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Buy Weed? Can’t They Just Drink Instead?

Filed in Delaware by on November 19, 2023 11 Comments

The Atlantic coast is supposedly the liberal part of Sussex County. So why are its beach towns treating cannabis sales like a pool hall coming to River City? As a News Journal article noted last week,  Dewey, Rehoboth, Bethany, Ocean View and Fenwick Island all have banned the legal sale of the devil’s lettuce. You […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, November 3, 2023

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More Proof That Israel Doesn’t Give A Shit What The World Thinks: The Jabaliya neighborhood north of Gaza City was pummeled with Israeli airstrikes for a third consecutive day on Thursday, while doctors treating the victims described nightmarish scenes of operating without basic supplies or anesthesia. Dr. Hussam Abu Safyia, director of the pediatric ward […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023

Filed in National, Open Thread by on October 31, 2023 24 Comments

Replacing soft-MAGA Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House with hard-MAGA Mike Johnson is somehow Bad News for Progressives among those who see everything as bad news for progressives, but I don’t think it’s that cut and dried. This guy is a true Christofascist freak – Amanda Marcotte writes about his Satanic panic over a […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 29, 2023

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The Man Who Saved Democracy Bows Out Of Presidential Race.  Largely because he saved democracy.  The story, of course, is more complicated: His decision to align himself with Mr. Trump came in June 2016, when a mutual associate of the two men, an Indiana insurance industry executive named Steve Hilbert, called Mr. Pence to see […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, September 1, 2023

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Biden Administration Moves To Reclassify/Declassify Pot: If a recommendation by the nation’s top health agency to reclassify marijuana is adopted, the drug could gain wider acceptance as a medical treatment, pot businesses could see their bottom line boosted and a path toward national legalization could be charted, experts said Thursday. The Department of Health and […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday July 25 2023

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This will work. Mitt Romney has a plan to disrupt the “apparent inevitability” of Donald Trump locking up the GOP presidential nomination. Romney is calling on donors and influencers to get candidates to drop out by late February. Have you heard?  It seems that Delaware legalized marijuana. Where should Delaware’s marijuana stores go? Sussex County considers legal options for areas […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 23, 2023

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The ‘Kansas Two-Step’:  Classic cop tactic no doubt employed all the time here in Delaware: Kansas trooper Brandon McMillan pulled Bosire over for driving seven miles per hour over the speed limit, according to court documents. The trooper did not issue a speeding ticket, but he suspected Bosire, who is Black, was trafficking drugs from […]

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DL Open Thread Monday July 17 2023

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Why aren’t Delaware Democrats doing anything?  I know, Pete liked to pretend that the withered rump of the DEGOP held some power, but that was (and is) bullshit,  We’re all adults here, right.  We can handle the truth.      I need to call this out…. Delaware Democrats have a supermajority in both houses…and a […]

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 22, 2023

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 22, 2023 9 Comments

The headlines: House To Consider Budget, LEOBOR, and Plastic Disposables Today. We Have Our Pot Czar: “I know there are people who, when they saw someone who had a very strong law enforcement background was nominated for this position, kind of made certain thoughts and jumped to certain conclusions. I don’t know … if anyone […]

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., June 14, 2023

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 14, 2023 16 Comments

Inscrutable Vote Department:  We know that Delaware’s legislative Rethugs are a bizarre combination of climate change denialists and vocal opponents of any governmental interference into what they perceive to be their unfettered rights.  So,  you would expect the House R’s to unanimously vote against an otherwise innocuous bill that would ‘require new commercial buildings with […]

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Cannabis Czar – There are qualified people, Carney just didn’t look for them

Filed in National by on June 13, 2023 11 Comments

This is Dasheeda Dawson’s bio.  She is NYC’s Cannabis Commissioner.  There are other people with decent resumes who have been working in this industry for a while.   Carney didn’t look for a qualified person. Dasheeda Dawson is a global cannabis advocate, award-winning Fortune 100 business strategist, and a bestselling author on the cannabis industry. Her […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 11, 2023

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 11, 2023

Rethugs Call For Insurrection Because ‘Trump’.  Is this the kind of free speech the 1st Amendment protects?  I don’t think so: “We have now reached a war phase,” Representative Andy Biggs (AZ) tweeted Friday. “Eye for an eye,” he added, ignoring that a Florida grand jury decided on its own accord to indict the former […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, May 26, 2023

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Red State MAGAts Can’t Dump People Off Medicaid Fast Enough: Hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans have lost Medicaid coverage in recent weeks as part of a sprawling unwinding of a pandemic-era policy that prohibited states from removing people from the program. Early data shows that many people lost coverage for procedural reasons, such as […]

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