  Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger Post Number: 461 Registered: 05-2006 |
Did anyone catch the story on 60 Minutes tonight about Medical Marijuana in California? Both Detroit and Ann Arbor have passed medical marijuana ordinances. Does either city have shops or co-ops such as those shown on 60 Minutes, and if not why not? | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10309 Registered: 12-2003 |
No need, the street availability is too easy and cheap. | ||
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox Post Number: 272 Registered: 04-2006 |
Seems like it'd be easier to set something like this up in California, where you don't have to worry about intervention from the state, than in Detroit or Ann Arbor. Hopefully this will change if/when medical marijuana is legalized statewide here. | ||
Kid_dynamite Member Username: Kid_dynamite Post Number: 239 Registered: 06-2007 |
I watched that. Those people were so full of shit. "My feet hurt!" "I have...uh...back pain!" Dirty doctors will write a prescription for anyone with the cash. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against it. I think a lot more than weed should be legalized. That story was funny because it showed all those people snaking the system. How'd you like that one shitbag rapper-dealer...errrrr businessman? | ||
Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger Post Number: 462 Registered: 05-2006 |
The Michigan Coalition for Compassionate Care is currently attempting to collect 550,000 signatures in an effort to place the question of medical marijuana on the Nov. 4, 2008 ballot. They don’t seem to be doing too well. According to their web site, they’ve only collected around 25,000 thus far and since the initiative began in late May, they only have about two more months to collect the necessary signatures. Hopefully most of the volunteers are waiting until November to turn in their petitions. | ||
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox Post Number: 273 Registered: 04-2006 |
I signed it. | ||
Rugbyman Member Username: Rugbyman Post Number: 126 Registered: 06-2005 |
^ Or maybe they've forgotten to collect the signatures... | ||
Kid_dynamite Member Username: Kid_dynamite Post Number: 243 Registered: 06-2007 |
LOL Rugbyman...I bet that's why. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 2722 Registered: 10-2003 |
Petition gathering is predicted to come to a screeching halt, as Halo 3 is being released tonight. | ||
Terryh Member Username: Terryh Post Number: 543 Registered: 11-2006 |
I signed it. If someone is terminal and or dealing with severe pain, they should be free to smoke marijuana in the privacy of their home. The act of weed smoking by sick patients wouldnt directly harm the next guy. | ||
Jeduncan Member Username: Jeduncan Post Number: 147 Registered: 11-2006 |
I know plenty of people who are plenty healthy and are high all day. Why prescribe it? just decriminalize it. It'd empty out some jail cells. victimless crimes. | ||
Hybridy Member Username: Hybridy Post Number: 155 Registered: 08-2006 |
agreed with most although legalization is not the way-decriminalization is better | ||
Tkshreve Member Username: Tkshreve Post Number: 178 Registered: 07-2006 |
Rugbyman..... Johnlodge...... you guys are real jokesters. I signed it too..... i think. Hybridy...... make it finable, but not jail time? | ||
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto Post Number: 4220 Registered: 10-2003 |
There are plenty of Pot Pharmacies operating in CA, and lots of advertising for the goods and services. Funny how quickly one gets used to walking past one of these places and smelling the product. Obviously, lots of people are getting prescriptions for questionable maladies, (recreational use, anyone?) but then the same thing seems to be happening with Viagra, yet no one questions the right of older men to use drugs casually for recreational sex. Could the demographics of the users be an influence? Decriminalization is a good start for Marijuana, Legalization is a sensible route for hemp, which as most of you already know, contains no THC. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 5403 Registered: 08-2004 |
Just signed the petition in front of the SCS Post Office today.... | ||
Kathinozarks Member Username: Kathinozarks Post Number: 897 Registered: 11-2006 |
Gistok, did they say if they will be there tomorrow? My mom would sign. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 5404 Registered: 08-2004 |
I was there about 7PM, but didn't ask the lady with the petititions, who appeared to be about 55-60 years of age. | ||
Kathinozarks Member Username: Kathinozarks Post Number: 899 Registered: 11-2006 |
Thanks for the response. I'll call her in the morning and tell her to check it out. | ||
Tkshreve Member Username: Tkshreve Post Number: 179 Registered: 07-2006 |
ha- that's where i signed it too. dude | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 2738 Registered: 10-2003 |
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Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 3331 Registered: 12-2005 |
