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llkoolkeg

Ranger LL
Sep 5, 2001
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Half in U.S. support legalizing marijuana use, poll finds
By geography, more than half of Americans in the West, Midwest and East supported legalization while in the South, 44 percent favored such a move. | Reuters – Tue, Oct 18, 2011
link=> Half in U.S. support legalizing marijuana use, poll finds - Yahoo! News
"(Reuters) - Half of Americans now support legalizing marijuana use, a record level, amid growing support for decriminalization that could build pressure to eventually change U.S. laws on the drug, a Gallup poll showed on Monday.
The poll showed that support was highest among liberals and adults under age 30, with more than 60 percent of respondents in those categories favoring legalization. Support was lowest, at just 31 percent, among Americans over age 65.
"Support for legalizing marijuana has been increasing over the past several years, rising to 50 percent today, the highest on record," a summary of the poll said. Another 46 percent said marijuana should remain illegal.
"If this current trend on legalizing marijuana continues, pressure may build to bring the nation's laws into compliance with the people's wishes," the summary added.
Gallup said support for legalization had crept up from just 12 percent in 1969 to 30 percent in 2000 and 40 percent in 2009. Last year, a Gallup survey found 70 percent of Americans favored making it legal for doctors to prescribe marijuana to relieve pain and suffering.
California in 1996 became the first state to decriminalize medical marijuana, and a number of other U.S. states have followed suit with their own statutes. Cannabis remains classified as an illegal narcotic under federal law.
A separate national survey released last month showed that marijuana was increasingly becoming the drug of choice among young adults in the United States, with nearly 7 percent of Americans aged 12 and older having used marijuana in 2010.
The Gallup poll released on Monday showed that Democrats, at 57 percent, were more likely to support legalization than Republicans, only 35 percent of whom favored such a move. Men, at 55 percent, were also more likely to back legalization than women, at 46 percent.
By geography, more than half of Americans in the West, Midwest and East supported legalization while in the South, 44 percent favored such a move.
The poll was based on telephone interviews conducted between October 6-9 with a random sample of 1,005 adults across the country. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
(Writing by Cynthia Johnston)"
 

SacredYeti

Monkey
Sep 12, 2011
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San Diego, CA
I used to smoke out of bongs quite a bit but after quitting ciggs, it's just too damn much on my lungs. Mostly just roll up a J in the morning or out doing trail work (never understood why potheads get the lazy rep when it makes me want go out and do something). That and starting school full time, kinda need more time to concentrate.

On the political side of things, it really shocks me to see that the feds still list cannabis as being MORE dangerous than meth, coke, heroin, etc. Shows how much they know about what they are dealing with.

As far as riding stoned, it's safer than booze IMO but sheesh, know your limits. If you can't fasten your helmet strap in less than 5 minutes, maybe you shouldn't ride.

Now on that note, even though I have done it, a recent happening occurred where i got some attitude sent my way because of a bumper sticker. So here I am on the bandwagon of: Don't advertise the ****, keep it to yourself... unless your friends match you bowls :thumb:
 

IH8Rice

I'm Mr. Negative! I Fail!
Aug 2, 2008
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On the political side of things, it really shocks me to see that the feds still list cannabis as being MORE dangerous than meth, coke, heroin, etc. Shows how much they know about what they are dealing with.
heroin, mdma, lsd and marijuana are all schedule 1 drugs. cocaine and meth are schedule 2 only because they have medicinal use (coke: anesthetic, meth: pseudoephedrine )
 

SacredYeti

Monkey
Sep 12, 2011
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San Diego, CA
heroin, mdma, lsd and marijuana are all schedule 1 drugs. cocaine and meth are schedule 2 only because they have medicinal use (coke: anesthetic, meth: pseudoephedrine )
See, that makes sense now. However, we haven't used it in medicine for a while now (to my knowledge or lack there of anyway) and I thought LSD and or MDMA were schedule 2?
 

