i know i am probs the only person in this website anymore lel but i have nothing better to do so how bout a new post in 2021 lmao
cannabis has yet to be fully legalized federally; HOWEVER, it seems that multiple states are warming up to the idea; I'd say maybe 1/3 of the country is legalized for medical with decrim, 1/3 is recreational, and 1/3 it's illegal. I don't get why the older gen is so against change to the point they hate plants. it is taking for full legalization ??? the quicker they legalize it, the quicker we can get rid of this debt we are sinking deep into.
am gonna add more sources for said information, will also have a wikipedia link for legalization status
any input is welcome at this point. something truly needs to change.
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:55 am
At last count, the map looks like so:
So that's... 13 states (about a quarter) where it's flat-out illegal. Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Nebraska have passed laws to decriminalize it. Looks like 10 states have medical marijuana programs, and another 12 have medical marijuana programs and have decriminalized personal use, and 11 of us (mostly on the coasts, interestingly enough) will offer to roll your blunt for you.
You can check here for your state's relevant regulations -- in fact, you should double-check these things periodically. After all, laws tend to be pretty dynamic much of the time, and of course there are certain limits.
For example, in California you can have up to an ounce for personal use, provided you're over 18. You can also grow up to 6 plants for personal use. Counties and cities often have local ordinances regulating it, too, so it can get a little confusing at times.
A Gallup poll just last month found that about half of American adults have tried marijuana, and a study from the Pew Research Center in April found that less than 10% think it should just be flat-out illegal. So what's the holdup? People keep voting for Republicans as local leaders and representatives, for one thing, and they're acting more and more like a cult as time goes by. So find out who your local elected officials are, from the city council on up, and start getting active in your community. 3nodding
So that's... 13 states (about a quarter) where it's flat-out illegal. Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Nebraska have passed laws to decriminalize it. Looks like 10 states have medical marijuana programs, and another 12 have medical marijuana programs and have decriminalized personal use, and 11 of us (mostly on the coasts, interestingly enough) will offer to roll your blunt for you.
You can check here for your state's relevant regulations -- in fact, you should double-check these things periodically. After all, laws tend to be pretty dynamic much of the time, and of course there are certain limits.
For example, in California you can have up to an ounce for personal use, provided you're over 18. You can also grow up to 6 plants for personal use. Counties and cities often have local ordinances regulating it, too, so it can get a little confusing at times.
A Gallup poll just last month found that about half of American adults have tried marijuana, and a study from the Pew Research Center in April found that less than 10% think it should just be flat-out illegal. So what's the holdup? People keep voting for Republicans as local leaders and representatives, for one thing, and they're acting more and more like a cult as time goes by. So find out who your local elected officials are, from the city council on up, and start getting active in your community. 3nodding
rofl my stats are wrong bc i went strictly by colour haha. but even then. it's wild how much the laws have changed in the last decade. its nuts how long it has taken to accept a plant that can have so many benefits and could help this economy. it makes 0 sense to me honestly. it isn't life anymore but it still YEARS over plants. i am in a state where it's medical/decrim but the penalties are still too damn high for something that isn't even the main drug of attraction here. thanks for the info though. I need to educate myself a bit more about this 😌
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:02 pm
aestheticsleep
faolan
At last count, the map looks like so:
So that's... 13 states (about a quarter) where it's flat-out illegal. Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Nebraska have passed laws to decriminalize it. Looks like 10 states have medical marijuana programs, and another 12 have medical marijuana programs and have decriminalized personal use, and 11 of us (mostly on the coasts, interestingly enough) will offer to roll your blunt for you.
You can check here for your state's relevant regulations -- in fact, you should double-check these things periodically. After all, laws tend to be pretty dynamic much of the time, and of course there are certain limits.
For example, in California you can have up to an ounce for personal use, provided you're over 18. You can also grow up to 6 plants for personal use. Counties and cities often have local ordinances regulating it, too, so it can get a little confusing at times.
