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    Pro-weed congressman, like, "fuck it- we gonna tryn' push this thru"

     

    cuz, fuck it.

     

    https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/7xdjqz/sen-chuck-schumer-to-introduce-bill-to-decriminalize-marijuana

    Schumer's bill would allow states to decide how to regulate weed.
    The Minority Leader of the Senate is making it official the day before 4/20: He’s down with legal weed. 

    In an exclusive interview with VICE News, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) confirmed he is putting his name on legislation that he said is aimed at “decriminalizing” marijuana at the federal level.

    For Schumer, this is a shift. While he has backed medical marijuana and the rights of states to experiment with legal sales of pot, what he is proposing is a seismic shift in federal drug policy .

    “Ultimately, it’s the right thing to do. Freedom. If smoking marijuana doesn’t hurt anybody else, why shouldn’t we allow people to do it and not make it criminal?” Schumer said.

    While Schumer’s position in the Senate make his support of de-scheduling significant, he’s hardly the first high-profile Democrat to back such a move. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) has long been a proponent of removing marijuana from the federal list of controlled substances, and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) recently introduced the Marijuana Justice Act, which would federally legalize weed. Republicans, who still control Congress, haven’t been as open to the idea, though recent polls have shown a majority of party members now favor legalization. 

    The legislation, which Schumer’s office expects will be released within the next week, has six main points. First, it would remove marijuana from Drug Enforcement Administration’s list of controlled substances, which would end federal prohibition and leave it up to states to decide how to regulate the drug. Schumer stopped short of calling it legalization, but de-scheduling would essentially make marijuana legal at the federal level.

    His bill would also would create some funding for minority and women-owned marijuana businesses, provide money for research into overall effects of marijuana and it’s specific effect on driving impairment. And lastly, it would “maintain federal authority to regulate marijuana advertising in the same way it does alcohol and tobacco,” which Schumer said is to make sure marijuana businesses aren’t targeting children with their ads. 

    Schumer went further saying that he would support legalization in his home state of New York as well as any other state that wants to move in that direction. “My personal view is legalization is just fine,” he said. “The best thing to do is let each state decide on its own.” 

    While this looks like an obvious election year-play, Schumer claimed it wasn’t about he looming 2018 or 2020 elections. 

    “I’m doing it because I think it’s the right thing to do. I’ve seen too many people’s lives ruined by the criminalization,” he said. “If we benefit, so be it. But that’s not my motivation.” 

    When asked if he had ever smoked weed before, Schumer said no, but when pressed on whether he might be willing to try it he said, “Maybe, I’m a little old, but who knows?” 

    Cover image: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. during a news conference on gun control at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 1, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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    Whats the story with Cannabis in 2018:

    https://www.inverse.com/article/43850-marijuana-legal-weed-states-in-2018

    Although marijuana remains prohibited by federal law, an increasing number of states have legalized the drug for medical and recreational use in the past few years. In fact, some politicians are running in the 2018 midterm elections on explicitly pro-marijuana platforms.

     
    This kind of mainstream support for legalization would’ve been practically unthinkable twenty years ago. While the exact regulations vary state-by-state, there are three main statewide stances on marijuana: legalized for recreational and medical use, legalized for only medical use, and completely prohibited in line with federal policy.

    marijuana laws

    Legal Weed for Recreational and Medical Use

    Nine states and the District of Columbia have legalized weed for both medical and recreational use. Of this group, Vermont is the only state to have legalized marijuana for recreational use through its legislature (Vermont’s law goes into effect on July 1st). The rest legalized weed through a voter referendum. 

    Some of the states have yet to set up a market for purchasing marijuana. In Washington D.C., for example, you can smoke, possess, and gift marijuana, but you can’t legally buy or sell it. In Washington and Colorado, on the other hand, marijuana is a booming industry that brings in a significant amount of tax dollars. Here are all the places where recreational weed is allowed:

    • Alaska
    • California
    • Colorado
    • Maine
    • Massachusetts
    • Nevada
    • Oregon
    • Vermont
    • Washington
    • Washington D.C.

    Legal Weed for Medical Use

    There are 44 states that have legalized marijuana for medical use only. Among these states, about one-third only allow marijuana oils that are high in CBD, the therapeutic ingredient in weed, and low in THC, the psychoactive element. The rest allow the purchase of marijuana from a medical dispensary with a medical marijuana license. The requirements for, and difficulty of procuring a license, vary by state. Here are all the states where only medical marijuana is legal:

    • Alabama
    • Arizona
    • Arkansas
    • Connecticut
    • Delaware
    • Florida
    • Georgia
    • Hawaii
    • Illinois
    • Indiana
    • Iowa
    • Kentucky
    • Louisiana
    • Maryland
    • Michigan
    • Minnesota
    • Mississippi
    • Missouri
    • Montana
    • New Hampshire
    • New Jersey
    • New York
    • North Carolina
    • North Dakota
    • Ohio
    • Oklahoma
    • Pennsylvania
    • Rhode Island
    • South Carolina
    • Tennessee
    • Texas
    • Utah
    • Virginia
    • West Virginia
    • Wisconsin
    • Wyoming

    Marijuana Still Prohibited

    Only four states don’t have any allowance for medical marijuana usage. Despite being a small minority, these states are the only ones complying with federal policy. If all of these states legalize medical marijuana in the coming years, we could be left in the peculiar legal situation where every state is in direct conflict with the federal government on marijuana. Here are the states where any medical or recreational marijuana use is illegal:

     
    • Idaho
    • Kansas
    • Nebraska
    • South Dakota

    Despite its classification as a Schedule 1 drug — meaning that it has “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse” — popular support for marijuana has reached a fever pitch. A Pew Research poll in January found that 61 percent of Americans believe marijuana should be legal.

