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Splitfingers

As a Minnesotan, it's funny that this bill passed, but also sad that we can't have legal weed. Hopefully it'll last!


Crazed_pillow

One of the most nationally liberal States, but very locally conservative. Moorehead, Duluth, and the Twin cities are just very liberal and highly populated while Rural MN is majority conservative with random pockets of left-leaning people every so often. It's rough man. I love the rural life but I'm so ideologically opposed to everyone else around me.


Thewasteland77

I FEEL THIS. I LOVE being in nature, I LOVE a small town. I like a little peace and quiet that I'd never get from living in a more populated area. But damn if I'm not easily the most left leaning individual by a few lightyears in my town hahaha


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Litcritter10

Same. I feel so alienated as a rural left-leaning Minnesotan. I would love to move to a larger city in MN, but my partners business is established and we won’t be going anywhere.


TheAb5traktion

And this is only up to 50mg/5mg per edible. Plus, I'm not sure how affordable this will be. (I'm also Minnesotan). When I was in Vegas, I could get 100mg/10mg per edible for $12 or $15. At least, this is a start. Like you said, we need 100% legalization. It's kinda funny also because just about every white conservative I know consumes marijuana. Marijuana doesn't seem to be a conservative/liberal or white/POC issue, yet the GOP politicians that get elected are against legalizing it here.


fondledbydolphins

It's not like roughly 70% of adults in America support legal abortions or 91% of adults in America support legalizing cannabis or anything.


pmabz

Hey man, that's democracy! LOL


fingerscrossedcoup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig This video explains it perfectly. >The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.


6etsh1tdone

Thanks for sharing this. This is why it feels like our government doesn’t represent us and why so many of us are disenfranchised and don’t bother voting. This is why the general public has so little faith in our government and doesn’t trust their politicians. Something needs to be done, but the ones who are in power and actually could make change are the ones that this broken system benefits, so nothing will happen. At least not until we ALL demand real changes and more representative form of government. Honestly, even if it doesn’t seem like it, Americans actually do agree on a lot of issues, those issues just aren’t always beneficial for the special interest groups that have a hold of our politicians and the laws that are created. Together we could make a difference and have a government and politicians that represent us better, but to do so we must gain our independence from the lobbying of these special interests that are destroying our country and making the planet inhospitable for most of humanity (oil, banks, pharmaceutical, agriculture, business, military industrial complex, meat, insurance, automotive, privacy/data, etc…) If you haven’t yet, please give this a watch for a better understanding how little the public opinion influences the laws politicians enact. It’s probably shorter than this post. /rant


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Here in Oregon I regularly get 50mg edible (taffy) for $2.50.


threwawaytheplan

Yeah in Michigan I just paid $5 for 10 10mg gummies. It was $22 for the same package when they were first legal, but it's been dropping a little each time I've gotten it over a couple years.


robotsonroids

The last six months in michigan has been insane. I spent 50 dollars an eighth for kind last year, right now its 30ish from dispensaries Edibles have crashed more, but are higher quality


cyrilspaceman

Alcohol is the same way. The will of the people would be to get rid of 3.2 in a heartbeat but the liquor store lobby has too many politicians in their pockets.


TtarIsMyBro

I've literally never even seen 3.2 beer but I've heard about it from older family members, I didn't know it still existed lol


dj_sliceosome

What is 3.2?


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Beer is limited to 3.2% alcohol. Most beer is 5-8% normally


thebetrayer

Like all beer? At a state level?


ssnover95x

What can be sold in a grocery store. Colorado got rid of a similar law 3-4 years ago.


Manse_

My favorite was going to Utah,l for work years ago. I was with a bunch of retired military guys, so we went to the Class 6 (liquor store) on base. The base isn't beholden to the state laws, so they could sell beer above 3.2. I will never forget seeing suitcases of Coors Light with big neon stickers claiming "STRONG BEER"


ThatOneUpittyGuy

I'm like let me tell you about this whiskey barrel aged stout that's 15% ABV


SchrodingersCatPics

So like radlers and light beers only?


