Rolling Cannabis Politics Thread

http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/22/barney-frank-and-ron-paul-will

the bill is going nowhere of course but i love the dialog at least

amen

it's so great that this is being introduced and makes me very hopeful about reform/decriminalization/legalization movements, but such a bummer to even hear Barney Frank admit it has no chance of passing primarily bc legislators are way behind popular opinion. it's one thing when the people want something regressive or reactionary. another when there's broad popular appeal for particular policies and a disconnect between that popular opinion and legislation.

http://www.rmcortes.com/books/jury/Jury-Illustrated.pdf

NYers, read: http://www.freedomisgreen.com/advocates-battle-clock-for-new-york-marijuana-bill-2/

This bill ("Relates to standardizing penalties associated with marijuana possession"):

http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/A7620-2011

This bill will accomplish what legislators originally intended when they decriminalized marijuana in 1977: keeping people out of the criminal justice system for posessing small amounts of marijuana. It will also ingnite our support to bring the fight to the NY Senate and pass the bill there next session.

Please call Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s office at 518-455-3791 and ask him to schedule bill A. 7620 for a floor vote before the session ends. Getting it passed this session will make it more likely it will gain movement in the Senate next session. New York residents: Please contact your Assembly member and ask them to support this bill and for them to pressure leadership (Speaker Silver) to put it up for a vote.

Also this passed recently and is awesome: http://www.nysenate.gov/press-release/senate-gives-final-legislative-passage-good-samaritan-law

http://dailydish.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e20154333c759f970c-800wi

huh, id be interested to see what the top drug is in the #2 or #3 countries

also im assuming that "booze" "nicotine" (or even "caffeine") arent counted as "drugs" for this? prescriptions?

it s kinda dry here. foul drug laws.

imo 1933 was more a test of legalization if anything; a hurdle for technology and rhe lack of public wreckless politics and money. though i don't really know anything about it,. Pot can be a real sensory overload and induce behavioral problems to the uninitiated imo. if people would act normal it probably never would have had the great depression ll

cigarettes suck. though i smoke them constantly. they've got this stuff called mullien, an anti seizuric in trad. medicine, which i've been smoking-- p decent in my opinion. weird high.

that sprayed k2 stuff is pretty weird. gave a pal of mine a weird heartbeat, though i suppose that's to be expected from oddball thc analogues or whatever

yemeni stuff for chaw would be my drug of choice

if they don't legalize shwag in my lifetime i'm joinng FARC

Come to CA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60MP_a-XwDA

FARC jokes not funny :-/

What is the perception of FARC. I thought they were thought politically normal by media barely more fringe than al Jazeera. Isn't there platform "Che"? Though I am totally unknowledgeable on this subject, that was a totally nonfunny remark.

wk I am if I'm not going to school, or even if I am.

4:20 get

harpers bizarre otm

fuck harpers bizarre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzmxt-_QoDU

this is the version, dude sounds so fuckin insane on it it makes me smile so hard all day in traffic

That youtube is missing the best part though, the weird little spoken "sunshine, sunshine, sunshine sunshine sunshine" at the beginning.

Apparently Shakespeare might've been a toker, giving hope to the parents of stoners everywhere:

http://motherjones.com/mixed-media/2011/06/william-shakespeare-marijuana

http://i51.tinypic.com/qs14z4.jpg

what kind?

blueberry kush

(actually a blueberry kush hybrid, but i can't remember the other strain)

welcome back, luriqua!

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270520/right-marijuana-editors o_O

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/09/feds-rule-marijuana-has-no-accepted-medicinal-use_n_893894.html

not surprising. this is the takeaway tho:

The paper spoke to advocates who criticized the ruling but are pleased that the government has finally responded, which allows them to appeal to the federal courts.

We also have codeine--which is OTC in a number of countries--as a Schedule II drug, the same classification as fentanyl and morphine. *shakes head*

That National Review editorial linked by Mordy is mainly about honoring a legacy of Wm. Buckley, Jr. If Buckley had never come out in favor of legalization, you can damn well bet the current editors never would have arrived there on their own. Still, it is nice to see one of their editorial positions making a modicum of sense.

RIP

http://comicstheblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/pour-some-beer-out-for-homies.jpg

^ more like pot brownie http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

meh, fuck illegal cheap labor Mexican plantations. legal California green is the future.

is it the present tho? seems like an operation this big'll be affecting prices hardcore in the non-medical states

quasi-legal CA growing is the present certainly

anecdotal information but my prices have been significantly lower over the last year and my connection said that's because it's all coming from CA. obv a supply deficit could affect prices everywhere but... ya know.

is it the present tho? seems like an operation this big'll be affecting prices hardcore in the non-medical states

not as much in the north I'd wager

If youre smoking dirt sure. What I get out here comes from cali and BC cuz nobody I know smokes stress

a much younger gbx in New England only saw Canadian/VT product.

and it was already pricey-ish

only suckers f/w mexican weed

man that just shows my age - back when, there were oaxacan buds that were quality. but then those were the ones that eventually got killed in the socal marketplace by the stuff coming down from carmel & humboldt

my dude sells in AZ and he says its almost like 2 separate marketplaces, ppl who get mexican shit and ppl who get cali/bc shit-- he doesn't even consider it competition

as mordy said, anecdotal but still...

im going to start growing methinks

rhododendrons i mean

too many shady rhododendron hortuculturalists up in this piece