Any truth to the rumor that WH staffers have covered up all the mirrors, because Trump keeps on attacking that other president?

Actually it kind of did. You’re thinking only of current users switching, but it’s also about people never starting to use hard drugs in the first place. http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/america-take-note-three-lessons-holland-learned-after-decades-evolving-its-drug-policy

I agree with what other commenters have said—this is Booker trying to save face after voting against cheaper drugs from Canada. It’s no-risk to his big pharma ties because it will never pass and all gain for him because of the optics. And on the whole I like Booker, but I have no illusions about him.

Isn’t the federal prohibition a financial problem for small, local businesses? I remember reading that banks won’t loan to them or let them open business accounts.

Make America Baked Again

Any way you slice it, pharma is not going to make as much money from it being totally illegal (forcing people to use prescription drugs) as it would from it being legal, because it’s a drug you can grow yourself. If you could grow your own Oxycontin, pharma companies would lose money too. 

or this will allow the pharmacy industry to start cashing in on that sweet sweet weed money.

4 sure gonna pass definitely

What do you mean? Do you think this is the first bill that democrats have introduced this year? Not all bills are talked about in the press but democrats have introduced a lot of legislation (as they have every year). I just want people to know that. Democrats are not seating in their offices watching at the…

People complain a lot about Cory Booker being a corporate sellout and voting to support the pharma industry, but this is a big slap in the face for the pharma industry that is so prominent in NJ. Good on Booker.

But Trump wasn’t offering the quid pro quo: he was offering to up end the system in a manner even the most extreme of the other candidates were incapable of offering. Between him and Rubio, I would have voted Rubio: I dislike him and his policies, but I know exactly what voting for him gets, just as I know exactly…

Republicans are being entirely rational, which is why I have a difficult time with this “growing a spine” rhetoric. They’re using the Donald to pass bills and confirm conservatives, and then they hope to primary his ass in 2020 with like Ben Sasse, Tom Cotton, Jeff Flake, somebody like that. If, in November 2016, by…

I agree with his mom. She might as well humour this phase. Could be worse. Could be a Cruz cosplay.

The cynical perspective is that EVERYONE knows how bad this was and letting McCain, a man from a purple state who has a lot of sympathy right now because of the cancer diagnoses and will not live to the end of his term, be the deciding vote to give the other 49 Repubs cover to say they did what they said they would do…

While I do wonder what his end game is here (and definitely don’t think this is some heroic gesture), I do have a some sympathy for him for now. He’s put a great big target on his head, and I’m already starting to see some major fallout from the usual crazies out there.

John, You (finally) did something right!

I mean what the fuck are people upset about.

McCain voted for the BCRA, despite pledging a few hours earlier that he would not.

When does he fire Trump?

Yes, and also: