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  Salsa Verde, amigo 🤘
context: The private prison lobby needs to be disbanded. The fact that private prisons are even a thing is insane. I bring this up because the industry actively lobbies to keep weed illegal to boost their incarceration rate - as they get paid by the state per inmate and make money off of prison labor. Private prisons are financially motivated to keep recidivism rates high - which should be the EXACT opposite of what prisons should shrive for. >
  
  Some prison contracts fine the state if incarceration rates fall below a certain percentage >
  
  Slavery is never okay. >
  
  They need to amend the 13th amendment. It bans slavery Except in prison...so if you remove the incentive to incarcerate, the whole game changes. >
  
  The fact many people don’t know this is still legally being implemented today is alarming >
  
  We need to deschedule marijuana entirely or at least lower it.
  I don't smoke pot (nor do I ever plan to) but it's nuts it's on the same level as cocaine and heroin in terms of treatment under the Controller Substances Act.
  I'll also note medical use of marijuana also prohibits firearms ownership. I don't think potheads are any worse than alcoholics, and you can still own a firearm as an alcoholic. >
  
  Same level as heroin, but cocaine is Schedule II whereas marijuana is Schedule I.  So it's treated as worse than cocaine according to that. >
  
  I’ve turned into a stoner in my mid 30s.  Helps me sleep, helps relieve stress / anxiety, no negative health effects because I only do edibles, it makes bad movies fun to watch and no hangover. >
  
  Delta-8 gummies made my alcholism just kinda fade away. There are six-packs of beer at work left over from an event and I have permission to take one if I want and I just can't even be bothered with it anymore. It's amazing. >
  
  Same experience here on the drinking. My alcohol habits weren't disastrous, but it felt like my days were 10-20% worse off because of the anxiety and hangovers.
  My desire to drink just petered out despite not actively trying to drink less. Plus it's been much easier to pause or stop the pot use when I need to. >
  
  I’m against guns but if we are going to have them I’d rather my stoner neighbors own them than my drunk ones >
  
  For me, if pot users in states where it's legalized for recreational use can own guns but not in states which haven't legalized it, that's the greater problem.
  OTOH, if potential violence is the key factor for prohibiting some felons from having guns, this could be the camel's nose in the tent for NONVIOLENT felons, e.g., fraudsters, burglars, catalytic converter thieves, perjurers, etc to regain their 2A rights. >
  
  
  if pot users in states where it's legalized for recreational use can own guns
  
  They can't. It's a federal issue. >
  
  That'd presumably require ATF to keep tabs on everyone patronizing cannabis stores. It'd be easier in states which require licensing for people accessing medical cannabis. >
  
  Every Cannabis store in my state scans my drivers license >
  
  That information is not always shared with the NICS background checkers. Medical licensees are more likely to be shared. >
  
  Its the fact that this information is collected at the first place. At the end of the day you’re not in control of where it might end up going to, or if in one way or another it ends up being leaked. 
  Once its out there, its out there. How it gets used is up to the discretion of others. >
  
  Keep in mind this ban impacted State-registered medical marijuana patients. Many folks who are just seeking relief from conditions traditional pharmaceuticals have failed to help. Not a violent or criminally inclined group. It was just an arbitrary cheap shot in the mosaic of ways the government has failed to handle cannabis policy logically and consistently. >
  
  It’s worth noting, in case it isn’t clear to everyone, that this is a ban at the federal level, and most, if not all, states where cannabis is legal have no specific prohibition on firearm sales to registered MMJ patients. In my state, which so desperately wants to be blue but can’t escape the gerrymandered abusive relationship it has with the GOP, the cannabis amendment has zero mention of firearms.
  I hope this ruling starts a chain reaction, but until cannabis is rescheduled, registered consumers will continue to be flagged on a firearm background check and will still be committing a felony (yeah, it’s bullshit) by possessing both a firearm and cannabis. >
  
  And ammunition. A cannabis user can also not possess ammunition. I know it’s dumb but it also specifies that as well. >
  
  Marijuana being illegal in the first place is just plain stupid. >
  
  It is, and sadly federal legalization may be the last step, not the next. But this at least does a little bit to abate the fact that in legal states it’s “legal but only lowercase L legal”. Ban on Employment drug testing for weed in California being another one of those steps >
  
  Marijuana and gun laws are just a pretext to confiscate firearms for petty circumstances while also turning a misdemeanor drug user into a felon. It's another law aimed at certain races than it is something designed to reduce gun deaths. >
  
  Well that law is unconstitutional for reasons having nothing to do with a historical test. I'm amazed it's been tolerated this long. 
  "Unlawful user or addicted to" is not referring to prior criminal convictions and, as written, doesn't necessarily require a charge. It's a flagrant 5th Amendment due process violation and also vague. "User" and "addicted" are not defined, nor are they separate federal offenses.
  Just a bad, bad statute with really high consequences. >
  
  The decision addresses that.  The judge found the prohibition unconstitutional on Due Process grounds. >
  
  They wanna ban pot users but not rapists, violent criminals, or even insurrectionists? >
  
  You’re more likely to get shot by a drunk person than someone high on marijuana. >
  
  It'd be fascinating to experiment with temporary confiscation of all guns from anyone convicted of DUI/DWI. I'd add DUI/DWI due to cannabis. That should be consistent with this judge's reasoning: DUI/DWI is potentially violent. >
  
  It also shows continual bad judgement. Most people who get a DUI don't get it on their first go, they usually have driven drunk many times. >
  
  I have a friend who used to be a huge pothead. He drove and worked high all the time. After a while, he began to smoke less and less, till eventually he was only smoking on his own time and maybe only once a week. One day this friend found a half a doobie in his car on his way home from work and decided to smoke it. That day he questioned all of his previous bad habits and realized how fucked up, and lucky, he had been in his previous bad habits. He no longer does stupid shit like that. Took awhile for him to realize but he did. It was indeed very bad judgement he realized after the fact. He knew what a fucking idiot he had been and has vowed to not be so stupid as he gets older and wiser.
  Lesson learned in this case I suppose. >
  
  Gay married couples should be able to protect their cannabis crop with AR-15s >
  
  I am just a step away from living a bizarre libertarian fantasy. >
  
  Taking a gamble on which of those you're missing:
  Hey. >
  
  A bottle of budwiser and a gun is more deadly than a joint and a pistol >
  
  First thing I'm going to do is shoot open a bag of doritos.