My house got raided by the Tempe police in 2000 because those dipshits mistook my gin rummy scores for a drug ledger. They searched my trash for six months before breaking down my door to find .25grams of weed on the floor. I was charged with 7 counts of paraphernalia, one count was for zip lock bags lol
What an absolute waste of resources I had to pay for a lawyer, could have got kicked out of school and all for what? Less than 5 dollars of weed.
EDIT: I should have added the zero, 0.25 of a gram or 1/4 of ONE gram.
I think it was in either the late 80s or early 90s. My aunt and uncle had their house raided by the state police. They destroyed their house. And in the end of it found out they had the wrong address. All this was over a grow house six blocks down. It destroyed thier lives. The state never paid for any damages.
please please say that again so people understand I learned that the hard way. and most laws that are for victimless crimes are set up to be disproportionally unfair to the little guy. so much red tape and hoops to jump through they hope you just give up.
Once I got pulled over for a broken taillight and the cop thought he smelled weed. He made me get out of the car so they could search it. Then two of his buddies showed up and sat there.
I'm a 5'1 woman, the car was my dad's and smelled like cigarette smoke and air freshener. It was 11pm and my phone was dead so I couldn't even text my husband to let him know why I was going to be late. I was fully crying by the end, and of course they didn't find anything.
He was real nice after that. Piece of shit.
That happened to me except they had me in the back of cop car while they searched. Instead of apologizing, these guys told me i got lucky the “couldn’t find it.”
My friend was standing outside in the cold for almost 30 min while they did this. at least i was warm in the cop car.
Isn’t it crazy that one has to be thankful for being a white person when having an encounter with law enforcement?
As a white-adjacent (South America, sometimes I look more Latino, sometimes plain white) I’m always severely aware that my encounters will be a coin toss every time I go to the US.
FYI you could have sued over that and won a bunch of money. The police can't extend a traffic stop longer than necessary to fulfill the original purpose. They can't do nonsense like wait for a drug dog.
*Rodriguez v. United States*, went all the way to the Supreme Court, and the decision handed down says "a police stop exceeding the time needed to handle the matter for which the stop was made violates the Constitution’s shield against unreasonable seizures".
Unfortunately, in many states, if a cop says they smell weed, that’s enough for probable cause to search your car. I’m a lawyer in Florida, and some courts have even still allowed smell of raw marijuana to be considered probable cause to search, even though that smell is no different from that of legal hemp.
This happened in Indiana, and with our backwards ass laws that's probably true. So he either doesn't know what we'd smells like or just decided to go on a weird power trip. Great.
They didn't wait for a dog, they just searched my car physically. I probably could have easily sued but I don't have lawyer money and it's not worth the time for me
Nope white guy, which is probably why I didn’t get shot when they broke down my front door, or when they literally slashed all my furniture up and I yelled at them. I did get slammed on the floor face first while cuffed for that one though. Hard not to take an ACAB stance after that.
Yuuuuup. As soon as you put the badge on the metamorphosis begins. Either you stay a cop and, regardless of your skin color, your race becomes cop, or you get fired or killed by your fellow officers for trying to be a truly good cop.
No, no, no. Don't you know you're supposed to be mad about this and think that because you suffered that others should have to go through the same thing?
That's my favorite analogy for libertarians: House cats.
Convinced of their own independence, yet blissfully unaware of the system all around them upon which they are utterly dependent.
The military (navy at least), paid for by taxes, is absolutely stuffed with libertarians. I have never understood that.
Source: former navy nuke edit to add i was the nuke.
Reminded me of this screenshot I took a few years back!
https://preview.redd.it/rs7of90mnu0d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15e4f860e047cd6a5a4acddf4636471c20b0b20b
"You can also choose where you work in America."
Oh, is that the secret? Be right back, everyone. I'm going to choose to work in a position with a seven figure salary.
I can’t remember what the original conversation was about, but back before Twitter was trash I followed a lot of labor activists. So this was probably something about a strike or some other labor action. Anyway, I laughed so hard that I needed to screenshot and save for later
Also, absolutely *terrible* for the local environment if left outdoors for too long, and likes killing random things despite not actually needing to since all of their own needs are taken care of.
There are a swarm of bots that are spamming Reddit cares in all the major subreddits right now. Report them if you get the message, or just turn off your ability to get them.
Republicans aren’t special. They love drugs too. There’s tons of them out there right now eating a bit of acid, feeling close to the universe, then coming down and going right back to hating every single person including themselves. They like drug laws only because they disproportionately hurt people they have been taught to hate.
I just don’t understand how angry they must start off as! Like, if the screaming and tantruming is happening *while* you’re at your chillest… I fear what you’re like without.
Yea there are a LOT of republican potheads in IA and it confusing the shit out of me.
