Ok guys, if you must smoke pot, please don’t do things like this.
One of the men allegedly told police they dug up a grave in an abandoned cemetery in the woods, removed a head from a body and smoked marijuana using the skull as a bong.
No matter how good of an idea it sounds like at the time. Just go get some munchies instead.
This has been a public service announcement from Pink Eyed Jim.
Well, It’s that day again. The one holiday where you don’t necessarily have to get together with the whole family for a dysfunctional dinner. No, this holiday is for you. Relax, smoke a few bowls. Or joints. Or gravity bong hits. Or Vape hits. Whatever does it for you.
But remember tomorrow (at least if you live in the USA) that last week simultaneous legislation was introduced in both the House of Representatives and the Senate calling for the decriminalization of possession of up to 3 1/2 ounces of marijuana!
Washington, DC: US Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) introduced legislation in Congress Friday to strip the federal government of its authority to arrest responsible adult cannabis consumers. The measure, H.R. 5843, known as an “Act to Remove Federal Penalties for Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults,” is the first federal decriminalization legislation introduced in 24 years. Frank’s pending bill, co-sponsored by presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), seeks to eliminate all federal penalties prohibiting the personal use and possession of up to 100 grams (3 1/2 ounces) of marijuana. Under this measure, adults who consume cannabis would no longer face arrest, prison, or even the threat of a civil fine. The bill also eliminates all penalties for the not-for-profit transfers of up to one ounce of pot. All are encouraged to write their representatives in support of this important legislation via NORML’s online advocacy system.
Washington, DC: Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) introduced H.R. 5842, the “Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act,” earlier today. This bill would make federal authorities respect states’ current laws on medicinal cannabis and end DEA raids on facilities distributing medical marijuana legally under state law. Representative Paul, whose presidential campaign prominently featured the ending of the drug war as a platform plank, was joined by Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) in sponsoring this bill. All NORML supporters are strongly encouraged to write their Representatives in favor of this important bill via NORML’s online advocacy system.
So, tomorrow morning, click on over to NORML’s online advocacy system and write to your senator and congresspeople. Only with lots of voter support does this bill stand a chance at passing. So show our government that normal, American voters support this bill. They can’t ignore us forever!
Enjoy the holiday!
There’s a decent little discussion going on over at my Matanuska Thunderfuck post about whether or not the strain still even exists. It’s been generating a lot of impassioned responses from people who are insulted by the insinuation that their Matanuska Thunderfuck isn’t actually MTF. This has caused me to realize that very few people know much about strains and strain names. I’d be willing to bet a lot of people don’t even know how it’s possible that there are different strains of marijuana. So I’d like to clear a few things up.
First of all, marijuana is a misleading term. “Marijuana” was an obscure Mexican slang word which the Hearst publishing company popularized through their newspapers in order to take advantage of the anti-Mexican sentiment of the early 1900s. At the time, the US government was illegalizing pot. At the time, there was also a patent pending for a machine, called the Hemp Gin, which would be able to take the pulp of hemp and process it so that it could be able to be turned into paper. This would have helped revolutionize the way paper is made, owing to hemp’s yearly renewabilty versus the decades that a tree can take to grow. Wiliam Randolph Hearst, in order to cut cost for his publishing company, purchased many tree forests to supply his company with paper. The hemp gin could have rendered his paper forest much less valuable, the time was ripe to demonize this plant.
Hence “marijuana.”
Whether you call it marijuana, pot, hemp, green, ganja, dope or whatever, the actual name for it is cannabis sativa (though some people call the Asian native landraces cannabis indica, and there are landraces from Russia and Siberia which some call cannabis ruderalis, though I’m reasonably certain that botanists only recognize one actual species, cannabis sativa). C. Sativa is a plant that is gendered either male or female. The males supply the pollen, the females bear seeds (and buds). In most plants a single plant can both pollinate and bear seeds and fruit. But since cannabis has male and female types, the genetics of the plant are easy to isolate and manipulate. This creates a infinite possibility of genetic variations within Cannabis Sativa, and hence, strains.
When you see a strain name written as STRAIN1 X STRAIN2, the convention is such that the female parent is listed first and the male parent second. If you see a plant called STRAIN1 - STRAIN2, then the sexes of each parent were unknown, or could have been made from splicing or cuttings or some other method. Therefore Skunk #7 X Purple Kush would be a strain with a Skunk # 7 plant for a mother and a Purple Kush plant for a father. Skunk #7 - Purple Kush would be a cross of those two plants where the genders of the individual parents were unknown.