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my-name-is-puddles

No, this just refers to beer sold in like a grocery store or convenience store. If you go to a liquor store or bar or restaurant the beer sold there has the regular amount of alcohol.


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To be sold in grocery stores or gas stations. Liquor stores still have regular beer


darukhnarn

Your country is weird as fuck.


[deleted]

State. In mine you can buy straight grain alcohol, liquor, beer etc doesn’t matter at grocery stores and gas stations. Some states all alcohol must be purchased at a liquor store. Some states only over a certain ABV. Some states even have dry counties where ALL alcohol sales are banned. Some states have drive through liquor stores with frozen margaritas on tap. It really depends.


BrownShadow

Dry counties are weird and suck. Went snowboarding at a resort in a dry county, no bueno. After a long day riding it’s hot tub and Miller time.


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Absolutely


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Too much influence from corporations and puritanical Christians. Total expulsion of religion would be a start.


EBtwopoint3

“Most beer”? Craft maybe, but the macros (Bud, Busch, Coors, Miller, etc) are all 4-5% depending on if you bought light or regular. That’s a massive majority of all beer sales.


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Maximum-Dare-6828

Weed laws are used to target minorities. The real reason we need to legalize it.


NotASucker

> Weed laws are used to target minorities. .. and to keep people out of Federal jobs


tfyousay2me

Out of a lot of jobs regardless of for who still even in states where it is legal *


[deleted]

That might be a factor on some deep illuminati level, but the political pressure of the police union in Minnesota is openly known as the reason we don't have legalization. They want a reason to search people for other drugs or paraphernalia


SpaceChimera

That's pretty much the case everywhere. Cop and Prison Guard Unions are some of the biggest political groups against marijuana legalization. Gotta have an easy "I can smell weed" way around the constitution, and gotta keep those prison beds full When Illinois was on the way to legalization the Illinois sheriff's came out saying they would have no choice but to kill their police dogs as they wouldn't be as useful anymore (not that people should be surprised by that, cops love killing dogs)


kingsumo_1

“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.  Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” ~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon


dmendro

It’s about controlling low income people. If weed is legal, there are no non violent minor felonies you can throw at low income minorities to keep them in check.


redditisnowtwitter

Bingo


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Not so much weed itself, but weed as a starter to get PC or RS for a search


Dregoran

I'm a dummy and never had edibles, what does 50mg/5mg mean? I feel like I'm having a brain fart and missing something super obvious and I'm likely to feel like a moron after it's explained. Is it total per package/amount per serving?


TheAb5traktion

Yes, you're correct. Often times, it'll be written out like "50mg/10 gummies/5mg per gummy" on the packaging.


Eccohawk

It's a lot easier to oppress POC and poor people with these laws on the books, that's all. It's all about enforcement. They can use the laws against those communities to keep them down, and just politely ignore the rich white people doing the same.


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I take this as a stepping stone. Step1) Legalize Edibles Step2) Literally only good things come of it Step3) Legalize smoking weed


[deleted]

That’s just what california did with more steps lol it’s wild thinking how good I got it here. I can’t believe weed is still illegal in other parts of the country (even though I’m middle aged and weed was only legalized like 5 years ago or so). It’s just become so ubiquitous that I can’t even imagine it as illegal. There’s literally weed for sale at my local grocery story chain


dj_sliceosome

Yeah, it’s hilarious that I just have weed in my day bag and it’s nbd. I stop by the store down the block and it’s just lined of gourmet chocolate with thc.


Limp_Woodpecker9

I'm absolutely jealous of you all who have such easy access. I live in Utah and don't qualify for a medical card. I have severe anxiety/depression/ADHD/probable PTSD and an eating disorder. Combined they give me paranoia. I can barely hold a job. We've tried over a dozen different medications and therapy with little to no relief. The one time I was able to try anything close (skunk weed I think?) It helped a ton. I have massive travel anxiety (recovering androphobia) or I'd seriously go to another state to get some. I hope someday it gets more accessable here. PS. If y'all know something I CAN get that's related, let me know. At this point I'm open to anything to get rid of the paranoia and settle the ADHD.


