420 Policies and Laws

[Crow]

I'm a little uneasy about it. We have both tried it before when we were in high school but while pretty severely under the influence of alcohol so i have no honest idea what it would be like. A few years ago, under my better judgement i tried K2 while at a friends lake house after high school graduation and i ended up waking up sitting at the foot of another couples bed.......so.... There are a few cool dudes I work with that are regular users I'm just not sure how to ask them if i can buy some from them. I know here in IL you can get it for specific things but to be honest I'm not sure what they are, my girlfriend seems to think i could be diagnosed with something from a shrink for just being strange, she also thinks I am bipolar simply because I can move on from being mad about something rather quickly. Question crow if i fit the requirements to get a weed card or whatever in IL where would i get the weed from? I know there are not dispensaries here so would it like....be mailed to me or something?

Stay away from K2, Spice, and the like. Those synthetics (JWH-### and others) are some nasty stuff..... You won't tweak out on the natural cannabis.

Your state is the most recent state to legalise medical cannabis (welcome #20 ). The law took effect on 1 January, and the state allows for 22 licenced cultivation centres, and up to 60 licenced dispensaries [however, the entire system is still being propped up].

Doctors and dispensaries should start sprouting up any day now. I would check web sites like WeedMaps now and then to see if dispensaries pop up in your state.

You also might want to check out your local Craigslist for '420' or 'mmj'. I checked Chicago's, and I've already found some interesting results.

But as you said, you know some cool dudes. Just be direct. "Hey, do you guys know where I can get some green around here?"........... or summit like that. They should hook you up.

Best of luck mate!

[Crow]

New York............. The Twenty-First Medical Cannabis State?

If not you, then another state on your side will.......... Someone is going to join the Medical Cannabis States very soon. Tick-tock.

Medical marijuana advocates in New York have announced a month-long series of events urging lawmakers to pass the state's Compassionate Care Act, a bill aimed at legalizing marijuana for medical purposes.

The program's launch also coincides with a report in the Buffalo News profiling New York families who are relocating to states such as Colorado, where marijuana use is now legal, to access a marijuana treatment for children called Charlotte's Web.

“I couldn’t wait, because if she got bad again, she could die," Don Burger, whose 8-year-old daughter suffers from daily seizures, told the Buffalo News.

Forgoing additional surgery, Burger and his wife recently made the decision to move to Colorado in order to gain access to medical marijuana for their daughter. He says since receiving the oil-based marijuana treatments -- which lack the compounds that produce a high -- his daughter has experienced as increase in both appetite and overall attentiveness.

“She said ‘apple’ the other day,” he told the paper. “She’s saying ‘hi’ and going to preschool.”

A recent poll found an overwhelming 88 percent of New Yorkers support legalizing medical marijuana, but previous attempts to pass such legislation have ultimately been blocked in the state senate.

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[Crow]

The State of the Union



States with medical cannabis laws only
States with cannabis decriminalisation laws only
States with both decriminalisation and medical cannabis laws
States with both legalised recreational cannabis and medical cannabis

[Thunder_Snus]

That would be great, I talk to a lot of New Yorkers and it sounds like a majority of them could use something to stop being such assholes.

[Thunder_Snus]

Stay away from K2, Spice, and the like. Those synthetics (JWH-### and others) are some nasty stuff..... You won't tweak out on the natural cannabis.

Your state is the most recent state to legalise medical cannabis (welcome #20 ). The law took effect on 1 January, and the state allows for 22 licenced cultivation centres, and up to 60 licenced dispensaries [however, the entire system is still being propped up].

Doctors and dispensaries should start sprouting up any day now. I would check web sites like WeedMaps now and then to see if dispensaries pop up in your state.

You also might want to check out your local Craigslist for '420' or 'mmj'. I checked Chicago's, and I've already found some interesting results.

But as you said, you know some cool dudes. Just be direct. "Hey, do you guys know where I can get some green around here?"........... or summit like that. They should hook you up.

Best of luck mate!

So what kind of medical condition would I have to suffer form in order to qualify? I understand medicinal but never really the specifics.
Would it be against the rules to ask to just buy some directly from them? It would most likely be on occasions so I wouldn't really want to go through the struggle of meeting some random dude to buy weed.

