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Long Steve

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Mainiac said:
Mary-wanna-culture is alive and thriving here in maine,,,everybody is growing it,now that its legal,,i see plants everywhere i go,,and in the fall,you start to smell them,,all around the state.
Ive wondered what people are doing with all this product,i cant beleave that there is all of a sudden,50,000 pot smokers here....
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The appetite for this substance is enormous. Regardless of where you come down on it's use and whether an individual should have a right to decide to use it or not, it ISN'T legal anywhere. Not in ANY US state, territory, or possession. Folks need to understand that until it is unscheduled by the US government, users immediately become lifetime prohibited persons under the law. Whether used for medical or recreational purposes, it makes no difference. Not only are you forever prohibited from so much as touching a firearm, even being left alone in a room with a single, loose round of 22lr legally makes you a firearms felon punishable by 10 years in a federal facility. I think until this gets sorted out, its got the potential of doing some serious legal harm to some potentially otherwise good people.
 
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Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I'm not shy anymore. A druggie is a drunk is a pervert is a commie. Can't see a lot of difference between them all, but that's their business, not mine. I just wish more people would keep to their own affairs and stop trying to legislate "correct" behavior, thought, etc.
 
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
I've mentioned before the many people my wife and I knew before they died of drug or alcohol abuse.

The many reasons why recreational and medical marijuana use are being promoted so much are clearly obvious to any rational person.
 
fiver

fiver

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a decriminalization bill just passed the house and is headed to the senate.
in it is stuff like expunging former convictions involving possession etc., and making it legal.
of course tax revenue collection figures highly in the bill.
 
358156 hp

358156 hp

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The truth is probably that we are probably the most stressed generation(s) in our countrys history, and that lots of people are seeking some form of temporary disengagement. Drugs, alcohol, tobacco, pick your poison. All are toxic is high concentrations, and all can cause euphoria is lesser doses, depending on the individual users personal chemistry.

Oh yeah. The brown acid is bad, don't take the brown acid:rofl:.
 
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Right after California legalized dope, the county's coffers swelled due to the taxes on its local cultivation and sale. However, it was a temporary swelling because the price of the illegal dope decreased accordingly. Some legal growers were shipping their product to other states in an effort to stay in business. Last month the county supervisors were talking of reducing the taxes. What! Reduce taxes! Revolutionary talk coming from a government agency! The reality is, the county could completely eliminate the taxes and the black market would still undercut the legal market. Be careful of what you wish for.

Two of the area's last five forest fires were caused by illegal dope growers.
 
RicinYakima

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
The only jury trial I ever got to set on was a local business man who was charged with DWI. Every day when he closed his camera shop at 1800 hours, he would go next store bar and have three martinis. This had been goin on for 30 plus years. A rookie cop saw him come out of the bar and get in in his car and drive away from his private parking space. At the next light he "didn't turn on his turn signal promptly" and was stopped. While he passed the physical test, the cop insisted on a blood test and got it. Limit in this state is 0.080% and his was 0.100%. One other juror and I voted not guilty until the case had gone on for 10 hours. Judge called a mis-trial and he was let go. Never recharged and never arrested again. FWIW
 
Ian

Ian

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I really have a poor view of dopers, drunks, and other addicts whose vice of choice is harmful to others through a variety of mechanisms. HOWEVER, MJ has incredibly beneficial effects for SOME people. Some, not all, who suffer from fibromyalgia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and migraine headaches can experience significant relief from ingesting some THC. Hemp rope is second to none. My daughter has a skin sensitivity to a growing variety of things (soap at school was a recent one) and nothing short of Burt's Bees body lotion with hemp seed oil in it would calm her skin; an identical product without the hemp seed oil does nothing for her rashes. I have several longtime friends who consume MJ in one form or another constantly and I never knew for years because they were never "high", turns out some people with debilitating ADHD get the opposite effect from the stuff, it makes them calm and able to focus. One friend was a physics major in college and a highly successful audio engineer. Another is very high up in the Microsoft corporation, and if they don't have their dope they're both virtually crippled. I own property in Colorado and saw what legalization did to the state, not a fan....however, I've seen first hand too many times the legitimate medical benefits that a few people can have from the stuff to be opposed to its legal access. I also see a LOT more pothead bums who thoroughly fit the description and are in my opinion worthless individuals than I do people who have legit medical needs. It's a tough deal to legislate or even discuss (particularly among those of you who spent your careers enforcing the laws of the land), but I tell you that for some folks there's more to MJ than it being a recreational drug, it can restore quality of life. As for me, keep that shit FAR away from me, it is absolutely not compatible with my chemistry.
 
