Cannabis Current Events (Part 1)

We’ll see.


https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2018/11/28/24885378/mitch-mcconnells-farm-bill-could-blow-up-the-cbd-market

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Anyone got a bag of mites? :imp:

:evergreen_tree:

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LOL. made my day.

How massive? The Texas DPS seized more than 5,800 total pounds (3,400 of weed, 2,400 of additional THC product) found in the rear cargo hold of an RV driven by William Davis, 52, of Sacramento. A Texas Highway Patrol trooper had pulled Davis over for an unspecified traffic violation, the Texas DPS said this week in a news release.

Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article222305860.html#storylink=cpy

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article222305860.html

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:evergreen_tree: Yall know how we do it out here in the City of Trees

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Big Brother learns very slowly.

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This made me laugh.
Amusing.


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Well, some of omniscient overlords of MI
do not wish to allow any home growing of flowers!

Hopefully, they will fail in this effort to deprive voters of freedom.

Growing marijuana at home would be banned under new bill in Michigan

https://amp.freep.com/amp/2155157002

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[sigh] :unamused: same ole shit, right?

The same kind of underinformed (politely) people who don’t seem to comprehend cannabis cultivation, economics, probable human behavior, etc. making the rules, as out West here.

Someone needs to be blunt to them with a prostitution analogy. Like with a baseball bat.

The more I think about this :coffee: waking up to it) the more I’m inclined to rant & rave. :smile:

:evergreen_tree:

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Can anyone here say they’ve found this to be true? I’ve never once found vaping to be preferable to smoking.

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Interesting.

Therefore, holding THC dose constant, vaporizers appear to be a more efficient cannabis and THC delivery method, likely because with traditional smoked preparations, more THC is lost as a result of pyrolysis (combustion) and/or sidestream smoke.

And, also interesting, perhaps the “entourage effect” or long half-life at certain cell receptors:

Interestingly, the time course of effects differed across outcome measures such that increases in blood THC concentrations and HR returned to baseline more rapidly than subjective drug effects and cognitive and psychomotor impairment. In several instances, cannabis-induced effects and/or impairments persisted for several hours after blood THC concentrations had fallen below the LOQ. Additionally, blood THC concentrations were only moderately correlated with subjective drug effects and weakly correlated, or not correlated at all, with cognitive and psychomotor performance. Collectively, findings from this study and others16,29,30 indicate that blood THC concentrations are not a valid indicator of a user’s intoxication and/or impairment from cannabis use and highlight the need to explore other biological and behavioral means of detecting acute cannabis impairment.

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Right, but this is all “on paper” so to speak. I was wondering if anyone has experiences that match the researchers expectations, because the anecdotal evidence seems to disagree.

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Watching legalization in other states makes me realize how fascist Massachusetts is! Look at this - referendums are protected from the legislators in Michigan - it takes 3/4 majority to override the peoples’ vote, so home growing looks totally safe. In Massachusetts the leadership just gaveled through changes to our law without even having a full vote, and only a simple majority is required if there was a vote. In Maine the legislature cut flowering plants from 6 to 3 in a simple majority vote as well.

The chances of passing the changes to the approved ballot proposals, however, are almost impossible in this lame-duck session. Because the two proposals were passed by voters, the Legislature needs to muster a supermajority — a three-quarters vote — in both the House of Representatives and Senate.

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re: vaping, I’ve noticed the high is somewhat different but not stronger or weaker and of course no nausea or hallicinations, that is obvious BS!

Dry-herb vaping is often conflated with vape pens and maybe they’re talking about adulterants like PG added to vape solutions? The focus should be on the synthetic crap added to nicotine and THC vape pens.

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they respect democracy in Oklahoma more than the northeast - medMJ passed in June, they already have 1,000 licensed growers with crops in the ground:

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/marijuana/we-re-getting-calls-all-day-long-every-day-tulsa/article_42385555-9afd-5efe-bd1a-836e3945d754.html

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It isn’t even officially legal until December 6th and they are already trying to take it away

Michigan voters call and write your reps!

https://m.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2018/11/30/michigan-gop-wants-to-undo-parts-of-voter-approved-marijuana-decriminalization?fbclid=IwAR2NLwN57ZvkYwNPbUJuAN8Q-RxsuDeL5bNhavtSgilu4ALuL08F6IN7VY0
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(Oklahoma)

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A pitchfork gavels through a melon pretty quick too. :wink:

:evergreen_tree: :fire:

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interesting to see the difference between Utah and Oklahoma - OK is doing one of the fastest implementations of medMJ ever! Without any legislative changes to the referendum whatsoever.

Meanwhile Utah is eagerly trashing what the people voted for! The USA is just too big, I don’t want to be in the same country as Utah…

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“This isn’t an effort to undermine the will of the people,” Hughes said. “This is actually an initiative process where what the initiative was seeing to do was agreed upon, and we have been working ever since to make sure it has that structurally, even more importantly, political strength to carry the day and actually provide patient access.”

Uh, Vhat???

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oh yeah, politicians love to throw in Orwellian denials these days “I am not throwing you in jail” as you’re led away in chains…

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