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It’s a very interesting situation indeed, but it becomes a warped subject when given over to ridiculous people like the woman fearing her whole family will have to change their entire lifestyle to avoid marijuana smoke, which ALWAYS smells better than cigarette and especially cigar smoke, or the public serpent moaning certainty about his dead brother using weed as a “gateway” drug before dying of alcoholism. I’m guessing he had a booze problem long before he ever tried marijuana…personally, I’m all for avoiding big corporate initiatives and government over lords, so I’m all for the black market, growing weed in your yard if you want, brewing moonshine in the woods or any other damn thing you want that doesn’t hurt others.

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Legislating weed by licensure is seriously flawed. Addictive personalities gravitate towards legal addictions.

As one who attained a doctorate degree, the end game is predictable.

You sit a "board" exam to get licensure, demonstrate competency, to "protect the public".

Although there is some truth in this it is really a control mechanism. Plenty of incompetent professionals.

As you point out it is more statism.

They keep records voiding any semblance of privacy.

Many are happy to comply.

Regarding voting. It is true that chosing a "leader" is the opposite of personal sovereignty.

That said self preservation strongly suggests making the best possible decision, but also

may leave the world a better place for those that need protection. The choice in 5 days is crystal clear, he is landsliding. Can safeguards prevent another steal? Widespread cheating already documented.

Pastors, even the Amish, are strongly suggesting we take this Constitutional Republic back

from the compromised Commie oligarchs.

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Peggy! First off, thank you so much for your support :) Greatly appreciated!

Thanks for toughing on these topics. I've touched on abortion already here (https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-the-word-abortion-hides-the-truth) and we see eye-to-eye here: a life is a life.

When it comes to Amendment 3, here are my thoughts:

1. I will admit that I was in favor of Amendment 3 because it decriminalizes weed. Whether I bought it from a distributor or from my good friend, I believe it would be hard to prove, so either or, this would be a positive in the right direction.

2. I also believe that, yes, while marijuana can be a gateway drug, it can also prevent people from actual petrochemical drugs, dangerous drugs with deadly side effects that are unwanted. To my earlier point, if I get the marijuana from neighbor, this ultimately keeps me off Rockefeller's FDA regulated drugs.

These are the positives that makes me support Amendment 3, but it also is a big corporation bill as you stated, which makes me weary. Also, if this is a step towards making FL like CA, then I do not want it. If the smell will be everywhere, then that is NOT a positive. And this is coming from me who does smoke marijuana from time to time.

This situation is why I struggle with voting as stated in this article (https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/wow-everything-we-know-about-democracy). It makes us have to choose, which I say is "Cognitive Dissonance": https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-voting-creates-cognitive-dissonance

Ultimately, if I want to do what I want to do and I am causing no harm to my fellow man, I should (and will) do what I want to do without needing the government's blessing. I think ideally, this is the mentality that we should all have.

Will I vote? I see both points, especially supporting local politics, but I'm leaning on not voting. Don't know if you've seen it or not, but there was a study showing millions of Christians are also in a similar boat of not voting: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/104-million-americans-of-faith-are

As always, thanks for everything. :)

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Thanks, Franklin! I'll be restacking your post on Election Predictions for my readers today.

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