Rolling Cannabis Politics Thread

https://tomgarrett.house.gov/media/press-releases/garrett-introduces-legislation-remove-marijuana-controlled-substances-list

http://www.fox4now.com/news/us-marijuana-jobs-set-to-outpace-manufacturing

canadian legislation around legalization expected to be announced next month

you'd think this government would accept any major industry growth they could to bolster their claims that they're growing the economy but no, they'd rather go back to their quixotic war against cannabis. geniuses.

job-killing is what Trump is all about

“I don’t think America is going to be a better place when people of all ages, and particularly young people, are smoking pot,” Sessions said. “I believe it’s an unhealthy practice, and current levels of THC in marijuana are very high compared to what they were a few years ago, and we’re seeing real violence around that.”

yeah this platnum kush sure makes me more violent than those regs i used to smoke! wtf this is so fucking stupid

I totally murdered that pizza the other night

and btw it's a really good thing young people aren't currently smoking pot

wtf this is so fucking stupid

fear mongering and out and out lying have been a features of the war on drugs since the beginning. they have no shame about lying. they never did.

How did those jazz musicians rape all those white women when they only had dirt weed to smoke?

Watching stoner Trump fans deal with the statements of the past week has been fascinating.

something tells me trump would be fine w/ legalization but that's not happening w/ sessions around

it is weird though, it's kind of become a bipartisan issue, there could be sufficient pushback

http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/51046/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=20108

Yeah, that's so hopeless. 2/3 of Republicans wouldn't even vote for the Rohrabacher-Barr budget amendment to protect medical weed from the DEA

Sessions reassures senators: No pot crackdown imminent
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/jeff-sessions-marijuana-crackdown-senators-react-235616

no shit - you're about to be out of a job

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/15/two-years-after-the-dea-admitted-marijuana-is-less-dangerous-than-heroin-jeff-sessions-would-like-to-reconsider/?utm_term=.9da9f47c95e2

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/support-for-marijuana-legalization-at-all-time-high/

He he, so high

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78FfdBX-U3M

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/25/philly-mayor-touts-legal-weed-wake-massive-pot-par/

http://www.ktvn.com/story/35376605/recreational-marijuana-to-go-on-sale-in-nevada-this-summer

Vegas would be a terrible place to get too high.

Mouse study caveats and general skepticism about the way medicinal weed gets treated as a cure-all (or 'medicinal' at all), but as someone with a family history of Alzheimer's this is interesting: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/uob-cra050817.php

FUCK THIS ELF MOTHERFUCKER

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/13/jeff-sessions-personally-asked-congress-to-let-him-prosecute-medical-marijuana-providers/?utm_term=.4c6249bf2942

this guy's obsessive irrational hatred of a plant is really fucking strange.

i can't tell if he wants more people in prison or just hates a plant or something else
it's bizarre

why not both?

these days anything is possible
here's another q -- i realize that noting incongruities in position is sort of out the window as far as this administration is concerned, but do they or don't they care about states' rights?

they care about the red states rights to outlaw abortion and sell more guns .

clearly

sessions going after MM providers seems very stupid politically

MM is popular

Not sure that he'd even get much support from republicans for this

The Rohrabacher Amendment barely passed the two sessions where it has with ~90% of Republicans voting against. The White House might be able to lean on enough of them to make it happen.

warning, not a very political post...

my condition (crohn's) is on the list of MM qualifying diseases in NYC and I have kind of run out of conventional medicine options that don't have awful side effects, so I scheduled an appt with an MM registered doc for yesterday but then I cancelled it -- her fee for the initial evaluation/qualification appointment is 350 dollars and I know the cost of that first appointment is generally pretty high but I think can find someone more in the 150 range who's reputable.

Honestly I also can't really afford the monthly cost of $X hundreds that will ensue, but I hope I can figure it out (bright ideas: stop having a phone! Cancel my cable!). It's tempting to just go the illegal route tbh

in NYC it is possible to get delivery service with legit strains and concentrates so it's an option if you can find it.

jon not jon, have u been on this thread? https://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=77&threadid=104056

why is it increasingly the solution to so many problems is "move to CAnada"

http://www.newsweek.com/canada-marijuana-laws-legalization-justin-trudeau-581971

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nevada-goes-green-recreational-marijuana-alcohol-industry-wants-piece-pot-n778261

assholes

http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/27/rejecting-sessions-plea-senate-panel-vot

toke up, Massachusetts

Gov. Charlie Baker today signed a bill that reshapes the state’s marijuana legalization law, kick-starting an 11-month sprint until pot shops can legally open statewide — during which officials will have to build an entire bureaucracy from the ground up.

Flanked by lawmakers key to crafting the legislation, Baker signed into law several changes to the ballot measure voters passed last November, including hiking the tax rate on sales from 12 percent to 20 percent. The state’s top leaders will now have to make several decisions, and quickly....

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_politics/2017/07/gov_charlie_baker_signs_revamped_marijuana_legalization_bill

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/1/16073124/cory-booker-marijuana-legalization

ty cory

Booker running in 2020 confirmed

I love love love how all these states are proving the Fed approach wrong

in the funny predicament of actually sort of dreading the legalization of cannabis in canada because it might mean i have to pay more/disrupt my supplier in some way. it's also pretty much decriminalized where i live and i smoke in public every day.

love to be solipsistic

"I think there are a lot of really right-wing old, white people out there who don't really know what's going on still. But once the kids grow up and get a chance to get into the voting booth, I think we'll see a change like we have in the few states that have legalized it. That could be a long way off, but in the meantime I don't think anybody's ever had any problems buying weed if they wanted it—whether it was legal or not—so it's a problem that one day may be solved, but right now it's not solved at all. Actually, a lot of people throw it on stage, so it's not that hard for me to get. [Laughs]

"I think there's a lot of things out there to be concerned about. So yeah, I'm concerned about it. And I'm hoping that more and more Americans will get concerned about it, because anytime you get even the hint that some foreign country might have anything to do with controlling our elections, well, that's very disturbing to me, and I think it should be to every American out there. But when I get out on the stage I don't bring in the politics. I don't care if you're a Baptist, a Methodist, a Muslim, or what the hell you are, as long as you like our music and you come to hear us, you won't hear me say anything bad about anybody. But if you ask me my personal opinion, well, I'll tell you what I think."

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a13058287/willie-nelson-2017-interview/

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/357053-poll-64-percent-of-americans-support-legalizing-marijuana