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I'm in favor of federal legalization. It should be as simple as possible, such as just removing cannabis from the schedule. Complicated schemes with new layers of taxation and built in protections for large producers will fuck it up.

Some kind of legalization is always better than nothing?! No, it is not. You see, this reasoning is what got us the flawed California initiative which became a total dog's breakfast in execution. The kinds of legalization that have mostly been offered to us -after the medical marijuana thing...

When the "legalization" initiative came up for a vote a few years ago in California, I opposed it. It was a terrible law. We already had legal weed in the form of medical, which anybody could get by giving a doctor $35 or something and receiving a letter of recommendation. Illegal possession...

This is feel-good rhetoric but I'm not certain it is quite so black and white. Some people are opposed to "legalization" in various formats. They might think medical is ok but recreational, no, etc. I'm not defending this, just saying it is very easy to see numerous viewpoints involving...

Well hardly any politicians are advertising that they want to put people in jail for weed. You seldom find anybody standing up and saying it should be criminalized. What they do is stall and stonewall. They refuse to allow a vote to come up. They demand further study. They vote against...

Also, it's quite important to check and see if your Representative and Senators in Congress are among the leadership of a party which refuses to allow bills liberalizing cannabis use, sale, banking for the industry, etc. to come to the floor and get a vote. Or your rep or Senator votes against...

I agree with you but lets try to avoid political issues outside of legalization, otherwise the mods start deleting things.

From the Washington Post just now, after Harris selected Walz as running mate: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/06/harris-walz-vp/ I am not trying to turn this political but it is important for all of us to be under no illusions about which party supports cannabis legalization...

Keep in mind that if a legalization bill is to pass Congress, which is the best way to do it (if Biden or Harris act unilaterally to reschedule it the next president can reverse it), we probably need Democratic control of both the Senate and House and probably a Democratic president too. The...

The Netherlands has an excellent weed situation. Brazil just legalized nationally.

Years ago I used to visit some friends in Vancouver BC. I would always take a walk around Gastown and buy some stuff on the street. I don't know if it was strictly legal back then but it was looked at with an indulgent eye by the authorities. Some pretty great weed, too.

For me the golden age was the 70's. It was illegal and cops would bust your ass if they caught you, but we could get things like Nepalese temple ball hash and real Jamaican sativa. Mmmm...

The pre-"legalization" situation in California was not a choice between criminality and legalization. We already had medical marijuana, which was available to anybody willing to pay a doctor $50 for a recommendation letter. If you got caught with cannabis and didn't have a letter, the fine was...

In some cases, such as California, consumers got greedy, wanted "legalization" asap, took a deep breath, closed their eyes and approved a terrible initiative that locked in hard-coded tax levels, plant numbers and other inflexible errors. Everything else that has happened there followed from...

I have fond memories of buying black market weed on the street in Gastown in Vancouver! There was always somebody around and the stuff was generally quite good.

Legalization (as opposed to medical marijuana) has been mostly a disaster. The silver lining in some states has been the 6 (or 4, 12, etc) plants you are allowed to grow for your own use at home. Most of those million sq ft greenhouse operations will probably go out of business but the...

I agree. The alcohol consumer is probably whipping it out and pointing it at things while the pothead is obsessing about is the gun safe enough where it is...

Of course gun owners can get plastered on alcohol and nobody says boo.

For a lot of people this could be the saving grace. In many cases state legalization has brought chaotic commercial weed markets, absurd taxation and a lot of regulatory hurdles. But if it leaves open the possibility of home grow, even six plants, you can cut loose from all the drama and...

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