Washington DC activists appear to have collected enough validated signatures to get Initiative 81 on the November ballot, which would decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi within the District. Specifically, the Entheogenic Plant and Fungus Policy Act of 2020 if passed would do the following (from initiative link):
- Make the investigation and arrest of adults for non-commercial planting, cultivating, purchasing, transporting, distributing, possessing, and/or engaging in practices with entheogenic plants and fungi among the Metropolitan Police Department’s lowest law enforcement priorities; and
- Codify that the people of the District of Columbia call upon the Attorney General for the District of Columbia and the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia to cease prosecution of residents of the District of Columbia for these activities.
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Dr. Stella Immanuel has stirred up controversy this week with a Facebook video making unscientific claims about covid-19, the corona virus causing the pandemic which has been wreaking havoc on the world since late 2019, and which has to date caused at least 4 million cases of the illness in the United States. The video, shared by the Clown Prince of Darkness and his autonymic son, was pulled by Facebook (after being shared millions of times, not a good look for them) and caused Junior to get a 12-hour account suspension on Twitter. In it, she claimed that hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug which has proved both ineffective and dangerous as a treatment for the virus, was actually a cure and that Dr. Anthony Fauci, US lead infectious disease doctor, and the entire Senate were taking the drug and that masks were unnecessary, although she is requiring their use for people wishing to visit her clinic.
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Truth, justice, and the American walrus
