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> do not involve lawyers in vast majority of cases and encourage self-representation instead. Sure, but if it's a corporation, who is going to represent the corporation besides a lawyer? In the US, some states explicitly do not allo
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> Not at all. I'm simply asking whether you can see how speech restrictions can be abused. Nothing vague here. Speech restriction being able to be abused doesn't mean that speech restriction is never appropriate. There are coun
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The lead "researcher" on that paper is a climate change denier who also claims covid didn't exist. He also used racial slurs against a former colleague. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Rancourt He&#x
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> But if you want to mis-characterize things, by all means do so. People were allowed to have open and honest discussion about things. I saw plenty of discussion about myocarditis at the time from reputable sources and in reasonable mann
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The problem is that if you're criticizing the vaccine for this, you're at best uninformed, and quite often, doing so in bad faith. As has been pointed out in the thread you're responding to, it causes these effects at lower r
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Vaccines can cause myocarditis. This isn't new information, it's not specific to Covid vaccines or mRNA vaccines. It's a well known potential side effect of vaccines. We've known that flu vaccines can cause myocarditis a
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3.0+1.0 was the highest grossing box office release that year in Japan and has a worldwide fanbase. The original series + End of Evangelion are considered by many critics and fans to sit among the best anime series of all time, and the Rebu
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> I'm not sure what you mean WRT "hemp" being more "regulated" than the black market. Just basic laws around farming. For example, lead arsenate is banned in the US, and I trust the hemp farmers to not be using i
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True. I just meant in practice that the low-population states tend to be rural.
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> Perhaps "nefarious" is too strong a term, but the intent (at least in states that have legal cannabis) AFAICT, is to avoid the regulations around testing for adulterants, potency, etc. My (perhaps incorrect) understanding is
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Very few of those people have much animosity towards everyday people or even federal workers (as people) living in DC, it's about the politicians.
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Wyoming is an easy example 590,000 / 342,800,000 roughly 0.00172 0.00172 × 435 roughly 0.75 Wyoming would not even qualify for a full seat in the House if it wasn't for minimums at this size house.
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Reduced doesn't mean remove. Huntington-Hill is better than nothing but it is still significantly worse than getting rid of the PAA and letting the House grow based on population size. Pressing my hand down on a bullet wound will slow
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Most of the sales are in states where marijuana has not been legalized, from my understanding. I'm more concerned with ending an absurd prohibition, personally.
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Rand Paul's vote was, like, specifically for this, and the house is clamoring for the hemp stuff even less. This is Mitch McConnell's crusade.
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There was an opportunity for this bit to be removed from the bill. 76 of 100 voted to keep it. This, is like, literally the entire point of discussion in this part of the thread? I don't understand where your confusion lies.
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Sure, but that's not actually the position of the GOP or their constituents, or even the pre-ACA situation. The amount of people that actually want the government to have no role in providing health insurance or health care in this cou
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> The House of Representatives represents the people. The House of Representatives represented the people until 1929 and the Permanent Apportionment Act. The reasoning campaigned on for this act? To protect low population states from hig
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Ben Carson has not put forth anything even remotely resembling a practical replacement for the ACA. He hasn't even been able to put forth any sort of consistent plan.
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I'm not sure I understand how this is particularly nefarious. It complies with the law as written, and results in a significantly better product for those choosing to consume it.
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I see both sides of it. Many of the state legalized programs do have significantly higher standards because they are explicitly regulating for things intended to be consumed by humans, while the federal regulations for hemp are focused in a
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Ben Carson has been talking about a variety of half baked plans for years. He has gone back and forth over and over on who is funding the health savings accounts, what he plans to do with medicare and medicaid, etc. None of these ever-shift
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There's a lot of confusion here. The hemp products in question are not, like, hemp rope. They're just pot that is classified as hemp because they are harvested and processed in such a way that keeps the D9 THC below .3% at the tim
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> compared to old-school weed strains at 15% and modern levels at mid 30%s) These levels are still primarily based on THCa content, not Delta9 THC. Even your regulated legal flower is very low in D9 THC. > It is certainly a different
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> They were taking very low % hemp that is supposed to be for textiles and extracting the little THC there was into low quality vapes. This is not at all what was happening. These aren't some special strains or cultivars where there
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The THCa/Delta8 stuff is not brussel-sprouts vs. broccoli. They difference is in timing around harvest and process. They're growing many of the exact same cultivars as what is sold in a proper dispensary (and indeed, much of what
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> Other have pointed out that the house ("Y seats are set according to census data on population") This is repeated all over this thread, but it is just no longer actually true. The Permanent Apportionment Act means that it is
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The product being sold at your local dispensary is produced, marketed, distributed, and sold by an entirely different chain of businesses and people than the product being sold at your local head shop. THCa/Delta8/similar products
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> One big change along the way was an amendment that capped the size of the House at 435 members to avoid it growing ever larger as the population expanded. Now the 435 are allocated to the states based on population. Thankfully, the Per
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Also perfectly fine with a repeal of the 17th alongside the PAA. I think even with the 17th the Senate still quite closely represents the States so it's less of a priority, but the current status quo for Congress is just insane.

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