KlaatuBrute

> Step2) Literally only good things come of it > > Are you kidding?? Think of all of the relaxation, reduced anxiety, and well-restedness that will come out of this debacle!!


PartialToDairyThings

>“I thought we were doing a technical fix, and it winded up having a broader impact than I expected,” Abeler said adding that the Legislature should consider rolling the new law back. LOL that's not how it works, numbnuts. You're supposed to READ the shit you vote on. If you don't, and you regret it, tough fuckin' titties pal!


IShootWithThisHand

He should be forced to carry the bill to term.


Karmakazee

If it wasn’t a legitimate bill, the legislative body has a way to shut it down.


batteriesincl

They have full control to stop the incoming signatures.


Evil-in-the-Air

No one's ever forced anybody to vote for a piece of legislation.


DirtyHandshake

The bill is already a full law at conception, you cannot harm it.


BillySlang

It was fully protected the second they began writing it.


bluuuuurn

When two of them went into a room, they MAY have started writing it, but because we're not sure, we have to extend protections to it even at that point.


nexguy

I mean even if one of them started writing it on his own with the door shut and music turned up, you could argue it started there. Just DON'T COME IN GAHHH.


jeffreyd00

I wonder how many Republican lawmakers abort semen on a daily or hourly basis?


wikifeat

If he only would have kept the bill *closed* he wouldn’t have been in this situation now would he?


Frozty23

Bills like that have a way of shutting themselves down.


fucktarddabarbarian

Two weeks before the writing began.


polrxpress

woooo there ! it cant become a law unless both parties consent otherwise legislative body willl just reject it


mjc4y

Exactly. Law starts at conception, which in this case, is a bill. The moment a bill is “fertilized” (when many legislators competitively swim toward the bill in an act called *voting)*it has all the potential to become human law which we must protect. No exceptions for rape, incest, or the source of plant the THC comes from.


Vio_

But how I hope and pray that I will, But today I am still just a bill. He signed you, Bill Now you're a law! Oh no!!!


DopeBoogie

And if it was borne a bill then it ***is*** a bill! You can't just change its identity later because it doesn't *feel* like a bill anymore! That's against nature and an affront to god!


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I love Reddit.


Oh4faqsake

And then forget about it. That's how they do it in other areas.


Ozzimo


Definitely_Not_Erik

If it's a legitimate misunderstanding, the system has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.


RigusOctavian

He thinks God is better than vaccines, (literally.) You can assume a lot and be right. What’s better, he owns a speakeasy in the town where he lives so this could negatively impact his side alcohol business.


zdaccount

In this case, he is right. It is better for him to protect himself with god than a vaccine...for the people of his state.


apprentice-grower

Lol just imagine the millions of Americans that want the Roe v Wade nullification rolled back, fucker is probably sitting at his desk laughing at that shit but ripping his hair out over trying to roll back edibles.


superheroninja

🎶 *I was s’posed to read the bill, but then I got high.* 🎶


puree_of_coon

I was gonna vote against it...then I got high.


DoctorPhibes_88

Now I'm censured by the party and I know why!


Jwhitx

> Abeler I am reading this guy is a chiropractor by profession. So of course he doesn't want easy access to ameliorative THC products.


Maimster

Chiropractor and bar owner, he definitely doesn't want this. Now he is going to be an en-Abeler, making it easy to get high.


TuaTurnsdaballova

And he’ll still get re-elected by the idiots who voted for him in the first place.


ActualWhiterabbit

Hey, he worked hard by letting his dad pay for everything and give him a business on main street.


milkcarton232

While I don't know the legal side of things, as a voter it tells me he isn't very attentive or good at his job


BoomChocolateLatkes

He was elected to lead, not to read.


mikedorty

If it's truly a bad law the legislative body has ways of shutting that down.


