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Post by Premier on Dec 3, 2016 20:13:29 GMT -5
Dam man.....I really like both of you guys. But im a dog owner. Shit, i feel discriminated! Lol.
Vale you know how I am with my dog. Thats my kid.
But I feel you. Business is business.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2016 12:52:36 GMT -5
It's a money thing and that's it. All of our properties have hardwood floors. Dogs are murder on them. The average amount of wear and tear that occurs when a dog is in the mix is literally thousands of dollars more than without one, and typically the dog owners never get their security deposit back- and even then it is not usually enough to cover the damage their animal did. Since you are not legally allowed to give dog owners higher Sec. deps. in Maine, I make it clear that we are a no pets company and then add their number to my blacklist so they can never make my phone ring again.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2016 13:16:15 GMT -5
Dam man.....I really like both of you guys. But im a dog owner. Shit, i feel discriminated! Lol. Vale you know how I am with my dog. Thats my kid. But I feel you. Business is business. I have a dog as well. She's my babydoll. But I also own my place and I've got a 8000 sq ft lot with a huge backyard. I also am on top of my yard, pick up all the shit, she doesn't dig or tear shit up (those days are over with). But that's me. I've had shitty dog owners that just leave the dog out all night and expect everyone else in the neighborhood to deal with the barking. I once had a tenant hand me a remote...for a shock collar on his dog. I'm not going to be shocking someones dog. What was haopening is he was leaving the dog out all night while he was gone and the dog was moaning all night. Neighbors were fucking livid. Don't get me wrong, I've had great dog owners as well. And if I know the people are good owners, I'll take the dog. But it's too much of a gamble for me. Tony also made a great point about the wood floors. I have a couple places with mahogany floors from the 1940's that I took the time to redo. The tenants at one of these places wanted a dog and I had to refuse it. Raise a puppy on my wood floors? No way. Not to mention they don't have a yard and everyone works...and they have a hard enough time keeping their window sills clean lol. The bottom line is that I can't expect anyone to take care of my property the way I would. So I have to limit what they can potentially fuck up. Most renters don't give 2 fucks and have no idea what preventative maintenance is. I can't trust them with a dog on top of that.
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Post by Premier on Dec 5, 2016 14:31:32 GMT -5
I hear you 100% Vale. Unfortunately most people have no business having dogs. For example, check this out. I went to my local dog park the other day: I got a chuckle because the notice looks like a "Wanted" poster. All that's missing is a picture. But this is just an example of a bad dog owner.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2016 23:11:00 GMT -5
If Jeff Sessions gets appointed to attorney general we might see weed becoming illegal again, or at least perhaps a battle between the federal and state governments. He says that "anyone who smokes marijuanna is a bad person", and IF Trump appoints him (which he probably will) that's as bad as Trump doing it himself since he knows that is what he supports. So if you are pro weed and pro Trump (as I know many of you are), then this will be the first time you'll have to admit to NOT liking something Trump is doing: www.ibtimes.com/jeff-sessions-marijuana-donald-trumps-attorney-general-pick-against-legal-weed-2455061ADVERTISEMENT NATIONAL Jeff Sessions And Marijuana: Donald Trump's Attorney General Pick Against Legal Weed BY TIM MARCIN @timmarcin ON 12/05/16 AT 9:40 AM Kellyanne Conway Downplays Trump's Call With Taiwan President Colleagues famously detailed in 1986 that Jeff Sessions, then a 39-year-old attorney in Alabama, said his main point of contention with the Ku Klux Klan was that they smoked weed. He said he thought the folks in the white supremacist hate group were "okay, until he learned that they smoked marijuana," according to testimony that resulted in Sessions being denied a federal judge position. Those accusations of racism have continually dogged Sessions, but Politico detailed Monday that the likely next attorney general has also not shifted his hard-line stance against marijuana. Sessions has kept up his anti-marijuana crusade for decades even as attitudes in the United States have shifted. Roughly 57 percent of adults in the country feel the use of recreational marijuana should be made legal, according to Pew Research Center data. After a number of state ballot initiatives on Election Day, seven states have now decided to fully legalize recreational marijuana: Alaska, California, Colorado, Oregon, Massachusetts, Nevada and Washington. Maine also narrowly passed a legalization law this year but a recount is underway. Dozens others have passed laws legalizing medical marijuana. Related Stories Alabama Senator Echoes Trump’s Immigration Concerns Minnesota To Allow PTSD Patients To Use Medical Cannabis Sessions, however, said this year that "good people don't smoke marijuana" and that it was a "very real danger" and "not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized," Politico reported.Sessions hasn't shared his plans for how he'll serve as attorney general, but he has the ability to quickly combat legalized marijuana because while states have legalized the drug, it remains illegal at the federal level. It's a