I sincerely believe Michigan would benefit greatly by building a legal marijuana agriculture industry. Desperate times call for desperate measures. | ||
Jiminnm Member Username: Jiminnm Post Number: 1438 Registered: 02-2005 |
The NM legislature passed a medical marijuana bill a year or two ago. The state attorney general (a fairly liberal Dem) has said that his office cannot defend any state employee accused by the Feds of violating federal drug laws for being involved in the program (violates our state constitution). As a result, it will be a private matter between doctors and patients. Despite local or state law, growing mj or carrying across state lines may still be in violation of federal drug law. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 5407 Registered: 08-2004 |
LOL at Jimaz... I can hear the store clerk now... Would you prefer some Roseville Red, Southfield Sinsemilla or Detroit Skunkweed...  | ||
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 2413 Registered: 06-2004 |
I fulfilled some of my firms pro bono requirement working at NORML in DC. We were working on a 10th amendment argument for an appeal of a California case. Interestingly, the "original intent" crowd of conservative judges, reject the sweeping power of the Commerce Clause as judicial activism - but cling to it as a way to control state narcotic regulations. It was quite fun. And dare I say, I got to go to the best pro bono parties of anybody in our firm... But I digress. I agree with Jimaz. | ||
None Member Username: None Post Number: 61 Registered: 07-2007 |
Many social problems have been attributed to the Prohibition era. A profitable, often violent, black market for alcohol flourished. Racketeering happened when powerful gangs corrupted law enforcement agencies. Stronger liquor surged in popularity because its potency made it more profitable to smuggle. The cost of enforcing prohibition was high, and the lack of tax revenues on alcohol (some $500 million annually nationwide) affected government coffers. When repeal of prohibition occurred in 1933, organized crime lost nearly all of its black market. Why do we find it so difficult to comprehend history, the answer is plane to see, decriminalize the weed and the bad guys fade away. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10449 Registered: 12-2003 |
...and the good guys get to enjoy nature legally again! | ||
The_ed Member Username: The_ed Post Number: 49 Registered: 10-2007 |
Decriminalization is the best way to go about it. If it's legalized, the tax will be so high that folks will go to the streets to purchase it rather than the system. | ||
The_ed Member Username: The_ed Post Number: 50 Registered: 10-2007 |
Did anyone see that story about the Dearborn cop who was pilfering the evidence room of marijuana??? He and his wife made brownies, ate some and were so stoned and paranoid that they called 911 because they thought they were O.D.'ing and about to die. LOLOLOL!•••• | ||
Screamingfit Member Username: Screamingfit Post Number: 26 Registered: 03-2006 |
"No need, the street availability is too easy and cheap." Maybe you should give me your hookup, Gannon. 'Cos the skunkweed around here is overpriced and hard to get. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10733 Registered: 12-2003 |
Yeah...heh. | ||
The_ed Member Username: The_ed Post Number: 51 Registered: 10-2007 |
The department let him resign with no charges. Is that a crock or what?! | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10734 Registered: 12-2003 |
Oops, missed your post, Screaming. I can neither confirm nor deny any perception or acknowledgement of your comments above. | ||
Erikto Member Username: Erikto Post Number: 605 Registered: 11-2003 |
I wonder if Screamingfit is from the Detroit area..? I was just entertaining a couple of Detroiters in (my) town for a show- they told me prices in the Detroit area were comparable (slightly higher) to Canadian prices for top notch sheet. That should be fairly affordable. Still cheaper than boozing hard in clubs! | ||
Screamingfit Member Username: Screamingfit Post Number: 27 Registered: 03-2006 |
Gannon: ;D I was out in San Francisco a few weeks ago. I was getting annoyed by all the people asking me if I wanted to buy. I finally settled for a very expensive 1/8th and had at it. With about 80 other people. Out in public. I think I found where I want to move to... Around here now, I've got the people I procure from asking ME if I have any! | ||
The_ed Member Username: The_ed Post Number: 129 Registered: 10-2007 |
One of my younger brothers was stationed in Alaska about 18 years ago and he tells a story about something they called Manatuska Thunderfuck. Apparently it grew in the Manatuska Valley during the time when there was all daylight or something like that. He says that you could roll a joint and put it in your pocket. You didn't have to smoke it because it was so potent that your body absorb the tetrahydracannabinoids. unreal. I had some monkeypaw like that but I smoked it one toke at a time................ |
