High Times For Pot In California, And Other Stories

As usual California takes the lead and the rest of the country follows.

High times in California for marijuana business

Photo: Eric Wisberg

Poor ol' Kentucky(as always)brings up the rear in marijuana decriminalization as in everything else. Mainly due to cowardly, bought-and-paid for politicians.
An old friend of mine down in the mountains was arrested a while back. His(and his family's) life now shattered - for doing just what the man in the photo is doing, growing a plant for adult consumption.
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From their excellent article on the drug war "Totally Wasted", here's the Mother Jones, "Drug War Quiz: Just Say Know".

And Congressman Barney Frank's attempt to finally bring long needed legalization to marijuana:
He's Not High: Inside Barney Frank's Plan to Legalize Marijuana

From NORML, the bible of legalization comes a bit more info:
Lawmakers Call For An End To Federal Marijuana Prosecutions

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The Big Business of Medical Marijuana

Some interesting and somewhat unforseen news on the medicinal marijuana shops from Rolling Stone via Boingboing. I want one of these shops.

















Photo here.

.."If I were a big tobacco executive, I'd be trying to get in on this now, by bankrolling these guys and turning my massive DC lobbying machine over to legalizing pot at the federal level.." --

A doctor's note is the gateway to the wonderful world of pot clubs, which in the new lingo are called "dispensaries." In California -- unlike the eleven other states with medical-cannabis laws -- there's some vague legal protection
for Amsterdam-style shops selling medical marijuana. Usually named something like "Compassionate Caregivers," "Earth Healers" or, less obscurely, "Kush Mart," these stores are like dying and going to stoner heaven. They look like old-timey apothecaries, with glass cases of prescription bottles with twenty to thirty different kinds of bud, nearly all of exceptionally high quality, ranging from $35 an eighth to $100 for OG Kush. Any self-respecting dispensary owner also sells hash, kief, jellies, infusions, cones, clones, pot lollipops ("Hydropops"), pot candy bars, pot peanut butter, pot ice cream and at least a half-dozen flavors of pot sodas -- sometimes sold out of a vending machine. One store owner told me excitedly that when Nevada OKs dispensaries, he's opening a club on the Vegas Strip. We were talking in a parking lot, and when he drove away he forgot a can of soda on the roof of his car.