organically.

That's how it's done.

At the secret

compromises
deals
drawn up scenarios to whip partisan attention, fear and futile action
sellouts of law, from the Constitution down to police due force.

I want to join the "Shut It Down" crowd now.

Phillip Morris, Phizer and Monsanto want to legally play with the same good toys as the REAL people.
It WILL happen, that the only legal cannabis will be what THEY sell you.

smart deal cutting that has nothing at all to do with the banks getting a change in Dodd-Frank. Thanks for that cold splash in the face! I damned well get all that. I'm talking about the timings of the issues we've been bitching about for so long.

That, and the party infiltrations I've just been learning about. Don't bother explaining that, either. I do my homework.

While we Democrats focus on a couple paragraphs and a couple pages, we are missing the forest for the tree!

There are gems hidden in these 1,600 pages -- this budget is gold compared to the 2015 Ryan budget sent to the Senate from the House. Democrats kicked ass!

As usual, we fail to tell the people the positives, and focus on our losses. Who wants to vote for losers?

After Elizabeth Warren made her epic speech on the floor - which I saw as a tirade against too-big-to-fail and Congress's failure to ever do anything about that - Senator Barbara Mikulski explained exactly how this rider was limited to some reasonable concessions. But you should have seen the 6 other riders attached! Mikulski pointed out not only did her subcommittee eliminate the other riders, but the Republicans agreed to increased funding for the Federal agencies responsible for watching this one concession.

do you really think that they'd be stopped if they could take the time and resources off the book? I don't mean, like, an authorized behind the scenes thing, but they don't see any accountability anyway, so who's to stop them?

You can't expect Obama to control the DEA.

holder...... .........in a sarcastic sort of way....

Step in the right direction, IMO.

This provision, once highly controversial, sailed by unnoticed by most and very interestingly with most of the strong proponents of this provision and other cannabis reforms voting against it, because they were against the larger bill. Byzantine. Convoluted. Strange ways and oddball means.
It is a lesson of some sort.

Maybe we need to let her know:

Melinda L Haag, U.S. Attorney
450 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 436-7200
Melinda.Haag@usdoj.gov



Facebook's Fire Melinda Haag page:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/FIRE-Melinda-Haag/280777645334358

pre-employment piss tests we will have made real progress!

Big Pharma must be real pissed and want to punish people who support medical marijuana by rise the cost of medications.

that was otherwise legal?

darling who tucked that in? Whoever, thank you.

Don't know on the other questions.

But it means that the feds generally aren't going to interfere in states where medical marijuana is legal.

That may encourage other states to get on the bandwagon.

It should go into effect with the new fiscal year. July 1?

medical MJ and the Supreme Court's ruling on use and growing on reservations it makes sense to finally legalize it.

But, they really need to take MJ off of the federal schedule. Alcohol isn't a scheduled substance, and yet affects the brain more than pot and is more responsible for more accidents and crimes than MJ would be if MJ was legal like alcohol is.

I'm not a pot smoker - I'm not interested in it, plus my job would prohibit me from using it, even of it were legal. But, I recognize how useless and destructive the criminalization of it is.

marijuana from the federal schedule. Of course, Congress is way to busy passing anti woman's rights bills to take up anything else.

for the language - almost word for word from Citigroup - we, the tax payers will bail out the banks when their bets go south - once again - but in the words of many - don't pay any attention to the man behind removing regulations put in place by Dodd-Frank!

Yep folks...we all live in Kansas now!

I would hope the President would apply a statement, regarding this deregulation, to this abomination in the spending bill.

we can at least smoke a joint and distress about it.

I guess that's something.

will be doing the next 2 years. They will most likely destroy the USA and people with bills they pass. The GOP is really our Taliban. We see the mass killing of school kids trying to get an education. Well The GOP don't want an educated population. They get their votes from the dumbest and most uneducated, not the smart voters. So education is a hinderance to the GOP.

and stick to replying once in a while. I posted this story late yesterday afternoon and it hardly got a nod or notice - for what I considered to be groundbreaking and a long time coming. http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251390589
At least I can be assured that someone else will always get the story out here. Somehow I always get the feeling that you have to be in the right clique for anyone to bother reading what you post.

You just never know.

The one thing I will say is you get more attention when you post in mornings or evenings than when you post other parts of the day, for obvious reasons.

and then, a few days later, updated them, posted again, & got 90 recs. Sometimes you begin to suspect that behind all this caprice there's a random number generator that decides these things behind the scenes.

they can avoid them entirely. One's perspective, and sometimes freedom, is almost always enhanced by distance.

Thanks for the encouraging words. It was great to feel supported.

Gamble with. Now shops will be able to transfer money to banks, but will it be there? I guess we'll have to wait and see.

in order to do business with anyone in the MMJ industry without risking huge fines and potential shutdowns. Until that happens, no accounts will be opened by any bank that is under OCC oversight.

to the congress member to ask for the provision. I'd like to see who lobbied the congress member for the provision endorsement.

Rohrabacher has been pro-MM for a long time, he is a wingnut, but he likes MM.

He has an organized website.

http://rohrabacher.house.gov/legislation/sponsored-bills

Now maybe all of the dispensaries that were closed after 2011 in Sacramento County will open again! We used to have a bunch then, but they shut down in fear of forfeiture. Now ther are but a handful.

And/ or is this just to appear as if they are going more mainstream?

the District of Columbia that they aren't wise enough to use local control to legalize marijuana.