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Maybe by a few mutton-heads out there, but not by anyone with an ounce of intelligence.

As ridiculous and offensive as her actions were, I feel kind of bad for her. She obviously has some really big mental and emotional problems.

So keep it that way. No need to start being ambiguities like "driving stoned is different than driving drunk" into the conversation.

No, if anything it's an argument for prosecuting anyone who is caught driving under the influence of anything that impairs perception or reaction time. What people choose to do with their minds and bodies at home is fine, but once they bring that behavior into public they become a potential threat to others.

Absolutely right.

Another gone too soon. Rest in peace.

I'd consider the results to be opposite - nothing would help their national meltdown/marginalization like putting someone like Ellison in charge of the party would.

Fifty dollars says that if they find the perpetrator(s), they turn out to be anti-Trumpers faking more hate.

You didn't say anything about medical marijuana. You stated your belief in the possibility of the feds re-criminalizing marijuana (quoted in your points 1 & 2 below). Again, most here will not disagree that marijuana should be legal, but the fact remains that despite what states may decide to do with regard to marijuana laws, it will always be illegal until the feds revoke it's illegality. Even in states that legally allow medical marijuana, you'd damn well better have a prescription for it if you're caught with it or you're headed for jail. 1) If they re-criminalize weed, that means all those for-profit prisons will fill up again. Cha-CHING. 2) If they threaten to re-criminalize weed, it may scare the small business owners who make up the industry. Then the corporate interests can move in and take over. Cha-CHING.

Arrrrrrr....

I think you'll find that while most people here tend to take a dim view of smoking weed, they are also largely against keeping it illegal. That said: Marijuana is illegal per federal law. Federal law supersedes state law. The Obama administration only decided to not enforce existing marijuana laws, they did not rescind them. People's problem lately is that they mischaracterize a law or policy, and then complain about it and criticize it. Get it right, for %$#% sake. Only then can you actually address it.

No. Marijuana doesn't have arm pits.

I thought he still was one....

Of the weed or the stoners?

You know who else didn't get hugged as a child?

Wow, what a bitter, spiteful, hit piece that was. Not to mention extremely disrespectful toward the recently departed. At least Colmes understood that you'll never convince anyone of anything unless you can establish a dialogue first. Hacks like this Chotiner clown will never understand that, and will therefore continue to marginalize themselves.

Apparently the democrats held a secret confirmation process and she breezed through with flying colors. Her official title is "secretary of nobody buy her fashion products and who in hell does she think she is, anyway".

Who the hell is Glen McConnell?

And notice that when he died, Spock was wearing a red uniform. Blue shirt = immortality.

Agreed. I probably should have stated that in my post.

Ripley, is that you?

Dr Spock was far worse, because his wrote the ridiculous crap that parents used to raise baby boomers - or as Pete Townsend would say, "my generation". Mr Spock actually had a doctoral degree which was visibly evident to literally everyone. The blue shirt. Not only were the most intelligent and highly educated members of the Enterprise crew given the blue shirt designation, it also imparted immortality. How many crew members can anyone name from the original series that died while wearing the blue shirt? Who other than the blue-shirts were more frequently engaged in debate? Any official Spock canon only applies to Nimoy-Spock, and not to that mewling homunculus appearing in the new movies.

The issue of state's rights isn't about them being able to pick and choose which federal laws they can ignore and which they will voluntarily obey. If you approached legalization of drugs with regard to the issue of state's rights, you'd have to rescind all federal laws regarding drugs and allow the states to create their own.

Fifty years ago the police were a racist organization? Really? Is that your final answer?