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Marijuana legalization on cusp of mass acceptance In long journey, drug soars from illegal to popular DAVID WALTER BANKS/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST People sampled products at the Cannabis Cup last month in San Bernardino, Calif. SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — In the ‘‘medication area’’ of the nation’s biggest marijuana exposition, scantily clad young women hand out marshmallows they’ve dipped into a rushing fountain of pot-laced chocolate. A few steps away, Anthony Ramirez offers free hits from a bong filled with the waxy marijuana extract that his family started producing when a friend’s mother needed relief from the pain of lupus. Across a vast outdoor plaza lined with hundreds of booths, last month’s Cannabis Cup gathering in southern California attracted more than 10,000 visitors at $40 a ticket. Vendors hawk brightly colored candies, chocolate bars, slickly designed jars of gourmet peanut butter — all infused with weed. Smokers sample e-cigarettes, vaporizers, and the latest in bongs and glassware.By midafternoon, some of them are sprawled on overstuffed couches that merchants have thoughtfully provided. Others move from booth to booth, sampling wares from businesses that have risen from the underground economy to create a burgeoning industry of hazy legality. Agricultural firms display industrial-sized machinery for harvesting plants, electronics firms offer a dazzling array of grow lights, and everywhere, growers lovingly explain the virtues of dozens of plant strains such as Gorilla Glue, Silver Haze, and Crystal Coma. All in a state where marijuana is not yet quite legal, and all without a single police officer to be seen. America has been at the edge of marijuana legalization several times during the past half-century, but never as close to mass acceptance of the drug as the nation is today. Since the 1960s, the United States has traveled on a herky-jerky trip from hippies and head shops to grass-roots backlash by suburban parents, from enthusiastic funding of the war on drugs to a gathering consensus that the war had little effect on marijuana use. Now, for the first time, marijuana legalization is winning majority support in public opinion polls and a drug used by about 6 percent of Americans — and one-third of the nation’s high school seniors — is starting to shake off its counterculture reputation. It is winning acceptance even from some police, prosecutors, and politicians. But is this time really different? Why is the current campaign for legalization resonating when previous ones did not? Today’s leap toward legality is entwined with the financial desperation of cash-strapped states, an Internet-driven revolution in how Americans learn about marijuana and its medicinal uses, and a rising libertarian sensibility in which many liberals and conservatives alike have grown skeptical of government’s role in telling citizens how to medicate themselves. The skies looked bright for legalization at points in recent decades, and those efforts ultimately went nowhere, as campaigns by parents combined with sharp opposition by law enforcement and elected officials to keep marijuana on the list of substances that can land you in jail. But in 20 states and the District of Columbia, the booming medical marijuana industry (the drug first became legal to treat ailments in California in 1996) has raised expectations of full legalization. In 2012, legalized marijuana outpolled President Obama in Colorado; the votes for pot and Obama in Washington state were almost identical at 56 percent each. Activists in at least six states and the District of Columbia are working to put legalization initiatives on the ballot this year or in 2016. Legislatures in 13 states are considering bills to legalize a plant that in 80 years has traveled from widely used patent medicine to felony to misdemeanor and now to the cusp of acceptance as one more taxed and regulated mind-altering substance, akin to alcohol or tobacco. In San Francisco during the ’90s, the nation’s 30-year culture war over marijuana had gone silent, replaced by a new urgency. In the city’s devastated gay neighborhoods, AIDS powerfully shifted the debate. The 1996 campaign for medical marijuana in California pushed aside groovy graphics and hippie rhetoric and repositioned weed as a tonic for cancer, glaucoma, and AIDS patients. Grandmothers took to TV to explain how marijuana eased their pain, and doctors were enlisted to join the campaign. Then billionaires George Soros and Peter Lewis each pumped half a million dollars into the effort. The initiative won 56 percent of the vote, opening the door. During the next decade, 20 states and the District of Columbia followed the same path, but with extremely different results. In California, where medical marijuana permits are as easy to get as a bottle of scotch, more than half a million people have cards letting them shop in hundreds of dispensaries. In the District of Columbia, where the law requires a 14-page application and recognizes only four diseases as warranting treatment with marijuana, just 120 people have been approved to purchase it since the first dispensary opened last July. If legalization spreads beyond Colorado and Washington state, it likely will be because of a confluence of forces that have gathered steam during the past decade: Big money is backing the new, aboveground marijuana industry, and the Internet has altered the kind of messages that Americans hear about pot. Americans have grown more libertarian in their perspective on personal freedoms, the most antimarijuana generation has passed on, and people across the ideological spectrum have grown frustrated with the cost, both financial and social, of decades of arrests and imprisonments. Legalization drives are underway mainly in states facing tough budget problems. Keith Stroup, founder of National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, says, ‘‘big money can be made and suddenly the sin doesn’t matter that much.’’