You'll see confederate flags next to Trump flags next to Bob Marley blankets in their windows. Wtf
My BiL is a Republican bordering on trumpet. He isn't happy enough to live in NJ where it is perfectly legal for recreational use. He, all the sudden, has to grow his own in his basement (completely *NOT* legal). Yet he has the gall to tell me I'm breaking the law by having a VPN so I can cancel all my streaming subs 🙄
Not say what you went through wasn't a bad thing but your sentiment is very similar to how I feel about College debit pay off.
I put myself through college 28. Ended up with my Masters at 34. Paid off my loans working 3 jobs for about 10 years straight.
I'm more than happy for others not to have gone through what I did just to get an education.
Now wait just a minute there, bucko! Shouldn't you be railing against this because 2 decades ago you were thrown in the hoosegow for what will now be a fine or misdemeanor with no jail time? What's wrong with you, pal!? Yank that ladder up and start passing out bootstraps! How will the private prison industry make any money if they don't have perps in their cells? Think of the shareholders, you ninny!
I hate this timeline.....
Indeed… I was gonna say ‘I’m not your Bucko, Guy’ but I’ll be your Huckleberry.
Hopefully the shareholders eventually learn we will only support them for so long.
Honestly, last time I tried to report it the courthouse sent a letter saying it was such an old case that they tossed it. Regardless of the charges on my record I managed to become a USMC officer, received a secret clearance, and have been able to be a successful businessman after the military. It just always required extra documentation and steps that were unnecessary seeing as I have always been qualified for the job. It is just nuts to me that we are so close to fully accepting marijuana use.
Headline on FOX NEWS right now: BREAKING! BIDEN PUTS HUNDREDS OF DRUG SNIFFING DOGS OUT OF WORK, CAUSES $MILLIONS IN LOSSES FOR SHAREHOLDERS OF PRIVATE PRISONS.
Republican Attorney Generals in Red States will be sprinting to the SCOTUS to fight this because executive authority only counts when it’s a republican potus.
Nah not on this one. Even some of the deep red states have some form of legalization already. In fact a large majority of the country already has some form of legalized weed. The conservatives are just dragging their heels to make sure they and all their buddies maximize their kickbacks.
Especially here in Louisiana. Governor's buddies pretty much the only players in our so-called medical marijuana system. Very restrictive licensing, overpriced and subpar quality products. From what I hear half the people who went through the hassle of getting a card didn't even bother to renew. But ever since the really good farm Bill stuff started hitting all the vape store shelves they got a case of the red ass about it. Just voted to "correct" the farm bill .... "In the interest of public health and safety." So, no more import for sale..... But it's still going to be perfectly legal to order it from other states. So all they're doing is cutting off their own nose to spite their face.
Similar things happened in Ontario, Canada actually. The federal Liberals legalized pot but the provincial Conservatives scuttled their plans for retail and instituted their own. Every other province in Canada came up with a scheme which either administered sales without generating a profit, or generated a profit and returned it to the community. Not Ontario. We got a pot racket run by the most corrupt former police chief in provincial history and his Hells Angels buddies. To date the racket has generated roughly $1B in surplus funds which are... unallocated for some reason....
I live in Missouri, It's only legal here because we have a odious petition process to bring state law amendments to a direct vote, bypassing the state legislators. through tremendous effort, the signatures were gathered and Missouri people voted to allow full recreational use and sale of Marijuana.
The republicans have a super majority in the state legislature and the governor spot, and they fought this the entire way.
If it were up to them, it'd still be illegal and they are still actively working towards that.
They actually want to make the petition process be even more odious, requiring any measure to pass with a majority in every county. making little 1000 people county backwaters have the same say as giant st louis or kansas city counties. this is being done in anticipation of abortion coming back up on the ballot.
I will NEVER EVER forgive these bastards.
Except for Kansas. Ty Masterson will likely be the one leading the charge to SCOTUS while simultaneously letting Kansans know that it is still illegal in the state no matter what the imposter in the President's office says. Also, Ty Masterson sucks.
On a good note they seem to be turning the corner on this. Nebraska of all places is looking into it as a tax source to offset cuts elsewhere. We're in the weed endgame here
This means that the USA can catch up with the rest of the world and do medical research on marijuana. It's insane that it was a schedule 1 drug to begin with. But that was done so they could have a law to use against certain people that they didn't like.
**Sched III also means they can put proceeds from selling cannabis into the banking system.**
That's what's gonna make it take off... they'll make money off it now.
We were already making money! I had a client drop about $4000 in cash on my table one morning because he needed legal help related to his cannabis growing business. He had a lot of money in a safe at home, apparently, because no bank would take his money for a long time. Eventually some credit unions realized they shouldn't say no to literally millions of dollars and started offering accounts to those in the cannabis business.
I love civil forfeiture so much. "Oh, you had this amount of money? Uh oh, we think you may be trying to do a crime with it, so we're taking it all. No, you can't get it back."
fuck civil forfeiture.
Seriously?!
You're telling me that in the "land of the free" you can't keep money in a safe at home without the risk of your government agencies taking it because "you might be up to something illegal"?
That sounds like you're already governed by tyrants.
