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(Look at what those drug crazed pot dealers are up to now): Marijuana Company Donates 1 Million Meals To Needy Californians

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 8:51am

OMG! This can’t be true. We all know pot smokers and dealers are nothing but Cheeto-munching burnouts who have no respect for ‘the law’ and want to destroy America. Just ask our idiot Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. /s

Marijuana Company Donates 1 Million Meals To Needy Californians

Bloom Farms, a California cannabis company, has donated 1 million meals as part of its corporate social responsibility program.

For every product purchased, Bloom Farms gives the equivalent of one meal to a state food bank. “Donating our one-millionth meal shows that we’re succeeding for our customers, who have purchased one million of our products and appreciate that we are working toward the greater good, and for California’s most vulnerable families who have received the gift of nutritious food,” CEO Michael Ray said in a statement announcing the news

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For Ray, the cause of food insecurity is a personal one. California’s child food insecurity rate is about 20 percent – one in five children don’t get enough to eat. Some of Ray’s childhood friends were drawn to his home for meals. The problem hit home once he got older and started hearing statistics about food insecurity in the state: “I realized there is a high likelihood that my family friends were from food-insecure families,” said Ray.

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An increasing number of cannabis companies have been stepping up their social responsibility efforts. Cannabis producer CannaCraft hosted about 200 Red Cross volunteers at its headquarters during the Northern California wild fires last year. Cannabis-focused charities have also been cropping up, donating medical marijuana to terminally ill patients and veterans.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/monazhang/2018/01/31/marijuana-company-dona...

Oh my stars, this ought to make old Jeff’s bowels go all runny, the little creep:

San Francisco Just Gave Jeff Sessions' War on Drugs the Middle Finger

In the wake of California's historic move to legalize recreational marijuana, the city of San Francisco is taking an unprecedented step in criminal justice reform: District Attorney George Gascón announced Wednesday that the city would be retroactively applying the new law to clear thousands of convictions going back to 1975.

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Of course, this move isn't likely to sit well with Jeff Session, who's fighting to push the U.S. back into the failed War on Drugs. Sessions has no respect for states' rights or legal precedent when they interfere with him criminalizing minorities, but the Department of Justice doesn't have any ability to stop state-level officials from expunging state-level crimes. Still, he often struggles with understanding exactly how courts work, so there's no telling how he might try to meddle.

https://www.gq.com/story/san-francisco-sessions-middle-finger

This is going to get very interesting. It shoves Jeffie’s hardline tactics right up his wazoo.

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Submitted by eyo on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 9:47am

Don't forget to ring Jimmy Dore's bell!

and don't say "Pavlov" Hahaha! Quote forbes and gc why not. Incoming...

"crazed pot dealers" What's next to come from the BIGCannabis marketeering speakers matrix? B Corporations? Yeah, sell millenials a "socially responsible" death culture of capitalist greed. CHARITY for the win! Win win! lol Anything except fair wages and affordable housing. Ssh don't say drought, or that you can't eat a buzz crop. That would be really bad.

Cannabis-focused charities have also been cropping up, donating medical marijuana to terminally ill patients and veterans.

New California D-Values, same as the old neoliberal profit machinery, look at bad Jeffy while we rape what's left of the planet. Charity is so fucking good, don't forget to ring the bell! Ding!

Submitted by Meteor Man on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 11:28am

Dope Crazed Bastards!

They are as treasonous and unamerican as The Black Panthers:

In Oakland, the Black Panthers brought a new message of self-determination. The message caught on and their programs quickly spread to black communities across the country, tired of waiting to be saved or treated with equity.

By the end of 1969, the Black Panthers were serving full free breakfasts (including milk, bacon, eggs, grits, and toast) to 20,000 school aged children in 19 cities around the country, and in 23 local affiliates every school day.

http://theplate.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/04/the-black-panthers-rev...

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

Submitted by eyo on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 11:43am

That's all ya got, 1969?

@Meteor Man c'mon brother, Black Panthers had no CEO skimming profits for investors in 1969. Not sure how you compare a militant street feeding movement of black radicals, with 2018 Corporate Food Bank donators. ~shrug~ different strokes

I'm teasing y'all about the Jimmy Dore bell, he still cracks me up bigly. Right now he's destroying Bernie's slim chances for 2020, and that's fine with me too I guess. Dump the plutocracy. good luck

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 12:39pm

And THAT is what put David Rice and

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Edward Poindexter in prison for life.

