grokit
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Their is one hope, that he's so 'by the book' that he'll do it just to simplify his freakin' job, and because democracy lol. But that would also mean putting his adamantly-expressed personal biases aside.
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What actually happened to violent crime after Washington legalized marijuana
“Experts are telling me there's more violence around marijuana than one would think and there’s big money involved,” Sessions said.
But those statements run contrary to the experience in Washington state, which became one of the first two U.S. states to legalize recreational marijuana use for adults in 2012. Since voters approved Initiative 502, FBI crime statistics show lower rates of violent crime in Washington than before legalization. According to the FBI data, in 2011 there were 295.6 violent offenses reported per 100,000 Washington residents. In 2015, the most recent full year of data available, that rate had fallen to 284.4 violent offenses per 100,000 people.
“Experts are telling me there's more violence around marijuana than one would think and there’s big money involved,” Sessions said.
But those statements run contrary to the experience in Washington state, which became one of the first two U.S. states to legalize recreational marijuana use for adults in 2012. Since voters approved Initiative 502, FBI crime statistics show lower rates of violent crime in Washington than before legalization. According to the FBI data, in 2011 there were 295.6 violent offenses reported per 100,000 Washington residents. In 2015, the most recent full year of data available, that rate had fallen to 284.4 violent offenses per 100,000 people.
CarolKing
Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
Media Can’t Help But Blow Smoke About Cannabis
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BY TWB ON JULY 24, 2017GUEST POST
The way a media outlet frames a story is essential and can influence our understanding of it. Their version of a story can affect public opinion or generate awareness in a community. Historically they have been the ones to deliver the facts, less so when the topic of cannabis comes up though.
By now we all realize that marijuana is not the harmful substance the last few generations believed it to be. I would wager that most of our nightly news correspondents have even tried it. So, if we are all on the same page about this stuff, then why does the media treat it so flippantly? The media seems incapable of treating a marijuana story professionally, and for them to continue to do so could even be harmful to the industry. 60 Minutes, a news magazine steeped in credibility, is not even capable of doing a cannabis story they do not sensationalize or passively ridicule. Every story they have done since 2009 is full of ridiculous puns like “high turnout for pot”, “marijuana store is high on profits” or “burning the midnight hash oil”. If that was the type of headline you saw for a story regarding race or sexuality people would be extremely offended.
The media has a responsibility to offer the facts, to take a more serious role in educating the public on legitimate topics, and to stop turning every story on marijuana into a damn joke. I would prefer to see an unbiased story rather than one that paints the cannabis user as a cartoon stereotype. People are coming around, and fast, and it won’t be long before the federal government has no choice but to follow suit. If the media would like to clean up their current image a little bit they could start with their news stories featuring a fair narrative. One good place to start might be with cannabis.
In discussing cannabis, the popular media does not even portray themselves like they are ready to have a serious conversation on the matter. News outlets and journalists tend to offer inaccurate language when discussing this industry.
They portray people who are pro-marijuana as stoner hippies, not as average citizens who are looking to restrict outdated laws that have no place in current society. I do not have dreadlocks or patchwork clothing. My eyes are not bloodshot and I am not eating a bag of Cheetos, yet that is all you seem to see on any given evening news story. Media outlets often fail to mention that many of the people in the pro-legalization movement are looking to help themselves or a loved one who may need the plant medicinally. They tend to go with the stoner caricature that we all know too well, it is never a middle-aged woman dealing with arthritis and fibromyalgia.
What about those folks interested in collecting possible tax and tourism dollars to benefit their state? How about the amount of money and time spent by law enforcement agencies prosecuting cannabis offenders when that could be focused elsewhere? Then there are the scare-tactics they employ when discussing marijuana and children. Kids are more at danger from their cell phones than their parent’s weed drawer. A report highlighting challenges faced by the new business owners or one showcasing an industry that is trying to clean up its image is worth consideration.