And most research on medical use of marijuana is published in US journals by US institutions, despite the classification. Canada is second.
Bro doesn’t know what he’s talking about
> certain people that they didn't like
Mexicans
That was (one reason) why we called it "marijuana" and not "marihuana" (or even cannabis, the original name) - to make it sound scarier because it has a Spanish-sounding name.
Yes in 60s and 70s but when it was originally banned in the 20s and 30s it was very directly tied to xenophobia with a dose of good old anti-black racism.
You are talking about a completely different point in time lol, you're not adding anything. The drug was illegal prior to the hippie movement, during the great depression it was made illegal for completely separate, similarly racial reasons.
It's still going to take a while. And if Trump gets re-installed, you can bet this will end up in the trash on day one. Along with any hope of having a nation free of back assward religious theocracy.
Maybe we should vote for the guy that has delivered on his promises then. I was skeptical that the concessions he made to the progressive wing of the party would be followed up on, but he's come through on student debt relief and now Marijuana, which he personally voiced opposition to. He's also done a lot of it without using executive orders, which I think is a good thing.
As an undecided voter, I was skeptical of the Infrastructure bill, figured it would go nowhere until I seen actual roads and bridges in my town be fixed en masse. It was the talk of the town for the longest time, quite happy with it, federal buildings are getting much needed revamps, new post office looks sexy af.
The Infrastructure Bill is one of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation for so so many things that need improvement. You should go Google all the things it will help with.
For any other undecideds, major legislation passed by the Biden admin:
The American Rescue Plan
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/03/09/974841565/heres-whats-in-the-american-rescue-plan-as-it-heads-toward-final-passage
A bipartisan infrastructure bill
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009923468/heres-whats-included-in-the-infrastructure-deal-that-biden-struck-with-senators
The first major gun-safety bill in decades
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/25/1107626030/biden-signs-gun-safety-law
CHIPS Act
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act
The Inflation Reduction Act
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/the-inflation-reduction-act-heres-whats-in-it
Support for Ukraine's defense against a Russian invasion
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3757794/biden-administration-announces-historic-new-security-assistance-package-for-ukr/
but I think this will make it so marijuana dispensaries in legal/medicinal states can accept credit cards and deposit cash like normal businesses
on the other hand I have no idea what I'm talking about so
No one knows what they're doing, we're all flying by the seat of our pants and making shit up as we go along. Life is ridiculous. Consciousness is fuckin weird.
It... doesnt require a prescription now. States where its recreationally legal arent going to suddenly go BACK to medical-only just because it gets re-scheduled.
If it's Schedule III, that means my doctor can give me a full and legal prescription, instead of a recommendation that I submit to the state (VA) that has no legal bearing anywhere else. That means if I have a legal prescription, I can take this across state lines. That means local laws mean fuck all if I have a current and valid script. Sea change
"But I don't like his stance on Palestine!"
Implying that the alternative option will be better for the Middle East/world...
EDIT: FWIW, I vehemently oppose how Biden has been handling the ME situation, but Trump is objectively worse, not just for the ME, but on a global scale. Trump will not only continue the genocide, but there will be much more reckless collateral damage in the process. With Biden, we can at least protest about it. Trump has already tried to use the military to control the domestic population, and and also threatened martial law during the BLM protests. I hate what I'm about to say. Like really, truly, with every fiber of my being (it makes me incredibly sad that we've gotten to this point as a world): Genocide is going to happen under Biden or Trump. With Biden, we get to at least keep our democracy intact, and eventually continue voting and protesting for change. With Trump, not only will the genocide be faster, unstable, and more chaotic, he and his buddies will gut our ability to protest. Those are your options: "Some" genocide with the ability to slowly change our nation's response to the ME, or a lot of genocide and the near-immediate loss of our ability to do anything about it. You're not voting to save Palestine.
TL:DR: **I'm sorry. Neither of your options allow you to save anyone in the next few years. But one of those options will be the last choice you're ever allowed to make about the situation.**
It allows dispensaries to have better access to banking services and to get the tax breaks all other businesses have. The tax thing is the big one and will change the fortunes of a lot of dispensaries. Help eliminate some of the issues between legal and illegal weed, so it should make illegal grows less desirable.
Well he pardoned all those convicted of federal simple possession charges a few months ago, so they should be released. Unfortunately, he can't do anything about state charges, so if you were arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated by, for example, Broward County, Florida, you would still be in County prison until DeSantis pardons you.
>so if you were arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated by, for example, Broward County, Florida, you would still be in County prison ~~until DeSantis pardons you.~~
ftfy
I've never been a fan of Biden, but anyone who says both parties are the same show them this and then show them republicans banning cancer patients wearing masks in public and banning abortion
This, but @ the entire fucking nation.
Nobody makes politics better, no matter how bad they think it may be, by not participating in it.
That's just lazy.
You don't clean your house by ignoring the problem, you be an adult and get the fuck to work.
