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Trump adviser Roger Stone and Jesse Venture go to the mat to protect state rights vis a vis marijuana legislation.

"I am going to be working with a coalition of Republicans and Democrats, progressives and libertarians, liberals, and conservatives to persuade the president to keep his campaign pledge," Stone said at the Cannabis World Congress and Business Expo, according to Business Insider.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/338232-trump-allies-roger-stone-jesse-ventura-launch-pro-cannabis
 
CH1 said:
Trump adviser Roger Stone and Jesse Venture go to the mat to protect state rights vis a vis marijuana legislation.

"I am going to be working with a coalition of Republicans and Democrats, progressives and libertarians, liberals, and conservatives to persuade the president to keep his campaign pledge," Stone said at the Cannabis World Congress and Business Expo, according to Business Insider.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/338232-trump-allies-roger-stone-jesse-ventura-launch-pro-cannabis
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I don't see them winning this fight, not while Sessions is AG anyway.

The main reason I've avoided the US MJ stocks like the plague....I'd be thrilled if it changed, but I'm not optimistic.
 
MindzEye said:
I don't see them winning this fight, not while Sessions is AG anyway.

The main reason I've avoided the US MJ stocks like the plague....I'd be thrilled if it changed, but I'm not optimistic.
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I'm on the other side of that bet. I think it's too late for Sessions. States like Colorado (and soon California) are banking way too much coin. It's one of the few issues where congress has rallied to bi-partisanship.

Republican Sens. Mike Lee, Rand Paul and Lisa Murkowski join Democratic Sens. Al Franken, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand as initial sponsors of the legislation, which they will announce in a press conference Thursday. A version of the legislation in the House is also attracting bipartisan support.
 
I was worried about Sessions...and I still think the prison system will thrive under him...but these are Republicans, their true bottom line is the dollar; they won't be able to stop this now, way too much money involved.
 
Bleedsblue&white said:
I was worried about Sessions...and I still think the prison system will thrive under him...but these are Republicans, their true bottom line is the dollar; they won't be able to stop this now, way too much money involved.
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Hate to burst your bubble - but that same almighty dollar rules the Democratic party as well.
 
corksens said:
Hate to burst your bubble - but that same almighty dollar rules the Democratic party as well.
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I'm pretty sure that we can say that it doesn't to the same degree. Look at every layer of "job killing regulation" in place, and it was put their by a democrat, or at the least is defended in it's current form by a democrat (once upon a time, a republican president passed environmental legislation that in 2017 would be eviscerated by the republicans if the democrats didn't protect it). Clean Air Act, etc, etc. The democrats have shown the willingness to limit the ability of industry to do whatever the **** it wants with impunity in certain areas. Of course they're beholden to them for campaign funding and such, but they don't appear to have the same blind loyalty to the ideology of money above all else that the Republicans have shown time and time again to have.
 
Some "job killing" regulations don't even kill jobs. Seattle restaurants were supposed to tank after they instituted a $15 min wage. Didn't happen.

Meanwhile, Kansas instituted aggressive tax cuts to spur new growth. Didn't happen.

So much BS ideology. Both sides are guilty but the Dems tend to look at the data to prove they're right. GOP members just know they're right and question the data instead.
 
CH1 said:
Some "job killing" regulations don't even kill jobs. Seattle restaurants were supposed to tank after they instituted a $15 min wage. Didn't happen.

Meanwhile, Kansas instituted aggressive tax cuts to spur new growth. Didn't happen.

So much BS ideology. Both sides are guilty but the Dems tend to look at the data to prove they're right. GOP members just know they're right and question the data instead.
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+1

By GOP theories, California should be a complete wasteland economically...and instead Cali has been carrying the countries growth for years now.
 
So yeah, bubble still holding.
At the top they are all too rich and powerful, but there are levels and degrees...the gop is the Evil Empire right now, evne though the democrats aren't exactly the Rebel Alliance.
 
This is what happens when you antagonize an entire religion. Crazy ignorant people take it upon themselves to carry out vigilante justice. End result = more innocent lives lost.

Just a sad, sad world we live in.
 
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