principalmente a proibição

po, na boa, greenhouse é commercialzão generica... Ja fui no Noon, umas das melhores que ja fui... Mas Grey Area, Barneys IMO, são melhores.... Cata uma baladinha, no Webber/Lux, do lado do MelkWeg

Tá na hora, tá na hora hora de legalizar! Fuma, fuma, tosse, tosse Dando dab sem parar!

meu amigo se casou la... falou que só tem palha

http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2014/02/marijuana-jamaica Marijuana in Jamaica Puff peace Feb 26th 2014, 15:47 by M.W.| PORT OF SPAIN IT WOULD have seemed a lot more revolutionary just two years ago but for Jamaica, it is still a welcome whiff of sense. The island’s energy minister, Philip Paulwell, who also leads government business in parliament, has said he will find time this year to decriminalise possession of small amounts of marijuana. At a stroke, the move will cut the number of criminal offences by as many as a million a week. It will also make a Jamaican break somewhat less nervy for ganja-puffing tourists. Reform proposals have been knocking around for some time: a National Commission on Ganja recommended decriminalisation in 2001. But helped by moves towards legalisation in Uruguay and decriminalisation in the United States, momentum has been growing. A Cannabis Future Growers and Producers Association was launched last month, and a commercial company to support medical marijuana in December. Selling for less than five dollars an ounce, ganja has a long history in Jamaica, going all the way back to nineteenth-century Indian immigrants. Cultivation and import have been illegal since 1913, but everyone’s granny remembers when the herb was quite openly on sale as a cure-all. Some of the early work on medicinal uses for marijuana was done in Jamaica in the 1970s and 1980s. In practice, most small-time ganja users are not arrested or prosecuted. But for those who are, the consequences can be dire. A criminal record makes it hard to get a coveted American visa or to land jobs in Jamaica itself. For that reason alone, reform looks like a surefire vote-winner. Decriminalisation will also unclog the courts and free up police time. But it won’t change the big picture. It will remain illegal to grow and trade marijuana in large quantities, something that suits the big players just fine. Full legalisation would knock the bottom out of the market, hurting the island’s powerful criminal gangs. It would also curtail the potential for extortion; seven police officers appeared in court this month on allegations that they took a $2,750 bribe from a businessman in return for overlooking a ganja find on his premises. Jamaicans are prone to waves of moral panic, but the proposal to decriminalise ganja has caused barely any waves. The foreign minister AJ Nicholson and the opposition leader, Andrew Holness, have expressed mild reservations; the vocal church lobby has been silent. Says a well-educated and dreadlocked Jamaican: “Most of them accept that there are people who do this, just like there are people who drink.” Such tolerant sentiments only go so far, however. The “abominable crime of buggery” carries a prison sentence of up to ten years, and the government has no plans to right that injustice.

ja entraram na justiça pra revogar a lei por ser anticonstitucional como diz na matéria. a audiencia será dia 18 logo mais.

vou aproveitar esse topico pra deixar isso aqui... tomara que no brasil num aconteça como vai acontecer aqui http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/health-headlines/patients-may-defy-new-medical-marijuana-laws-1.1705654

boa alldoors!

Lavador de prato ganhando 500 conto por semana??? aonde cara?? deve ser por isso que tão quebrados... se ganhar isso ta trampando como lavador de prato de luxo.

