WEED, The Official Thread

[Tippster]

[Harry]

Got my MMJ card back. YAY !!!

Had one for several years, then the Tea Party dominated Montana legislature changed the rules and I no longer qualified. My med problem got worse (essential tremor) so now I qualify again.

Stopped at my MMJ Caregiver today and picked up some edibles. Ate a tasty brownie and it is starting to kick in. About to put the TGR Co-Lab movie into the DVD player. Nighty-nite homies...



Edit: next time I will cut the brownie in half. It is 8am and I woke up still high...

[splat]

[joetron]

I will be in CO all next week. Any recommendations for rec dispensaries with good flower selections? Anywhere in Glenwood, Eagle Cty, Summit and Denver area would be very appreciated.

[NoPostholio]

If you go by Bailey or Alma, I thought both of them were great. Big diff btwn the Denver proper ones and the ones in more rural areas. Most in Denver have ex military at door. Only bummer is price as it will be more in most spots for rec than most pay their dealer.

[skiHOG]

I've been impressed with the Farm in Boulder as of late. Great selection of flower, concentrates, and edibles. If you go before 10am it can knock another $10 off the price(picked up an 1/8 today for $32 for something they said was ~20% THC).

[NoPostholio]

I'm wheels down in 6 wks... Make sure that happens

[DasBlunt]

I've been impressed with the Farm in Boulder as of late. Great selection of flower, concentrates, and edibles. If you go before 10am it can knock another $10 off the price(picked up an 1/8 today for $32 for something they said was ~20% THC).

The Farm is still Med, or did they make the full transition to Rec?

[skiHOG]

The Farm is still Med, or did they make the full transition to Rec?

full rec. I think they have a medical only store now called Root.

[buttahflake]

it's getting closer, TC might be right.
Vermont, just might beat Maine, for east coast legalization.
http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S3437057.shtml?cat=300

i can see VT from my house!

[rideit]

The FBI might just have to get 420 tolerant for certain employees....
http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/20/57...ght-cybercrime

Interesting development.

[KQ]

July 8th.... July 8th... July 8th.......

[wooley12]

Get to the store early. Like the night before.

[KQ]

Get to the store early. Like the night before.

Won't be happening where I live - closest stores are Wenatchee, Yakima and Spokane. I can wait until I make my annual pilgrimage to the wet side in August. I'm just excited it is finally happening.

BTW- does it crack anyone else up how ppl are freaking out re: labeling? Oh no... don't make it appealing to kids! Don't make favors and treats that might entice them! Funny.... just saw an ad for Hard Cider that was a cartoon of young ppl dancing and having fun while drinking apple flavored alcohol. THAT'S certainly nothing that would interest a kid. Nahhhhhhhhhhh, not at all.

[Bromontana]

Yes the label/packaging requirements are absurd. Some are treating it like mj is a new drug, one far worse than alcohol. Meanwhile the drunk driving deaths pile up.

Triple fatality from drunk driving in Denver this week, bet you didn't hear about it though. Early on the learning curve.

[KQ]

I'm all for ppls right to smoke marijuana but this is ridiculous. If I had a kid here I'd be pissed and I'm pro-pot. I've said it before and I'll say it again.... why do ppl this it is different from alcohol? Would she drink alcohol on the job? Would anyone think that is okay? Just last night on the new they had a story on how Washington state troopers wanted to get the message out that if you drive high you're going to get a DUI - well duh. Why shouldn't you? You should get one too if you're on prescription meds. A drug is a drug.

Daycare owners say they smoke medical marijuana with kids in the house


The state is investigating a Salem daycare center for neglect in connection to the use of medical marijuana. The facility’s license is suspended during the investigation.

The owners of Alphabet Academy Learning Center admitted to KATU that staff members smoke with children nearby, but they say they haven’t broken the law.

“It helps with the pain, and it allows me to get up and start walking,” said Charity Araujo, who runs the day care center at her home with her daughter Moriah. “I think anytime anybody brings up, oh my gosh medical marijuana, I think people automatically get concerned.”

