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Allowed to talk about marijuana?

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Smoblikat

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I see plenty of threads about alcohol, and people talking about tobacco, so are we allowed to talk about good ol' pot?
 
LumbergTech said:
Just know that the thread will be forwarded to your place of employment. (If you have one)
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lol, I dont see how thats possible since my name isnt known nor my location. Also, your name reminds me of office space.

I just thought it would be cool to have a thread about cannabis. there is a thread for vodka, why not weed?
 
I've never tried pot and I've had the opportunity but I said no. I am somewhat curious to know what it must be like though.

In fact I have a pretty big and clean crawlspace that would make an awesome grow area if I added some vapor barrier and sealed it off properly from the rest of the house. hmmm. There is some profits to be made here. Only advertising I need is a pair of old running shoes over the electrical lines. 😛
 
SlitheryDee said:
Why is it that the only times I get offered pot its by anonymous people on the Internet? I like pot, but nobody I know smokes it. *sigh*
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lol, that sucks. I have a similar problem, a lot of the people I know smoke, but im always the one smoking em up 😛

Its been 30 min and the mods havent said no, so i guess im going to create a cannabis club thread. Come join.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=33666236#post33666236

I hope this doesnt end badly. If the mods see this, I thought it was OK to do this since there is a vodka thread, if it isnt just let me know and ill take it down.
 
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Make it legal so I can smoke it. I don't even want to become a pothead. Just a few puffs, remember the good ole days, quit, and go about my boring ass normal life.
I get tested at work so no way I'm touching it.
 
OILFIELDTRASH said:
Make it legal so I can smoke it. I don't even want to become a pothead. Just a few puffs, remember the good ole days, quit, and go about my boring ass normal life.
I get tested at work so no way I'm touching it.
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That sucks. Im applying for a new job in a ew weeks so I havent smoked in days. Come join the club.
 
Alcohol is legal
Tobacco is legal
Pot is not legal

Not sure what the rules are on that around here. I do know this forum is chock full of pot heads though. Stuff being illegal doesn't seem to faze anyone. If you're a drug user I'm sure there are plenty of others to keep you company around here.

Smoblikat said:
Why did you say no? The first time you experience its effects are so good there arent words to describe it.
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Same thing can be said about any drug. Oh the high is soooo awesome, try it! 🙄 He's a lot smarter to not try or get hooked on drugs.
 
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Smoblikat said:
What if im allowed to smoke pot where I live? Portugal, netherlands, colorado, CA, MA, all the other states that allow it.
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CA only allows for medical, recreational use is still illegal.

Mods have to be the judge but conversation like this has been closed in the past because this is a US-based site.

Anyway, copying my thoughts from a previous post on this.

In my county, you sure as hell better not go hiking off-trail on government land because you will be shot at by growers. The wildfires we had in 2008 over tens of thousands of acres were valiantly fought by firefighters... who were shot at by growers.

I have been threatened by growers when looking at vacant property, people growing on private land they didn't own. There are robberies in my town (which has a 25 plant legal limit if you have a medical card, which anyone can get) all the time. The house I grew up in was foreclosed on because the owners after us didn't pay their bills, and growers moved into and insulated the barn.

Pot deals go bad around here pretty often. The Mexican cartels that move most of the pot product from the county have had an increased presence every year, with a corresponding rise in gang violence and teen gang activity.

Growers suck water out of the rivers and streams completely unregulated and with abandon, while local grape growers (our primary form of taxable income) face stricter and stricter regulations every year and can barely keep their grapes from freezing in winter. Growers put restricted and banned chemicals on their product and pollute our water.

Legalization may solve many of these problems, but right now the cheap pot exported from Mendocino County is being grown by damaging the place I love to live. If you're going to toke, buy local. Stop buying pot from my county - it costs us way more than it brings in, and EXPORTED product really only supports the criminal element in our area.

Applause for Sheriff Tom Allman who tries to protect legal personal-use growers while enabling law enforcement to go after the growers who are doing harm:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-pot-republic/interviews/tom-allman.html

We have two types of medical marijuana grows. We have the individuals, medical marijuana patients. It's dependent upon a doctor to recommend how many plants, and ... the person can follow that recommendation up to having 25 plants on any taxable parcel. If you have a 5-acre parcel and your doctor says you can have 25 plants, you can have 25 plants. If you have a 180-acre parcel and your doctor says you can have 50 plants, you can have 25 plants, because 25 is a maximum pretaxable parcel. And the reason for that is we realize there had to be some type of limit on the amount of marijuana being grown. Otherwise it was going to be grown from property line to property line. And it was causing great public safety issues, whether it was crime, whether it was the smell, whether it was just the calls for service that our 911 center was getting.
So what the Board of Supervisors did was pass an ordinance last year that basically said 25 plants per parcel; there has to be at least a 6-foot fence with a lockable gate around it. And that's for the medical marijuana patient, the individual patient.