IH8Rice

I'm Mr. Negative! I Fail!
Aug 2, 2008
24,524
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Im over here now
could be interesting. surprised its not another show about Alaska
When you hear the term “medical cannabis” your mind may conjure up a few familiar images but it’s highly doubtful that taxes, legislation and health care are among them. But tune in to Weed Wars Thursday, December 1 at 10PM E/P on Discovery and explore issues of the medicinal cannabis business that few ever consider. Weed Wars isn’t about opinions or issues– this is the first time a weekly series takes an up close and personal look at the reality of running a controversial medicinal cannabis business.
Discovery Breaks New Ground With Weed Wars : Discovery Channel
 

Ciaran

Fear my banana
Apr 5, 2004
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I think I am goign to watch weed wars, but with a cynical eye. It's supposed to be following harborside, which is the largest dispensary in the world. The owner, Steve DeAngelo, I have read good things about him and not so good things. I am kind of interested to hear what he has to say.
 

llkoolkeg

Ranger LL
Sep 5, 2001
4,329
5
in da shed, mon, in da shed
Herman Cain would loosen federal marijuana restrictions
By Chris Moody | The Ticket
link=> Herman Cain would loosen federal marijuana restrictions | The Ticket - Yahoo! News
"At a campaign stop in Urbandale, Iowa, Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said he supports letting states establish their own laws regarding medical marijuana.
"If states want to legalize medical marijuana, I think that's a state's right," Cain said, according to NBC News. "Because one of my overriding approaches to looking at all of these issue --most of them belong at the state, because when you do something federally . . . you try to force one-size-fits-all."
The federal government restricts consumption of marijuana under current law, but 16 states and the District of Columbia have passed measures to allow use of the drug in some form, causing friction between federal and state authorities. Despite support in years past from President Obama for reforming federal marijuana laws, the Drug Enforcement Agency continues to raid dispensaries that operate where marijuana use is legal on the state level.
A Gallup Poll conducted in October found that half of the population supports legalizing the drug. Cain's fellow GOP presidential candidates Texas Rep. Ron Paul and Texas Gov. Rick Perry have also voiced support for allowing state and local discretion on the issue."

And in other herby news...

Feds raid Washington state medical marijuana dispensaries
By Laura L. Myers | Reuters
link=> Feds raid Washington state medical marijuana dispensaries - Yahoo! News
"SEATTLE (Reuters) - Federal agents and police raided state-sanctioned medical marijuana dispensaries across western Washington on Tuesday, targeting storefronts deemed to be engaged in illegal drug trafficking and money laundering.
The dispensaries singled out by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration were essentially operating under the state's medical marijuana law to conceal criminal activity, U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan said in a statement.
Federal officials did not immediately disclose the number of suppliers shut down in the sweep.
But the Cannabis Defense Coalition, a nonprofit advocacy group for marijuana, said on its website that 15 "medical cannabis access points" in at least six western Washington cities -- Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Puyallup, Lacey and Rochester -- were raided on Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for Durkan's office, Emily Langlie, said one person was arrested by federal agents, and that additional arrests had been made by sheriff's deputies in separate raids across three counties although she could not say how many.
Search warrant affidavits unsealed in federal court cited evidence that the dispensaries targeted in the sweep were involved in large-scale drug distribution and money laundering.
Storefront cannabis shops are neither explicitly permitted nor banned under a 1998 voter-approved state law that legalized pot in Washington for medical purposes, but they have widely proliferated nevertheless.
State law does allow collective medical marijuana gardens of up to 45 plants, or a maximum of 15 plants per patient.
Although cannabis is still listed as an illegal narcotic under federal law, 16 states and the District of Columbia have statutes decriminalizing marijuana for medical reasons, according to the National Drug Policy Alliance.
NOT GOING AFTER PATIENTS
Tuesday's sweep marked the first major federal crackdown on pot shops in western Washington since Governor Christine Gregoire in April vetoed most provisions of a bill that would have established a new regulatory system for medical marijuana.
Gregoire has said she was swayed by a legal opinion from U.S. prosecutors threatening to target not only dispensary owners but state regulators who would enforce the proposed new law.
Federal prosecutors said they were not going after patients who have a legitimate medical need for pot.
"We will not prosecute truly ill people or their doctors who determine that marijuana is an appropriate medical treatment," Durkan said.
Federal agents had raided more than seven dispensaries in the eastern Washington city of Spokane in May and April after facility operators there refused to shut down.
Last month, federal prosecutors announced a get-tough stance against dispensaries in California that were found to be engaged in drug trafficking under the guise of supplying medical marijuana patients.
The raids on Tuesday appeared to take dispensary operators by surprise, said Seattle defense attorney Aaron Pelley, who told Reuters that two pot dispensary clients were "served with pre-indictment paper" by law enforcement but not jailed.
"In eastern Washington and California, they fired a shot over the bow. Here in western Washington, it looks like the feds put boots on the ground and started kicking down doors."
In July, Seattle's mayor signed into law a city licensing system for medical marijuana distribution, requiring suppliers to comply with city codes that govern public nuisance complaints, plumbing and food-handling, for example.
Three of the facilities that Cannabis Defense Coalition said were raided are in Seattle.
(Editing by Steve Gorman and Cynthia Johnston)"
 

