Miss. House, Senate pass medical marijuana bill, which now goes to governor (Ridgeland: casinos, law)

[viverlibre]

https://www.wlbt.com/2022/01/26/miss...j-nTo1XAfrO6SU

The bill is headed to the governor's desk, there is speculation that he will not act on it, letting it become law.

[Listener2307]

It'll be up to Tater.
But if it were up to me I would not sign. It's a lousy idea and has nothing to do with anyone's medical needs.
If the people of Mississippi want a recreational drug bill they should damn well be forced to ask for one. I would probably sign that bill, whereas I would not sign the phony sort of wink-wink bill we have now.

[Mississippi Alabama Line]

Originally Posted by Listener2307

It'll be up to Tater.
But if it were up to me I would not sign. It's a lousy idea and has nothing to do with anyone's medical needs.
If the people of Mississippi want a recreational drug bill they should damn well be forced to ask for one. I would probably sign that bill, whereas I would not sign the phony sort of wink-wink bill we have now.

They did ask. It was voted yes by like 75% of the people. Then the House just voted what, 113-13? What else do you want?

[Listener2307]

Originally Posted by Mississippi Alabama Line

They did ask. It was voted yes by like 75% of the people. Then the House just voted what, 113-13? What else do you want?

You must have missed my point. No one asked for a recreational marijuana bill. The disingenuous cowards hid behind the term "medical", when almost no one in the world believes marijuana is going to be used "strictly for medical reasons".

The legislature is made up of people too cowardly to ask for what they want. And if I were governor they would have to be a bit more clear. As it is, they are playing games with voters as well as themselves. The "we gotta save all these people who are in great pain" stuff is pure fiction and if I were governor I would not put up with it.
I wouldn't care if 100% of the people voted for it. On the other hand if 51% of the people voted for a recreational marijuana bill I would sign it. The current bill is a bait-and-switch.

[Mississippi Alabama Line]

Originally Posted by Listener2307

You must have missed my point. No one asked for a recreational marijuana bill. The disingenuous cowards hid behind the term "medical", when almost no one in the world believes marijuana is going to be used "strictly for medical reasons".

The legislature is made up of people too cowardly to ask for what they want. And if I were governor they would have to be a bit more clear. As it is, they are playing games with voters as well as themselves. The "we gotta save all these people who are in great pain" stuff is pure fiction and if I were governor I would not put up with it.
I wouldn't care if 100% of the people voted for it. On the other hand if 51% of the people voted for a recreational marijuana bill I would sign it. The current bill is a bait-and-switch.

Of course it is, because that's the only way to get things done with the anti-legalization folks. I mean we still have dry counties in MS, these folks really believe Satan is the driving force behind it all. Gambling was the same way, had to put the casinos on reservations and 'resort' areas on the water to quarantine Satan's influence.

Maybe this isn't the case in 25 more years. Baby steps.

[viverlibre]

Tater Tot signed it.

https://mississippitoday.org/2022/02...uana-into-law/

I always said MS would legalize, but be the last to do so, well I was wrong about that. There's still a few states that haven't legalized recreational or medical.

[GrandviewGloria]

Originally Posted by Mississippi Alabama Line

They did ask. It was voted yes by like 75% of the people. Then the House just voted what, 113-13? What else do you want?

It is beyond imagining, to me, that a state which voted against Gay Marriage by the highest percentage of any state, would vote for legalizing a recreational drug (which, as Listener says, is exactly what the bill does). One would expect them to be more punitive and less permissive.
I doubt the legitimacy of the election. I think that the results were bought, one way or another.

Then again, Gay Marriage poses no actual threat to anybody, while intoxicated drivers and smokers pose very real threats to virtually everybody. I've been asked what's the difference between me, and my cousins who remain in the mudhole where I grew up. How can I afford a triplex penthouse, when they can't swing a doublewide trailer? (I didn't. We got a single-floor unit, but in the better part, directly on the Park) My cousins seem to have been unable to distinguish between what was merely abstract, and what was physical and real. Thus, they overvalued things which were trivial, fleeting, and imaginary, while paying far too little attention to things which were important, permanent, and manifestations of physical reality.


