420 Policies and Laws

[Crow]

goodbye prohibition ? Discuss ... discuss ...

Legalisation is taking hold. Not just at home, but across the globe. Welcome to the Era of Post-Legalisation - Brought to you courtesy of the Great States of Washington and Colorado!

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[sirloot]

goodbye prohibition ? Discuss ... discuss ...

[Crow]

For BHO, I like to use an oil rig, but I do use my vape pen for CO₂ extractions and it works great. Avoid the top loaders and go for a bottom feeding tank.

I have used BHO directly in the vape pen, and it does work, but your battery needs to throw out a nice voltage to heat the nail adequately.

You could try softening the BHO by soaking it in a hot water bath for 10 minutes. CO₂ extractions soften a lot quicker than BHO, so soak for 5 innit.

Hope I was helpful... Good luck!

[BadAxe]

Crow, Have you used any of the atomizers built for BHO with a Ego Battery? I have 3 Ego Batteries, so instead of buying a vape pen built for BO I can save money and just buy the atomizers that hook up to my current batteries. But I am trying to find someone that has used them to give me their experience. My BHO experience is with a TI Curve and a Dome and Nail and my bong, and basically the dab is vaporized immeduately upon hitting the heat. But it seems with the vape pens, that you can get lots of hits from the errl you pack in there. So looking for some details on the vape pen BHO experience versus the tradtional way.

[Crow]

500-toker pot party gets OK’d outdoors at Seattle Center

For the first anniversary of legal weed, the city will permit a giant pot party on the site of Seattle Center’s old Fun Forest amusement park.

On the first anniversary of legal weed in Washington state, the city will permit a big pot party on the site of Seattle Center’s old Fun Forest amusement park.

Pot activist Ben Livingston has the contract to prove it, a city document that says “Licensee is permitted to host a private outdoor marijuana smoking area.”

Livingston forked over $1,900, which he got from a local law firm, to use part of the 74-acre Seattle Center for about eight hours on Dec. 6, the anniversary of the day Washington’s recreational pot law took effect.

It’s a free, adults-only event, open to the public, at which Livingston plans to have light music, light catering and outdoor pot smoking by up to 500 people behind a double fence, or smoking “moat,” as the permit says.

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[Crow]

No more of Britannia's sweet cheese..

Now there's..........

[Crow]

In me bong this morning --

[Thunder_Snus]

Nurse In Trouble for Prescribing Marijuana to Children

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - A 66-year-old nurse practitioner is in trouble after he prescribed pot to young children. The Washington State Nursing Commission charged Joel Berman with issuing medical marijuana to a 6-year-old and a 4-year-old.

(Excerpt) Read more at kionrightnow.com ...

I'm guessing he was prescribing it to them in the form of some kind of edible? I highly doubt he prescribed them a bong along with it. If a state is going to say something is medicine then its medicine. Alcohol used to be a medicine prescribed to people. Would they rather he put kids on vicodin or adderall? Same thing except those 2 have never been illegal for strange reasons.

[lxskllr]

Sounds like politics to me. If he can prescribe medicine, he can prescribe marijuana.

[wa3zrm]

Nurse In Trouble for Prescribing Marijuana to Children

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - A 66-year-old nurse practitioner is in trouble after he prescribed pot to young children. The Washington State Nursing Commission charged Joel Berman with issuing medical marijuana to a 6-year-old and a 4-year-old.

(Excerpt) Read more at kionrightnow.com ...

[truthwolf1]

If you ever voted before Obama in your local church or school you probably noticed a lot of Senior citizens. The WW2 anti-drugs generation is dying off and being replaced by more open minded boomers.

[lxskllr]

I was at my mother's house a week or so ago, and I saw weed references on a couple shows. It was treated as lightweight fun, and pretty much normal. When did that happen? I don't have a problem with it, but I thought the paradigm shift was interesting.

[Thunder_Snus]

Never understood what the issue with weed was. I've tried it a few times and it's definitely not for me but i still see no reason to make it illegal.

When you're under the legal age to buy tobacco and alcohol it's much easier to buy drugs than to buy legal things. When I was 14 I could get someone to sell me weed way easier than I could have gotten a gas station attendant to sell me some skoal apple. Legalize it and all those scummy drug dealers that all the parents are worried about will disappear. They won't be able to compete with big corporate weed prices and will not be able to make a living being a drug dealer anymore.

[wa3zrm]

Marijuana Moves Into the Mainstream

Read more at: Townhall.com ^ |


When opinion shifts in modern America, the change can be like a flash flood. Three years ago, 54 percent of California voters rejected Proposition 19, which would have legalized the recreational use of marijuana. Last year, Colorado and Washington voters approved measures to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Last week, Gallup released a poll that found that 58 percent of Americans support legalizing the recreational use of marijuana -- a 10-point jump from one year ago. Sunday's New York Times reports that a template for how the two states will regulate marijuana may be found in California.
Since voters approved Proposition 215 to legalize medical marijuana in 1996, Adam Nagourney and Rick Lyman report, the requirements for getting a medical marijuana card "have been notoriously lax."
It turns out Prop 215 opponents were right and wrong.
The official ballot argument against Prop 215 argued that the measure was designed to "exploit public compassion for the sick in order to legalize and legitimatize the widespread use of marijuana in California." Clearly, some recreational users have gamed the system.
But they were wrong about the outcome. Despite dire warnings about Prop 215's shielding drug dealers and allowing unlimited quantities of marijuana to grow near schoolyards, medical marijuana doesn't seem to have increased teenage use.
A 2012 study found "little evidence of a relationship between legalizing medical marijuana and the use of marijuana among high school students." Researchers D. Mark Anderson of Montana State University and Daniel I. Rees of the University of Colorado examined the data in Los Angeles, where the number of dispensaries surged to more than 600 by 2010, and found teen usage to be no greater than in cities without medical marijuana dispensaries.
In a piece published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Anderson and Rees linked legal medical marijuana to a reduction in heavy drinking among 18- to 29-year-olds and a 5 percent decrease in beer sales.
The journal also published a counterpoint piece that found the evidence on marijuana use leading to less alcohol use was mixed and uncertain.
There are three things we know:
1) Alcohol abuse is more dangerous than marijuana abuse. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta found no documented case of death from a marijuana overdose. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some 80,000 Americans die from excessive alcohol use each year.
2) Marijuana does have medical uses. That's why the California Medical Association recommends the legalization and regulation of cannabis.
3) The war on marijuana is a waste of money. When federal prosecutors go after medical marijuana dispensers, they are using a nuclear weapon to incarcerate people for using or distributing a nonlethal drug.
As Amanda Reiman of the pro-legalization Drug Policy Alliance put it, "prohibiting marijuana, prohibiting dispensaries, doesn't make marijuana go away."

[Crow]

HISTORIC HIGH: 58% of Americans Want Marijuana Legalized

Gallup released new polling data today that shows an overwhelming majority of Americans want marijuana to be legalized. According to their survey, 58% of Americans support legalizing marijuana, while only 39% are opposed. This is up significantly from the last time Gallup polled the question in 2012, when only 48% of Americans were in favor and 50% were opposed. For historical perspective, the first time they surveyed this question in 1969 a paltry 12% of Americans were in favor of legalization.

The support for marijuana legalization has seen unprecedented momentum in the past several years. Gallup observes, “Whatever the reasons for Americans’ greater acceptance of marijuana, it is likely that this momentum will spur further legalization efforts across the United States. Advocates of legalizing marijuana say taxing and regulating the drug could be financially beneficial to states and municipalities nationwide.”

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