When the media can address this subject with a little more tact we will notice a change in the public’s perception. They should begin considering both sides of the story and start thinking of themselves as educators on the subject of cannabis, very few people are informed about this plant after all. The effect they have could have would be incredible. They should also apologize for their stupid puns.
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BY TWB ON JULY 24, 2017GUEST POST
The way a media outlet frames a story is essential and can influence our understanding of it. Their version of a story can affect public opinion or generate awareness in a community. Historically they have been the ones to deliver the facts, less so when the topic of cannabis comes up though.
By now we all realize that marijuana is not the harmful substance the last few generations believed it to be. I would wager that most of our nightly news correspondents have even tried it. So, if we are all on the same page about this stuff, then why does the media treat it so flippantly? The media seems incapable of treating a marijuana story professionally, and for them to continue to do so could even be harmful to the industry. 60 Minutes, a news magazine steeped in credibility, is not even capable of doing a cannabis story they do not sensationalize or passively ridicule. Every story they have done since 2009 is full of ridiculous puns like “high turnout for pot”, “marijuana store is high on profits” or “burning the midnight hash oil”. If that was the type of headline you saw for a story regarding race or sexuality people would be extremely offended.
The media has a responsibility to offer the facts, to take a more serious role in educating the public on legitimate topics, and to stop turning every story on marijuana into a damn joke. I would prefer to see an unbiased story rather than one that paints the cannabis user as a cartoon stereotype. People are coming around, and fast, and it won’t be long before the federal government has no choice but to follow suit. If the media would like to clean up their current image a little bit they could start with their news stories featuring a fair narrative. One good place to start might be with cannabis.
In discussing cannabis, the popular media does not even portray themselves like they are ready to have a serious conversation on the matter. News outlets and journalists tend to offer inaccurate language when discussing this industry.
They portray people who are pro-marijuana as stoner hippies, not as average citizens who are looking to restrict outdated laws that have no place in current society. I do not have dreadlocks or patchwork clothing. My eyes are not bloodshot and I am not eating a bag of Cheetos, yet that is all you seem to see on any given evening news story. Media outlets often fail to mention that many of the people in the pro-legalization movement are looking to help themselves or a loved one who may need the plant medicinally. They tend to go with the stoner caricature that we all know too well, it is never a middle-aged woman dealing with arthritis and fibromyalgia.
What about those folks interested in collecting possible tax and tourism dollars to benefit their state? How about the amount of money and time spent by law enforcement agencies prosecuting cannabis offenders when that could be focused elsewhere? Then there are the scare-tactics they employ when discussing marijuana and children. Kids are more at danger from their cell phones than their parent’s weed drawer. A report highlighting challenges faced by the new business owners or one showcasing an industry that is trying to clean up its image is worth consideration.
When the media can address this subject with a little more tact we will notice a change in the public’s perception. They should begin considering both sides of the story and start thinking of themselves as educators on the subject of cannabis, very few people are informed about this plant after all. The effect they have could have would be incredible. They should also apologize for their stupid puns.
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Silver420Surfer
Downward spiral
Senate committee, rejecting request from Sessions, keeps protection for medical marijuana states
The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved an amendment to protect state medical marijuana programs from federal interference, despite a written request from Attorney General Jeff Sessions earlier this year that they not do so.
[URL='https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/072717%20FY18%20CJS%20Approps%20-%20Leahy%20Medical%20Marijuana%20Amd.pdf']The amendment, put forward Thursday by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), adds a clause to the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2018 that prevents the Department of Justice from using funds to prevent any “State or jurisdiction from implementing a law that authorizes the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.”
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The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved an amendment to protect state medical marijuana programs from federal interference, despite a written request from Attorney General Jeff Sessions earlier this year that they not do so.
[URL='https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/072717%20FY18%20CJS%20Approps%20-%20Leahy%20Medical%20Marijuana%20Amd.pdf']The amendment, put forward Thursday by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), adds a clause to the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2018 that prevents the Department of Justice from using funds to prevent any “State or jurisdiction from implementing a law that authorizes the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.”
