the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws has warned us about these types of limits (and are currently doing a nation-wide alert to stop the same limit in Colorado)

INACCURATE.  Our alert in Colorado is not “nation-wide”; it is issued to our Colorado subscribers only.  HALF-TRUTH.  The DUID limit in Colorado is a stand-alone bill that doesn’t also include legalization.  Per se DUID is bad enough to oppose on its own, but not so bad as to reject legalization.  It’s like asking whether you favor eating dog shit.  If someone just asked you to eat dog shit, you’d reject them.  But if that someone was keeping you and your family and friends in a cage indefinitely and told you the only way you’d ever be released is to eat some dog shit, you’d eat some dog shit.

loln

This is in reference to that slam I made against NORML the other day. I find their own analogy hilarious, and equally as idiotic as their stance.

weedporndaily:

NORTH CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - North Charleston Police officials say detention center officials found 29.1 grams of marijuana in a 31-year-old Goose Creek woman’s vagina.

Read more: http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/18148322/report

Smuggled more than an ounce in her pussy.

I could understand a dime, maybe an eighth, but an ounce?

weedporndaily:

DENVER (AP) — The pungent smell of pot that blankets a popular quadrangle at the University of Colorado-Boulder every April 20 is being replaced by the stench of fish-based fertilizer Friday as administrators try to stamp out one of the nation’s largest annual campus celebrations of marijuana.

After more than 10,000 people — students and non-students — attended last year’s marijuana rally on Norlin Quadrangle, university officials decided this year to apply the stinky fertilizer to the quad to deter pot-smokers. They’re also closing the campus Friday to all unauthorized visitors and offering a free campus concert by Haitian-born hip-hop star Wyclef Jean timed to coincide with the traditional 4:20 p.m. pot gathering.

Read more: http://the420times.com/2012/04/marijuana-rally-in-trouble-at-colorado-university/

The most frustrating part:

“We don’t consider this a protest. We consider this people smoking pot in the sunshine,” said university spokesman Bronson Hilliard. “This is a gathering of people engaging in an illegal activity.”

Where else in the world can people gather to smoke cannabis in large groups out in the sunshine without fear of being incarcerated? Few and far between. It’s a beautiful sight for stoners all over the world who struggle daily in the shadows of prohibition, to see people smoking openly and breathing in the fresh air of true freedom.

And illegal activity? I guess they don’t respect local law.

The Los Angeles City council will vote this month for a ban on all L.A. county medical marijuana dispensaries and collectives until they are legalized by the Supreme Court.

Dozens of illegal pot shops are opening on a consistent basis and have lead to crime in the community such as robberies and underage use, according to Rick Coca, director of communications for councilman Jose Huizar.

“One of the biggest problems we’re facing is secondary sales where they’re selling it outside. Police are telling us the marijuana is finding its way into high schools and that directly affects the quality of life for people,” Coca said.

So biased and uninformed I can’t post it on WPD.

How do these people get away with blatant lies and fearmongering?

weedporndaily:

When officers arrived in the neighborhood, they said they picked up the scent of burning marijuana and saw 45-year-old Troy Ray stick his head out of a second-floor window and ask the officers why they were there.

After police explained why they were there, they said they heard dogs barking and what sounded like someone scurrying about inside the home.

Police said Ray tried to make an escape through the back of the building and dropped a backpack in the process, which police seized when apprehending Ray. Inside the bag, police discovered two brown bags and a container stuffed with marijuana and $512 in cash.

A search of the building revealed that Ray was running a “grow operation,” police said. One bedroom had 165 marijuana plants that were growing under heat lamps along with drug paraphernalia and more containers of marijuana, police said.

Officers said they also found a bag of psilocybin (mushrooms) and a digital scale. The total weight of marijuana plants and bags and containers of marijuana was about 45 pounds, which police said has a street value of about $50,000.

Fuck the police.

They weigh everything and count it as contraband. Weed, baggies, scale, plants, dirt, containers, everything gets thrown in to make it seem like a bigger bust. $50k? Sure. Whatever you say.

weedporndaily:

The city attorney’s office proposed to the Public Safety Committee Friday morning that the city implement a “gentle ban” on medical marijuana - banning medical marijuana dispensaries while allowing the seriously ill and their caregivers to cultivate plants. 

