Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by MicroBerto on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:03AM
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Marijuana is definitely a place where we'll really see if President Trump sticks to his message on States Rights.
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Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by r00fus on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:22AM
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My guess is no. The letter soup federal agencies are ascendant. This proposition cuts at the heart of the DEA.
Chances are everything will continue just like usual.
Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by tankenmate on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:27AM
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Or another likelyhood; the Federal government will no longer turn a blind eye as it has in Colorado et al under Obama, and we wind up with a full on Federal / State showdown.
Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by evilduck on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @09:33AM
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Maybe, but our "states rights" republican platform now elected to run the federal government will have to perform a grand act of hypocrisy.
Not that I don't put it past them.
Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by monocasa on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @01:12PM
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"States' Rights" was always a red herring, IMO. Even in the civil war, the confederate constitution explicitly banned individual states from deciding to ban slavery.
Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by oldmanjay on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @07:12PM
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The red herring is the slavery argument your political masters have fed you to keep you happily allowing massive power consolidation to an abusive apparatus.
Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by kombucha2 on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @09:01AM
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That would be worth it.
Re:California has legalized recreational marijuana
by dvdhnt on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:10AM
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^ this
I was listening to the Bill Burr podcast and he was talking about rumors of pharmaceutical companies planning to try and re-demonize marijuana in states where it has become legal to regain what they perceive as lost revenue due to a decline in prescriptions. All that lobby money with a businessman in the White House, makes me wonder how it'll all work out.