Tomme boy

Tomme boy

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Bar and chain oil mixed 80% bar and chain to 20% 5w30 or thinner oil then warmed up and sprayed on or brushed on works way better than fluid film. water will wash the fluid film right off. Not as easy to wash the bar oil off.
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
358156 hp said:
The truth is probably that we are probably the most stressed generation(s) in our countrys history, and that lots of people are seeking some form of temporary disengagement. Drugs, alcohol, tobacco, pick your poison. All are toxic is high concentrations, and all can cause euphoria is lesser doses, depending on the individual users personal chemistry.

Oh yeah. The brown acid is bad, don't take the brown acid:rofl:.
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I disagree with your theory on stress. I think we (the collective "we") are just wussified wimps that expect our lives to turn out like they do for the protagonists in movies. We are spoiled, self centered morons that don't want to do a bit more than absolutely necessary but that want to be rewarded far beyond our actual value. You look at the preceding generations that went through WW1 or 2 or the Depression, or back earlier when there was no "social safety net", where starvation was a real thing and a cut or cold could mean death for your kids. Stressed? Yeah, because we lack perspective when we should be able to appreciate all we have that comes so easily. If we are the most stressed, it's because we are weak in mind, weak in character, weak in faith, weak in willingness to actually work hard. And we aren't very darn conscious of all we do have.

Again, the "we" is the US as a society, not the individual, a small percentage of which don't fit my description. OTOH, yeah, we seek relief from reality! Doesn't matter how, we seek it and many seek it through harmful ways. I think that is an age old issue.
 
L Ross

L Ross

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Bret4207 said:
I disagree with your theory on stress. I think we (the collective "we") are just wussified wimps that expect our lives to turn out like they do for the protagonists in movies. We are spoiled, self centered morons that don't want to do a bit more than absolutely necessary but that want to be rewarded far beyond our actual value. You look at the preceding generations that went through WW1 or 2 or the Depression, or back earlier when there was no "social safety net", where starvation was a real thing and a cut or cold could mean death for your kids. Stressed? Yeah, because we lack perspective when we should be able to appreciate all we have that comes so easily. If we are the most stressed, it's because we are weak in mind, weak in character, weak in faith, weak in willingness to actually work hard. And we aren't very darn conscious of all we do have.

Again, the "we" is the US as a society, not the individual, a small percentage of which don't fit my description. OTOH, yeah, we seek relief from reality! Doesn't matter how, we seek it and many seek it through harmful ways. I think that is an age old issue.
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I also think much of our "stress" is manufactured by those that wish to maintain a "crisis mentality". The incessant barrage of this crisis and that crisis takes power from the individual and places it in the hands of those offering help, or a solution, i.e. government.

The very best thing I have done in recent years was turn off the "news". I don't even listen to our local radio station. When everyone jumped on the "all covid all the time" news format I did that Homer Simpson backing into the hedge thing and disappeared. I feel so much better. Of course your friends will occasionally ask if you've heard of the latest outrage or criminal event. Also the actual evidence in the form of rising costs of living cannot be ignored. However, this is exactly why we saved, invested, stockpiled, and planned ahead so as to be able to weather the various "bumps in the road" in relative comfort.
 
Missionary

Missionary

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Just south of Cayuga, Indiana sits a vast Eli Lily facility.
Back about 1880 (and before) it was hemp fields. There were all sorts of useful home medical remedies being produced in the area. Farmers grew it in their gardens. Doctors prescribed it. Pharmacies sold it.
About 1900 Eli Lilly bought that huge hemp field and started production. Made millions nationwide. Then about 1915 started research how to chemically manufacture the same results saving $$. By 1930 the hemp fields were "turned under". Eli Lilly was lobbying for laws to restrict the sale of hemp products. Later to prohibit the growing of hemp as home use was cutting into profits of the patented "cures".
Thus the beginning of a vast huge politically powerful industrial pharmacutical monopoly.
 
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