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annabanana

(52,791 posts) Wed Nov 4, 2015, 05:00 PM Nov 2015

About that MARIJUANA vote in Ohio!

On MSNBC, the reporter on the ground has, ALL DAY, been trying to report that voters are definitely in favor of marijuana, but are definitely NOT in favor of this initiative, which gave a monopoly to about 5 growers.

Three times I have seen the anchor at the desk say "I'm sorry, I think we lost audio" or "someone was talking in my ear at the end and we'll have to leave it there" or other such dodge so the field guy couldn't get out that last sentence.

It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic

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About that MARIJUANA vote in Ohio! (Original Post) annabanana Nov 2015 OP

Wow...Thanks for this annabanana. Not surprising anymore. haikugal Nov 2015 #1

people would have been allowed to grow their own saturnsring Nov 2015 #2

Exactly. OnyxCollie Nov 2015 #3

mine was always too annabanana Nov 2015 #4

That almost happened in Washington Matariki Nov 2015 #5

haikugal

(6,476 posts)

1. Wow...Thanks for this annabanana. Not surprising anymore.

Reply to annabanana (Original post)

Wed Nov 4, 2015, 05:05 PM

Nov 2015

saturnsring

(1,832 posts)

2. people would have been allowed to grow their own

Reply to annabanana (Original post)

Wed Nov 4, 2015, 05:07 PM

Nov 2015

OnyxCollie

(9,958 posts)

3. Exactly.

Reply to saturnsring (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 4, 2015, 05:10 PM

Nov 2015

Who cares about a monopoly when you can grow your own?

annabanana

(52,791 posts)

4. mine was always too

Reply to OnyxCollie (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 4, 2015, 05:36 PM

Nov 2015

stemmy and seedy, back in the day. I wouldn't mind leaving it to the professionals now. Just not a monopoly...

Matariki

(18,775 posts)

5. That almost happened in Washington

Reply to annabanana (Original post)

Wed Nov 4, 2015, 07:46 PM

Nov 2015

the initiative was poorly written. I argued with friends (who were pro-legalization but were going to vote against the initiative because it had so much bad stuff in it) that if it lost it would definitely be interpreted as "America isn't ready for legalized pot". I tried to convince them that it would be easier to fix the imperfect bits later than to start from scratch, especially after furthering the conservative narrative.

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