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CarolKing

CarolKing

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Signing up for a seed exchange event during a cannabis conference in Washington, D.C., in February. CreditAlex Wong/Getty Images

The district’s lawmakers aren’t happy about the process, but maybe they should be pleased about the outcome. Mark Kleiman, a leading expert on drug policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been arguing for Washington’s “grow-and-give” approach for years. He is one of several researchers affiliated with the RAND Corporation who have been urging states to look for intermediate options between prohibition and commercial legalization. They have urged states to consider approaches like nonprofit cooperatives, a government monopoly on marijuana production or a grow-your-own rule like the one Washington has ended up with, essentially by accident.

Drug prohibition imposes many costs. People go to jail for using and trading in drugs, causing major disruption to individuals’ lives and to communities. Illegal markets breed crime, including violent crime, because people in the drug business can’t use the courts to enforce contracts and settle disputes. And prohibition reduces access to a product that many people enjoy and use responsibly — though it’s not that hard to buy marijuana even where it’s illegal.
 
Gunky

Gunky

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Ed Rosenthal's latest letter, if you haven't read it:
States and countries are trying out many different models for legalization. They fall into two different categories: inclusive or exclusive. The models are exemplified by the laws in the two U.S. states that have already legalized, Colorado and Washington.

In Washington, as well as in Canada and New Jersey, where medical use is legal, cultivation and sales are left to only a few large producers. Most other production and sales are illegal.

In Colorado, as well as in medical-use California, personal-use cultivation is legal and store licensing is not nearly as restrictive.

After 80 years of pothibition failure, you would think that governments would learn that really restrictive laws don't work. But that hasn’t stopped the neo-pothibitionists. They seem impervious to absorbing new information.

Let’s look at this logically and rationally. Marijuana is readily available despite the laws making it illegal to grow or sell in many states. This is an indication that people are willing to break the law. So, keeping cultivation illegal in states where possession is legal, such as in Washington, has not stopped the uncertified cultivators. They were illegal before, so the fact that they remain illegal has not stopped them from continuing to cultivate. By not allowing them to become legal, Washington has helped to create a robust illicit market. Because they don’t have to meet state-mandated standards and they pay no taxes, uncertified cultivators have lower costs as compared with the heavily taxed legal market. As a result, most of the marijuana used in Washington is illegally produced by home-growers for their own use and uncertified commercial growers selling outside the official markets.

In California and Colorado, personal-use cultivation is permitted and there are thousands of legal commercial growers. This limits the supply to the illicit market because most commercial growers, given the choice, would rather be legal. Certified growers do not want to risk losing their licenses. Studies show that most of the marijuana used in Colorado is legal.

The more the supply side and suppliers are limited by law, the more illicit growing and purchasing takes place. It is so logical that the only ones who don’t get it are the politicians who think they can control behavior by merely enacting laws that cannot be enforced. While they are obeying the wishes of their big money contributors, they are creating a new drug war, one that inevitably they will lose. They will lose big in two ways: they won’t get the full potential tax revenues they would in an inclusive system; and by continuing costly enforcement of unpopular laws, they will continue to cost society financially while creating more contempt for inept politicians and distrust of irresponsible, unresponsive governments.

The feds lost one drug war, and now some states want to start another one. Good luck to Canada, Holland, New Jersey, Nevada, Washington, and the other neo-pothibitionist governments. You’ll need it.

http://edrosenthal.com/2015/03/the-folly-of-exclusivity.html
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CarolKing

CarolKing

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Olympia, Wash. (CBS SEATTLE) – Two companion bills in Washington would allow residents to grow their own recreational marijuana out of their own homes.

State Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles and Rep. Brian Blake of Aberdeen say that since marijuana is legal in the state, it makes sense that residents should be allowed to grow their own, KIRO-TV reports. Although recreational pot shops have popped up all over the state following the legalization of weed, it’s still illegal for individuals to grow without a medical marijuana permit or a commercial growing license.

You woulda thought a stoner come up with this Bill. I hope it passes. Looks like I might need to learn a few things about cultivation.:cool: Some are comparing this to making your own wine and beer. I like that analogy.:leaf::peace:
CK
 
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Gunky

Gunky

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It's a lot of fun, hugely cheaper than buying (though if you want to grow under lights there is an initial investment - but yes it's amazing with a 1000 watt lamp!), you get to control the fertilizer and use harmless natural pest control such as neem oil, and you get to have treats like hand rubbed hash (scraped off clippers after trimming buds at harvest) and ice water hash.

On another note the accidental D.C. situation is interesting because it's an alternative Ed doesn't mention in his letter: growing and sharing allowed but no sales. I predict within 6 months there will be some excellent pot in D.C. Hydro and grow supply shops must be booming.
 
