Doll Is Mine wrote:That's not nice.

slugsrbad wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:That's not nice.

Sorry, I have no agency of my own. If Bucky commands me to do something (either explicitly or through his implicit shaming) I must do it.

Sabrina Siddiqui ‏@SabrinaSiddiqui
Hillary Clinton: "I don't know who created Pokemon Go, but I'm trying to figure out how we get them to do Pokemon Go To The Polls!"

jerseyhoya wrote:

Sabrina Siddiqui ‏@SabrinaSiddiqui
Hillary Clinton: "I don't know who created Pokemon Go, but I'm trying to figure out how we get them to do Pokemon Go To The Polls!"

jesus christ

jerseyhoya wrote:

Sabrina Siddiqui ‏@SabrinaSiddiqui
Hillary Clinton: "I don't know who created Pokemon Go, but I'm trying to figure out how we get them to do Pokemon Go To The Polls!"

jesus christ

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Sabrina Siddiqui ‏@SabrinaSiddiqui
Hillary Clinton: "I don't know who created Pokemon Go, but I'm trying to figure out how we get them to do Pokemon Go To The Polls!"

jesus christ

Not bad for a grandma joke. My mom's her same age and won't hear about Pokemon Go for at least two more weeks. She also still uses an AOL account for email.

jerseyhoya wrote:

Sabrina Siddiqui ‏@SabrinaSiddiqui
Hillary Clinton: "I don't know who created Pokemon Go, but I'm trying to figure out how we get them to do Pokemon Go To The Polls!"

jesus christ

Alan Rappeport ‏@arappeport
Christie discussing Pence on MSNBC: "You'd have to ask him why he endorsed Ted Cruz at the time that he did. I don't know."

Jim Acosta ‏@Acosta
Spotted in NY: Pence climbed off plane at Teterboro and got in black SUV with police escort

Binyamin Appelbaum ‏@BCAppelbaum
The obvious play for Christie: Block the bridge.

Gimpy wrote:

pacino wrote:personally, i'd decriminalize more than simply marijuana. general speeding violations, parking issues, drug and alcohol issues all seem to me to not be imprisonable crimes.

It's not so much that you'd go to jail for speeding as you'd go to jail for not paying speeding tickets.

pacino wrote:

Gimpy wrote:

pacino wrote:

Gimpy wrote:

pacino wrote:personally, i'd decriminalize more than simply marijuana. general speeding violations, parking issues, drug and alcohol issues all seem to me to not be imprisonable crimes.

It's not so much that you'd go to jail for speeding as you'd go to jail for not paying speeding tickets.

yes, i'd like to stop that. i'd also like to change how police departments function and are funded to ensure this won't be an issue. there are places this is happening.

Banning for profit prisons would be a huge head start in changing policies

I agree. I do not think it would have a huge impact on the overall population, though. Via the ACLU:

Today, for-profit companies are responsible for approximately 6 percent of state prisoners, 16 percent of federal prisoners, and inmates in local jails in Texas, Louisiana, and a handful of other states.

Luckily, this appears to be one of the rare areas where there is *some* bipartisanship on state and federal levels to attempt reform with both drug offenses and prisons. Congress is about to vote on a bill to further fight opioid addiction. it's not properly funded, of course, but I'm hopeful on this.

They found that, in the 17 states with a medical-marijuana law in place by 2013, prescriptions for painkillers and other classes of drugs fell sharply compared with states that did not have a medical-marijuana law. The drops were quite significant: In medical-marijuana states, the average doctor prescribed 265 fewer doses of antidepressants each year, 486 fewer doses of seizure medication, 541 fewer anti-nausea doses and 562 fewer doses of anti-anxiety medication.

The tanking numbers for painkiller prescriptions in medical marijuana states are likely to cause some concern among pharmaceutical companies. These companies have long been at the forefront of opposition to marijuana reform, funding research by anti-pot academics and funneling dollars to groups, such as the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, that oppose marijuana legalization.

Pharmaceutical companies have also lobbied federal agencies directly to prevent the liberalization of marijuana laws. In one case, recently uncovered by the office of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), the Department of Health and Human Services recommended that naturally derived THC, the main psychoactive component of marijuana, be moved from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3 of the Controlled Substances Act — a less restrictive category that would acknowledge the drug's medical use and make it easier to research and prescribe. Several months after HHS submitted its recommendation, at least one drug company that manufactures a synthetic version of THC — which would presumably have to compete with any natural derivatives — wrote to the Drug Enforcement Administration to express opposition to rescheduling natural THC, citing "the abuse potential in terms of the need to grow and cultivate substantial crops of marijuana in the United States."

The DEA ultimately rejected the HHS recommendation without explanation.

smitty wrote:I wish I had lots of guns. But Angus would find them and start knocking off liquor stores.