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It is still better than going through official channels. Most whistleblowers who try to go through official channels, get thrown to the wolves.
How the US govt destroys the lives of whistleblowers. ... and things are getting worse: Obama has persecuted whistleblowers more than any other president.

They better act fast if they want to skirt the law with yeast, while there's still a law to break.

It's still a good idea if you want pure chemicals - yeast can produce chemicals faster (to both grow and purify) than plants. Companies like the one Gov. Johnson is heading up would probably be very interested as a supply source for their refined products.

The trick is medicinal cannabis has something like 250 active compounds. A few years ago everybody assumed that it was only THC that did anything (marinol, for instance). Now they know that CBD is the most active medicinally and Johnson is now talking about CBG as well. There's still more unknown about the others than there is known, so focusing on just a couple pure chemicals might miss out on benefits. Human bodies do a lot of signalling with various cannabinoids and here's this one plant that happens to also grow most of them. It should be a biotech bonanza, except for the crapitalistic reasons politicians try to keep it off the market.

But, um, yeah, get high on THC beer if you want. It would actually probably be a net-benefit for society since people will be satisfied with being less drunk. As a user of the road monopoly, I'd strongly support THC beer on the market.

And then talk about ignoring the constitution by complaining that a law was intended only to help a very small subset of the citizenry and how it got all out of whack by being applied universally. Wow, just wow!

First Amendment rights are intended for only a very small subset of the citizenry??

I think NOT. At least until Reid and the tyrants in the Senate figure out how to pass their new Amendment, and define "the press" as only people holding a federal license to speak, like they keep heading toward with crap like this.

No email archiving? really? Of an IRS director?

Kinda, sorta. This story has more details than any of the others I've seen.

It does appear that the IRS retention policies were in violation of the Federal Records Act. Maybe they'll fire some leaf-node IT guy over it.

here

You lie just as badly as Obama does. Easy to prove you are a liar.

Bonus:
Executive Orders

I can teach you to use Google if you really are too stupid to do it yourself.

Here's another problem. The government can call anybody it wants a terrorist group. This just happened in New Hampshire where the police in official filings called the Free State project "domestic terrorists".

http://benswann.com/police-chief-calls-free-state-project-members-domestic-terrorist/

Free Staters are made up of mostly libertarians who believe in the non-aggression principle. Their stated goal is to secure their liberty by gaining enough critical mass via representation in the standard election process. By any other definition, this would never qualify as terrorism, but that doesn't stop the government.

Yeah, but the rebels don't have nerve gas. Oh, wait.