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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If Super PACS are spending this kind of money, you can guarantee that they are paying people to post to blogs like this one, pushing their pro drugs agenda. Some of the replies you read on this site are right out of the Trump playbook: aggressive and nasty, and kicking below the belt. Cheap shots. [/quote]

Who are these mysterious pacs? Is it Qanon? I, myself, only contribute to private prison supporting pacs. I’m excited that you’re taking such a common sense but hostile approach to the potential reform of laws that keep poor folks out of prison for long periods of time. Rather than them seeking medical treatment, which we all know doesn’t work, and may cause us valuable beds, we need to double down on our current approach which has been a tremendous success.[/quote]

This isn’t outside groups. This is about a lady, a district employee, who’s depression was cured by mushrooms. Yes, mushrooms. I know it sounds nuts because your knee jerk reaction is outrage at that possibility, but it’s true.[/quote]

This is insightful: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-mushroom-decriminalization/2020/10/08/b19a1a70-0712-11eb-991c-be6ead8c4018_story.html

Mason Marks, an attorney and physician who teaches health law at Harvard Law School, said “there will still be many critics, but it’s difficult to argue that decriminalization is a bad idea.” Racial justice protests over police shootings that galvanized the nation this summer have made the ballot initiative more relevant, he said.[/quote]

Comment section of that post article is worth reading too.

I am not opposed to decriminalization, but I want it done properly, and minimum laws enforced. If the initiative 71 decriminalizing pot is any indication, DC will also refuse to enforce the mushroom law and people will be tripping in public, just like the roll and smoke in front of schools now. No thanks. not until the Mayor gets a backbone and starts enforcing at least 10% of our laws, especially those around drugs and alcohol. [/quote]

This is how I feel too. People used the same medicinal need argument for pot and look where that got us. There is a better way to make needed medicine available. Regulate it the way other narcotics are regulated.[/quote]

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