“This is a very difficult issue and it’s complicated for many reasons,” chairman Mitchell Englander said. “There are a lot of people out there that rely on the effects of, and the benefits of marijuana that are dealing with cancer and other ailments.”

City Attorney Carmen Trutanich and attorneys from his office recommended the ban.

Jane Usher, special assistant city attorney, said the city would inevitably face the same legal issues as Long Beach for its medical marijuana dispensary ordinance. Long Beach was accused of violating the Controlled Substances Act.

The Court of Appeals ruled last October that Long Beach had broken federal law by allowing the distribution of an illegal substance. The city plans to take the case to the California Supreme Court.

Long Beach’s ordinance was modeled after Los Angeles’.

Los Angeles is currently facing more than 60 lawsuits by marijuana dispensaries and patients over the ordinance as it currently is. The suits have cost the city millions of dollars to fight, Usher said. The cases would be dismissed if the ordinance would be repealed. 

“We can all anticipate that if the California Supreme Court takes up [the Long Beach case], we will have from six months to a year before that case is decided by the California Supreme Court,” Usher said. “And in that interim, we will continue to litigate our more than 60 cases.”

She said it’s a matter of time before Los Angeles faces a ruling against its ordinance on the same grounds as determined by the Long Beach case.

“You must repeal the current ordinance and the swifter that action is taken the better,” Usher said. “In addition, we recommend what we call a ‘gentle ban.’ We are proposing a ban of medical marijuana businesses and I underscore that word: businesses. We are proposing you ban the transactions that are occurring that are beyond state law’s provision of medical marijuana for seriously ill patients.”

Trutanich said his office’s proposal provides users an option.

 “Those people who are sick, who need this as it was intended to be used have the option to obtain it,” he said.

Medical marijuana advocate Sarah Armstrong said the option Trutanich mentioned is more than just that.

“The only reason that the city attorney is allowing that section where patients and qualified caregivers can grow small amounts is that’s exactly what state law says and they cannot ban state law,” Armstrong said. “It has nothing to do with being gentle or being compassionate. If that’s their ordinance, it needs work.”

Read more:
http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/01/city-attorney-calls-marijuana-dispensary-ban

It’s cool, the people who really need it for medical reasons can just plant a seed and wait 3 months or so to get their medication.

Gee, that was thoughtful of you guys, considering some might not live that long.

weedporndaily:

‘Dabs’ is a term popular in the Western medical marijuana states to refer to the smoking of butane hash oil, also known as butane honey oil, or simply ‘BHO.’ Medical marijuana patients like my British friend swear by it. “I can take a dab of oil in the morning and it will mediate my Crohn’s symptoms until the evening. If I had to get by on flowers I’d be puffing cones all day!”

‘Flowers,’ by the way, is what the hash oil aficionados are now calling good old fashioned cannabis buds, also known as finely manicured sinsemilla, or simply ‘pot.’ In my area, the price of those flowers has crashed to $5-$10 per gram, but the BHO prices are rising from $20-$30, even up to $40 per gram.

The ‘butane’ part of BHO refers to the solvent used to extract the cannabis resin from the plant. A large glass tube is packed with cannabis, usually the discarded ‘shake’ left from trimming the buds but, increasingly, actual bud is used, and liquid butane is forced through the tube. The butane strips the resins from the plant to collect in a container and then the butane evaporates away. What’s left is a very potent form of hash oil.

If you remember anything from chemistry about things that end in ‘-ane’ or have even refilled a lighter, you know that butane is an extremely flammable gas which can be stored as a liquid under great pressure. Those are the cans of lighter fluid refill you can buy in many stores. And if you’ve deduced that combining very stoned people with combustible materials is a recipe for disaster, I’m way ahead of you. On my show I’ve had to cover numerous headlines involving some explosion set off by an ignorant hash maker who works behind closed doors in unventilated spaces, blissfully unaware that butane is a heavier-than-air gas that likes to pool on the floor near pilot lights, switches, and discarded cigarette butts.

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This will be the next struggle for stoners.

