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KFC (NYSE:YUM) Gets Occupational Business License To Sell Marijuana In Colorado Restaurants.

But I am kinda hungry

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Michigan May Legalize Recreational Marijuana Before November Ballot
In an effort to suppress a weed voter bump, Michigan may legalize recreational marijuana before November ballot.

What seems on its surface like an early win for cannabis advocates in Michigan may, in fact, be an attempt to rig the state’s upcoming general election. The question of legalizing recreational marijuana will appear on the November ballot, and voters are expected to turn out to register their support. But the prospect of higher voter turnout has some GOP lawmakers in Lansing worried. Concerned better turnout could impact other races, they’ve begun discussing ways to take legalization off the ballot. But broad support for the issue leaves them with just one move. And that’s why Michigan may legalize recreational marijuana before November ballot.


What seems on its surface like an early win for cannabis advocates in Michigan may, in fact, be an attempt to rig the state’s upcoming general election. The question of legalizing recreational marijuana will appear on the November ballot, and voters are expected to turn out to register their support. But the prospect of higher voter turnout has some GOP lawmakers in Lansing worried. Concerned better turnout could impact other races, they’ve begun discussing ways to take legalization off the ballot. But broad support for the issue leaves them with just one move. And that’s why Michigan may legalize recreational marijuana before November ballot.

Historically, higher voter turnouts tend to favor more liberal or progressive candidates. In other words, more voters typically means more Democrats in office.

No wonder Republican-controlled state legislatures have made voter-suppression tactics a staple of their political strategy. And their efforts have accelerated in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision to strike down a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Voter-suppression tactics include things like closing polling locations, issuing strict ID laws, voter purging and disenfranchisement. Gerrymandering, or the redrawing of election districts to favor particular candidates, is another way of distorting democratic representation.

And in these areas, Michigan is one of the worst. In December 2016, Michigan’s Republican-led House passed some of the nation’s strictest voter ID laws in the face of strong objections from Democrats and civil society groups. ID requirements tend to make it harder for minority, elderly, and student voters—groups that tend to vote Democrat—to cast their ballots.

And in April 2017, The Center for Michigan found that gerrymandering in the state is among the nation’s worst. The report shows how districts dramatically and disproportionately favor Republicans.

Put plainly, Michigan Republicans have a documented history of using extreme voter-suppression tactics. And one could argue these have already had a major impact on U.S. democracy. Donald Trump won Michigan by just 10,704 votes.

The fewer voters the better, as far as GOP lawmakers in Michigan are concerned. But nothing tends to rock the vote quite like a vote on legal recreational marijuana.

All the recent polls show overwhelming support for legal recreational in Michigan. So much so, in fact, that if the vote were to happen today, the measure would pass overwhelmingly.

But polls show another interesting thing about the issue of legal weed in Michigan. Namely, that it could drive voter turnout enough to impact other races.

And in an unpredictable election year many feel could be a wave election flipping state assemblies for the Democrats, some Republicans are viewing the pot voter boost as a legitimate concern.

A few GOP lawmakers in Lansing have already begun discussing whether they should attempt to legalize weed through a legislative process ahead of the state’s general election in November.

In other words, Michigan may legalize recreational marijuana before November ballot in an attempt to keep voters who would otherwise come out to support the ballot, home

Experts expect races will be tight this November. So even a two to three percent boost in voter turnout could make the difference in many districts and cause Republicans to lose the House.

So far, the question of whether to legislatively pass recreational cannabis has been a behind-closed-doors topic among Republican lawmakers. “I don’t think it’s reached critical mass at this point,” said political consultant Dennis Darnoi.

Indeed, deep divisions persist among the caucus over the issue of recreational weed. But concerns over losing the House might be enough to overcome them. Michigan Republicans have previously tried to move a legalization bill through the legislature with no success.

https://hightimes.com/news/michigan-leg ... er-ballot/


Michigan is the most politically corrupt and gerrymandered in the Union.

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I'm all for "medical" legalization. But maybe they should take your drivers license away at the same time (if the med makes you lose your depth perception)? If pot is legal to smoke without some control on how much you do......I'm sure all sorts of accidents will go up. If the pill form ,given to patients, is legal I've heard it doesn't effect people the same way. But stoned out and fearless smokers .....I'd bet....will be pretty hazardous.

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hey punk, where you going with that rat in your pack?

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that's what happens when you don't read you loose your link to higher thinking

Using the 1940s spelling of the drug's name because this story seems like something out of the decade that gave us this:



The Trump administration has launched a new, secret initiative meant to convince Americans of the evils of pot use. They are concerned, apparently, about the positive publicity that wacky tobaccy has been getting since Trump became president.

This has the fingerprints of Jeff Sessions—another product of the 1940s—all over it, because he abhors marijuana almost as much as he abhors undocumented immigrants and gay people. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) thought he had convinced the administration to drop this issue because he knows, as someone who comes from a pot-legal state, that it's a loser for GOP politicians. What Gardner forgot is that Trump only remains convinced on things until someone else gets his ear. It's unlikely that Sessions swung the President's opinion personally, since they despise each other these days, but he must have recruited an accomplice (Stephen Miller?). In any event, the administration is really working hard to give Democrats a whole smorgasbord of issues to choose from in the midterms. In particular, the sorts of issues that motivate young and/or minority voters, the exact people the blue team needs if they want to build a blue wave.

I agree. Like alcohol there should...and no doubt will...be laws to control it. It only makes sense. Enjoy but not at work, driving, in public etc etc. Won't stop these activities in all cases but some measure of control needs to be place legally. The upside could be, down the line, certain voters won't end up regretting favoring it because it's not allowed to run wild without limits and maybe impacting their lives in some negative way.