A Gallup poll just last month found that about half of American adults have tried marijuana, and a study from the Pew Research Center in April found that less than 10% think it should just be flat-out illegal. So what's the holdup? People keep voting for Republicans as local leaders and representatives, for one thing, and they're acting more and more like a cult as time goes by. So find out who your local elected officials are, from the city council on up, and start getting active in your community. 3nodding
rofl my stats are wrong bc i went strictly by colour haha. but even then. it's wild how much the laws have changed in the last decade. its nuts how long it has taken to accept a plant that can have so many benefits and could help this economy. it makes 0 sense to me honestly. it isn't life anymore but it still YEARS over plants. i am in a state where it's medical/decrim but the penalties are still too damn high for something that isn't even the main drug of attraction here. thanks for the info though. I need to educate myself a bit more about this 😌
Yeah, in California it's nominally "legal," but cities have moritoriums on dispensaries, and of course it's not taxed as a normal sale, with normal sales tax, it's got "special tax" status. So instead of, say, an 8% surcharge, in some communities the tax on cannabis products is over 20%. So small wonder they're still finding huge illegal grows out in the hills and hidden away in gutted suburban homes. Meanwhile, opponents are all like, "you said there'd be lots of tax money rolling in, rar!" It's like, yeah, but we meant from lots of small sales, not from five or six big ones. Take your ridiculous "2% per square foot of the store" sales tax and shove it up your a**, and watch what happens. Honestly.
But yeah, things have really shifted... fifteen years ago my little sister was laying down behind a cop car while her job got raided. It's nuts.
So that's... 13 states (about a quarter) where it's flat-out illegal. Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Nebraska have passed laws to decriminalize it. Looks like 10 states have medical marijuana programs, and another 12 have medical marijuana programs and have decriminalized personal use, and 11 of us (mostly on the coasts, interestingly enough) will offer to roll your blunt for you.
You can check here for your state's relevant regulations -- in fact, you should double-check these things periodically. After all, laws tend to be pretty dynamic much of the time, and of course there are certain limits.
For example, in California you can have up to an ounce for personal use, provided you're over 18. You can also grow up to 6 plants for personal use. Counties and cities often have local ordinances regulating it, too, so it can get a little confusing at times.
A Gallup poll just last month found that about half of American adults have tried marijuana, and a study from the Pew Research Center in April found that less than 10% think it should just be flat-out illegal. So what's the holdup? People keep voting for Republicans as local leaders and representatives, for one thing, and they're acting more and more like a cult as time goes by. So find out who your local elected officials are, from the city council on up, and start getting active in your community. 3nodding
rofl my stats are wrong bc i went strictly by colour haha. but even then. it's wild how much the laws have changed in the last decade. its nuts how long it has taken to accept a plant that can have so many benefits and could help this economy. it makes 0 sense to me honestly. it isn't life anymore but it still YEARS over plants. i am in a state where it's medical/decrim but the penalties are still too damn high for something that isn't even the main drug of attraction here. thanks for the info though. I need to educate myself a bit more about this 😌
Yeah, in California it's nominally "legal," but cities have moritoriums on dispensaries, and of course it's not taxed as a normal sale, with normal sales tax, it's got "special tax" status. So instead of, say, an 8% surcharge, in some communities the tax on cannabis products is over 20%. So small wonder they're still finding huge illegal grows out in the hills and hidden away in gutted suburban homes. Meanwhile, opponents are all like, "you said there'd be lots of tax money rolling in, rar!" It's like, yeah, but we meant from lots of small sales, not from five or six big ones. Take your ridiculous "2% per square foot of the store" sales tax and shove it up your a**, and watch what happens. Honestly.
But yeah, things have really shifted... fifteen years ago my little sister was laying down behind a cop car while her job got raided. It's nuts.
that is ******** crazy. i remember getting illegally raided back in 2013; the charges they were trying to pin us with would have landed me life (35+ years right? 37 total). now the same charges here would get me 20+- years and bc i proved it was illegal raid, i only got 6 months probation for having it, had to do drug court and get piss tested daily.
it's wild that there's so many taxes on bud like that. our the dispensaries here don't tax anything ( you made me curious and made me check my receipt. i live in a tax free state so i would think the fee would be clearly noted. it isn't.) but the stuff here is a bit expensive somewhat, 1/8's are $50. our dispensaries are medical only btw. so i dunno if there is a real quality difference from regular dispensaries/ medical 🤷🏻♀️. "I only know its a bit stronger than the street stuff i used to get 8 years ago "rofl
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2021 3:55 pm
aestheticsleep
that is ******** crazy. i remember getting illegally raided back in 2013; the charges they were trying to pin us with would have landed me life (35+ years right? 37 total). now the same charges here would get me 20+- years and bc i proved it was illegal raid, i only got 6 months probation for having it, had to do drug court and get piss tested daily.