Real things, to them, weren't real, while abstractions crafted to appeal to simple minds, WERE real.


Well.... Maybe the difference is, that when they were cheering for "the team", or pledging allegiance to pieces of cloth or "getting reborn" (all matters of expending real effort doing imaginary things), I was reading about REAL things. I was learning what wild plants were edible and beneficial, and which ones were poisonous (foods, medicines, and poisons all having their uses...). Learning about plants, led to learning about health.

So, when the possibility of consuming alcohol came along, I already knew that there was no benefit and much harm, in alcohol. And had the possibility of consuming stupefying substances ever come along, I would have known that doing so would be stupid. There's no benefit, and much potential harm.

I don't know... Maybe being hit - hard - by my classmates, and bitten by their families' dogs, gave me an ability to tolerate pain better than others. Possibly, decades of lifting weights - fifty minutes a day - seven days a week - until I get a "burn", have inured me to sensations of pain. Maybe, having to rely on my wits, in order to simply survive, gave me other priorities for what to do with my brain. So, when my cousins have been frying their brains on drugs, or drinking themselves into stupors, or bashing their heads in motorcycle accidents, or being beaten-senseless by worthless men, or falling out of deer stands, I've felt driven to conserve and cultivate and GROW my brainpower. I've never known any pain big enough (or any boredom big enough) to necessitate using a substance to become insensate.

But then, my worthless cousins back in that mudhole, are maybe typical of Mississippi's voters. I hope not.

As for Tate (whose primary talents seem to be having great hair and nice upper body mass), has his hesitancy been a shakedown? Did he simply want bigger and better "considerations" from "powerful interests". (I definitely get that QUISLING vibe, where current "health issues" are concerned) And it's obvious who, in Mississippi's governing bodies, has been BOUGHT. Looking and listening to them, makes that instantly discernible.

But how, in a state where politicians feel the need to pander to those against Gay Rights, and those who are against the rights of women to control our own bodies, can those same politicians feel the need to pander to those seeking to use recreational drugs?

[brickpatio2018]

I'm assuming you read about the mayor of Ridgeland this week withholding the $115,000 in annual funds for the library until all references to homosexuals are removed entirely from the library. There was no mention of removing all references to heterosexuals.

A journalist for the Mississippi Free Press (Nick Judin) managed to get the mayor on the phone. When told his demands were illegal, he said that he did not answer to the law but only the Lord. The director of the Madison County library system, Tonja Johnson, stood up the mayor and refused to burn any books, and people from around the world have been donating to help cover those funds.

This is Mississippi's Rosa Parks, all over again in 2022. There have been stories in several newspapers but you would assume it would be headlines in every paper, for weeks on end.

[JacksonPanther]

Originally Posted by brickpatio2018

A journalist for the Mississippi Free Press (Nick Judin) managed to get the mayor on the phone. When told his demands were illegal, he said that he did not answer to the law but only the Lord.

And thus ends the long reign of ridgeland mayor McGee. A government official who doesn't answer to the law must be turned out of office.

[Listener2307]

Originally Posted by brickpatio2018

I'm assuming you read about the mayor of Ridgeland this week withholding the $115,000 in annual funds for the library until all references to homosexuals are removed entirely from the library. There was no mention of removing all references to heterosexuals.

A journalist for the Mississippi Free Press (Nick Judin) managed to get the mayor on the phone. When told his demands were illegal, he said that he did not answer to the law but only the Lord. The director of the Madison County library system, Tonja Johnson, stood up the mayor and refused to burn any books, and people from around the world have been donating to help cover those funds.

This is Mississippi's Rosa Parks, all over again in 2022. There have been stories in several newspapers but you would assume it would be headlines in every paper, for weeks on end.

You may get a little more traction is your analysis if you stick to the facts.
The mayor did not insist on removal of "all references to homosexuals". No one was asked to "burn books".
I'll leave it to you to tell us exactly what he asked for, if you wish to do so.
Ridgeland, MS has a population of some 24,000 people. Why would you assume it would make "headlines in every paper, for weeks on end"?