would you trust your baby with a POTHEAD?!?
― the late great, Friday, 27 July 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
i'm going to assume the lady in lee626 story wasn't just buying weed
― the late great, Friday, 27 July 2012 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
She wasn't, it was an assortment of harder stuff, coke, heroin, PCP, lord knows what else.
Babies and children don't get to choose whether their parents are druggies or not.
― Lee626, Friday, 27 July 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
i can understand w hy ppl wouldn't want to legalize all drugs, and i can envision a compassionate drug policy that gave medical aid to serious drug addicts, diacetylmorphine prescriptions to heroin users, etc. ie one much better than the one we have now. weed tho has the added absurdity of being as safe or safer than other legalized (and controlled) substances, like tobacco which kills you and alcohol which can cause liver dmg, drunk driving serious society concern, etc. i think even more than concerns over failed drug war it is the perceived safety of marijuana which is causing ppl to favor legalization more and more every year. i also think that medicinal marijuana is just a convenient by step to full legalization and it's just a way for ppl to start to get comfortable w/ the idea on a legislative level. decriminalization is an important indicator too that policy is slowly changing.
― Mordy, Saturday, 28 July 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
OTOH i know a medical user who is getting about as skeptical about MM as he is about big pharma products and about as grossed out w/ the industry
― the late great, Saturday, 28 July 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
For the information of ilx, Oregon qualified an initiative on the ballot for November's general election that would regulate marijuana similarly to alcohol and legalize hemp production. More info here.
God only knows what the feds would do if this passes. I plan to vote in favor.
― Aimless, Sunday, 29 July 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
punitive tax on nike shoes and dave's killer bread
― the late great, Sunday, 29 July 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
washington has a similar initiative on the ballot, it's looking like the medical marijuana providers here are marshalling their forces against it. According to them it "throws patients under the bus" but it sure seems like they're trying to protect their bottom line.
― JoeStork, Sunday, 29 July 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
is it replacing an mmj law on the ballot or is there already one?
― the late great, Sunday, 29 July 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
mmj is legal here, this would make possession of an ounce legal, and set up a 5-nanogram standard for DUI arrests. There are various arguments back and forth about whether a regular mmj user would meet that standard while driving sober. But really, it's not like they have any protection at all from DUI arrests under the current law.
― JoeStork, Monday, 30 July 2012 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
dui arrests should be based on playing mario kart
― the late great, Monday, 30 July 2012 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
From what I understand, it's difficult to test for whether someone is currently high on cannaboids (compared to alcohol, where you can readily test for current intoxication for purposes of DUI/DWI arrests). It's easy to administer drug tests that will detect if someone has blazed in the last week or two, but smoking weed a week earlier won't impair your driving today.
― Lee626, Monday, 30 July 2012 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
Alcohol is water-soluble and THC is fat-soluble. Water-soluble drugs exit the body quickly while fat-soluble drugs linger in the body long after their pharmacological effect has worn off.
― The Reverend, Monday, 30 July 2012 07:56 (eleven years ago) link
smoking weed a week earlier won't impair your driving today
it might if you got BIN LADEN WEED
― the late great, Monday, 30 July 2012 09:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/05/osama-bin-laden-marijuana-crop_n_858301.html
― the late great, Monday, 30 July 2012 09:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/economists-marijuana-legalization_n_1431840.html
― Mordy, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/articles/martin-a-lee-smoke-signals-a-social-history-of-mar,84488/
― Mordy, Monday, 3 September 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
When he plants his feet firmly and reels off a list of italicized “slang words for marijuana in English”—“grass, reefer, tea, pot, dope, weed, bud, skunk, butt, blunt, Mary Jane”—he sounds just like Jack Webb on Dragnet
― the late great, Monday, 3 September 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
<3 it
― the late great, Monday, 3 September 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
brb smokin butt
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laurel-dewey/marijuana-is-not-addictive_b_1739339.html
― Mordy, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
the story is cute, this is the real wheat tho: http://beyondchronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Grannys-List-July-2012.pdf
― Mordy, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
^^ LOL bullshit
― the late great, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
cigarettes aren't addictive either
or coffee
― the late great, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
or SSRIs and benzos
:-/
caffeine + tobacco are both legal
― Mordy, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.procon.org/view.background-resource.php?resourceID=1492
― Mordy, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
and a fucking hell of a lot cheaper too
― the late great, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
i want to see this: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/documentary-takes-a-business-view-of-street-drug-trade/
― Mordy, Sunday, 9 September 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/09/11/legalize-pot-for-the-children
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
it doesn't mention it, but also good for the kids is legalized regulation. i've seen studies over the years that show that kids have easier access to pot than they do to alcohol bc of the way alcohol is regulated ie you buy it thru stores, not thru shady dealer in playground or whatever
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
that kind of doesn't make sense to me. but then again, in HS *everyone* pretty much had access to everything!
― the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
a lot of those studies are self-reported by kids so i don't always put the most stock in them
― the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
It was way harder to get booze than pot in high school for me, but it wasn't true for people I knew whose parents drank or who had a sleazy older friend from college or something, and I think that more people fell into those categories.
― OK CLARABELLE PART 3: The Return of the MOO! (how's life), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
why would kids self-report marijuana more than alcohol? wouldn't you'd think a bias would run in reverse?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know. good question. but at the same time i have trouble believing it would it be easier for kids to get pot than alcohol for the reason that how's life brings up
― the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
It makes total sense. One kid gets pot from a dubious source, discreetly sells it to other kids at school. A few beers would fill up a bookbag, get shaken around, and make alot of noise.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
I think this is the study I'm remembering:
http://blog.norml.org/2009/08/28/study-says-its-easier-for-teens-to-buy-marijuana-than-beer/
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that's a good point adam but another thing i think is that some things get way more attention than others from the kids themselves
― the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
we would always have these school safety survey results where 75% of kids would say they didn't do drugs but 75% of their friends did or something like that
― the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
"In their study, they found that 40 percent of teens could get marijuana within a day; another quarter said they could get it within an hour"
that part is like a little "yeah, okay, sure kid."
― Mordy, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/23/study_marijuana_prevents_spread_of_cancer/
― Mordy, Sunday, 23 September 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
was surprised to find out "california pacific medical center" is actually a legit institution, it sounds like a dispensary
― the late great, Sunday, 23 September 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Sunday, 23 September 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
this is kinda important:http://justsaynow.firedoglake.com/2012/10/15/medical-marijuana-gets-its-day-in-federal-court-tomorrow/
― Mordy, Monday, 15 October 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/15/british_study_commends_drug_decriminalization/
― Mordy, Monday, 15 October 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20121016_New_Jersey_s_first_medical-marijuana_dispensary_wins_clearance_to_begin_selling.html
i should move to cherry hill
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
yeah but the mmj restrictions in jersey are totally absurd
― carne asada, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
i'd qualify tho
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link