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3 Republicans just saved California’s magic mushroom bill
- ethanbond 3y agoEditorialized headline. The number 3 should be left in. Regardless of whether you think the bill is good or not, we really have to get over this editorialized headline’s way of talking about votes. “Republicans” writ large jeopardized the bill. Three of them broke from their party to pass it.
- thinkingtoilet 3y ago40 Democrats and 3 Republicans voted to treat adults like adults. That's the headline.
- aapl88889 3y agoYes, the state known for treating adults like adults until they assault or rob people.
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agothat's actually almost every state and country in the world
- hiatus 3y agoMost states stop treating adults like adults when they commit crimes?
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agoyes, you lose the rights to be treated as an adult, because you've demonstrated you can't be one, and consequently must be babysat e.g., going to jail, your room and board, your exercise, your hygiene, and general behavior will be decided for you, in a way determined best for society
- baryphonic 3y agoMost states and countries punish criminals with fines, jail or death depending on the crime
- thinkingtoilet 3y agoI'm glad you don't like California. You're comment has nothing to do with the article or my comment. Please refrain from comments like this on HN.
- c420 3y agoThank you, I didn't even realize that I failed to copy the 3. It was unintentional and it's fixed.
- tough 3y agoHN removes it
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoWhy?
- tough 3y ago"Top 10 reasons why this title is spammy" and titles like it
- LinuxBender 3y agoHN will drop a number in a title by default. I have to edit the titles all the time for this. I'm not sure why HN has that logic but never asked dang.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoIt's presumably because of this item in the submission guidelines: > If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- tough 3y agoThe rules work 99% of the time but the automation of the rules some times make it so a little manual work is needed
- ysavir 3y agoFor what it's worth, I appreciate the rules. The experience is much better for me! But I don't typically submit articles, so I'm never impacted by the manual effort.
- tough 3y agoManual curation is what makes or breaks this site, I've had several interactions with dan and he's an excellent person. They even will try and surface good content that didn't make it to the home page with a second chance pool ymmv
- version_five 3y agoIn this case, I think the rule is still good. "3 Republicans" is a baity title imo. It would have been better reworded, possibly just to "California's magic mushroom bill", or not submitted if it's only about the 3 Republicans, the politics angle doesn't accomplish much.
- terrybingus 3y ago[flagged]
- teaearlgraycold 3y ago/s
- deviantbit 3y agoSomeone explain to me how legalizing more drugs is the answer to helping the already massive drug problem in California. My last trip to SF just recently was an eye opening experience.
- woah 3y agoHardcore mushroom addicts
- alwayslikethis 3y agoNone of the drugs being legalized are the ones causing the massive drug problems. No one is legalizing opioids or meth, for example. I don't think California is doing much in this direction, but legalizing less harmful drugs like weed and hallucinogens and help focus effort on addressing the more harmful ones.
- Overtonwindow 3y agoYet. After Oregon and Canada I could absolutely see California legalizing everything. There is a strong push to the extreme left in California and it seems inevitable.
- ImPostingOnHN 3y ago[flagged]
- scarface_74 3y agoYou act like that’s a bad thing…
- scarface_74 3y agoYes because the “War on Drugs” has been so effective. Also the War on Drugs has also been used to statistically target minorities and give police an excuse to abuse their power. If legalizing drugs takes power away from the Justice system to criminalize behavior that hurts no one but the participant, I think that’s a win.