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Papa Woody
"The vapor is strong with this one"-Obi Onda Woody
Absolutely dead on @CarolKing...
And they always have that nervous laugh when they crank off their obligatory pot joke...then they laugh at themselves like that's the first time we've heard that knee slapper...and they all do it, local, national, and international...
I wish they would all just stop it...
Silver420Surfer
Downward spiral
We had a Cannabis Job Fair near my hometown yesterday and it was nice to see our local media portray it quite well on TV and in print. They showed the long lines of future cannabis industry hopefuls from all walks of life, from 3 piece suits down to shorts and flip flops. The local town was very much behind it too. It was nice to see it portrayed as a Positive for the local and surrounding areas. No mention of "stoners", or "munchies", "getting high" and all the other disparaging terms used for our great culture.
Certainly only one example, but nice to see anyway.
CarolKing
Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
Of course it does. Why would this be a surprise? I hope this doesn't screw with the legal cannabis in legal states. I can see our Atty General capitalizing on this info unforetuneatly.
Marijuana's legalization fuels black market in other states - USA Today
USA Today › marijuana-black-market
Bigger profits in areas where pot is illegal lure growers in legal states. ... Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY Published 3:03 a.m. ET July 31, 2017 | Updated 11:49 a.m. ET July 31, 2017.
Marijuana's legalization fuels black market in other states - USA Today
USA Today › marijuana-black-market
Bigger profits in areas where pot is illegal lure growers in legal states. ... Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY Published 3:03 a.m. ET July 31, 2017 | Updated 11:49 a.m. ET July 31, 2017.
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Baron23
Well-Known Member
Yeah, and in dry counties (yes, Virginia...there are still dry counties in places like Kentucky) they go over the county line to buy. This is the direct result of illogical and inconsistent MJ laws.
FFS, MD won't sell Everclear but I go 6 miles to the District of Columbia line and buy it all day long. Again, inconsistent and illogical policy will result in this behavior as electorate ignore the dictates of their ass-hat politicians (may they all go to hell LOL).
HighSeasSailor
Well-Known Member
Some interesting tidbits the article touches on but skirts around:
The article mentions a decrease in international cannabis traffic, presumably as a result of domestic legalization. An obvious inference here is that this takes away income from violent cartels, and at least some of that volume is now going through legal channels even if it eventually winds up on the black market (i.e. cannabis bought at a dispensary in a legal state and exported to a prohibition state), which means taxes paid and income diverted to legitimate businesses.
If neighboring states get sick of it, they can always legalize and collect their own taxes! Until then, the state of Colorado thanks you for your custom.
Also this nugget:
"According to projections from Green Wave Advisors, a cannabis-focused consulting firm, legal sales were 16% of total cannabis sales nationwide in 2016. In 2018, the firm predicts legal sales will reach a third of the market. Only by 2020 do the consultants expect legal sales to surpass black-market sales."
Ok, so within four years, legal cannabis sales are expected to gain 34% market share and take that much away from the black market.
"“You’re starting to see the evidence that these programs are not reining in the black market and are potentially growing it,” said Jeff Zinsmeister, executive vice president of the anti-legalization group Smart Approaches to Marijuana."
Despite the fact that the market forecast predicts legal cannabis taking a meteoric rise and gaining market dominance by the end of the decade, even with only a minority of states legalizing recreational cannabis, this asshat somehow thinks legalization is growing the black market? Get the fuck out.
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MinnBobber
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Less Mexican bud coming to US and......one article I read said there is now high quality US bud being smuggled into Mexico as it is sooooo much better than Mex bud. LOL
mitchgo61
I go where the thrills are
Why Jeff Sessions is going to lose his war against cannabis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...st-cannabis/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.9f9dede29747
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...st-cannabis/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.9f9dede29747
Puerto Rico betting on medical marijuana to help ease crisis
https://apnews.com/ef52a9e5ed484df4...ting-on-medical-marijuana-to-help-ease-crisis
The island’s treasury secretary says the medical marijuana industry could generate up to $100 million a year, in part through a sales and use tax, and help ease an unemployment rate that has hovered around 12 percent.
