Let me relate one story about living in the south. A long time neighbor, who attends the largest baptist church near me, called me to recruit my help. It was a normal neighborly call and I thought it was about a chicken-que. But it turned out to be a rallying call to get everyone she could to go to a meeting and root out what she called "the gay liberals" who wanted to volunteer at the local fire department.
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I gasped something like "we can't do that!" She laughed and said why not? This is what she and other members of this church believe. Book bans, anti critical race theory. etc. etc. Their pastor gives political endorsements from pulpit. They hold three services every sunday and its a huge congregation. Its typical here. I hope it isn't other places
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@CinnamonGirlE This is my experience in the south too. The huge church near me had a giant Trump cardboard man they proudly displayed whereas my last trip to NY I saw a rainbow flag on a church.

@MidnightRider @CinnamonGirlE

There is rainbow flag on a church in Asheville. We are a blue island floating in a sea of red.

@LnzyHou @MidnightRider @CinnamonGirlE

I don't live in Austin, TX, but I think they feel the same way!

20 yrs ago when I move to WV it was solid blue.That included 2 US Sens. 2 of 3 US Congresspersons, State Governor & Legislature. JFK & Eleanor Roosevelt were there heroes!

Now I feel like the Island. I make sure to put each and every Progressive & Dem yard sign up all along my large curing lot that ppl have to pass by on their way to drop & pick up kids from Elem. & Mid. School!

@Gladari @MidnightRider @CinnamonGirlE

I have not seen a single trump sign in Asheville. But lots of Kennedy the nutjob signs.

Keep putting up your signs!

@LnzyHou @Gladari @CinnamonGirlE Legalize cannabis, Asheville only. You'll see more rest of the state pearl clutching than lucky Oyster shuckers.

@MidnightRider @Gladari @CinnamonGirlE

If only.

@LnzyHou @Gladari @CinnamonGirlE Well the commercial with the campfire and kumbaya singing is false advertising! Who goes to the wood at a bonfire without a doobie! 😂

@MidnightRider @LnzyHou @Gladari @CinnamonGirlE

Hence the Bigfoot sightings

@YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari @CinnamonGirlE We have a pinball museum partner! OK Microbrewery, cool walkable town, pinball museum, cannabis desert. One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong....

@MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari
Untrue! What would be better than walking around Asheville after a cannabis dessert, visiting the microbrewery and pinball museum?

@CinnamonGirlE @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari What would be better? A legal dispensary for adults who worked their entire lives, won't drive after and want to have fun before the rest home, is that too much to ask?

@MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari
You know I don't think so. Does anyone know of a place like this?

@CinnamonGirlE @Gladari @LnzyHou @YouInMyEye @MidnightRider Its legal in Illinois and we have 3 dispensaries close to me. If you have a medical reason you can also grow your own here and purchase at dispensaries with no taxes, recreational purchases can be as high as a 30% tax on things like vape cartridges.

@Lucky188 @Gladari @LnzyHou @YouInMyEye @MidnightRider
It's for sure I landed in the wrong place.

@CinnamonGirlE @MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari If we manage a Seante and House Majority when Biden wins in Nov, he mentioned making some changes to its schedule at #SOTU. It has also come up on from Democrats in DC that it should be legal on the federal level.

@Lucky188 @MidnightRider @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari
Of course it should be. Both medically and recreationally. 🤞

@CinnamonGirlE @Lucky188 @YouInMyEye @LnzyHou @Gladari Prohibition 2.0, cannabis is everywhere, the only thing the Feds are accomplishing is making some states smoke "moonshine" quality smoke while the more enlightened states are getting Angel's Envy.

@MidnightRider @Gladari @LnzyHou @YouInMyEye @CinnamonGirlE The reason for the prohibition gets back to money. Pharma doesn't want people to self medicate - effective or not there is no profit in that. The other reason is more insidious, if its legal we wont keep the for profit prisons full. When Sessions was AG he had it rescheduled to the same level as Cocaine and Heroin. This increases sentences greatly. Sessions personal fortune is invested in Prisons for profit.