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CarolKing

CarolKing

Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
  1. US WA: Column: Blunt Talk On Marijuana
    Spokesman-Review, 15 Mar 2015 - The views of many pot prohibitionists haven't advanced past "Dragnet," an ancient TV melodrama in which Sgt. Joe Friday lectured caricatures of hippies over the use of drugs. Here's an excerpt from a 1968 episode: "Marijuana is the fuse, heroin the flame and LSD the bomb. So don't you try to equate liquor with marijuana with me, mister. You may sell that jazz to another pothead, but not to somebody who spends most of their time holding some sick kid's head while he vomits and retches sitting on a curbstone at four o'clock in the morning." He finishes with, "I'm the expert here!"
Loved Joe Friday on Dragnet. Such the drama queen.
CK
 
LuckySeed777

LuckySeed777

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"A Marijuana Deficiency Might Be Causing Your Migraines and IBS"


http://www.alternet.org/drugs/not-feeling-well-perhaps-youre-marijuana-deficient


"In fact, in recent years scientists have discovered that the production of endocannabinoids (and their interaction with the cannabinoid receptors located throughout the body) play a key role in the regulation of proper appetite, anxiety control, blood pressure, bone mass, reproduction, and motor coordination, among other biological functions."
 
cybrguy

cybrguy

Putin is a War Criminal
Oh, I get it. That's why they call us "Pot Heads". Rather than a slam it is really just a descriptive term... LOL
 
Enchantre

Enchantre

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AlteredConsciousness said:
"A Marijuana Deficiency Might Be Causing Your Migraines and IBS"


http://www.alternet.org/drugs/not-feeling-well-perhaps-youre-marijuana-deficient


"In fact, in recent years scientists have discovered that the production of endocannabinoids (and their interaction with the cannabinoid receptors located throughout the body) play a key role in the regulation of proper appetite, anxiety control, blood pressure, bone mass, reproduction, and motor coordination, among other biological functions."
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I live as though this is pure fact. ;)
 
bounce5

bounce5

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@Gunky good article. I liked the video contained within explaining the Washington D.C. law clearly. Only people with ownership of the house or permission from the landlord and It's still illegal for people living in public housing in D.C. I bet that won't cause problems....:rolleyes:. Still it's great progress. I went on youtube and found a video about the seed giveaway in D.C.

ABC News coverage
Published on Mar 26, 2015
An unusual event that until just weeks ago would have been illegal in the District—or almost anywhere else—took place in Adams Morgan Thursday. The Libertine Bar hosted a legal marijuana seed exchange.http://bit.ly/1xjckiu

 
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grokit

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cybrguy

cybrguy

Putin is a War Criminal
grokit said:
Willie's been keeping up, and is launching his new national brand at the absolute best time. We are now in the majority, state-wise there are 26 out of 50 with some form of mmj use/decriminalization. This is huge, and sets the state for re-scheduling mj out of shedule 1 which is already happening on two fronts.

"There are currently four states in which marijuana possession is legal: Washington, Oregon, California and Alaska. There are further 22 with varying degrees of decriminalization."
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Ahahahahahahaah...

Well, we could easily have guessed that this was gonna happen. Like The Snoopster, Willie is among the most well known potheads. Why NOT trade on that? :rofl:
 
CarolKing

CarolKing

Singer of songs and a vapor connoisseur
Obama Commutes Sentence of Prisoner Serving Life for Pot
By David Down

On Tuesday, President Obama commuted the sentences of 22 drug offenders, including that of Francis Darrell Hayden, who was serving life for growing marijuana.

The commutations are part of a larger effort aimed at more fair sentencing in the United States. “As the Department of Justice has noted, mandatory minimum sentences have at times resulted in harsher penalties for non-violent drug offenders than many violent offenders and are not necessary for prosecutions at this level,” the White House states.

Hayden received life in prison for his involvement in the cultivation of an estimated 18,900 plants grown among rows of corn in Indiana and Michigan between 1991 and 1998. It was Hayden’s third conviction after pot offenses in 1980 and 1990. Hayden’s was the lone pot sentence commutation among the batch, which mostly dealt with commutation of sentences for cocaine and cocaine base.

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  • Francis Hayden (center) — a pot lifer — will be released in July under a sentence commutation signed by President Obama Tuesday.
“Had they been sentenced under current laws and policies, many of these individuals would have already served their time and paid their debt to society,” the White House stated. “Because many were convicted under an outdated sentencing regime, they served years — in some cases more than a decade — longer than individuals convicted today of the same crime.”

President Obama personally signed letters to each recipient of a commutation, stating: “I am granting your application because you have demonstrated the potential to turn your life around. Now it is up to you to make the most of this opportunity. ... I believe in your ability to prove the doubters wrong. ... Good luck and Godspeed.”
 
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