That would be a rare glimmer of good news for an island facing billions of dollars in budget cuts, a public debt load of more than $70 billion and a population that is declining as people flee to the mainland seeking better opportunities.
https://apnews.com/ef52a9e5ed484df4...ting-on-medical-marijuana-to-help-ease-crisis
The island’s treasury secretary says the medical marijuana industry could generate up to $100 million a year, in part through a sales and use tax, and help ease an unemployment rate that has hovered around 12 percent.
That would be a rare glimmer of good news for an island facing billions of dollars in budget cuts, a public debt load of more than $70 billion and a population that is declining as people flee to the mainland seeking better opportunities.
HighSeasSailor
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CAN WEED MAKE YOU A BETTER ATHLETE?
"This is not some back-alley street drug," he continues. "It's a medicinal herb that provides the only potential solution to both concussions/CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) and the opiate epidemic."
"If your bread and butter is your body, you need to find a sustainable way to keep performing at a high level—I learned that the hard way," says Cote. The former Philadelphia Flyer says that because he couldn't use cannabis—his preferred form of pain management—while on the road, he "started falling off track a little bit" with team-supplied painkillers. "If I could have done it the way I wanted," he adds, "cannabis would have been the way I always managed my pain, sleep and anxiety."
"This is not some back-alley street drug," he continues. "It's a medicinal herb that provides the only potential solution to both concussions/CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) and the opiate epidemic."
"If your bread and butter is your body, you need to find a sustainable way to keep performing at a high level—I learned that the hard way," says Cote. The former Philadelphia Flyer says that because he couldn't use cannabis—his preferred form of pain management—while on the road, he "started falling off track a little bit" with team-supplied painkillers. "If I could have done it the way I wanted," he adds, "cannabis would have been the way I always managed my pain, sleep and anxiety."
HighSeasSailor
Well-Known Member
Forgive the double post, this one was too appalling to ignore:
Federal Appeals Court Castigates Kansas Cops for Pot Raid Triggered by Tea
If you want to see why cannabis must be legalized, this is why. To quote the judge in this case:
"Law-abiding tea drinkers and gardeners beware: One visit to a garden store and some loose tea leaves in your trash may subject you to an early-morning, SWAT-style raid, complete with battering ram, bulletproof vests, and assault rifles. Perhaps the officers will intentionally conduct the terrifying raid while your children are home, and keep the entire family under armed guard for two and a half hours while concerned residents of your quiet, family-oriented neighborhood wonder what nefarious crime you have committed. This is neither hyperbole nor metaphor—it is precisely what happened to the Harte family in the case before us."
The icing on the cake? Both Harte parents were former CIA agents with top secret clearance, which a basic background check would have revealed.
The war on drugs is so hopelessly lost that Kansas's keystone cops have to invent windmills to tilt at. Oh, and this gem:
"One study," Lucero notes, "found a 70% false positive rate using this field test, with positive results obtained from substances including vanilla, peppermint, ginger, eucalyptus, cinnamon leaf, basil, thyme, lemon grass, lavender, organic oregano, organic spearmint, organic clove, patchouli, ginseng, a strip of newspaper, and even air."
Gotta watch out for that goddamn THC positive air!
Federal Appeals Court Castigates Kansas Cops for Pot Raid Triggered by Tea
If you want to see why cannabis must be legalized, this is why. To quote the judge in this case:
"Law-abiding tea drinkers and gardeners beware: One visit to a garden store and some loose tea leaves in your trash may subject you to an early-morning, SWAT-style raid, complete with battering ram, bulletproof vests, and assault rifles. Perhaps the officers will intentionally conduct the terrifying raid while your children are home, and keep the entire family under armed guard for two and a half hours while concerned residents of your quiet, family-oriented neighborhood wonder what nefarious crime you have committed. This is neither hyperbole nor metaphor—it is precisely what happened to the Harte family in the case before us."
