Why California’s legal marijuana sales rollout could be delayed
SANTA ROSA — Amid the euphoria of this weekend’s famed
Emerald Cup weed fest, there was this creeping buzzkill: the glacial rollout of legalization.
Right when it seems like “The Great Pot Moment” is upon us, it turns out there are a lot of really tough regulatory issues to resolve first, according to government and industry experts who sketched out all the thorny challenges at the two-day conference, competition and harvest celebration at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds.
And implementation of commercialization could be delayed a year until 2019, said insiders. (cont)
F*cking asshole politicians and bureaucrats. No wonder a lot of people in this country want to give them their walking papers.
Recreational Marijuana In Mass. — The Legal Do's And Don'ts To Know
Recreational marijuana is becoming legal in Massachusetts — legal, but not readily available.
The ballot question
approved by voters Nov. 8 is scheduled to go into effect Thursday, allowing adults to have limited quantities of marijuana for recreational purposes and grow pot plants in their homes. The catch: It's still illegal to sell marijuana in Massachusetts -- except to registered medical marijuana patients -- and will remain so for at least a year until the first pot shops are licensed and regulated.
For now, it's smoke 'em if you got 'em.
"For the average citizen ... this is going to mean they have to wait a while until they can go into a store or facility and purchase marijuana over the counter," said Martin Healy, chief legal counsel for the Massachusetts Bar Association. (cont.)
More asshole politicians and bureaucrats.
Let’s maximize medical use of marijuana
s the smoke cleared after Election Day 2016, we found ourselves at the dawn of a new era for cannabis in the United States.
As early as
this week in Massachusetts, and over the course of the next few weeks and months elsewhere, new marijuana laws will go into effect. On Election Day, four states, including California (the most populous state in the union),
voted to legalize recreational marijuana, bringing the national total to eight states plus the District of Columbia. Four other states voted to allow the use of cannabis in a medical capacity, which means that medical marijuana is now legal in more than half of all states.
To put the election results into perspective, the percentage of Americans now living in an area where recreational marijuana is legal, or will soon be, rose from 5 percent to 20 percent.
Given the accelerated acceptance for the use of cannabis, it’s worth considering the consequences of these new laws. There has been plenty of hand-wringing about how these new laws might harm society, but I believe they have the potential to help in a range of societal issues. (cont)
Activists Roll Joint, Offer Free Pot at Jeff Sessions Office as Threats Swirl to Legalization Framework
Marijuana legalization activists returned to the office of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions on Thursday, successfully sneaking cannabis past a security checkpoint so they could offer it for use by the attorney general nominee or his staff.
Sessions communications director Chris Jackson deftly handled the two dozen office visitors, listening politely to stories about medical use of the plant and arguments against prohibition, but he declined to accept a sample of the drug that is increasingly legalized or decriminalized at the state level but remains illegal in the eyes of federal authorities.
Although at least two activists brought weed, with one laying some on a table and another rolling a joint as he wore a hunk on his suit jacket, Jackson did not call U.S. Capitol Police, who can and do make arrests on federal charges for bring pot onto Capitol grounds.
The permissive approach was welcomed by the activists, who recommended that Sessions commit to a similarly hands-off policy if he leads the Justice Department (cont)
Jeff Sessions = politician Politicians and bureaucrats = assholes Couldn't happen to a nicer guy, yeah...right. LOL