Araujo said she, her daughter and a few other staff members have medical marijuana cards but there is always an adult in charge who has not used marijuana. A condition of the daycare license requires “a second adult must be the primary caregiver when the license holder is under the influence of marijuana.”

“They can come in anytime they want and check,” said Araujo. “We always, always are over in staff.”

However, an Oregon Department of Human Services spokesman said medical marijuana falls under an Oregon law that requires not one under the influence “may be in the home when child care children are present.”

Araujo showed KATU News the canopy in her backyard where she said they “medicate.” It’s about 25 feet away from a short, locked fence dividing the backyard from the playground for children in daycare.

When asked if the kids can see staff members smoking, Araujo said they always zip the canopy shut.

“When we medicate, our kids are in the house for nap time,” she added. “Our kids are in the house because they're done for the day.”

A neighbor told KATU she’s seen Araujo’s daughter with two bongs outside the canopy while kids were still outside.

Araujo said she’s not afraid of the investigation.

“They're going to talk to the children and they are going to find out for themselves we haven't done anything inappropriate,” she said. “We followed the rules.”

Parents with children at the daycare have been notified. The state investigation can take up to 30 days.

[buttahflake]

the 'grey lady' sez, legalize it!
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...an-region&_r=1

[liv2ski]

Ha Ha.... funny stuff. Like Congress can get anything done.
"We recognize that this Congress is as unlikely to take action on marijuana as it has been on other big issues. But it is long past time to repeal this version of Prohibition".
If you can vote, (I can't) please vote for a non Demo/Repub candidate. All those douches need to be flushed from the system until they learn to represent the people and get shit done again.

[JrockSF]

Some nug run dewaxed sour D

[Bobby Stainless]

Some nug run dewaxed sour D

Damn....

[KQ]

Big change proposed for federal marijuana law

Federal marijuana bill would legalize some cannabis strains

(CNN) -- Doctors in Macon, Georgia, told Janea Cox that her daughter, Haleigh, might not live another three months.
That was the middle of March, when Haleigh's brain was being short-circuited by hundreds of seizures a day, overrunning the array of five potent drugs meant to control them. Worse, the drugs were damaging Haleigh's organs.
"She was maxed out," Cox said. "She'd quit breathing several times a day, and the doctors blamed it on the seizure medications."

Cox had heard that a form of medical marijuana might help, but it wasn't available in central Georgia. So a week after hearing the ominous diagnosis, she and Haleigh packed up and moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado. There, Haleigh began a regimen of cannabis oil: four times a day and once at night.

By summer, she was down to just a handful of seizures a day. In less than three months, doctors were able to wean her off Depakote, a powerful medication that had been damaging her liver.

Haleigh had never been able to walk or talk. But freed from seizures in Colorado, "She said 'Mama' for the first time," Cox said. "She's playing with puzzles; she's walking. She's almost being a normal child."

Despite all the good news, Cox is living in limbo. Her husband, a paramedic, couldn't afford to leave his job and pension; he still lives and works in Forsyth, Georgia. The family is relying on charity to keep their Colorado apartment for the next few months; beyond that, the future is uncertain.

A bill being introduced Monday in the U.S. House of Representatives could be Cox's ticket home. The three-page bill would amend the Controlled Substances Act -- the federal law that criminalizes marijuana -- to exempt plants with an extremely low percentage of THC, the chemical that makes users high.

If passed, it would be the first time that federal law allows any medical marijuana use.

"No one should face a choice of having their child suffer or moving to Colorado and splitting up their family," said Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pennsylvania, the bill's sponsor. "We live in America, and if there's something that would make my child better, and they can't get it because of the government, that's not right."

The bill will land in a Congress that may be open to change. Across the country, highly sympathetic patients and a nonintoxicating product have proved a popular mix. This year alone, 11 states have passed legislation loosening regulation of cannabis strains with high cannabidiol and/or minimal THC content.