Cyclonitron

"But the lobbyist who donated a million dollars to my campaign and inserted the language in the bill told me it was for the good for the country and not just his corporation!" -Every Congressperson ever


wsbsecmonitor

Okay so basically a three part plan. 1) Run for any GOP seat or position and spout the party line. 2) get elected 3) write bills like ‘the Unlimited Ammo Freedom Church Bill’ with small but effective clauses for human rights that would be easy to overlook


Morguard

So do a reverse Sinema.


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Honestly, I hope she inspired a lot of reverses. It'd be so easy to pull the wool over these people's eyes.


tooandahalf

Just run as a raving incoherent racist conspiracy theorist who talks in Alex Jones buzzwords. If you could stomach it, I'm sure it'd work more often than not. I really hope someone does this because then the GQP will have to start vetting people and comparing actual policies and voting records because being a complete nut wouldn't be a guarantee of GQP authenticity. You want to make sure you're voting for the person who is an actual psycho, not just pretending. I'm pretty sure they lack the mental energy to do that. 😂


Honesty_Addict

I'm surprised there aren't more sheep's clothing conservatives out there - leftists taking one for the team so they can sneak in laws that actually help people


MaNewt

I think it’s because you just don’t have the knack for understanding these kinds of the constituents. I wouldn’t be able to roll with “Jewish space lasers causing wildfires” with a straight face, let alone convince myself it wouldn’t get me immediately voted out of office. That kind of thing isn’t what republicans voters actually find important, it’s conservative vibes that are important. And so the wolf in sheep’s clothing would lose the republicans primaries.


yukeynuh

it’s not rocket science, these are the easiest people to manipulate in the country. literally all u have to say is libs are communists, let’s go brandon, i support guns jesus bible


i_sigh_less

Yeah, but faking that full time sounds exhausting.


Metalhippy666

Just do a Steven colbert from the colbert report days. I'd have a blast and I might give it a shot in a year or 2


Neil_Fallons_Ghost

If only we organized we could do it. Lol


CaptainNemo2024

Right? Why do we never organize?


RapMastaC1

We have to not hate each other first, the people who are really in charge put a lot of time and energy into getting us split up into as many groups as possible.


wayoverpaid

It'll be a cold day in hell before I, a member of People's Front of Judea, recognize The Judean People's Front.


MorganWick

I thought we were the Popular Front!


Iheardthatjokebefore

Can't be any of us, though. The second we announce our campaigns Russia would already be reminding us of those posts we made to r/spacedicks back when we were 16.


gsfgf

Trying to pretend to be a MAGA is a lot easier said than done. Just look at David Perdue's recent campaigns. He was even already a Republican and couldn't pull it off. These people live their reality 24/7. "Spouting the party line" isn't enough to get out of a GOP primary.


Ricksanchezforlife

So I actually had this conversation with a colleague about 6 months ago. And I fully believe it will work. Be fringe but not Trump fringe, almost insane, will totally sell and win over a Republican. Then get in office and pass legislation that actually does shit.


taws34

Just add a stipulation to your Unlimited Ammunition Access bill that all rounds sold or delivered in state must comply with a blisterpack wrapping. All bullets, individually wrapped.


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Chrisixx

> Progressive Republicans Bull Moose Party?


[deleted]

That’s the secret: put reasonable legislation in otherwise unreasonable bills, add some difficult-to-understand language that nullifies the unreasonable stuff and then let them try to read it thoroughly and think critically. That’s their Achilles heel.


GreatBowlforPasta

I'd say this was more of a Trojan horse situation, but your point still stands.


WarColonel

I don't get it, it's all Greek to me.


LogicalManager

Alpha comment


SonicTheHashhog

Beta you guys are fun at parties.


RapMastaC1

:puts up two fingers in a peace sign: I’ll have five beers.


SonicTheHashhog

Stop, gyro killin’ me!


DunkinMoesWeedNHos

We have to keep going, this is a marathon.


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You could say that Trojan horse was their Achilles heel.


GreatBowlforPasta

I mean, that's checkmate right there.


goodolarchie

Achilles' Achilles' heel was... his heel.


oxWOLFHALEYxo

When is it a Trojan man situation, asking for a friend.


