New Amsterdam of climbing

As many of you are aware, nearly 500 medical marijuana dispensaries have opened in the Boulder/Denver area. I'm sure someone has an opinion on this.

Yep.

Dude!

He he, he he

This is the climbing community i think a great many of us have climbing related injuries that can only me medicated with one thing...

It should just be legal straight up, but with stiff penalties for workplace accidents and driving issues. Since you test hot for 30 days, this would place the emphasis on the individual's decisions instead of defaulting to an intrusive government.

I think I read somewhere where we are the world's leader in legal pot consumption now.

There will be a push by the prohibitionist types to limit patients per caregiver to 5, which will effectively kill the medical marijuana biz here due to margin loss. These people need to be outed as obstructionists to the will of the voters of Colorado.

Here's a sorta' contrarian opinion: "Medical marijuana" is just legalization in drag. From the "Dude!" advocates to the garage cottage supply industry, it's about personal toking...hiding behind the hospital gowns of a few genuinely sick people who need relief. We should just debate legalization and do it or not, instead of warping medicine, prescriptions, and pharmacy beyond recognition.

EDIT: Heh. "Dude!" wasn't a shot at Chris J. I just copied this from a post I put on Facebook about a week ago. Still, if the pipe fits... :)

Legalize it already. It amazes me how much time and money is wasted on the prohibition of this plant. Can anyone tell me why it's illegal in the first place?

The alcohol companies.

Well Tom...
What I've heard is that to get it classified up there with heroin etc. or even classified period there has to be proof that it can be over dosed on...

The fact of the matter is it's not physically possible to overdose, so to create an "overdose" or in other terms (they had to have test subjects die from the substance, to get it classified just as any FDA regulated substance).

From what I understand the way they achieved this is by asphixiating a bunch of monkeys with smoke...

A bit shady, considering they didn't die from the pot, but rather the lack of oxygen!!!

I'm legal, and I'm not just some toker hiding behind the other patients. I didn't have to lie about some condition, and I think my chronic pain and tendonitis is a quite legitimate case for the use. Not that that's 100% why I smoke (I'm sure there are deffinately some psychological factors also, and i'm not refering to addiction). Besides that it helps me relax and mellow out after long painful stressful days (on the job, aswell as off) as a physical laborer who is overly active on his free time.

It should have never been illegal in the first place, the constitution is made of hemp, the founding fathers grew and used it regularly (for many pruposes besides the consumption, but not limited to). Hell one of them even said something along the lines of "every country should be so fortunate to have such a wonderful plant" (if my memory serves me correctly).

For god sakes people need to pull their heads out of the sand...
Light it up! I am...

Stephen Berwanger wrote:The alcohol companies.

I've heard that that timber industry had a lot to do with it. It was much cheaper to make things like paper out of hemp.

No worries Shawn, I agree with most of what you said.

Another thing to consider for those of you that really care...

The American Medical Assosiation is pressing the FDA for a "Re-Schecualization" of the substance because the way it's classified now no one is legally allowed to do testing on the substance, or the effects of said substance. They want to do testing to learn more about it's healing powers and to find new ways to use it in medicine.

If this actually happens they won't be able to schedual it as a drug as it's not possible to overdose, and then the FDA will no longer have power to regulate it! Also the pharma- companys won't be able to get involved as they can't sell it as a drug! Win/ Win!

I don't want to get my smoke from the government or some crooked chemist/ pharma- company. I don't want to get it from the mob or the cartell like alot of places around are funded by either. I don't want to get it imported from california like is going on alot around here also...

I am a conissour and I want to buy my smoke from reputable, knowladgeable, skilled, and local growers to support my local economy and know I can trust what I'm smoking and who I'm getting it from!

The main players who have lobbied through out time to start and continue the prohibition would be:
The cotton industry
The petrol industry
The lumber industry
The pharma- companys
Most likely the alchahol and tobacco companys aswell

Im about to go enjoy a little in honor of all of you and this post!

Wow Jason, sure there's not some speed in that weed? :)

clay meier wrote:Im about to go enjoy a little in honor of all of you and this post!

What are you suffering from? I'm so sorry to hear that you have to use that awful stuff to feel better. I'm just going to stick to my beer and vicodin.

well the truth be told is the folks in Texas wanted to get rid of the Mexicans years ago and started to make up stories of them being addicts and users and criminals leading to laws past against it. it needs to be legal just like alcohol. it's years overdue and it's been a real pain in the ass leading a life of a criminal for the 30 years that I used. It was just gang mentality that kept it illegal. the alcohol lobby and the rednecks who believe they have the right to their alcohol, but dammit you can't smoke that wicked weed. well 2,000,000+ domestic violence calls and probably at least 500,000 overdose calls later, we might have realized that pot is no where near as bad as alcohol. glad I got that off my chest, it's been there way way too long!

Yea Shawn, it's just some Maui... Meaning it's a sativa, meaning less narcotic, more uppity, thought provoking stuff... Just figured I would pass along some of what I know on a subject that I feel pretty damn passionately about.