In this atmosphere, Perry says that once members and their staffs are brought up to speed, he expects the bill to attract "overwhelming" support.

"It wouldn't be surprising if we see broad support for this proposal," agreed Mason Tvert, communications director at the Marijuana Policy Project, which advocates for marijuana and medical marijuana legalization. "If this bill gets support, it will demonstrate that there is recognition of marijuana's medical benefits."

Dubbed the Charlotte's Web Medical Hemp Act of 2014, the bill is named after Charlotte Figi, a young Colorado girl whose parents have campaigned nationwide for easier access to medical marijuana after successfully controlling their daughter's seizures with cannabis oil. Since her story became known, a growing number of parents have flocked to Colorado, hoping for similar success.

The Charlotte's Web cannabis strain, developed by the Realm of Caring nonprofit organization in Colorado Springs, is in high demand, in part because of the attention it's received in the media. Many families wait months for a batch to be grown and processed into cannabis oil. Perry's bill, however, would apply to any cannabis strain with a THC content of less than 0.3%.

Charlotte's Web and similar strains not only have minimal THC, they have high levels of cannabidiol, another chemical. A growing body of anecdotal evidence suggests that cannabidiol can effectively control seizures, though there are no published studies to support its use.

It's easy to find critics who say parents should follow a more traditional route.

"There is no evidence for marijuana as a treatment for seizures," Rep. John Fleming, R-Louisiana, a physician, claimed during a congressional hearing last month. "We hear anecdotal stories, and that's how myths come about."

Fleming and others point out that a pharmaceutical version of cannabidiol oil, called Epidiolex, is being tested in clinical trials. But many children aren't able to get into the trials. Haleigh Cox is disqualified because she has type-1 diabetes. Others aren't willing to wait several months to be enrolled.

"With Epidiolex, there just aren't enough seats at the table," said Mark Knecht, a father from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, whose story helped inspire Perry's bill.

His daughter Anna, 11, has epilepsy and suffers anywhere from a handful of seizures a day to more than 100, despite her four anti-convulsant medications. Knecht, the chief financial officer of a large Christian medical nonprofit, says Anna has been evaluated at several top hospitals but couldn't land a spot in the Epidiolex trial.

Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have laws on the books allowing medical marijuana for a variety of conditions. But even as states rewrite their regulations, federal law remains the same: Marijuana is illegal to grow, sell or use for any purpose. Under the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, marijuana is listed on Schedule 1, meaning it has "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse." To backers of reform, the Catch-22 is familiar: Marijuana is restricted in large part because there is little research to support medical uses; research is difficult to conduct because of tight restrictions.

A series of memos from the Justice Department has said that arresting individual medical marijuana users is not a priority, and a 2013 memo added that federal prosecutors should not target large commercial operations except on a case-by-case basis. But most observers say that shipping or transporting the drug across state lines ups the ante.

"For families like us, the biggest issue is the federal issue. You can't take it across state lines," Knecht explained.
His family still lives in Mechanicsburg. But after seeing CNN's medical marijuana documentary last year, Anna and her mother, Deb, established residency in Colorado, where they obtained a medical marijuana card that let them place an order for a batch cannabis oil, in hopes it will control Anna's seizures. If Perry's bill becomes law, Knecht says, "Realm of Caring could just put it in a FedEx package."

The Food and Drug Administration is conducting a review of scientific evidence to determine whether marijuana warrants looser treatment, but a spokeswoman says there's no set date to complete the analysis. A review in 2011 ended with the Drug Enforcement Administration leaving marijuana's status unaltered.
But certain actions in Congress give Perry and his supporters hope.

This month, the House passed a bill allowing banks to handle cash proceeds from dispensaries and other legal marijuana businesses.

The most recent Farm Bill allows industrial hemp -- a strain of cannabis without THC -- to be grown for academic or research purposes. That didn't stop the Drug Enforcement Administration from seizing a shipment of hemp seeds bound for the University of Kentucky this spring. In response, the Senate Appropriations Committee, with support from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, passed an amendment blocking DEA funds for anti-hemp enforcement.