delicate system President Barack Obama has called "untenable." Sessions has openly criticized Obama's attorney generals, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, for taking a laissez-faire attitude toward enforcement. As the country's top law enforcement officer, Sessions would be able to arrest marijuana farmers, retailers and users "with little more than the stroke of his own pen," Politico noted. Such action from Sessions would be a major blow to states that have legalized marijuana, Colorado and Washington especially, as the industry has already grown to be worth some $7 billion in annual sales. Marijuana advocates are concerned. "He could raid and prosecute people for marijuana even in a state like New York where it is legal for medical use," Bill Piper, senior director for national affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance, told the New York Daily News. Sessions could even go after his home state of Alabama, which this year allowed people with debilitating medical issues, most notably epilepsy, to use cannabidiol, which is made from the marijuana plant.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 0:26:28 GMT -5
You had my attention until "politico reported"
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Post by Angelo on Dec 6, 2016 1:03:54 GMT -5
You had my attention until "politico reported" He's right, though. There has been a lot of misreporting about Session's past involving KKK and racism (he is one of the few left to have actually brought segregation to court to end it and actively went after KKK leaders to throw them in jail). However the dude hates marijuana and if he had the resources, he'd go after everyone and even work on repealing Hinchey-Rohrabacher in order to go after the medical field too. HOWEVER.... as much autonomous leeway as the AG has usually, he won't have the resources to go after them. If (and hopefully he does) he follows Trumps direction, his office will be tied up with too much to devote any resources to dealing state-legal marijuana.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 2:29:05 GMT -5
You had my attention until "politico reported" Dude, there IS NOTHING FUCKING WRONG WITH POLITICO!! Explain to me why they are worse than Breitbart, please do. Politico is a legit paper, just because they are left leaning doesn't make them wrong because almost every cite or paper leans one way. Fox news and Breitbart are so right leaning they could fall over but I don't hear anyone criticizing them. And anyway, this is a fact now. Check it up anywhere else you want. Trump wants to appoint Sessions, and Sessions wants weed illegal. It's a fact, and then you can recognize that Politico isn't a bogus paper because they reported on it.
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Post by Angelo on Dec 6, 2016 2:53:33 GMT -5
When it comes to specific issues, very few common publications are going to be good at it, that includes Politico, Breitbart, CNN, Fox, etc... When it comes to specifics you generally are gonna need to aggregate all of them and their sources and piece it together like a puzzle.
We all know Sessions wants weed illegal (at least that was his latest stance on the issue), however we also know it is very unlikely he'll be able to do anything about it because of the way things work. Now if what Priebus did is SOP for Trump's administration, then yeah Sessions will go after every non-medical weed grow/distribution he can regardless of what Trump wants. However I doubt that'll be SOP, it would be too embarrassing to his ego to have it happen again.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 3:06:24 GMT -5
When it comes to specific issues, very few common publications are going to be good at it, that includes Politico, Breitbart, CNN, Fox, etc... When it comes to specifics you generally are gonna need to aggregate all of them and their sources and piece it together like a puzzle. We all know Sessions wants weed illegal (at least that was his latest stance on the issue), however we also know it is very unlikely he'll be able to do anything about it because of the way things work. Now if what Priebus did is SOP for Trump's administration, then yeah Sessions will go after every non-medical weed grow/distribution he can regardless of what Trump wants. However I doubt that'll be SOP, it would be too embarrassing to his ego to have it happen again.What do you mean by this? Who is Priebus and what is SOP? I hope he can't just change things around, but I mean the Federal law still says it's illegal so I thought it might be possible he could still go after Cali and Colorado and other places it's legal, and I'd HEARD he had actually said he wanted to. And for places where it ISN'T already legal, couldn't having him as attorney general really fuck up their progress towards legalization/decriminalization?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 3:14:44 GMT -5
This was from the Monday Morning link, reading it makes me fucking CRINGE:
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) will be the next U.S. Attorney General – which triggers some questions on what that means for one of the country's fastest-growing industries….
could jeff sessions end legal marijuana Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) in Washington, DC. Sessions is arguably best known for his conservative views on immigration and civil rights. He was a leading opponent of President Obama's executive amnesty order in 2007, which gave jobs and benefits to undocumented immigrants. He also defends "traditional Alabama values," which conflict with same-sex marriage laws in America, according to his official website.