The icing on the cake? Both Harte parents were former CIA agents with top secret clearance, which a basic background check would have revealed.
The war on drugs is so hopelessly lost that Kansas's keystone cops have to invent windmills to tilt at. Oh, and this gem:
"One study," Lucero notes, "found a 70% false positive rate using this field test, with positive results obtained from substances including vanilla, peppermint, ginger, eucalyptus, cinnamon leaf, basil, thyme, lemon grass, lavender, organic oregano, organic spearmint, organic clove, patchouli, ginseng, a strip of newspaper, and even air."
Gotta watch out for that goddamn THC positive air!
Abysmal Vapor
Supersniffer 2000 - robot fart detection device
https://btl.co.za/cannabis-just-legalised-south-africa-personal-use/
Congrats,i wish to visit someday !
Congrats,i wish to visit someday !
CarolKing
Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
HEALTH & SCIENCE
Neil deGrasse Tyson: ‘No reason’ for marijuana to be iBy Christopher Ingraham, The Washington PostNO COMMENTS
Posted on Aug 10, 2017
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, among the most well-known living scientists this side of Stephen Hawking, said this week that “there’s no reason for [marijuana] to ever have been made illegal.”
The remark came in response to a question submitted by Tom Angell of the pro-legalization group Marijuana Majority. Angell asked Tyson if he agreed with astrophysicist Carl Sagan that marijuana should be legalized.
“If you really analyze it,” Tyson said, “relative to other things that are legal, there’s no reason for it to ever have been made illegal in the system of laws.”
“That is extremely rational, which I expect from you, and you’re absolutely right,” replied host Chuck Nice.
DEA plans to reduce quota of government-grown marijuana for research in 2018
“Alcohol is legal,” Tyson added, “and it can mess you up way more than smoking a few J’s.”
Nice then spent several minutes ribbing Tyson over his archaic choice of marijuana slang.
“The last time I was like, in a cloud of it? That’s how people spoke,” Tyson said.
Astrophycisist Neil deGrasse Tyson, said this week that there was no reason for marijuana to have been made illegal. (Diane Buxton/WGBH)
Tyson has in many ways followed the late Carl Sagan’s footsteps in becoming a well-known evangelist for space science and the scientific method more broadly. Sagan, most famous for the television series “Cosmos” (which Tyson later rebooted), was a lifelong marijuana user who wrote extensively – albeit privately – about what he saw as the benefits of the drug.
“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous,” Sagan wrote in an anonymous essay for the 1971 book “Marihuana Reconsidered,” “an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.”
Tyson has been more circumspect on the merits of drug use, at least publicly. “I don’t count myself among active recreational drug users,” Tyson said in a 2015 Reddit AMA. “For me, the least altered state of awareness I can achieve is the one I seek, because that one is most likely to be closest to reality.”
J’s and altered states aside, Tyson’s argument against prohibition is on fairly sound scientific footing: Public health experts generally agree that relative to alcohol, marijuana is less-habit forming, less toxic to the human body, less of an impairment to driving and much less linked to violent behavior. President Richard Nixon placed the drug in the most restrictive category of federal prohibition in 1972, overruling the recommendation of his own marijuana task force, which argued that the drug wasn’t particularly dangerous and shouldn’t be federally prohibited.
Tyson’s remarks were also similar to ones by President Barack Obama in 2014. “I don’t think [marijuana] is more dangerous than alcohol,” he told the New Yorker. “As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life.”
An August Quinnipiac poll found that more than 61 percent of Americans now say marijuana should be legal, 94 percent support the medical use of marijuana, and fully three-quarters oppose the federal government enforcing marijuana laws in states that have legalized it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: ‘No reason’ for marijuana to be iBy Christopher Ingraham, The Washington PostNO COMMENTS
Posted on Aug 10, 2017
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, among the most well-known living scientists this side of Stephen Hawking, said this week that “there’s no reason for [marijuana] to ever have been made illegal.”
