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Oppose the “Deferring Executive Authority (DEA) Act” in U.S. Senate

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S. 2909 — which is sponsored by U.S. Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Steve Daines (R-MT) — is wrong-headed and should be opposed. The bill says that only Congress should have the ability to move marijuana up and down the five schedules. https://www.marijuanamoment.net/gop-senators-file-bill-to-block-biden-marijuana-rescheduling-effort-without-congressional-approval/ In 1970, when Congress and President Richard M. Nixon created the current-day […]

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Trump’s nominee for Attorney General good on marijuana

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Good news from William Barr’s confirmation hearing! In a break from [Jeff] Sessions, [William] Barr said his Justice Department would “not go after” marijuana companies operating in states that have legalized cannabis. Marijuana remains illegal at the federal level, and Sessions had rescinded the Obama administration’s rules that such companies wouldn’t be targeted — the

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(Unelecting) Pete Sessions gets national attention

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Yes!  The (get rid of) Pete Sessions campaign was featured in The New York Times on April 13. Un-electing Congressman Pete Sessions is one of the Marijuana Leadership Campaign’s two priority projects in 2018, having recently formed the Marijuana Leadership PAC and, soon, a Super PAC. As a reminder, Rep. Sessions (R-Dallas) is literally the only man preventing

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Fake attacks undercut the important ones

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This opinion piece in The Week by Matthew Walther is so smart that I’ll preemptively say only this:  When you attack someone (Trump) for everything, you attack him not at all. “Was anyone surprised by the recent CNN poll finding President Trump’s approval rating at 42 percent? … “The thousand undifferentiated scoops in the phantasmal Mueller investigation, the vicissitudes of his hundred shifting positions

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Reminder: Congressman Pete Sessions is also harming vets

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In this roundup article in the Portland Mercury by Vince Sliwoski, an attorney with Harris Bricken law firm, he smartly reminds us that the veterans amendment was the last good marijuana amendment to receive a vote on the floor of the U.S. House … back in 2016. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-Dallas) single-handedly blocked all other

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Uber does an “Atlas Shrugged” in Greece

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What the hell. I moved to Austin in 2013, and Uber banned itself shortly thereafter, after losing a local referendum that sought to rescind the city council’s invasive regulations that the taxi commission had sought.  (Uber has since re-legalized itself in Austin.) Now I’m lurking and working in Greece, and I read this headline in

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Sex in NY City, or Sexy Position for NY State?

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It’s exciting when TV stars run for office, especially because the ones who get elected are indubitably wonderful — just terrific, fantastic — public servants. Cynthia Nixon vowed to fight for stricter gun-control laws, stand up for black voters, and support the legalization of marijuana in her first national TV interview since declaring her candidacy for governor of New York.

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Synthetic marijuana is a plastic rose

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People are now dying from what’s being called “synthetic marijuana” — the worst-possible collateral damage from marijuana prohibition.  If marijuana were legal, no one would resort to smoking stuff that’s essentially potpourri (no pun intended) sprayed with lab-made chemicals. “… mock marijuana that is spreading across Chicago and the central part of the state, causing

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Report card for TX state-level House and Senate candidates

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All state-based marijuana-policy organizations should be doing this kind of sophisticated voter guide. If you know of a non-Texas group that has done so in 2017 or 2018, could you please post links to such voter guides here? As they say here in Texas, god bless Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy, which includes such wonderful

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4 takeaways from AG Jeff Sessions repealing “Cole Memo” on 1/4/2018

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One year and one day after the convening of the 2017-2018 Congress, Attorney General Jeff Sessions finally did what everyone expected: He repealed the Obama Justice Department’s Aug. 2013 memo that essentially advised businesses in states with good marijuana laws how not to run afoul of the federal laws that prohibit marijuana absolutely. If there was

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