijuana task force” is a big step backward for America

it was revealed that President Donald Trump has created a Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee, one in which various federal agencies that oversee marijuana policy work together to find ways to prevent Americans from having access to the drug.

"the prevailing marijuana narrative in the U.S. is partial, one-sided, and inaccurate" The Irony!

and needs to be countered with "the most significant data demonstrating negative trends,

with a statement describing the implications of such trends."

"Clearly, under the Department of Justice under the leadership of Jeff Sessions and the Trump administration at large, have

many leaders who are still suffering from 'Reefer Madness' prohibitionist era rhetoric,"

the Heritage Foundation

called for in 2017...

a twelve point plan for how the Trump Department of Justice

can shutdown marijuana in America.

And largely the DOJ has followed many of those steps, and

the biggest enforcement action component of that would be targeted RICO suits against some of the largest companies in the industry.

This is the same tool they use to take down organized crime,

because in the eyes of the federal government,

every single marijuana company — regardless of the fact that it's state legal — is operating in clear violation of federal law."

https://www.alternet.org/why-trump-r...ieldy-war-weed

Meanwhile, the Repugs, going back to dubya/ head, have totally gutted white-collar crime and civil rights enforcement, and Obama did no better


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About six-in-ten Americans support marijuana legalization




http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...-legalization/

[Winehole23]

buy pot in a legal dispensary, lose your right to buy a gun in Missouri:

"They came back to Missouri, went to purchase a gun. You have to have a photo ID. When we run your name through the computer, it automatically connects you with buying marijuana in Colorado," Pind said.


That's because dispensaries also check identification for marijuana purchases.

https://www.kmbc.com/article/medical...earms/24935498

[Blake]

buy pot in a legal dispensary, lose your right to buy a gun in Missouri:

https://www.kmbc.com/article/medical...earms/24935498

But drunks with guns ok

[Winehole23]

San Francisco to dismiss all pot convictions going back to 1975:

The decision stems from a lesser-known provision in California law that legalised recreational marijuana, language that offers a second chance to people convicted of marijuana crimes in the state. The new law allows people with misdemeanour marijuana records to have them expunged and those with felony convictions the opportunity to have them reduced, pending a review.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8188676.html

[baseline bum]

buy pot in a legal dispensary, lose your right to buy a gun in Missouri:

https://www.kmbc.com/article/medical...earms/24935498

No way the NRA is going to let this stand. Way too much money to lose if they do.

[Chucho]

No way the NRA is going to let this stand. Way too much money to lose if they do.

Here in Cali during the strictly medical usage days, if you had a Rx card, it was the same story. I'd imagine it's like that with most states that have medical marijuana.

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buy pot in a legal dispensary, lose your right to buy a gun in Missouri:

https://www.kmbc.com/article/medical-marijuana-patients-federally-barred-from-buying-firearms/24935498

Canadian Cannabis Investors Could Be Banned From U.S. for Life, Immigration Experts Say

http://fortune.com/2018/09/14/canada-cannabis-ban-us-border/

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Illinois to become the 11th US state to decriminalize, 770,000 to be eligible to have sentences expunged.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/illino...ry?id=63449800

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Illinois to become the 11th US state to decriminalize, 770,000 to be eligible to have sentences expunged.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/illino...ry?id=63449800

Oakland decriminalized psilocybin mushrooms, 2nd city to do so.

[CosmicCowboy]

Mushrooms are a nasty freaking high.

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in the right dose, psilocybin works wonder for some people, x Mg / Kg body weight. Johns Hopkins used 50 Mg with good results

[CosmicCowboy]

in the right dose, psilocybin works wonder for some people, x Mg / Kg body weight. Johns Hopkins used 50 Mg with good results

In their natural state it's totally impossible to figure out the "right dose" until it's too late.

[leemajors]

Mushrooms are a nasty freaking high.

I've never had a nasty experience on them. Microdosing them is fantastic.