The remark came in response to a question submitted by Tom Angell of the pro-legalization group Marijuana Majority. Angell asked Tyson if he agreed with astrophysicist Carl Sagan that marijuana should be legalized.
“If you really analyze it,” Tyson said, “relative to other things that are legal, there’s no reason for it to ever have been made illegal in the system of laws.”
“That is extremely rational, which I expect from you, and you’re absolutely right,” replied host Chuck Nice.
DEA plans to reduce quota of government-grown marijuana for research in 2018“Alcohol is legal,” Tyson added, “and it can mess you up way more than smoking a few J’s.”
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Legalizing recreational marijuana could boost crash rates, safety group warns
NFL’s chief medical officer calls marijuana research ‘really important’
Seniors board ‘cannabus’ for trip to medical marijuana dispensaryNice then spent several minutes ribbing Tyson over his archaic choice of marijuana slang.
“The last time I was like, in a cloud of it? That’s how people spoke,” Tyson said.
Astrophycisist Neil deGrasse Tyson, said this week that there was no reason for marijuana to have been made illegal. (Diane Buxton/WGBH)
Tyson has in many ways followed the late Carl Sagan’s footsteps in becoming a well-known evangelist for space science and the scientific method more broadly. Sagan, most famous for the television series “Cosmos” (which Tyson later rebooted), was a lifelong marijuana user who wrote extensively – albeit privately – about what he saw as the benefits of the drug.
“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous,” Sagan wrote in an anonymous essay for the 1971 book “Marihuana Reconsidered,” “an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.”
Tyson has been more circumspect on the merits of drug use, at least publicly. “I don’t count myself among active recreational drug users,” Tyson said in a 2015 Reddit AMA. “For me, the least altered state of awareness I can achieve is the one I seek, because that one is most likely to be closest to reality.”
J’s and altered states aside, Tyson’s argument against prohibition is on fairly sound scientific footing: Public health experts generally agree that relative to alcohol, marijuana is less-habit forming, less toxic to the human body, less of an impairment to driving and much less linked to violent behavior. President Richard Nixon placed the drug in the most restrictive category of federal prohibition in 1972, overruling the recommendation of his own marijuana task force, which argued that the drug wasn’t particularly dangerous and shouldn’t be federally prohibited.
Tyson’s remarks were also similar to ones by President Barack Obama in 2014. “I don’t think [marijuana] is more dangerous than alcohol,” he told the New Yorker. “As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life.”
An August Quinnipiac poll found that more than 61 percent of Americans now say marijuana should be legal, 94 percent support the medical use of marijuana, and fully three-quarters oppose the federal government enforcing marijuana laws in states that have legalized it.
GetLeft
Well-Known Member
http://www.philly.com/philly/busine...sed-philly-marijuana-dispensary-20170814.html
I'm curious to see how this turns out.
I'm curious to see how this turns out.
Sessions Cites Junk Science to Shut Down Pot Research
Once again, a committed drug warrior ignores and blocks legitimate scientific research, then cites the fact that science hasn’t proven the drug ‘safe’ as his reason for doing so.
Once again, a committed drug warrior ignores and blocks legitimate scientific research, then cites the fact that science hasn’t proven the drug ‘safe’ as his reason for doing so.
chris 71
Well-Known Member
It will be other countries around the world that will pave the way with research . and pave right over guys like him like a dinasour fosil intombed right in the ashphalt were his ideas on the dangers of weed will stay lol canada will hopfully pick up the slack in research soon enough 
CarolKing
Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
The First Major Marijuana Commercial Is Clever And Kind Of Funny
BY NICK VENABLE
2 YEARS AGO
20 COMMENTS
Remember that ridiculously uncomfortable and depression-inducing Nationwide adthat played during the Super Bowl? How fitting would it have been for a commercial about weed to follow it up? That can totally happen now, as recent weeks have seen the first pro-marijuana commercial making waves across major U.S. networks for the very first time, and it’s pretty damned funny. (And assumedly funnier after partaking.) Check it out below.
