Rolling Cannabis Politics Thread

http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/27/rejecting-sessions-plea-senate-panel-vot

toke up, Massachusetts

Gov. Charlie Baker today signed a bill that reshapes the state’s marijuana legalization law, kick-starting an 11-month sprint until pot shops can legally open statewide — during which officials will have to build an entire bureaucracy from the ground up.

Flanked by lawmakers key to crafting the legislation, Baker signed into law several changes to the ballot measure voters passed last November, including hiking the tax rate on sales from 12 percent to 20 percent. The state’s top leaders will now have to make several decisions, and quickly....

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_politics/2017/07/gov_charlie_baker_signs_revamped_marijuana_legalization_bill

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/1/16073124/cory-booker-marijuana-legalization

ty cory

Booker running in 2020 confirmed

I love love love how all these states are proving the Fed approach wrong

in the funny predicament of actually sort of dreading the legalization of cannabis in canada because it might mean i have to pay more/disrupt my supplier in some way. it's also pretty much decriminalized where i live and i smoke in public every day.

love to be solipsistic

"I think there are a lot of really right-wing old, white people out there who don't really know what's going on still. But once the kids grow up and get a chance to get into the voting booth, I think we'll see a change like we have in the few states that have legalized it. That could be a long way off, but in the meantime I don't think anybody's ever had any problems buying weed if they wanted it—whether it was legal or not—so it's a problem that one day may be solved, but right now it's not solved at all. Actually, a lot of people throw it on stage, so it's not that hard for me to get. [Laughs]

"I think there's a lot of things out there to be concerned about. So yeah, I'm concerned about it. And I'm hoping that more and more Americans will get concerned about it, because anytime you get even the hint that some foreign country might have anything to do with controlling our elections, well, that's very disturbing to me, and I think it should be to every American out there. But when I get out on the stage I don't bring in the politics. I don't care if you're a Baptist, a Methodist, a Muslim, or what the hell you are, as long as you like our music and you come to hear us, you won't hear me say anything bad about anybody. But if you ask me my personal opinion, well, I'll tell you what I think."

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a13058287/willie-nelson-2017-interview/

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/357053-poll-64-percent-of-americans-support-legalizing-marijuana

I don't think anybody's ever had any problems buying weed if they wanted it

Oh man, Willie's definitely never been a nerdy 16-year-old in the deep woods of northern Minnesota

uh yea

there many reasons why i think cannabis should legal, but let's be real one of the main ones is so i can just go down to the corner dispensary to buy it whenever i want

yeah it's so weird going to a legal states and walking into a store and then coming back NJ and texting my connect a day ahead of time to coordinate some BS transaction.

so many weed stores in my town now

I'm waiting for the market contraction, but it seems inexhaustible.

the one across the street from us has died down a bit, but they are still very busy. I hear that they have moved to reusable glass packaging instead of plastic, which is nice.

$100 ounces on special.

damn that's what i pay for a quarter here in dumb ohio

NJ might have a real chance at legalization come the new year

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/11/hold_murphys_victory_is_the_first_step_toward_a_ma.html

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/legal-pot-in-100-days-new-jerseys-next-governor-aims-for-national-first/article/2640125

This could be huuuge

http://kdvr.com/2017/11/09/colorado-girl-suing-us-attorney-general-to-legalize-medical-marijuana-nationwide/

I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and for a repeat of the Just Say No era but maybe we've actually gotten past that.

Well, it's finally gone and happened. Quebec has finally gone and fucked us. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-marijuana-legislation-breakdown-faq-2017-1.4404947

2017: I live in a society where cannabis is effectively legal and has been that way for a long time. No spoilers, but the cannabis community in Canada is enormous, organized, and dedicated. I have absolute freedom to support whichever growers and distributors I choose, and I am also able to consider overall customer experience as a part of the product I am receiving.

Mid-2017: Ontario liberal government stacks "think of the children" legislation on their pot bill: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/marijuana-sales-ontario-school-bus-cameras-safety-law-1.4403405

2018: Quebec police stop'n'search everyone everywhere based on new "driving high" laws, despite not understanding that effects of cannabis are harder to legislate than alcohol. Aggressive "roadside cannabis testing" targets marginalized communities in St-Henri, the east end, and Montréal-Nord. Stop and search also finds guns and other drugs because it constitutes a warrantless search. Quebec government's cannabis shops are only located in affluent areas, not open after 7pm (when people normally smoke cannabis) or after 5pm on Sundays. Quebec's cannabis distribution centres vont être fermés durant la période de la fête nationale... So on national holidays nobody will be able to buy any weed because the employees of the shops will have the day off to smoke weed. No one can grow cannabis. People suspected of growing are raided aggressively. Anyone with 151 grams of cannabis is imprisoned for life.

The war on drugs goes on. The liberal government used legalization as a tool to come to power and have ended up fucking us all by giving more power to provincial police forces and bureaucrats.

That's some fucking federalism right there

Everyone smokes weed here, everyone. I'm so fucking insulted.

sorry to hear that man :-/

http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article187194818.html

recreationally legal now in CA!

which means lames and squares will be smoking ... so i quit for the new year, to maintain my hipster cred

Welcome California! The West Coast is now solidly legal from Mexico to Canada.

WEXIT

does CA allow personal growing?

plz share all reports of people smoking too much and having bad trips/freaking out this week

It's not the smoking it's the edibles

FO REAL

xp to sleeve yesssssss

edibles are no joke

no sir

Guys can we act a little more mature

Can we get a muthafuckin moment of silence

For this smaall chronic break

deez nugs

For some reason the novice or novalty partakers are always drawn to the edibles and it's like the worst thing for them to do unless they are very aware of dosage which of course they are not. I smoke daily but rarely fuck with them myself.

novices probably partly drown to edibles as smoking is viewed as unhealthy. lots of stigmas about that still

drawn*

my wife had a terrible episode w/ a single cookie the other night

i had one from the same batch earlier in the day and for me it just felt like smoking a bowl more or less but she doesn't smoke as much as me so it hit her pretty hard

rec supposed to be on the ballot again here in OH in 2018, i think launched by the same folks who lost in 2015, hopefully they've learned some lessons

i ate half an edible gummy thing on new years day. the effort it then took me to take out the garbage, go do groceries, and cook a really simple one pot dinner was truly herculean

yea i've only had edibles a few times but i strongly prefer smoking or vaping. vaping probably most of all

The great thing about habituation is not only will you learn to perform mundane tasks while stoned but it I’ll actually make the chores more enjoyable

oh i smoke weed a lot, i even smoke shatter at my regular poker game, but edibles always manage to throw me

oh no doubt! with the music blasting too, there is no other way i do chores xp

A weed store just opened near me called "4:19, Got A Minute?"

we should really have a "weed store names" poll, my favorite local name is "Terpene Station"

west hollywood is going crazy for the green shtuff

With all of you who are thrown by edibles. My worst trips have all came from eating the stuff. I've had black outs and even had all sound turn to white noise.

just... don't eat it all at once

yeah just having "a single cookie" like marcos' wife could mean you've had like 8x the recommended dose

1st time my sis did an edible, I was with her and we had no clue what size a dose was. She wound up needing to take a moment to get her sht together on hiking trail so she sat down at this picnic table. A moment turned into 45 mins or so before she could walk the mile back to the car. Thus was born the term "picnic-tabled".