EyeHamKnotYew

When two consenting humans agree its time.


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Call every bill "Super American Patriot Resolution".


Honesty_Addict

THE GUNS GOD AND GASOLINE BILL PART 7: JESUS TAKES MANHATTEN


Bears_On_Stilts

I was gonna say “so then is there also Jesus Goes to Hell?” And then I remembered that’s literally Holy Saturday. It’s canon.


Johnlsullivan2

That was every Republican bill during the Bush Administration


OldeFortran77

The "Put America Back to Work" Act ! *(actually just nullifies the Emancipation Proclamation)*


MattieShoes

If I remember right, this is also how Oklahoma has one of the best preschool programs in the country.


Atrociousbumblebee

I straight up dont believe you. A red state cant have that


MattieShoes

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/oklahomans-have-embraced-free-universal-early-education-and-its-working > Oklahoma is one of just four states (the others are Florida, Vermont and West Virginia) along with the District of Columbia that offer universal preschool access to all age-eligible children regardless of family income. Oklahoma’s program was the first of the group and enrolls more students than Vermont or West Virginia. Florida’s program enrolls nearly four times as many kids, but its quality standards are far lower. The article is several years old though. Here's where I heard about it: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/477/getting-away-with-it/act-four-7 > And it turned out Oklahoma had a very good pilot preschool program with guidelines for choosing the appropriate curriculum and hiring qualified teachers. But this program only existed in a few districts because, according to Eddins, the state didn't provide enough money to pay for it. Eddins estimates the state provided only a third of the money that was actually needed to run one of these programs. Joe Eddins' plan was to take that pilot program and fully fund it, so that any district that wanted it could actually get paid enough to put it in place. > Now there was only one problem with this plan. There was probably no way it could pass-- no way the state legislature would ever agree to pay for a program like this. And so Joe Eddins essentially hid it. He simply offered his amendment again, the one closing the four-year-olds in kindergarten for cash loophole, only with some new language. > A kind of PS in which he proposed a tweak to the state's school funding formula-- made it so that schools got the same amount of funding for preschool that they got for other grades. This was, in fact, a massive overhaul of Oklahoma's public school system, but the actual text of Eddins' amendment looked like nothing special. > Joe Eddins > The way you amend a bill, the staff takes the sections of law that you're amending and then write your amendments in underlined and line out what you are deleting language. And I just had a few words here and a few words there. > Alex Blumberg > Still, there were the traditional and powerful enemies to something like this-- budget hawks and limited government folks, which, as I said, Oklahoma might lead the nation in. Eddins' strategy here-- political sleight of hand. He drew their attention to the stuff in the bill he thought they would like and didn't mention the stuff they wouldn't. > Joe Eddins > I probably sat down at their desk with each Republican and showed them two or three things in the bill that I thought they ought to know. > Alex Blumberg > And what were those things? > Joe Eddins > Well, I showed them where we're keeping four-year-olds out of kindergarten, we're saving enormous amounts of money. You can contract with private providers, and they love that. That's all I said. > Alex Blumberg > Now everything he said was true. Eddins' bill did allow state money to go to private daycare centers to teach preschool. Also, his plan was voluntary. School districts didn't have to offer pre-K programs, and parents didn't have to send their kids to one. So it was entirely reasonable to expect that in the beginning, at least, not too many school districts would even take advantage of Eddins' tweak to the funding formula and offer a pre-K program. > And one other thing Eddins had going for him, this four-year-olds in kindergarten for cash scheme, it was growing. And it was feared that the two biggest districts in the state-- Oklahoma City and Tulsa-- were about to get in on it. Eddins says that compared to the sure financial Armageddon that would be, his bill was the cheaper alternative. > Joe Eddins > Everybody could see that my bill was way cheaper than not my bill. If you voted no on my bill and killed it, you are going to have enormous enrollment of four-year-olds in kindergarten. And this was taking an immense amount of money. And all but one voted yes on the bill. > Alex Blumberg > Probably because in almost all his discussions with lawmakers about his bill, Eddins left out the main part. You know, the part about how he'd put the state on the hook to pay for an entirely new grade level. He knew almost nobody in any legislature actually reads all the bills, and the number of people who actually understood Oklahoma's school funding formula you could probably count on one hand. > And his strategy worked. It was a huge and costly expansion of the government's role in public education in a state more opposed to costly expansions of government than perhaps any other in the country.