The Alabama senator has also been an outspoken critic on the nation's burgeoning marijuana industry.
In fact, Sessions is firmly against legalizing pot for recreational or for medicinal use.
"We need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not that kind of thing that ought to be legalized," Sessions claimed in a Senate meeting on April 5.
In the same Senate meeting, Sessions claimed, "This drug is dangerous, you cannot play with it, it is not funny, it's not something to laugh about . . . and [it's important] to send that message with clarity that good people don't smoke marijuana."
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Post by Angelo on Dec 6, 2016 3:37:58 GMT -5
SOP is standard operating procedure. Priebus is currently Trumps to-be Chief of Staff and operating as such now. He has lied to Trump about various meetings so far, in order to push his own agenda and maneuver Trump into certain positions. So far Trump has managed to do what he wanted to do in the end, but it is embarrassing for him to be played that way.
And no, having him as AG probably won't hurt things because as I said, he won't have the resources if he sticks to the administration's agenda in which state-level marijuana legalization is supported. Also as for the federal level, because of the way it became illegal(in which it didn't so much become illegal but regulated hence there still being federal consumption and grow permits in existence from a couple decades ago because of technicalities), the President can outright legalize it again. However then the FDA/DEA could step in and re-regulate themselves and would need congressional legislation to override them I think.
Also remember, FEDERAL LAW, actual LAW, prevents the AG from doing anything to state and federal level medical marijuana growers/users.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 10:16:58 GMT -5
You had my attention until "politico reported" Dude, there IS NOTHING FUCKING WRONG WITH POLITICO!! Explain to me why they are worse than Breitbart, please do. Politico is a legit paper, just because they are left leaning doesn't make them wrong because almost every cite or paper leans one way. Fox news and Breitbart are so right leaning they could fall over but I don't hear anyone criticizing them. And anyway, this is a fact now. Check it up anywhere else you want. Trump wants to appoint Sessions, and Sessions wants weed illegal. It's a fact, and then you can recognize that Politico isn't a bogus paper because they reported on it. Yes. Yes there is. It's a race baiting and fear pushing site. Period. Your mommy, daddy and every other fuck with a PhD you know can worship the site for all I fucking care. It's a shit site. I asked you to humor me and check out brietbart. It's rigjt leaning, sure. But it's not a fear pushing site like politico is. Fuck any site that shames any race. To be honest, i don't know how anyone with a brain can read politico. Have you actually ever read it or do you just post links that someone else gives you? Becausr it's a shit site if I've ever seen one.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 10:20:35 GMT -5
Like i said, I don't live off "what ifs". Don't really know why you are trying to drive this home. It's as if youre trying to say that we all fucked up because we voted for Trump. Until he does some goofy shit, I don't fucking care. And I really don't give two fucks if mj is criminalized again. I'll retire in 5 years if it is lol.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 10:25:32 GMT -5
I hear you 100% Vale. Unfortunately most people have no business having dogs. For example, check this out. I went to my local dog park the other day: I got a chuckle because the notice looks like a "Wanted" poster. All that's missing is a picture. But this is just an example of a bad dog owner. That kind of stuff around here is very, very common. Totally is a wanted poster lol.
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Post by Angelo on Dec 6, 2016 10:26:18 GMT -5
Huff Post is the most biased slanted fear mongering "mainstream" site out there on either side.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 10:31:22 GMT -5
Huff, salon and politico are 3 of the legit worst. I just skimmed the front pages of those and Breitbart. The diffrence is impossible to miss.
I'll take Reuters. Less slant, if any.
