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##  [SF144 - Important Bills to Watch 2023](https://wyliberty.org/blog/political-perspectives/sf144-important-bills-to-watch-2023)

  Friday, 03 February 2023

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SF144, better known as Chloe's Law, is an essential piece of legislation for Wyoming. This video is footage from this morning's Senate Labor, Health &amp; Social Services meeting. The bill passed the committee unanimously. If SF144 passes into law, it will prohibit physicians from performing procedures for children related to gender transitioning a...

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##  [SF111 - Important Bills to Watch 2023](https://wyliberty.org/blog/political-perspectives/sf111-important-bills-to-watch-2023)

  Thursday, 02 February 2023

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Another critical bill to watch as it progresses through the 2023 Wyoming legislative session. Testimony in this video took place on Friday, January 27th, when it passed the committee in a 3-2-0-0-0 vote. It has since passed the third reading in the Senate with a 22-9-0-0-0 vote and was received for introduction in the House on 2-2-23.

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##  [Important Bills to Watch - SF174](https://wyliberty.org/blog/political-perspectives/important-bills-to-watch-sf174)

  Thursday, 02 February 2023

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Charter schools can positively impact every community. It should be an easy process. SF174 is an important bill to follow and there are great pieces of testimony from this meeting. To read the bill click here.

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##  [HB0091 - News Source Shield Law](https://wyliberty.org/blog/economic/hb0091-news-source-shield-law)

  Thursday, 26 January 2023

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Video footage is from the House Minerals, Business and Economic Development meeting held on January 25, 2023. Be sure to watch as legislators ask important questions about this bill. House Bill 91, a "news source shield law" that is now before the Wyoming Legislature, relies on a narrower definition, and would prevent the government from forcing in...

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##  [Important Bills to Watch - HB0070](https://wyliberty.org/blog/education/important-bills-to-watch-hb0070)

  Wednesday, 25 January 2023

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Kids deserve the chance to learn in whatever environment serves them best. This is a big step for homeschooling in Wyoming. Be sure to watch the progress of HB0070.

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##  [Medicaid Expansion, It’s Back in Legislation for Consideration Again?](https://wyliberty.org/blog/health-care/medicaid-expansion-it-s-back-in-legislation-for-consideration-again)

  Thursday, 19 January 2023

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Let your Legislators Know, No Way do I support the Expansion of Government-Run Healthcare. It will expand a federally regulated, unrealistic fee schedule based on the presumption that healthcare systems and facilities can operate for next to nothing. It will deny benefits to a small group of disabled and critically impoverished people and cre...

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##  [Essential Information on HB0004 - Medicaid Twelve Month Postpartum Coverage](https://wyliberty.org/blog/health-care/essential-information-on-hb0004-medicaid-twelve-month-postpartum-coverage)

  Wednesday, 18 January 2023

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##  [“News Source Shield Law” Treats Journalists as a Special Interest](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/news-source-shield-law-treats-journalists-as-a-special-interest)

  Monday, 16 January 2023

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By Steve Klein The Merriam-Webster Dictionary entry for "journalism" begins with two terse, distinct definitions: "a: the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media\[;\] b: the public press\[.\]" Under the First Amendment, the protection of "the freedom of . . . the press" appropriately tracks the first, broader definition. Ameri...

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##  [Scromiting Stories from the ER](https://wyliberty.org/blog/marijuana-thc/scromiting-stories-from-the-er)

  Thursday, 12 January 2023

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Dr. Brad Roberts describes his day-to-day experiences in a Colorado hospital emergency room with marijuana cases.

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##  [More campaign finance laws and penalties will clean up politics?](https://wyliberty.org/blog/legal-perspectives/more-campaign-finance-laws-and-penalties-will-clean-up-politics)

  Friday, 28 October 2022

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Too many pundits and politicians insist that more campaign finance laws and penalties will clean up politics and inspire broader participation. But the efforts by established interests to punish the Coal Country Conservatives PAC for their successful grassroots effort in Campbell County shows that campaign finance law can be the dirtiest political ...

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##  [Robert Troyer - Part 11: You Invited Us Here](https://wyliberty.org/blog/government-programs/robert-troyer-part-11-you-invited-us-here)

  Wednesday, 12 October 2022

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Organized crime and international run crime operations from Mexico and China are blending into the culture of legalization of marijuana. Make no mistake it creates a State problem of law enforcement and illegality run along side inadequate state laws and state funds to manage. It costs more and it doesn't eliminate the state funding problems. In fa...

