http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/04/colorado_s_stanley_brothers_and_their_pot_farm_leading_evangelicals_to_embrace.html
― Mordy , Monday, 14 April 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
http://www.policymic.com/articles/88283/an-ohio-newspaper-just-accidentally-ended-the-legalize-marijuana-debate
http://media2.policymic.com/cea556b52e8fe0357610efd58697a3fe.jpg
― Mordy , Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:44 (ten years ago) link
Piece in nytimes about the Brooklyn DA not planning to prosecute low level pot offenses.
― calstars, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:21 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/nyregion/in-brooklyn-proposing-to-end-prosecutions-for-low-level-marijuana-offenses.html
― calstars, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link
hey, any word on all the "no cannabis money in banks" stories of last year? has any of that been resolved?
― marcos, Monday, 12 May 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
also, what's going on in washington? anyone there would wants to comment? seems like i only hear about stuff going on in colorado
― marcos, Monday, 12 May 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
WA has been slow to roll this out, though a few weeks ago they announced the locations where sales will take place (hey, a block from my house! that'll be weird). Right now they are awarding licenses to growers, processors, and sellers. No one business can do more than one step, and each step is taxed, and each step is permitted. WA liquor control board is a very conservative body, and unsurprisingly way slower than CO. The growers can now start legally growing, I think, or we're close to it, and then in 12 weeks it can start to be processed, then sold. So we're looking at summer.
― stangelo (anky), Monday, 12 May 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
in the meantime dozens of quasi-legal delivery services have popped up. I mean of course there's always been delivery, but now the feeling is that no one is going to F with what they're doing. supposedly they (I) pay sales tax.
the sales location thing has been fascinating to watch. being in the city a thousand feet from a park, school, police station, federal building, transit center (and more) has made for very few locations. None in downtown seattle, none on capitol hill (1 at 23rd and union but more CD), six in Sodo, an industrial area. At least one of those is near a light rail station. None in the majority-minority part of the city. one a block from my house.
― stangelo (anky), Monday, 12 May 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
can't be a 1,000 ft from a police station? that's weird.
― marcos, Monday, 12 May 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
frankly the only one of those that makes any sense is a school. and that's still dumb.
― marcos, Monday, 12 May 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
yah what if booze had the same restrictions
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 12 May 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
whoops not cop shops but A new state law says you can have a licensed retail store for recreational marijuana, but it can’t be located within 1,000 feet of many facilities: schools, parks, transit centers, arcades, or libraries. In Seattle, that 1,000-foot rule means most of the city is off-limits. Smaller cities may have no eligible sites.
― stangelo (anky), Monday, 12 May 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
I live in a small university town in WA and I heard July 1st for the opening of the three stores we're supposed to get but I'll believe it when I see it. Please note when I moved here 8 years ago (prior to liquor store privatization) there was exactly one place to buy liquor in town; apparently soon we'll have three times that many to buy weed. Lots of smaller/more conservative places have moratoriums in place and won't allow any at all, or won't for a year or so after everything sort of settles down.
I'm not sure if the WSLCB is inept or overly cautious or just wanted CO to go first and see what sort of problems they encountered but it's kind of annoying.
I'm also right near the Idaho border and I'm curious about how all that's going to pan out - the hippiest town in Idaho is right over the border from me, not sure if they're going to just throw their hands up and resign themselves or if they're going to crack down hard somehow. I was also reading something last week about places in the eastern suburbs of Spokane actively hoping to get business from places in Idaho that are decidedly more conservative than my neighbors.
― joygoat, Monday, 12 May 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
None in the majority-minority part of the city.
This is interesting because there are soooo many dispensaries on Rainier, including three clustered together just a couple blocks from my house.
― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Monday, 12 May 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
yeah, weird right? Everyone will have to go up and over beacon hill to sodo and Georgetown.
― stangelo (anky), Monday, 12 May 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
arcades?
― how's life, Monday, 12 May 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
ha do arcades still exist?
― marcos, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
Apparently!
http://www.arcadelocations.net/PlaceSearch.php?state=Washington
― how's life, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
we have a couple in SF
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
https://news.vice.com/article/legal-pot-in-the-us-is-crippling-mexican-cartels
― Mordy, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
cool
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 08:24 (nine years ago) link
i know this is a sentiment shared by everyone in this thread and anyone advocating legalization, but i've been thinking a lot about how completely ludricous, utterly bonkers, fucking batshit crazy it is that anyone would give enough of a shit about cannabis that they would spend billions of dollars to keep it illegal and try to incarcerate the millions and millions of people who use it. i mean, at some level i have always that thought this, going back all the way to my early stoner days as a teenager, so it's not a new revelation. but something about the larger media attention on legalization and the CO and WA state experiments have just kind of made me feel that there is not even a remotely good or even reasonable argument for prohibiting it.
