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2005-04-22 Great White North

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Posted by Steve 2005-04-22 9:09:14 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Give them a couple of days and they'll forget what they were talking about...

Posted by tu3031 2005-04-22 9:40:49 AM|| 2005-04-22 9:40:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 dibs on the snack concession!

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-22 9:49:33 AM|| 2005-04-22 9:49:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 This is probably something they've been talking about since '93, and just now got around to doing.

Posted by BH 2005-04-22 10:11:46 AM|| 2005-04-22 10:11:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Party Platform Plank #3: Government subsidization of bong water testing

Posted by Dreadnought 2005-04-22 10:40:18 AM|| 2005-04-22 10:40:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 You better get their quick, Frank, with a gunny sack before the Mass Munchiesâ¢ kick in.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-04-22 11:00:46 AM|| 2005-04-22 11:00:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Like, doods, he's, like, a lawyer dood...

DETROIT, MI - July 19, 2004.... Kirk Tousaw has joined Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, P.C. as an associate in the firm's Litigation Department. Jaffe Raitt CEO Richard Zussman made the announcement. Mr. Tousaw will provide comprehensive representation for plaintiffs and defendants in commercial and criminal litigation matters.
Bet I can tell you his specialty...
Formerly an associate with Jaffe Raitt from 1998-2002, Mr. Tousaw most recently served as Policy Director for the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA).
Mr. Tousaw is a 1994 graduate of Michigan State University's James Madison College and earned his J.D. from Wayne State University Law School in 1998, where he graduated cum laude. He will receive his LL.M from the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in the fall. Mr. Tousaw is a member of the Michigan Bar Association (MBA), the American Bar Association (ABA), the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Which surprised me not at all...

Posted by tu3031 2005-04-22 12:59:31 PM|| 2005-04-22 12:59:31 PM|| Front Page Top

Posted by .com 2005-04-22 1:10:55 PM|| 2005-04-22 1:10:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 There has long been plans by serious companies to manufacture and market quality controlled marijuana cigarettes. However, such cigarettes will need to be "rated", according to strength, and there will be considerable debate about filtration. That is, the first inclination is to filter out "bad" ingredients, as with tobacco; but this may have just the opposite effect in marijuana, filtering out "good" ingredients with positive medical benefits. And *then*, of course, different varieties of marijuana are believed to have different medicinal effects (e.g. 'skunk' weed for macular degeneration). But then, what is your purpose for smoking marijuana? Should it be marketed for specific medical purposes, or as a recreational drug? The "regulation and taxation" problem stems from the belief that there will only be *one* set of regulations and *one* tax, where in fact, many of both may be needed. Last but not least, when marijuana is legalized, we have to assume that there will be all sorts of innovations in "marijuana technology", and in many fields. Intoxicating beverages or inhalants, non-intoxicating herbal supplements containing ingredients not found in hemp, etc. The plant and its substances are very, very useful.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-04-22 2:35:44 PM|| 2005-04-22 2:35:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 ~~bong~~ bang goes productivity levels

Posted by MacNails 2005-04-22 2:38:59 PM|| 2005-04-22 2:38:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 There has long been plans by serious companies to manufacture and market quality controlled marijuana cigarettes.

And plans by serious lawyers to sue them for selling an adictive substance that has been proven to cause serious medical harm. Just look what they've done to Big Tobacco. Do you think any company wants to get into that business knowing in advance what's going to happen?

Posted by Steve 2005-04-22 3:09:14 PM|| 2005-04-22 3:09:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 So is this past, the criminal, de-criminalization, legal point and entering some new waters?

If so what is their current state:
Criminal De-criminal Legal
use L ?
sell L/D ?
market C ?

Posted by 3dc 2005-04-22 7:01:48 PM|| 2005-04-22 7:01:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Steve, just curious. What medical harm? I remember there was supposed to be this huge surfeit of lung cancer cases from marijuana, but as it turned out, it has ingredients that actually fight lung cancer. Other than that, once you lose a couple dozen IQ points, it might convert you to liberalism, but I'm not entirely sure that that could be catagorized as pathological.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-04-22 7:05:19 PM|| 2005-04-22 7:05:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 an hemp growing will help with our fuel shortage and keep clothes on our back and did you know george washington raised it and feed it to the army at morristown during the brutally cold winter the year after the more famous valley forge hemp is a miracle plant and you can't smoke it, it different from pot looks identical but its not the same

Posted by half 2005-04-22 7:38:59 PM|| 2005-04-22 7:38:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Hemp also grows like, well , a weed. You can grow it on marginal land. That also makes it attractive as a source of fiber and oil. Oil they you can legaly buy as well as teh fiber you can legaly buy. You just can't grow it or have it in manfactured form. Stupid laws.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-04-22 7:47:14 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-04-22 7:47:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Years and years ago, Sen. William Proxmire of Wisconsin saddled Southern Illinois University with his famous Golden Fleece Award for a research project to determine whether marijuana has a negative effect on male sex drive. The grant money was already spent, and his committee spent ten times the funding in SIU's grant in order to cancel the SIU study, a nasty little detail about Proxmire's Golden Fleece Awards that the media never seemed to notice. Actually, the study probably wasn't a bad idea. People who don't want to hear about mental or health side effects might think twice about taking something that would effect their sex drives.

Posted by mom 2005-04-22 8:57:24 PM|| [http://idontknowbut@blogspot.com] 2005-04-22 8:57:24 PM|| Front Page Top

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