Re:Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana
by pmoriarty on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:26PM
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"Part of the lack of Federal push is because many individual states/industries have interests in it not happening."
Many individual states had an interest in keeping slavery and segregation alive, and yet they were made illegal on the federal level.
Re:Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana
by moate on Monday February 07, 2022 @10:37AM
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...yes, and we had to fight a whole war about that.
I cannot think of politically backlash stronger than "and then we went into Civil war about that topic, with the victors of the war settling the matter".
What point are you intending to make? That individual states/industries do not have the political power to influence a discussion at the Federal level?
Re:Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana
by x86_64Ubuntu on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:53PM
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And because of that impending banning of slavery, the South decided to bolt, instead of wait for the westward expansion of non-slavery friendly states to be added to the government.
And one thing about the way the US has things set up, the States often function as the laboratories for social experiments. That's why you get things like Colorado being the first to legalize weed and Texas attempting to soft-ban abortion.