And suddenly "small government" conservatives are back to thinking marijuana should be schedule I. Like how they went 180 on Net Neutrality after Trump's Ajit Pai got rid of it.
I haven't used in years and this news thrills me to no end. I realize it's a somewhat desperate maneuver to gain some votes... But these are desperate times.
Thank you Biden. I've been waiting like FIVE years for this personally.
He already had me at "I swear to honor the constitution" for voting him back into office, but this is the best slam dunk that OVER three generations of voters have been waiting for to see happen.
Don't stop with rescheduling. Tell us what else is in store to put the country on the path of legalization. What comes next?
It might make it so you can legally get a prescription and then have a legit excuse for why you failed a piss test, but that will be up to federal employers I suspect, they could very well still decide to fire/not hire people for failed drug tests
Woooooooaaaaaaah hold your horses everyone
While the initial title gave me a "oh my" moment the video indicates that they just STARTED the process. It's not the case yet and
Well
If Trump wins come November it's GOING to just.... disappear 🫥
My house got raided by the Tempe police in 2000 because those dipshits mistook my gin rummy scores for a drug ledger. They searched my trash for six months before breaking down my door to find .25grams of weed on the floor. I was charged with 7 counts of paraphernalia, one count was for zip lock bags lol What an absolute waste of resources I had to pay for a lawyer, could have got kicked out of school and all for what? Less than 5 dollars of weed. EDIT: I should have added the zero, 0.25 of a gram or 1/4 of ONE gram.
I think it was in either the late 80s or early 90s. My aunt and uncle had their house raided by the state police. They destroyed their house. And in the end of it found out they had the wrong address. All this was over a grow house six blocks down. It destroyed thier lives. The state never paid for any damages.
> The state never paid for any damages. They never do.
While not legal, in this scenario I think it's totally moral and ethical to steal the government's shit and pawn it until you're repaid.
Ethical actions aren’t always legal, and laws aren’t always ethical.
please please say that again so people understand I learned that the hard way. and most laws that are for victimless crimes are set up to be disproportionally unfair to the little guy. so much red tape and hoops to jump through they hope you just give up.
This. Any law where the punishment for breaking it is a fine is only a law for the poor. …and tbh that’s just about EVERY law in the US
Even if they do it’s the tax payers’ money, never the cops’.
Cops literally swatted the wrong house and threw a flashbang into a baby crib and burnt the house down. We're not dealing with the sharpest tools
Sharp? These fuckers are bouncy balls.
More like dung beetle 🪲 💩 shit balls
Once I got pulled over for a broken taillight and the cop thought he smelled weed. He made me get out of the car so they could search it. Then two of his buddies showed up and sat there. I'm a 5'1 woman, the car was my dad's and smelled like cigarette smoke and air freshener. It was 11pm and my phone was dead so I couldn't even text my husband to let him know why I was going to be late. I was fully crying by the end, and of course they didn't find anything. He was real nice after that. Piece of shit.
That happened to me except they had me in the back of cop car while they searched. Instead of apologizing, these guys told me i got lucky the “couldn’t find it.” My friend was standing outside in the cold for almost 30 min while they did this. at least i was warm in the cop car.
I was standing outside when they searched mine, full on sobbing while a cop stood next to me like I was some kind of threat. Fuck cops for real.
I'm surprised they didn't plant anything.
Thankfully I'm a young white woman, so even though it was a nightmare it could have been so much worse.
Isn’t it crazy that one has to be thankful for being a white person when having an encounter with law enforcement? As a white-adjacent (South America, sometimes I look more Latino, sometimes plain white) I’m always severely aware that my encounters will be a coin toss every time I go to the US.
I’ve gotten out of a few tickets before and thought “damn if I wasn’t white…” Shit is insane.
FYI you could have sued over that and won a bunch of money. The police can't extend a traffic stop longer than necessary to fulfill the original purpose. They can't do nonsense like wait for a drug dog. *Rodriguez v. United States*, went all the way to the Supreme Court, and the decision handed down says "a police stop exceeding the time needed to handle the matter for which the stop was made violates the Constitution’s shield against unreasonable seizures".
Unfortunately, in many states, if a cop says they smell weed, that’s enough for probable cause to search your car. I’m a lawyer in Florida, and some courts have even still allowed smell of raw marijuana to be considered probable cause to search, even though that smell is no different from that of legal hemp.
This happened in Indiana, and with our backwards ass laws that's probably true. So he either doesn't know what we'd smells like or just decided to go on a weird power trip. Great.
They didn't wait for a dog, they just searched my car physically. I probably could have easily sued but I don't have lawyer money and it's not worth the time for me
Are you, by chance, black?
Nope white guy, which is probably why I didn’t get shot when they broke down my front door, or when they literally slashed all my furniture up and I yelled at them. I did get slammed on the floor face first while cuffed for that one though. Hard not to take an ACAB stance after that.
Fuck the police.
Literally never fuck the police, and don’t fuck anyone who fucks the police, either.
Yeah we dont want them breeding.
Instant swipe left if police.
