Rolling Cannabis Politics Thread

http://www.salon.com/2013/02/08/why_congress_might_legalize_marijuana_this_time/

it's so stupid people can't buy packs of joints

Blumenhauer's district is mostly Portland, Oregon, so he won't be hurt by introducing this bill. It wouldn't dismantle the drug war (sad to say), but it would be a big step toward sanity.

Pennsylvanians don’t want marijuana legalized, but they favor letting adults use it for medical purposes, that’s according to the latest Franklin & Marshall College Poll.

The poll found that 55 percent of respondents said no to making marijuana legal, but that is down from a 2010 study, where 60 percent said no and a 2006 study where 72 percent said no.

Of those polled, 36 said yes, they support legalizing marijuana, which is up from 33 percent in 2010 and 22 percent in 2006.

When it comes to using marijuana for medical purposes, as recommended by a doctor, 51 percent of those polled strongly favored it, and 31 percent somewhat favored it. On the other side, 13 percent strongly opposed and 3 percent somewhat opposed. The results were not very different from the 2010 and 2006 results.

The Franklin & Marshall College Poll interviewed 622 Pennsylvania voters between January 29 and February 3. The margin of error is reported as plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.

I wish PA electorate was into legalizing it entirely but for my personal needs legalizing it medicinally would be a huge deal so this is basically good news.

really hope Crohn's/UC is included in the medical purposes

They are in every state that has legalized it medicinally.

http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2013/02/california_doc_pushes_for_veterinary_medical_marij.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xPmR8j4plw

sounds absolutely horrible but if I lived somewhere that I could get a steady supply of leaves I'd try it just to see

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51148243/ns/business-press_releases/t/federal-government-reports-marijuana-effective-combatting-certain-cancers-reports-adsi/#.UUKSAqV4AZY

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2013/03/15/assemblyman-steve-katz-ticketed-for-marijuana-possesion/

would get mad lifted with dr. katz

http://i.imgur.com/s0RBjhQ.gif

lol

I fully expect weed to be legal in California within the next election cycle tbh

Advocates for the Disabled and Seriously Ill is some A+ naming for your medical weed org

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/03/marijuana_potency_returning_smokers_want_mellower_pot_strains.html

i'm not sure i trust the advice to smoke sativas. if you're able to purchase fucking artisanal boutique quality weed with a name attached to it, the sativas are going to be potent. despite what the dude in the article says, most weed you buy is going to be sativa dominant.

high cbd and low thc would be the first thing i'd recommend, since the effects that are putting people off are mental effects, paranoia and anxiety, feeling your heart menacingly throbbing in your chest.

and yo check this out

http://iloveweed.net/2010/09/high-times-top-40-buds-of-1977/ forget cannabinoids and terpenes, shit was just garbage back in the day.

I disagree with some of that article and was surprised to see no mention of CBD/CBN. Personally, strong indicas are a lot more relaxing for me, and the trend toward really high THC sativas with no CBD or CBN is what I associate with the more hallucinogenic, anxiety-inducing modern strains.

xp

yeah, dylannn otm

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