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The Free Thought Project reports
When Colorado took the historic step of restoring freedom by legalizing the recreational use of cannabis, [Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt did a survey of] law enforcement agencies and district attorneys across Kansas.
[...] The results are in, and it's unwelcome news for drug war fanatics. According to The Kansas City Star:
"The amount of marijuana being confiscated appears to be dropping quickly...
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported that the number of marijuana stops has gone down since marijuana was legalized in 2014. And the amount of marijuana seized has decreased by almost half." [...] "In some jurisdictions, law enforcement are no longer enforcing marijuana laws much, and even when they do, it has become difficult to win convictions. Users may receive a fine in one county, probation or jail in another, and told to move along in others.[...] "Some juries are refusing to hand out marijuana convictions [...] according to the district attorney in Labette County.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by NCommander on Tuesday October 25 2016, @08:43AM
I think a lot of it at the moment is distrust of the government is at an all-time high, and its having a collective effect of causing people to think more instead of listening to authority.
I don't want to call it groupthink per-say, but there is a tendency in humans that when you hear something from someone/something you trust, you're much more inclined to act in that way. If you're distrustful of a source of information, then it goes a long way in getting people to analyze and look at information.
Still always moving
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @10:52AM
Heh. I'll bet aristarchus could tell you some great stories along those lines--maybe even the one about when Andrew Jackson was running for president.
[it's] having a collective effect of causing people to think more
I would hope so.
...then I see people getting behind 3 of the 4 leading presidential candidates and "think" doesn't seem quite the word.
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per-say
I've seen you do that one before.
It's Latin: per se. [google.com]
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by HiThere on Tuesday October 25 2016, @07:12PM
Look again. NONE of the candidates running for President would make a good President. NONE of them. Some are worse than others. In my mind, Trump is the worst, but that doesn't make any of the others good.
The current selection of presidential hopefuls is a good argument for replacing elections with a lottery. It would be hard to do much worse than Trump, and he's currently one of the two most probable winners. (The difference from a standard lottery is that tickets would not be sold, and nobody would have more than one.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday October 25 2016, @07:54PM
Hell. anyone who wants the job shouldn't be allowed to have it. They should have to grab you kicking and screaming into the Oval Office. ...same for Senate and Representative positions, now I think of it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @08:56PM
NONE of the candidates running for President would make a good President
Green Party nominee Jill Stein has a platform that, in significant ways, is an update of FDR's New Deal.
FDR's plan was what got us out of the previous giant hole.
That is to say that it has a successful track record.
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(Score: 1, Troll) by linuxrocks123 on Wednesday October 26 2016, @12:10AM
Jill Stein is economically illiterate. Her campaign promise to order the Federal Reserve (which the President can't do) to "use quantitative easing to erase all student debt" (which is impossible, an absurd thing to even say, and shows she knows nothing about what quantitative easing even is) sufficiently demonstrates this. Her economic policy proposals are basically Trump's wall, but for liberals.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 26 2016, @01:52AM
Hyperbole.
Now, she isn't quite as savvy as Ellen Brown, who ran on the Green Party ticket for California State Treasurer (and got my vote).
Ellen is a smart babe who knows how to save a state big bucks.
She talks up The Bank of North Dakota every chance she gets and notes that THAT is the way to do things. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [commondreams.org]
order the Federal Reserve (which the President can't do)
Yeah, that cartel of PRIVATE bankers is something we should abolish.
Go back to a PUBLIC Bank of the USA like we had before.
quantitative easing
Yeah, giving more money to the 1 Percent hasn't improved things so far.
We should stop doing that.
A better way would be to let the student loans default, have the gov't buy those up for pennies on the dollar, and sell them back to the students at that reduced cost.
Let the banksters eat it.
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