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Some people are watching this right now shaking their head saying, "I can't believe there's a cop in uniform that's working with marijuana people." And to those people I just say, listen. The voters have passed the law; we're only trying to make it work. And the longer we build up hurdles and we build up laws, then the more money we're going to be spending in court to ultimately be told to get over it. So the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, we're over it, and we're trying to make it work. ...
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In Northern California we have a lot of national forests, state lands and county parks, and we've seen an explosion of non-local citizens and illegal aliens coming into our national forests and growing marijuana for six months. They arrive in April, middle of April, and they stay in the national forest until the middle of October, and then they harvest their finished product, and they carry it out.
And so what they have is they have people who are financing them that at the end of the season will pay them a $10,000 or $15,000 lump sum for them to have grown marijuana all summer. And we also have the same financiers transporting supplies, food and personal toiletries and so forth to them once a month and dropping it off.
And so what we're seeing in the national forest is we're seeing huge marijuana grows -- huge. I'm talking 500- and 2,000-plant grows by four people in the national forest. And our national forest is huge. It's 915,000 acres.
And there's six counties that surround the Mendocino National Forest. There's Tehama County, Trinity County, Glenn County, Colusa County, Lake County and Mendocino County. And in the past what's happened is it's almost like a pingpong game. The counties go in and eradicate marijuana up to their county border, you know, knock the pingpong ball over to the other county line, and we think that we've solved the problem. Well, we're doing nothing but facilitating the problem. We're allowing the problem to continue to be a burden to us.


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Let me ask you something. We spoke to a man today, Mexican; he's been a small-scale grower, and he told us he is not growing anymore. ... He said one big reason is the new people who have come in the last year don't play by the same rules. They've got a lot of guns, and he's got a young daughter, and he doesn't want to be anywhere near that kind of a scene. ... Does that square with what you are aware of?
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Hispanics in our community have been welcomed since I have been a little kid here, and they are a very important part of our community.
We're seeing people who come up here, and they are here for eight months of the year. They usually get here in March and they are here through November, and they don't associate with any of the local families. They bring outsiders in, and they are very scary. They are the people who are doing things to our wildlife and to our land that the longtime marijuana growers would never think of. ...
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I've seen this firsthand. I've been chased away, a friend has been shot at. It's not from people high on marijuana, it's from people high on the cash pot brings them, and who will do anything to defend that income source.

If you're going to buy, buy local and stay away from the trafficked stuff that is destroying my county.
 
AreaCode707 said:
I've seen this firsthand. I've been chased away, a friend has been shot at. It's not from people high on marijuana, it's from people high on the cash pot brings them, and who will do anything to defend that income source.

If you're going to buy, buy local and stay away from the trafficked stuff that is destroying my county.
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Why must the country insist on the idiocy of keeping it illegal and having the above as the result? Sure there will still be hard drug trafficking, but marijuana? But obviously those who run things feel we should keep throwing tax payer money down the drain, since freaking marijuana has been "proven" a million times to be the root of all evil.
 
AreaCode707 said:
CA only allows for medical, recreational use is still illegal.

Mods have to be the judge but conversation like this has been closed in the past because this is a US-based site.

Anyway, copying my thoughts from a previous post on this.

In my county, you sure as hell better not go hiking off-trail on government land because you will be shot at by growers. The wildfires we had in 2008 over tens of thousands of acres were valiantly fought by firefighters... who were shot at by growers.

I have been threatened by growers when looking at vacant property, people growing on private land they didn't own. There are robberies in my town (which has a 25 plant legal limit if you have a medical card, which anyone can get) all the time. The house I grew up in was foreclosed on because the owners after us didn't pay their bills, and growers moved into and insulated the barn.

Pot deals go bad around here pretty often. The Mexican cartels that move most of the pot product from the county have had an increased presence every year, with a corresponding rise in gang violence and teen gang activity.

Growers suck water out of the rivers and streams completely unregulated and with abandon, while local grape growers (our primary form of taxable income) face stricter and stricter regulations every year and can barely keep their grapes from freezing in winter. Growers put restricted and banned chemicals on their product and pollute our water.

Legalization may solve many of these problems, but right now the cheap pot exported from Mendocino County is being grown by damaging the place I love to live. If you're going to toke, buy local. Stop buying pot from my county - it costs us way more than it brings in, and EXPORTED product really only supports the criminal element in our area.

Applause for Sheriff Tom Allman who tries to protect legal personal-use growers while enabling law enforcement to go after the growers who are doing harm:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-pot-republic/interviews/tom-allman.html

I've seen this firsthand. I've been chased away, a friend has been shot at. It's not from people high on marijuana, it's from people high on the cash pot brings them, and who will do anything to defend that income source.

If you're going to buy, buy local and stay away from the trafficked stuff that is destroying my county.
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I would never buy from mexico. No offense, but Im not a fan of brick weed 😛. I buy from local growers (who are my friends)
 
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