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##  [Robert Troyer - Part 10: CBD and THC Differences](https://wyliberty.org/blog/government-programs/robert-troyer-part-10-cbd-and-thc-differences)

  Wednesday, 12 October 2022

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CBD not marijuana has FDA approved drugs for epilepsy that helps a very small population of epileptics. CBD however, can be grown without regulation and has the propensity to grow with a THC component. Both CBD and Marijuana have no consistent testing for THC potency's that can effect people in different ways. To say Medical marijuana is a hype pro...

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##  [Robert Troyer - Part 9: THC Potency](https://wyliberty.org/blog/keep-wyoming-strong/robert-troyer-part-9-thc-potency)

  Wednesday, 12 October 2022

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No joke, THC potency's are greater than ever. By in large this comparison should give every concerned person pause. A drug not vetted by the FDA, as dangerous as alcohol and other illicit drugs being distributed as a natural harmless substance for whatever ails you. Wake up compromise-rs and stop pretending this is a great funding idea.

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##  [Robert Troyer - Part 8: As the Industry Grows](https://wyliberty.org/blog/keep-wyoming-strong/robert-troyer-part-8-as-the-industry-grows)

  Wednesday, 12 October 2022

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The marijuana culture doesn't change its outcomes as it grows. Mental health issues are prevalent in chronic users, those users don't produce and consequentially mental health and enforcement services get overburden with the poor prospects of rehabilitation, especially of younger male addicts. Guess what, the bigger investors ore the cities a...

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##  [Robert Troyer - Part 7: THC Retail Locations](https://wyliberty.org/blog/keep-wyoming-strong/robert-troyer-part-7-thc-retail-locations-1)

  Wednesday, 12 October 2022

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The new drug dealers are expanding as legitimately and in more retail locations than McDonalds and Starbucks combined. Kids see it and think its safe and legal and available. The state laws require dispensaries when you plant marijuana, they force the expansion with the laws and regulations they created. Now, the state can't oversee its own r...

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##  [Robert Troyer - Part 6: THC in Education](https://wyliberty.org/blog/keep-wyoming-strong/robert-troyer-part-6-thc-in-education)

  Wednesday, 12 October 2022

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Long term studies in the effects of THC on infants and younger children have always indicated major deficiencies in IQ and emotional intelligence. The less developed the brain, the more catastrophic the effects of THC. So with the advent of normalization of THC use we have gummies, vapes, vapes that look like school supplies, and guess what? Exactl...

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##  [MEDICINE AND NUCLEAR POWER](https://wyliberty.org/blog/keep-wyoming-strong/medicine-and-nuclear-power)

  Wednesday, 28 September 2022

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This fact sheet is produced by the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. It is important for our Legislators in WY and the public at large to be informed about the realities of nuclear energy. The promises of green funding by our ever expanding federal green policies are not viable programs for the State of WY to take a risk. Nuclear react...

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##  [Robert Troyer - Part 5: Let Reality Set In](https://wyliberty.org/blog/keep-wyoming-strong/robert-troyer-part-5-let-reality-set-in)

  Wednesday, 28 September 2022

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Let reality and reason begin to inform policy in Wyoming. Colorado and other legalized Marijuana States are only now beginning to see the big flaws in law enforcement, healthcare issues, and bottom-line buy-ins that marijuana is the best healer of pain. It's dope, folks. It affects people more adversely than proven FDA healthful uses. It's hype, a ...

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##  [Robert Troyer - Part 4: Financially a Bad Deal](https://wyliberty.org/blog/keep-wyoming-strong/robert-troyer-part-4-financially-a-bad-deal)

  Wednesday, 28 September 2022

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Stop pretending marijuana legalization will bring in a bounty of funding. Legal, emotional, and transparent cost analysis problems are ignored in favor of a stoner's vision of good things to come. We know this. Why are our Legislators ignoring the tangible problems and reality of costs to our communities?

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##  [Robert Troyer - Part 3: Welcoming a Criminal Empire](https://wyliberty.org/blog/keep-wyoming-strong/robert-troyer-part-3-welcoming-a-criminal-empire)

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Whether or not federal legalization of marijuana happens, (the federal government is inviting criminals into our country daily) our State will have to realize legalization does not stop the growth of illegal operations. These criminals can hide behind inefficient and ambiguous laws and rights which increase prosecution costs and incarceration costs...

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