― marcos, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
like it's long entered a territory in which i think you are just a fucking buffoon for thinking it should be illegal.
― marcos, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah. It's complete lunacy. The only people left opposing it are either completely maniacal insaniacs or people who stand to lose their jobs in the drug-war.
― how's life, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Two groups with an inordinate amount of power over the American political process, it should be noted
― building a desert (art), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
It's complete lunacy.
Like any psychoactive drug, cannabis can be abused enough to fuck up your life, usually as part of a larger mix of drugs and alcohol. Stories circulate in society about this kind of abuse and it forms the nucleus of opposition to legalization. It causes people to focus on the potential for harm in legalization, while being blind to the massive harm that's been caused by prohibition.
Locking up millions of mostly young people and funneling billions of dollars to murderous thugs who sow corruption wherever they operate is surely worse than any societal harm we are preventing through prohibition, but you have to recognize there will be various problems associated with legalization, too. It is a trade off, but a hugely beneficial one, taken as a whole.
― epoxy fule (Aimless), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
i use cannabis to fuck up my life errrrrrrdaaaayyyyy http://www.smiley-lol.com/smiley/musique/rasta-rap/vil-rappeur.gifhttp://www.smiley-lol.com/smiley/musique/rasta-rap/vil-rappeur.gifhttp://www.smiley-lol.com/smiley/musique/rasta-rap/vil-rappeur.gifhttp://www.smiley-lol.com/smiley/musique/rasta-rap/vil-rappeur.gifhttp://www.smiley-lol.com/smiley/musique/rasta-rap/vil-rappeur.gif
― write 500 words of song (sleepingbag), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
oh! you poor dear
― epoxy fule (Aimless), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
can i justhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl-rcmNLv8k
― marcos, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
I'm not going to stop you...bottoms up
― calstars, Thursday, 15 May 2014 00:28 (nine years ago) link
i wish i could remember how to put a youtube video on loop because i kinda love that
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 15 May 2014 06:37 (nine years ago) link
Urgh, that video is terrible. Adolescent cannabis culture is even worse than hippie cannabis culture.
― DISMISSED AS CHANCE (NotEnough), Thursday, 15 May 2014 07:00 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/magazine/the-bud-light-ification-of-bud.html?_r=0 about mass-market weed to arrive in the future
some very sloppy writing though:
The plant is relatively cheap and easy to grow, and not complicated to process either.
two paragraphs later:
The inefficiencies continue to pile up after the harvest. Marijuana has to be cured, then trimmed, before it is sold, and much of this work is still done by hand. Workers use scissors to cut away tough outer leaves and expose the smokable part of the plant. It’s a labor-intensive process...
― marcos, Monday, 19 May 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
so a labor-intensive process done by hand, but it's not a complicated process
― marcos, Monday, 19 May 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
ime that's accurate. it's time-consuming to harvest but not complicated. and definitely easy to grow.
― Mordy, Monday, 19 May 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
i get the point though, it's complicated now but won't be in the future given standard agricultural technology used for widespread legal crops. it just could've been written a little better, imo
― marcos, Monday, 19 May 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
looking forward to a How It's Made episode about big ag marijuana cultivation.
― how's life, Monday, 19 May 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
http://hemp.org/news/content/us-house-vote-again-amendment-defund-marijuana-raids
― Mordy, Monday, 19 May 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-our-mellow-dude.html?_r=0
such a dumb piece
― marcos, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
so many lolz
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
"I drank this entire bottle of vodka and got TOTALLY SICK why didn't anybody warn me??!?"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
maureen can't master her high
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--6KcIrYoq--/npoehdvui8zfjnhsmvjo.jpg
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
Ha, this reminds me of once when a woman told me about how scary weed was because the first time she tried it she ate several cookies and got really weird and I almost told her how stupid she was until I realized it was a totally inappropriate setting to cop to weed usage.
― uppers epilepsy sh@kedown (The Reverend), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
pizza is terrible, I ate one once and felt totally gross afterwards
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
it's okay that you got hella fucked up, drugs do that sometimesif it ain't your thing that's cool toojust, you know, don't write an NYT column about it
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
maureen doob
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
curling up into a fetal position and staring at the wall sounds more like a psychedelic kind of freakout rather than cannabis.
― calstars, Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
some people (me included) get hallucinatory or audio hallucinatory effects from weed
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 June 2014 06:32 (nine years ago) link
which, along with the intense paranoia, is why i quit smoking grass pretty much as soon as college was over
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 June 2014 06:33 (nine years ago) link