Good luck getting red state govs to pardon all those putative dems. They only pardon psychopaths or fascist. I know, big overlap there.
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Gotcha! Sauce for the goose, and likewise the gander: shoe is on the other foot. Dice coarsely and combine.
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I would think Abbott and other repub governors would want to funnel the big bucks to themselves while they can, or at least get ahead of the inevitable legalization/decrim. Or maybe they’ll be fine either way and don’t care.
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I think the strategy would be more about tying it up in courts or something to deny Biden a “win”. I agree, though, there’s few more popular things a president could do right now than scotch the federal scheduling of pot. Support for this has got to be around 90% or something.
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I agree other states should look at CA as an example of how not to create a regulated market for marijuana. It’s a clusterfuck of red tape and jurisdicitonal infighting that, as you’ve said, has basically just perpetuated the black market.
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OT. From the Josh blog.
What, Saudi Arabia, have you done for us lately?
Outside of $2B to Kirshner, absolutely nothing.
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Pennsylvania’s Governor (Tom Wolf) and Lt. Governor (John Fetterman) are already doing this in PA.
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And a not-so-pleasant counter punch…
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Say it again…
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Which is why the rule change is pretty ingenious for him to do.
Standing, or lack of it, kills so many cases. And when you have proposed federal rules, almost nothing people can do about them except bitch via the required public comment period.
But nearly impossible to bring a case, because to have standing, you have to have been harmed by something. So until the Rule becomes Final and is in effect, there’s no one harmed, thus nobody with standing to challenge it.
So the court cases would come after a final rule is already in effect moving it to a different schedule (whether that puts it on a prescription required or just total free use would be in the rule), and once it’s legal in some form, good luck trying to put that genie back in the bottle.
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Threats to Saudi Arabia, Venezuelan relations normalization, Marijuana decriminalization? Is Biden trying to flood the zone with policy against the GOP?
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Reminds me that we actually used the rolling paper in the Big Bamboo album. Took about an oz. But this was 1972 pot, not 2023 pot.
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Maggie Haberman: Has Biden Gone Too Far with Mainstream Voters by Pardoning Hardened Drug Criminals.
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Sure 50 years after I stopped using.
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That would be great news (not being snarky) - its such a dumb halfway house at the moment, my only issue with pot is how bad it smells when people smoke it. Not my bag (I’m a wine guy) but you do you is my toke on it.
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That’ll be entertaining.
Rebuttal: the law was deliberately racist as a sop to white bigots.
IIRC, Harry Anslinger said this(paraphrasing)in Congressional testimony(i.e. it’s in Congressional Record): “The problem with marihuana is that when a black man smokes it, he thinks he’s as good as a white man.”
Gee. That doesn’t sound so good these days.
(Obvious closing sentence of related brief "We would suggest to the complainants, "Put that in your pipe and smoke it. “”)
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