Commissioner gives ultimatum; Vermont Reps remove PTSD language from medical marijuana bill
MONTPELIER — A House committee, poised to allow PTSD patients to qualify for medical marijuana, reversed itself Friday when the state’s top law enforcement official stepped in before the panel voted.
While heroin epidemic rages, Bain seeks profit in drug treatment centers
But as opiates ravage communities from rural Vermont to Hollywood, treating addiction has become big business. The push for national health care, and recent changes to federal health insurance laws could make it even more attractive. Substance abuse treatment is a $7.7 billion industry, according to a recent report by IBISWorld Inc., a New York research firm, and growing at an annual rate of about 2 percent.
Why You Should Never Believe a Newspaper On The Value Of A Cocaine Bust
So, the total value is more like $17 million than the $250 million in the headline.
There is an economic point to this over and above just quibbling with the numbers being offered to us. Now that we can see the price difference between a half container full of cocaine in Colombia and a half container full of cocaine in Rotterdam we can work out why people try to smuggle half containers around the world. Because there’s a $230 million profit in managing to get one half container through. And a $230 million profit on a possible $17 million cost means that the authorities have to intercept at least 12 out of each 13 shipments in order to make it an unprofitable activity.
And no, no one at all thinks they are managing to do that and nor is there anyone who thinks they ever will. Meaning that we can now understand why that War on Drugs doesn’t seem to be having all that much effect: there’s simply too much profit to be made from the smuggling for the war to have any noticeable effect.
Legal pot becomes a touchy workplace issue
DENVER — Last month, Colorado diner owner Mark Rose posted an unusual job description: “Looking for part time experienced breakfast cook. Pays well, must be friendly and a team player, could turn into a full time gig by summer. 420 friendly a must.”
With that public declaration, Rose put himself squarely in the camp of employers acknowledging that marijuana use is perfectly legal in Colorado. Perhaps more significant, it also puts him in the camp of employers who officially don’t care if their employees use pot off-duty. The phrase “420” is shorthand for someone who uses marijuana.
Rose owns Dot’s Diner on the Mountain in the pot-friendly mountain town of Nederland, Colo., just west of Boulder. He says he wanted to hire a marijuana-friendly employee to ensure he didn’t have to deal with someone who might complain about his own pot use.
More employers like him, please.
For fun, here’s a delightful parody of how the media gets sucked in to all the latest hoax drug scares.
http://youtu.be/NpM-FOTy9vo
i have heard that hemp leaves in the bedding will discourage the wily bedbug. another feature of the drug war harming the general welfare of the nation.
Yup, Hemp Beats Bedbugs!
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1802
Good timing since I hear they are visiting tourist trap motels. Who are at odds with growers paying a living wage for bud trimmers. Taking a lot of the tourist minimum wage workers, leaving less profits. Crazier and Curiouser.
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Ohio high school athlete sues over suspension for pro-marijuana retweet
According to the lawsuit, Clear Fork’s athletic director, Benji Bethea, charged the senior with violating the district’s morality clause and drug, alcohol and tobacco policies.
Bong Hits 4 Jesus
Sensible Drug Policy â€@SSDP
We Cannot Let Undercover Cops Trick Students into Selling Marijuana
Obama ask about legalizing cannabis.jpg
It’s must be all in how you ask the question…
Hippie Butter â€@hippiebutter
10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Eat Hemp Seeds
I looked at the suspension story and there was a line about a “school drug officer”. Wha…?
They should make it fix the potholes.
What next? Banana peels?
LOL!!!!!!
Yeah, they warned me in junior high school about those. For real, it was actually printed up in slick, mass-produced anti-drug brochures before the idiot prohibs realized they’d been punked by the ‘stoners’.
Just as the ‘heads’ punked them again with ‘Cheech and Chong’, never realizing that it was a parody of prohib stereotypes of cannabists, and had no relation to reality. Marin and Chong laughed all the way to the bank, thanking stupid, clueless prohibs for their unintentional generosity and support.
Even were I so inclined, I wouldn’t try selling them a clue, as it would be ‘pearls before swine’. They truly are that hopeless.
In a way, I pity them. The dinosaurs didn’t have the mental wattage to understand what killed them. The prohibs, like the dinos, are toast, but, unlike the dinos, the prohibs can not only see it coming, they also know why it’s happening.
And it must taste like ashes in their mouths to realize that those for whom they ostensibly fought have almost completely repudiated their efforts. Even worse, the prohibs know why that’s happening…and just like that meteor that whacked T Rex and Company, the process is unstoppable, now.
It was Abbie Hoffman who invented the banana peel hoax. Who but Abbie could’ve convinced drug agents to test-smoke banana peels? Hopefully someday we’ll find out if any drug agents tried smoking bed bugs.
Vermont decides that allowing cannabis for PTSD is beyond the scope of their medical cannabis program and instead opts for further research.
Is there a bigger asshole than an elected official who would deny cannabis for PTSD?
Especially at the behest of an appointed official–an employee–whose expertise is NOT medical but punitive.
Denying kids with seizures…
Families with sick kids moving to Colorado for medical marijuana
I think its easier to score who is the bigger elected official asshole, since they all seem to fall into that designation concerning cannabis.
Senators And Governors Who Support Legalizing MJ
That’s right — out of 50 governors and 100 U.S. senators, not a single one has announced support for full legalization.
Caffeine can kill, according to this informative, short youtube video on the Science of Caffeine, the World’s Most Popular Drug. Yes, 75 cups of coffee, or 180 cups of black tea, consumed in one day, more or less, can put you on a marble slab in the morgue.
