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How One of the Reddest States Became the Nation’s Hottest Weed Market
Politico ^ | 11/27/2020 | PAUL DEMKO

Posted on 12/23/2020 8:16:42 AM PST by NobleFree

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To: a fool in paradise
Why don’t they research the underlying cause of so many ill people rather than just masking the symptoms?

"They" who - and whose money do you propose they spend doing it?

21 posted on 12/23/2020 8:42:35 AM PST 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: NobleFree

>>The only other thing that does it is handguns. All types of people are into firearms. All types of people are into cannabis.”

All types of people are into Netflix.
All types of people are into craft beer.
All types of people are into...

It’s a meaningless comparison.

There is not criminal about gun ownership.

“Oh, you have to get a license”

Same with marriage and driving.


22 posted on 12/23/2020 8:42:38 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: KC_Lion

Ping!


23 posted on 12/23/2020 8:42:58 AM PST by Drew68
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To: NobleFree
So Oklahoma voters - who went 65% for Trump - have to drug themselves to get through their day, and will render themselves docile and tractable for political manipulation?

How many of the voters who voted for Trump are daily users of weed? It is also true that research shows brain damage occurs from habitual use.

24 posted on 12/23/2020 8:43:51 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: a fool in paradise
There is not criminal about gun ownership.

Nor, in many states, about marijuana.

25 posted on 12/23/2020 8:44:19 AM PST 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: EinNYC
How many of the voters who voted for Trump are daily users of weed?

How many Oklahomans who voted for Biden are daily users of weed?

It is also true that research shows brain damage occurs from habitual use.

Ditto for alcohol; should that drug be illegal? (I say no.)

26 posted on 12/23/2020 8:46:14 AM PST 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: NobleFree
"Are you saying deep-red OK wants to dumb down its populace?"

Money talks.. The narcotics industry is the life's blood of the democratic party..

I would say there are just about as many RINOS in Oklahoma's government as there are true conservative republicans.. That's pretty the way it is everywhere now a days... :(

27 posted on 12/23/2020 8:49:11 AM PST by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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To: NobleFree

So apparently, they do smoke marijuana in Muskogee.

Do they take their trips on LSD?


28 posted on 12/23/2020 8:49:31 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: NobleFree

Dictatorships regularly make legal and available drugs to the majority of the populace. In North Korea, for instance, opium and other “hard drugs” are completely legal and regularly consumed. When you’re a tool of tyrants, it helps to dull the pain of existence.


29 posted on 12/23/2020 8:50:00 AM PST by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Drew68; dainbramaged; NobleFree; TheStickman
Thank You Drew68!

Imagine, treating the American people like Adults.

30 posted on 12/23/2020 8:50:13 AM PST by KC_Lion
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To: NobleFree

>>Minors have been reporting since well before any state legalized that they could get marijuana almost as easily as beer or cigarettes

Of course it is easy for a minor to get smokes when he grows his own pot. Probably a bit more work to grow his own tobacco cigars or cigarettes or set up his own home brew opertation without his parents catching on.


31 posted on 12/23/2020 8:50:59 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: NobleFree

Legal pot isn’t red or blue...

It’s simply another step of getting the government out of people’s private lives.


32 posted on 12/23/2020 8:52:27 AM PST by Magnatron ( )
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To: NobleFree

You don’t have to be convicted to be denied such a license.

There are whiskey distillers who were in possession of stills with which they experimented before legalization. When they stepped forward to secure the paperwork they faced hassles.

Baker himself admits he was growing pot since age 13.


33 posted on 12/23/2020 8:52:41 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: NobleFree

So explain the comparison of marijuana users to gun owners?


34 posted on 12/23/2020 8:54:16 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: NobleFree

Until now, Oklahoma was most famous for Sooner football and a musical whose original story was written by a actual gay cowboy.


35 posted on 12/23/2020 8:54:16 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: unread
I would say there are just about as many RINOS in Oklahoma's government as there are true conservative republicans..

It's the VOTERS of OK who legalized - and voted 65% for Trump. True conservatives recognize the proper limits of government.

36 posted on 12/23/2020 8:55:13 AM PST 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: rarestia

In Russia there are quite a few “prescription”(US) drugs available over the counter.


37 posted on 12/23/2020 8:55:58 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: rarestia
This article is about Oklahoma - which the President won by 65%. Are you saying deep-red OK wants to dumb down its populace?

Dictatorships regularly make legal and available drugs to the majority of the populace. In North Korea, for instance, opium and other “hard drugs” are completely legal and regularly consumed.

So deep-red OK is a dictatorship like North Korea?

38 posted on 12/23/2020 8:56:41 AM PST 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: NobleFree

I read the article to mean that farmers were taking advantage of a burgeoning market while responding to the dictatorship comment. Oklahoma proper may not be a dictatorship, but as we march toward tyranny, at least our betters will let us get high while they run roughshod over our rights.


39 posted on 12/23/2020 8:58:12 AM PST by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: a fool in paradise
Minors have been reporting since well before any state legalized that they could get marijuana almost as easily as beer or cigarettes

Of course it is easy for a minor to get smokes when he grows his own pot.

So it's your theory that many mionrs have access to what's required to grow pot? Have any evidence for this? (When I was a teen I always bought my pot - my one foray into growing produced only ditchweed.)

40 posted on 12/23/2020 8:58:42 AM PST 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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