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cybrguy
Putin is a War Criminal
CarolKing
Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
Willie's Weed: Coming Soon to Colorado and Washington
July 23, 2016
If you live in Washington or Colorado, you’ll soon be able legally to partake of Willie Nelson’s premium brand of cannabis. Willie’s Reserve is expected to be available in select stores in July in Washington, before debuting in Colorado in August.
In a press release that calls the Country Music Hall of Famer “the face of responsible marijuana use in the United States,” Willie says he always knew marijuana would be legalized. He’s just surprised it happened in his lifetime.
“I’ve smoked enough and I want to give back,” he admits candidly. “Now that legalization is spreading across the country, there’s a great opportunity to build a company that can help a lot of people. I hope it gives social justice to those who are incarcerated for doing what we’re now doing legally,” he adds.
To celebrate, Willie will do a show this Saturday at Marymoor Park in Redmond, Washington. He’ll follow with another concert July 30 at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre in Greenwood, Colorado.
July 23, 2016
In a press release that calls the Country Music Hall of Famer “the face of responsible marijuana use in the United States,” Willie says he always knew marijuana would be legalized. He’s just surprised it happened in his lifetime.
“I’ve smoked enough and I want to give back,” he admits candidly. “Now that legalization is spreading across the country, there’s a great opportunity to build a company that can help a lot of people. I hope it gives social justice to those who are incarcerated for doing what we’re now doing legally,” he adds.
To celebrate, Willie will do a show this Saturday at Marymoor Park in Redmond, Washington. He’ll follow with another concert July 30 at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre in Greenwood, Colorado.
CarolKing
Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
Cannabis has been important and interwoven throughout Willie's life. He's going to take pride in the product that he sells IMO. If he he doesn't, people won't buy it just for the name. We can review on FC when it comes out on the "my stash" or one of the other threads.
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grokit
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Marijuana Legalization: Pharmaceuticals, Alcohol Industry Among Biggest Opponents Of Legal Weed
Opponents of marijuana legalization argue that decriminalizing pot increases crime, creates juvenile delinquents and can even lead to more marijuana-related deaths. But there is another reason for the crusade against marijuana that involves some people losing lots of money as the country becomes increasingly pot friendly, according to a recent report from The Nation and a study by the Center for Responsive Politics.
The biggest players in the anti-marijuana legalization movement are pharmaceutical, alcohol and beer companies, private prison corporations and police unions, all of whom help fund lobby groups that challenge marijuana law reform. In 2010, California Beer and Beverage Distributors funneled $10,000 to Public Safety First, a political action committee, or PAC, that led the opposition to California’s Prop 19. The initiative, if passed, would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state.
Corrections Corporations of America, one of the largest for-profit prison companies in the U.S., has spent nearly $1 million a year on lobbying efforts. The company even stated in a report that “changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances … could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted, and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them.”
Among the largest donors to Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, a New York City-based nonprofit that campaigns against teen drug and alcohol abuse, are Purdue Pharma, makers of the painkiller OxyContin, and Abbott Laboratories, which produces the opioid Vicodin. Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, or CADCA, a Virginia-based anti-drug organization, also receives donations from Purdue Pharma, as well as Janssen Pharmaceutical, a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson that manufactures the painkiller Nucynta, according to The Nation.
The reason for opposing marijuana reform is simple: Legal weed hurts these companies’ bottom lines. “There is big money in marijuana prohibition,” the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C., notes in a recent series on marijuana lobbying efforts, including who funds legislation to keep the drug illegal.
Part of the missions of groups like Partnership for Drug-Free Kids and CADCA is to lobby Congress to maintain marijuana’s classification as a Schedule 1 drug, meaning the U.S. government considers the drug as having a high potential for abuse, has no medical use and poses risks to public safety. Nevermind that more than 22,000 people die every year in the U.S. from overdoses involving pharmaceutical drugs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Three out of every four pharmaceutical overdose deaths involve painkillers -- more than heroin and cocaine combined.
