Absolutely nothing to do with legalized weed. I want nature, laid back and outdoors activities year round. I might have found my city today by some ridiculous luck! Rox fan for life though breh.
I feel like we will be one of the last states, in fact I'm willing to bet it will be legal at a federal level before we do it as a state... I'm hoping it will happen sooner tho
If Governor Rick Perry wants to decriminalize (while running for President mind you), there just might be light at the end of the tunnel. Rick Perry urges move toward mar1juana decriminalization January 23, 2014 Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on Thursday voiced support for softening penalties for mar1juana use, and touted his work moving in the direction of decriminalization. "After 40 years of the war on drugs, I can’t change what happened in the past. What I can do as the governor of the second largest state in the nation is to implement policies that start us toward a decriminalization and keeps people from going to prison and destroying their lives, and that’s what we’ve done over the last decade," Perry said, according to the Austin American-Statesman. Perry made the remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. While he does not favor legalization, he has supported alternate rehab and drug court programs, his spokeswoman noted. "Gov. Perry has long supported diversionary and rehabilitative programs, like the drug courts we have in Texas that have proven results," said Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed in a statement to Post Politics. Perry also said "states should be allowed" to decide whether to legalize mar1juana.
For being such a great state, we could make it really awesome to live here by legalizing thc and gambling.
keeping it illegal goes against conservative principles of keeping government out of our private lives and allowing for personal freedom and choice. but it keeps the corporatized prison business profiting so I guess it's win for Team Prohibition.
Just an FYI for everyone, in 2012 we were 2% away from legalizing medical mar1juana IN ARKANSAS. Literally 49% for, 51% against. Have some faith people.
Weed helped me get rid of an insomnia that kept pestering me about 2 years ago. It was an absolute helI falling asleep at 2am and having to get up for work at 5. Co-workers questioned if I was hungover and it was embarrassing. Anyways, I would light up a joint before bed and take 4 or 5 good puffs all the way down to my lungs and hold it in as long as I could. It was the only way i could fall asleep. Sleeping pills didn't work. Well i haven't smoked since. And to this day I don't get any cravings for this so called "drug". Edit: and it would be an absolute shame if gay marriage were legalized in Texas before weed.
I don't know of y'all heard, but Arkansas also recently made headlines for one of our judges ruling that a ban on same-sex marriages was unconstitutional...the attorney general fought the ruling of course. The point is, I know Texas has deeply conservative pockets, but our whole state is bright red with only a few semi-liberal areas. Mark my words, most posters on this board will see a completely legalized weed and same-sex marriage United States in our lifetime. It's only a matter of time.
I think this is as good a thread as any to bring up this point. I've often heard views that Texas will be a blue state (or at least 'purple'/swing state) in about a decade or so, maybe sooner. This is largely in part to the large urban areas like Dallas, Houston, SA, Austin, etc. and influx of Hispanics. So why does pot legalization seem so far off to some of you?
Why is that? Never mind, just saw you are young and have never been anywhere on your own. You'll soon realize the scary drug war they teach you in school is all a sham.
Yeah I probably jumped the gun a little. Point being, it's not beyond the realm of possibility in the future.
Just found out that my transfer to Seattle has been approved. It isn't effective immediately but we should be there sometime in the first quarter of 2015. I couldn't be happier to get out of Texas.
LOL, I feel like I've died since I've had to restrain. Gotta love having to piss in a cup to keep a job I've had for 9.5 years!
