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Navy salad Member
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Bedivere Why Do Witches Burn?
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Why Do Witches Burn?
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Fri Dec 12, 2014 12:07 pm
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Good. And the sooner people get over their irrational fear of weed, the better.
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Cyclopath Faster than light
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Fri Dec 12, 2014 12:24 pm
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If people can't garden as they see fit, we're not talking about sovereign lands.
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snoqpass Member
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Fri Dec 12, 2014 12:59 pm
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Bedivere wrote: | Good. And the sooner people get over their irrational fear of weed, the better. |
The Yakamas don't share your view, they are trying to stop sales and growing on non-tribal land off the reservation they have fishing and hunting rights on
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trestle Member
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Fri Dec 12, 2014 1:26 pm
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snoqpass wrote: | Bedivere wrote: | Good. And the sooner people get over their irrational fear of weed, the better. |
The Yakamas don't share your view, they are trying to stop sales and growing on non-tribal land off the reservation they have fishing and hunting rights on |
If it's non-tribal land, they should shut the hell up. They have enough control already over so much of that part of the state.
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nuclear_eggset Member
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I do not understand the irrational fear of pot. Our city council seems to have it too (including medicinal marijuana, which I *really* don't understand). Annoys me to no end.
(Backstory - I've been a little involved in city council happenings over the past few months due to unrelated activity, and learned a little about the city putting a temporary ban on the growing/sale of any kind of marijuana in our city. I kind of get that - the city is in a bit of an odd legal position with the discrepancy between state and federal law and there's also a lot of ambiguity from the state on regulations as well. So they want to cover their legal butts. Okie dokie. But then they want a city wide ban even after that's all sorted out? SMH!)
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Bedivere Why Do Witches Burn?
Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 7464 | TRs | Pics Location: The Hermitage |
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Fri Dec 12, 2014 1:46 pm
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Many many people are perfectly happy to be told what to think. It's just so much easier for some people to not have to worry about figuring things out for themselves. Their whole lives they've lived with the government (which must have their best interests at heart, right?) telling them "marijuana is bad." Beer, liquor, tobacco, and any number of prescription and OTC drugs are acceptable, but not pot. Now our society is finally starting to wake up to the reality that maybe people getting stoned isn't so bad after all, and maybe there is actual medicinal value in this plant, but too many people aren't willing to look objectively at the situation as that would require them to challenge their own long-held beliefs. This is why the "think of the children" angle gets used so much when talking about where weed can be grown, processed, and sold yet no one is using that argument against the burgeoning craft brewing and distilling industry. Can't have a shop selling weed where little Johnny and Sally might walk past it, but a grocery store full of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs is just fine.
It's completely irrational, but then so is so much of what is considered normal and acceptable that it really shouldn't be a surprise.
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Navy salad Member
Joined: 09 Sep 2008 Posts: 1864 | TRs | Pics Location: Woodinville |
snoqpass wrote: | The Yakamas don't share your view, they are trying to stop sales and growing on non-tribal land off the reservation they have fishing and hunting rights on |
I read that as well, but I'll betcha some of the more business-oriented tribes jump on this, especially in states where it's legalized.
bedivere wrote: | Now our society is finally starting to wake up to the reality that maybe people getting stoned isn't so bad after all, and maybe there is actual medicinal value in this plant, but too many people aren't willing to look objectively at the situation as that would require them to challenge their own long-held beliefs. This is why the "think of the children" angle gets used so much when talking about where weed can be grown, processed, and sold yet no one is using that argument against the burgeoning craft brewing and distilling industry. Can't have a shop selling weed where little Johnny and Sally might walk past it, but a grocery store full of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs is just fine. |
Well said!
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Bedivere Why Do Witches Burn?
Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 7464 | TRs | Pics Location: The Hermitage |
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Fri Dec 12, 2014 1:52 pm
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When you can buy a bag of weed, a six pack of beer, and a bag of chips at 7-11 and there are no more articles anywhere in the media with headings like "10 actors you won't believe are gay" or "10 people you would never guess are black" I'll believe we have progressed down the road of rationality by just a tiny bit.
Until then I'm pretty sure we're collectively insane
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