Rolling Cannabis Politics Thread

They screwed up not cracking down on day one, I'm actually starting to get hopeful that the political mood has solidified for some version of decriminalization or legalization just about everywhere that rolling it back would have consequences.

blaming weed for opiate addiction is like blaming the home baking industry for national obesity.

jersey strong

http://www.nj.com/marijuana/2018/03/murphy_wants_legal_weed_in_nj_by_end_of_year.html

He's smart to recognize that legal pot will be easier to control than illegal pot, and be a net revenue generator, not a prison-crowding drain on the state budget. Also smart to want to get NJ up and running before NY gets onto the legalization bandwagon. Let's hope NJ's citizens are equally smart.

New Jersey Responsible Approaches to Marijuana Policy, a group that opposes marijuana, said Tuesday that the tax revenues from legal pot "pale in comparison to the ... lost tourism dollars"

How does that work?

oh yes ! people are making a point to stay away from Colorado because of the demon w33d
https://i.imgur.com/g41G3Ut.jpg

fuck RAMP they are fear mongering misinformation spreading assholes. wonder where they get their funding from ?

from their site lol
https://i.imgur.com/89N4Yox.jpg

the green crack strain in pretty good tbh

it seems like it's impossible to find mids here unless you go to the trap (and even then it's hard) which is kind of a pain. one of the reasons I had to quit tbh.

one of the worst strain names in a crowded field

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan-lawmakers-consider-legalizing-medical-marijuana-before-november-ballot

There's enough signatures that legalization will probably be on the ballot this fall, and will probably pass. So the republican state government is talking about legalizing before that, so they can reduce voter turnout in November (where there just so happens to be an anti-gerrymandering bill on the ballot).

that's so fucked, just that transparent awareness, "more people voting is bad for us"

seems like the various cannabis bills that come out of state legislatures are often worse than the ballot initiatives

all that said it would be really great to have some legal cannabis in the midwest

happy 420!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-pledges-support-legal-marijuana-blow-sessions-article-1.3932441

THREAD: It’s official. Today, I am formally announcing my plan to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. It’s time we allow states, once and for all, to have the power to decide what works best for them.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) April 20, 2018

Good luck, Chuck!

happy 4/20 to chuck schumer

since this is the thread that happens to be bumped:

i'm a couple of months into taking sublingual MMJ tincture for my Crohn's disease, under the NY program.

First month was a high CBD/low THC ratio. One 0.5ml dropper syringe in the morning, one at night. I did not see an effect on my baseline after a month (was pretty compliant on the dosing - only missed one dose during that time).

On my return visit to the union square dispensary, talked with the pharmacist and she wanted to try me on 1:1 ratio for a month (2.5mg THC, 2.5 mg CBD per dose, one in the morning one at night).

The 1:1 did help, but only after I got to the third week, had a mini-flareup, and tried a double dose that morning. The double dose knocked out my flareup symptoms and seemed to lead into a period of stability for several days following, even though I went back to my regular dosing after the 2x one. Had another mini flare the next week, did the same thing, same result.

Came back to dispensary this Monday and shared my experience; they advised that based on this I ought to keep taking the 2.5mg/2.5mg 2x/day as my standard, but double it when I get noticeably symptomatic.

So I feel hopeful about where my baseline will be after a few months of this. The only thing is, when I take a double dose I definitely feel lightly baked, in contrast to the regular dose which doesn't SEEM to have any psychoactivity for me.

Here's a side question though: I'm supposed to drive to Boston tomorrow, drive back the next day. Driving is not part of my daily obv. SHOULD I be driving while taking a 1:1 sublingual tincture? Every resource just tells me to 'take time to be aware how medical marijuana affects you before driving'. Thanks. I don't think it's out of the question that my regular dose might produce a slight diminishment of reaction time, even though I don't feel high on it...?

as a fellow Crohn's sufferer, I'm wondering what you consider to be a mini flare-up?

yeah i know that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people!

gas-like abdominal cramps/roiling, a felt need to get stuff out coupled with everything being kind of tense/seized up so that I'm making lots of minimally productive trips to the bathroom, enervation, bone-deep depression wave, feeling of fever without a temperature

pretty much sums it up

I guess I say 'mini' if I don't have to go to the ER and there's no blood, lol

Are you on 77? There’s a relevant thread there I prefer to post to for privacy reasons.

