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Anybody who gets the cuffs slapped on them and hauled off to booking “is in jail for simple possession or for just smoking pot.”
“I detect the odor of marijuana” is the magic incantation used by law enforcement to make your 4th & 5th Amendment rights disappear.
If cops can just fire their weapons at will into innocent peoples’ homes when residents like Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend use the Second Amendment to defend their homes, and cops can just shoot innocent homeowners in their backyards like Joseph Johnson when they use the Second Amendment to defend their homes, what good is the Second Amendment?
The Senate has already made national news for the efforts of an ironically-named State Sen. C. Scott Grow trying to pass a constitutional amendment to forever ban medical marijuana.
“This legislation will ensure illegal drugs stay illegal.” That’s the thrust of C. Scott Grow’s amendment to enshrine drug prohibition forever into the Idaho Constitution.
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.
Data from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission show that the legal marijuana shops in the tiny Oregon/Idaho border town of Ontario have topped over $103 million in sales in just over sixteen months of operation.
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.”
This year, high school drug use rates in the United States are the lowest ever recorded. In fact, every year for the past four years has set a record for the lowest monthly drug use rates by high school seniors.
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.”
I used to be a Twitter power user, but since Elongated Muskrat has turned it into a Nazi pub, I have migrated to Mastodon.
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