Pot Will Revive Small-Town America
"Fewer politicians are in a position to say 'no' to legal marijuana. Especially in cash-strapped areas of the country where jobs and opportunities are hard to come by."
"Fewer politicians are in a position to say 'no' to legal marijuana. Especially in cash-strapped areas of the country where jobs and opportunities are hard to come by."
"Guess where the economically forgotten people live? The majority of these 'ALICE' households live in America’s largest cities."
"70 years ago, one out of every 20 U.S. jobs required a state license; today, almost 1 in 3 American occupations requires a license."
"Sheriff Buffett isn't just any sheriff. He's the son of Omaha billionaire investor Warren Buffett, and he's used his family wealth both to finance law enforcement spending in the county and to basically buy his way into the sheriff's office."
"The U.S. attorney in Maine has now indicted two men on federal firearms charges for allegedly lying about their marijuana use on the gun purchase form."
"They didn’t find a crime, but they did find a picture of Charles with marijuana from over a year prior. Based on that picture, his visa was revoked."
"We all went to law school because we don't know science, we don't know math. And if somebody comes in in a white lab coat...that's good enough for government work."
"Not only do they attach strings to project funding such as this camera requirement in Richmond, they also finance many state and local surveillance programs outright."
"A staggering 95% of the facial recognition system’s 'matches' were actually wrongly identifying innocent people."
"There's every sign consolidation of the industry will continue, particularly given that the drop in the price of cannabis has threatened the profit margins of dispensaries."