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On Florida

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Matt Isbell, a stellar Florida-based political data analyst, posted this on Twitter for the doubters:

2022 Georgia Primary Ballot Advisory Questions: A Postscript

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  • Full list of questions
  • All statewide questions on both ballots received a large majority response, with only one question (Republican Question 5) receiving a “No” response.
  • I wrote Democratic Questions 4 and 8. I’m proud. I only wish a few more of my questions were added. Thanks to Scout Smith for lobbying the DPG for these questions and helping me narrow down my shortlist to 7.
  • I consider an advisory question to be controversial if majority response is 80% or less. Few questions on the ballot in the history of advisory questions in Georgia primaries have ever fallen under 80% majority response.
  • I’m getting ready for 2024.

Democratic Question 8

  • Coverage of Democratic Question 8: Marijuana Moment, Ganjapreneur, Cannabis Business Times
  • Democratic Question 8 (which I authored) had the most controversial reception on the Democratic ballot, despite all counties voting in favor.
  • Athens-Clarke’s Democrats had the most lopsided response to Democratic Question 8. Baker County had the worst response.
  • Clarke and Forsyth had extra marijuana legalization questions for some reason.
  • Democratic Question 8 is the most complete survey on support for marijuana legalization carried out so far. However, this only covers the Democratic side of the ballot.
    • In 2018, separate Republican questions for medical marijuana and decriminalized recreational access were asked in Harris, Pierce and Ware, with only medical questions being asked in Gordon, Walker and Whitfield. 
    • In 2020, Henry County Republicans asked a question on recreational legalization. This was the first to receive majority support from Republican voters, albeit much slimmer than on past Democratic ballots.
    • Past Democratic questions on legalization were offered in Cherokee (2014), Whitfield (2014), Glynn (2018), Forsyth (2018 and 2020), and Walton (2020), with a question on medical cannabis being asked in Richmond in 2014 and Catoosa in 2016.

Other Ballot Questions

  • Democratic Question 1, dealing with student loan debt forgiveness, was probably the second most controversial question on the Democratic ballot.
  • Democratic Question 4 shows support among the Democratic base for stronger direct democracy than what we currently have.
  • Republican Question 5, which was written exactly to elicit reactionary conservative disgust/hatred against transgender people, had the most lopsided response on the Republican ballot.
  • All of the other statewide Republican questions were garbage, and I would have wanted the opportunity to vote no on every single one of them on the same ballot as I voted yes to every single Democratic question. One can dream.
  • Many county-level questions dealt with local government and infrastructure questions.
  • Fulton and DeKalb’s Republican ballots both had anti-mask, anti-vaccine questions.
  • Carroll and Forsyth’s Democratic ballots had questions on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in education, while DeKalb’s Republican ballot had a question on CRT.
  • Jackson’s Democratic ballot had an anti-Confederate monument question.
  • Oconee County had the only jointly-shared questions on the primary ballot this cycle, with Republicans going out of their way to spell out in bold “This question was drafted by the Democrat party and is being included on this ballot at the request of the Oconee County Republican Party.” behind both joint questions on their ballot.
    • Rockdale held a joint question in 2012, as did Pickens in 2018.

Legalizing Weed Leaves the Glass Half-Full

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I think the states where initiatives and referendums are legal – most of which are out West – will see the greatest advancements against criminal justice abuses in the coming years.

I can’t see Georgia or most other Southern states legalizing recreational marijuana anytime soon. Florida could, since they almost did not long ago.

I’d say that legalizing marijuana and de-felonizing state drug laws is the great cross-racial, cross-religious, cross-class criminal justice struggle of the moment.

But even as more states out West legalize possession and regulate distribution, the racial disparity has persisted in Colorado and Washington with police now targeting predominately young Black/Latino male street dealers for felony distribution instead of possession. I expect a similar report from California in the near future now that weed is legal there.

If racial justice, economic justice and marijuana legalization can intersect anywhere, it’s at this location. Street sales need to be decriminalized, amnesty should be granted to past arrestees, taxes should be temporarily reduced to undercut the underground market, and arrestees should be provided job counseling.

I want to see 0 arrests for anything marijuana-related, 0 people denied jobs for anything​ marijuana-related, 0 people having to sell weed on the street to feed their family.

420, furry, film and still art

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 I just had a thought that occurred to me after I looked in fchan’s 420/drug thread (in the alternative[hard] section, most of which I don’t peruse; /m, /a and /dis are my most frequent destinations) last night:

Generally, sexual acts and displays look more appealing to me in still art (anything that is drawn or modeled for unipositional display, usually in .jpg and .png) than they do in moving art (video, animation, .flv/.swf, .mov, etc.); however, displays of acts which involve drugs, particularly the smoking of cannabis/weed, usually look more appealing to me in moving art than they do in still art.

I think I have this position about multimedia because while sex is something that is 1) easier to draw and 2) usually depicted in artistic form during the short orgasmic climax and only to engender that sort of climax in the viewer, cannabis intake is something that is meant to result in a long, drawn out high, one which is then explored and exploited by the smoker to as much of an extent as possible.

Plus, the orgasm, which is the point in time most depicted in erotic still art, is short and unsatisfying, follows a very long build-up of sweat and strenuous, blood-rushing activity, and usually only leaves such sweat and sore organs in its wake as its only evidence of presence; the high from cannabis, on the other hand, usually comes from the sudden intake from a bong, followed by the ensuing headache and choking, but actually lasts longer than the orgasm and gives a few minutes of distorted cognitive perspective to the smoker.

Thus, when the high comes, time is afforded to the smoker to see the world around the smoker distorted and "wierded out", even though the smoker’s own perception of the world is wierded out and depresses the smoker’s own reaction to the world. This means that things go on around the smoker during the high, and the smoker sees their occurences; compare this to the orgasm that only lasts for mere seconds.

Thus, what sentiments and perceptions that still depictions of cannabis intake cannot afford due to their brevity, the moving depiction of the same can and have: the high, what the smoker sees during the high, how the smoker sees such things during the high, what the smoker does during the high, etc.

So I look forward to a future subfandom around furry stoner animations and films, ones in which the anthropomorphic stoner’s very fictional species is created around the fact that she is a stoner and an avid weedhead or LSD fan or shroom conoisseur.

Plus, I have to think of prototype terms that can be used within, and are endemic to this subfandom of furry drugging, similar to how the term "yiff" is mostly synonymous with furry sex.