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Marijuana is definitely a place where we'll really see if President Trump sticks to his message on States Rights.

• dvdhnt 10y ago
  ^ this I was listening to the Bill Burr podcast and he was talking about rumors of pharmaceutical companies planning to try and re-demonize marijuana in states where it has become legal to regain what they perceive as lost revenue due to a decline in prescriptions. All that lobby money with a businessman in the White House, makes me wonder how it'll all work out.
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• r00fus 10y ago
  My guess is no. The letter soup federal agencies are ascendant. This proposition cuts at the heart of the DEA. Chances are everything will continue just like usual.
  • tankenmate 10y ago
    Or another likelyhood; the Federal government will no longer turn a blind eye as it has in Colorado et al under Obama, and we wind up with a full on Federal / State showdown.
    • kombucha2 10y ago
      That would be worth it.
    • evilduck 10y ago
      Maybe, but our "states rights" republican platform now elected to run the federal government will have to perform a grand act of hypocrisy. Not that I don't put it past them.
      • monocasa 10y ago
        "States' Rights" was always a red herring, IMO. Even in the civil war, the confederate constitution explicitly banned individual states from deciding to ban slavery.
        • oldmanjay 10y ago
          The red herring is the slavery argument your political masters have fed you to keep you happily allowing massive power consolidation to an abusive apparatus.