Thank you, CO and WA for throwing this in the teeth of the feds and the DEA! The road to ending marijuana prohibition is still going to be long and rocky, but this was a long step toward demonstrating that voters are ready for a different, more sensible approach. The feds will surely intervene, because no doing so effectively concedes total loss of control over the issue and they aren't ready for that step.
OR's initiative was wretchedly written, but I voted for it anyway, as did approx 45% of OR voters. That is a respectable number and adds further impetus behind legalization/regulation/taxation, but politicians worship majorities, not respectable losses.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
skiing and weeding
― Mordy, Wednesday, November 7, 2012 11:56 AM
yes
― am0n, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
skweeding
― carne asada, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
Love how CNN used a green color scheme for their weed initiative infographics
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
that's pretty much the way it is now, so ...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
yeah hippies LOOOOVE to hang out by convention centers
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
[jk]
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
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, 7 November 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
@SmokeyCloud The elections biggest winner? Peyton Manning for buying 20 Papa Johns in Colorado a week before weed was voted legal.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
xp pretty much! maybe not *any* doc, but it'd be easy to find one who would write you a prescrip.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
― 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
― am0n, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah it sounds like CO you can just buy weed now and there will soon be legal weed stores. ???
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
look for this in the window¿?
http://garyrobson.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/medical-marijuana1.jpg
― am0n, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/LBAPr.jpg
― carne asada, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
loool
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
god I wish I could smoke weed right now
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
except that's utah not colorado xp
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
i'd be curious to see if weed tourism actually becomes a lever against federal legalization
also this will be legitimately huge imo:
― am0n, Wednesday, November 7, 2012 11:08 AM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
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
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
when I was in CO this May a local told me there's more dispensaries in Denver than Starbucks in the whole state
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
the pot industry has basically saved the alt-weekly in Denver (which i linked to above), so that's an ok thing too.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
Love you, Colorado.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― wk, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
the weed doctor
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
dr. weed
Weed, MD
mine's called "420 Evaluation Center"
― wk, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
its super easy like 0 work
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
Harold and Kumar Go To Colorado
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
so great
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
mine's called "medicann"
― the late great, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
as in "yes we cann"
their site looks pretty legit!
― wk, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
grainy are you moving to CO? I feel like a long time ago you mentioned family in Co Springs.
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://i49.tinypic.com/28i50f6.gif
― am0n, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― wk, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
Marijwhatnow? A Guide to Legal Marijuana Use In Seattle
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 10 November 2012 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ video embed
― crüt, Saturday, 10 November 2012 04:54 (eleven years ago) link
SPD seized a bunch of my marijuana before I-502 passed. Can I have it back?No.
― ou th (anky), Saturday, 10 November 2012 05:23 (eleven years ago) link
they also won't give you back the years of your life they took when they jailed you for non-violent marijuana possession. sorry!
― Mordy, Saturday, 10 November 2012 05:26 (eleven years ago) link
they'll make it up to you by smoking you out.
― crüt, Saturday, 10 November 2012 05:34 (eleven years ago) link