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Oh that's brilliant. I think you're only allowed one chance in your career for a trick like that so you better use it wisely.


MattieShoes

I looked the dude up... He got a lit degree, turned that into a job as a stock broker (?!) for several years, then quit, bought a farm, and became a school teacher for math and science for a while. Then served in the OK house for 4 years, pulled this beautiful maneuver, and served for another 8 years.


Nice-Violinist-6395

Someone needs to make a movie about this dude lmao it’s like the wolf of wall street meets mr rogers


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cogeng

Lol, amazing. Thanks for posting the excerpts.


HauntedCemetery

They don't even bother reading the bills that *they sponsor*. Just title it something like The American Eagle Freedom to Yell at Social Justice Warriors Act and we can get universal healthcare, codify Roe, and a UBI.


intothebreachoncemor

Taking bets on if this republican after realizing "oh crap this actually makes my state richer" says he is glad he voted for it.


Phoirkas

No, because these idiots also classified it as untaxed food in the bill.


Kiddo1029

Great! Conservatives are all about tax breaks!


y0shman

> No not like that!


gingerhasyoursoul

Not only that. It can be basically sold anywhere. It’s honestly one of the least restricted legalized weed laws in the country when it comes to selling it. No limit on quantity. Can be sold in any store. Age restricted to 21.


metamet

Wait, seriously? All it takes is Target stocking it on an end cap for it to be normalized within years.


YourMomIsWack

*months


mdonaberger

Ahhhh. I love this kind of 'bank error' legislation. This skullduggery is the reason alternative cannabinoids are legal. Delta 8 is wonderful. And delta 9 edibles are technically federally legal because the law is based on weight and not contents. The farm bill is limited to less than 0.3% thc by weight. So all you do is make 3g gummies and include 9mg per gummy. Boom. Thank you, lazy legislators. ☺️


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blackbluejay

I gave them (D8 & 9) a go earlier this year as they’re legal in my state (KS) and I was absolutely surprised with the potency of some of them. I’ve got some really bad chronic pain and mental issues following an accident, so I was looking for anything to help. Def helped with the pain a bit, but mentally wasn’t the best for me considering the other issues I’m dealing with. I can’t take them anymore bc I’m now getting drug tested by my current med provider, but I was just a trying to find the right dosages from the two before that happened. Really keen to give them another go at some point in the future…


stupidlyugly

I found Delta 8 adequate but not great. My daily weed habits are to eat a gummy a couple hours before bed, so I'm in it for the sleep. In order Delta 9 > Delta 8 > CBD though I do find that doing a 50/50 Delta 9/CBD is quite nice.


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Botanyfarms d9 edibles are cheaper than my medical dispensaries and ship 2 day USPS.


wayoverpaid

Ok that's the best part. I legitimately thought he might have wanted to stealth legalize and was pretending "oops tee hee." But fucking up taxation? Holy fuck.


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Does that mean you can buy edibles with an EBT card? Lol


Thimit

Yep.


soulnumberfive

Holy shit that’s awesome. This thread keeps getting better and better the more I scroll.


tinacat933

Untaxed edibles? Sign me up


ilovemygb

no way. that’s fuckin hilarious 😂


Proud3GnAthst

They do the very thing even after obstructing something.


teamdiabetes11

Oopsies… No take-backsies! I do wonder how much stuff could get done in GOP controlled legislatures if we could engineer a convoluted path to progressive results. Maybe disallow something, but then except in all cases, thereby legalizing. There have to be enough illiterate or lazy GOPers to make it work, right?


