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Because Washington is a country and federal crimes aren't crimes. They're, uh, suggestions.

Except for federal laws we like. Like civil rights. Or Roe v. Wade. Then federal power trumps state law. Confused yet?

Have you guys ever printed a scorecard so we can keep track of when black is white and when white is black and when it's the other way around?
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I think the timing is interesting and that the message is, "If I-502 passes, no one is going to help you tell your kids that they shouldn't smoke pot. Support the prison-industrial complex. For the children."
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DARE should be reprogrammed to use educators instead of Police as instructors. The conversation about pot is right up there with caffeine, OTC pills and cough syrup, etc. Drug abuse should be front and center as a conversation and a problem that has a solution.
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Nobody cares what them Revenoors say. We folk out West know there ain't many of them.
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Since cigarettes and alcohol are legal, I guess we probably shouldn't tell kids to stay away from those either, right?
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Programs like DARE were my gateway 'drug'. If you lie to an adolescent about the dangers of cannabis, in return you help mold a rebellious teen who disregards all the pertinent information about harder drugs. If the government is so inept as to label cannabis a Schedule 1 drug, a designation that states it has no medical use, while cocaine and methamphetamine remain Schedule II with legitimate medical applications you plant the seed of doubt. Then of course with the proximity of the marijuana market to that of all illegal drugs, youth exposure is optimized. That's what happened to me.
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"With measures to legalize pot leading in Washington and Colorado polls, one of the president's former senior drug policy advisers is predicting the initiatives will incite a war between the feds and the states.

"Once these states actually try to implement these laws, we will see an effort by the feds to shut it down," Kevin A. Sabet told NBC News in a report published Sunday. "We can only guess now what exactly that would look like. But the recent U.S. attorney actions against medical marijuana portends an aggressive effort to stop state-sponsored growing and selling at the outset.""

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/05…

...But "state sovereignty" is for hillbillies....
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DARE is a program that is either useless or worse than useless, depending on the study. The end of DARE would be great news, DARE tailoring it's pitch to today's rubes is merely interesting.
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http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/06/is-dar…

The above article says that it's not true....
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If you don't talk to your cat about catnip ... who will?

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