It's a dump of city. And like many New England towns, it never moved past the industrialization of the 1st half of the 20th century and there's abandon factories everywhere. If they didn't do this touristy shit, there would literally be nothing left here. It is weird how much they embrace a massacre of innocent people based upon nothing else than mass hysteria.
When pot is legal and you can get it from a dispensary, how much is it for an 1/8? Because I remember it college you could get an 1/8 for about $45-60 depending on quality. Are prices going down? Or is it sold by the gram now?
Yeah if you are buying 25 dollar 8ths or buying in grams chances are it's the dry shit you have to pick all the seeds and stems out of because you don't have the right hippy connections or are too poor to afford nuggets.
Right now weed is legal out here, but its a bit of a catch 22 because unless you have a medical marijuana card, you have to buy it illegally. Come January weed will truly be legal. I'm uncertain how they plan to sell it (but it'll most likely be sold in grams), however there will be a 30% state tax on it plus whatever the local community plans to tax on top of that. It won't be super cheap, but it will be legal and regulated, meaning you will know what you're getting (hopefully). And like I said before, you will need a state ID to buy it. I think there are something like 130 stores that have been approved to open up come January 1. Another interesting caveat is local communities can choose not to participate. For example, Colorado Springs passed an ordinance banning these stores. So those poor people will have to drive up to Denver (or maybe Pueblo) to get their green. Hypothetically, every community in Colorado could choose to ban these stores and then weed would go back to being legal but being illegal to purchase.
Mine is good. Trust me kids, it is everywhere around here. I grow it. A day of hiking near wetland and chances are you'll hit a farm eventually, just watch out for booby-traps.
Was weed ever really a drug that "you didn't know what you were getting?" I mean it's not X or coke where you might be getting 90 percent baby lax or worse chemically. I can say I have never heard of a single incident with any pot smoker Ive ever talked that had their shit dusted with pcp or coke by some shady drug dealer trying to rip them off. I guess people over state the potency when selling but it's not very hard to realize whats good and whats bad when it comes to straight weed. I don't know how the legal shit works. Do they have units that measure THC content? I could see that being easy to do with edibles but harder to judge with regular nuggets. I don't see how FDA style regulations will work just general regulations like not selling to minors or within x amount of feet of schools, etc. I was never one who thought the "just fucking legalize it, tax and regulate it mmmaaaaaayn" argument was a good idea. I mean I figured there would be some sort of alcohol like licensing/tax if you wanted to sell it commercially, but idiots inviting the government to regulate and tax shit is just a recipe for them to fuck you in the ass with all sorts of odd hoops and shit to jump through…. I would think the saturation of the market that will be inevitable will drive the prices down enough to negate high taxes imposed. I don't smoke anymore but I would give edibles a try. I hear they are way fucking intense now.
Its interesting, there is an established DUI limit for weed now, so I imagine they will be measuring how much THC is each product. I imagine the labeling will be like booze. With weed before, you could tell if you were getting Crown style schwag or not, but aside from that it was all guessing to as exactly what you got. A problem I always had before was I never liked getting stoned, but I like getting giggly. So that means that I was unwilling to buy something that I was unsure of. Obviously that changed with medical weed, but I was never willing to go get a card even though I could've very easily (I had crippling anxiety and panic attacks for a few years there). Government intervention is a pain in the ass with all the red tape, but with any sort of drug, some good comes out of it. Remember, in the prohibition era people were getting poisoned on booze and the term gut rut literally meant that. As a person with an Econ degree, I'm really interested to see how the market sorts itself out. I'm fucking positive Phillip Morris will be a player somehow, we'll see if the bigger corporations crowd out the local mom and pop groups. WIth regards to the tobacco giant, I don't think they'll be directly involved, however I think they will have a proxy acting in their interests.
Remember when the line used to be, "I can't wait til they legalize weed... So the stoners will shut the fuck up about it." Yeah, that hasn't really worked out.
I don't smoke weed but I find the process of legalizing a formerly prohibited thing intrinsically interesting.
They'll have a hand Im sure in commercial selling. There will be a big weed no doubt. For marketing purposes Im sure proxies will be used so there is no boogyman corporation. I say fuck it let there be a monsanto of weed I want to get high AND have adderall genetically programmed in so I can be productive and high. In reality I figure there will be a shit ton of hobby growers like there is for any gardening plant. It'll be too labor intensive for a lot of people so dispensaries and shops will flourish and everyone else can grow a few plants and vacuum pack for the winter…. That's what I'd do.
I think this may be the reason you are so bitter and in so much pain all the time. You are buying product that won't get the job done.
I can't get the clip on my work computer, but on Jimmy Kimmel, they had an actual ASL interpreter, interpreting what the guy at the Mandela memorial was signing. I haven't laughed that hard in a while. Its complete non-sense. If someone could post it, I would be grateful.
I wonder if we'll see Big Marijuana pay out a huge settlement in a class action lawsuit during my lifetime. Is the legal stuff sold as weed cigarettes, or just bags, jars and edibles. I cannot wait to start seeing better commercials - all the ones I've seen are like bad car salesmen, locally produced "health" clinic things. I want some classic "Tastes great! Less filling!" type things.
It would make sense for tobacco companies to make the switch to weed. Tobacco is on its way out, through either common sense of health that grows from it every year, or they will plain outlaw it finally due to its toxicity and addictive nature. Weed gets more and more favour of legalization, it's approval has skyrocketed over the last year. It is the largest profit crop in he United States. Fact. More than corn, more than anything that grows. Who wouldn't want to capitalize on that?