Marijuana

[Sir Jeffrey]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/37824659/

Marijuana spray coming to market? Corporations are coming on board to "make" medicine from weed. Maybe it will help in the legalization

[Whoo]

Okay everyone, you're gonna get the same sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach as I did, but I'm woman enough to admit:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20008091-503544.html

Eghads, she actually said something smart!!!

Hey - note the year of recriminalization, and you know it tokes a while to sink in and make the change to being a law-abiding citizen.  Things about her are making sense to me more and more now. :2017

[hammondjam]

Okay everyone, you're gonna get the same sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach as I did, but I'm woman enough to admit:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20008091-503544.html

Eghads, she actually said something smart!!!

Hey - note the year of recriminalization, and you know it tokes a while to sink in and make the change to being a law-abiding citizen.  Things about her are making sense to me more and more now. :2017

I don't trust that P.R. whore any more than I trust any other neocon. If she proves me nothing more than a skeptic, then I'll make a public apology but I think this is just like Obama's abandonment of much of the left wing. Say it to get elected and then stick it to them again! She can't stay with anything if the heat gets turned up so I doubt that this is anything but a media ploy to get people like us. Sorry Ms. You-Betcha but I ain't falling for it!!

I think a female will be our next great leader but she ain't it!

[flybananas]

whoo said "tokes" hyuck hyuck

freudian slip my love? :^D~ lol

[Whoo]

Heh-heh, oops  ;D

Yeah, I'm sure the vast majority of the motivation behind her statement was for publicity, pr, and the future votes her party needs.  But it certainly could explain her glazed look and rambling answers to burning questions, bwaaaaa haaaaa haaaa!!!!

[Mr T]

So, now Cuomo says that he smoked pot.  These days in America that is becoming as common as saying you ate lunch today.

Legalize.  Regulate.  TAX.  Why is an American arrested every 37 seconds for possessing a plant as common as sunflowers?  We are burning money at both ends here.

[OBSERVER]

Heh-heh, oops  ;D

Yeah, I'm sure the vast majority of the motivation behind her statement was for publicity, pr, and the future votes her party needs.  But it certainly could explain her glazed look and rambling answers to burning questions, bwaaaaa haaaaa haaaa!!!!

.....For a moment there --- I thought you were talking about Nancy Peosi !!!! ---- ::D: ::;:

[Mr T]

Well, marijuana is certainly all over the news!  Mario Cuomo says he smoked as a youth, Orin Hatch wants to drug-test people on unemployment (even the folk in the Gulf?  Test BP executives!)

Colorado Springs collected big money on taxes in the first quarter, and Fox is replaying the old canard that the pot of today is twice as strong as the "old" pot.  Didn't these guys ever smoke Thai stick or Acapulco Gold?

Legalize, regulate, TAX!

[hammondjam]

OK, time to get real here. There is NOTHING out there, including the much heralded hydro, that gets even close to the Vietnamese schwag coming back from southeast Asia in the seventies. Thai stick, Gold and even some good Mexican was better than this dried out crappola that makes up most of the trade today. There ARE some good growers left but the heat is too high to let too many into their fold so....these claims of superpot are quite wrong. Folks...you're being sold a load of BS based on nothing other than "What about the children?" and the tax dollars that pay for all the manpower and machines that relentlessly look for this "demonweed".

If I didn't live in town and close to a school, I could grow some "old school" smoke that would be mellow but frisky!

[Whoo]

Yeah, with the exception of hydro (and alot of that wasn't all it was touted to be), pot smokers in Oklahoma haven't smoked really good smoke in decades.  It's all a bunch of hooey from departments who try to protect their budgets at all costs.

I am a bit curious as to the numbers generated by the tax in CO Springs. 

[Sir Jeffrey]

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0810/761721.html

Baby steps but a step in the right direction (DC Mayor setting medical marijuana policy that was blocked for 12 years by Congress).

[Whoo]

Progress is just that, but unfortunately, it will take at least another decade before Oklahoma tries to catch up to the rest of the country. ::)

[hammondjam]

Good ol' red states.   ::) We may not have decent roads and bridges and our classrooms may be crowded but we have a well funded law enforcement crew to keep pot smokers in prison(one of the good money makers for private conservatives but a good money waster for the taxpaying citizens).

I'm ready to go to Colorado and get me a script. I DO have osteoarthritis and major pain in both knees. BTW, I've heard that since Colorado folks no longer need to get smoke from illegal dealers, the dealers are having to go out of state to sell their wares. Seems the War on Drugs just got a more successful competitor!

[Whoo]

Well, here we have yet another conundrum:  prisons are full to overflowing with pot smokers whom otherwise would be contributing tax dollars, the dealers are not in said prisons, and "rehabilitation" efforts are failing within those dingy, dreary walls.  OTOH, we have the ability to release said smokers to once again add to the coffers, dealers who could become businessmen/women legitimately, and rehabilitation could focus in on the real problem drugs, like meth, coke, and prescription drugs such as Oxy.  Meanwhile, the plants will keep growing everywhere.  I understand the various drug agencies want to keep their cozy budgets, but when they are even admitting the monies spent on fighting the green war are going up in smoke, they should be backing efforts to decriminalize so they can ask for even more money for fancy gadgets to help them catch big-time drug dealers who sell the hard stuff. >:(

[hammondjam]

It's a matter of what is easiest to catch, IMO. They can't boast the same numbers if they're only going after dealers who sell oxycontin, zannies and meth. With the exception of meth, the latter two can be concealed easily with no smell to alert the drug dogs. Pot is a stationary drug with a smell and a heat level(from the lights) that are like the Batsignal to law enforcement. It's just easier to catch a pot user or a grower than it is to catch someone selling the REAL drug menaces. Of course, we can't get prescribed drugs off the streets if doctors keep prescribing them to addicts and dealers who spend all day going from one doctor to the next!