Ciaran

Fear my banana
Apr 5, 2004
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Didn't Obama say the same thing Cain just said? :think: Never trust a politician. Especially when his lips are moving.
Dispensaries and co-ops... I still haven't found one that has better herb than my dealer can get. It's nice to have the convenience though.
 

TheMontashu

Pourly Tatteued Jeu
Mar 15, 2004
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Didn't Obama say the same thing Cain just said? :think: Never trust a politician. Especially when his lips are moving.
Dispensaries and co-ops... I still haven't found one that has better herb than my dealer can get. It's nice to have the convenience though.
That's cause you're in socal. Most of the clubs up here consistently have the best stuff you have ever seen. The kicker is it's 55-65$ an 8th, while your dude up here can get you the same quality for 35-40$
 

Ciaran

Fear my banana
Apr 5, 2004
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Yes yes yes... your weed is the best, your the most hardcore smoker of all time. :rolleyes: Geez dude, you've never even MET my dealer. How do you know what he gets me? Just stop talking, OK?
 

TheMontashu

Pourly Tatteued Jeu
Mar 15, 2004
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Yes yes yes... your weed is the best, your the most hardcore smoker of all time. :rolleyes: Geez dude, you've never even MET my dealer. How do you know what he gets me? Just stop talking, OK?
I know what your dude is getting is probably being driven down by my dude, and I'm not sure about so-cal, but up here, the stuff dude gets is the same stuff going to the club. Before you get all butthurt thinking I'm telling you my weed is better (it probably isn't I buy the good stuff for CHEEP, not the GREAT stuff for allot) I was just saying that up here the club bud is as good as "dudes" it just costs 10-20$ more per 8th because of the whole, rent and taxation thing.

Now before you continue to talk, either, A) get the sand out the snatch B) smoke some of that amazing stuff you have, or c) continue to not talk, OK?
 

Ciaran

Fear my banana
Apr 5, 2004
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15
So Cal
I know what your dude is getting is probably being driven down by my dude, and I'm not sure about so-cal, but up here, the stuff dude gets is the same stuff going to the club. Before you get all butthurt thinking I'm telling you my weed is better (it probably isn't I buy the good stuff for CHEEP, not the GREAT stuff for allot) I was just saying that up here the club bud is as good as "dudes" it just costs 10-20$ more per 8th because of the whole, rent and taxation thing.

Now before you continue to talk, either, A) get the sand out the snatch B) smoke some of that amazing stuff you have, or c) continue to not talk, OK?
You're a bigger fool than I thought. I don't care for your inane babble, and now I'm tired of it so you'll go to the ignore list.
 
