Oakland Shootings.

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48 mass shootings so far in 2023 (4 or more people shot, including the perpetrator when applicable) though that number may have changed by the time you read this. https://massshootingtracker.site/

The  problem there is that there is really no standard definition for "mass shooting", so the estiamtes are all over the map. During this spate of violence, I have seen estimates ranging between 4 and 48, all in articles about the same shootings. it depends on who is doing the counting, and how badly they want to tweak emotions, just how they define "mass shooting".

True, but at least that site conforms to their own definition that AFAIK all shootings they list conform to it. Not even the FBI has a clear definition, I looked and it varies, alot. 

Calif Senate Bill 58 if passed will legalize magic mushrooms.

Well, to be honest, they DO have some application in psychiatric medicine, but California is going about it all wrong in their charge to legalize everything. THEY are the ones leaving the door open to Cartels and Black Market drug sales by the way they haphazardly invoke and administrate their laws. They charge far too much tax on their legal drug sales, which leaves the door open for cartels to undercut legal outlets price-wise. The net result of that is that a black market is flourishing in California, one they cannot get under control. 

Virginia is following the same track. There is a whopping 24% tax on legal marijuana here, which is also going to leave the door open for "entrepreneurs" to undercut weed prices of legal sales. To make it even worse, they have legalized both medical and recreational use, but have granted NO legal retail outlet for recreational cannabis, meaning that you can posses up to an ounce in public, but there is no legal way to get that ounce into your possession. That is a recipe for creating black markets. You can legally grow up to 4 plants here, but there is no legal avenue for buying seed to grow it.

Laws are just all over the board almost everywhere, and make no logical sense. They are frequently contradictory, and there is no provision for legally doing what they make legal, which is a paradox that leads to a thriving black market.

I think Missouri, of all states, has made the most logical sense of their cannabis laws. They ratified an amendment to their state constitution making it legal, and are keeping taxation on it at a reasonable rate of 6%. I'd bet dollars against donuts that Missouri makes more tax revenue in their first 6 months of sales than either Virginia or California have made in the entire time since they legalized.  You can't collect taxes - neither high taxes nor low ones - on illegal sales, and they are screwing the pooch on legal sales.

What will you bet that they do the same haphazard crap to magic mushroom sales as they did to cannabis sales?

It's like they aren't even trying, and are just giving gifts to black marketeers, cartel and otherwise. The cartels will of course step in with their own "enforcement" where the state fails to do so. it's just good business, eh?

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Agree certain shrooms have positive medicinal benefits, but like you mentioned above plus the growing black market & in this woke society coupled with the big business political parasites that see nothing but $$$ it will of course usher in all kinds of new problems. The same with Oregon. Hell the whole West coast might as well carve itself off into the deep sea, but everyone will be fully sedated and not even notice they're drowning.