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Wild in the streets?
« on: February 24, 2015, 11:53:23 AM »
Pot became legal this morning in Alaska.  Despite the predictions of the hell-in-a-Hannity crowd, the state so far has not descended into anarchy and mayhem.  Schools and stores opened as usual.  Rain fell.  Cars remained on the proper side of the street, and no busses or submarines have crashed into houses, airplanes or trains.  The emergency room is empty, and nary a siren has been heard (except the daily tsunami test).  The only bad thing that has happened is Wasilla made baking pot brownies illegal.  That's because Sarah Palin lives there and she can't be trusted with either sharp or hot objects, being neither sharp or hot herself.  If you didn't know things have changed, you wouldn't be able to tell.  I hope when your state goes legit it's as unnotable as this.

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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2015, 12:01:35 PM »
I think she used to be hot, but perhaps that's one of the things that's changed
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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2015, 12:05:59 PM »
I have nothing good to say about that

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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2015, 12:13:43 PM »
Yeah,  been a non issue in Washington too.  Biggest problem is they have taxed it so heavy that many if not most of the old users are still buying on the secondary market.

Many of the rest of us are too cheap (Guzzi content) to pay what the legal shops are charging even if we wanted to try.
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Re: Wild in the streets?
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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2015, 12:19:40 PM »
Now now RK - You need to delete your own thread.  Remember, no political content!

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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2015, 12:45:10 PM »
No, it's not political.

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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2015, 01:29:25 PM »
Just for reference, in NC, possession of 1/2 ounce or less is a misdemeanor, and is punishable with a maximum fine of $200.  That's about as close to legal as it gets without being legal.  Possession doesn't become a felony here until 1.5 ounces.
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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2015, 01:30:53 PM »
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« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2015, 01:32:45 PM »
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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2015, 01:56:27 PM »
  Neither sharp nor hot-- snort chuckle.
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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2015, 01:59:28 PM »
Wild in the Streets!
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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2015, 02:00:49 PM »
No, it's not political.

Of course it's not political.   "Hannity".   "Sarah Palin".   "Legalized pot".   How could any of that possibly be considered political, in the Wild Guzzi context?

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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2015, 02:04:23 PM »
You can buy ounces grower-direct for $250 here in Montana while the legal stuff in WA is damn near $200 a 1/4 ounce

Happy for CO, AK, & WA they are going to reap millions in revenue! CO legal herb has already pumped so much tax revenue into the state, they are going to have to figure out how to refund some of it back to taxpayers!


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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2015, 02:20:41 PM »
CO legal herb has already pumped so much tax revenue into the state, they are going to have to figure out how to refund some of it back to taxpayers!

Free pot for all Colorado residents!
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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2015, 02:32:03 PM »
Reefer madness!!!???  Ahhhrrrrrrrrr!!!

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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2015, 02:50:39 PM »
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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2015, 03:08:05 PM »
Thats good news! I hope all the states legalize MJ. In this day and age, with really bad stuff like meth , Heroin, Crack, etc. Its totally ridiculous there are any laws against a plant that is medicinal, no one has ever died from it, etc. Heck, aspirin is more dangerous!
I also want to see the industrial hemp industry take off in the USA.
With all the crazy, fanatical stuff going on in the world right now, who really gives a hoot about MJ.

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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2015, 03:33:46 PM »
I think she used to be hot, but perhaps that's one of the things that's changed

Tina Fey is the hotter version of Sarah Palin and would probably be a better candidate as well. ;D

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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #18 on: February 24, 2015, 04:36:14 PM »
Of course it's not political.   "Hannity".   "Sarah Palin".   "Legalized pot".   How could any of that possibly be considered political, in the Wild Guzzi context?

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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #19 on: February 24, 2015, 05:20:13 PM »
Of course it's not political.   "Hannity".   "Sarah Palin".   "Legalized pot".   How could any of that possibly be considered political, in the Wild Guzzi context?

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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2015, 06:04:19 PM »
  Why not?  They have been smoking salmon up there since before that old Russian viking stole the place from the natives.
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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2015, 06:06:13 PM »
Rode,

If my old neurons remember correctly, when I was a resident of Cook Inlet, the herb was legal in small amounts.  No so much if one worked for an oil company with mandatory drug and alcohol testing.

Anyway I used to fertilize my neighbor's plants with Old English Sheepdog output.  

