We used to call these “brights” in the new biz. A parrot warning Brazilian drug dealers of a raid. Then, after its arrest, clamming up and refusing to talk to the police.
Via Breitbart
We used to call these “brights” in the new biz. A parrot warning Brazilian drug dealers of a raid. Then, after its arrest, clamming up and refusing to talk to the police.
Via Breitbart
When we were in Colorado going to the dispensaries, we kept seeing flags with C’s on them. Cute, I thought, the pot sellers have themselves a cannabis flag.
When I admired their ingenuity to a native, though, he stared, then laughed. The C is for Colorado, he said. It’s the state flag. Oops.
Via Fox News
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Posted in The Culture, The Drug War
Amtrak is government railroad, so it gets the full nanny state treatment. Red and white warning signs abound, even on the spendy private bedroom windows to mar the view. But the No Smoking rule has taken some hits from the staff as well as the passengers.
Such that there are “smoke stops” of about five minutes between major stations. I mingled with two conductors smoking in black-dark rural Kansas on the Southwest Chief’s route to Trinidad and a sleeping car attendant on the Sunset Limited run to San Antonio. San Antone being a two-hour layover while cars and engines are rearranged. Some go to Austin, some to El Paso, New Orleans, and Chicago.
Some passengers don’t wait but light up in their private rooms and the cooling/heating system spreads the smoke throughout the sleeping car. If they can catch you, as we were all reminded every so often on the public address system, they’ve threatened to put you off at the next stop wherever it may be. But when they’re already understaffed…
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Posted in Amtrak, Bureaucracy, The Drug War, Trains
“On the first great-weather day of Spring 2018, President Donald Trump has committed to withdrawing federal objections to the legalization of marijuana, reports Tom Angell of Marijuana Moment.”
It was a great weather day here, too, though a cold front and thunderboomers marred it somewhat. But this is startling news, after AG Sessions’ gungho drug war rhetoric. Maybe he really is on the outs and may resign over this.
“This is huge, as it would unambiguously allow states to pursue legalization without worrying about a federal crackdown such as the one proposed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the start of this year. ”
Via Nick Gillespie at Reason
UPDATE: Ilya Somin of the Volokh Conspiracy doesn’t trust Trump or the House GOP on this.
MORE: Not to be outdone by Trump, who wants to allow individual states to pursue legalization, the Dims are going for across-the-board federal decriminalization. Wonder how that would apply to states like Texas where it still is illegal.
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Posted in The Drug War, The Economy
Tagged goodbye drug war?, Trump backs weed
“The media and Democrats are so close in association and so close in their philosophical views that we might as well use one word to describe both, and that’s ‘Mediacrats,'” said Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, founder of the House Media Fairness Caucus.
Works for me.
Via Instapundit
Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles, The Drug War, Trump
Tagged from themainstream to the mediacrats, most biased media ever
Some of the usual suspects are giving his staff credit for engineering Trump’s meeting with Mexico’s president Enrique Pena Nieto. They should read Trump’s The Art of the Deal and Don Surber’s Trump The Press. It’s much more likely it was The Donald’s idea to take Pena Nieto up on his invitation before the Hildabeast did.
“President Peña Nieto invited both Trump and Clinton to meet with him to discuss immigration, and now it will look sort of like a pathetic game of catch up if Hillary accepts and meets with him second.”
The cool thing is that Trump came away looking, as he did when he beat Obama and Clinton to flooded Louisiana, and riotous Milwaukee, like a president. One uncowed by lack of political experience or humbled by the usual name-calling put-downs from the lapdog Democrat news media.
Not only that, the immigration speech he followed it with played up an angle the lapdogs have ignored. A less-permeable wall than the one we already have (yes, Virginia, we have a wall; it’s called a fence) would do more than help diminish if not stop illegal immigration. It could put the drug cartels out of business. They need our market and if they can’t get to it in sufficient numbers…
Turns out the cartels are what Pena Nieto is most concerned about, so he and Trump had common ground to stand on, whatever El Presidente’s feeling about illegal immigration. It has been, after all, a safety valve for Mexico’s ruling class, bleeding off the wretched poor who might otherwise stage another revolution.
Adds the Instapundit: “He’s turning her into Jeb, isn’t he?” Indeed he is.
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, South of the Border, The Drug War, Trump