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2. I'm glad this platform exists, but damn, how hard is it to actually LEAD on a
Sat Jul 2, 2016, 08:45 AM
Jul 2016

position rather than simply trailing along behind years of waffling and half-hearted statements about marijuana?? Good god, how many frickin' studies does one substance need? There are thousands of studies already. There are frickin' POLICE DEPARTMENTS standing up and saying it should be legalized.

And as far as I'm concerned, the model of giving the growing and sale of marijuana to BUSINESSES without allowing individuals to grow their own in unlimited quantities is disgusting. Do we do that with tomatoes? Apples? Cukes? Does everything have to be filtered through a gd BUSINESS? If we want cartels out of the MJ business, we cannot allow businesses, period, to control the growth and sale.

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