To sun it up from the NYTimes article posted below, Oklahoma does in fact have legal medical marijuana. In addition it apparently has pretty lax regulations compared to other states on growing. Basically little limit on how many farms are allowed, how much they can grow, etc. And apparently pretty low startup costs (I assume license fees and all that are low).
OK is as close to a free market as you can get, low license fees, taxes, etc. Recreational use is on the ballet for a special session in the spring and it’s already legal for medicinal use and a very liberal def. of “medicinal” at that. There are dispensaries everywhere.
/own 20 acres in SE Oklahoma (tangent, my property taxes last year was a whole $9)
It's funny that marijuana advocates wasted decades pleading their case under the guise of personal freedom, social equity, compassionate use, and the like.
Turns out all it took to convince the right was showing them the money.
@ramesh31 my take on the California commercial weed disaster is the opposite: the greedy supermajority progressives legalized to get more tax revenue to spend on their various pet projects, but their crushing bureaucracy quickly killed the golden goose. The various libertarian weed growers either went back to the black market or left the state.
> There are now college professors floating the idea that pedophilia ought to be socially acceptable
There might be a nuance that I'm missing; are they talking about the physical act (which should remain as illegal and socially unacceptable as it now is), or the sexual orientation which is typically also labelled the same?
Because society has already decided that who a person is sexually attracted to is not a choice, so it's a dangerous path to be on if we are going to punish people for something that we already decided that they have no control over.
Seems like it would fall under the same heading. Attraction to male sexual characteristics, female sexual characteristics, either, both, nothing, or neither?
I am not saying it fits, but the edge cases in biology get really strange and eventually you need new terms for clarity. Chimera for example can contain one set of male cells and one set of female cells. So you start off with clear separation XX, XY then notice an outlier XXY etc, and suddenly need a new notation XX:XY.
> There are now college professors floating the idea that pedophilia ought to be socially acceptable - they are just misunderstood people that see beyond age or something like that
There have been people floating these ideas for decades. It’s not catching on now.
Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy. [1]
Do you think what these tweets revealed is acceptable behavior then?
You don't have a problem with children in drag (where the 'drag mother' is a sex offender), or children being taken to venues to watch sexual performances and interact with the performers?
The lady in the first one is wearing a bikini (you can see it when she turns around) and (presumably) pasties, it's a little risque but not really much more so then a kid would see at the beach.
The second has a fully-clothed lady in makeup and headdress doing a dance that involves flashes of her underskirt, and is far less sexed up than, say, a can-can dancer, of which I personally saw plenty growing up watching old cartoons and TV shows (and have since ended up posting on the Hacker News forum which I guess is not necessarily the best endorsement). For example: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_gKenzXMAUOs2W?format=jpg&name=...
As for the third link, I've personally found Andy Ngo to be a completely unreliable source. That said, I do believe sex offenders should not be around children, but maybe let's start with places where they're a bit thicker on the ground.
