This will be guaranteed to produce more Eric Garners.
If they strangle an African American for selling loose untaxed cigarettes, imagine what they’ll do for growing MJ or selling a joint.
A pile of dead black men.
Frankly, if your analysis is correct, it’s not just a net improvement. I would consider it preferable to the Colorado set up. If people want to smoke it, let them smoke it. Leave the government completely out of it.
In California, the only two left on the ballots after the jungle primary, are Democrats and
Republicans, so I don’t have a choice.
But for those that do, I disagree, This will for sure produce more Eric Garners.
If my representative voted for this, I would definitely vote 3rd party.
The events of the last few weeks should be enough to convince anybody, this “compromise” will be a death warrant for some as yet unknown black kid, who doesn’t know it yet, but only has a few weeks to live.
that is nonsense. In order to smoke it, you have to buy it. Under this “Compromise” I assume that remains a crime.
More Eric Garner’s, Guaranteed.
Keep in mind my analysis is based on what I’m seeing in newspapers . . . it’s subject to change once the bill text comes out.
I get what you’re saying, but unless weed is taken completely off the CSA schedule and is regulated like dandelions or cilantro or anything else that grows out of the ground, I think I’d prefer the Colorado setup. Under what’s being described, people in DC could still get busted for selling as much as a joint.
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Sir, I feel for you and I’m not BS’ing you on that. But, keep in mind the voters of
DC specifically voted to decriminalize weed and, along, with that, comes funding. You’re going to find your job on the chopping block continously for the next two years anyway because GOP reasons. They’ll have no problems whatsoever of threatening to shut the gov’t. down every six months because that’s what the teabaggers want and everyone knows they are the true Americans .
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There could still be Eric Garners under the system we voted for in DC. The problem isn’t the law in question - it’s who’s being hired to police it and the tactics they’re using. I’m glad to say DC is far more into the community policing approach than NYC.
DC has always been at the whim of Congress and their assinine approach to municipal government, from both parties. A few attempts at granting them real home-rule status have come close, but no cigar (or joint?) yet.
When the final bill comes out I’ll be surprised if some clever Congressional staffers don’t write the language so it looks like something, but will still allow them to go get high with the other staffers. Hell, even the Congresscritters want to make it easier to ply interns with dope and make them more susceptible to sexual advances.
I don’t doubt there could be, but I would think the body count would be reduced if you took away one more “tool” as Law Enforcement likes to say.
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Once again, the contempt that our two major parties have for democracy comes to the surface.
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I can see how money is necessary to regulate the market, so that makes sense, but (1) it’s useful to spell that out and (2) not providing such funds might spite your nose or whatever the saying is, but the net result to me would be that marijuana is still decriminalized. So, if the Republicans are going to refuse to authorize funds for regulations, this might in effect be the best likely the Dems will get.
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I could counter that DC can wait two years for legal marijuana; the law has been comparatively progressive there already as of late, so I’m not seeing the dire circumstances on the pro-marijuana side. I understand what you’re saying, and I absolutely agree that undermining the will of DC voters is unfair, but the fact that the GOP is inclined to put my job in jeopardy repeatedly for their own disgusting, immoral purposes does not make me any less inclined to say, all things being equal and this being the straw that would break the proverbial budget-camel’s back, marijuana legalization in DC could take a backseat in order that my colleagues across the country and I can pay January rent.
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Sen. Robert Benton of PA will be sorely disappointed.
When I dropped by GOP registration in 2000, I joined the Dems, it wasn’t because I was ‘in love with them’. Rather, it was clear to me that the Republicans had become so enamored with ‘crazy right wing ideology’ that it was my civic duty to oppose them as best as I could. Since then I’ve voted in every federal election, most primaries and even some school board ones. If it’s a contest between a dem and a Republican, I vote Democratic.
As an independent, do you often vote Republican, explicitly, by voting for a liberal third party, or not voting at all? Why? Sure the Dems aren’t ‘perfect’, but one shouldn’t let the ‘perfect be the enemy of the not crazy’.
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Would you shut down the government over it?
It’s funny, they figure out a way to keep it legal even with GOP control and you cry about it. That’s why the Dems lose, whiners who let the GOP win while going hard right. Rush Limbaugh used to say (and probally still does), to hold your nose and vote; if you want a real choice, vote in the primary.
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Silly city boy…
Agreed. I just prefer the dandelion approach… 
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I’m not sure how to respond to that other than to say, you are very agreeable, even though I disagree with you.
At least to the extent I think it should be legal and regulated by the city of DC.
Peace…
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Do you seriously believe that this is the only time in the next few years that the threat of a government shutdown will be made?
If so, I’m sorry but you are delusional.
This has become the Republicken preferred tactic anytime they don’t get their way. Not surprising really, because they are the party that doesn’t “believe in government”. Until people accept that this is their goal, and vote accordingly, they will continue to use this threat.
So you are prepared to roll over any time the Republickens make this threat?
You will be doing a lot of rolling.
The only thing that will stop them is people pushing back. Sorry if you don’t like it, but that’s the simple truth.
They will never give up just because it’s the ‘right thing to do’. Why would you believe that for even a second?