High times for American marijuana smokers as police allow thousands of '4/20'...

dailymail ^

[traumer]

Marijuana smokers across the America lit up in public parks, outside statehouses and in the posh confines of a Hummer parked outside a pot gardening superstore to observe the movement's annual 'high holiday' yesterday.

Those who weren't within whiffing distance of a college campus or a reggae concert may not have realised that Tuesday was '4/20', the celebration-cum-mass civil disobedience derived from '420' - insider shorthand for cannabis consumption.

Advocates from New Hampshire to California trumpeted marijuana's rising commercial and political acceptance while producing collective clouds of pungent smoke - often under the watchful eyes of law enforcement officers who for the most part let the parties proceed.

A daylong rally in Denver's Civil Centre Park drew thousands of people, as did the public smoking event that persisted at the University of Colorado in Boulder despite discouragement from college administrators.

Colorado politicians coincidentally marked the day by backing new regulations for dispensaries selling medical marijuana.

In New Hampshire, about 100 people rallied in the state capital of Concord on the eve of a Senate vote to decriminalise small amounts of pot.

[traumer]

Pain relief: Tracey Wood lights a pipe filled with medical marijuana for her boyfriend Micah Moffet in Denver

[cripplecreek]

I just got done arguing with some moron who claimed to have gotten his license to grow and distribute for medicinal purposes.

He says it cost him $5 through a website. LOL

[absolootezer0]

no mention of the ann arbor fest? that used to be one of the largest ones.

[jakerobins]

posh confines of a Hummer parked outside a pot gardening superstore

Is AHH-NAHLD (ARNOLD) Smoking again?? LOL And what is a pot gardening superstore? I must have missed that one opening....

[gundog]

Sounds like someone's duping dopers at $5 a pop.

In Oregon, you can get certified to grow for the State. Not sure of the process.

[cripplecreek]

I’m guessing there are extensive background checks, security and health requirements, financial and inventory auditing and a whole range of other requirements that I haven’t thought of.

The moron was on his way to get a truckload of potting soil and start down his road to riches.

[gundog]

It's probably no more difficult than the background check to buy a firearm. You don't have to need the weed yourself...just grow for those that claim to. A friend of a friend does this...has to keep his firearms X nunber of feet from the plants. It's just another Oregon scam in my book...like getting paid to look after your elderly parents.

I was at the dump a few weeks back and saw a boatload of Alaska fertilizer 5 gallon buckets...we're talking hundreds. Some local guy goes through a lot of it, apparently, growing for the State.

I like the "truckload of potting soil." Maybe if he grew in the back of a truck he could just drive around to sunny spots.