“I think it’s hypocritical to remain silent with regard to the scheduling of hydrocodone products, while investing energy in maintaining marijuana as a Schedule I drug,” Andrew Kolodny, a New York psychiatrist and head of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, told The Nation. “I don’t think it’s inappropriate for them to be advocating on marijuana, [but] when we have a severe epidemic in America -- one the CDC says is the worst drug epidemic in US history -- it makes you wonder whether or not they’ve been influenced by their funding.”
The idea is that drug companies want to sell expensive drugs by downplaying the medical benefits of marijuana, alcohol and beer manufacturers do not want to compete for customers with legal pot, and private prisons need to fill their beds with convicted drug offenders. That means marijuana advocates have some pretty large -- and well-funded -- enemies to contend with.
slide show here:
http://www.ibtimes.com/marijuana-le...ry-among-biggest-opponents-legal-weed-1651166
Meanwhile in Colorado the governor has recently admitted that the common fears (increase in teen use, driving while high) have not materialized, even 4 years later. Evidence has even suggested that drug dealers have declined.
New Study Makes A Serious Public Health Case For Medical Marijuana
States that legalized marijuana as a medical alternative saw a drop in prescription drug use, according to a new study published in July in Health Affairs — suggesting that medical marijuana may be one way to combat the United States’ deadly opioid epidemic.
States that legalized marijuana as a medical alternative saw a drop in prescription drug use, according to a new study published in July in Health Affairs — suggesting that medical marijuana may be one way to combat the United States’ deadly opioid epidemic.
little maggie
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...medicare-spending_us_5794dfc0e4b0d3568f8395de
Marijuana sales are saving medicare quite a bit of money by decreasing prescription sales. No surprise that pharmacy companies oppose it's legalization.
Marijuana sales are saving medicare quite a bit of money by decreasing prescription sales. No surprise that pharmacy companies oppose it's legalization.
HighSeasSailor
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Now even towns can get false positives on their drug tests
Remember the tiny Colorado town that supposedly had THC in the water, so that officials told everyone not to drink or wash in it?
If you said "B-b-but THC isn't water soluble!" you win the big prize. Of course there wasn't THC in the water supply of a town that doesn't allow cannabis growing or sales, much less where the hell would that much THC come from? The dummies just can't get a drug test to work right even on plain ol' water.
Remember the tiny Colorado town that supposedly had THC in the water, so that officials told everyone not to drink or wash in it?
If you said "B-b-but THC isn't water soluble!" you win the big prize. Of course there wasn't THC in the water supply of a town that doesn't allow cannabis growing or sales, much less where the hell would that much THC come from? The dummies just can't get a drug test to work right even on plain ol' water.
HighSeasSailor
Well-Known Member
Italian Army Grows Top Shelf Pot for Patients
And they want to force prices down to €8/g. Awfully kind of them, isn't it?
And they want to force prices down to €8/g. Awfully kind of them, isn't it?
TheVaporist
Man is a universe within himself
Five plants but only 15 grams at home?
Happy Italian growers!
The Average Legal Pot User Spends $647 a Year on Weed
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...rage-legal-pot-user-spends-647-a-year-on-weed
I'm guessing we're above average around here
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...rage-legal-pot-user-spends-647-a-year-on-weed
I'm guessing we're above average around here
cybrguy
Putin is a War Criminal
Governor signs bill reducing marijuana penalties in Illinois
IVAN MORENO
July 29, 2016
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Marijuana possession in small amounts in Illinois will be punishable by fines but not jail time after Gov. Bruce Rauner signed legislation Friday that makes the state the third largest to decriminalize minor pot offenses.
The new law, which takes effect immediately, makes having 10 grams or less of marijuana will be a civil offense, punishable with a fine of up to $200. The Republican governor had been expected to sign the bill because it included language he requested after vetoing similar legislation last year. In his message to lawmakers at the time, Rauner said that existing penalties for petty marijuana offenses were too severe and that "criminal prosecution of cannabis possession is also a drain on public resources."
The new law also sets a standard for what's considered too impaired to drive. Currently, any trace of marijuana is enough to be considered impaired, but marijuana advocates have long criticized zero-tolerance states' approach because marijuana can stay in a person's system for several weeks. The new law makes the standard 5 nanograms of THC, marijuana's intoxicating chemical, in a driver's blood within two hours of consumption.
