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Old 07-21-2014, 11:42 AM
 
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It's just a way of demonizing a cultured weed.
I thought arrest was the popular way in the US?
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Old 07-21-2014, 07:13 PM
 
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This makes our legal system look like a joke. If ignorance is no excuse, then it's no excuse period.
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Old 07-21-2014, 07:15 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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I don't understand the insanity of how a billion is even proposed for a case like this. Her husband clearly knew smoking could endanger his health. Warnings have been administered on a mass scale since the 1980s. He continued his destructive habit and it killed him. Why is this someone else's fault?
It is part of the Democrat war on women.
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Old 07-24-2014, 05:52 PM
 
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They have filed their appeal.

IMO.....this lady will never see a dime from this if she does not settle.
Who says the cigarette companies want to settle?
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