If you can't state your proposition at least as clearly, concisely and compellingly as the opposing side can state theirs, you're on dangerous ground.
So it was fitting that on January 1st, 420 days after Coloradans awoke to discover that, along with Washington state, theirs had become the first jurisdiction in the world to vote to remove the criminal prohibition on recreational marijuana, around 40 state-licensed pot shops flung open their doors to all-comers.
California has had one since 1947, but most states started theirs in the 1990s.
Amazon has publicly stated that their position is that a license is not required for a service such as theirs.
If the bottlers win, some say that they'll be back in two years to overturn the entire redemption system, and then onto the other nine states, overturning theirs, all in the name of protecting their billions of dollars in profits.
It happened over decades, as new states entering the union adopted new and more democratic constitutions and old states revised theirs to eliminate property requirements for voting and to call for more direct and frequent elections.
In some states that meat is drowned in melted butter (a la Conneticut style) and other states toss theirs with mayonnaise and season with paprika or celery salt (Maine style).
A more useful example may come from here in the U.S. ― specifically, Maryland, the one state that held on to its hospital pricing system even as the rest of the states dropped theirs.
Let us put our own house in order before lecturing anyone else about the state of theirs.
(AP) CONNECTICUT CONNECTICUT: $270 MILLION UNCLAIMED -- Residents can use the Internet to see if any of $270 million in unclaimed assets held by the state is theirs.
The governors of Washington and Rhode Island petitioned the federal government on Wednesday to reclassify marijuana as a drug with accepted medical uses, saying the change is needed so states like theirs, which have decriminalized marijuana for medical purposes, can regulate the safe distribution of the drug without risking federal prosecution.
