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California Moves to Legalize Psychedelic Drugs
The New American ^ | 6/30/2021 | Veronika Kyrylenko

Posted on 06/30/2021 9:49:04 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

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To: Right Wing Vegan

>>The bill also includes language to end promotion of abstinence in state drug and alcohol programs.

Then it would seem that you cannot drug test (for drugs or alcohol) in paroles convicted of drug or alcohol offenses.


21 posted on 06/30/2021 10:18:41 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: cgbg

Is Sly Stone rich or poor these days, it’s so hard to tell.

#SpaceCase


22 posted on 06/30/2021 10:19:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

WHY am I NOT surprised?????


23 posted on 06/30/2021 10:24:45 AM PDT by buffyt (Better to remain silent, and let your weapon talk for you!)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
Oh, boy. LSD, shrooms and flying cars.

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.

24 posted on 06/30/2021 10:26:40 AM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Far out, man.


25 posted on 06/30/2021 10:27:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
Step 1. Declare a "War on Drugs"

Step 2. Legislate all sorts on unConstitutional powers for government that are supposedly needed to fight "War on Citizens er, Drugs"

Step 3. Uphold all these powers against challenge on the spurious basis that "but then how would the goobermint fight the War on Drugs?", ignoring the argument that obviously trumps that: "So what?" Use those powers against normal non-druggie citizens 80% of the time in ways that would never have been politically palatable to sell the empowering legislation.

Step 4. Stop pretending that empowering government at the expense of the host organism was ever about drugs, so that we don't even get that tiny benefit from this Faustian bargain. Don't forget to leave the improper (and apparently no longer necessary) powers in place.

26 posted on 06/30/2021 10:32:45 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

If mind altering drugs are safe enough for legal use than they should not be usable as claims for extenuating circumstances for any crimes allegedly committed voluntarily under their influence.


27 posted on 06/30/2021 10:40:21 AM PDT by JohnBovenmyer
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To: Right Wing Vegan

“… that he sees as discriminating against people of color.”

That’s actually a pretty racist. Saying a lot of people of color do drugs. And when they do these drugs they see all sorts of colors!


28 posted on 06/30/2021 10:42:47 AM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Choices... Choices...
Allow drugs to be legal...
Give the government even more control over our lives....
Common sense should prevail..
But, alas, it does not...
So, I choose to deny the government power over the citizens...
We see you


29 posted on 06/30/2021 10:43:52 AM PDT by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Whatever it takes to move us closer to a future THEY (Democrats, Republicans, Blackrock, Soros, Koch, USCOC) want for us: sheep, controlled and programmed in a mashup of Brave New World and THX 1138.


30 posted on 06/30/2021 10:44:27 AM PDT by montag813 ("Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the Great")
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To: realcleanguy
Soon the state will have no absolutes. We’ll have drugs and sex prostitutes running the streets, drag queens teaching sex ed, and communists running universities.

Just like now.
31 posted on 06/30/2021 10:46:33 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: joe fonebone

Government should secure freedom. If everyone is forced to breath psychotropic/hallucinogen or psychedelic drug laden air at the mercy and whim of sleazeballs “free” to use it, than government inaction is tyranny. That’s particularly true when an elite class pushes hard to normalize those very brain wacking substances. That is the elite class that has been fighting for “less government control” regarding this matter.


32 posted on 06/30/2021 10:49:27 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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Well, it’s California, so things are likely to not get much nuttier.


33 posted on 06/30/2021 10:55:07 AM PDT by mykroar (God speed, President Trump)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

It will not pass.


34 posted on 06/30/2021 11:14:07 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
"Swallowing half an hour before closing time, that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds."

Huxley - Brave New World

35 posted on 06/30/2021 11:17:03 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.

Look at the bright side-more people will want to move here to take advantage. Route 66 has been going in the opposite direction lately. Would you want them as neighbors? Those are details.


36 posted on 06/30/2021 11:20:32 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (1)
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To: P.O.E.

Hey. My doc gave me soma for a back ache. Probably not the same thing.


37 posted on 06/30/2021 11:20:43 AM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

“now psychedelics will increase in everyone else’s air”

Sounds like BS to me; I’ve known many users of psychedelics and none of them reported ever smoking it. I doubt that even works - likely combustion renders those chemicals nonpsychedelic.


38 posted on 06/30/2021 12:00:56 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Like I said...
Common sense should prevail..
But, alas, it does not..
We have no knock warrants, and innocent people getting gunned down by the gestapo, for the crime of defending themselves...
Drugs are evil, and do society no good...
Government power is even more evil, and results in unequal distribution of law..
Like I said, choices, choices..

I choose to strip the government of power..


39 posted on 06/30/2021 12:13:27 PM PDT by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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To: NobleFree
I’ve known many users of psychedelics and none of them reported ever smoking it. I doubt that even works - likely combustion renders those chemicals nonpsychedelic.

Degenerates in my high school back in the day did it all the time. Not everything in smoke is burnt matter. There are always particles that are liberated and dispersed by convection along with combusted materials. It's not the purest way to trip, but then again that level may suit druggies' moods from time to time, especially when mixed with their beloved pot.

Pro druggie "experts" often claim things that druggies know is bs but won't admit it's bs. Such as spurious claim that THC is completely depleted in exhalations. Potheads claim this time and time again, but their fondness for "hot boxing" and blowing the smoke into sex partners' mouths for a second hit demonstrates that potheads know it still contains plenty of THC. And they know to stay away from even secondhand smoke for a month when they need to pass a drug test.

40 posted on 06/30/2021 12:23:43 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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