Sending Waiters to Jail for Offering Plastic Straws

The bill has been introduced, it has not been passed. There is a huge difference between introducing and passing a bill. There are completely ridiculous laws like this introduced for vote all the time, but they are very rarely passed.
 
The bill has been introduced, it has not been passed. There is a huge difference between introducing and passing a bill. There are completely ridiculous laws like this introduced for vote all the time, but they are very rarely passed.

It's still astonishing that such a thing would even be proposed. It speaks volumes about the mindset of California leadership. If you can call it that.
 
Thanks to DEMOCRATS, intentionally infecting someone with HIV is no longer a felony in the Beholden State.

That law has been passed, and signed by Governor Moonbeam.

Don't you feel safer now?
 
It's still astonishing that such a thing would even be proposed. It speaks volumes about the mindset of California leadership. If you can call it that.

Eh, it's nothing new. I wouldn't worry about it, that shit will never pass. It's actually not that rare to see astonishingly stupid, ridiculous partisan laws introduced in state governments, sometimes even Congress, only to die before ever getting off the ground. Oftentimes these politicians do it, knowing full well they won't pass, just to appeal to the radical parts of their base. I remember one time there was a bill introduced in Oklahoma assembly that treated any 'waste' of sperm (including masturbation) as a violent act against unborn children. Never passed, for obvious reasons.
 
Eh, it's nothing new. I wouldn't worry about it, that shit will never pass.

Unfortunately for Hippy, his bad trip just commenced.

The California cities of San Luis Obispo and Davis both passed straws-on-request laws last year, and Manhattan Beach maintains a prohibition on all disposable plastics.

The Los Angeles Times has gotten behind the movement, endorsing the laws in an editorial that warned that "repetitive sucking may cause or exacerbate wrinkles on the lips or around the mouth."

Ironically, in California, knowingly infecting someone with HIV is no longer a felony.



https://reason.com/blog/2018/01/25/california-bill-would-criminalize-restau
 
Unfortunately for Hippy, his bad trip just commenced.

Local governments are easy to sway to an extreme view because few people are actually involved in local politics. The most asinine people are able to win local elections. I can cherry-pick radical right-wing town laws all day long too. It's harder to get shit like that passed on a state-wide level.

And I don't get bad trips. Only good vibes over here.
 
Local governments are easy to sway to an extreme view because few people are actually involved in local politics. I can cherry-pick radical right-wing town laws all day long too. It's harder to get shit like that passed on a state-wide level. And I don't get bad trips. Only good vibes over here.

Perhaps you should a) avoid the brown acid and b) educate yourself about the success ratio of laws banning plastic products on the local, state, and national levels - not only here, but internationally.

Remember microbeads? Banned. By federal law, during Obama's Reign of Error.

http://www.planetexperts.com/last-plastic-straw-legislation-can-stop-plastic-pollution/

Please note that I don't necessarily think that plastics are good for the environment. I'd advise you to reconsider making declarative predictions based on (apparently) little knowledge.
 
Perhaps you should a) avoid the brown acid

i don't think you read that correctly. Brown acid (I assume you are referring to the acid passed out at Woodstock 1969) was infamous for giving people bad trips. I've never had one. You usually don't if you get quality acid and are intelligent about where you do it, when you do it, and how much you do.

and b) educate yourself about the success ratio of laws banning plastic products on the local, state, and national levels - not only here, but internationally.

Remember microbeads? Banned. By federal law, during Obama's Reign of Error.

http://www.planetexperts.com/last-plastic-straw-legislation-can-stop-plastic-pollution/

Please note that I don't necessarily think that plastics are good for the environment. I'd advise you to reconsider making declarative predictions based on (apparently) little knowledge.

Not sure that's on the same level as 6 months jailtime for offering plastic straws. And there were legitimate health concerns with microbeads infecting water supplies, as they're small enough to get past town water filters.
 
Not sure that's on the same level as 6 months jailtime for offering plastic straws.

If you're "not sure that's on the same level as 6 months jailtime for offering plastic straws", perhaps you should consider what the penalties for violation are before commenting.

Please, go on predicting that such laws won't pass, even though you're been shown that they already have.

BTW, I agree that we shouldn't be putting plastic into our soil, air, water and bodies, so I don't, if I can avoid it.
 
If you're "not sure that's on the same level as 6 months jailtime for offering plastic straws", perhaps you should consider what the penalties for violation are before commenting.

Please, go on predicting that such laws won't pass, even though you're been shown that they already have.

BTW, I agree that we shouldn't be putting plastic into our soil, air, water and bodies, so I don't, if I can avoid it.

As I said, there were legitimate health concerns about microbeads infecting the water supplies. And there's no jail time involved in that law, only a civil penalty.

So no. Not on the same level. At all. Try again.
 
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