ammbo

Thanks for doing the AMA, I enjoyed the NYTimes article. Two questions:

1. How did you originally become interested in the subject of marijuana laws?

2. What is your prediction for how the WA / CO laws will pan out with regards to their conflict with federal law?

Every six months or so someone out on the interwebs resubmits my information as a lead to auto loan sites. I'll get a bunch of calls over a 3-6 week span while I am considered an active lead by them. I tracked it down a few years ago and they had a form submission from a foreign IP address. Clearly someone recycles my information and sells it as a lead to legitimate and quasi-legitimate companies.

My question, then: Is there any recourse in a situation like this? After all the companies are acting in good faith, they think it was me that submitted my information to them, so they think they have my consent. Some of these are auto-dialers and are clearly illegal. Can the others claim that they were acting within the bounds of the law to the best of their knowledge and avoid a court loss?

Gotcha, that makes sense. I'll start cataloguing who called and when and if enough of them are from the same company or there is a clear pattern of abuse by a specific entity I can go after them. I assume they would turn around and sue whoever sold them the lead at that point. Failing that, I just block them.

FYI, I created a little app to add numbers with a lot of FCC complaints to a phone contact that you can then block. PM me for the link if you are interested.

You are a complete and utter badass. Thanks for being.