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Mississippi Bill Would Take Step Toward Treating Gold and Silver as Money

The legislation would exempt from sales tax the sales of platinum, gold, and silver bullion that are valued solely upon their precious metal content, whether in coin or ingot form. This also includes numismatic coins that have a value of $1,000 or less, and numismatic coins sold at a national, statewide, or multi-county numismatic trade show.

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Minnesota Bill Would Legalize Marijuana For Adult Use Despite Federal Prohibition

The bill would legalize cannabis by allowing adults 21 and older to purchase up to two ounces, and grow up to eight plants. Under the proposal, adults would also be able to possess two ounces in public and privately keep five pounds of cannabis at home.

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Kentucky Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Despite Federal Cannabis Prohibition

HB48 would add a section to the state constitution making it an explicit right for anyone above the age of 21 to possess, consume, buy, and sell up to one ounce of marijuana. They would also be guaranteed the right to grow, collect, and store up to five marijuana plants.

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Mississippi Bill Would Restrict “No-Knock” Warrants

The legislation would require police serving a search or arrest warrant to “give appropriate notice of the identity, authority and purpose of the officer to the person to be searched or arrested, or to the person in apparent control of the premises to be searched.”

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New York Bill Would Prohibit Geolocation Tracking and Geofencing Warrants

The proposed law would ban the search of geolocation data or keyword data of a group of people who are under no individual suspicion of having committed a crime but rather are defined by having been at a given location at a given time or searched particular words, phrases, character strings, or websites. It would also bar courts from issuing reverse location search warrants and create a process to suppress any evidence gathered in violation of the law.

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Today in History: Benedict Arnold Captures and Destroys Richmond

Today in history, on January 5, 1781, much of Richmond, Virginia was burned to the ground by a British naval force led by Benedict Arnold. It was his most significant military retort against his former cause, a devastating strike that followed his dramatic betrayal.

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New York Bill Would Create State Process to Limit Qualified Immunity

Under the proposed law, “A person or public entity acting under color of law who subjects or causes to be subjected any other person to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the federal or state Constitution or laws, is liable to the injured party for legal or equitable relief or any other appropriate relief.”

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New York Bill Would Legalize Psilocybin Despite Federal Prohibition

A bill filed in the New York Assembly would legalize the personal possession and use of “magic mushrooms,” and ban state and local enforcement of the ongoing federal prohibition of the same. Passage would set the stage to nullify federal prohibition in practice and effect.

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Most of the Federal Administrative State is Unconstitutional

Supporters of the monster state justify most federal power under a twisted version of the commerce clause - claiming the power “to regulate Commerce ... among the several States” gives them power over pretty much anything and everything. But they’re lying.

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