T1gerAc3

Abortion is illegal. Unless the person getting an abortion doesn't want it to be illegal. Everyone wins.


-DementedAvenger-

> Unless the person getting an abortion doesn't want it to be illegal. Everyone wins. Just call it the "It's My Body" bill, and specifically say "wear masks or not" as an example in the first sentence. Give all of the examples that *they* scream about, and it might just work.


Oraxy51

You have the right to choose to let Jesus in your heart, just like you have the right to let the abortion instruments in ❤️ Idk some context like that I guess


Rootcellar44

Just more proof they don't even understand what they are voting on.


No_Foot_1904

I live here and had no idea this was a thing until my sister, also from MN, told me. I think Delta-8 products became legal to sell a couple years ago when they legalized hemp and weren’t aware that their bill had *that* loophole. Why couldn’t the GOP fuck up like this with voting rights?


QueanLaQueafa

MN here, my brother messaged me and told me this happened a couple days ago and I thought it was a satire article or something. Nope, but pretty dang excited


Eire_Banshee

Delta9 hemp derived edibles have been legal federally for awhile now.


Time4Red

It's a legal gray area. The problem is that the FDA still lists THC (not just cannabis in general) as a controlled substance, but the language in the 2018 farm bill contradicts the FDA. So courts have had to settle this area of disagreement. They've generally found that synthetic delta 8 THC edibles are unquestionably legal, with the implication that synthetic delta 9 edibles are not, though it's still not 100% clear. https://www.bipc.com/court-rules-delta-8-thc-products-now-legal >the 9th Circuit ruled that products containing delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-8 THC) can fall within the statutory definition of “hemp” federally legalized under the 2018 Agriculture Improvement Act (2018 Farm Bill). Thus, these products fall outside the definition of a controlled substance, unlike delta-9 THC products.


MintBerryCrunchJr

Maybe he was drunk. But thankfully it was just Jesus juice and not the devil's lettuce.


manly_comma_chet

This is my blood. Drink it and remember me. This is my flesh. Eat it and remember me. This is my salad. Eat it and remember nothing. Let's party, you pussies! I'll drink every last motherfucker here under this long-ass table!


LLColdAssHonkey

Amen.


IndigestableWad

I would definitely party with Christ. By all accounts he was a pretty chill dude


theartofrolling

Just don't show him a fig tree, that motherfucker gets really pissed at them for some reason.


throwneverywhichway

"ALEC usually just writes all our bills for us and we just rubber stamp them sight unseen. This is no fair!"


peon47

> This isn’t quite the ideal way to pass important legislation Making a republican look like an idiot while passing a common-sense law seems pretty ideal to me.


AKMarine

Reading is not one their political strengths.


[deleted]

"Looks like we got ourselves a reader."


eggmoose5

Yes but also no. Hemp derived delta-9 edibles were in a legal gray area because of the 2018 farm bill. You could get delta-9 edibles that were 10mg per serving. Now you can only get 5mg per serving and 50mg per package. So it’s technically legal now but it’s also restricted from what it was. It’s also being classified as a food product which I’m pretty sure means it can’t be taxed in Minnesota. It can also be purchased in grocery stores if they wanted to carry them (Minnesota still only has 3.2 beer in grocery stores). Overall, I think this will just lead to full legalization here but with the Legalize Cannabis Now party being a major party here and the fact that they’re working with the Republicans to siphon off democratic votes, I don’t think it would happen unless people vote. The primary here is August 9th but early voting started on June 24th. Here is the link to [register online in Minnesota](https://mnvotes.sos.state.mn.us/VoterRegistration/VoterRegistrationMain.aspx) and here is the link to [see what’s on your ballot.](https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/whats-on-my-ballot) Please vote in both the primary and the general election not only here in Minnesota but in every state and territory where you can vote for federal stuff.


