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hemp_is_canvas··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
I suggest scholars such as Bednar.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287234169_The_Robus...

It's way, way more complicated than these articles suggest.

hemp_is_canvas··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
There is the concept of illiberal democracy. The Senate, according to most political scientists who study this, is an important part of cutting that off that because bicameralism along with independent courts etc are good.

It's mostly populism rising and not realizing how dangerous it would be to have another check on power removed. Reform the system, don't just turn to blind populism.

hemp_is_canvas··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
Yet Kratom is legal, yt is recommending to me some product called "meth" (not joking) and there are a million new research drugs coming out every decade?

It's just old-school think of the kids and not in my territory. We don't know how to regulate and handle this because our politicians and more and more our citizens don't understand what is being voted on or has been happening in their own states for 7 years.

Have you used these products? It's a shame, the quality that I was getting just within the past 3 months was incredible and it is market not afraid to try new stuff.

I'm sad, flower from OR, NC, OK, IN, and others will never legally hit my lungs. Back to the cartels? Or perhaps I should overpay by $200 with the comfort of having 0 clue where it comes from, again?

hemp_is_canvas··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
I'm confused, only 22 democratic senators tried to stop this, plus Paul and Cruz. They just did outlaw it only because it is not called "marijuana".

Is it necessary to recount how this entire split is partially due to racism, anyway?

hemp_is_canvas··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
This kills the entire hemp flower market.

Our state similarly tried to get it outlawed by using these excuses but ignoring the many shops where they are just selling quality product, not allowing kids, etc.

hemp_is_canvas··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
Blame everybody who is responsible, please.
hemp_is_canvas··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
It says that weed supporting stats voted for this. They did.
hemp_is_canvas··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
Both senators from NY, Washington, California, and Illinois voted for this.
hemp_is_canvas··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
I suggest you check out the debate over bicameralism when this was chosen. It was not just slaves stats that wanted a senate.
hemp_is_canvas··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
76/100 senators voted to keep this provision in the bill.
hemp_is_canvas··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
76/100 senators voted to keep this provision. 39/50 states sent requests to Congress to have this banned. It is a bipartisan effort.
hemp_is_canvas··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
There is pretty extensive testing throughout the industry. Small hemp farms don't want to murder their customers or themselves.
hemp_is_canvas··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
76/100 senators voted to keep this provision.
hemp_is_canvas··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
I've been a regular consumer of the results of this since about 2020 when I discovered it. It's been quite the journey watching the industry boom and evolve and get better and better.

I've seen an incredible incredible amount of ignorance on this topic. Prior to this, I found 1 comment on HN mentioning this last night. On reddit, it's not on the frontpage of r/politics, r/moderatepolitics or anything relevant. I can find it on r/news but like every other thread not a single person is mentioning something very factual.

Rand tried to stop this provision in the Senate. 76/100 senators voted for this ban to remain. 76 senators from across the political spectrum, from every state have decided to secretly try to destroy a $30b industry, 300,000 jobs, and a lot of lives.