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Home Front: Politix

Detroit voters OK reparations and decriminalize magic mushrooms

2021-11-04

[Just The News] Detroiters showed out on Nov. 2 to approve a committee to pursue reparations for African Americans, decriminalize some hallucinogens, and reject a proposal to give residents more control over city spending.

PROPOSAL R
AKA: "Gimme some damn money!"
More than 72,000 voters approved Proposal R to study reparations, with nearly 18,000 voting against it. Proposal R will create a city reparations committee to recommend housing and economic development programs for Black Detroiters. On June 15, 2021, the Detroit City Council unanimously passed a resolution that "establishes a reparations process to, within the next year, develop short, medium and long term recommendations to specifically address the creation of generational wealth and to boost economic mobility and opportunity in the black community." The committee will study the effect of reparations, who it would affect, how it’d be funded, and more.

PROPOSAL E
More than 53,000 people voted for Proposal E, with over 34,000 opposing it. Proposal E will decriminalize entheogenic plants’ possession and therapeutic use. Entheogenic plants include psilocybin mushrooms, peyote, and iboga. The measure’s success means that police will treat adult use and possession of entheogenic plants among the lowest law-enforcement priorities.

Some believe psychedelics hold medicinal benefits, especially for life-threatening diseases. A John Hopkins randomized, double-blind study found "Psilocybin produces substantial and sustained decreases in depression and anxiety in patients with life-threatening cancer."

"High-dose psilocybin produced large decreases in clinician- and self-rated measures of depressed mood and anxiety, along with increases in quality of life, life meaning, and optimism, and decreases in death anxiety," the study found. "At 6-month follow-up, these changes were sustained, with about 80% of participants continuing to show clinically significant decreases in depressed mood and anxiety."

Posted by:Besoeker

#6 Only the business owners might end up paid in toadstools...

Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-11-04 17:03

#5 PIMs (Payment-In-Mushrooms)

Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-11-04 16:18

#4 So they're going to repay business owners who were destroyed by the ghettofication of the city?

Posted by: Rob Crawford 2021-11-04 13:52

#3 Give 'em enough magic mushrooms and they'll forget about reparations.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-11-04 12:00

#2 The Tytler quote:

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.

Posted by: trailing wife 2021-11-04 11:31

#1 a city reparations committee to recommend housing and economic development programs for Black Detroiters

Is there any other kind of Detroiter today?

Blacks demanding reparations from ... blacks is the equivalent of the Irish demanding that the Irish government apologize for the Famine

Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-11-04 07:48

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