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RE: Today's Weed News for August 22nd 2018 #NEWJERSEY
Word. I feel like the whole ban on owning guns if you use cannabis also plays a big role in TX. But there's too much $$$ in legal weed, they will catch up eventually.
Yeah that might be an issue but I am pretty sure all they have to do is lie on the background check. Those things usually only look at criminal history so I don't know how they would know which drugs a person uses.
I think there may a way to use that law to our advantage though. It might be a fruitful way of drumming up support for legalization among groups that have traditionally opposed it. It is a matter of how it is framed. If it is put to them by saying that the government says that it can take your rights away for having this plant, they may develop a personal stake in the issue even if they don't particularly care about because prohibition starts to look like a threat to their pet cause.
I think there is more room for unity on drug law reform than a lot of people realize. People want to make it fit into this right/left paradigm but I see it as the authoritarians vs. everyone else. With cleaver "marketing," it may be possible to form an unusually diverse political coalition that would be willing to support fixing this broken system.