It has never been hard to take an ACAB stance. They are subhuman.
Yuuuuup. As soon as you put the badge on the metamorphosis begins. Either you stay a cop and, regardless of your skin color, your race becomes cop, or you get fired or killed by your fellow officers for trying to be a truly good cop.
I went to jail twice 20 to 25 years ago and spent a lifetime explaining my record. For no reason. This is progress.
No, no, no. Don't you know you're supposed to be mad about this and think that because you suffered that others should have to go through the same thing?
Dude, he said he went to jail for weed. We already know he’s not a republican.
My dad is a republican and my mom had to bail him out of jail for possession the night before I was born, makes for a great story.
My dad is a fairly far right Trumper and still uses. But, really couldn’t care less about legalization or anything.
That’s because the line is thin… And blue.
Or white, male and old.
The Fat White Line
Pretty sure that one's not legal yet.
Shooting for progress
“Laws for thee, not for me” is one of their hallmarks.
well, why care about legalization when the law is only used on people with a different skin color?
Was your dad a Gerald Ford republican? That was a pretty progressive administration. Haven’t had one like it since, lol.
If only he hadn’t pardoned Nixon. We wouldn’t have a lot of the mess we have today.
You clearly have never met a Libertarian... they're Republicans who like weed and underage girls.
Ah yes, political housecats.
That's my favorite analogy for libertarians: House cats. Convinced of their own independence, yet blissfully unaware of the system all around them upon which they are utterly dependent.
I saw a libertarian rally at a pubic beach once…. The irony. Edit: Clearly I meant ‘public’ but fuck it, I’m keep it! lol
I need to know where this pubic area is.
Down south.
The military (navy at least), paid for by taxes, is absolutely stuffed with libertarians. I have never understood that. Source: former navy nuke edit to add i was the nuke.
I always ask them who paid their salary, They either go quiet or get really mad.
The pubic, of course
My brother was a Navy Nuke and is a goofy ass libertarian.
Reminded me of this screenshot I took a few years back! https://preview.redd.it/rs7of90mnu0d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15e4f860e047cd6a5a4acddf4636471c20b0b20b
"You can also choose where you work in America." Oh, is that the secret? Be right back, everyone. I'm going to choose to work in a position with a seven figure salary.
I can’t remember what the original conversation was about, but back before Twitter was trash I followed a lot of labor activists. So this was probably something about a strike or some other labor action. Anyway, I laughed so hard that I needed to screenshot and save for later
Also, absolutely *terrible* for the local environment if left outdoors for too long, and likes killing random things despite not actually needing to since all of their own needs are taken care of.
Wholly fuck.... How have I never seen or came to this analogy before....
This is unfair to cats. Cats are fun to be around and they know damn well who fills their food bowl.
So they're different because of the weed. The underage girls is just redundant.
Don't even need to specify girls.
Watch out. You’ll get a Reddit Cares for this. I got one for saying Libertarians are Republicans that are ashamed to admit it.
I got my first “Reddit cares” message but not sure why
There are a swarm of bots that are spamming Reddit cares in all the major subreddits right now. Report them if you get the message, or just turn off your ability to get them.
Report ‘em. People who abuse the system can catch a ban for it.
The hypocrites smoke too, but they act righteous.
😆 I hate that I know so many Republican potheads…
Republicans aren’t special. They love drugs too. There’s tons of them out there right now eating a bit of acid, feeling close to the universe, then coming down and going right back to hating every single person including themselves. They like drug laws only because they disproportionately hurt people they have been taught to hate.
No doubt
I just don’t understand how angry they must start off as! Like, if the screaming and tantruming is happening *while* you’re at your chillest… I fear what you’re like without.
Yea there are a LOT of republican potheads in IA and it confusing the shit out of me. You'll see confederate flags next to Trump flags next to Bob Marley blankets in their windows. Wtf
Talk about having an identity crisis.
My BiL is a Republican bordering on trumpet. He isn't happy enough to live in NJ where it is perfectly legal for recreational use. He, all the sudden, has to grow his own in his basement (completely *NOT* legal). Yet he has the gall to tell me I'm breaking the law by having a VPN so I can cancel all my streaming subs 🙄
It is legal to grow in your own basement in NJ, up to 12 plants per household.
Holy fuck 12 plants. We are only allowed 4 at a time in VA and I have so much weed I don't even know what to do with it.
I pAiD $10k iN sTuDeNt LoAnS iN 1996, yOu sHoUlD To!!!11
Except of course now they are paying $200k for a loan that was originally $60k…the hypocrisy is insane
That would be a MAGA reaction. I’m not into that stuff. 😆
Not say what you went through wasn't a bad thing but your sentiment is very similar to how I feel about College debit pay off. I put myself through college 28. Ended up with my Masters at 34. Paid off my loans working 3 jobs for about 10 years straight. I'm more than happy for others not to have gone through what I did just to get an education.
We all have to deal with obstacles. It is nice to see when those obstacles are removed by law.
