I was stunned, but not shocked. I’ve grown up among these people. This result was inevitable. I’m only surprised it’s taken until 2021 for this festering boil of unaddressed racism and willful ignorance to finally erupt in open treason.
Marijuana activists we lost in 2020 include Subcool, Charlotte Figi, Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Jules Stobbs, Cliff Robinson, Kevin Zeese, and Dan Baum.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has updated its general handbook to clarify that while it supports its faithful in their physician-approved use of medical marijuana, it “does not approve of vaping marijuana unless the medical provider has authorized it based on medical necessity.”
One thing that has always struck me about Idaho’s bigotry is that it is aimed at people most Idahoans probably rarely encounter.
“[The Democratic Party’s] platform on weed is now officially and politically to the right of the state of South Dakota,” notes Fetterman. “I’m in the camp that says that if you’re to the right of South Dakota on anything, you should use that as a moment to recalibrate your core values.”
It is time for marijuana reformers to demand home grow provisions in any proposed marijuana legalization. The 2010s have shown us that home grow delayed is home grow denied.
A debunking of the reefer madness spewed by desperate Republican opponents of the MORE Act to legalize marijuana.
If the trio of tweaking forgery thieves hadn’t smoked marijuana and if a hotel guest hadn’t complained, would Idaho cops ever caught them?
Accepting all the problems of marijuana use (of which there are few) while sending all the tax money out of state and spending more tax money in a futile attempt to stop it is stubbornly, accurately Idahoan.
Twitter flagging “marijuana” while letting “cannabis” pass smacks of class and race stereotypes of who are the problematic marijuana consumers.
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