David Rice (1947 – March 11, 2016) (also known as Mondo we Langa) and Edward Poindexter were charged and convicted of the murder of Omaha Police Officer Larry Minard. Minard died when a suitcase bomb containing dynamite exploded in a North Omaha home on August 17, 1970. Officer John Tess was also injured in the explosion. Rice died on March 11, 2016. He was 68 years old and had been in poor health.

Poindexter and Rice had been members of the Black Panther Party, and their case was, and continues to be, controversial. The Omaha Police recommended withholding exculpatory evidence, a tape of a 911 call, from being played at the trial. The two men had been targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program), which operated against and infiltrated anti-war and Civil Rights groups, including the Omaha Black Panthers.[1] Amnesty International has been following the case and recommended a retrial or release for Rice and Poindexter.[2] The state's parole board have recommended the men for release, but political leaders have not acted on these recommendations

Rice and Poindexter Edit

David Rice was born in Omaha in 1947, graduated from Creighton Preparatory School and took courses at Creighton University. Both are Catholic institutions of learning. He wrote for the local underground paper, Buffalo Chip, from 1969 to 1970 and was a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP). He played guitar at Holy Family Roman Catholic Church, a center of progressive activism in the 1960s and 1970s under the pastorate of Fr. John McCaslin. Rice also ran a breakfast program for inner-city youth and was a well-known community activist. At the time of his death on March 12, 2016 David Rice/Mondo we Langa was a published poet and playwright. Even writing from prison, he had become a major voice for justice and the arts in Nebraska.

Ed Poindexter was born in Omaha in 1944. He is a Vietnam War veteran. Like Rice, Poindexter was a community activist in North Omaha and a delegate to the 1968 county Democratic convention. He has published books on self-esteem and has worked on educating and motivating prison inmates who are near release. In the late 1970s, he transferred to prison in Minnesota to earn a master's degree, and transferred back to Nebraska in 2006.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice/Poindexter_case

They did not kill Officer Larry Minard. They were simply getting too big for the britches that this place thought they should wear.

Oh look! I jhijacked my own thread.

EDIT: Menard/Minard

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

Submitted by Meteor Man on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 2:38pm

Feeding Homeless Is A Crime

@Amanda Matthews
The LAPD and Southern California cops in general have been targeting good people feeding us for decades:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=feeding+homeless+crime

Sitting or lying down is a crime:

The Western Regional Advocacy Project conducts street outreach and has surveyed thousands of homeless people in California since 2010. The results are staggering: More than four of five of homeless people report having been harassed, cited or arrested for sleeping in public. Nearly that many have been punished for sitting or lying down.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0216-boden-california-vagranc...

I spent two days in L.A. County jail for sitting down. L.A. Municipal Ordinance 41.18(d) specifically targeting homeless Americans was enacted in 1968.

#2 #2 #2 #2 Edward Poindexter in prison for life. David Rice (1947 – March 11, 2016) (also known as Mondo we Langa) and Edward Poindexter were charged and convicted of the murder of Omaha Police Officer Larry Minard. Minard died when a suitcase bomb containing dynamite exploded in a North Omaha home on August 17, 1970. Officer John Tess was also injured in the explosion. Rice died on March 11, 2016. He was 68 years old and had been in poor health. Poindexter and Rice had been members of the Black Panther Party, and their case was, and continues to be, controversial. The Omaha Police recommended withholding exculpatory evidence, a tape of a 911 call, from being played at the trial. The two men had been targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program), which operated against and infiltrated anti-war and Civil Rights groups, including the Omaha Black Panthers.[1] Amnesty International has been following the case and recommended a retrial or release for Rice and Poindexter.[2] The state's parole board have recommended the men for release, but political leaders have not acted on these recommendations Rice and Poindexter Edit David Rice was born in Omaha in 1947, graduated from Creighton Preparatory School and took courses at Creighton University. Both are Catholic institutions of learning. He wrote for the local underground paper, Buffalo Chip, from 1969 to 1970 and was a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP). He played guitar at Holy Family Roman Catholic Church, a center of progressive activism in the 1960s and 1970s under the pastorate of Fr. John McCaslin. Rice also ran a breakfast program for inner-city youth and was a well-known community activist. At the time of his death on March 12, 2016 David Rice/Mondo we Langa was a published poet and playwright. Even writing from prison, he had become a major voice for justice and the arts in Nebraska. Ed Poindexter was born in Omaha in 1944. He is a Vietnam War veteran. Like Rice, Poindexter was a community activist in North Omaha and a delegate to the 1968 county Democratic convention. He has published books on self-esteem and has worked on educating and motivating prison inmates who are near release. In the late 1970s, he transferred to prison in Minnesota to earn a master's degree, and transferred back to Nebraska in 2006. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice/Poindexter_case They did not kill Officer Larry Minard. They were simply getting too big for the britches that this place thought they should wear. Oh look! I jhijacked my own thread. EDIT: Menard/Minard

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

Submitted by Ellen North on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 3:53pm

@Meteor Man Sending hugs.