Ok will cross post to that if I can find it on Zing.

http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/385866-maine-house-overturns-governors-veto-of-marijuana-bill

what's going on in MA ? can i drive up there next month and buy legal w33d or what ?

if any dispensaries are open by then, yes

Crossing state lines with that shit could get you in deep skank doo doo

eh it’s legal medically in some form in the entire northeast. although who knows what the uptick in highway ice activity means

strike “medically” from that sentence

https://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000881

vape oil pens and edibles travel quite discreetly

although the shop openings are delayed

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/06/26/retail-marijuana-shops-won-happen-july/TF69jzxlAyrA0LF0uV0oMN/story.html

lotions and bath bombs too

Crossing state lines with that shit could get you in deep skank doo doo

― calstars, Tuesday, June 26, 2018 4:47 PM (yesterday)

i fly back from California with is pretty regularly and no one seems to bat an eye to be honest

Crossing state lines with that shit could get you in deep skank doo doo

carne, I'm going to San Francisco in November and have been giving this some thought. Any tips on discrete travel?

package it with aromatic toiletries to minimize the smell. wrap it in clothes. tsa is actually not authorized to check for weed although with jeff “lock up anyone darker than me” sessions in illegitimate power who knows

also edibles don’t really smell strong depending on what you get! the weediest smelling thing i bought at uncle ike’s a few months back was the bag of peanut butter cups. i just stuck
the bag in my laundry

God is Uncle Ike’s a big tourist draw now??

Better to carry on or put in checked bag?

God is Uncle Ike’s a big tourist draw now??

Better to carry on or put in checked bag?

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, June 27, 2018 10:02 AM (six minutes ago)

like others said the most discreet is vape pens and edibles, When i travel for work i take a vape pen in my carry on all the time even internationaly. When i'm coming back from CA and im bring a lot of stuff to stock up on i will put it in my check bag .

i feel like the TSA doesn't give two shits about it. they have looked at my vape pen more than once and just shrugged it off.

Cool, I'm trying to get caught up on all the new tech. I'm pretty much a weed luddite.

I went to meet my wife at the airport a couple of months ago and she asked me to bring an edible for her since she'd've been stuck on a plane for hours and then have to get a train home from the airport. I was a bit nervous about it but brought it anyway then got to almost void my bowels when I had to go past 2 sets of sniffer dogs to get to the arrivals area. The second dog actually came right up to me and sniffed my leg but didn't bark. I assume they were probably bomb dogs not drug dogs but still. I won't be doing that again.

to me weed vape pens are one of the greatest inventions of the last decade xp

otm

also:

http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/lagunitas-introduces-ipa-inspired-sparking-water-infused-thc/314038/

beer + w33d!

We have these in the UK:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQnTz8-5AcNOBKtZ3TIntRGUTfMta-GXLDDjqYofszE1BSwdePa

A few weeks ago I was sitting by myself on a train, at a table of four, when three other people came and sat down in the empty seats around me. One of the guys took off his coat - he was a policeman, in full uniform. In my bag I had a nice portion of VERY stinky skunk - thankfully, encased in one of these smelly bags. So the pigs were cool.

I've used those smelly proof bags before, pretty good. My current dealer just uses jiffy bags made for coffee beans and they work great.

there's a great (possibly apocryphal) story about this little convenience store in some tiny Northern California town that had the Ziploc corporate people come visit them because they were the nation's leading sellers of "turkey bags" - normally used for baking turkeys in ovens but also good for smell. "What's your secret?" the Ziploc people asked. Pretty sure they got some mumbled half-hearted "not sure" as a response.

I asked about edibles that looked like pills before and the person at the store said “oh planning on flying somewhere eh?”. They were unlabeled gel caps I stashed them with my vitamins and it was totally stealthy.

This backfired in Colorado when I bought pill looking ones that sadly had THC stamped into them

to me weed vape pens are one of the greatest inventions of the last decade xp

one of the few 21st century inventions that if you showed it to high school/college me it'd blow my mind.
Assume TSA doesn't care about them cause it's clearly personal use only and a small amount at that.

Some airlines forbid checking lithium-ion batteries into luggage, and as an example, I've seen signs at BOS to alert passengers.

Ergo, the thing to do if you check luggage is to put your vape cartridge into your checked bag and carry the igniter portion of the vape right through security. Thanks to e-cigs, those are totally legal and ubiquitous.

I've never done it, but I have tons of friends who have zero fears whatsoever about carrying hash oil onto planes.