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[iammalcolmx]

Yup!

[pixy0stix]

All I can do is speak for myself in that the latter half of the quote is why I voted to legalize pot.

[NitaX]

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I mean, it's true

Drugs laws in the late 80s/90s were so strict, and people have been locked up for non-violent drug charges for way, way too long.

My H went to HS with a guy who is out in Colorado making tons of money doing it right now. I will say that he is SUPER worried that the Mexican cartel is going to take him out... like tons of guns to protect himself paranoid.

[tictac]

I've been saying for years "the only reason weed isn't legal isn't because rich, white men haven't quite worked out how to get richer from it yet."

So...PREACH!

[ESF]

I came in here with some trepidation, worried it was another post about animal bits being found in a vag.

Now that I see it is not, thank you. And yes, exactly.  

There's only one person of color on the 20 person NORML board.  The organization isn't really about fixing marijuana laws, it's about trying to get white people  a low-calorie alternative to booze.

[tacosforlife]

SERIOUSLY, WHY YOU GOTTA BLOCK THIS, WORK COMPUTER???

I have zero idea what we are discussing. Well, I have picked up from context that it involves the marijuana.

[pixy0stix]

Sept 3, 2015 14:55:05 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

SERIOUSLY, WHY YOU GOTTA BLOCK THIS, WORK COMPUTER???

I have zero idea what we are discussing. Well, I have picked up from context that it involves the marijuana.

The quote says:

Here are White Men poised to run big Marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in big. Big money, big businesses selling weed, after 40 years of locking up impoverished black kids for selling weed. Their families and futures destroyed. Now White men are planning on getting rich doing precisely the same thing. ~ Michelle Alexander

[MrsAxilla]

Sept 3, 2015 14:34:52 GMT -5 calamity said:

I mean, it's true

Drugs laws in the late 80s/90s were so strict, and people have been locked up for non-violent drug charges for way, way too long.

My H went to HS with a guy who is out in Colorado making tons of money doing it right now. I will say that he is SUPER worried that the Mexican cartel is going to take him out... like tons of guns to protect himself paranoid.

I don't know why I find this funny.  I wasn't aware we have a Mexican cartel problem here, and if we do, it seems like that ship has sailed.  It's like the Columbian coffee cartel trying to take out Starbucks one franchise at a time.

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Sept 3, 2015 15:02:45 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

Sept 3, 2015 14:34:52 GMT -5 calamity said:

I mean, it's true

Drugs laws in the late 80s/90s were so strict, and people have been locked up for non-violent drug charges for way, way too long.

My H went to HS with a guy who is out in Colorado making tons of money doing it right now. I will say that he is SUPER worried that the Mexican cartel is going to take him out... like tons of guns to protect himself paranoid.

I don't know why I find this funny.  I wasn't aware we have a Mexican cartel problem here, and if we do, it seems like that ship has sailed.  It's like the Columbian coffee cartel trying to take out Starbucks one franchise at a time.

Totally.  I have never met this guy, but MH said he seemed normal in HS.

He kind of looks like dog the bounty hunter and has pics on FB of all of his guns.  You would think the weed would help with the anxiety, LOL.

[MrsAxilla]

Sept 3, 2015 15:04:51 GMT -5 calamity said:

Sept 3, 2015 15:02:45 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

I don't know why I find this funny.  I wasn't aware we have a Mexican cartel problem here, and if we do, it seems like that ship has sailed.  It's like the Columbian coffee cartel trying to take out Starbucks one franchise at a time.

Totally.  I have never met this guy, but MH said he seemed normal in HS.

He kind of looks like dog the bounty hunter and has pics on FB of all of his guns.  You would think the weed would help with the anxiety, LOL.

He must be smoking the wrong strain.  Budtender FAIL.

[jln]

If there was a marijuana lobby it'd be sold in every store in pretty packages.

I completely agree that it needs to be legal and heavily taxed. Everyone in jail on solely marijuana offenses need to be let out of jail and the money made from sales needs to go to education.

[MrsAxilla]

Sept 3, 2015 15:32:21 GMT -5 jln said:

If there was a marijuana lobby it'd be sold in every store in pretty packages.

I completely agree that it needs to be legal and heavily taxed. Everyone in jail on solely marijuana offenses need to be let out of jail and the money made from sales needs to go to education.

There is a marijuana lobby, and more states than you think are considering legalizing it for recreation.

[jln]

Sept 3, 2015 15:35:06 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

Sept 3, 2015 15:32:21 GMT -5 jln said:

If there was a marijuana lobby it'd be sold in every store in pretty packages.

I completely agree that it needs to be legal and heavily taxed. Everyone in jail on solely marijuana offenses need to be let out of jail and the money made from sales needs to go to education.

There is a marijuana lobby, and more states than you think are considering legalizing it for recreation.

They're trying to legalize it here in Texas.  There's actually a tea partier that's working on it.  

[MrsAxilla]

Sept 3, 2015 15:45:17 GMT -5 amber said:

Sept 3, 2015 15:02:45 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

I don't know why I find this funny.  I wasn't aware we have a Mexican cartel problem here, and if we do, it seems like that ship has sailed.  It's like the Columbian coffee cartel trying to take out Starbucks one franchise at a time.

Wait, what? There is a huge Mexican cartel problem! It's (yet another) big reason marijuana should be legalized. 

In Colorado?  Not that I'm aware of.  

[LoveTrains]

It's definitely true. It's like the couple I know with the weed wedding that went viral and that I attended. The groom is a grower out on the west coast and he does very well for himself.

[jln]

Sept 3, 2015 16:41:47 GMT -5 LoveTrains said:

It's definitely true. It's like the couple I know with the weed wedding that went viral and that I attended. The groom is a grower out on the west coast and he does very well for himself.

You were at the one in West Linn?  How fun

[LoveTrains]

Sept 3, 2015 17:00:53 GMT -5 jln said:

Sept 3, 2015 16:41:47 GMT -5 LoveTrains said:

It's definitely true. It's like the couple I know with the weed wedding that went viral and that I attended. The groom is a grower out on the west coast and he does very well for himself.

You were at the one in West Linn?  How fun

Yes I was and it was amazing. I went to college with the bride. It's nuts that they got so much publicity! Jimmy Fallon even made a joke about it.

[pixy0stix]

In case anyone was wondering, like I was, what the exact numbers were, there's this helpful webpage by the ACLU. www.aclu.org/gallery/marijuana-arrests-numbers

[gpw]

I saw it ALL.THE.TIME. when I was working in the court. It's maddening.

[aurora]

Horrifying arrest/incarceration statistics (with respect to institutionalized racism) are the reason I think MJ should be legal everwhere in the U.S. I'm not sure what is the best way to go back and fix those lives our system has already broken, but as a first step let's stop destroying more.

[bimbi284]

What we should be doing is fixing the policies that prevent those with prior drug convictions from working In the MJ industry. Many of those who know the business and the product the best are prevented from doing what they know because of it. I believe DC is the only place right now that is trying to work that in to their legislation.