That makes caffeine toxic, while the various cannabinoids remain non-toxic. Marijuana is demonstrably safer than coffee. Don’t expect the prohibitches and prohibidiots to give up their coffee addictions, though. Caffeine has many other uses, as in OTC headache remedies.
All marijuana is medicinal!
heard an appropriate quote from Louis Armstrong yesterday…
“I’m not lazy! I was just fortunate to be blessed with a lack of ambition.”
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http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20140413/NJOPINION06/304130020/
Yet, oddly, you only talk about the facts that support your opinion. Hmmm.
Oh, and and an opinion from “Karen A Sabet”! Dammit, now I have to get a paper towel to clean my coffee addiction off the monitor…
I ran into her yesterday. Vested Ignorance.
ANGELINI: Don’t ignore fact marijuana is addictive, destructive drug
via @AsburyParkPress
Mary Pat Angelini is a Republican assemblywoman whose 11th District includes portions of Monmouth County. She is executive director of Prevention First.
“Drugs Aren’t the Problem”:
Neuroscientist Carl Hart on Brain Science & Myths about Addiction
Here he stops dr oooz in his rhetoric, for a minute anyway.
Is Weed Addictive? doctor oooz
Translation: Our goal is to help as few people as possible.
Translation: We want to make the process as long, drawn out, and difficult as possible.
When asset forfeiture hands law enforcement the keys to the gravy train, don’t expect them to turn those keys back in voluntarily.
http://tinyurl.com/mc9daec
Law enforcement should not be given a voice or any credibility when medical marijuana measures are discussed in Legislatures ANYWHERE in America when it comes to patient care and medical matters.
Pot stores and regulation (another forum…)
Poster said: I was browsing in one of my usual haunts (boing boing) and ran across this article
Interesting read, but one thing caught my attention and bothered me..
“Except, in March, The Denver Post and The Cannabinist ran independent testing of a wide variety of commercial edibles and found that the actual THC concentrations were usually very different from what was advertised on the packaging. Most of the time, the investigation found that folks in Colorado are getting far less THC then they paid for. Sometimes, though, they’re getting considerably more, and both outcomes have their downsides.”
The FDA needs to come down on this fast and heavy. i haven’t smoked pot or done THC since the early 70s, but I know THC is a powerful drug. That they offer it in candy form and kids would love to consume these little treats. Also it seemd there is no consistancy in dosage levels per candy. These could also make for an interesting prank at office parties.
On testing THC in edibles: The story behind our pot report – The Cannabist
The Dr. J’s display at Herbs 4 You, a recreational marijuana shop in central Denver, pushes the edibles for only $7 apiece. Dr. J’s products tested poorly in The Denver Post’s study on THC levels in infused edibles — scoring as low as .2 milligrams of activated THC in a chocolate bar that was supposed to contain 100 milligrams of THC. (Photo by Ricardo Baca, The Cannabist)
The Denver Post and The Cannabist conducted a study last week on the potency of edibles as compared to their label-promised amounts, and the results were staggering. None of the 10 brands hit their promised amounts exactly, though a couple came close. Others were 20-40 percent off. And yet others were even more off, proving what an inexact science the potency of legal recreational marijuana is in Colorado more than two months after legal sales began in the state.
Edibles’ THC claims versus lab results surprising
An independent Denver Post study of several marijuana-infused products shows wide variances in THC levels in edibles vs. labeling
When weed is no longer illegal, does it cease to be part of the counterculture? When the counterculture becomes mainstream, what is it?
Dude. I don’t even know. Welcome to a brave new world. A world where your pot comes with a receipt.
Failed a post-employment drug test at an IT job (medical state; cardholder). Unlucky I guess; the guy who sat next to me at work smoked as often as I did and was not asked, but brings synthetic every day just in case. Now I’m unemployed; bank account has no comma. Fun times of despair and depression ahead! It feels like getting fired for eating carrots. “Drug test” at a previous job consisted of smoking a joint on the street with everyone on the team; next job, I smoked with my boss a month after starting. His first question at the interview was “can you pass a drug test?” I really hate being born into such an insane world.
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Have you ever heard of caffeine psychosis?
This one is from the “(some) drugs are more equal than others” category:
I should have thought to Google “caffeine psychosis” years ago. Caffeine as is one of those searches where you can’t learn a thing about a subject because there’s just too much information available without good differentiation but “caffeine psychosis” turns the trick.
Simply astonishing. “I was so high on caffeine that I was totally delusional” is a friggin’ defense to causing highway mayhem? Oh well, don’t mind me, I’m one of those people that would shake my head and convict if some asshole were to try to say, “I was high on [fill in the blank] and I just couldn’t help myself!” So why the heck should anyone believe that you’ll be able to control yourself in the future?
Sheesh, and I used to think that a caffeine IV drip was just a pipe dream.
OT…
… some of you may remember Toby, the dog we helped rescue from Afghanistan. After all the pup went thru, after all that we went thru, he was shot and killed, in his own yard, by a neighbor yesterday… 🙁
the press release:
I hate that story, Allan, such killings of pets by cops, strangers or neighbors is heartbreaking and infuriating at the same time. For some of us, that would be just as bad as if the neighbor shot our child in our yard while the child was napping on the patio, that Sheriff needs to arrest the neighbor, lock him away instead of allowing him to threaten the vet and her childrens’ lives.
me too Windy, me too… I’ve known Rachel, Toby’s owner, since she was 3.
here’s a news story:
http://m.ksat.com/news/army-officers-service-dog-shot-killed/25520742
and there’s a petition if anyone would care to sign it:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/286/645/422/justice-for-toby/