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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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You won't see me disputing that. Basically my stance on legalization is that if you can't easily overdose on it, I'm all for it, since it lets us maintain quality and cut out some of the criminals. If you can easily overdose, well, at that point I tend towards wanting to keep it illegal.
edited 20th Feb '17 10:50:33 AM by AmbarSonofDeshar
Figuring out in high school that I'm terrible at substance control, if not outright an addictive personality, remains one of the best things to have happened to me. I'd hate to think where I'd be now if I'd ever gotten startes on alcohol or any drugs.
It still hasn't entirely sunk in for me that it's legal here. I still doubletake everytime I see a billboard for it.
Milo Yiannoupolos disinvited from CPAC
over the pedophilia comments.
It was only a matter of time before he went a BIT too far.
I tend towards full legalization of drugs as I feel the root of the drug use problem is systemic. But then, I'm also in favor of legalizing physician assisted suicide so maybe my ideas of agency are outside the norm. Not that it matters much if we won't get our act together and build a sane medical system in this country to treat the epidemic that is drug abuse.
edited 20th Feb '17 11:07:12 AM by Lanceleoghauni
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"I want to drive a nail to the heads of the people who claim smoking cannabis is more healthy than smoking regular cigarettes.
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Dem libruls and their safe spaces shutting off speakers they don't agree with...Oh wait!
edited 20th Feb '17 11:13:27 AM by AngelusNox
Inter arma enim silent legesPersonally, I'd like for marijuana to be legalized, but stuff like heroin and meth I'm perfectly fine with keeping illegal.
I do, however, think that sentences for mere possession should be relaxed considerably.
Oh God! Natural light!It's worth noting that heroin was legal until we found out how addictive opioids were.
And in fact, heroin was legal even after opioids were banned because the company holding the patent claimed (based on research their team had made that curiously had never been replicated) it wasn't addictive. They sued the federal government and while the case was ongoing you could still buy heroin in stores.
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.Entirely out of curiosity, what's the dependency rate on caffeine? Pretty sure I've got a chemical addiction to that one, and it never gets brought up in discussions of addictive substances.
Because for sure smoking unfiltered burning paper and herbs is totally going to do wonders to your lungs.
A lot of people who smoke cannabis actually don't use paper at all. In my state, bubblers, vape pens, and edibles are more common than actual joints.
edited 20th Feb '17 11:39:23 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Caffeine's a little weird. Caffeine will give you a boost...until you get addicted to it, at which time it will bring you up to the level of energy of people who avoid caffeine live at normally. So, basically, the only benefit caffeine gives you (giving you energy) only exists because dependency on caffeine takes away some of the energy that you would otherwise have.
I'm supportive of legalization, but certain pot activists can really drive me up the wall sometimes. "Oh, marijuana actually cures cancer, but the government and the drug companies are hiding that information because of greed. I read it on the internet." [gives me the web address of some ridiculous conspiracy site or a quack doctor]
[The Hill] GOP loses top Senate contenders
: Some politicians that the GOP was expecting to have as challengers for dem held Senate seats seem to be unwilling to run.
I think, at least at this point, that the House Republicans think that the Senate could still stay Republican, but they know that the House is most likely going to turn Blue unless they stay in and try to keep their main constituencies. If they leave the House to try to become Senators, and only Tea Partiers and Trumpeteer Republicans run to replace them, they'll lose even more seats to the Democrats. If they stay around, they have a better chance of keeping Moderates and Neocons from Voting Democrat or not voting at all.
The AJC is enjoying its new accolade
Save the American Way sent the email pitch ...allegedly in support of Handel, a former Georgia secretary of state who is one of 18 candidates in the April 18 race to replace U.S. Rep. Tom Price. The solicitation included this passage:
“If elected to Congress, she will work to build a wall on the border and end Muslim immigration. She is also a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and a huge advocate for balancing the budget. As a conservative Christian, she is also 100% pro-life.”
Handel said in a statement:
“I support aggressive, legal and constitutional means to protect our country and secure our borders,” she said. “I do not, however, support the use of a religious litmus test in determining an individual’s immigration status.”
The PAC didn’t return a request for comment, but a growing number of political action committees with dubious links to candidates or causes, and with a target of raising small-dollar donations, are cropping up.
For her part, Handel also said:
“If nothing else, I’m independent. My job, first and foremost, is to represent the best interests of the 6th,” Handel said. “There will be many times when I’m supportive of the president’s initiatives, and when I’m not, my job is to make them work better for the Sixth.”
but they know that the House is most likely going to turn Blue
Hahahahaha no.
The Republicans have such a huge inbuilt advantage in the house that they are favored to keep it, even with Trump's record unpopularity. Also note that midterms favor the Republicans.
The democrats will probably make gains, but gaining the majority is a longshot in the best of times.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayYou're mistaken.
It's too early to talk about what the odds are with any kind of certainly, but historical averages suggest the Democrats will gain enough to overcome the structural disadvantages.
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That. Gerrymandering doesn't mean "Bam! Now districts are magically impossible to swing", it means "with these data about how the people vote in this state, we can assume that if we draw the districts like this they should probably end up with electoral results in this range on normal elections", if something managed to change one of those assumptions, like for example, Trump being so disgusting or incompetent that the educated (not rich, educated) whites switch in mass to the Democrats*, then some districts assumed to be safely republican will now be in play.
* To answer the likely argument of "they didn't switch in 2016", it's far easier to dismiss Trump as "liberal hysteria" or "fear campaigning" when he's not been elected, if he's governing then it's a different matter.
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KVI can't tell you about the House, but we may have at least one test for the bipartisan reach out vs Dem zerg rush grand strategies.
A Tale of Two Georgias
Parsing the silence of Sally Yates, the new hero of Georgia Democrats
By the next Tuesday morning, Georgia Democrats were talking about the gift they had been given only months before the 2018 race for governor cranks up in earnest. Without saying a word in public, she had become a hero to millions of Democratic voters. Money would flow like honey from anti-Trump enthusiasts. “I’ll tell you, a woman who prosecuted a whole bunch of Atlanta politicians, with Republican support and now a full-throated stand against Donald Trump — well, that might be the magic bullet,” said Seth Clark, an experienced Democratic campaign hand.
As a potential politician, Yates is attractive because of her bipartisan appeal. She was brought into the Justice Department in 1989 by Bob Barr, a Republican who was U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia at the time.
A Trump stronghold in Georgia stands by him on his 1-month mark
“If Donald Trump walked in here, within 10 minutes I’d slap him — he’s so arrogant,” Yarber declared. “But we need someone who is going to stand up. We need a man in the White House.”
Virtually no other place in Georgia was as supportive of Trump as Banks County, a sparsely populated area where nearly 9 out of every 10 residents voted for the Republican.
It’s hard to find a Democrat here. It’s even harder to find a Trump supporter who regrets his or her vote. And interviews with two dozen Banks County residents as the president approaches his one-month anniversary in the White House on Monday quickly revealed a few constants.
Most residents here brush off reports of chaos in the White House and reject the narrative that his administration is sinking into scandal and ineptitude. They feel his attacks on the media are justified. And they are somewhat concerned — if bemused — that he remains the same say-anything Trump he was on the campaign trail.

edited 20th Feb '17 10:11:32 AM by Euodiachloris