What they need is more education on the medicinal benefits. Oregon has laws on growing. They are in place for minors in the home. It’s working here. It can work anywhere. If you can’t grow in home because of minors in the home. Grow at grandma and grandpa’s house. Show them how to grow if they aren’t all ready. lol.
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For me, the no minors in the domicile is too strict, but maybe that’s just me. In VA you can grow with minors in the home, but the plants cannot be accessible to said minors. So your tent, grow room, cab, whatever must be locked or in a space where the kiddies can’t get to it. Again, just my opinion, but it’s kinda hard for me to get excited about “letting” me grow but then turning around and telling me I can’t do so because I have kids.
I don’t advocate for my kids or their friends to know I grow, much less see it because kids have big mouths. They tell one friend, who tells another, and then half the class knows. It’s still a “need-to-know” operation even though it’s legal for me.
1 thing both situations share however is that precautions can be taken to bend the rules a little 
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A lot of people feel the same way here. My kids 28 lol. She knew I was growing when she was 10. She was 13 when I told her. She said “dad, I’ve known since I was 10”
I have mixed feelings about it today with fentanyl and meth devasting our young population. Has me thinking a lot. 
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my daughter is the same aint nuthing wrong with some mother nature
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McFadden says she believes that rescheduling marijuana under federal law would pad the coffers of drug companies while doing nothing to address the harms that decades of prohibition have caused, largely to people and communities of color through disproportionate and discriminatory enforcement of drug laws. “Rescheduling only puts money into the already wealthy people’s pockets — people who have never had to deal with incarceration or aggressive policing,” she says. “The advocacy community is solid: It has to be descheduled.”
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Unfortunately, the very LAST thing any “activists” will ever do is ask the people most affected by their ideas.
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If cannabis is rescheduled under the Controlled Substances Act, regulating marijuana as medicine, it might, advocates worry, allow Big Pharma to control the market. And if it’s legalized at a federal level, some also fear that conglomerates like Amazon could quickly dominate a national adult-use marijuana industry.
We can look forward to sterile clones being sold.
Plant patents.
Possible THC limits and much more.
Have fun with buying your high-dollar sterile clones on amazon…LOL
The federally legalized cannabis model may not look like you think it will.
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It will be the VA and the DMV all rolled into one.
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I like being blunt…its fun, in context, so here goes:
Are you all fucking idiots? Too many shaggy balls in your face?? Before 1972 when THC was scheduled, you could go to any drug store in the United States or Canada and buy PURE hash cigarettes…there were brands dumbass, Bubble Gum for instance, or Mint Chocolate Chip…so what do you think legalization (or deschedulization), actually means? What it means is that things will go back to the way they were before. Plain and simple, hash joints at the store…no prohibitions on cannabis whatsoever…get over your anti government bullshit and pony up boys…time to learn how to grow from the pros…fuck those posers saying they grow bomb ass underground street weed…they aint nothing but losers who follow other losers around… welcome to Future America.
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Dude, you’re high.
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 essentially banned it nationwide despite objections from the American Medical Association related to medical usage. This act came just a year after the film Reefer Madness warned parents that drug dealers would invite their teenagers to jazz parties and get them hooked on “reefer.”
It was scheduled in 1970
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OC I’m high but I must be from some alternate reality…here in Los Angeles, untill it was scheduled, I could buy Name Brand hash cigarettes at the store…
. That’s what deschedulization means!
I can’t wait to smoke me some Jack Herer hash with some Space Queen hash mixed in…
Or THH with Space Queen…
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It’s basically legal. Search thca hemp and thca diamonds on google! So funny how dumb lawmakers are sometimes lol.
Unfortunately it’s legal for cops to get “confused” so they’d definitely still take it away if they found it with a COA and all, but you can still buy it with credit cards these days!
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Dude, nobody believes you. Your credibility is zero, your statements are frequently impossible given the realities of science and history that the rest of us live in. Why would I believe you on this without some sort of corroborating evidence when you think free energy machines are real, claim to have had wireless tablets in 1970, and have shown a complete lack of understanding about cannabis breeding, cultivation, or history? Please stop doing this, you’re polluting perfectly good threads with schizophrenic imaginings. Maybe let the adults talk and learn something.
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@ColeLennon is correct, the Tax Act was meant to criminalize recreational use and possession by making it $100/oz tax for unregistered people, $3/oz for registered such as drug companies. No one in the entire history 1937-1970 ever applied for a $100 stamp, because it would have constituted incrimination in a felony in most states. The entire intent of the tax act was to simultaneously track and make it highly actionable to possess cannabis, Timothy Leary was almost taken out by the government over it and successfully had it found unconstitutional when he argued that it violated his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Congress scheduled cannabis the next year, see how that works?
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I just saw an article on my phone, I will try and find a link for it.
The drug company behind the CBD-based medication Epidiolex has filed a lawsuit against more than a dozen competitors that are seeking to create generic versions, alleging patent infringement.
Basically said they put out a warning to anyone thinking of producing CBD that they will be sued by GW pharm.
I said long ago that CBD will be a pharmaceutical drug, you can not make a pharmaceutical drug in your basement legally.
I tried to tell folks this back in 2014, that this was the way things would be in the future, they all just laughed and told me the sky was not falling.
Seems they were wrong… 
Well it looks like the sky is falling now…LOL
Will this happen to all medical cannabis too, it may if we allow it to happen.
“We will vigorously defend our intellectual property rights, as this is an important part of what enables us to continue to innovate and develop new medicines for patients, including our pioneering work and industry-leading GW cannabinoid scientific platform.”
FDA’s website shows that Epidiolex received authorization for use in the treatment of two sets of conditions in 2018 and 2020. The exclusivity period for the first is set to expire in September 2025, while the other expires in July 2027.
it would prove costly for generic competitors to expend resources to manufacture and market drugs that may ultimately be found to infringe valid pharmaceutical patents.
In the new complaint, after more than 100 largely repetitive sections of claims against the various companies, GW asks the court to grant injunctions to prevent possible patent infringement, judgments affirming that their existing patents are valid and enforceable and to award damages for any violations that may have already occurred.
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No, just like with anything. You will have companies that stand behind the plant and basic principles of good business practices. Then you will have those that don’t.
No, no, and no. Listen, it’s fine to post articles, but try and tone down the false summaries and alarmism. At no point in the lawsuit or the article does it state that if you produce CBD you will be sued. The lawsuit is aimed at trying to stifle other companies from producing generics of their patented and FDA-approved drug to treat epilepsy. The drug is not 100% CBD, it just contains CBD along with a myriad of other ingredients, hence the patent.
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Make sure to visit your local legislation meetings if possible. In Virginia we have the the virginia Cannabis Control Authority that’s supposed to develop and issue rules about the medical and rec market in virginia. They have a virtual option for those who can’t attend in person. There is a meeting next wednesday and here is a screenshot from the minutes of the last meeting in November. Need more people like mark in attendance.
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Agreed wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, the people who tend to show up to these meetings are in opposition of something. It’s rare that the supporters come out to them.
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