Cannabis Current Events (Part 1)

Legal weed in Illinois: ‘It’s the first day of freedom,’ customer says as a new era begins. Recreational marijuana is on sale in Chicago and across the state

https://www.chicagotribune.com/marijuana/illinois/ct-legal-weed-illinois-first-day-20200101-7cjmnsifxvhrxc4evr2alua7ue-story.html

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https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article238407743.html

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The numbers in that hemp story seem way off.

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The numbers in the article are provided by USDA, and as such, should probably not be taken without some degree of healthy skepticism, but what in particular seems amiss to you?
I know next to nothing about hemp agriculture, but no doubt lots more hemp is being grown.

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Well, here is a malicious piece of propaganda published in USA Today.
The simple minded writer has an agenda largely devoid of facts.

He is so worried about protecting human life, yet ibuprofen alone kills
roughly 16,000 in the US each year.

Irresponsible twaddle on parade.

The true cost of cannabis: Why don’t its illnesses, deaths command media headlines?

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Well, I have to say that I am unfamiliar with this product.

Giddins reports Louis Armstrong was responsible for introducing Crosby, and several dozen other jazz musicians at the time, to marijuana.

“Louis’s influence on Bing extended to his love of marijuana, which he alternately called mezz…gage, pot or muggles. Bing didn’t develop the lifelong appetite for it that Louis did, but he enjoyed it in the early days—it was legal” Giddins wrote.

from below:

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Nothing better than smoking a blunt, having a glass of orange juice, removing your belt and beating your family…NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. LMAO

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For whatever reason, it seems as if USA Today is in the vanguard of newspapers which have an
anti-cannabis agenda. This was published today, and the odor wafting from this pile of noxious exaggeration, invoking the plight of the children at severe risk, is quite repugnant.

As marijuana-induced psychosis rises, parents say treatment for young people hard to find

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Still no home growing in the Garden State.
I have a hunch that it will not be “allowed” anytime in the
near future.
And maybe not ever.

This is truly sad and pathetic.


Allow home cultivation of medical marijuana

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Certainly reducing the self defeating rate of state/local taxation would help alleviate this ongoing
problem also.

So simple.
Probably not gonna happen soon.

From article below;

McIntyre believes that as long as cannabis remains illegal on the federal level, California will continue to wage war against trespass grows and wildlife will continue to suffer.

“Until such time [that] legalization occurs in other states, to decrease the black-market demand for cannabis, there’s going to continue to be a high demand for black-market cannabis,” McIntyre says.

https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/legalize-marijuana-save-wildlife/262399/

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Omfg it’s so crazy that it was RSO of all things. It’s abuse potential is second only to cannabis root salves :grin:

This just in, teenagers are at risk of becoming addicted to a brand new super weed that the kids are calling, “hashish” :joy:

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