I voted for this ballot measure last year to legalize this. I have zero interest in consuming marijuana myself, but I’m certainly not going to stand in the way of others that want to partake. Simple possession of marijuana has also long been used by law enforcement against people of color at a staggeringly disproportionate rate (source) which can have lifelong detrimental effects from convictions.
I’m happy marijuana possession can not longer be used against otherwise law abiding adult users. This by itself is a very nice win for social justice and equality.
Welcome to the party pal, Michigan raised over 1.5 billion in tax revenue since December 2019 for schools, roads, and funding county and municipal local governments.
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Don’t upvote this thing until it’s reporting correctly in a manner consistent with the actual historical bias of the publication and any relevant facts. Right now it seems to be an LLM that is “summarizing”; which LLMs cannot do as they are essentially very convoluted predictive text. This is essentially an advertisement for Ground News. A third party that is affecting the Overton Window. Who gains from a single source of truth in the media? It’s not the reader I am certain of that.
(Haven't used Ground News but have seen some adverts for it)
I like the concept Ground News claims to be going for, which is just listing all the different media outlets reporting on a story so that the reader can do what they will with the additional context. I'm not as OK with media bias fact check, and if Ground News is trying to integrate it in some way on their service, I don't think that's good either. the whole point of Ground News seemed to me to be trying to explicitly NOT tell the reader what to think about a given article, and MBFC would undermine that IMO
It has the possibility to be like anything else, I cannot say whether it is or not. but it's more that I would prefer to move in a direction towards people thinking more critically about the news they consume, and MBFC is offering to shortcut that process, which I don't like
If you’d like to know who rated CTV and when it was last done you can find that information here: mediabiasfactcheck.com/ctv-news/
Honestly I’m really beginning to believe that the people bitching about MBFC (and Ground News too) aren’t upset by some notion of a “single source of truth” but rather because their lies are being exposed.
100 locations? That reminds me of when Washington legalized it a decade ago and they thought it would be a good idea to limit them to only a certain number per district. The prices were so high at the shops because of that that most people stuck to their illegal hookup. LCB quickly realized the whole thing would fail unless they expanded access.
There’s got to be a good middle ground. Seems like there’s a smoke shop every block in my area (outside Boston). I highly doubt the demand is that high. And they’re all chain places, too. That space could be used for more local and more useful businesses.
I’m not following your logic. If demand is not high enough to support the store location, are you suggesting that these stores are being run unprofitably, and if so, where’s the money coming from to make up the shortfall to continue operations on a monthly basis?
That space could be used for more local and more useful businesses.
Or is it possible that landlords are taking a loss on rent because some rent is better than no rent because there aren’t more local/useful businesses willing to open in those spaces?
We have 14 dispensaries for our city of 55k (6sq miles) and there are regularly lines out the door. Demand is fine.
I personally can’t stand small shops. They regularly lack online shopping and have higher prices. Sunnyside, our local chain actively hires those from the queer community, have consistent products, and offer the best prices.
At the moment, it’s moreso that these are already existing medical dispensaries that have been cleared to sell recreational starting tomorrow, which is almost all of them (we don’t have that many in the state right now, anyway - I think around 130 at this point, many very recently opened). They’re still, as far as I’m aware, setting up the process for a rec-only selling license, so it remains to be seen how quickly we will reach saturation. Prices will remain high here for quite some time, though, I think - probably until it’s federally legal to sell cannabis across state lines. Our growing system is kind of shit and I don’t see that changing soon.
Ohio made the process for becoming a Dispo Employee extremely long winded. Hours upon hours of training and tests. I’m in Oregon and we’re sending managers out to Ohio to help them start up.
If you haven’t read about it, do yourself a favor. I ignored it for quite a while because I don’t care, but that was a serious mistake. The whole account is wonderful.
The other thing I took away from it is that the NYPD homicide detectives (who, for some reason, were involved) sure know their stuff. They sorted out that it was hit by a car, died somewhere else (like pretty far away), and then someone moved it to Central Park. To me that was impressive.
Also, RFK Jr wants everyone to know that he was NOT drinking. Everyone else involved was drunk as shit. But not him, because he wouldn’t do that; that would clearly be a bad decision when you’re dropping a dead bear cub in a staged bicycle accident in Central Park.
I think it’s more a matter of drunk driving being an obvious criminal offence, while dumping a bear carcass in a park might be more in a grey zone-ish?
There should be extensive protections in place. But mostly so the people who’re relying on them don’t get blind sided by something.
Also, embryos aren’t people. So the owners get to destroy them.
Also, also, there should be safe guards for embryos donated to research, so that they aren’t allowed to become viable (I’m thinking of that Chinese guy who gmo’d some kids in incredibly risky “research”.)
And yet the right wishes to block this for everyone. Including my close friend who told me yesterday that they’re getting this treatment. So much for loving children and families. Fuck these people.
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Ehhhh I think there might be place for a little more subtlety. Someone who’s admitted to doing so probably doesn’t deserve to be banned from participating in a sport they probably love. And a hard line might encourage people to take the denial till death approach which can make things annoying
They are being disruptive in a way that isn’t kind; arrests would be the best way to deal with them. They are white nationalists, shouting slurs at black people who are fellow citizens in the USA, we should not let them believe this behavior will go unpunished. It will make it worse in the future, enabling hate groups to thrive is something a sane country should never allow.
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