Dallas council members try to delay marijuana reform overwhelmingly approved by voters

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NotSafeForKarma@reddit

those propositions aren't blatantly violating state law

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That remains to be seen. "U" forces decisions about hiring and pay, basically human resources decisions, and makes them a constitutional requirement. It doesn't matter whether or not the money to recruit and train is available, or if there is even enough talent to recruit.

"S" doesn't say anything specific about the city's immunity, just that it can be sued.

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NotSafeForKarma@reddit

But those don’t specifically go against state law

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Iant-Iaur@reddit

Fuck the state law.

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NotSafeForKarma@reddit

Excellent contribution to the discussion.

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Iant-Iaur@reddit

Has an added benefit of being true.

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NotSafeForKarma@reddit

Haha, okay. Enjoy your drugs.

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Fellowshipofthebowl@reddit

Found the Karen 🤦‍♂️

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NotSafeForKarma@reddit

Not even slightly. I just don’t think it’s smart to welcome a lawsuit from the state when there’s much bigger issues than someone wanting to smoke pot.

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fictionaldan@reddit

I would love for the state to waste their money on these and tie up hot wheels’ legal resources while they try to erect concentration camps in the state.

Hope your gas gets cheaper. It won’t.

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NotSafeForKarma@reddit

I hope they spend as much as possible just to spite you.

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fictionaldan@reddit

I hope you end up against the wall eventually.

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NotSafeForKarma@reddit

Fear not, for I don’t lead a life of crime nor am an enemy of the state. I’ll be here long after you.

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fictionaldan@reddit

Just like a good little German.

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NotSafeForKarma@reddit

Yep!

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redpillbluepill69@reddit

I read that the recent 5 cities who decriminalized MJ lawsuit from Paxton had already been dismissed in Austin?

I don't even smoke but like are we just going to cower to this jerk off? He sues for everything anyway

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NotSafeForKarma@reddit

I mean it’s not necessarily up to him if the legislature won’t change the law as written…

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Iant-Iaur@reddit

And you continue enjoying your Jesus.

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permalink_save@reddit

Right, gotta keep our prisons full for that free labor. Couldn't have smaller governments ignoring larger ones against the law like Abbott blatently defying federal orders around vaccines. Oh... right.

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NotSafeForKarma@reddit

Do you have any actual points to make

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Old_Young_Spice@reddit

do you?

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NotSafeForKarma@reddit

Yeah, that I don’t feel like it’s wise for the city to decide to expose themselves to more lawsuits

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ArchReaper@reddit

Name and shame those who tried to do blatantly subvert the will of the people:

District 12 Council Member Cara Mendelsohn
District 13 Council Member Gay Donnell Willis
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson

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cheknauss@reddit

Thanks for identifying them. If I ever get another chance to, I'll gladly vote them out.

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UnknownQTY@reddit

Gay Donnell sounds like a Robin Hood characters.

Robin Hood, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlett, Gay Donnell.

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Arse_Armageddon@reddit

Gay Donnell Willis

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MichaelBrownSmash@reddit

Straight Donnell Willis would never

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Arse_Armageddon@reddit

The liberals... are trying to take away our... marijuana...

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MahFravert@reddit

Start calling them. Everyone.

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SexyOctagon@reddit

Why reform marijuana laws when you can just spend millions on more police?

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willisbar@reddit

The tickets don’t write themselves

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Lightzephyrx@reddit

Why not both? Seriously, nothing wrong with more cops NOT enforcing shitty laws.

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tap_in_birdies@reddit

Fuck it just sue them now

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dumasymptote@reddit

Well considering this would be a violation of state law, they should slow roll this since they will just get sued under prop s.

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datdupe@reddit

lol not sure why you're downvoted when this is likely. maybe people stopped reading after the comma

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Oldsalty420@reddit

The usual assholes

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robinsw26@reddit

Of course they did.

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tla9442@reddit

Voting to amend the city charter to allow weed doesn’t supersede state and federal laws… 🤦🏻‍♂️

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sequencedStimuli@reddit

Austin and San Marcos have been doing just fine under a similar framework so far.

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tla9442@reddit

Just disregarding state laws….seems like a great idea. Next up, legalize rape,robbery, and murder.

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Happy-Ranger-6971@reddit

Great logic. Do you know the difference between violent and non violent crime?

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FranksGun@reddit

You do have a point. But from a case by case basis perspective this is one case where the state can truly go fuck itself, especially given the pieces of shit in charge. This is a minor enough thing that doesn’t affect people’s basic rights so as for it to make sense to allow cities to do what’s in the interest of their citizens. I’d say it really caters to what should be people’s basic rights. Voting to decriminalize rape and robbery would of course impede on basic rights so you can’t allow it to any extent and of course such propositions would never even be entertained. Dallas is a huge city and the people have spoken.

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FranksGun@reddit

So then how was it even a proposition to vote on in the first place?

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Ruggerx24@reddit

I bet you if that raise when through, they would have had that finished up before the sun was down following the election.

They wonder why their approval is so low….

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nihouma@reddit

TbF, it was just 3 causing issues on this out of the full 15 member body.

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YaGetSkeeted0n@reddit

Per the article the motion to amend it did fail, so at least that’s that

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fbc546@reddit

Why didn’t I get to vote on this on my ballot?

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Newschbury@reddit

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/voters-handed-wrong-ballots-hundreds-ballots-missing-dallas-county-elections-dept/3701528/

Just in case you're being serious, turns out thousands of the wrong ballots were sent to the wrong registered voters.

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fbc546@reddit

I am actually being serious, not sure why I got downvoted, I voted early in Dallas, my ballot was only for president, senator, and like 10 judges, and a couple other random people like railroad commissioner. I even looked up my ballot early and it matched what I was given at the voting booth.

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volatilegtr@reddit

Is your address in the city of Dallas or Dallas county? These ballot measures were only on city of Dallas residents, but not Dallas county.

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fbc546@reddit

Ahhhh that makes sense! Duh

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1notadoctor2@reddit

Wtf??? Why isn’t this more widely reported? Are the out-of-precinct ballots even “valid” votes or just null? Wow

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playballer@reddit

Putin of course

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imperial_scum@reddit

They did the same thing in Denton.

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3DS9@reddit

"WE THE PEOPLE..."

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jmi60@reddit

Dope smokers betrayed by Liberal Dallas; say it isn't so.

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Made_In_Vagina@reddit

I am a proponent of recreational cannabis, and live in a legal state (not Texas; this story showed up in my feed).

While I agree they're probably not doing this out of any sort of good intention, they do make a good point: if it's still illegal state-wide, this is very much a grey area in terms of actually making a legally-defensible action.

So IMO what they should do is simply say "until the state legalized recreational cannabis there is very little we can... except choose to rescind any local laws on the subject, and to not enforce state laws at the local level. You are free to do as you wish, and if you get busted by the state police you're on your own".

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