Posted on 07/07/2010 8:15:24 PM PDT by jazusamo
In the City by the Bay, it may soon be easier to get a pot-laced brownie than a can of Pepsi.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently intensified his surge against soda pop just as the city's health department issued regulations to guide medical marijuana shops in how to prepare "edible cannabis products."
Which prompts the question: Does Mr. Newsom believe that Sprite and Dr Pepper are more hazardous to your health than a marijuana milkshake? Certainly the mayor, who is running as a Democrat for lieutenant governor, has done little to dispel that perception with his single-minded assault on sugary beverages.
"San Francisco is a very unique environment," said Bob Achermann, executive director of the California/Nevada Soft Drink Association, who is less than thrilled with the city's soda assault. San Franciscans "are very progressive in their politics, very progressive in their lifestyle, and they push the envelope consistently."
The mayor issued an executive order in April banning Fanta and its ilk from vending machines on city property. The order, now being implemented, also limits diet sodas to no more than 25 percent of the machine's offerings.
The directive encourages "soy milk, rice milk and other similar dairy or non-dairy milk." Juice is permitted as long as it is 100 percent fruit, and vegetable juice cannot include added sweeteners.
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Kinda hard to make this stuff up.
Wow...those folks in SF are nuttier than squirrel poo. They made Pot legal and Soda’s illegal.....I suppose in a few years someone will have to make a Medical Coca-Cola law...LOL I’m going to make a fortune smuggling Real Light bulbs..Sodas..and things banned by the Regime in a few years...HAHAHA
Maybe Major Newsome would be more comfortable with this soda:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2F9SckkeM4
Hey, dude, when ya get the munchies, like, ya got the munchies, man, like, ya know?/s;)
THC is likely not as bad for you as HFCS.
"If our reproductive rights, or at least a woman's, are totally off the record and private, then how can our digestive rights not have equal rights to our reproductive rights? Why is it written that our digestive rights must be subordinated to our reproductive rights?
Hey, man, hit me with another MJ Bon Bon. :)
“....The directive encourages “soy milk, rice milk and other similar dairy or non-dairy milk.” Juice is permitted as long as it is 100 percent fruit, and vegetable juice cannot include added sweeteners.”
It’s difficult to find a Leftist that would actually imbibe in the crap they propose others should imbibe themselves. Those that do aren’t visually much of an example for the supposed benefits of such diets.
Well, except for the weed.
LOL, Ya got me! True, very true. Thanks for the response.
Psst, duuuude, put me on your customer list for real light bulb!
Would SF just fall in the sea already?
Hey, RQSR, half those libs up there are probably still on mothers milk laced with MJ. :)
Yup. More than likely. They vote like it too.
Put the coc back in Coke and S.F. will legalize it plenty quick.
LOL!
No doubt about it, anything for a high.
Just put a trace amount of pot extract in it and call it MediCola.
Instead of banning soda, they should just ban HFCS. That might get coke and pepsi putting real sugar back in their sodas.
The San Franciscans probably have some understanding that it’s the HFCS that’s causing the perceived problems, and not soda, but aren’t hitting the right target.
I’m not for any of this stuff, but if they are going to implement new regs, they should be against HFCS and not soda.
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