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Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana

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Re: Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana

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Post by JaimeThompson »

dqv wrote: post #8
encryptluks2 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, they really want to keep the liquor, tobacco and pharmaceutical industry going as long as they can. There are a lot of professional workers that smoke marijuana, business owners, successful artists, etc. The devil's lettuce might not be for everyone, but how can these people be anti-vaccine mandate (pro-choice) while still trying to prevent marijuana legalization?

My understanding, from knowing someone close to these political circles, is that there is a conflict between the religious faction and the individual-liberty faction. So whenever that gets resolved, we will see further movement on that front. >The devil's lettuce might not be for everyone It’s not for me. Neither is alcohol. Doesn’t mean I think it should be illegal. I don’t get why other people have this attitude ab…

If the religious faction can get over the leaders they supporting lying and cheating all the time they can get over people smoking a plant.

Re: Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana

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Post by rbanffy »

netizen-936824 wrote: post #49
rbanffy wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

High-THC cigarette paper would be a very successful product in a number of markets.

There is almost no THC in hemp fiber to speak of. Any THC in papers would need to be added during manufacturing

I'm very sure some enterprising person will think of a way to do it ;-)

Re: Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana

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Post by refurb »

rendall wrote: post #25

For those not familiar with US society, this is huge. Mississippi is generally regarded, true or not, as a conservative state, perhaps even reactionary. Its government was a staunch defender of slavery, the later Jim Crow laws which mandated racial segregation, Negro voting disenfranchisement; the last to repeal alcohol prohibition; still frequently challenging abortion rights; among other such. Mississippi is kind o…

What in the hell kind of analysis is this?

I’m betting $1000 that OP has never stepped foot in Mississippi.

“Negro voting disenfranchisement”?

Re: Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana

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Post by [deleted] »

HKH2 wrote: post #44
rendall wrote: post #25

For those not familiar with US society, this is huge. Mississippi is generally regarded, true or not, as a conservative state, perhaps even reactionary. Its government was a staunch defender of slavery, the later Jim Crow laws which mandated racial segregation, Negro voting disenfranchisement; the last to repeal alcohol prohibition; still frequently challenging abortion rights; among other such. Mississippi is kind o…

bellwether* A wether is a castrated sheep/goat.

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Re: Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana

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Post by refurb »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #40
websap wrote: post #24

Now do Texas. Once Texas legalizes Marijuana, there will be no reason for tech people to not move to Austin.

“Tech” women interested in retaining their ability to get medical services they might need would still have a reason to not move to Austin.

Tech women can fly for their abortions.

Re: Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana

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Post by beepbooptheory »

rbanffy wrote: post #37
TulliusCicero wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, there’ll still be plenty of reasons, even if they have medical marijuana.

Still, it's an island of sanity in the middle of Texas.

It absolutely is not. It used to be, I guess.

Yes, people there, generally, are less overtly racist and bigoted, and there is some cool infrastructure, but it trades in rural isolationist prejudice for tech-tainted delusional world building, at the cost of its once beautiful community and culture. Austin is scary, I have never lived in a city that so clearly feels like it has a mind of its own, that changes so much and so explicitly that when you go back to visit your old home, it is literally unrecognizable, everything it once was just poofs away in a year.

After living in a number of cities since, I understand just how weird Austin is, but not in the way it was "weird", wants to be weird. Its now like if a Stepford wife was a city: some totally flawless shell wrapped around a void. Its like if a Tesla car was city, which is perhaps a more apt similie, where it rides off its popular sentiment alone while the internals are shoestring, or at least questionable.

It trades in explicit Texas politics for extreme and swift gentrification, and a, at this point, willful neglect of social services for the communities they've, in part, helped displace. There is little love in Austin now, no matter how many granola eating hippies can still afford the rent. Most of that place is gone, or quickly dissapearing.

Give me Houston, which has comparable politics in the inner city, and the best museums and food in the state. Give me San Antonio, even, which is a more humble, but at least human place, and that does have better breakfast tacos than Austin. But Austin is gone.

I dont think the enthusiasm and attention it gets is going away anytime soon, and people will continue to move in, and it will get "cooler" in the eyes of every google employee that resides there. And property investment will continue to churn, like crude oil in a Kitchenaide. But it has gone crazy, and I see no hope in it going back, its too big to fail, and that is maybe the whole problem.

Re: Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana

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Post by refurb »

dqv wrote: post #8
encryptluks2 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, they really want to keep the liquor, tobacco and pharmaceutical industry going as long as they can. There are a lot of professional workers that smoke marijuana, business owners, successful artists, etc. The devil's lettuce might not be for everyone, but how can these people be anti-vaccine mandate (pro-choice) while still trying to prevent marijuana legalization?

My understanding, from knowing someone close to these political circles, is that there is a conflict between the religious faction and the individual-liberty faction. So whenever that gets resolved, we will see further movement on that front. >The devil's lettuce might not be for everyone It’s not for me. Neither is alcohol. Doesn’t mean I think it should be illegal. I don’t get why other people have this attitude ab…

“Politics is mathematics. Principles are worth having, but they don’t get you elected.”

Re: Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana

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Post by rendall »

rendall wrote: post #30
fastball wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That first sentence sure has a lot of unnecessary hedging. Just looking at prez elections, Mississippi hasn't gone Democrat since Jimmy Carter.

I knew someone would complain about that post no matter what I wrote, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I also wanted to honor and acknowledge the non-reactionary political and social forces working and living in Mississippi.

... and another winner: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30191586

Re: Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical marijuana

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Post by tyleo »

refurb wrote: post #53
rendall wrote: post #25

For those not familiar with US society, this is huge. Mississippi is generally regarded, true or not, as a conservative state, perhaps even reactionary. Its government was a staunch defender of slavery, the later Jim Crow laws which mandated racial segregation, Negro voting disenfranchisement; the last to repeal alcohol prohibition; still frequently challenging abortion rights; among other such. Mississippi is kind o…

What in the hell kind of analysis is this? I’m betting $1000 that OP has never stepped foot in Mississippi. “Negro voting disenfranchisement”?

I don’t think OP is talking about disenfranchisement in 2020. Historical disenfranchisement checks out with my understanding of history though.
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