• Momentum builds for Lone Star legalization of marijuana
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[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/MbClVJ8.jpg[/IMG] [I](Illustration by Jason Stout/Thinkstock)[/I] [quote] ... It's frustrating, certainly, but Naishtat is unsurprised and remains undaunted by the repeated roadblocks. In part, that's because he knows what lawmakers say to him in hushed tones on the floor: Sure, what you're doing makes sense, and it's the right thing to do, but I can't vote for it. "I have members come up to me and say, 'I know what you're trying to do here, but I can't vote for it because my cousin in Harlingen is a deputy sheriff,' or because 'I can't look weak on crime. Maybe in another six years.'" Yet if recent poll numbers are to be believed, it shouldn't take anywhere near six years to get this done. According to a September 2013 poll commissioned by the Marijuana Policy Project, a majority of all Texas voters – men and women, Democrats, Republicans, and independents – support legalizing medi-pot. In a Texas Tribune/UT poll released in February, 49% of voters favor making at least small amounts of pot legal for any purpose, and another 28% favor legalizing medi-mari – thus, a clear 77% of all voters (a slight majority of those polled were Republican) favor legalizing medi-pot, and most certainly would favor Naishtat's bill. He says, "I'm saying with more confidence it's just a matter of time until it's legalized." Indeed, since January, when Gov. Rick Perry said (during a panel discussion of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland) that he supports marijuana decriminalization – and the right of individual states to legalize the drug outright – the Texas media has been trolling for more. The Dallas Morning News asked Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis about her views in a recent interview; she would support medi-pot, she responded, and the right of voters to consider legalization (though she said she's not sure how she'd vote on that question). Land Commissioner and recent GOP lite guv candidate Jerry Patterson told public television station KERA, without hesitation, that he would support legalizing medical marijuana; and author/musician Kinky Friedman's all-pot-all-the-time race for agriculture commissioner netted him 38% of Democratic party voters, the most in the three-way race, sending him to a May run-off. These are among the recent and public shifts that veteran lawmakers and advocates for drug-law reform consider harbingers of big things to come for the Lone Star State. It's just a matter of time, they say, before Texas goes all in for lasting marijuana-law reform. The question is how quickly things will move, and what shape the future will take. ... [/quote] [url]http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2014-03-14/dont-fear-the-reefer/[/url] [quote]According to a September 2013 poll commissioned by the Marijuana Policy Project, a majority of all Texas voters – men and women, Democrats, Republicans, and independents – support legalizing medi-pot. In a Texas Tribune/UT poll released in February, 49% of voters favor making at least small amounts of pot legal for any purpose, and another 28% favor legalizing medi-mari – thus, a[B] clear 77% of all voters (a slight majority of those polled were Republican) favor legalizing medi-pot[/B], and most certainly would favor Naishtat's bill. He says, "I'm saying with more confidence it's just a matter of time until it's legalized."[/quote] [editline]12th March 2014[/editline] 420 Blaze it, pard'ner
Doesn't surprise me at all, the good ol boys down here love to toke it. [img]http://i.imgur.com/tXRKpC1.gif[/img]
It's nice to see Texas becoming a reasonable state. I remember when it used to be the butt of every joke on the internet, but now it's becoming far more respectable. Keep up the good work Lone Star.
this suits my purposes
[QUOTE=wooletang;44218683]It's nice to see Texas becoming a reasonable state. I remember when it used to be the butt of every joke on the internet, but now it's becoming far more respectable. Keep up the good work Lone Star.[/QUOTE] thank you <3 But yeah, tons of people here are smoking weed, doesn't surprise me.
I approve of this, even though i'd never do marijuana And yes I live in texas
I'm glad. I went to Texarkana(Texas side) for college my first two years and it was saturated with the stuff. It'd sell amazingly.
[QUOTE=Ashes;44218817] do marijuana[/QUOTE] I don't want to pick on you but don't you think that's silly?
[QUOTE=Krype;44218942]I don't want to pick on you but don't you think that's silly?[/QUOTE] I guess I'm deserving a box because I don't understand
[QUOTE=Ashes;44219039]I guess I'm deserving a box because I don't understand[/QUOTE] You don't ''do'' marijuana the same you don't ''do'' tobacco or some herbal tea.
[QUOTE=Krype;44219074]You don't ''do'' marijuana the same you don't ''do'' tobacco or some herbal tea.[/QUOTE] Oh ok Now I'm not sure whether to fix it or not since the damage is already done
[QUOTE=Ashes;44219109]Oh ok Now I'm not sure whether to fix it or not since the damage is already done[/QUOTE] Just leave it man. It's not the end of the world or anything. This thread will disappear in a few hours anyway. Learn from the experience, and don't say "do weed" anymore. Smoke weed have some weed ingest the magical power plant known as marijuana Get aids These are all acceptable ways to say "suck in dat reefer," and don't carry the social awkwardness of "do weed." [sp]in case you missed it, "get aids" is in no way an acceptable term for smoking weed. Everything else is okay though[/sp]
[QUOTE=Ashes;44218817]I approve of this, even though i'd never do marijuana And yes I live in texas[/QUOTE] Yeah, I would never do the marijuana myself.
[QUOTE=Explosions;44219256]Yeah, I would never do the marijuana myself.[/QUOTE] Ah, come on man. He realized his mistake and is obviously feeling stupid about it. Leave the poor guy alone. The issue's already been addressed. No need to keep hammering it.
New Mexico needs to jump on the band-wagon, too. If you ever DO get a card for medical marijuana, which you can only get in the more "liberal" cities like Albuquerque and Santa Fe, those are also the only cities where you can get the marijuana, too. Understandably, bit of an inconvenience for those that live 3-4 hours away.
[QUOTE=Krype;44219074]You don't ''do'' marijuana the same you don't ''do'' tobacco or some herbal tea.[/QUOTE] I talk that way all the time. I don't do coffee, I don't do crack, etc.
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