America Is Giving Away the $30B Medical Marijuana Industry

On the topic of FOP though, I think they are spared anti-union practices because they do not pose the typical threat to entrenched power structures which conventional unions do. They in fact reinforce it and protect the interests of the ruling class, so of course the government supports them.

The FOP is one of the worst players out there. There is a horrifying statistic that over 40% of police officers are known to be domestic abusers[0] and yet the FOP has fought for such criminals to maintain the right to have weapons and to give them positions of authority and the power to use force on others in society. Truly monstrous.

[0] http://womenandpolicing.com/violencefs.asp

I definitely would like to see it improved, I think the two party system sucks, and our voting system guarantees it, and the fact that my vote doesn't count for much because I live in a blue state annoys me a bit.

But the people did, in fact, select Donald Trump to be President. A penalty, that at times, is exactly what our society deserves. :/

Although admittedly, I'm not as well-read as I'd hope to be, so take this with a grain of salt. But the way the media I've read has portrayed marijuana in Canada has been "Pot's legal in 1 year! ...okay, how are we going to implement this? [provinces rush to come up with plans]"

I don't think there is much incentive to build such systems now outside of say voting systems for user feedback/issues on product systems (which also have lower barriers as for the ultimately philosophical issue on deciding who is allowed to vote, and face virtually no push back from those who benefit most from the incumbent systems).

People will make bad decisions and societies in general will fuck up, but that is part of the process and voters will adjust accordingly.

Methodical and sound polling on a single issue routinely comes within %'s of actual votes. Yet there are numerous issues overwhelmingly favoured in society which politicians knowingly ignore.

Straw man in the wild. Nobody here advocates direct democracy on every issue.

However, one simply can't argue that a government that acts against the interest and preferences of 90%+ of the population it supposedly represents and serves is doing a good job.

>Furthermore, legalization of cannabis requires more...

You speak of these questions as if they haven't been answered already in several countries and multiple states in the US.

And in any case, this is another strawman. The problem is not the slow rate of legalization, it's that the Federal government is not moving at all towards that goal (in particular, by keeping marijuana on Schedule I), when simply letting the states regulate the issue would have satisfied many people.

Those are mostly pretty easy questions.

For driving and working high, it's just the same as working or driving in any other impaired state. It's slightly trickier than alcohol because it isn't as easy to measure the level of impairment, but that's also true of many prescription and probably even some over-the-counter drugs, so it's not a new problem.

For all of the other questions, you could just copy the rules for tobacco verbatim and end up with a workable set of rules.