The Associated Press was first to report the bill signing. A state official with knowledge of the governor's decision told the AP about the signing but spoke on the condition of anonymity because a formal announcement had not yet been made.
With Rauner's signature, Illinois joins 16 other states, including New York and California, that have decriminalized marijuana possession in small amounts.
The governor's office said Rauner would not be making a statement on the bill signing.
Police chiefs and sheriffs have expressed reservations about changing the law and worked with Rauner for weeks to prepare for its implementation. One police chief said he's concerned more people will have access to marijuana because of the change.
"You're giving individuals more opportunities for drug usage," said Laimutis Nargelenas, a former lobbyist for the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police and the current police chief for the Springfield Park District.
He said authorities are working on developing paperwork for traffic infractions to track how many people are driving high across the state because of the law change.
The sponsors of the bill praised Rauner's action, saying the state should focus on punishing and treating people for more serious drugs.
"Fundamentally, this is about how we utilize our limited law enforcement resources," said Rep. Kelly Cassidy, a Chicago Democrat.
About 100 Illinois communities, including Chicago, already give police discretion to issue citations instead of making arrests for having small amounts of the drug. Lawmakers said they were concerned that minorities were being treated differently by police when handled marijuana offenses.
"We're treating people really differently across the state, and we should be really getting out of that," said Chicago Democratic Sen. Heather Steans, another bill sponsor.
The law would also require municipalities to purge citation records for possession every six months, unless local governments decide against it. Supporters argue people shouldn't be saddled with lifelong criminal records for minor offenses that make it difficult to find employment or housing.
The bill Rauner vetoed last year set guidelines that were less strict than the new law. Lawmakers wanted possession of up to 15 grams of marijuana to be a civil offense punishable with a fine between $55 and $125. Lawmakers also initially proposed that the standard for a marijuana DUI be 15 nanograms
IVAN MORENO
July 29, 2016
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Marijuana possession in small amounts in Illinois will be punishable by fines but not jail time after Gov. Bruce Rauner signed legislation Friday that makes the state the third largest to decriminalize minor pot offenses.
The new law, which takes effect immediately, makes having 10 grams or less of marijuana will be a civil offense, punishable with a fine of up to $200. The Republican governor had been expected to sign the bill because it included language he requested after vetoing similar legislation last year. In his message to lawmakers at the time, Rauner said that existing penalties for petty marijuana offenses were too severe and that "criminal prosecution of cannabis possession is also a drain on public resources."
The new law also sets a standard for what's considered too impaired to drive. Currently, any trace of marijuana is enough to be considered impaired, but marijuana advocates have long criticized zero-tolerance states' approach because marijuana can stay in a person's system for several weeks. The new law makes the standard 5 nanograms of THC, marijuana's intoxicating chemical, in a driver's blood within two hours of consumption.
The Associated Press was first to report the bill signing. A state official with knowledge of the governor's decision told the AP about the signing but spoke on the condition of anonymity because a formal announcement had not yet been made.
With Rauner's signature, Illinois joins 16 other states, including New York and California, that have decriminalized marijuana possession in small amounts.
The governor's office said Rauner would not be making a statement on the bill signing.
Police chiefs and sheriffs have expressed reservations about changing the law and worked with Rauner for weeks to prepare for its implementation. One police chief said he's concerned more people will have access to marijuana because of the change.
"You're giving individuals more opportunities for drug usage," said Laimutis Nargelenas, a former lobbyist for the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police and the current police chief for the Springfield Park District.
He said authorities are working on developing paperwork for traffic infractions to track how many people are driving high across the state because of the law change.
The sponsors of the bill praised Rauner's action, saying the state should focus on punishing and treating people for more serious drugs.
"Fundamentally, this is about how we utilize our limited law enforcement resources," said Rep. Kelly Cassidy, a Chicago Democrat.
About 100 Illinois communities, including Chicago, already give police discretion to issue citations instead of making arrests for having small amounts of the drug. Lawmakers said they were concerned that minorities were being treated differently by police when handled marijuana offenses.