Pulled a guy out of a mudhole once near Gunsight mountain.  He wanted to pay me back with a baggie.  Refused, and he got mad:  you a police? you no like me? Paranoid.  Didn't understand not my thingy, and I worky for the Marathonian Empire, sometimes out on the single rod platform.  Took him a while to get it as I looked the part with long scraggley beard and dirty old Toy truck with muddies.  Hawaiians would pull out big high quality flower buds when I visited.  Same reaction...paranoid when I said no-no cause Barney the sniffy doggy at place where big aluminum pipes with wings land would finda and I woulda be in the cana.

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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #22 on: February 24, 2015, 06:39:54 PM »
Rode,

If my old neurons remember correctly, when I was a resident of Cook Inlet, the herb was legal in small amounts.  No so much if one worked for an oil company with mandatory drug and alcohol testing.

Anyway I used to fertilize my neighbor's plants with Old English Sheepdog output.  

Pulled a guy out of a mudhole once near Gunsight mountain.  He wanted to pay me back with a baggie.  Refused, and he got mad:  you a police? you no like me? Paranoid.  Didn't understand not my thingy, and I worky for the Marathonian Empire, sometimes out on the single rod platform.  Took him a while to get it as I looked the part with long scraggley beard and dirty old Toy truck with muddies.  Hawaiians would pull out big high quality flower buds when I visited.  Same reaction...paranoid when I said no-no cause Barney the sniffy doggy at place where big aluminum pipes with wings land would finda and I woulda be in the cana.

Live and let live.  

You've made a lot of important points in just a few lines:

legalization doesn't mean you are REQUIRED to use pot, only that the option is there.  You can still do a Nancy Regan if you want to.

Some occupations and some employers have rules about inebriation on the job and illegal drug use on or off the job.  So both employment considerations and common sense say not everyone should be smoking.

Legalization is still confined to within a legal state's boundaries.  TSA is still going to pitch a fit on account of they do fed rules, not AK/WA/CO rules.

Selling pot without the paperwork is still an infraction (like a speeding ticket).  Bartering, trading, or awarding it to the guy that helps you out of a snowbank seems to be kosher.




Right now the law is statewide, not federal.  This gives the more controlling employers some wiggle room to continue including pot in their list of tested-for substances.  It's unclear whether those rules will be enforceable for businesses not required to follow federal guidelines since the new law says pot will be regulated like alcohol.  As a side note, both Anchorage and the state troopers say they will no longer be teaching their dogs to sniff for mj, and they'll have to retire the ones who indicate for pot.

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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #23 on: February 24, 2015, 06:48:25 PM »
...and they'll have to retire the ones who indicate for pot.

Maybe just give them a bong hit before they start work, to swamp out the smell.
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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #24 on: February 24, 2015, 07:20:50 PM »
You can buy ounces grower-direct for $250 here in Montana while the legal stuff in WA is damn near $200 a 1/4 ounce

Happy for CO, AK, & WA they are going to reap millions in revenue! CO legal herb has already pumped so much tax revenue into the state, they are going to have to figure out how to refund some of it back to taxpayers!


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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #25 on: February 24, 2015, 09:20:50 PM »
When the state of Alaska makes their first $1M of income on this, will they ask "how much more weed can we buy with this $1M"?
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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #26 on: February 24, 2015, 09:33:59 PM »
Alaska can't earmark funds coming into the state coffers.  It all goes to the general fund.  Otherwise I could see that happening. .   .   :D


Here's one of the few notices In the press about it:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/alaska-quietly-becomes-3rd-state-205033366.html

In summary it says that police were prepared for wild parties and such, but no pot-related tickets have been written and no pot-related complaints have been received by any law enforcement agency.

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« Reply #27 on: February 24, 2015, 11:10:19 PM »
Good on Alaska, our conservative federal government would rather drum up fear and ignorance than implement a system to control and legalize distribution. So the illegal trade continues to boom and groups like the Hells Angles continue to hold sway, madness.

But alas our federal government of the day panders to the politics of fear, for instance they want to build more prisons, get tough on crime, while every year violent crime drops across the country.

Many Canadians like to think we are more progressive than our cousins south of the border, reality proves otherwise.

Personally I no longer partake but I see no great harm in allowing consenting adults to choose as they wish.

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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #28 on: February 24, 2015, 11:25:31 PM »
Local radio station yesterday said a girl scout set up her cookie table outside a medical marijuana facility and that she was selling a lot of cookies.
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Re: Wild in the streets?
« Reply #29 on: February 24, 2015, 11:58:40 PM »
Peyton Manning thinks it's been good for his Colorado pizza business.

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