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So now that the Cali weed fight is over...vaporizing vs. combusting? My roommate recently got a silver surfer and I will for sure buy a vape over a piece next time I'm in the market.
 

TheMontashu

Pourly Tatteued Jeu
Mar 15, 2004
5,549
0
I'm homeless
So now that the Cali weed fight is over...vaporizing vs. combusting? My roommate recently got a silver surfer and I will for sure buy a vape over a piece next time I'm in the market.
I love the SSVs, a good friend up the street from me has one. I have a generic box vape as well, with a glass on glass attachment to go through the bong that's pretty rad. I found that after a couple months though, my vape got put away (it's actually red rabbits that he gave me when he joined the air force) it never came out again, I like actually smoking the weed, tasting it, and seeing a big old cloud of smoke come out of my face.
 

TheMontashu

Pourly Tatteued Jeu
Mar 15, 2004
5,549
0
I'm homeless
You're a bigger fool than I thought. I don't care for your inane babble, and now I'm tired of it so you'll go to the ignore list.
Lolz, butthurt meter at 11!

I guess he doesn't understand how it works, they grow it up in Mendocino and Humboldt, and then it get's driven everywhere else. Therefore, as you get farther and farther away, the prices go up. Pot growing is so ubiquitous up here that I have more than a couple friends who go up to mendo to trim for extra cash every fall.
 

Ciaran

Fear my banana
Apr 5, 2004
9,839
15
So Cal
Strawberry cough and blue dream for the mornings this week. A random OG for the evenings. And some full melt for whenever.
 

CurbJumper

Turbo Monkey
Aug 31, 2010
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Central FL
Just had some Afghan Gold and some other random OG. Got some dope macro shots of the Gold if I ever get around to uploading them. I would do it now but I'm going to smoke a bowl of Gold instead. :D
 

ioscope

Turbo Monkey
Jul 3, 2004
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Vashon, WA

Play this with the Infected Mushroom song above as the soundtrack. It is like Dark Side of the Moon and Wizard of Oz. Everything times perfectly. Seriously.
 

CurbJumper

Turbo Monkey
Aug 31, 2010
1,022
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Central FL
^ Nice!

Had some Grand Daddy Purp and Girl Scout Cookies this past week along with some super light and fluffy buds (unknown name) over the weekend.
 

skibunny24

Enthusiastic Receiver of Reputation
Jun 16, 2010
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And as for working & chiefing.....If you smoke regularly (once every 1 or 2 days) pot has a total different effect on you...compared to if you occasionaly smoke. So a regular smoker mostly has an easier time handling everyday tasks (at work or not). I used to drive a forklift ( I was an OSHA nightmare :evil: ) & often we would hit a bowl before work & I had a very clean record, no damage to inventory, the building, the lift, co-workers, etc... It just made the monotanus (sp?) work a little more easy to deal with..
Thiswhole quote was great, and I know it's an old one, but last month, there was an article in Redbook magazine about moms who smoke pot (http://www.redbookmag.com/kids-family/advice/pot-parents) and it talked about the difference between a wake-and-baker who is high all the time and the occasional smoker. As someone who had Mary Jane as a constant companion pre-child, I can totally vouch for this. If you haven't been there, you wouldn't understand.

Anyway, cheers (can you cheers with a pipe? it should clink...)
 

Ciaran

Fear my banana
Apr 5, 2004
9,839
15
So Cal
Woo hoo. Happy dance! New piece finally. Just a simple 20" straight tube, but better than the one I had been using. Heading out today to pick up a globe and nail rig and some full melt.

Currently smoking northern lights, and sour diesel.
 

CurbJumper

Turbo Monkey
Aug 31, 2010
1,022
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Central FL
Last night I had...

Blue Cheese Headband
Purple Dream
Girl Scout Cookies
Afghan Queen

Today I picked up some JX13 from a buddy. I've enjoyed them all ;)