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"I couldn't find a single person at the State of Marijuana Conference '16 on the Queen Mary this week willing to predict anything other than success for Proposition 64, the measure that could legalize cannabis in California for adult recreational use.
Polls continue to show that almost two-thirds of California's likely voters support passage, though things could tighten up closer to election day.
No question, a pungent wind is blowing across America. Already, adult use of marijuana is legal in Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Alaska.
In November, voters in eight other states will be making choices about legalizing recreational and medical marijuana. Like California, Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada could approve the use of recreational pot. Florida, Arkansas and North Dakota voters will consider legalizing medical marijuana (already the standard in 25 states, plus the District of Columbia).
Montana voters will consider easing restrictions on the state's medical marijuana law.
In California, communities up and down the state are scrambling. City councils and boards of supervisors are passing ordinances, moratoriums and bans. Some are courting industry, getting ready to capitalize on what has been described as a coming "green rush." Others are sticking their heads in the sand."
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 15 2016, @08:35AM
I'm that guy who can't get away with anything. I'm that guy who gets the blame whenever anything goes wrong. I'm that guy who gets into trouble for doing something controversial when others would get away with it.
I'm the designated loser.
Marijuana might be legal for some, but if I buy it, I'm sure it'll turn out to be illegal for me, somehow.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 15 2016, @08:52AM
Federal law trumps state law, in almost all cases. The Feds have not legalized pot, so even if you are in a state where it's legal, a federal officer can arrest you. Policy seems to be that they aren't going to bother, but you don't want to be the irritating shit who blows his used smoke in a US Marshall's face. He'll probably get you for assault with smoke, and tack on possession of a controlled substance to help it stick.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 15 2016, @09:04AM
Exactly, so if you're a designated loser, and the cops are already itching for excuses to arrest you, don't buy pot.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday October 15 2016, @06:09PM
I tend to have the same pessimistic attitude. It seems like everybody's out to get me some days.
When I use cannabis on a weekly basis, it's like other people change instead of me. People for whom SSRI antidepressants are effective report something similar.
Of course, I don't recommend going out while high. That's time to make some popcorn and put on Carl Sagan's Cosmos. For a few days afterwards, though, things are better. It also has a similar effect on my body weight and savings account. Magically, I just tend to maintain my ideal body weight and my saving account keeps increasing. Exercising makes me feel good rather than being a chore.
But it's not magic. To look at it another way, when your thinker is out of whack, you're not correctly perceiving reality. Cannabis may not be for everyone, but for some people at least, when SSRIs are ineffective, it seems that it can put the thinker back in whack.
(Disclaimer and rant: when an idiot decides to turn into a deadite because they've found… whatever it is that makes them think you're a minion of Satan from the burning hells, there's little you can do except run. The legal system tends to look poorly on using chainsaws and boomsticks against real life deadites. Well, you can also taunt them by playing the role and running arguments you know are factually incorrect to support OMG gun control and what-have-you. Not like you're going to convince an asshole like that that the Libertarian Party keychain you have isn't a deception. (Then there are the radfems—good grief, sometimes they are out to get you!) BUT, that's just what I deal with. You may be dealing with something different. Cannabis helps one to realize that the person with the problem is the idiot flipping out. You're not the one with the problem.)
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Saturday October 15 2016, @10:50PM
I have found that if I increase my take of marijuana for more than once per week, I work like a drone in my office. If a tough problem comes, it's as if I know the answer but don't know where to start. Otherwise I have found no ill effect of ganja and it is just a shame on humanity that such a great thing has been banned.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 15 2016, @02:59PM
> Trump says mean things sometimes. Clinton means things all the time.
FTFY
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 15 2016, @04:59PM
What she means is, she'll sell you, your family, your freinds, and even your faithful dog to Satan himself, if it will get her the presidency.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday October 15 2016, @08:41PM
Indeed, there is at least one Californian who met all of California's standards for selling medical ganja* who is now in federal prison. To the feds, pot is the same as heroin and worse than meth or crack.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @02:14AM
You might want to go read the 10th amendment again. It is the basis for all of the states pro pot laws, right to try laws for terminal patients and experimental drugs and even a few states gun laws. The feds may try to overstep their bounds but that is not a shock to anyone who knows the constitution. The odds are in freedoms favor though since the entire annual budget of the DEA isn't even enough to clean up Denver. Eventually they will be forced to just give up.