A police officer sued to challenge the legislation, at the behest of the governor, whose lawyers are helping the challenge (at a cost to the public). And it was heard by a judge appointed by the same governor. We do love our representative democracy, don’t we folks.
a 2018 constitutional amendment that required further amendments to stick to one subject.
The concerted effort across many states in recent years to render any attempts to legislate by referendum impossible have been a terrifically effective effort to erode direct democracy in this country.
The crazier thing is that this was a single topic referendum. The judge is claiming that because marijuana effects, for example, both commerce and transportation “that counts as multiple topics.”
It was bad enough when direct democracy didn’t work under capitalism because, as California has repeatedly demonstrated, the electorate is so thoroughly propagandized to as to be completely incapable of acting against corporate interest - but this shit is pure anti-democracy. They might as well write a law that says “we get to nullify anything we want to na na na boo boo.”
Opponents have argued that marijuana leads to use of harder drugs
I hate few things with a more burning passion than this complete bullshit backwards-ass reactionary shit excuse of an argument. Gee, you think having a 99.999% safe drug like weed shoved into the same misshapen box as heroin and crack might give people a distorted view of whether or not its a good idea to try hard drugs? Or maybe, just maybe, if you take it out of the realm of illegal drugs and place it into a similar bin as alcohol or even coffee and whippits, it wouldn’t be a “gateway” drug because nobody would even associate pot with (hard) “drugs”. Sorry but this one’s personal to me. If you tell people weed will make you run over children and acid will cause you to put your baby in the microwave, and mushrooms will make you think you can fly so you just off a rather tall building… Don’t be fucking surprised when naive kids going out exploring themselves try those things and find out thats 100% bullshit, and then go out and get develop a crushing dope addiction because they assumed everything elsle you said about drugs is bullshit too. (not ‘you’ the poster obv, its the metaphorical ‘you’ I’m having a monologue at a D.A.R.E. officer with)
You know who used that argument to justify not legalizing it federally?
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Bernie Sanders said he was crying during Biden’s inauguration. He implied though that they were tears of joy which is pretty cursed
I’ve often had these same thoughts myself. It sounds like you’re talking from experience, and if so, I can very much relate. I wasn’t often addicted to any one drug in particular, but I definitely developed some polysubstance issues after discovering how much I’d been lied to about drugs in general. And even still, weed wasn’t my “gateway” … that was the hydrocodone my dentist subscribed me.
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