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 The TOP five groups lobbying against Marijuana...
1. Police Unions
2. Private Prisons
3. Alcohol/... 
 @58606072 

You can't just throw away a tool for invading privacy like "I smell marijuana" and expect no blowback. 
 @ccb4768b @3967703f 

I had Bloomberg for a couple of years till the bill was $475/year.  Cured my addiction in one day. 
 ABSOLUTELY INFURIATING WHEN SUCCESSFUL WHITE WOMEN GET ABOVE THEIR RAISIN'

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 MUSK DECLARES, *WHEN PEOPLE MAKE FUN OF MY COWBOY HAT, I SHOW THEM MY METAL-HURLING PENIS*

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 @bca6faf1 

Doesn't matter if he bought it.  He violated his release agreement when he touched it. 
 @aff773f4 

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
Salvor Hardin, First Mayor of Terminus City
Foundation, Vol I
Asimov 
 @429bb265 

Police are actually trained to lie to elicit confessions, and excused from consequences in courtrooms every day.  Citizens are accused of lying to police every day, and harvest the consequences in convictions for "filing a false report" or "obstructing justice."  Now that's what I call A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD.