These 4 States Will Reform Their Marijuana Laws in 2013
The pot reform movement picks up speed.
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2. Hemp in Kentucky
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 banned not just smokable marijuana, but also hemp, which can be used for just about anything, except getting high. Nevertheless, prohibitionist didn't want it farmed on U.S. soil, so from 1937 until 1941, American manufacturers got their hemp from the Philippines. Then the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and practically overnight the U.S. lost its chief supplier of raw materials for ropes and parachutes. The shortage forced the U.S. to create the War Hemp Industries Department, which encouraged American farmers to grow hemp for the war effort. Kentucky turned out to be the perfect place to grow the stuff, and grew a lot of it until Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act.
Kentucky's successful record with hemp, and the fact that the U.S. is the largest global consumer of the stuff—is it any surprise that we can import it, and sell it, but not grow it?—are two reasons why advocates in the Bluegrass State are hopeful that Kentucky legislators will restore hemp to its rightful place as a major Kentucky cash crop. Did we mention hemp lovers have Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer and Republican Sen. Rand Paul on their side?
While law enforcement groups oppose Senate Bill 50 and House Bill 33, defenders of hemp say the legislation wouldn't lead to an increase in marijuana use. The hemp law would require regular THC testing of crops, and for farmers to plant at least 10 acres—which would make an illegal grow more difficult to hide. And none of those regulations would go into effect until Washington, D.C. gave Kentucky the go-ahead.
That could happen pretty soon, according to NKY.com, which reports that Sen. Paul "told state officials that he will lobby for a federal waiver of the the federal ban on industrial hemp for Kentucky if the General Assembly passes legislation on hemp production."
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Sweet, every geek gets his day I guess!
Oh yeah, fuck anti-drug laws.
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Re: shirts
Great ideas, horrible graphic design.
(Look at me in the stands, part of the booboisie, just throwing stones at the people who are actually trying to do something. I make myself sick.)
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The testimony that was the most compelling was from a woman who had small children
No shit, Sherlock; the class with the highest victim points.
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Drug use makes people less productive. Less productive people are more likely to go on welfare. Therefore we can't legalize drugs until we end the welfare state.
/sarcasm
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As Bill Clinton said, less productive people produce fewer profits for big business. Drugs are illegal because the capitalists own both you and the state.
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If I wasn't clear: bosses don't like the idea of their serfs using drugs and getting lazy.
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http://images.sodahead.com/pol.....large.jpeg
Of course, in a just society, your employer could always just fire you for getting lazy. Or any other reason he felt like.
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That's every lefty's excuse for the destruction of capitalism and freedom by the state: "Durr itz da freedumz fault" You don't get it: the state has power to sell because you have been brainwashed to think they should somehow be in control of businessmen. That's the joker in the whole system, bud; it is the intervention of the state into economics that creates the problems, not the other way around.
No, asswipe, drug laws and all the laws under the sun (and the corruption they create) are entirely the fault of the statists who have been telling Americans for 100 years that the answer to every disaster caused by government is to give more power to the government (and to call it "progress" lol)
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We'll only legalize drugs if we can also raise your FICA taxes. Also, you are now mandated to provide health insurance for your marijuana. That doesn't sound like a good plan to you? What are you, a racist statist communist xenophobe nativist cocksucker?!?!
/touche
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"Your property rights and national sovereignty are nativith and rathitht, we will make up snarky hipster faggot bullshit to pretend we aren't just egalitarian leftists who wanted to play the dandy and call ourselves libertarians."
But in case there's anyone here who cares to live on earth, and doesn't want to evade reality, realize the difference between having open immigration 100 years ago (no welfare state, no income tax to dodge, no economic regulations to disincentivize the hiring of US citizens) versus today, where the obozo regime is advertising welfare programs on Mexican radio...ask yourself (and do not evade the answer) what kind of immigrants we are attracking today.
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You guys make Tony-esque arguments are then try to present yourselves as the True Libertarians fighting the "hipster faggot leftists?"
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I think arguably the "If you don't support mass legalization with no attendant reform of the immigration, welfare, and labor regulation system you hate teh brown peoplez!!!one11eleventy!!" bullshit is a lot more T o n y-esque than pointing out some of the practical implications of addressing a massive failure of government on many levels 1/1000th at a time.
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Nevada came a hair's breadth from legalization a few years ago ('06, IIRC - I was living there at the time). I think given another shot in light of the Colorado and Washington initiatives it might pass there as well.
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I guess it's okay that Riggs wrote this article but it was really unnecessary.
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I dare not speak much further;
But cruel are the times, when we are traitors
And do not know ourselves; when we hold rumour
From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,
But float upon a wild and violent sea
Each way and none.