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Post by Angelo on Dec 6, 2016 10:51:14 GMT -5
Huff, salon and politico are 3 of the legit worst. I just skimmed the front pages of those and Breitbart. The diffrence is impossible to miss. I'll take Reuters. Less slant, if any. Salon is interesting... They remind me of Fox news (the channel). Full of opinionated shit trying to pass itself off as legit news, but buried in it are great legit articles (for Fox News it is live news reporting). Also the only left-leaning site willing to shred the Democrat elites at time, more so than any of the right-leaning ones do to theirs. Politico is a huge mix but as of late really has seemed to go more manipulative pundit over legit news. Honestly there is no one site that is good, you are best off just doing this 1. Look at a few aggregates (Drudge/Bing/Google/Yahoo) for headlines and breaking news. 2. If breaking news, a google news search in one tab, sorted by time for local reporting papers with online updates. Another tab with twitter with trend search for the incident sorted by time. Follow those. 3. After the aggregates, if you have stuff you really want to check out, link to a random one from each of the aggregates and skim. You'll pick up points both sides want to make and should be able to start figuring out what the spin is from each side and a bit of what the reality is. 4. To see the day's click bait stories that people will be talking that maybe has a kernel of a real story behind it eventually, go skim the front page of Huffington Post, Fox News, Salon, and Breitbart. Then do a websearch on the subjects to see the different coverage to see who's spinning and who's reporting. Unless you read at a 1st grade level and still have dial-up, you should be able to inside of 10 minutes pick apart at least 3 different topics this way. Straight reporting I always like AP, Reuters and Al Jazeera (not opinion section)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 11:17:12 GMT -5
I like AP as well. I want facts with no adjectives describing what the authors opinion on the manner is. I don't want a slant on it, it turns me off to it. As soon as I see an opinion I realize it's not 100% news and I'm not on those sites for opinions.
That being said, I routinely read left and right shit when I'm going through news just to get the slant from both sides. BUT I also always have the time to do that so I check out the AP for the most part. When shit like the Dakota pipeline is going on, I like to see both sides all the way to the extreme shit. I like to know how crazy the crazy fuckers are.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 11:43:08 GMT -5
Toehold, Marijuana isn't going to be illegal "again". It never stopped being illegal at the federal level. Allow me to give you a dose of reality that might fly in the face of the fear mongering media's narrative:
Sessions appointment as AG has one most logical conclusion: Weed stays illegal on the federal level under the Trump administration. This is actually consistent with Trump's position on weed, that it should be a state's rights issue.
Sessions is going to have an almost impossible time getting Congress to withdraw Hinchey-Rohrabacher due to it focusing on medical marijuana. Republican controlled Congress taking away people's medicine? Yeah, that's a real shrewd political move. (That's sarcasm Toehold. It would actually be completely asinine if they did this and basically help the D's get Congress back after just two years.)
Then there is the whole issue of Sessions even getting Congressional approval to take the AG position in the first place. He was denied a Federal judgeship in the past due to racist stuff he's said, so he might not even get the job. Not that it would matter much. All the possible replacement candidates are also stupid dicks when it comes to the weed issue.
The weed issue is not a central one to the Trump presidency. I don't expect Sessions to spark something with the states that have legalized as that would fly in the face of his boss' platform and have a political price tag that would be very high.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 18:31:36 GMT -5
Like i said, I don't live off "what ifs". Don't really know why you are trying to drive this home. It's as if youre trying to say that we all fucked up because we voted for Trump. Until he does some goofy shit, I don't fucking care. And I really don't give two fucks if mj is criminalized again. I'll retire in 5 years if it is lol. It's not a "what if dude" these sites said he ALREADY APPOINTED Sessions, and Sessions wants to make weed illegal. There's no "what ifs" about it. The only what if is if he succeeds. But he'll try, and Trump wants him to try. You are ignoring all this.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 18:33:56 GMT -5
Toehold, Marijuana isn't going to be illegal "again". It never stopped being illegal at the federal level. Allow me to give you a dose of reality that might fly in the face of the fear mongering media's narrative: Sessions appointment as AG has one most logical conclusion: Weed stays illegal on the federal level under the Trump administration. This is actually consistent with Trump's position on weed, that it should be a state's rights issue. Sessions is going to have an almost impossible time getting Congress to withdraw Hinchey-Rohrabacher due to it focusing on medical marijuana. Republican controlled Congress taking away people's medicine? Yeah, that's a real shrewd political move. (That's sarcasm Toehold. It would actually be completely asinine if they did this and basically help the D's get Congress back after just two years.) Then there is the whole issue of Sessions even getting Congressional approval to take the AG position in the first place. He was denied a Federal judgeship in the past due to racist stuff he's said, so he might not even get the job. Not that it would matter much. All the possible replacement candidates are also stupid dicks when it comes to the weed issue. The weed issue is not a central one to the Trump presidency. I don't expect Sessions to spark something with the states that have legalized as that would fly in the face of his boss' platform and have a political price tag that would be very high. What I meant was "illegal on the state level in Cali, Colorado, Washington" and stop it from becoming legal or decriminalized on the state level elsewhere. If he won't succeed, that's great, but that doesn't stop the fact that Trump already appointed Sessions, he hasn't been confirmed, we'll see if he is, but this means that Trump supports weed being illegal, and he'll most likely be confirmed. I see these as issues with Trump. If you don't, I'd like to hear why.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 18:34:56 GMT -5
But you ignored the others.