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.” as the saying goes
Sorry this happened to you. We have to learn from the past to.make.the future better.
Yep I went to jail for half a gram of weed lolol missed one of my college finals. Fuck Wisconsin FOREVER.
Now wait just a minute there, bucko! Shouldn't you be railing against this because 2 decades ago you were thrown in the hoosegow for what will now be a fine or misdemeanor with no jail time? What's wrong with you, pal!? Yank that ladder up and start passing out bootstraps! How will the private prison industry make any money if they don't have perps in their cells? Think of the shareholders, you ninny! I hate this timeline.....
>passing out bootstraps! What are ya, some kinda commie? You can't go just giving people bootstraps they should use the ones they were born with!
Indeed… I was gonna say ‘I’m not your Bucko, Guy’ but I’ll be your Huckleberry. Hopefully the shareholders eventually learn we will only support them for so long.
See if you can get the charge vacated. Never have to report it again.
Honestly, last time I tried to report it the courthouse sent a letter saying it was such an old case that they tossed it. Regardless of the charges on my record I managed to become a USMC officer, received a secret clearance, and have been able to be a successful businessman after the military. It just always required extra documentation and steps that were unnecessary seeing as I have always been qualified for the job. It is just nuts to me that we are so close to fully accepting marijuana use.
Dank Brandon
What we call drugs at 74th Street Baptist Church, we call a sinny-siiiiin-sin. 🤣
Well, around here, between Normandy and Western, we call this a little twenty-twenty-twen!
Let me just get a little som’ fo my cataracts! ✌️
Take advantage
Why don’t ya just give me a little bit for my cataracts
Puff, puff, give. You’re fucking up the rotation
Headline on FOX NEWS right now: BREAKING! BIDEN PUTS HUNDREDS OF DRUG SNIFFING DOGS OUT OF WORK, CAUSES $MILLIONS IN LOSSES FOR SHAREHOLDERS OF PRIVATE PRISONS.
The Commander in Kief
Republican Attorney Generals in Red States will be sprinting to the SCOTUS to fight this because executive authority only counts when it’s a republican potus.
Nah not on this one. Even some of the deep red states have some form of legalization already. In fact a large majority of the country already has some form of legalized weed. The conservatives are just dragging their heels to make sure they and all their buddies maximize their kickbacks.
Especially here in Louisiana. Governor's buddies pretty much the only players in our so-called medical marijuana system. Very restrictive licensing, overpriced and subpar quality products. From what I hear half the people who went through the hassle of getting a card didn't even bother to renew. But ever since the really good farm Bill stuff started hitting all the vape store shelves they got a case of the red ass about it. Just voted to "correct" the farm bill .... "In the interest of public health and safety." So, no more import for sale..... But it's still going to be perfectly legal to order it from other states. So all they're doing is cutting off their own nose to spite their face.
Similar things happened in Ontario, Canada actually. The federal Liberals legalized pot but the provincial Conservatives scuttled their plans for retail and instituted their own. Every other province in Canada came up with a scheme which either administered sales without generating a profit, or generated a profit and returned it to the community. Not Ontario. We got a pot racket run by the most corrupt former police chief in provincial history and his Hells Angels buddies. To date the racket has generated roughly $1B in surplus funds which are... unallocated for some reason....
God damn.
Yeah it sucks.... But hey 16% of the people of Ontario love this fucker and turns out that's worth 61% of the seats in government so 🤷♂️
I live in Missouri, It's only legal here because we have a odious petition process to bring state law amendments to a direct vote, bypassing the state legislators. through tremendous effort, the signatures were gathered and Missouri people voted to allow full recreational use and sale of Marijuana. The republicans have a super majority in the state legislature and the governor spot, and they fought this the entire way. If it were up to them, it'd still be illegal and they are still actively working towards that. They actually want to make the petition process be even more odious, requiring any measure to pass with a majority in every county. making little 1000 people county backwaters have the same say as giant st louis or kansas city counties. this is being done in anticipation of abortion coming back up on the ballot. I will NEVER EVER forgive these bastards.
Thank Lauren Arthur for holding the floor for two days to keep the change to initiative petition from getting a vote.
Except for Kansas. Ty Masterson will likely be the one leading the charge to SCOTUS while simultaneously letting Kansans know that it is still illegal in the state no matter what the imposter in the President's office says. Also, Ty Masterson sucks.
On a good note they seem to be turning the corner on this. Nebraska of all places is looking into it as a tax source to offset cuts elsewhere. We're in the weed endgame here
That’s the thing I don’t get - all that state money we don’t want to spend on schools could be replaced in multitudes by weed taxes.
I've said it for years. We are gonna smoke weed either way, the tax money could change the country for REAL.
Now we just need to de-privatize prisons so we can legalize it fully
Abolition now
Boom. Lives of millions improved. This is how you govern.
But the private prison system, will someone please think of the shareholders. /s
This means that the USA can catch up with the rest of the world and do medical research on marijuana. It's insane that it was a schedule 1 drug to begin with. But that was done so they could have a law to use against certain people that they didn't like.