Now there’s a HUGE caveat here, and this is where a lot of the debates become difficult to settle. There is NO STANDARDIZATION OR CONTROL OVER THE NAMING OF PLANTS OR THE AUTHENTICITY OF CERTAIN STRAINS. We’re dealing with an illegal persecuted plant here, there is of course no regulation whatsoever. Since it’s an illegal plant, there are no botanists concerned with collecting and cataloguing different strains (with the possible exception of some Dutch and Canadian seed companies). However, when a strain is developed in the US, there is no recording or anything. Some strains are developed and monopolized by one or just a few growers. So you can imagine what happens when that grower gets busted and all of his plants are destroyed. Entire genetic variations of cannabis, some of which can take generations to develop, are lost forever.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this was probably the fate of the original Matanuska Thunderfuck (which is one of the reasons people refer to the modern strain as Matanuska Tundra instead). According to Jason King, the author of The Cannabible, the original Purple Haze probably suffered the same fate. One can only guess at how many unique strains have gone this route. This is practically genocide.
I hope this helps clear up some of the confusion over in the other post. And I especially hope this helps quell all the offense people feel because of the discussion. There is no reason to be angry at other smokers for saying a strain isn’t real. There is every reason to be angry at those who maintain the current policy of botanical genocide towards this amazing plant.
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This is a wallpaper of some decent Jack Herer bud that I’ve had. It’s pretty much my regular bud. I love it.
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You’re welcome.
Ok, so this one was supposed to have been an exclusive strain. Brand new to the market. It was fantastic. It tasted like a cross between a diesel and a haze.
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I’m not going to fill this with a lot of needless introduction, so without further ado, here it is:
2006: The Year In Review — NORML’s Top 10 Events That Shaped Marijuana Policy
#1: Cannabis Smoking Not Linked To Lung Cancer, UAT Cancers, Largest Case-Controlled Study Says
Smoking cannabis, even long-term, is not positively associated with increased incidence of lung-cancer, according to the findings of the largest population-based case-control study ever conducted. “We did not observe a positive association of marijuana use — even heavy long-term use — with lung cancer, controlling for tobacco smoking and other potential cofounders,” investigators concluded. Their data further revealed that moderate lifetime users had an inverse association between cannabis use and lung cancer. The five-year trial was sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). Full text of the study appeared in the October issue of the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. Read the full story at: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6912.#2: Nearly Half Of Americans Say Pot Should Be Regulated Like Alcohol
Nearly one out of two Americans support amending federal law “to let states legally regulate and tax marijuana the way they do liquor and gambling,” according to a national poll of 1,004 likely voters by Zogby International and commissioned by the NORML Foundation in March. Forty-six percent of respondents — including a majority of those polled on the east (53 percent) and west (55 percent) coasts — said they supported legalization. Nearly two-thirds of 18-29 year-olds (65 percent) and half of 50-64 year-olds think federal law should be amended to allow states the option to regulate marijuana. Read the full story at: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6838.#3: Marijuana Arrests For Year 2005 Most Ever
Police arrested an estimated 786,545 persons for marijuana violations in 2005, the highest annual total ever recorded in the United States, according to statistics compiled in September by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. An American is now arrested for violating marijuana laws every 40 seconds. Read the full story at: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7040.#4: Clinical Trial: Vaporization Is A “Safe And Effective” Cannabinoid Delivery System
Vaporization is a “safe and effective” cannabinoid delivery system for patients desiring the rapid onset of action associated with cannabis inhalation, but who are seeking to avoid the respiratory risks of smoking, according to clinical trial data published this spring in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Vaporization delivers the “pulmonal uptake of THC [in a manner] comparable to the smoking of cannabis, while avoiding the respiratory disadvantages of smoking,” the study concluded. Read the full story at: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6885.#5: Cannabinoids Curb Brain Tumor Growth, First-Ever Patient Trial Shows
THC administration decreases recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) tumor growth in humans, according to the findings of the first-ever clinical trial assessing cannabinoids’ anti-tumor action. Previous preclinical studies indicate that cannabinoids and endocannabinoids can stave off tumor progression and trigger cell death in other cancer cell lines, including breast carcinoma, prostate carcinoma, colectoral carcinoma, skin carcinoma, and pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Read the full story at: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6947.