"We're treating people really differently across the state, and we should be really getting out of that," said Chicago Democratic Sen. Heather Steans, another bill sponsor.
The law would also require municipalities to purge citation records for possession every six months, unless local governments decide against it. Supporters argue people shouldn't be saddled with lifelong criminal records for minor offenses that make it difficult to find employment or housing.
The bill Rauner vetoed last year set guidelines that were less strict than the new law. Lawmakers wanted possession of up to 15 grams of marijuana to be a civil offense punishable with a fine between $55 and $125. Lawmakers also initially proposed that the standard for a marijuana DUI be 15 nanograms
waxdab23
Well-Known Member
Page Six: Montel Williams briefly held at airport for marijuana.
Montel Williams was temporarily held at a German airport because of his medical marijuana prescription Friday morning.
“This morning while traveling through the Frankfurt Airport, Montel was briefly held in German customs while they verified the validity of one of his MS prescriptions,” according to a statement shared on the television personality’s Facebook page. “Once it was verified, he was promptly released...
http://pagesix.com/2016/07/29/montel-williams-briefly-held-in-german-airport-over-marijuana/
Montel Williams was temporarily held at a German airport because of his medical marijuana prescription Friday morning.
“This morning while traveling through the Frankfurt Airport, Montel was briefly held in German customs while they verified the validity of one of his MS prescriptions,” according to a statement shared on the television personality’s Facebook page. “Once it was verified, he was promptly released...
http://pagesix.com/2016/07/29/montel-williams-briefly-held-in-german-airport-over-marijuana/
CarolKing
Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
The map below uses data from a new report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to determine cannabis consumption rates throughout the United States.
The report used data from 204,000 individuals.
This data doesn't include very many people unfortunately. Interesting - I thought I'd share.
CK
The report used data from 204,000 individuals.
This data doesn't include very many people unfortunately. Interesting - I thought I'd share.
CK
Fat Freddy
FUCK CANCER TOO !
Yep...you would think the percentages would be higher particularly in legal states.
That biggest red area in Ohio is essentially our version of Humboldt County and home to my undergrad alma mater, Ohio University, Athens! It's located in the foothills of Appalachia.
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Canna-butter, astro eggs and other costly superfood trends
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/health/expensive-health-food-trends/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/health/expensive-health-food-trends/index.html
CuckFumbustion
Lo and Behold! The transformative power of Vapor.
CarolKing
Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
Share of Americans Who Admit Current Pot Use Nearly Doubles in Three Years
new Gallup poll out today finds that percent of American adults who say they currently smoke marijuana has nearly doubled over the past three years.
In 2013, only 7 percent of adults said they were marijuana smokers. When Gallup asked again in July of this year, 13 percent admitted to current marijuana use. That works out to more than 33 million adult marijuana users in the U.S. If America's marijuana users resided in one state, it would be bigger than Texas and second only to California in population.
There are currently about 40 million cigarette smokers in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Given that cigarette use is in decline, marijuana use could become more prevalent than cigarette use in just a few years' time.
There are likely several factors driving these numbers. Since 2013, recreational marijuana markets opened in Colorado and Washington, and several other states voted to legalize marijuana in the fall 2014. It's likely that adults in those places are taking advantage of the new opportunities to indulge legally.
[Marijuana's biggest adversary on Capitol Hill is sponsoring a bill to research ... marijuana]
Part of the rise may also be due to decreased social stigma surrounding marijuana use. National surveys show support for legal marijuana hovering in the 55 percent to 60 percent range. Certain legislators have called for restrictions on marijuana to be loosened at the federal level use or to legalize it completely.
Recreational marijuana use remains illegal at the federal level and in most states. Police are arrested for possessing marijuana at record-high rates -- more than 1,700 per day, according to 2014 data from the FBI.
Still, attitudes toward marijuana use have come a long way from the "this is your brain on drugs" era of the 1980s and '90s, when Ronald Reagan was calling marijuana "the most dangerous drug in the United States" and top law enforcement officials were publicly calling for marijuana smokers to be "taken out and shot."
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