Rolling Cannabis Politics Thread

would love to hear the conversations right now in dorm rooms nationwide: dude, i am soooo moving to colorado and i'm gonna have a house made out of weed and a car made out of weed and a dog made out of weed and i'm going to ski down mountains of weed on skis made out of weed!

Love how CNN used a green color scheme for their weed initiative infographics

i work in the CO tourism industry and i voted yes for this -- but gotta say, my boss was not into the idea of weed tourism at all, basically saying we'd lose a ton of convention business because of it. is that true? i dunno, he might just be mistake about how much people care about it.

Your boss prob thinking about droves of dirty hippies lounging around every park and street corner, passing around fatties in a haze and panhandling every passerby.

that's pretty much the way it is now, so ...

yeah hippies LOOOOVE to hang out by convention centers

[jk]

i'm moving to an (rx) weed state next month. and I have a legitimate health condition to qualify. not sure how the whole thing works. like can you just go to any doc and make a "i want teh weed" appt?

@SmokeyCloud
The elections biggest winner? Peyton Manning for buying 20 Papa Johns in Colorado a week before weed was voted legal.

xp pretty much! maybe not *any* doc, but it'd be easy to find one who would write you a prescrip.

is it seriously the case that in WA & CO you'll just be able to buy weed? it can't be, right - medical only, right?

do they charge a higher-than-normal fee for the rx? maybe they do only if it's a semi-shady doc and you don't really have a medical reason for it?

i'm moving to an (rx) weed state next month. and I have a legitimate health condition to qualify. not sure how the whole thing works. like can you just go to any doc and make a "i want teh weed" appt?

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, November 7, 2012

prob not just any doc but shouldn't be hard to find one w/ loose rx policies

Yeah it sounds like CO you can just buy weed now and there will soon be legal weed stores. ???

look for this in the window¿?

http://garyrobson.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/medical-marijuana1.jpg

my buddy wrote this story a few years back about his path to medicinal marijuana - http://www.westword.com/2009-09-10/news/medical-marijuana-is-a-pot-of-gold-for-dispensaries/
some kinda weird hoops to jump through but not a huge deal.

http://i.imgur.com/LBAPr.jpg

loool

god I wish I could smoke weed right now

except that's utah not colorado xp

i'd be curious to see if weed tourism actually becomes a lever against federal legalization

also this will be legitimately huge imo:

skiing and weeding

― Mordy, Wednesday, November 7, 2012 11:56 AM

yes

― am0n, Wednesday, November 7, 2012 11:08 AM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is very easy to get weed in denver, not sure about elsewhere. there are dispensaries on every corner, every street. LIKE, WAY MORE THAN I WOULD EVER EXPECT. I think all you have to do is go in and complain of your ailment and shell out $100 and they'll give you a card. Then you have to register with a dispensary. You can't just walk into any of them.

Anyway it's been good for CO on the whole, I think. I know a lot of people who are contracted growers who make money growing marijuana. Lots of retail space being leased for dispensaries.

And since we decriminalized it in 2004 (I think?) a lot of people are pretty open about smoking pot. Like, on a smoking patio at a bar it's not surprising for people to be smoking pot

when I was in CO this May a local told me there's more dispensaries in Denver than Starbucks in the whole state

the pot industry has basically saved the alt-weekly in Denver (which i linked to above), so that's an ok thing too.

Love you, Colorado.

not sure how the whole thing works. like can you just go to any doc and make a "i want teh weed" appt?

You generally go to a weed doctor and give them $100 or so and say some keywords they want to hear like "loss of appetite" or "insomnia" or whatever. Then you have to go back each year for a renewal which is generally a little cheaper.

the weed doctor

dr. weed

Weed, MD

mine's called "420 Evaluation Center"

its super easy like 0 work

Harold and Kumar Go To Colorado

mine's called "420 Evaluation Center"

so great

mine's called "medicann"

as in "yes we cann"

their site looks pretty legit!

grainy are you moving to CO? I feel like a long time ago you mentioned family in Co Springs.

http://i49.tinypic.com/28i50f6.gif

I do have family in the Springs, good memory! But I'm moving to AZ (cheaper rent and warmer winter...I love CO though). I actually just got back from my gastro doc, and they printed out my records cause I told them I was moving. Can I go to a legit doc w/that and get an rx or are $100 weed docs the only route?

I have no idea what AZ is like but I don't think it's ever really a true prescription per se. It's more like a special card that is recognized by the dispensaries and maybe/maybe not somewhat regulated by the city/county/state, depending on where you are. I'm not sure that regular GPs are set up to deal with that. But maybe they can just write a note or prescription and the cards aren't necessary?

Marijwhatnow? A Guide to Legal Marijuana Use In Seattle

lol @ video embed

SPD seized a bunch of my marijuana before I-502 passed. Can I have it back?

No.

they also won't give you back the years of your life they took when they jailed you for non-violent marijuana possession. sorry!

they'll make it up to you by smoking you out.

righteous

I'll never forgive the SPD for the riot control tactics in 1999, but I commend them for being pretty good-humored about the pot law.

According to data from the National Institute on Money in State Politics, pro-marijuana political action committees out-raised opponents 8 to 1 in Colorado. The Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project and Ohio-based Progressive Insurance executive Peter B. Lewis contributed almost $2.1 million of $2.4 million in pro-pot donations.