In May, the House passed a measure blocking money for DEA raids on marijuana dispensaries that are legal under state law.

And just last week, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky took it a step further, introducing an amendment to the Jobs Bill that would forbid federal prosecution of doctors and patients whose actions are legal under state medical marijuana laws.
"If states allow doctors to prescribe medical marijuana, and people are in good faith prescribing medical marijuana, we want to make sure it's OK and that the federal government doesn't come in and prosecute somebody," said Brian Darling, Paul's communications director.

The amendment seems likely to die amidst wrangling over the Jobs Bill, but Darling says his boss plans to move forward on a standalone measure.

"There are a lot of people who have been locked up on marijuana laws for a long time," Darling said. "The War on Drugs has gone overboard."

Knecht doesn't want to uproot his family to move to Colorado. But he says his hand may be forced. "We're taking this situation one day at a time."

That's where Janea Cox was a few months ago. She hadn't heard about Perry's bill until she got a call from a reporter but says she understands where the Pennsylvania families are coming from. She's angry at home-state lawmakers who failed to push through Georgia's cannabidiol oil bill this spring.

"I lived in Georgia for 17 years," she said, "but here in Colorado, I met my child for the first time, at the age of 5."

[Timberridge]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/fa...tate.html?_r=0

"The Meisels and Melshenker nuptials looked as if their inspiration had come not from the pages of Martha Stewart Weddings but from High Times. All of the floral arrangements, including the bride’s bouquet, contained a variety of white flowers mixed with marijuana buds and leaves. Mr. Melshenker and his groomsmen wore boutonnieres crafted out of twine and marijuana buds, and Mr. Melshenker’s three dogs, who were also in attendance, wore collars made of cannabis buds, eucalyptus leaves and pink ribbons.


All of the floral arrangements, including the bride’s bouquet, for the Meisels and Melshenker nuptials in Colorado had a variety of white flowers mixed with marijuana buds and leaves, like this bouquet made by Plum Sage Flowers in Denver.

Before going into dinner, the guests were given a baby marijuana plant in a ceramic pot with their name and table assignment written on a card in green ink, in the kind of stylish script you might find on a container of artisanal goat cheese. The tables were named after different strains of marijuana, like Blue Dream, Sour Diesel and Skywalker (the groom’s favorite strain). Ms. Epstein, who was seated at Skywalker, said that everyone at her table, where the ages ranged from 40 to 70, passed around a device similar to an electronic cigarette — except that it contained hash oil instead of nicotine. “It didn’t feel weird or bizarre,” she said. “It kind of becomes a new cocktail.”

With the sale of marijuana for recreational use now legal in Colorado and Washington State, pot and its various paraphernalia are becoming visible at weddings in those states — as table favors for guests like miniature vaporizers or group activites like a hookah lounge.

Brides and grooms, even ones who say they don’t partake often but want to be hospitable, are giving guests choices that are much different than the standard merlot or chardonnay. Now, the choice could be Tangerine Haze or Grape Ape."

[NoPostholio]

the 'grey lady' sez, legalize it!
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...an-region&_r=1

Just caught up on the articles the NYT has written on teh weed all week - hats off to their editorial staff for taking the gloves off completely and calling total bullshit on govt policies of the last 7 decades and how they have evolved based on total ignorant bullshit.

Great example in today's article -

"Mr. Bonnie and Mr. Whitebread report that the witness list for those hearings contained not a single person who had done significant research into the effects of cannabis. Mr. Anslinger testified that even a single marijuana cigarette could induce a “homicidal mania,” prompting people to want to kill those they loved. The bill passed handily; President Franklin Roosevelt signed it into law."

[NoPostholio]

I like how it was Mr whitebread making the decisions

[neufox47]

Friend of the family in RI is battling the big C and has lost a ton of weight. 40lbs in less than a month. Wants to try the magical weight gain plant. Best dry, portable vape? Pax, Firefly, Davinci, other?