Texas lawmaker Jonathan Stickland’s web posts condone rape, seek weed ‘smoking buddy’ J. David McSwa

Source: The Dallas Morning News

Rep. Jonathan Stickland, the Bedford Republican who is no stranger to strange headlines, is in the news again for old web posts in which he condoned marital rape and sought a marijuana “smoking buddy” with whom to “smoke da green.”
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“Rape is non existent in marriage, take what you want my friend!” – @RepStickland https://t.co/DaRaMSg92H #TxLege

Stickland, now 32, told the Texas Observer Wednesday that he “severely regrets” that post. He did not immediately return a phone call from The Dallas Morning News.

Stickland used his email and online handle, RaTmasTeR4LiFe, an apparent homage to his work as a pest control technician, when he wrote on a Marijuana.com forum in 2001:

“Was wondering if anyone lived in the Dallas Fort Worth area and loved to smoke da green. Looking for a smoke buddy…..
If you fit this criteria please contact me.
jstickland@hotmail.com
or IM me through AOL IM@
RaTmasTeR4LiFe
Thanks,
~stick”

Stickland’s campaign told the Quorum Report that he had previously smoked marijuana and had “wasted much of life, said and did things I wish I hadn’t.”

In another post on seedmine.com, Stickland, using the moniker RaTTyTheLegend, inquired about how to grow marijuana in his home:

“actually a little help was a big understatement. I am very seriously wanting to grow some of my own stash but am totally clueless on what to do. I think the best thing I need to do right now is find someone (prefferably local) with experience to help guide me. ANYONE who can help me out I would truly be grateful. I live in the Dallas/FT Worth metroplex if anyone around here could contact me I would appreciate it. **** is my AOL IM handle, you can always reach me there or through email ***Thanks in advance!
-Jonathan
By The Way I have read the entire grow guide but still very unconfident.”

To the Quorum Report, Stickland denied ever growing marijuana at home, but he acknowledged the posts were his.

In another 2001 post, someone using Stickland’s well-known email address called another commenter a “bratwurst-loving homo,” according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

In a prepared statement to the Quorum Report, Stickland said:

“My family, friends, and many supporters, are aware that I smoked marijuana in high school and my early collegiate years. Let me even go a step further and say that during that time I wasted much of life, said and did things I wish I hadn’t. But by the Grace of God my past sins are forgiven.”

Read more: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/12/texas-lawmaker-jonathan-sticklands-web-posts-about-weed-smoking-da-green-surface.html/