[Burnsey]

Weed 2........ on CNN tonight......10 ET, probably 10 PT

[Crow]

US Federal Government Signs Off On Study Using Cannabis To Treat Veterans' PTSD

BY MATTHEW PERRONE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The federal government has signed off on a long-delayed study looking at marijuana as a treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, a development that drug researchers are hailing as a major shift in U.S. policy.

The Department of Health and Human Services' decision surprised marijuana advocates who have struggled for decades to secure federal approval for research into the drug's medical uses.

The proposal from the University of Arizona was long ago cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, but researchers had been unable to purchase marijuana from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The agency's Mississippi research farm is the only federally-sanctioned source of the drug.

In a letter last week, HHS cleared the purchase of medical marijuana by the studies' chief financial backer, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which supports medical research and legalization of marijuana and other drugs.

"MAPS has been working for over 22 years to start marijuana drug development research, and this is the first time we've been granted permission to purchase marijuana from NIDA," the Boston-based group said in a statement. The federal government has never before approved medical research involving smoked or vaporized marijuana, according to MAPS.

A spokesman for the group said organizers have called off a protest over the stalled study that was planned for later this year.

While more than 1 million Americans currently take medical marijuana — usually for chronic pain — rigorous medical research into the drug's effects has been limited, in part due to federal restrictions.

Marijuana remains a Schedule I substance under the federal government's Controlled Substance Act. That means the drug is considered a high-risk for abuse with no accepted medical applications.

In the past NIDA has focused its research on the risks of drug abuse and addiction, turning away researchers interested in studying the potential benefits of illegal substances.

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[Thunder_Snus]

So Crow. Let's say in the entire U.S marijuana becomes legal. Will there just be dispensaries everywhere or would we start seeing companies like marlboro and camel selling packs of joints at the gas station?

[Burnsey]

So Crow. Let's say in the entire U.S marijuana becomes legal. Will there just be dispensaries everywhere or would we start seeing companies like marlboro and camel selling packs of joints at the gas station?

I'm not sure how accurate or true this is, but I heard long ago that the big cig manufacturers had already copyrighted names for ready rolled...just in case.....

[trebli]

So Crow. Let's say in the entire U.S marijuana becomes legal. Will there just be dispensaries everywhere or would we start seeing companies like marlboro and camel selling packs of joints at the gas station?

About 30 years ago, a co-worker of mine said, "Someday in the future marijuana will be praised and tobacco will be condemned. Marijuana will be legal and tobacco will be illegal. People caught with tobacco will go to prison."

I laughed at his joke. But now I'm beginning to wonder if he was joking.

[Andy105]

I'm not sure how accurate or true this is, but I heard long ago that the big cig manufacturers had already copyrighted names for ready rolled...just in case.....

Pastry companies should get involved too, for non-smokers. "Hostess HoHoHos"!

[Thunder_Snus]

Damn snuson should get in on the copyright game and just start buying up all the weed pun names for pre-rolled joints.

And Trebli it is starting to look that way. Most of the smoker I know feel like they are in internment camps with where they can and can't smoke. Still they refuse to try snus.

How exactly are businesses handling this new rise in marijuana legalization? I know the NBA told the nuggets it was still banned but what about your local bank or insurance company. How does the legalization work with these places? Can they still test you for THC when it is legal to have? What about in a state like here in IL where you can only get it for certain ailments...do you get some kind of weed pass you can show employers?

[Burnsey]

Damn snuson should get in on the copyright game and just start buying up all the weed pun names for pre-rolled joints.

And Trebli it is starting to look that way. Most of the smoker I know feel like they are in internment camps with where they can and can't smoke. Still they refuse to try snus.

How exactly are businesses handling this new rise in marijuana legalization? I know the NBA told the nuggets it was still banned but what about your local bank or insurance company. How does the legalization work with these places? Can they still test you for THC when it is legal to have? What about in a state like here in IL where you can only get it for certain ailments...do you get some kind of weed pass you can show employers?

If the recreational use of weed is legal, can an employer mandate that it is forbidden for employees and pee test for it?

[Thunder_Snus]

If the recreational use of weed is legal, can an employer mandate that it is forbidden for employees and pee test for it?

Yes. I'm not sure why I couldn't think of exactly what you wrote to ask that though.

[trebli]

Employers can and do test for alcohol. I'm guessing it would be legal to test for marijuana also.