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21. Based on this nonsense, it's likely we'll see an acceleration...

Thu Nov 13, 2025, 12:15 PM

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...of the "soft secession" blue-state policies. Who knows if that will be a portent of something more calamitous in the future.

...the signs have been visible for some time...the "blue states" have been quietly opting out of the most regressive and reactionary law and policy favored by the MAGA chuds (and before them, the "Tea Party" movement, etc.).

https://democraticunderground.com/100220583559#post3
https://democraticunderground.com/100220108758#post11

It started with things like sanctuary cities, ignoring FDA scheduling of cannabis, the devolution of abortion law to the states, and other similar movements over the last 20 years or so. And the ties that bind were further stressed by the Trump regime's disastrous mismanagement of Covid...I really wonder what the country is going to look like in another 20 years.

https://democraticunderground.com/100219688375#post12
https://democraticunderground.com/100219672176#post3
https://democraticunderground.com/100219025512#post26
https://democraticunderground.com/100219019557#post2

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Thanks to Mitch McConnell, you can now say goodbye to legal THC products like Delta 9 [View all] Miles Archer Wednesday OP

That rotten fucker just couldn't go without fucking over FoxNewsSucks Wednesday #1

It wipes out an entire industry in one fell swoop Miles Archer Wednesday #2

Hopefully Canada is still fucking them. dem4decades Wednesday #7

I thought he died n/t leftstreet Wednesday #3

How would anyone know? dem4decades Wednesday #6

No such luck oasis Wednesday #9

There is no mention of Greg_In_SF Wednesday #4

That was one of about a dozen sources I found that was stamped with today's date Miles Archer Wednesday #8

and FAWK HIM!!!!!! a kennedy Wednesday #5

My son needs Delta-8. Ilsa Wednesday #10

No, what that tobacco juice dribbling old fart dd was kill the hemp industry Warpy Yesterday #11

Protection regulations Kentucky bourbon Blue Full Moon Yesterday #12

Delta 9 contributes to psychosis and cannabis induced schizophrenia Bluesaph Yesterday #13

Let me point you in the right direction UniqueUserName Yesterday #14

I don't believe in freedom of dangerous substances Bluesaph Yesterday #26

How do you feel about alcohol and Tylenol being sold freely with no limits Blues Heron Yesterday #29

Stupid argument not worthy of reply. Bluesaph Yesterday #32

They are both infinitely more dangerous than cannabis, but let's ban cannabis Blues Heron Yesterday #34

Post removed Post removed Yesterday #37

You are seen. My god! Won't someone think of the children?!!111!!? UniqueUserName Yesterday #38

For some people, this is true. Intractable Yesterday #20

There is also an argument to be made that it causes more problems. Bluesaph Yesterday #28

Also causes anxirty Bluesaph Yesterday #30

It sounds like they are talking about *unregulated* sales of THC products Qutzupalotl Yesterday #15

I don't think so. Miles Archer Yesterday #16

I found this: Qutzupalotl Yesterday #17

The problem is that a Delta 9 gummie is not a full-blown, full-strength cannabis product Miles Archer Yesterday #19

My state legalized rec cannabis in 2015. Yours even earlier IIRC. Qutzupalotl Yesterday #22

No, it's still illegal here, and i will most likely die before it becomes legal (it will NOT) Miles Archer Yesterday #23

Yes -- just the ones in that bill. Qutzupalotl Yesterday #24

Pennsylvania? ColoringFool Yesterday #25

The Republicans haven't learned the lesson of the book Brave New World. Intractable Yesterday #18

Without cannabis there would be no Beatles music as we know it today. They all getting high and writing music Blues Heron Yesterday #31

If I recall, John Lennon mentions the "wake and bake" in the movie Hard Days Night. (Great movie!) Intractable Yesterday #33

Can you imagine reggae without weed? It would still be ska! Blues Heron Yesterday #35

Based on this nonsense, it's likely we'll see an acceleration... keep_left Yesterday #21

Damn that old turtle to everlasting hell Jilly_in_VA Yesterday #27

It Seems Like The Private Prison Industry Is All For This. BBbats Yesterday #36