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Re:US to end policy that let legal pot flourish by gravy on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:28AM (#16070999)
This only makes it even less appropriate than that comment and the OP.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Re:US to end policy that let legal pot flourish by Jtsummers on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:32AM (#16071038)
You should note that that is from the "What to submit" section, which has no bearing on comments. In that regard this whole submission may be off-topic, but comments on a submission are inherently on-topic.

But also see:

  Please don't complain that a submission is
  inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag
  it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag
  them instead. If you flag something, please don't also
  comment that you did.
Just flag and go away from the submission.