As is almost always the best case scenario for a product that people might be uncomfortable thinking about, the company MarijuanaDoctors.com uses an admittedly silly analogy to get their point across. Sure, you can get weed from a mustachioed guy in a back alley if that’s your thing, but know that there’s also a legitimate place to find it where the consumer/patient has a say in the matter. I also like the fact that they used sushi as the comparable product, because nothing goes better with weed than sushi. But it just pisses me off that my neighborhood doesn’t have a sushi dealer, sketchy or otherwise.
According to the website, this commercial has been airing (presumably in markets where medical marijuana is an industry) on networks such as ABC, CNBC, CBS, CNN, and Bloomberg. They also boast that the ad has been shown during airings of Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Good Morning America. (Too bad it didn’t air during the Nancy Grace/2 Chainz interview.) Maybe they’ll start up a sponsorship with head shops across the country and release a set of signature bongs. Once you start advertising one of the only goods that needs absolutely no advertising to thrive, the sky is the limit.
The public acceptance of herbage has been growing in the past few years, arguably exemplified best by that Alaskan news anchor who quit on air and announced she was the owner of a cannabis club that she would be devoting her time to. (Incidentally, Alaskan police raided that club the other day.) And it’s definitely not just here in the U.S. Check out this promo for a Canadian company.
And if that comparison between marijuana and alcohol wasn’t blatant enough for you, how about this ad that reportedly played on the big screen during the 2013 Brickyard 400 races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
So there you have it. You don’t even have to leave your house anymore to get solid info on where to find a dependable hook up. I assume that there’s an automated system set up for the Marijuana Doctors phone number with a message from The Dude that starts off, “Heyyy, maaan.” But I could be wrong.
BY NICK VENABLE
2 YEARS AGO
20 COMMENTS
Remember that ridiculously uncomfortable and depression-inducing Nationwide adthat played during the Super Bowl? How fitting would it have been for a commercial about weed to follow it up? That can totally happen now, as recent weeks have seen the first pro-marijuana commercial making waves across major U.S. networks for the very first time, and it’s pretty damned funny. (And assumedly funnier after partaking.) Check it out below.
As is almost always the best case scenario for a product that people might be uncomfortable thinking about, the company MarijuanaDoctors.com uses an admittedly silly analogy to get their point across. Sure, you can get weed from a mustachioed guy in a back alley if that’s your thing, but know that there’s also a legitimate place to find it where the consumer/patient has a say in the matter. I also like the fact that they used sushi as the comparable product, because nothing goes better with weed than sushi. But it just pisses me off that my neighborhood doesn’t have a sushi dealer, sketchy or otherwise.
According to the website, this commercial has been airing (presumably in markets where medical marijuana is an industry) on networks such as ABC, CNBC, CBS, CNN, and Bloomberg. They also boast that the ad has been shown during airings of Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Good Morning America. (Too bad it didn’t air during the Nancy Grace/2 Chainz interview.) Maybe they’ll start up a sponsorship with head shops across the country and release a set of signature bongs. Once you start advertising one of the only goods that needs absolutely no advertising to thrive, the sky is the limit.
The public acceptance of herbage has been growing in the past few years, arguably exemplified best by that Alaskan news anchor who quit on air and announced she was the owner of a cannabis club that she would be devoting her time to. (Incidentally, Alaskan police raided that club the other day.) And it’s definitely not just here in the U.S. Check out this promo for a Canadian company.
And if that comparison between marijuana and alcohol wasn’t blatant enough for you, how about this ad that reportedly played on the big screen during the 2013 Brickyard 400 races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
So there you have it. You don’t even have to leave your house anymore to get solid info on where to find a dependable hook up. I assume that there’s an automated system set up for the Marijuana Doctors phone number with a message from The Dude that starts off, “Heyyy, maaan.” But I could be wrong.
Silver420Surfer
Downward spiral
Meh---Nothing new to see hereJeff Sessions Is Coming For You!
Must watch this. People are not safe from prosecution. Scary things are going down.