Talk about a waste of resources -- I mean, the effort put in to conduct a raid, to arrests, indict and try the suspects... you'd think they could put that money toward something useful. Like, y'know... racial bias training, or something. rofl
Aha, I thought I'd included it... Federal agents raid Corona pot dispensary. And when that photo ran on the front of the local section, oh my gawd our mother didn't know whether to be embarrassed, furious, or proud.
The thing was, though, it was not a surprise -- part of the reason all the employees and a bunch of the patients were there protesting was because they'd been raiding one dispensary after another, so it was only a matter of time. IIRC, the guy who was supposed to open the place that day was going to Ronnie's first to pick up some product for the day, or something, and he turned the corner just in time to see them haul Ronnie out. So he turned around and started calling everyone to tell them work was about to get raided, and to meet him in the parking lot. So if you ever need to know how to get a bunch of potheads out of bed and out for blood at six in the morning, there you go. xd
aestheticsleep
it's wild that there's so many taxes on bud like that. our the dispensaries here don't tax anything ( you made me curious and made me check my receipt. i live in a tax free state so i would think the fee would be clearly noted. it isn't.) but the stuff here is a bit expensive somewhat, 1/8's are $50.
Well, sales tax is technically levied by the county, and sometimes certain cities add another half-percent or so on top of that. I mean, there's potholes to fix, after all. And someone has to pay the police and fire department! rofl No, but Colorado and Washington state legalized before we did, and it wasn't until Colorado started saying what a financial success it already was that California hopped on board, ready to use pot money to fix everything... but then some cities said no, can't sell it here, and others started listing all kinds of rules -- most of which were already in place in the state's proposal, like a dispensary can't be within a certain distance of a school or daycare, which is at least understandable, but some were just absurd. Plus, with this history of the feds coming in and treating dispensaries like their personal stash jar/piggy bank for so long (oh yeah, a bunch of the raids that were happening never actually had paperwork filed -- the cops just took the product and the money as "evidence" and disappeared), it's no wonder people would just rather continue to buy from their regular connect.
aestheticsleep
our dispensaries are medical only btw. so i dunno if there is a real quality difference from regular dispensaries/ medical 🤷🏻♀️. "I only know its a bit stronger than the street stuff i used to get 8 years ago "rofl
Yeah, we passed prop 215 in 1996, but it wasn't until ten years later that they started pulling s**t like that on a regular basis, y'know?
Anyway, yeah, there's not actually a "medical grade" kind of cannabis, or anything. That said, though, cultivation attracts some surprisingly nerdy potheads who've made an entire industry of diverse strains, usually with the objective of growing a plant with lots of THC in the flowers. On average, it's WAY stronger than, say, what they were passing around at Woodstock. I try to make it a point to never eat the entire cookie/brownie/cupcake in one sitting! whee
I feel like I have read about those raids sometime ago; for a moment I honestly thought this mess was gonna prevent a proper legalization but I'm glad y'all stood your ground. has that stopped since then? am curious. has it now been lowered in their list of priorities? sorry for all the questions, it feels like the MJ scene is different here (could be bc its Delaware, there really isn't much to do here). i mean there are minor local events that happen in DE like once a year (covid stopped it this last year but am hoping to go this year so I can learn more) but most major events are nearby states/ areas (dc) but nothing like CO or CA. and yes the cops pulling that s**t is a waste of resources especially since a few got caught being corrupt and planting s**t on innocent people(certain minorities). i have a large distrust for the laws in general but this solidified it. especially since you can tell the disparity between the majority and minorities just being here. boomers run this place but not for long i hope ;v;
I apologize for the ignorance, i am just now recently getting into the whole legality thing behind it (got my medical card 2 years ago to prevent many legal issues, and bc of my accident 2 years ago, and ngl was a casual stoner - just to smoke) and honestly I want to learn is all. I truly thank you for all the information you've given me btw!
oops I suppose strength is better term lol, higher thc concentrates but I suppose I just wanna see the avg thc contents in other states?? I wanna travel and test most out. I need to get out but so much has changed and i feel so out of the times too lmao
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