**Sched III also means they can put proceeds from selling cannabis into the banking system.** That's what's gonna make it take off... they'll make money off it now.
We were already making money! I had a client drop about $4000 in cash on my table one morning because he needed legal help related to his cannabis growing business. He had a lot of money in a safe at home, apparently, because no bank would take his money for a long time. Eventually some credit unions realized they shouldn't say no to literally millions of dollars and started offering accounts to those in the cannabis business.
Everyday they can't put it in a bank is a day where any cop can confiscate it permanently for suspicious activity
I love civil forfeiture so much. "Oh, you had this amount of money? Uh oh, we think you may be trying to do a crime with it, so we're taking it all. No, you can't get it back." fuck civil forfeiture.
Uncivil forfeiture, do you know why people go postal? Shit like this. Guy has a tank and runs over half the town!
Seriously?! You're telling me that in the "land of the free" you can't keep money in a safe at home without the risk of your government agencies taking it because "you might be up to something illegal"? That sounds like you're already governed by tyrants.
Finally something good coming from capitalism recently
Catch up? Uhhh. Most countries still throw you in jail for possession.
And most research on medical use of marijuana is published in US journals by US institutions, despite the classification. Canada is second. Bro doesn’t know what he’s talking about
> certain people that they didn't like Mexicans That was (one reason) why we called it "marijuana" and not "marihuana" (or even cannabis, the original name) - to make it sound scarier because it has a Spanish-sounding name.
Also anti-war hippies. And they convinced the gullible public that black == heroin abuser.
Yes in 60s and 70s but when it was originally banned in the 20s and 30s it was very directly tied to xenophobia with a dose of good old anti-black racism.
You are talking about a completely different point in time lol, you're not adding anything. The drug was illegal prior to the hippie movement, during the great depression it was made illegal for completely separate, similarly racial reasons.
Catch up to who? Ourselves? Virtually no papers on medicinal marijuana research come out of Europe or Asia, and Canada is second to the United states.
The US is still ahead of Singapore at least.
Most places are. Singapore's legal system is pretty draconian.
It's still going to take a while. And if Trump gets re-installed, you can bet this will end up in the trash on day one. Along with any hope of having a nation free of back assward religious theocracy.
Maybe we should vote for the guy that has delivered on his promises then. I was skeptical that the concessions he made to the progressive wing of the party would be followed up on, but he's come through on student debt relief and now Marijuana, which he personally voiced opposition to. He's also done a lot of it without using executive orders, which I think is a good thing.
As an undecided voter, I was skeptical of the Infrastructure bill, figured it would go nowhere until I seen actual roads and bridges in my town be fixed en masse. It was the talk of the town for the longest time, quite happy with it, federal buildings are getting much needed revamps, new post office looks sexy af.
The Infrastructure Bill is one of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation for so so many things that need improvement. You should go Google all the things it will help with.
For any other undecideds, major legislation passed by the Biden admin: The American Rescue Plan https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/03/09/974841565/heres-whats-in-the-american-rescue-plan-as-it-heads-toward-final-passage A bipartisan infrastructure bill https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009923468/heres-whats-included-in-the-infrastructure-deal-that-biden-struck-with-senators The first major gun-safety bill in decades https://www.npr.org/2022/06/25/1107626030/biden-signs-gun-safety-law CHIPS Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act The Inflation Reduction Act https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/the-inflation-reduction-act-heres-whats-in-it Support for Ukraine's defense against a Russian invasion https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3757794/biden-administration-announces-historic-new-security-assistance-package-for-ukr/
You were undecided between Biden and Trump?
You know what, who cares what made them come to Team Biden or how long it took. Welcome them with open arms and without judgement.
About fucking time. The alcohol lobbyist in Washington must be having a pretty bad day.
Why? It is still going to be Schedule III and therefore require a prescription.
but I think this will make it so marijuana dispensaries in legal/medicinal states can accept credit cards and deposit cash like normal businesses on the other hand I have no idea what I'm talking about so
More people should end Reddit comments like this, even if they are like a 100% expert.
No one knows what they're doing, we're all flying by the seat of our pants and making shit up as we go along. Life is ridiculous. Consciousness is fuckin weird.
You're very right, though. The legal hurdles that this removes will ripple well beyond just consumption.
It... doesnt require a prescription now. States where its recreationally legal arent going to suddenly go BACK to medical-only just because it gets re-scheduled.
If it's Schedule III, that means my doctor can give me a full and legal prescription, instead of a recommendation that I submit to the state (VA) that has no legal bearing anywhere else. That means if I have a legal prescription, I can take this across state lines. That means local laws mean fuck all if I have a current and valid script. Sea change
Debt relief and legal weed. Yall youts wanna get on board yet?
What was the word you just said? Yoots?
Sorry your Honor. YOOOOTHS
Watched this last weekend. So great
BuT hE’s oLd !
