Yosemite is amazing during the winter. It’s a snow paradise and it’s beautifully quiet.
I don’t know, why do you? I don’t see the connection.
I’m a couple months shy of 20, so prolly not a big factor. I’m just sayin’ this is how people talk about Hawaii from what I’ve seen. It may be different in different places. I wouldn’t be surprised; here in San Diego interstate travel is pretty rare among the locals. Like most of the East Coast transplants here, I myself have seen a pretty fair portion of the union in my day, but a lot of people here haven’t and don’t have much desire to. They’re already on vacation.
We also have a very high population of retirement-age citizens, most of whom are Republican or extremely conservative Democrats. I know it’s a tired old saying, but seniors do tend to vote in packs - this law won’t get passed. I’m in favor of it for a number of reasons, the main one being that I don’t think the government has a right to tell anyone how they can and can’t kill themselves, and I’ll vote in favor of it come November, but yeah - it’s not gonna pass.
It (marijuana) will be available for sale by any store that has purchased a license. Licensing will be strictly monitored, and marijuana will be heavily taxed (but still cheaper than getting it on the streets!). Taxes will go towards rehabilitation clinics for drug abusers of all sorts, and marijuana research. Ostensibly, the law is being suggested because they want to take marijuana out of the unregulated criminal market and regulate and tax the hell out of it. Realistically, they all just wanna get high.
So, how long do you think it would take? 20 years? 40?
Well of course people want to get high, but you don’t think the bill is also being proposed for the purpose of…funding drug rehabilitation and research, and to take it out of the unregulated criminal market so that Nevada could put the dealers and cartels out of business (or into legal and safe business), nevermind tax it and make some money while they’re at it? Do you seriously contend that those are afterthoughts? Or that Nevadans can’t already get high if they want to?
You want to know about our states? Look at our quarters. For the last 10 years, we’ve been spotlighting four states a year on our coinage, and each state gets to choose the image/message for their shot. A lot of these coins have unintendedly bleak messages.
New Jersey and Delaware show distinguished personages celebrating their experience in the state by getting the hell out of it. Ohio shows the Wright Brothers’ first flight (which happened in another state) and the first moon walk (which happened on another planet). New York showcases the beautiful Statue of Liberty which–although NY indisputably owns it and the island it’s on–may actually be in New Jersey.
South Dakota, no dummies, showcase their number one tourist draw: Mount Rushmore, a giant statue of four men who’ve never been to South Dakota.
Iowa reprodiced a painting by its native son Grant Wood (most famous for his dour American Gothic ). I guess we should be grateful that Walter Keane and Thomas Kinkade didn’t come from Iowa. Unless they did, I dunno. Alabama has a portrait of Helen Keller. I don’t want to minimize the depth and breadth of her courage and accomplishments, but frankly, I’d have gone with Skynyrd.
Michigan proudly displays a map of the Great Lakes, even the one that they don’t actually border. Kind of a reach, guys. Arkansas shows a freakish tableau of a lake, a duck, a rice plant, and a cut diamond. Damn, that’s a state park I want to wander around unsupervised!
Really?
Because I recall reading that the roads in Central Park, NYC are off-limits to cars (except for emergency & police vehicles). Not sure if this is all the time, or only some days or some hours.
And someone mentioned Mormanism being a uniquely American and fast growing religion. It’s worth nothing that both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were born in VT, yet Vermont has a very low percentage of Mormons (though I was good friends with a girl in high school who was Morman…she is quite attractive and looks a bit like Shania Twain.)
Ohio has produced more U.S. Presidents than any other state.
Dayton, OH (which is where I’m from) is known as the “City of Inventions.” It’s also home of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, which is the world’s largest and oldest military aviation museum.
Aren’t the two ‘malls’ in the downtowns of Denver and Boulder also like that? Been a while since I’ve seem them, so maybe my memory is playing tricks on me.
I’ve found that virtually any claim a place may make about being the ONLY of something is usually wrong.
Oklahoma has more miles of shoreline than the US Atlantic and Gulf Coasts combined. Because of all the freakin man made lakes, which supposedly Oklahoma has more of than any other state in the union.
I don’t know, honestly. If they’d tried passing this when Nevada was a heathen state populated entirely of miners, ranchers, bootleggers and whores, it probably would have passed. Now we have a respectable citizenry (for the most part, or so they like to think). So I don’t know if it will ever, or if we just have to wait for the seniors and straight-edge people to die off, which might take a while.
They are. I know the guys who are involved in writing it (I work at a newspaper and talk to these people on a regular basis for their press releases, columns, and events). They do want to help people, yes, and they do want to take pot out of the criminal market. But mostly they want to be able to get high without getting arrested.
And mine’s #8 on that list. I have no idea how it got there. But I think Columbus, Ohio, has one claim to fame: I think it’s the only city in the US to occupy parts of three counties (Franklin, Delaware and Fairfield – though it only has relatively small bits in Delaware and Fairfield). New York City doesn’t count – it occupies the whole of its five counties, while Columbus only occupies parts of counties.
The city of Lapel, Indiana got that name because the map of the original town’s boundaries looked like the lapel of a man’s suit coat. Lapel is 15 miles from here.
Summitville, Indiana was so named because the highest point in Madison County is there. We’re a fairly flat county, and you wouldn’t know the “summit” if there weren’t a sign.
New Jersey put it on their quarter too. They didn’t have much else.
The New York quarter sucked for other reasons entirely. It had the Statue superimposed over a relief map of the state that looked like it was split in half. It was supposed to “emphasize the importance of the Hudson and the Erie Canal” but I don’t know how it would do that unless you passed out guidebooks with peoples’ change.
I liked the proposed design of the Halfmoon sailing up the Hudson much better.
Getting more local, you furryners may be interested by the Things You Should Not Touch™ that are in my very ownsie’s backyard. I’ll let you touch one for a quarter.
Cool! Tell them they have an admirer in California.
Don’t you guys have medical MJ over there? In this state you’re untouchable with a script unless you’re selling, growing/handling far too much, or shopping at a dispensary (or running one, especially).
Kinda, but not really. We don’t have a card. Your doc can prescribe it, but you aren’t really protected from the law on it. A lot of people moving here from California and Oregon get disgruntled by that fact.
I don’t like medical marijuana laws because it always seemed to me to be a roundabout way of legalizing it. I think they should just legalize it outright and be done with it. But whatever, this isn’t GD or The Pit (and I just accidentally typed that as “The Pot”…Freudian slip, maybe?).
I don’t know, why do you? I don’t see the connection.
