McChronic

Can't remember where I saw this, but it's a good summary. Most people have no idea why marijuana is illegal. Many have just simply bought the propaganda about its “dangers,” which at best are deliberate distortions, and more often just outright lies. Who is behind this, though? Google a guy named Harry Anslinger, a particularly ambitious bureaucrat of the 1920s who inherited the Bureau of Narcotics – a new division of Treasury – in 1930. Realizing that cocaine and opiates alone wouldn't be enough to help grow "his" precious agency, he pounced on marijuana, and with the help of William Randolph Hearst, one of America's most vicious yellow journalists, and the stable of congressional thugs Hearst kept on his payroll, they waged a national campaign of misinformation, fake “science,” outrageous claims, and run-of-the-mill lies, depending heavily on racism and violence. This monster grew into the DEA, which now squanders billions of taxpayer dollars on chasing people who smoke flowers and stuffing the prisons full of non-violent "drug offenders"...

Petition the Feds to reschedule marijuana as a useful drug

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Dec 102011
 

Our friends at Firedoglake are petitioning the FDA to reschedule marijuana from a drug with “no medical benefit” to a drug that has acceptable medical uses. This tactic would eliminate the need for medipot states to come up with creative ways for doctors to give the go ahead to their patients who could benefit from medicinal marijuana. Currently, doctors can’t actually prescribe marijuana (because the FDA says it has no benefit); instead, they can only “recommend” certain patients use the drug. As it stands now, each medipot state has its own rules governing the sale of marijuana to needy patients.

Firedoglake and its subsidiary, JustSayNow, want to get state governors and legislators to pressure the FDA to reschedule marijuana. In order to get your governor to put pressure on the Feds, you (yes, YOU, too) need to put pressure on your governor and representatives. The first basic step to take is to add your name to the following petition:

http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/reschedule-mmj

Although we all know the obvious benefits that would occur in the realms of healthcare and economics (state tax revenues increase, drug enforcement costs decline), this is going to be a tough fight.

Because marijuana is a naturally occurring drug that patients can grow themselves, the FDA, which is heavily influenced by the giants of the pharmaceutical industry, will not be easy to convince. When they do agree to budge on this issue, it will probably be to approve a compound derived from marijuana like THC that a drug company wants to market as relieving nausea in chemotherapy patients. We can’t be satisfied with that outcome because such a drug would likely cost much more and work no better than medical marijuana does currently. Therefore, they would have to give full approval to the entire whole foods version of cannabis on humanitarian grounds.

I rest my case.

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Mexican Drug Cartels Recruiting Children

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Oct 182011
 

It’s no shocker that Mexican drug cartels are operating within the U.S., but parents probably have no idea that their children are being targeted to aid the cartels in evading law enforcement. The cartels are paying children to do minor tasks for a small reward of maybe $50 – not the kind of first employer that parents may have envisioned. Here are the deets:

http://news.yahoo.com/mexican-drug-cartels-recruiting-texas-children-173402030.html

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Prohibition still doesn’t work

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Oct 032011
 

It’s time to legalize marijuana, duh. Here’s a good video for those who need convincing.

Now, legalization requires altering current U.S. laws, so we need to put pressure on legislators. Here are some applicable links:

White House petition site has many dealing with the weed business; this is the one with the most support so far.
We the People

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Weed Super Store vs. the mom and pop dispensary on the Daily Show

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May 192010
 
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Gone to Pot
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

The daily show gives an unfair and funny look to some real issues in the growing weed business.  Dispensaries compete for patients. The more safe, friendly and serviced based you can be, the more patients you will attract.

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Mass Producing Marijuana

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May 112010
 

There is currently not a lot of information on large grows in the USA, due to illegalization and regulation where it is legal.

Therefore this post is based on estimation using corn plants per acre and the current price of corn per bushel in May, 2010 and the assumed price of 1,000 dollars per pound of marijuana.


To start off we will assume a low estimate on corn: 20,000 plants per acre @  36 in. (3ft) spacing per row

so for marijuana we will half that number to 10,000 plants per acre @ 72 in. (6 ft) spacing per row

how many bushels per acre of marijuana?

32 lbs per bushel.

16 oz. per pound

no of oz per plant = 1

no. of oz per acre = 8,500

no. of lbs. per acre = 625 lbs.

bushels per acre = 19.53



Just one acre of weed can produce 3.25 million dollars at $375 per oz with 10,000 plants



Even if you reduce the number to 5,000 plants per acre your total would be 1.625 million dollars per acre. So you get the idea that we are dealing with the most profitable cash crop ever.


The going rate per bushel of corn is:

369.75 cents per bushel or 3.70$

Daily change of 6.75 ( 1.86% )


Corn Quote Updated May-12-10 1:38 AM

The going rate per bushel of medical marijuana is:

32 lbs @ 1000 dollars per pound = 32,000 dollars.


fun Facts about corn:

  • An average acre of corn yields 100 bushels.
  • Starch, sweetner, fuel (ethanol), feed, and corn oil can be extracted from a bushel of corn.
  • A bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of soda or produce 1.5 pounds of corn oil!
  • A bushel of corn fed to livestock produces 6 pounds of beef, 13 pounds of pork, 20 pounds of chicken, or 28 pounds of catfish.
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South Park’s take on Medicinal Marijuana

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Apr 012010
 

South Park

 Wed 10pm / 9c
Buffalo Soldier
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/267110
Joke of the Day Stand-Up Comedy

Free Online Games
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Trans-High Market Quotations

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Mar 232010
 

Need to know if you are underpaid for an ounce or overpaying in your area????