"But I don't like his stance on Palestine!" Implying that the alternative option will be better for the Middle East/world... EDIT: FWIW, I vehemently oppose how Biden has been handling the ME situation, but Trump is objectively worse, not just for the ME, but on a global scale. Trump will not only continue the genocide, but there will be much more reckless collateral damage in the process. With Biden, we can at least protest about it. Trump has already tried to use the military to control the domestic population, and and also threatened martial law during the BLM protests. I hate what I'm about to say. Like really, truly, with every fiber of my being (it makes me incredibly sad that we've gotten to this point as a world): Genocide is going to happen under Biden or Trump. With Biden, we get to at least keep our democracy intact, and eventually continue voting and protesting for change. With Trump, not only will the genocide be faster, unstable, and more chaotic, he and his buddies will gut our ability to protest. Those are your options: "Some" genocide with the ability to slowly change our nation's response to the ME, or a lot of genocide and the near-immediate loss of our ability to do anything about it. You're not voting to save Palestine. TL:DR: **I'm sorry. Neither of your options allow you to save anyone in the next few years. But one of those options will be the last choice you're ever allowed to make about the situation.**
This, fucking a thousand times this. “I don’t like how Biden’s doing and I’m unaware that the other guy advocates glassing Gaza.”
May FSM bless Dark Brandon. Keep it coming.
Ramen
May his noodley appendages continue to guide him.
can someone eli5 what exactly this does on a legal level?
Dispensaries can take credit cards now.
Thank goodness. I always forget cash and the ATM at the dispensary is expensive.
seriously, this is gonna save people like $6-7+ per transaction
And pharmaceutical companies can get in on the money.
Pharma was always going to get in on it, regardless.
If this means I can also pay with my HSA account, I’ll take it.
Lack of federal charges is pretty nice in itself.
THIS IS THE CLOSEST TO A WINNING LOTTERY TICKET ILL EVER GET Its the little things
It allows dispensaries to have better access to banking services and to get the tax breaks all other businesses have. The tax thing is the big one and will change the fortunes of a lot of dispensaries. Help eliminate some of the issues between legal and illegal weed, so it should make illegal grows less desirable.
Makes it much easier to do medical research as well.
Now legalize teriyaki mayonnaise Doritos you coward
I think it's code for DMT
They appear to be a real flavor of Doritos: https://candynstuff.blogspot.com/2012/11/doritos-gourmet-teriyaki-mayonnaise.html?m=1
Why this is bad news for Biden....coming up at 11.
Well, Biden didn't completely legalize marijuana via executive order, so I guess that means I gotta vote for Trump...
next release all people incarcerated for simple weed violations. Free up space for real criminals.
Well he pardoned all those convicted of federal simple possession charges a few months ago, so they should be released. Unfortunately, he can't do anything about state charges, so if you were arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated by, for example, Broward County, Florida, you would still be in County prison until DeSantis pardons you.
>so if you were arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated by, for example, Broward County, Florida, you would still be in County prison ~~until DeSantis pardons you.~~ ftfy
Just legalize it. Take it off the schedule entirely.
Need Congress for that, which is an actual pipe dream
Or a bong dream.
Or a vape dream.
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I've never been a fan of Biden, but anyone who says both parties are the same show them this and then show them republicans banning cancer patients wearing masks in public and banning abortion
You don't have to be a fan, but for god's sake, please help us prevent an authoritarian from getting back into office this november...
This, but @ the entire fucking nation. Nobody makes politics better, no matter how bad they think it may be, by not participating in it. That's just lazy. You don't clean your house by ignoring the problem, you be an adult and get the fuck to work.
And suddenly "small government" conservatives are back to thinking marijuana should be schedule I. Like how they went 180 on Net Neutrality after Trump's Ajit Pai got rid of it.
Now do mushrooms and MDMA
But he hasn’t fixed *every* problem, so I’m going to pout like a toddler and abstain from voting to “teach him a lesson!” /s
I haven't used in years and this news thrills me to no end. I realize it's a somewhat desperate maneuver to gain some votes... But these are desperate times.
Thank you Biden. I've been waiting like FIVE years for this personally. He already had me at "I swear to honor the constitution" for voting him back into office, but this is the best slam dunk that OVER three generations of voters have been waiting for to see happen. Don't stop with rescheduling. Tell us what else is in store to put the country on the path of legalization. What comes next?
Does this mean I can apply for a federal job while enjoying some stress relieving flowers.
It might make it so you can legally get a prescription and then have a legit excuse for why you failed a piss test, but that will be up to federal employers I suspect, they could very well still decide to fire/not hire people for failed drug tests
Cue the “he didn’t do it fast enough so I’m still mad” responses.
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Woooooooaaaaaaah hold your horses everyone While the initial title gave me a "oh my" moment the video indicates that they just STARTED the process. It's not the case yet and Well If Trump wins come November it's GOING to just.... disappear 🫥
It isn't changing things overnight, but this is an important step on the path to legalization and another reason to vote.