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  2. 39 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    I view Toneil as a total wild card until proven otherwise. I think it's good that the staff is pursuing an RB grad transfer because I don't think there's a proven RB2 if Young goes down.

    Si. 

    Also, when building a line it's always good to have a few solid RBs with a variety of skills. As long as they all leave their ego in the clubhouse, each players individual nuances can help compensate for our OL mismatches while we rebuild- so long as there is a competent Offensive coach who can quickly identify and adjust our RB appropriately. I'm excited because I feel like Hand is that type of coach.

  3. Let's see:

     

    -adopt a dog. Puppy needs a home

    -someone selling pins

    -free flat stone from some guys porch renovation 

    -WTC commemorative sculpture for sale ($100)

    -some mom want to add a bus stop closer to her house-how does she do that?

    -people's cat has been attacked multiple times somewhat severely. What could it be?

    -ISP/cable provider recommendations 

    -found black kitten

    -someone tried to block my ally gate: "Some jerk tried to block my alley gate by propping a stone up against it. Has anyone else experienced this or am I bring targeted? Photo is from after I loosened the stone tile."

     

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  4. Jesus. My wife usually just asks me if I'll carry shit for her before we leave the house. If I say 'no' she just adjusts her purse plans. 

    I doesn't bother me because I have a choice, however, I'm the only one allowed to carry the passports. 

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    10 minutes ago, Degenerate Gardner said:

    Homemade edibles can make for bad times, especially if you're an infrequent THC consumer.  I've seen more than one person go from "I'm not feeling it" to incapacitated before they knew it.  That is not fun.

    Yeah, you need to proceed with caution. If someone else is making butter or cookies, it is practically guaranteed 100% that they will have a different tolerance than you. Just think: if you rarely smoke and they are making extracts of the shit in their kitchen, chances are pretty good one cookie could fuck you up for 2 solid days

  5. Growing up, I liked college football because it was more entertaining and enjoyable to me than the NFL. Also, as I was younger I had more interest in people closer to my peer group. 

    Now, it just seems kind of bastardized, dishonest, juvenile and I genuinely dislike most of the personalities associated with it. 

    Im way more into fantasy football with friends now.

    It really makes me sad that, while my 2 girls will go with me to UT games, it won't have the power and community that I found so magical from my days in 1996~2008. Don't get me wrong, shit was fucked up then too, but going to a UT game was fun. Now it's like going to a Phillies game.

  6. Rick was not awful. Say what you want about his dalliances with co-eds, but that motherfucker could recruit for his system. Sure, the end wasn't great but that guy got us on the map. It's our own incompetence that has squandered the foothold he carved.


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  7. 37 minutes ago, kopp0e said:
    I would much rather the XII allow Baylor to have it's media GoR's "released", and the school can go join the MWC or AAC...
    In their place, the XII can add either the Tulane Green Wave/ Rice Owls/ New Mexico Lobos, as a replacement until the media contracts are renewed...There are a lot of good students at the Baylor campus who have been adversely impacted by the culture that Art Briles brought into the athletics program...

     


    Yeah... Briles...

    How bout that little basketball murder cover up?

    But, pooooor sweet baptist BU students.

    I feel as bad for them as for the dumbasses who went to a for profit school that closed. Serves. You. Right.

     

     

  8. Thought I'd get the ball rolling again on one of the most disgusting organizations in the NCAA, right up there with Michigan State.

     

    Fuck Baylor.

     

     

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2767598-baylor-paid-art-briles-151m-ken-starr-45m-after-sexual-assault-scandal

     

    Baylor University paid former Bears head football coach Art Briles $15.1 million as part of his 2016 departure following the school's sexual assault scandal.

     

    Chuck Carlton of the Dallas Morning News first reported the payout Friday after reviewing forms Baylor filed to the IRS. Former school president Ken Starr received $4.52 million and former athletic director Ian McCaw was given $761,059 after his resignation.

     

    Briles had eight years left on his contract when he was dismissed by the university. The IRS forms showed he earned around $6.19 million per season, per Mark Schlabach of ESPN.com.

     

    The trio's exit was part of widespread leadership changes at Baylor following the scandal. Board of Regents chair Richard Willis said in the May 2016 announcement the school was "horrified" by findings from an independent review handled by the Law Firm of Pepper Hamilton:

     

    "This investigation revealed the university's mishandling of reports in what should have been a supportive, responsive and caring environment for students. The depth to which these acts occurred shocked and outraged us. Our students and their families deserve more, and we have committed our full attention to improving our processes, establishing accountability and ensuring appropriate actions are taken to support former, current and future students."

     

    Briles, who's remained out of coaching since his dismissal from Baylor, released a statement last March denying an attempt to hide the problem.

    "I did not cover up any sexual violence. I had no contact with anyone that claimed to be a victim of sexual or domestic assault. Anyone well-versed in my work as a coach knows that I strove to promote excellence, but never at the sacrifice of safety for anyone," he said. "I did not obstruct justice on campus or off."

     

    He was set to join the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League in August, but the team changed its mind following public backlash.

    Starr, who also served as Baylor's chancellor and a professor at its law school, ended all ties with the university in August 2016.

     

    McCaw was hired as the Liberty University athletic director in November 2016.

     

     

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