The question does come up, …Aaaand with so many variables of price: decriminalization, geography, demand, policing, crops, culture, quality, etc…there are so many prices out there for pot, the good stuff, schwag, mids.

Hightimes.com gives their monthly analysis of the weed prices per ounce gathered from thmq@hightimes.com
Get prices here : http://hightimes.com/tags/thmq

CURRENT OZ. PRICES:

CURRENT US PRICE INDEX: $342 (last month: $367, Year-to-Date: $355)
CURRENT KIND INDEX ($350+ PER OZ): $440 ($441, $441)
CURRENT MIDS INDEX ($150-$349 PER OZ): $253 ($301, $277)

CURRENT SCHWAG INDEX ($1-$149 PER OZ): $78 ($101, $90)

Posted by McChronic at 5:28 pm  

Rolling Stone MarijuanAmerica: the real green economy.

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Mar 232010
 

check out the new video of Rolling Stone’s executive editor’s interview about the new RS Article called MarijuanAmerica:

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Posted by McChronic at 5:09 pm  

Even USA Today Says so…lessening limits on marijuana

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Mar 152010
 
By William M. Welchand Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES — James Gray once saw himself as a drug warrior, a former federal prosecutor and county judge who sent people to prison for dealing pot and other drug offenses. Gradually, though, he became convinced that the ban on marijuana was making it more accessible to young people, not less.

“I ask kids all the time, and they’ll tell you it is easier to get marijuana than a six-pack of beer because that is controlled by the government,” he said, noting that drug dealers don’t ask for IDs or honor minimum age requirements.

So Gray — who spent two decades as a superior court judge in Orange County, Calif., and once ran for Congress as a Republican— switched sides in the war on drugs, becoming an advocate for legalizing marijuana.

“Let’s face reality,” he says. “Taxing and regulating marijuana will make it less available to children than it is today.”


ATTITUDES SHIFT: Marijuana classes role

Gray is part of a growing national movement to rethink pot laws. From California, where lawmakers may outright legalize marijuana, to New Jersey, which implemented a medical use law Jan. 19, states are taking unprecedented steps to loosen marijuana restrictions. Advocates of legalizing marijuana say generational, political and cultural shifts have taken the USA to a unique moment in its history of drug prohibition that could topple 40 years of tough restrictions on both medicinal and recreational marijuana use.

A Gallup Poll last October found 44% favor making marijuana legal, an eight-point jump since the question was asked in 2005. An ABC News-Washington Post poll in January found 81% favor making marijuana legal for medical use.

Attorney General Eric Holder last fall announced that raiding medical marijuana facilities would be the lowest priority for U.S. law enforcement agents — a major shift that is spurring many states to re-examine their policies. The American Medical Association recommended in November that Congress reclassify marijuana as a drug with possible medicinal benefit.


Continue reading »

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Medipot States

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Mar 072010
 
medipot-states


From: http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000881

15 Legal Medical Marijuana States and DC
Laws, Fees, and Possession Limits 2010

I. Fifteen states and DC have enacted laws that legalize medical marijuana:

State Year Passed How Passed
(Yes Vote)		 Fee Possession Limit Accepts other states’ registry ID cards?
1998
 Ballot Measure 8 (58%)
$25/$20
1 oz usable; 6 plants (3 mature, 3 immature)
 unknown1
2010 Proposition 203 (50.13%) unknown2 2.5 oz usable; 0-12 plants3 Yes4
1996
 Proposition 215 (56%)
$66/$33
8 oz usable; 18 plants (6 mature, 12 immature)5
 No
2000
 Ballot Amendment 20 (54%)
$90
2 oz usable; 6 plants (3 mature, 3 immature)
 No
5. DC
 2010 Amendment Act B18-622 (13-0 vote) * 2 oz dried; limits on other forms to be determined unknown
2000
 Senate Bill 862 (32-18 House; 13-12 Senate)
$25
3 oz usable; 7 plants (3 mature, 4 immature)
 No
1999
 Ballot Question 2 (61%) $100/$75
2.5 oz usable; 6 plants
 Yes6
8. Michigan 2008 Proposal 1 (63%) $100/$25 2.5 oz usable; 12 plants Yes
2004
 Initiative 148 (62%)
$25/$10
1 oz usable; 6 plants
 Yes
10. Nevada
2000
 Ballot Question 9 (65%)
$150 +
1 oz usable; 7 plants (3 mature, 4 immature)
 No
2010
 Senate Bill 119 (48-14 House; 25-13 Senate)
2 oz usable
 unknown
12. New Mexico 2007 Senate Bill 523 (36-31 House; 32-3 Senate) $0
6 oz usable; 16 plants (4 mature, 12 immature)
 No
13. Oregon
1998
 Ballot Measure 67 (55%)
$100/$20
24 oz usable; 24 plants (6 mature, 18 immature)
 No
2006
 Senate Bill 0710 (52-10 House; 33-1 Senate)
$75/$10
2.5 oz usable; 12 plants
 Yes
2004
 Senate Bill 76 (22-7) HB 645 (82-59)
$50
2 oz usable; 9 plants (2 mature, 7 immature)
 No
1998
 Initiative 692 (59%)
24 oz usable; 15 plants
 No


If you are in one of the lucky states to have passed legislation on medical marijuana, here is what you should do.

  1. Go see a doctor, get a patient card…This will protect you legally.
  2. This status of patient will allow you to legally grow weed.  You can get to know other patients, and act as their caregiver to up the quantity of plants you are allowed to grow.
  3. Develop a relationship with a dispensary, hang out there, buy a gram.  Bring a sample of your own stuff, and see if you can sell to a dispensary.
  4. Then you are legally making cold hard cash from the WEED business!
Posted by McChronic at 8:50 pm  
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