Rolling Cannabis Politics Thread

those pictures are hilarious. I was wondering "how can you know that shit was garbage back in the day" until I saw those pics.

yikes.

Back in Colorado, Ellison says that as of now, the demand for straight-up bud comes from men in their 20s, and they pay for potency. “They want to party and get wasted,” he says. But if customers demand something mellower, the industry will supply it. Ellison predicts that large corporations, such as beer companies, might fill the gap, producing large quantities of midgrade weed: not as flashy as the current Cannabis Cup winners, with their crystals of THC glistening under glamorous lighting, but not as pathetic as ditch weed either. “If the big boys come in and come out with a mid-grade” he says, then that new market will be served.

my experience is that the first point about dispensary customer demographics and goals is not accurate at all.

and if you want midgrade weed, there's a ton of it out there-- even out here in vancouver, the majority of weed is big bud hybrids grown fast and rough, with low to medium potency and decent smoke/flavour.

and right now, the role occupied by beer companies in that disturbing vision of the future is held by mexican weed, which is currently pretty fuego and a lot of people are smoking it in the u.s.a. despite the poor image the brand has.

anyways, there's tons of midgrade and lowgrade weed out there for people to smoke (as the song says, popcorn mids got the trap goin crazy), without anheuser-busch involvement.

yeah, I think the author is conflating mellow with mid-grade which isn't accurate imo.

http://cdn.theatlanticwire.com/img/upload/2013/04/08/WeedLaws.gif

Getting a bit frustrated with living in that grey part

otm

there's a way to take that edge off

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2013/04/12/laurelville-police-chief-recovering-after-eating-entire-pot-laced-cake.html

http://thc-fungames.e-mengine.com/images/icones/Weed-smiley.gif

urls v much in character! http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new-york-news/mom-and-pot-business

http://www.theroot.com/blogs/blogging-beltway/obama-evolving-marijuana

hmmm

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2013/05/obama-and-marijuana-then-and-now.html

this seems relevant:

You can find good reporting on marijuana in general and medical marijuana in particular in O’Shaughnessy’s, a journal named after the physician who introduced cannabis to Western medicine in 1839. The annual print edition is distributed by doctors to patients, and articles are now being posted on its Web site, along with a blog by the managing editor, Fred Gardner. Gardner’s unusual résumé includes stints as an editor at Scientific American, an anti-war organizer, a private investigator, and press spokesman for the district attorney of San Francisco—all relevant experience, given that O’Shaughnessy’s covers pot-related science, medicine, politics, law, and history. O’Shaughnessy’s was co-founded in 2003 by the late Tod Mikuriya, M.D., the California doctor who was famously accused by Bill Clinton’s drug czar Barry McCaffrey of practicing “Cheech and Chong medicine.”

california supreme court rules that localities can ban dispensaries

no more joy for san diego potheads

guess there's no more incentive to get cards and prescriptions ...

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/05/30/seattle-entrepreneur-plans-100-million-national-chain-of-pot-stores

I've noticed lately an increase in some very blatant public smoking with vaporizers. I attend game nights at various gaming stores and have seen people sitting at a table playing games while puffing off of a vaporizer like it's no big deal. This has happened with different people in different locations that are billed as "family friendly" in Austin, TX. Is this a reflection of changes to enforcement or changes to smoking technology or do people just not give a crap?

Are you sure it was weed? Sorry if that's a silly question but tobacco vaporizers have become very popular lately too.

in one case yes, in another no. Even using a tobacco vaporizer inside a store seems a bit unusual to me.

Here's a fascinating hypothetical situation. Say I've gotten off a 15-hour flight to Los Angeles, and am suffering terribly, just terribly, from jet lag and insomnia. As a non-citizen, would I be able to locate a caring physician able to recommend a soothing balm for my restless ills?

no, you need to be a legal resident of CA

That sounds inconvenient.

Soon, you can look forward to being seriously jet-lagged and sleepless in Seattle.

maybe you can locate a caring ilxor

Would that such a Samaritan might exist.

casual encounters section on craigslist

m 4 ilx0r

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-coming-end-of-the-americas--war-on-drugs-by-jorge-g--casta-eda

http://www.jta.org/2013/06/28/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/israeli-rabbi-weed-is-kosher-if-its-medicinal

no, you need to be a legal resident of CA

lol this was a bum steer that I wish I'd ignored earlier than a few hours before I left

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/taken-pot-smoking-parents-2-year-old-murdered-foster-care

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana/

^^ yes

At the very least, I cannot see it remaining a Class I drug much longer

it's pretty clear that Gupta finally smoked some good shit

haha i watched that too.

sorry didn't see the link. but yeah i was flipping through and saw him on anderson cooper and he laid out his new positions. i don't know if this is a big deal or not in turns of changing public opinion.

Interesting rumor, don't know how much truth there is to it:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/08/eric-holder-drug-sentencing_n_3727389.html

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/john-mccain-maybe-we-should-legalize-marijuana

I can't wait until I'm old and I can buy the stuff w my social security check.

i heard that camel has factories of pot just waiting to be sold, they already know exactly how to make camel joints and have the prototypes and marketing and everything. i heard that marlboro, on the other hand, is lobbying hard against it

at least this is what my friend told me when i was 12

I'll be fucked if I'm ever buying anything from a goddamn tobacco company

fucking Feinstein

just die already

Some of this might hinge on the Nixon Effect, where a politician with a proved record of reactionary conservatism can get away with talk of legalization, while a politician constantly attacked as super-liberal fears giving more ammunition to her opponents.

otoh, Feinstein can just fuck right off for supporting endless idiotic prohibition.

when has Feinstein ever been "super liberal"

I mean okay gun control (wildly successful there, FiDi) but that's kind of it. abortion too I guess.