After convincing the masses that cannabis is not only harmless -but beneficial, somehow it’ll be difficult to explain that a cannabis extract is even healthier.

I’m awaiting for this topic to arise during the medical marijuana debate sweeping the nation.

What’s really intriguing though?

Hash oil is illegal in the US(People v. Bergan 2nd Court of Appeals, Div. 1, Aug 2008). Any chemical extraction using solvent is considered drug manufacturing. So really, any dispensary that sells budder, wax, any form of hash oil, is operating illegally. Those that sell hash made with bubble bags or cannabutter/oil are fine, since the process is natural(using screens or non-chemicals).

The fact that more Americans than not now believe we should legalize marijuana — 50 percent to 46 percent, according to a recent Gallup poll — seems to indicate we’ll one day be able to bop into the closest Jewel and pick up our evening’s mood-altering joint along with our mood-altering bottle of Jack Daniels.

 Legalization makes dollars and sense, say bunches of people: Think of all the jail cells that will be freed up, or the tax revenue that will pour in. Not to mention Betty and Bernie Baby Boomer can smoke their mary jane in the comfort of the family room without worrying about those nosy square neighbors calling the cops.

 Stephanie Willis, addictions expert at Linden Oaks Hospital in Naperville, is not surprised by the poll numbers. These days in our community, she says, it feels as if everyone uses marijuana.

“The stories are so rampant — people use with their boss, their parents, their neighbors, their golf buddies,” she says. “Even those using harder drugs get to the point where they will tell you that everyone they know at least smokes pot, even their sober friends.”

I’m just not convinced, especially after talking with Willis and other experts, that legalization is the way to go.

Mike Moran, executive director of Breaking Free — an addictions counseling service in Aurora and Naperville — agrees it could mean extra funds for anemic government coffers. But what will the human price be? he asks.

“We’ve legalized alcohol, we’ve legalized tobacco. But the cost of those in terms of lost productivity, health care and what it does to people’s lives is huge,” Moran says.

And by legalizing yet another addictive substance and making it more readily available, we’ll just add another layer of problems.

Views like this lead me to believe that people don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about. I don’t even know where to begin.

The legalization of alcohol and tobacco has led to a lack of productivity among the American people, neigh, the world. What the fuck is this lady smoking. Without alcohol, cigs, and weed, the world would get so much more done! Not like anything productive comes out of these substances!

It’s addictive so it shouldn’t be legal? That’s a joke. Are you lobbying for cigarettes to be illegal? Nah, it’s ok, as long as you don’t buy it. You’d rather spend your money on your caffeine, highly refined “sugars”, and fatty foods - the stuff that’s approved by the FDA yet still addictive.

Legalize it, and leave the innocent alone.

An international team of experts recommends guidelines be developed for lower-risk use of marijuana to reduce its health harms, a Canadian researcher says.

Dr. Benedikt Fischer of the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and a scientist at the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health said more than one in 10 Canadian adults — and about one in three young people ages 16-25, report using marijuana during the past year.

Despite the prevalence and health risks associated with marijuana use, Fischer pointed out Canada has not taken a public health approach to address its ill effects, as it has done with alcohol, tobacco and injection drug use.

“Misinformation about cannabis can be dangerous,” Fischer said in a statement.

For example, surveys indicate many young marijuana users say it is safe to drive after using marijuana, but Canadian research shows a significant number of traffic fatalities in young adults are attributable to marijuana use.

“A broad-based public health approach to cannabis use would include a prevention strategy for young people, risk reduction strategies for at-risk users and better access to treatment for problem users,” Fischer said.

Among the guidelines suggested are:

1. Avoid pot-smoking by the young, which is associated with a number of problems, including mental illness and dependence and a greater likelihood of advancing to other illegal drugs.
2. Avoid frequent use of marijuana, usually defined as daily or near-daily use, which has been linked to such health problems as lower cognitive and memory performance, and risk of dependence.
3. Avoid driving for 3-4 hours after using marijuana.
4. Pregnant women should abstain from marijuana use.

The findings were published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health.

loln

These Canadaians man, it’s like they’re doing anything to make the news these past few days.

(Source: weedporndaily)