Texas and Louisiana consider "softening" marijuana laws

[RainDog]

2. But Republican-controlled states will always be against the wind

and continue to make the lives of their residents more sucky than necessary.

...because that's the Republican reason for being - to make like suck for all but the rich - who, to be sure, will never face a problem from possession or even sale of cannabis, as Mitch Daniels showed when he was a student at Princeton, as Dan Burton's son showed, when he was arrested for carrying LSD across state lines for the purpose of selling...and on and on.

The peasants and the feudal lords - the Republican view of life.

I'm sure it will be hard for conservative states in the south and the midwest to give up their archaic laws because they've been so useful when they want to disenfranchise voters.