NY set to legalize marijuana

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25 Mar 2021, 10:44 am

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-york-marijuana-lawmakers-reach-deal-to-legalize-recreational-marijuana-source-says/ar-BB1eWO5d?ocid=uxbndlbing

Despite his current scandal, Cuomo > Abbott 1,000 times over.

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25 Mar 2021, 10:48 am

Does this mean that New York citizens will finally start to mellow out and act nice?

I will believe it when I see it.

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25 Mar 2021, 10:57 am

Congratulations and welcome to the civilized world.

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25 Mar 2021, 11:04 am

Here is the reason conservatives are so opposed to marijuana legalization:

John Ehrlichman wrote:

The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

In other words, when police officers in red states say "You're under arrest for possession of marijuana", what they are really saying is "You're under arrest for being black (or Hispanic or Native American)."

Oftentimes, sadly, the offender will get a bullet to the head or a knee to the neck by those officers. No wonder conservatives love cops so much! Red state law enforcement is practically state-sponsored terrorism.

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25 Mar 2021, 12:23 pm

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25 Mar 2021, 12:28 pm

Fnord wrote:

Does this mean that New York citizens will finally start to mellow out and act nice?

I will believe it when I see it.

Fughettaboudit

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26 Mar 2021, 1:16 am

Imagine being in one of the biggest cities in a country built on "freedom" and being arrested for owning a plant

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26 Mar 2021, 2:35 am

MidnightRose wrote:

Imagine being in one of the biggest cities in a country built on "freedom" and being arrested for owning a plant

Houston in a nutshell.

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