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Post by Angelo on Dec 6, 2016 18:41:04 GMT -5
It's not a "what if dude" these sites said he ALREADY APPOINTED Sessions, and Sessions wants to make weed illegal. If those sites say he already appointed Sessions, you need to stop reading them. If Trump already appointed him, that would be called a Coup, and would be in international media all over that the government been overthrown.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 18:58:26 GMT -5
It's not a "what if dude" these sites said he ALREADY APPOINTED Sessions, and Sessions wants to make weed illegal. If those sites say he already appointed Sessions, you need to stop reading them. If Trump already appointed him, that would be called a Coup, and would be in international media all over that the government been overthrown. He appointed him, meaning he SUGGESTED he wants him, he hasn't been confirmed by the senate but CNN amongst others think he will be and regardless, it means Trump AGREES with his viewpoints. Is that not something a president elect can do?? You decide for yourself. I'll believe the quotes over you: Monday morning: " President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) will be the next U.S. Attorney General – which triggers some questions on what that means for one of the country's fastest-growing industries…." Washington Post: Debra Borchardt , CONTRIBUTOR I write about retail and cannabis. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Pause Mute Current Time 0:03 / Duration Time 0:15 Loaded: 0%Progress: 0% Fullscreen WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 18: Lizet Ocampo, People for the American Way Director of Latinos Vote! Program, stands with activists to call on senate to reject Jeff Sessions as Attorney General on November 18, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for People For The American Way) " President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama to be U.S. Attorney General has sent a chill up the spines of many in the emerging cannabis industry." NPR " President-elect Donald Trump's appointment of Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general has many in the fast-growing marijuana industry worried. Sessions is a vocal opponent of marijuana legalization."" I'm moving my hands back in forth in a "scale like motion" right now, weighing who to believe, Angelo on one side vs Washington Post, NPR and Forbes on the other. Hmmm, who will win lol.
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Post by Angelo on Dec 6, 2016 19:10:16 GMT -5
Do you realize that it isn't Trump's choice if he's the AG? He nominates him and then he has to be approved. Also nobody agrees with anybody 100%. Trump has already said his administration will respect State's decisions on drugs. Nobody agrees with anyone 100%, just because Sessions agrees with one thing, doesn't mean Trump does. He wants Sessions because he owes him and also Sessions will be aggressive in going after some of the things Trump wants (nothing related to drugs)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 19:13:19 GMT -5
Do you realize that it isn't Trump's choice if he's the AG? He nominates him and then he has to be approved. Also nobody agrees with anybody 100%. Trump has already said his administration will respect State's decisions on drugs. Nobody agrees with anyone 100%, just because Sessions agrees with one thing, doesn't mean Trump does. He wants Sessions because he owes him and also Sessions will be aggressive in going after some of the things Trump wants (nothing related to drugs) Yes, I recognize the senate has to go along with it, but Trump has appointed him, or in other words suggested he's his pick, and it seems likely he could end up as attorney general. Trump has said he'd respect states rights on marijuana laws, I'll give him that, BUT he's appointed someone who can attack them on the Federal Level. That's kind of like saying you'll arm a bad person, but won't go so far as to pull the trigger yourself lol. I can't see how anyone pro legalization could defend Trump's appointment or what Sessions wants to do.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 19:24:21 GMT -5
You're kinda clueless, aren't ya Toehold?
No, Trump nominating him does not mean that he's "anti-weed". It means he likes the guy's record- which has nothing to do with weed at all. Yeah, he's hawkish on the topic. Just like pretty much every other older conservative.
It's better to go off what Trump has actually said rather than trying to decipher some hidden meaning in a nominee. What he actually said is that it's a state's rights issue. That's it. Sessions can stick that in his pipe and smoke it. And you can too. If you want to find me a place where Sessions' plan for marijuana is laid out, by Sessions- and not some journalist speculating about the worst possible case, I'd love to see it. Because I've been looking high and low for anything from Sessions beyond his babbling about "good people don't smoke marijuana". He will stand in the way of federal legalization. He will not stop the states from doing what their citizens voted to to. Just like I told you time would prove me right that Trump was going to win, (and by the way: ha ha I fucking told you so. Maybe next time listen to the smart people and tell your parents to STFU.) I'm telling you there will be no crack down on states.
I shall have another fun "so ha ha" at your expense in several months, and I look forward to it. So ha ha.
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