Kaliko Castille

If you care about an industry that centers communities most impacted by cannabis prohibition and the small entrepreneurs that made the cannabis industry possible, I need you to understand that this is our Empire Strikes Back moment.

There have been millions of dollars put into a PR campaign over the last few years aimed at convincing everyone that SIII is progress and good for small operators.

But what if this stalled out any further momentum at the federal level now that w**d is no longer Schedule 1?

Having taken a decent amount of lobbying meetings in the halls of Congress over the years, I can tell you it was easy to get folks to understand the lunacy of Schedule 1 — I’m not convinced it will be as easy when you are explaining the nuances of 5 schedules and all the drugs in each category.

At some point in the doldrums of desperation, the cannabis industry led by Dutchie/Trulieve and others, lost the plot. It’s the only reason anyone could celebrate a policy shift as “rational” that doesn’t end a single arrest or make a single business legal at the federal level.

I’ve been quiet for a while but looks like we need to start reorganizing the rebels on Endor.

Congresswoman Janelle Bynum's vote for the Laken Riley Act wrote Trump a blank check that ICE is cashing at the expense of her immigrant constituents.



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Did you know that Congresswoman Janelle Bynum was only Oregon Democrat to vote for the Laken Riley Act — a law that lets ICE detain people on accusation, before any conviction?

Just months after this vote that threw her immigrant constituents under the bus, Frank Miranda, a U.S. citizen from Milwaukie, got thrown in an unmarked van by masked agents and held at Portland’s ICE facility for hours. No charges. No explanation.

Bynum called it “kidnapping.” She called it “racist.”

She was right.

So why did she vote for the law that made it easier?

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