Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, the Democratic leader behind the state’s redistricting effort, was arrested Thursday in connection with an alleged bribery and racketeering scheme.

In a 45-page indictment filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, Lucas and six co-defendants were charged with conspiring to distribute and possess marijuana, conspiring to launder money, laundering money, and committing bribery by distributing large quantities of illegal marijuana under the auspices of her legal medical cannabis business.

Lucas, an 82-year-old great-grandmother, has served in the Virginia Senate since 1992. She faces five of the eight charges included in the indictment. These charges arrive five months after the FBI raided Lucas’s office in Portsmouth, Virginia, and the neighboring cannabis dispensary she co-owns.

More fascist BS.

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[–] 75 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Jesus fucking christ why can't we move past this fucking reagon era bullshit... Fuck these fascists

Edit: I forgor the s

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  • [–] 20 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Nixon era. Federal enforcement got started with the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, which deemed cannabis a Schedule 1 drug. The Nixon admin also buried the Shafer Commission report, which said cannabis was not dangerous. The reason was Nixon wanted to target blacks and the anti-war left.

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  • Thanks for the info! I mentally conflated the marijuana crackdown with the crack stuff that Reagon sponsored later on with the "Anti Drug Abuse Act of 1986". I would correct my comment but someone responded with a funny picture that would be out of context if I swapped in Nixon. ;p

    As a side note: I don't think it's wholly disingenuous to attribute this kind of rediculous chicanery with Reagan, given that Reagan took Nixon's inertia and ran with it, going the extra mile to fuck over poor black people in particular.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago*

    1950s actually, never got past woman should be in kitchens, or barely able to vote, and POc/minorities knowing their "place." today there was an article where trump sent agents to PEOPLEs home asking who they voted, very PUTINY THING to do.

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