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House Members Pass Historic Legislation Legitimizing Retail Cannabis Sales
Posted on 9/25/19 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 9/25/19 at 4:54 pm
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Members of the House of Representatives voted 321 to 103 in favor, representing 79% of the vote of HR 1595: The SAFE Banking Act, which amends federal law so that explicitly banks and other financial institutions may work directly with state-legal marijuana businesses.
This historic vote marks the first time ever that a chamber of Congress has ever held a successful floor vote on a stand-alone piece of marijuana reform legislation.
Today’s vote is a significant victory for the cannabis reform movement and here’s why: for the first time ever, a supermajority of the House voted affirmatively to recognize that the legalization and regulation of marijuana is a superior public policy to prohibition and criminalization.
baby steps
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Posted on 9/25/19 at 4:59 pm to cgrand
Yeah this is huge. Now they can act like normal business owners instead of relying on their own cash or finding private investors.
Posted on 9/25/19 at 4:59 pm to cgrand
Decriminalize.
Don't legalize.
Just like, my opinion.. man.
Don't legalize.
Just like, my opinion.. man.
Posted on 9/25/19 at 5:00 pm to m2pro
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Decriminalize.
Don't legalize.
nerd
Posted on 9/25/19 at 5:01 pm to cgrand
Disappointed to see people putting money ahead of morals
Posted on 9/25/19 at 5:01 pm to cgrand
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House Members Pass Historic Legislation Legitimizing Retail Cannabis Sales
Yeah, business types know they can make money on this and that's what they are going to do.
Posted on 9/25/19 at 5:02 pm to cgrand
They must have hit the weed afterwards if they think they're impeaching Trump over that Ukraine shite.
Posted on 9/25/19 at 5:02 pm to cgrand
Maybe my investment in LVVV won’t be a complete bust now 
that’s a lie...i already know
that’s a lie...i already know This post was edited on 9/25/19 at 5:03 pm
Posted on 9/25/19 at 5:02 pm to cgrand
quote:How many of Louisiana's six votes were a part of that 103?
voted 321 to 103 in favor
Posted on 9/25/19 at 5:04 pm to danilo
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Danilo
I sure hope that’s a heavy dose of sarcasm 
Posted on 9/25/19 at 5:06 pm to danilo
quote:Yeah like keeping the possession of a harmless plant illegal for an easy way to bump up and keep up numbers for private prisons.
Disappointed to see people putting money ahead of morals
Posted on 9/25/19 at 5:23 pm to Harry Caray
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Yeah like keeping the possession of a harmless plant illegal for an easy way to bump up and keep up numbers for private prisons.
My point on decriminalization is exactly because of this. I couldn't care less about the "morality" of it b/c it's not my position to control others actions. Government shouldn't intervene until YOUR rights infringe on MY rights (etc). Decriminalization keeps people out of jail but also keeps 100's of shops popping up in each town and making weed super accessible to everyone very easily. I certainly have no problem with people making a ton of money off of it.. I just feel like if you make drugs taxed and legal, then a fair amount more people will be using weed than would be using weed.
Weed isn't a drug that moves society to be more productive.
I just think the government has no business in telling anyone what they can and cannot put into their bodies. Posted on 9/25/19 at 5:41 pm to Harry Caray
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Yeah like keeping the possession of a harmless plant illegal for an easy way to bump up and keep up numbers for private prisons.
Harmless? I believe weed is what has lead to all these opioid addicts
Posted on 9/25/19 at 5:41 pm to Harry Caray
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How many of Louisiana's six votes were a part of that 103?
Ralph Abraham loves him some opioids
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“Again, as a physician, let me tell you. What I see in my practice, from any level of marijuana use, is bad,” Abraham stated. “I’m against recreational, I’m against medical. In the medical profession, for these chronic pain, poor cancer patients that need help, we have other alternatives that work better, Dilaudid, OxyContin, you name it, Oxycodone
In Abraham's home parish, there are 113 opiod prescriptions for every 100 people.
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In Mangham (2017 population: 638), Abraham’s pharmacy supplied enough opioid medication to provide every man, woman, and child 6.1 doses every year (or 43 pills in total) for seven consecutive years; his pharmacy in Winnsboro (2017 population: 4,652) could have provided every resident 4.4 doses per year (or 31 in total).
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Aside from the staggering volume of opioids that Abraham’s two rural pharmacies dispensed from 2006 to 2012, there is one other detail that is impossible to ignore: With only one insignificant exception, he ordered all of his supply, nearly 1.5 million doses, from a single distributor, the Shreveport-based, family-owned company Morris & Dickson. Morris & Dickson is the second-largest opioid distributor in the state of Louisiana, or at least it once was. On May 2nd, 2018, the DEA suspended the company from distributing controlled substances, after a months-long investigation revealed it had been supplying pharmacies with massive shipments of opioids, in direct violation of the law.
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et only sixteen days after it issued the suspension, the DEA withdrew it
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Dickson, a prolific donor to Republican politicians and PACs, has already contributed the maximum to Abraham’s gubernatorial campaign; so has Dickson’s wife. Dickson was recently named as a member of Abraham’s campaign finance committee.
This post was edited on 9/25/19 at 5:44 pm
Posted on 9/25/19 at 5:46 pm to cgrand
So let me get this straight.
AT the same time vaping is being presented as the greatest crisis facing the earth outside of global warming it's full steam ahead on promoting filling your lungs with a different kind of smoke?
Maw, it is a miracle plant, no health issues for anybody anywhere no matter how much usage soars, other than the additional saps killed by high drivers.
AT the same time vaping is being presented as the greatest crisis facing the earth outside of global warming it's full steam ahead on promoting filling your lungs with a different kind of smoke?
Maw, it is a miracle plant, no health issues for anybody anywhere no matter how much usage soars, other than the additional saps killed by high drivers.
Posted on 9/25/19 at 5:47 pm to gthog61
quote:What an idiot
AT the same time vaping is being presented as the greatest crisis facing the earth outside of global warming it's full steam ahead on promoting filling your lungs with a different kind of smoke?
Posted on 9/25/19 at 5:51 pm to danilo
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Harmless? I believe weed is what has lead to all these opioid addicts
Been smoking for over 20 years.
Not once did I feel the need to go that route.
Posted on 9/25/19 at 5:53 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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JohnnyKilroy
thank you
the hypocrisy is staggering
Posted on 9/25/19 at 6:06 pm to danilo
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Danilo
So you weren’t being sarcastic. You are just dumb. Got it.
Posted on 9/25/19 at 6:09 pm to LSUintheNW
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Harmless? I believe weed is what has lead to all these opioid addicts
I think it’s the highly addictive characteristics of opioids that led to all those addicts.
Is big pharma gonna blame weed dealers for the billions they owe for the opioid crisis?
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