Reuters:
The United States' first marijuana cafe opened on Friday, posing an early test of the Obama administration's move to relax policing of medical use of the drug.
A new study has directly compared the societal costs of marijuana and alcohol, as well as tobacco, and the final tally isn't pretty.
Jessica Corry: Can Pot Save Denver's Papers?
As the loss of the Rocky Mountain News still lingers, the focus now turns to saving the publications remaining. Essential revenue could come from the most unlikely of sources. Marijuana.
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CBC, in the 1990s, was San Francisco's prohibition-era haven, just a stône's throw away from home.
The 3rd floor lounge was an embattled şpéåkęásý... løådèd with comfortable couches and lighting made hazy from blue-tinted daydreams hovering so densely you often didn't know you weren't at home... or so I was told.
Even IF the FБi didn't get your ņåmє, you were most likely špîęd by the càmerą's hidden eye tucked behind the dark curtains adorning the gray glass office building across Market Street.
reLegalize it!
Why is illegal?
Is it more dangerous than Ativan, Valium or Xanax?
you can legally drive while on those.
Who is against legalizing it? Why?
The people jailed for possession, even with intent to sell;
have they caused more harm to the country than Wall Street or Pharma?
Legalize it and fund Medicare for All.
Why is it illegal? As a political tool. Also, because Pharma cannot profit from it. And, then, there's also the morally obsessed latching on to the idea of prohibition.
Just watched a National Geographic type show on TV today and I'll be danged if the mummy of an individual found about 3,000 years ago had cannabis buried with him in a bowl. I don't smoke it and wouldn't even if it was free, but there's gotta be something to this weed if it's been smoked for this long. GO OREGON !!!
Legalize weed.
http://www.legalizationofmarijuana.com/
Go Portland !
Where to go on vacation...Portland, Breckenridge...tough choices.
heh. going to breckenridge myself in a couple of weeks. could be interesting.
trusting adults to make their own decisions?
what a novel approach to freedom.
We are intelligent, well educated, community members who contribute to making our communities better...
We are teachers, lawyers, Dr'.s, nurses, college professors, construction workers, city planers, musicians, athletes, reporters, government officials, military members, newscasters, computer programers, software testers, high skilled laborers, corporate executives, realtors, vets, business owners, casual laborers...and many many more....
In fact we are anyone and everyone who are the very fabric of this country that makes this country great...
LEAVE US ALONE AND LET US HAVE OUR RELAXATION TIME!!!!!
Legalized it already...
Legalize...that is!
Don't relax. Don't have fun. Serve the men in the suits.
Half the battle in this debate is convincing conservatives that they don't have a monopoly on civility. On the contrary today's conservatives are less civil than today's liberals IMHO. I have no interest in smoking pot because I just don't like it, but I have, for example, a friend who smokes on occasion. He's an ivy league graduate making over 6 figures. I'll go over to him and his wife's house for dinner and we'll have a glass of wine with some wild salmon and he has a smoke. And it's no big deal. We have a wonderful time and he's back at work in the morning.
You see what I mean. The refer-madness hype is pure BS! It's a plant that grows on the earth and is eaten by dozens of wild animals including humans until we cast it in superstition and negative religious overtones. We're not a very smart animal.
great link
Excellent website. No surprise in the density of users graphic that the east coast and the west coast are lit up, but Texas, the most conservative state in the country?
Crystal....unfortunately it doesn't matter because our leaders do one of the following...
They're either old paranoid and stuck in their narrow-minded ways.
They got friends in law enforcement who will lose jobs.
They're being paid hefty stipends from lobyists to maintain the status quo.
They're benefiting monetarily from the billions wasted on the war on drugs.
And damn it, I'm not for rampant use like conservatives want to paint us all with! I'm for controlled use with stiff penalties for driving under the influence, under age smoking, smoking on the job, smoking in public places like airports, trainstations, state and federal buildings, loitering, smoking and partying on the street making a nuisance.
We can allow people to smoke in a civilized way if that's what they want to do in the privacy of their homes or in bar-like establishments and casino's without throwning people in jail!
I'm callin for a real out in the open pot bar for evening entertainment with live music, drinks(non Alcoholic), great eats(some real tasty stuff) just like the millions of Alcohol bars. Why not? People would love it and would stop drinking so damn much alcohol and causing havoc all over. Why not? Any inwesters out there, inwesters?
Can't smoke in bars in Missouri!
And it sucks because I live in Missouri.
Ok, seriously you don't believe the Beer/Wine/Spirits Industry will Allow that do you? There would be an Army of Lobbyists on the Hill in 54seconds...that would Rival the Insurance Industries Best day!
It is disgusting isn't it? How much death on our highways do we have to go through till we wake up. And its their product that does it. Truly disgusting. They even advertise hard spirits on TV again.
It has taken too long for American's to come to their senses and allow this type of use. I 've become so tired of listening to the debate over the criminalization of marijuana use and the assinine war on drugs, that I don't even care anymore that America is finally coming to it's senses. It would have been nice if we had come to our senses 40 years ago!
The only thing that makes me happy is that future generations won't get hauled off to jail and have their lives ruined like a childhood friend of mine who just liked the plant too much for his own good.
I would certainly prefer driving behind someone on weed doing 35 in a 70 mph zone, than a drunk doing 100mph the wrong way on the Interstate...but that's just my pref. Shouldn't be driving on either, but if there was a choice...
I don't know of Anyone Advocating for the right to drive after the consumption of Cannabis or any other substance (a few too many shots at the local "coffee shack" could make you a bit jumpy too)
But I agree with you...I would Much rather share the road with a Cannabis (only) consumer than a drunk or someone on meth/heroin etc
Tests made show more careful driving under pot!!! No comparison to Alcohol.
Bull. I couldn't hardly move (back in the day) when I was high. I'd just sit & laugh & say to my friends, "Damn I'm high."
Just like alcohol, the people who past the test probably had a high tolerance level. The tests you're talking about were probably done by a group advocating legalizing it.
I do think it should be legalized, but I don't think it makes you any better of a driver comapred to a driver on alcohol. It's the amount of intake.
Pro life, Pro choice, Pro freedom. Pro hemp.
I concur!
The benefits of hemp as an industrial and food product has to be part of this argument. Unfortunately, we favor backwardness and bow to moral obsession and prohibition rules. A culture of Thou Shall Obey.
"The Cannabis Cafe in Portland, Oregon, is the first to give certified medical marijuana users a place to get hold of the drug and smoke it -- as long as they are out of public view -- despite a federal ban."
That's SO not true.
There are plenty of places in California that already do this.There's even an Oaksterdam University in Oakland... so, no, this is by no means the first. The first were already happening in the 1990s.
They May have meant "in Oregon"....It is a bit mis-leading.
noi to mention the CBC in downtoen San Francisco so many years ago
3rd floor lounge, the friendly şpéåkęásý... løådèd with cozy sofas and a warm glow of lamps made hazy with daydreams tinted blū, hovering densely, leaving you uncertain about whether you were home or not... or at least I was told.
IF the FБi didn't get your ņåmє in a räid, you were pretty likely špîęd by a càmerą's eye hidden behind the curtains adorning the dark gray glass office building, standing ostensibly empty across Market Street.
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First Posted: 11-13-09 11:02 PM | Updated: 11-13-09 11:13 PM