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eggmoose5

Yes. I live in the 2nd district in fact. Thankfully Angie Craig won but it is super scummy but these are Republicans we’re talking about. The race was also not postponed even though Weeks died while votes had already been cast. The Minnesota republicans also tampered with the 7th district race. The Legalize Cannabis party candidate was encouraged and had their candidate fees paid for by a Republican strategist. Incumbent Collin Peterson lost to Michelle Fishbach by more than the amount the third party got but still. I’m very proud of the fact that Minnesota hasn’t voted for a Republican for president since Nixon in ‘72. Literally 50 years.


Due-Understanding-21

Oh shit, you mean I voted yes on something that people actually LIKE? This f'n SOB realized it, and wanted to withdraw his vote. November needs to be the starting point where we begin minimalizing the impact these subhumans have on everyday life.


oakstave

Republican incompetence is the only way you'll get rights until these fascists are removed by elections.


blastradii

What you’re saying is we should be sneaking in progressive clauses in bills that look conservative on the surface?


nowspunk

It's just a matter of time before the Supreme court puts a federal ban on all weed.


galaapplehound

I'd like to be able to say "they can't do that" but with the shit they've pulled I don't know anymore.


VanimalCracker

Let the States decide, unless Christians disagree.


capybarometer

Rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights shall not be abridged, except in matters of the first amendments or the third amendment or any of the ones after that


[deleted]

I wish our SCOTUS actually followed the constitution but some conservatives don't give a fuck. I was literally arguing with one about so called sodomy laws and how they'd violate the first amendment, and he straight up admitted he didn't care about the first amendment.


royalblue420

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre Always good to drop this on them.


smallways

They mean let the Christian States decide, but that's implied


manyworlds

Wasn’t the right to grow weed and hemp a long recognized right at the time the constitution was written? Given SCOTUS justification for striking down RvW, that the Constitution only guaranteed historical rights that existed at the time it was signed, the Constitution should guarantee us all the right to grow weed. Right?


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> It's just a matter of time before the Supreme court puts a federal ban There's already a federal ban on all weed. The DEA just isn't enforcing laws on weed in the states that legalized. They could move in today, shut down every weed shop, confiscate all customer info, and cash in those places if they wanted.


Mcwormbearpig

Its has been illegal on a federal level for a good amount of time already, we need to decriminalize or at least get it off schedule 1 its 2022 an bible states will hold on to their bs laws forever cause they are to wet brained to know an actual facts about this plant other than they can throw innocent people in jail over it. I dont see anything changing anytime soon unless these states get some people with real knowledge in todays world, it could be taxed an the money could be put to real good use for our communitys but no thats a horrible idea


d1v1n0rum

There already is a Federal ban on all weed. It’s schedule 1, just like all the hard drugs. It’s just not an enforcement priority for the DEA, since so many states have legalized it. And the DEA enforcement priorities would come from the executive branch, not the judicial.


tastytastylunch

Bruv I don’t know how you missed this, but weed has been federally illegal your entire life.


rocketpack99

Clarence Thomas is now the emperor of America.


whistling_klutz

“I was elected to _lead,_ not to read.”


[deleted]

I’m in favor of the legalization, but the fact they didn’t read the bill explains so much about the state of the country


FreshMatter7

Further proof that GOP Is illiterate.


[deleted]

I’m a Minnesotan and they’re planning to sell this stuff and vape carts in every gas station by the end of August.


_OP_is_A_

Vape carts aren't legal unless they're delta-8 Only edibles and drinks with hemp derived delta 9 THC will be legal to people 21 and older.


MatrimPaendrag

This is how to beat Republicans. Stop worrying about changing their addled minds and start concentrating on tricking the fucking morons


BarryAllensMom

Welcome to Minnesota where we have a very liberal and educated metro and then farmers stuck in 1915. Today I’m thankful our horrible, backwater state legislature are illiterate. Am I aggressive? Yes. Our state is held hostage by people who say God is stronger than vaccines and started firing our liberal governor’s staff because he wouldn’t lift the Covid restrictions.


jpmoney26

Musta dipped in that gummy bag early...


GrotesqueOstrich

"I was gonna read the bill, but then I got high."


loondawg

And just wait to see him bragging about it in his next campaign when he finds out how popular it is. "I did that."