[brown_thumb]

Originally Posted by sdd420

It doesn't matter what the suits do just keep on keeping on. I'm not going to stop no matter what. No government can take away what God gave me

I beg to differ.

[brown_thumb]

Texas is Unique among the states...

https://thetexasrepublic.com/what-makes-texas-unique/

[EsterEssence]

In 1979 they came through the valley I live in, the folks that didn't get busted panic pulled everything, all the cannabis was immature or gone. If they want it gone all they have to have is the money to make the raids...

[Crazy Chester]

Originally Posted by resin_lung

Ask a question....get an answer. Like you said, oversimplification but more than I've ever really thought about in regards to breaking up.

I just know that shits hard to do. Once heard a song about it! Wanna hear it? Hear it go.....

https://youtu.be/tbad22CKlB4

Hahaha

Seriously though... thanks for the reply Chester. Can't say ya swayed me yet brother but I think your third on the board. I mean I got my thoughts and then I got what I take in from everywhere else. MjPassion is top of the list. Moose snuck in into the second spot and BAM! Theres Chesters 2 cents in third spot! You could have been 2nd but.....ya left me hangin for too long bro. 3rd gonna have to do. Gonna try in get pops thought on this before too many more strangers fill the list!haha

I've always wondered like why the Dakotas got a divorce? Or the Carolinas? As usual....I don't doubt the lack marital bliss was financial?(raisin Arizona))lol Was it Hatfield n McCoy type stuff?

@moose- So far I'm thinking labotomy is the easiest to pull off. Again... oversimplification, but.....not as much!lol

I got some reading to do about it but I may have to just let everybody's ideas sit in a jar with mine for a while. Let my skull adjust! BECAUSE MY BRAIN!!!!!

LOL - One thing is for sure, you and Neil Sedaka are right - breaking up IS hard to do! No doubt about it. If I've ever discerned a true trait of human nature it is that we humans got a real problem with change - any kind of change. What is known is always preferred to what is yet to be known.

It's like the Stockholm Syndrome - no matter how bad the abuse - the hostage will prefer his/her captors over freedom because they are used to it and their captors keep them alive. The trauma of the captivity clouds the hostage's judgment until they cannot see the benefits offered by freedom from the abusive captivity due to their fear of death, so they choose bare survival.

The problem with resistance to change is that, from my observation of this world around me, every thing is ALWAYS changing, whether any of us like it or not.

The trend for hundreds of years has been that the change happening among political territories has been that they've come together and formed bigger and bigger groupings. As change is constant, that will eventually have to change and those bigger groupings will fall apart - it is inevitable. It doesn't matter whether we like it or not, or fear it or not - it's just gonna happen.

Personally, I like the smaller political groupings. The smaller they get, the more influential my voice (and the others within that smaller grouping) get. I prefer that to being part of a larger grouping (the US) being led by a bunch of dingbats like I have to suffer now.

So change is constant. The US broke from the British whether the loyalists liked it or not. No doubt the loyalists realized their fears about what might happen were unfounded after the Revolutionary War resolved in favor of the Americans (seemingly).

As to the Carolinas and the Dakotas, I've never heard of any "Hatfield/McCoy" action being the reason for them having both North and South flavors.

The war between the states, i.e., the Civil War, now that was some real "Hatfield/McCoy" type stuff.

Being a natural born Yankee, I nonetheless couldn't understand the whole "can't" break from the Union type stuff. Well, I guess if you are going to fight me and win, well, then, I guess I can't leave the Union. But, to say there's no "right" to break from a Union of states is just BS to me. There's no basis in law or reason for that.

I've always thought the South had the right to break off from the other states and that such a decision should have been respected by the other states.

Instead - just a whole lot of needless bloodshed ensued:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM

There you go, moose eater - yet another great song by The Band!

[Crazy Chester]

Originally Posted by moose eater

So even if departing the Union were a real possibility, Uncle Schmuck isn't going to let that idea gain any altitude.

I think the better path is to either 1.) Convince Congress (and the voters) that it's in their best interests to get over themselves where the drug war is concerned, and use a different tactic,

or,

2.) engage in sneak lobotomies or brain transplants for the likes of Sessions and Trump.

Now you've sniffed out the strategy. The real threat of 40% of the economy breaking off from the Union is one of the very few possibilities that I can see to "persuade" Congress to do the right and sane thing concerning the drug war. The added benefit would be if succession actually prevailed - well, then California would be free of every other evil the US has perpetrated as well, not merely freedom from the drug war.

As for your number two, as you have pointed out - you can't have a lobotomy when there's no brain there to begin with - lol.

As far as sneaking some brains into the deep space vacuums that currently occupies their skulls - I say, nay - their dumb-ass bodies would just reject the transplant!

[vta]

Update



Rohrabacher-Blumenauer medical marijuana protections extended by debt limit deal


“We have at least three months of certainty now, but the fight isn’t over.”

By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff

Existing federal protections for medical marijuana states are expected to continue through at least Dec. 8.

The $15.3 billion disaster aid package, debt limit increase and government spending extension approved by Congress on Friday includes the existing Rohrabacher-Blumenauer provision, which prevents the Justice Department from using funds to interfere with the 46 states that have legalized some form of medical marijuana.

The aid bill, which was sent to President Donald Trump, extends the omnibus legislation passed in May and will fund the government through Dec. 8.

The short-term spending fix is also a short-term victory for Rohrabacher-Blumenauer sponsors, which were dealt a blow by the House Rules Committee earlier this week. The legislative committee nixed the amendment from House consideration for the fiscal year 2018 funding bill.

“We have at least three months of certainty now, but the fight isn’t over,” officials for Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, told The Cannabist on Friday.

That fight includes efforts to land the provision in the final spending bill, officials said, noting the language was included in the Senate Appropriations Committee’s approved version of the bill.

[Crazy Chester]

Thanks for the update, vta. I can breathe a sigh of relief now - at least until December 8!

[oldchuck]

Thanks for the update vta. I still don't think they can possibly bust us all. There must be millions now. If Sessions goes for even one legal state all the others would resist. The feds couldn't handle it.

[AgentPothead]

Thanks for keeping us in the loop vta!

[MJPassion]

Thanks for the update vta.
At last we know most of the harvest will be fine.