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21. Well maybe if Hillary hadn't picked a super prohibitionist running mate

Mon Feb 27, 2017, 01:31 PM

Feb 2017

She would have got more support from them. The guy is barely a step or two above Sessions in terms of cannabis policy.
http://marijuanapolitics.com/tim-kaine-marijuana-pain-hillarys-prohibitionist-vp-pick/
Tim Kaine’s regressive and repressive views and votes on marijuana recently earned him into a “hall of shame” over at StopTheDrugWar.com. Just last month, they consolidated NORML’s congressional scorecard, and displayed the names of 26 current US senators to whom they have given an “F” rating on marijuana prohibition. Unsurprisingly, only four were Democrats; unfortunately, one of those four prohibitionists is Tim Kaine. He recently said:

I wouldn’t vote for a law at the federal or state level that would decriminalize marijuana.

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Marijuana Industry Projected To Create More Jobs Than Manufacturing By 2020 [View all] workinclasszero Feb 2017 OP

You REALLY think trump gives a first shit about jobs? angstlessk Feb 2017 #1

You bet. I believe King Trumpf will reopen all the coal mines workinclasszero Feb 2017 #4

Yep, a big coal furnace in every house! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2017 #31

Not only more jobs but increases to rural community incomes across the board randr Feb 2017 #2

If Trump is in office until 2020, we'll be buying the stuff by the pound. Vinca Feb 2017 #3

Yeah, as it's catapulted over the wall! angstlessk Feb 2017 #5

:) Luciferous Feb 2017 #32

Marijuana will save this country and the people in so many ways HoneyBadger Feb 2017 #6

It will if Dump and the republicans don't attack legal MJ workinclasszero Feb 2017 #7

No reasonable person is against legalizing marijuana HoneyBadger Feb 2017 #12

I think he's gonna "nip it in the bud" mitch96 Feb 2017 #8

Big Pharma wants to stop legal MJ too workinclasszero Feb 2017 #9

MJ is an effective pain reliever. It could do a lot to stem the opioid epidemic. And opening up tblue37 Feb 2017 #11

MJ is recreational for most HoneyBadger Feb 2017 #13

Decimalization was a big reason I voted yes to pot fun n serious Feb 2017 #15

Also it helps to kill the cartel business mitch96 Feb 2017 #16

Prohibition helped organized crime become big business in the US. nt tblue37 Feb 2017 #22

It's too late for that. Warren DeMontague Feb 2017 #24

That's provided the Trump Administration keeps its fingers out of it... yuiyoshida Feb 2017 #10

The Weed Industry Was A Breeding Ground otohara Feb 2017 #19

That's a pretty broad statement... yuiyoshida Feb 2017 #20

Well maybe if Hillary hadn't picked a super prohibitionist running mate Calculating Feb 2017 #21

From Leafly otohara Feb 2017 #23

We made a tactical error not embracing legalization, because as I noted it is widely popular Warren DeMontague Feb 2017 #33

friendly suggestion? let it go, already. Warren DeMontague Feb 2017 #28

Easy For You otohara Feb 2017 #39

Well. Shes not running again. And neither, for that matter, is bernie. Warren DeMontague Feb 2017 #40

Speaking of.. fun n serious Feb 2017 #14

This message was self-deleted by its author otohara Feb 2017 #17

So in MA we just approved recreational marijuana. However there are no retail sellers seaglass Feb 2017 #18

That was the process in all the recreationally legal states; it takes time to get the system up and Warren DeMontague Feb 2017 #25

Yes there is definitely some tinkering as the top leaders in MA were against legalization. seaglass Feb 2017 #30

Yes there is definitely some tinkering mitch96 Feb 2017 #36

Herein WA it is as much an industry as any agriculture. nolabear Feb 2017 #26

Happy workers!! lunatica Feb 2017 #27

This helps criminals scscholar Feb 2017 #29

..i think you forgot the sarcasm tag. Warren DeMontague Feb 2017 #34

Wut? Calculating Feb 2017 #35

It is illegal in the US scscholar Feb 2017 #37

Hence the point of legalizing it? Calculating Feb 2017 #38

it's illegal cuz its bad and it's bad because it's illegal. Warren DeMontague Feb 2017 #42

I agree obviously, but it is still illegal scscholar Feb 2017 #43

and the authority of the federal government to dither around in it when it doesn't involve Warren DeMontague Feb 2017 #44

Good. You go ahead, then, and send Willie Nelson to prison. Warren DeMontague Feb 2017 #41