EU TROCO!!! ONDE TEM?

maconha num é pra vc... pare de fumar.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/my-daughter-will-die-under-new-canadian-marijuana-laws-1.2545309 The mother of an epileptic woman says the only treatment that works for her daughter's epilepsy — cannabis — will become unaffordable under Health Canada's new medicinal marijuana regulations, meaning she will be forced to either break the law or watch her child suffer. Cheryl Rose says since she began illegally giving her 20-year-old daughter Hayley marijuana in 2008, her seizures have dropped from hundreds a month to roughly a dozen. Come April, however, new Health Canada rules will limit Rose's access to marijuana to federally approved suppliers at a much higher cost. 1 of 5 "If there's no way to stop them from changing this, my daughter will die," said Rose. Currently, Hayley's treatment costs $200 a month. Hayley grows her own pot, which she calls Hayley's Comet, which she grinds into powder before it's measured into capsules for consumption with food three times a day. Cheryl Rose says if she is forced to buy the 40 grams a day Hayley uses from approved growers, her treatment will cost thousands a month. "There is no way to afford that kind of medication," she says. A fight to prove marijuana works Before Hayley began taking marijuana, Rose says her daughter would suffer as many as 15 seizures in a day. She says marijuana is the only medication that has ever given her any sort of relief. "I got rid of half my seizures. How has that made a difference in [my] life?" asks Hayley. "A lot." Rose's doctor agrees the treatment is working. In January, federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose said Health Canada has never endorsed medical marijuana because more clinical trials are needed. "We're making these decisions for health reasons, for medical reasons, based on the advice of the health community and also for public safety reasons," she said. Rose and others will go before the courts next month in an attempt to stop Ottawa's decision. But, regardless of the outcome, she will continue providing marijuana for Hayley. "Her death isn't an option. It's not and it's never going to be," she says. The family is trying to establish a foundation to help with the cost of her treatment. They are organizing a fundraiser on Saturday, Feb. 22 at the Charqui Grill in Vancouver to raise money for the legal work to get the foundation up and running. Unless Rose and others can stop Ottawa's move in the courts next month, they will become criminals by continuing to grow it or buy it illegally

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2014/02/medical_marijuana_dispensaries_denver_neighborhoods_impact.php Medical marijuana stores impact neighborhoods in Denver no more than coffee shops, study say A medical marijuana dispensary in the Denver area doesn't have any more impact on its neighborhood than does a coffee shop or a drugstore, according to a recent study released by the University of Colorado Denver. Not only that, but residents don't perceive a dispensary as an undesirable use of a storefront. These findings counter the constant negative messages coming from law enforcement and anti-cannabis crusaders. And apparently, even the researchers were shocked by the results. The CU Denver study looked at ways race, ethnicity and economic status played into the location of the centers themselves, with researchers taking the position that the 275 dispensaries they studied were largely located in lower-income areas. And while the findings showed that dispensaries are more likely to be located in areas that have higher rates of criminal activity, that's simply a matter of logistics: Crime generally occurs more often near commercial retail areas, and dispensaries are zoned as retail centers. Paul Stretsky, a research student at the CU Denver School of Public Affairs who helped lead the study, says his team had predicted from the outset that dispensaries would change the neighborhoods surrounding them for the worse and create more crime. But that just wasn't the case, he notes. The researchers even went back through their methods to find some error that could account for the findings and found nothing. "We argued a bit among ourselves and divided the data up every way we could think of to find evidence of inequality where we may have missed it," Stretsky says in a release on the study. "We replicated the analysis independently. Nothing. It simply looks like these are not as undesirable as they are made out to be in the media and by law enforcement." While the researchers here might have been surprised, similar studies in Colorado and California have come up with the same conclusions in recent years. A 2012 study on dispensaries in Sacramento using police-compiled crime statistics showed no increase in crime whatsoever near the shops. Researchers in that study did note, however, that because of the nature of marijuana businesses, any crimes that did occur tended to receive more media attention than a similar robbery of a dry cleaner or gas station. Even in Los Angeles, where dispensaries have flourished for years, police-department studies showed that banks were about four times more likely to be targeted than dispensaries. (According to the FBI, there were 170 bank robberies in Denver in 2011 -- a number far higher than the total for dispensary robberies.) Some argue that crime actually decreases around medical marijuana centers, in part due to the increased security-camera surveillance, as well as security guards at some shops. William Breathes has visited his fair share of neighborhood dispensaries -- some more upscale than others. Check out some of his recent reviews below. William Breathes Medical marijuana dispensary review: Cross Genetics in Denver William Breathes Medical marijuana dispensary review: Mile High Medical Cannabis in Denver

como venho dizendo, só fumo isso desde 2008...

A VA....

E complemento, terpenos, terpinoides, ketones e um monte de outra coisas tem de medicinal... inclusive ceras.

por que não?