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On 5/24/25 17:48, Governor Swill wrote:
On Thu, 22 May 2025 21:20:47 -0400, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southwest/texas-lawmakers-move-to-ban-legal-thc-hemp-amid-medical-marijuana-expansion/
Texas lawmakers have passed a ban on nonmedical sales of
THC, the intoxicating ingredient in cannabis, sending the
measure to Gov. Greg Abbott (R).
“If it gets you high, it is not legal anymore” state Rep.
Tom Oliverson (R), who sponsored the House bill, told The
Dallas Morning News.
In passing the ban, Texas joins a wide array of states,
including Colorado, Iowa, Arizona, Hawaii and Alaska,
that have banned or restricted intoxicating forms of hemp,
or the compounds derived from it.
But they still sell whisky and wines? What a pity.
Colorado Lawmakers Pass Bill To Streamline Marijuana Industry
Regulatory Restrictions, Sending It To Governor
<
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/colorado-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-streamline-marijuana-industry-regulatory-restrictions-sending-it-to-governor/>
It comes alongside a push by Texas Republicans to significantly
expand the state’s medical marijuana program.>>
Under the new ban, possession of hemp products now carries
a dramatically stricter penalty than possession of up to 2
ounces of marijuana.
"Hemp products" Edibles? Rope?
Edibles should be part of the expanded medical program.
Politicians are afraid of hemp rope though relatively few have been hung
by the neck until dead recently.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) had threatened to hold up the state’s
ability to pass a budget if the House didn’t pass S.B. 3,
the companion legislation in the Senate.
“We cannot in good conscience leave Austin without banning
THC,” Patrick said in a video posted on Monday.
. . .
Well if anyone had a good conscience it would not be politicians
who produce laws that suppress the natural rights of human persons.
Back to the 50s ...
But yea, seems most of Gen-Z/A2 are totally buzzed
all the time ... or maybe that was inherited from
their weed-head parents ?
ANYway ... this is indeed a dope-dealers employment
initiative. The cartels will be THRILLED - a whole
new demand to satisfy. Skip bulk weed, too easy for
dogs and tech to smell, just bring in THC concentrate.
Yes but likely the dogs can be trained to sniff it out.
Here in California we have Sativa capsules with 10 mg. I was in a
lot of discomfort earlier in the day so took one and fell asleep about 4
and
woke at 6:30 when I got up with a good appetite. I usually confine myself
to 5 mg. Sativa gummies in the daytime but I wanted to try these new to
me capsules and I guess I have learned something from the experience
one of which is that the caffeine did not overpower the Sativa.
I hope we see time or extended release Indica or Sativa in the near future. These were obtained by a dittsy friend running an errand tor
himself
and me. He spent too much too get samples that were out of line with my requirements and we passed a good deal of stuff on to friend who has a
similar condition and which saved him from getting out on his walking frame
and hiking up and down a couple of blocks to the nearest legal shop for a
day or so.
> Exactly. These 'culture wars' rarely turn out well for anybody. Ban
alcohol and get the rise of organized crime. Spend decades fighting
drug crime then make marijuana illegal and drug crime . . . doesn't
change.
Well I thought cocaine was made illegal first as were the parts of the coca plant. That did not get them enough users to justify the budget of the Bureau of Narcotics (Enforcement) so cannabis was made illegal in 1937
which boosted the plant's popularity a very great deal. But I checked my sources because I could not remember the date of the Harrison Narcotics
Act of 1914. And reading the reference I see that coca and opium products
were criminalized then but in Great Britain I think that coca was made
illegal
in the 1920s.
Criminalization of the opium products in other than certain medical uses led to the popular idea of the "junky" whereas before HNA physicians
were able to treat addicted patients with office visits to get their medication.
After the shot the patients were able to go to their work without problems.
I don't know the exact details of the given injections which may have
contained some oil or soft wax to slow the absorption of the dose.
These days we have a maintenance procedure with an oral dose of a
drug which does not get people high but which satisfies some part
of the drug craving but people will still want to get high again and
sometimes kill themselves with the oral medication and the opiate
to which they are addicted. It happened to a friend of mine who got
into the 1970s-1980s modeling scene in NYC after surviving in San
Francisco and San Diego for some time. I think she was from Vermont.
The Harrison Narcotics Act led to wealth for the
criminal entrepreneurs who could overcome their disdain for the users.
The Hemp Tax Act put creative people in Jail one of whom wrote
an account of his punishment "Really the Blues" a Jewish jazz
musician who supplied his black band members. Really the Blues is the
story of Milton Mesirow, a Jewish kid from Chicago possessed by jazz
and black culture, as told to Bernard Wolfe. With its hip jive-talk and descriptions of clubs, dens and prisons, it captures an important time
and culture...
<
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/471934.Really_the_Blues>
You can get a .pdf or as well as other books at: <
https://zlib.pub/download/james-baldwin-a-biography-1ccveh139tg0?hash=b1ea2a5d396493b8bb86c7285e64ffc3>
I read Really the Blues about 60 years ago and because of the
injustice meeted out to users of cannabis I became interested in drug
policy. I contributed in very minor way to the change in California
cannabis laws. But i did contribute to changing that law because hemp
eased the pain of the gay men who were suffering. Some of them
were my contemporaries in nursing.
The only reason weed was called a 'gateway drug' was because you had
to use the 'back gate' to get it. Those criminal dealers carried
other choices as well.
Actually tobacco was the gateway drug which led to a lot of other attempts to
experience euphoria. That was shown conclusively years ago.
By enabling legal, regulated, safe and cheap weed, the black market
dies. Tightening up or concentrates is only going to create that
black market.
Well the state wanted their share of the money so that in California I understand we have an active black market selling products that may come
from purchases at legal stores but more often from illegal large drug grows
are especially when done in houses that could be used for people rather than drugs. Legal drug grows are usually done outdoors, or in old spaces like factories or warehouses that are convenient for the purpose.
Home growing is limited to a few plants.
-
America is the richest, most powerful, most influential, most a
dmired nation that has ever existed in the whole of human history.
Why can't MAGAs be satisfied with that?
Because it does not own the Libs. who produced the riches, paid for the military power and were actually the influencers who made America admired.
bliss - who is much less achy and stiff than before the 10 mg. of cannabis
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