@Meteor Man

Sending hugs.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Submitted by Meteor Man on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 5:02pm

Well I Kinda Asked For It

@Ellen North
One LAPD Sargent did not find my sign amusing:

Sargent ~~Deleted~~ Is An Ignorant Fucktard

That was because he gave my neighbor, a 71 year old woman, a ticket for sitting down in her wheelchair. Of course the ticket said she was "sitting down under a shade canopy", which was true.

My buddy Bikeman and I helped her get to court for a mandatory hearing. Judge Byrd informed everyone that he lacked the authority to dismiss any tickets and they had to (1.) plead guilty and pay the fine or (2.) plead not guilty and get a trial date.

Gramma Shirley's ticket was the last case called. Judge Byrd watched Gramma get up from her wheelchair and struggle to stand up at the podium and dismissed her ticket.

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

Submitted by Ellen North on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 5:58pm

@Meteor Man

@Meteor Man

Well, I think that was pretty mild, considering. Glad that the Judge was at least reasonable there, but considering that the sort of people buying the law are the sort of people draining the American people, you'd think they'd at least let the people they helped make homeless sit on their own public streets...

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 4:34pm

I’m so sorry. I have never been able to

@Meteor Man

understand how homelessness and hunger could be ‘criminalized’. There is something very very wrong with a society that punishes the poor, homeless, or hungry in that manner. I believe when it reaches that point it deserves to be eliminated. It has no ethics, no morals, or human decency.

And we think this is such a great country.

I wonder if the 1% realizes that if they eliminate all the plebs, they will be forced to turn on rach other?

There will be a day of reckoning.

Doomsday Prep for the Super-RicH

An armed guard stands at the entrance of the Survival Condo Project, a former missile silo north of Wichita, Kansas, that has been converted into luxury apartments for people worried about the crackup of civilization

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/dooms...

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

Submitted by Meteor Man on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 4:50pm

One Small Problem

@Amanda Matthews
A couple of years ago I read an article about what probably happens after Doomsday hits. The armed guards, plumbers and electricians realize the "owners/bosses" are dead weight who contribute nothing to community survival.

BAMM! BAMM! Deadweight Bosses are creamated. The security guards, plumbers and electricians pop open the liquor cabinet and party like it's 1999.

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 5:03pm

I could see that happening. Once they figure out they’re

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nothing more to the ‘elites’ than a low level labor pool, I doubt the skilled will tolerate the parasites for long.

EDIT: the usual typos and poor grammar

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

Submitted by Ellen North on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 3:47pm

How evil of the evil pot

How evil of the evil pot industry to buy food for the hungry, while laws are being passed against feeding the starving homeless by far-sighted politicians in various areas, who simply want to reduce the excess US population as more and more hit the bottom 20% and no longer have any blood left for the top fraction of that all-essential 1% to suck out. Making them useless non-eaters, which is much more satisfactory for The Psychopaths That Be. Ya know, Those Who Actually Matter.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Submitted by eyo on Fri, 02/02/2018 - 6:23am

They're not actually "buying food for the hungry"

@Ellen North they are donating to the broken Food Bank system of distribution. It's unhealthy (too much salt and sugar, but notice the bright red tomatoes in that PR photo) and unfair. Food banks are an industry of their own now, unwilling to give up the support jobs they've scratched to get.

Charity "donations" prop up the Grocery Industry first and foremost (cough Koch cough). Do people really believe that a cannabis (or any) corporation would donate anything if it did not benefit investors first and foremost? Hint: this is the problem, it is trickle down economics. The least one can do.

Tax write-offs for the investor class is part of the dysfunctional economy, in my view. How 'bout they RAISE WAGES and BUILD HOUSING for their workers, has "Bloom" done that? They sure hired Public Relations to tell that rags to riches story. gimme a bucket

I lashed out in my first comment 'cause I'd just spent time offline, on the street with Magenta and Ray. I came back really wanting to punch up, waaay up. We have dozens of cannabis companies not doing shit around here. Show me one homeless, hungry owner of cannabis stock. Just one, please.

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