If SESSIONS is against recreational pot, then I'm (now) *for* it. Plus DRUMPF's drug

[UTUSN]

Well, does anybody find it credible that he and Roy COHN sashayed through Studio 54 in the '70s and never did anything?!1 Uh, talking about *drugs* of course.

So, I am ancient, was a very fringe Hippie, was not an offspring of Middle Class parents who could afford to spawn Hippies, dear Souls (my parents). So I partook of the fringe things like health foods, vitamin supplements, and NOT Jane's later fitness videos.

And I've been askance about recreational pot, because I personally classified recreational pursuits as fun as opposed to life-death, and because I've thought that recreational issues advocates tend to turn out for their one issue only instead of, say, all the other Leftish issues besides their own. (I guess I'm flameworthy here.)

So/however, SESSIONS has succeeded me in driving me over. (Will this stop flaming?!1)

And I hate DRUMPF and all pictures of his repellant mug, but the pic below is what it is.

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[font size=5]Why I Would Never Take Propecia, President Trump’s Hair Growth Drug[/font]

While popping my daily dose of pills the other day—you know, the drugs guys over 60 often take to try to squeeze out another decade or two—I stumbled across a news story describing the drugs President Donald Trump takes, according to his personal physician.

The list took me aback. The 45th president and I are aging like blood brothers. We’re both using baby aspirin to stave off heart attacks, a statin to lower our cholesterol and doxycycline to control a similar skin-reddening condition called rosacea.

But keeping one’s hair through the miracles of modern medicine comes with risk. Propecia, the brand name for drug giant Merck’s finasteride, has become a magnet for personal injury lawyers with, by one count, 1,370 lawsuits filed by plaintiffs. There’s no indication that Trump—who’s famous for enjoying a spirited lawsuit now and then—has made any legal filings against Propecia. The White House press office did not respond to phone and email requests.

The stories laid out in court filings are enough to make a bald man accept a hairline in full retreat. Complaints chronicle sexual dysfunction, mood swings and ruined relationships, even suicides, allegedly linked to the pills intended to keep hair intact. “The company intends to defend against these lawsuits,” Merck said, in a statement.

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[Warren DeMontague]

1. Just a heads up, so to speak. Out on the West Coast it's an actual serious issue.

We're way past stoner jokes. We're talking thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenue.

Time to take it seriously.

[UTUSN]

2. I'm 70. It hasn't been a matter of stoner jokes for me or unserious for the past 50 years.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Point is, it's not a hypothetical in a number of states. It is a functional reality.

Beyond that, I don't know if it's so much a matter of legalization supporters not showing up to vote- this last election's results should have put that one to bed, since pot did better than either party- so much as it has been a failure of our party at the national level to embrace an obvious personal freedom issue which is also wildly popular.

Why? I don't know. I don't get it. Maybe the same sorts of profiles in lack of courage that led some of our leadership to lag on marriage equality.

But, we got there eventually, and the same tide will happen with this; in the meantime, though, it seems stupid for us to cede the legalization votes to the libertarians or whoever, simply because some of our beltway geniuses still think they're going to appeal to "megachurch moms" or "values voters" by taking a tough line on weed.

[GReedDiamond]

3. Not to mention the damage done by going back to jailing...

...enough people to stimulate major growth in the for-profit, private prison system.

Plus the ruined lives that would cause, along with families torn apart by re-criminalization, and the wasteful expenditures of tax revenue by putting all of those people through the "criminal justice system."

Plus, I think the Mexican drug cartels would love it.