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GeeForSocks t1_j9v3j3s wrote

Reply to comment by Bigfatsmelly in Why is New Hampshire the last state in New England remaining that still has not legalized weed yet? by throwawaypdtm

So, NH state government is protecting us, its citizens, from the federal government coming after our guns on the pretense of our recreational weed usage?

There are plenty of gun valuing states who have legalized recreational weed and I've not heard of any indication that the feds have been using this pretense to snatch people's guns.

I know you're not making this argument, just reporting it, but it's not very convincing with light shining on it. Hell, even in 2017 there were enough states regulating legal weed to understand that the federal government had been taking a handsoff approach with respect to the issue.

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Bigfatsmelly t1_j9v4lsz wrote

>There are plenty of gun valuing states who have legalized recreational weed and I've not heard of any indication that the feds have been using this pretense to snatch people's guns.

That's what I always thought of too, but I'm sure it really comes down to the votes from who we put in the positions of power. The gun laws were always the reason I heard of for weed still being illegal in NH. It sounds like they're in the works of passing a bill now to make it legal recreationally. I mostly just wanted to give some actual information on this in comparison to what 90% of other comments were stating.

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Vomitus_The_Emetic t1_j9ygrzs wrote

Didn't FPSRussia go to prison for weed?

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GeeForSocks t1_ja0i9sh wrote

Looks like yes? I'll admit I'd never heard of this person before you mentioned them. I guess Georgia having not legalized recreational weed didn't really help him out. He may have even been better off had it been legal in the state at the time, though of course I'm just speculating about that.

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