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Shouldn't the federal government's legislative reforms move at a snail's pace? I agree that the ideas you've mentioned are worth exploring, but what makes you t
by theseatoms 11y ago
Shouldn't the federal government's legislative reforms move at a snail's pace? I agree that the ideas you've mentioned are worth exploring, but what makes you think that they'll try the good ideas?
Also, why not start at the state or local level?
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoState and local levels are the only places where there can be any real experimental reform. Just look at Colorado and the other states that have legalized marijuana by referendum. Direct democracy isn't necessarily better than elected representation, but politicians are motivated by the necessity of power, and so whoever controls the politicians controls the political process. People shouldn't be left up to decide everything, but they should have the power to question the decisions of their representatives and put an issue which garners enough support to a popular vote.
- gshubert17 11y agoAnd businesses in the now legal marijuana business in Colorado are having problems getting into the federalized banking system because marijuana is illegal federally and banking powers have been centralized.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoGrowing pains. Problems aside it does show that there is a sizable market and the health effects have not panned out to rot the state from the inside out, as drug scaremongers have sworn would happen for decades and decades.