Alabama lawmakers vote 11-0 to decriminalize small amounts of cannabis

my mil is in desperate need of this due to cancer. Maybe they will try it now. They refused before because of the illegalities.

Anyone know what would be next for this to happen?

Last Edited by Captainawesome1701 on 04/17/2019 02:36 PM

Crackhead governor to sign into law.

This vote was in a Senate committee, so presumably, the next action would be a full Senate vote. The article says a similar bill was defeated in the House last year, so hopefully, the House reconsiders this year.

Gov. Ivey is a wildcard in this one. I have no idea whether she would veto the legislation.

She's a "Republican" but she used to be a Democrat and she loves taxes.

it's fucking ridiculous that one state over you can legally have it but in some states such as mine if you are caught with weed you get sentenced like you murdered someone.

get over it people and just legalize it.

just goes to show you that you don't have to tow the left or right party line on every single issue....

i think most of us are socially liberal and fiscally conservative.

The criminalization of weed is just about over. Its just needs to become a federal law. Makes no sense that I can go buy an OZ of weed and in the next state over if I had that same OZ I would go to jail.

I do want to point out for all your liberal hating on this site thats its the liberals that want it legal and its the republicans that want to keep it illegal.

Damn, in ALABAMA?!

And the so-called "Progressive" state I live in can't even get that done.

Nice job Alabama!

not all republicans think this way....

and not all liberals agree with it being legal either.

This needs to happen nationwide!

Donald Trump, where are you on this!

I'd be for legalizing it if I could somehow be assured that my tax money wasn't going to support a bunch of burnouts in AL or CO or wherever. That's the problem with federal entitlements. If a states want to legalize pot and create an army of stoners = fine, as long as the cost of those actions is kept within the state. That's the whole purpose of federalism. With entitlements being a federal guarantee, that cost burden shifts to the entire nation, and not just this generation, but generations to come.

We're not there yet. This same committee voted for decriminalization last year and it was defeated. Of course, the vote was much closer last year so there's a better chance this time, but it still has a long way to go.

I'm in WA where it's completely legal. I just go down to the local weed store and pick up a pack of joints.

Last Edited by Factual Error on 04/17/2019 03:18 PM

Yeah I've tried implying that in the past - that if conservatives would pick up that issue and take it from the democrats - that democrats would have all that much less power in elections.

I see no reason to play hardball against enacting new policies that actually reflect where the majority of Americans stand regarding this issue.

It's only a "Scary liberal thing to make the sheep compliant blah blah blah" because we've let it become that. Our politicians and friends, family, and neighbors treated people like 2nd-class citizens and encouraged the state to destroy their family, finances, and freedoms by sending people to prison over it.

People act like a person should have their life, and their kid's lives, permanently altered and destroyed over fucking weed. Come on, I can't think of anything less American than wanting the state to rip apart families and revoke freedom over using a PLANT. What is this, North Korea? Should we sentence generations to prison over someone using a plant instead of getting shitfaced drunk?

Just because we are conservative doesn't mean we don't have blood on our hands to, or that we are above having to have humility about things from time to time. I think it's time that what ever element that is in our party that promotes trillions spent on wars but can't just give the people the right to use a plant, you really need to ask yourself just what is it that's so worth us fighting for in this reality then?

You bankers want your wars and money and power, I just want the freedom to not go to prison and get ass raped over using a plant.

Last Edited by Lumberghini on 04/17/2019 03:19 PM

Well if it's a Crackhead it will be signed into law.

there are going to be those people anyway. and guess what, they smoke weed regardless, legal or illegal. sort of how it would be if guns were illegal. those that want it or going to find a way to get it.

but you shouldn't generalize everyone who smokes pot as lazy/burnouts. i can show you many who are quite the opposite.

Last Edited by 1-2-Follow on 04/17/2019 03:21 PM

You should compromise, if under the influence you do crime you receive double the ordinary punishment for the crime.

Sounds like a good compromise.

You're not as effective as you would be if you didn't smoke pot. Hence why you are considered lazy, because you are. Same with alcoholics, not as effective as they should be.

You're also weak for being controlled by a substance, most of you won't admit you are owned by the substance.

She's not a crackhead. She's an elderly lady who never would have been governor if her predecessor, a crusty old man, had been able to keep it in his pants.

All Kay Ivey has done in her time as governor is not embarrass the state and hike our gas taxes.

You're right, there can never really be absolutes said about anything in life.

Sometimes you just begin to notice patterns and trends though, and one thing I've always had an issue with in regards to certain conservative "Flavors" in the US is their strong opposition to giving cannabis legalization a chance.

I've yet to this day been able to pull from someone a coherent explanation as to how they could possibly be against any amount of cannabis being legalized for adult use (21+ or older) yet have refrigerators crammed full of alcohol and who vote for Republican politicians who, at least in my state, are the ones who often take campaign donations from the Tavern League.

People are absolutely entitled to their own opinions but if those opinions infringe unnecessarily or unfairly on other's freedoms (within reason of course, just use common sense), then that's when I start to take issue. Someone coming home and smoking a joint instead of drinking beer never hurt anyone and we all know it.

Last Edited by Lumberghini on 04/17/2019 03:26 PM

yeah, that's what I see.

So do you drink your own cum too or...?

well look at you knowing everything. aren't you fucking special!

let me guess. jesus is the answer?



Last Edited by 1-2-Follow on 04/17/2019 03:29 PM

100% agree. i live in the deep south so trust me, i see these old alcoholic bible thumpers all the time. they've been raised as if weed is the absolute devil. we all know the propaganda runs deep.

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a committee voted to send in to full vote...

IF it passes the full vote
the governor has to sign it.

i would not hold your breath.