Took this photo in north Denver a few days before the 4th of July this year.
This is me bugging out of Denver a few months ago. 
Got a couple smiles but also got nearly driven off the road a couple times too.
Never coming back.
Yet AG Sessions would rather focus on pot than the prosecution of the crimes of the Obama admin officials, past and present.
What a dimwit.
Yeah. That's great. Oh, and also slavery, sex trafficking and chemicals harmful to humans and wildlife.
You potheads have much to be proud of.
Just be carefull you don't accidentally stray onto a marijuana grove. Because you won't stray back out.
Wait a minute. Why am I warning you? I ought to give you a map of all the groves here in Northern California and encourage you to visit them. Unannounced.
No. Forget the map. Just go for a drive here in the Yuba Foothills or up in Siskiyou County. If you come across a road that's been chained off, don't worry about it. Just go around it or get out your bolt cutters and open it back up.
Congrats again on your wonderful victory.
I know there is a strong contingent here, who take the “libertarian” view of marijuana and other drugs. And that view is based on responsible personal use of the drug. Such a view does not take into account abuse of the drug, or abuse of drugs in general. That view seems to be that not only marijuana but all drugs should be legal. That view is that we don’t care that marijuana seems to have bad effects especially on young people, whose minds and bodies are still developing and maturing.
Or to look at another way, that view is that we aren’t supposed to talk about whether marijuana or other drugs have any dangers, just supposed to say that libertarian or state’s rights arguments are the arguments which should prevail.
I’m not sure where I stand, I’m just noting some arguments made. I don’t want people thrown in prison if their only crime is possession of a drug. But also not sure about full blown legalization.
I think we will see the legalization for a few years, until we relearn the lessons of why marijuana and other mind-altering drugs were made illegal in the first place.
There are components in marijuana that permanently alter the brain. One particularly worrisome effect is that marijuana triggers psychosis; this can make a person violent. This effect is particularly pronounced in young people who use marijuana before their brains are fully developed, at about age 25. Another effect is the well-known lack of motivation. Marijuana users are infamous for not being able to do anything, for being content to sit around and contemplate the world.
In other words, marijuana has qualities that turn citizens into burdens on society.
Despite the propaganda that claims that marijuana is completely safe, the evidence is otherwise. As marijuana is legalized, and there is more interest in conducting research on it, I think the evidence will keep growing within the medical literature on the deleterious effects of marijuana.
The claims that marijuana is some miracle drug that has been suppressed (insert some vague conspiratorial claims about profit here) are not supported by evidence in the medical literature. There is some interest in the potential of cannabidiol as an anti-seizure medication—in fact, one of my researchers has gone through the effort of getting the licenses necessary to research it for that purpose. I am not certain whether that will pan out.
The argument that what drug abusers do to their own bodies does not affect society at large also does not hold water. We end up spending a lot of taxpayer money to try to rehabilitate them, and there is no way our society is going to turn our backs on drug addicts. And that isn’t even counting the criminal acts they commit in order to keep up their habits.
Sorry, I do not believe that statistic. Anecdotally of course, since most blacks in my church group do not toke.
But among blacks I meet in the course of my work, usage seems to be way above 2/3 of the population. Among whites, only that high among college students and recent grads.
Is resuming being the norm.
I looked it up.
I’m 55. The high school lot heads I knew then, who are still around and have enjoyed their dope since then are the most messed up folks I’ve ever known.
It’s impossible to have a rational, coherent conversation with them. They’re all over the map.
It’s the same with their lives. Incoherent, irrational, all over the map. They’ve lost all sense of etiquette.
It’s sad that this is the kind of society we are turning into.
We are losing our drive for excellence.
What is surprising is not that weed has won, but that it took 50 years. (Disclaimer: I am 63 and have never used it, ever.)
Ping for your interest.
I’m hoping President Trump will address this AG/DOJ lack-luster performance blemish on his administration, - and the sooner the better.
Before it was legal no one smoked it.
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Legalize it and tax it. Weed is less harmful than alcohol, it’s everywhere and it has been for years. We spent decades locking up and ruining the lives of otherwise harmless knuckle-head American kids who bought weed. Enough already.
