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This is a states issue. Let Texas do what it wants in this regard and avoid Texas if you do not want to be caught with a drug. I personally believe it should be legal in every state, but then again, that's up to the state to decide and the feds should get out of it altogether.
In a somewhat related (freedom to "be") case, a Fed judge just ruled Teachers don't have to sign a "I love Israel" pledge....which Texas had forced upon them.
Sooner or later, Texas will be dragged...kicking and screaming...into the modern Free World.
But maybe not before it takes down the ACA
What burns me the most is that over the years when Perry was governor and then Abbott, our state/state’s AG has WASTED so much money trying to pass laws or challenge Federal laws that the arch-conservatives, religious right support but really not that many average Texans
And they lost—-they have wasted millions of TX tax dollars—some of them mine—in this alt-right attempt to roll back time...
They KNOW they will lose in the courts but they don’t care because it is part of their campaign efforts to win reelection
Texas has low voter turn out
Most people with a liberal/moderate attitude just don’t vote much of the time because districts are gerrymandered to support the conservative GOP candidates...
When Beto ran a state-wide campaign he did lot to empower more liberal/moderate voters so that ground work has been laid
The state legislature has crapped on public education and educators for decades and over the past two years has started to feel that those involved in education—especially retired teachers and others—are fed up with the legislature treating state employees (themselves included in that category) much better than the state’s education employees—who have separate pension and health plans—-
Now the legislature is scared they better do something to placate those normally conservative voters before the next state wide elections...
There is a bill before the Legislature to pay into the teacher retirement fund some back contributions the legislature refused to pay over the years and to give retired teachers a one-time pension bump
This is ONLY because they are afraid they have p-o’ed this strong voting block...
Not because they CARE about their responsibility to pay the state’s share of teacher regiment funding or health care funding...
They use a totally separate formula for state and teacher plans—
The state’s plan is funded no matter the budget problems—not so the educators’ plans...
It’s illegal. Don’t bring illegal things to an airport. Not sure why this is an issue for debate. If you don’t think drugs should be illegal then write your Congress person.
It’s illegal. Don’t bring illegal things to an airport. Not sure why this is an issue for debate. If you don’t think drugs should be illegal then write your Congress person.
Libs are way ok with ridiculous gun laws in CA and NY though. Hypocrites. The burger king menu of following laws.
I have yet to see a functional, educated person caught up in this CBD fad. It’s always trashy and/or poor people on facebook.
Just saying...
That’s unfortunate. Our best friends have a 15 year-old son who was a perfect baby and toddler until the age of 3, when he was afflicted with Lennox - Gastaut Syndrome, a terrible form of childhood-onset epilepsy. He stopped learning dead in his tracks, and maintained the mind of a three year-old until he was 11, when his parents put him on a trial of CBD oil. His sudden onset was a tragedy that still haunts me.
He is FOUR YEARS SEIZURE FREE now. FOUR years! From multiple seizures every single day to NONE. His parents have testified before Congress as to the miracle that we have all seen take place. It’s truly amazing to see what it has done for him.
The damage is done, and C will be behind forever ... but he is catching up! His speech, conversational ability, cognitive ability ... ALL improving even four years into his CBD trial.
So just OBEY and COMPLY, no matter what...right? LOL
Would you have been one of those people back in the 1950s and 60s, that were calling police because a black person was seated in the 'wrong section' in a restaurant or on a bus, or drank from the 'wrong' water fountain?! Keep in mind though, today, its the people that refused to comply or disobeyed, that are recognized as doing the right thing.
When laws are unjust, it is our DUTY to refuse to comply/ disobey.
no. people who "refuse to comply or disobey" are looked at as dweebs. I am assuming you are referring to "protesters." literally the most embarrassing group of people in united states history.
It's so sweet of that LE, many corrupt themselves, to "let you off" on their own personal decision...and "do you a favor" of not making a felon out of you.
I guess people in those states look at Freedom differently than some of us.
Not sure what you're getting at here. My point about the LE officer is that he and others routinely make traffic stops where they smell marijuana in the car and seize pot and limit it to a minor traffic warning if half an ounce for example is found in the car. The guy I know used an example of when he pulled an AA guy over for speeding and the heavy scent of marijuana was obvious. He simply asked the guy to be honest with him after he initially hemmed and hawed about having any weed in his car. The driver admitted he did and the LE officer simply seized it and let him off with a warning. Not exactly an example of the police state tactics you're describing.
You obviously don't get the point......sorry. I think many people do.
There is no reason "to be honest" or not...LE officers have let off millions of buzzed drivers and continue to do so. The laws are also quite lax even when charged in some locales.
I'm ready for the Era of Self-Driving cars....which will end some of the vast abuses of our freedoms by LE.
Even in NJ where I lived for 25 years, many people who were "of color" would not even drive through the edges of the wrong towns. That's in the 1990's.
The idea that LE is "letting us off" in itself disgusts me...perhaps it is because my sisters friends, who were underage at the time, were given certain propositions by said LE regarding the pot that was found in their car. This was reportedly quite normal....one couldn't even report it, because they would be laughed at.
I have yet to see a functional, educated person caught up in this CBD fad. It’s always trashy and/or poor people on facebook.
Just saying...
Trashy poor people could buy opiates cheaper. Or really strong weed.
In a day and age when millions are taking SSRIs or whatever - many of them barely performing better than placebo, your statement falls on deaf ears. Perhaps big Pharma doesn't like vitamins, supplements, CDB or even weed...but that's no reason people can't use it.
Assuming it does nothing....then what's the problem?? Would they arrest me for concentrated apple juice tincture?
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