Took this photo in north Denver a few days before the 4th of July this year.
This is me bugging out of Denver a few months ago.
Got a couple smiles but also got nearly driven off the road a couple times too.
Never coming back.
Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer’s proteins from brain cells
https://www.salk.edu/news-release/cannabinoids-remove-plaque-forming-alzheimers-proteins-from-brain-cells/
Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Harvard Study Shows
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.htm
I’ve read that back in the 1970s MJ was expected to be legalized in the future so many the most popular names had already been trademarked.
Reading through these comments, having lived for the last couple of decades through de facto legalization in California, I’d like to try to add some perspective.
First, I don’t think there’s much basis for the idea that legalization equals huge increase in use. I think most people by the time they hit 21 years old (when it’s legal to use marijuana where it’s been legalized) have made up their own minds about whether they are interested in it or not, and that decision has never had much to do with its legality. Most people simply don’t enjoy using marijuana for all the reasons stated above, and that won’t change whether or not it’s legal. For the minority who do enjoy it, nothing changes, other a reduction in impact of their use on the rest of their life.
That said, even as an advocate of legalization myself, I have no problem with preventing it from being advertised, promoted, made available especially to minors. We used to actually have rules against advertising prescription drugs, which I think should also be brought back, and there are similar rules having to do with cigarettes and alcohol that I think should be applied with greater force against marijuana. We do need to express societal disapproval of recreational marijuana use, especially by minors. I just don’t think we should do that via the criminal justice system. There are other ways. If the pro-pot forces are opposed to this, then I’m opposed to them on that.
I find people who make arguments against legalization based on the negative impacts of prohibition particularly annoying. Illegal grows are a horrible scourge against our environment and public safety. The whole point of legalization should be to eventually eliminate them in favor of regulated marijuana growing, thereby eliminating those very same impacts. It’s just stupid to argue against legalization because of “cartels, and dangerous hiking conditions, and environmental contamination”. You might as well just say that we shouldn’t legalize marijuana because look at all of the people who have ruined their lives by getting busted for selling pot.
The only distinctly negative impact that I have seen in California, something I really think should be addressed, however, is public consumption of pot. When I was a young guy, we took great pains to find an out of the way place to smoke, making sure that nobody else could see or smell us doing it. Now, in California, cigarette smokers basically do that, and marijuana smokers blow clouds of smoke into heavy crowds anywhere they feel like it. But that’s a very solvable problem, we simply need to treat all smokers the same, tobacco and marijuana, bust a few people for violating that, and they’ll go back into private pretty quickly.
Someone please explain: why smoking tobacco cigarettes is bad and discouraged by the government, but smoking marijuana is good and is encouraged by the government?
That's a pity, cause weed is wack, yo.
Has Sessions addressed this issue?
ATF: Medical marijuana cardholders may not purchase firearms
People who obtain medical marijuana cards cannot legally purchase firearms from a federally licensed dealer, an ATF spokesperson told 40/29 News.
Marijuana is illegal under federal law regardless of Arkansas law, Kevin Moran with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told 40/29. It is against the law to possess firearms while using marijuana, whether the marijuana is being used medicinally or not.
In addition, Americans are not allowed to buy guns from licensed dealers if they use marijuana or have a medical marijuana card.
When you buy a gun from a licensed dealer, you are required to fill out form 4473. Question 11. e. on the form asks you if you’re an unlawful user of marijuana or other substances. Because marijuana is illegal federally, Arkansans will be considered to be unlawful users regardless of state law.
If you answer ‘YES’ to Question 11. e., you will be denied a firearm.
If you lie on the form and answer ‘NO’ to Question 11. e., you could face serious legal consequences.
The AFT sent a letter to all federally licensed firearms dealers in 2011 instructing them not to sell guns to people with medical marijuana cards. The ATF says the card gives a dealer “reasonable cause to believe” the person uses marijuana and should be denied a firearm.
Read at: http://www.4029tv.com/article/atf-medical-marijuana-cardholders-may-not-purchase-firearms/10237108
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muyOXYrWQqY