As are the various humans here who get stoned way more than is good for their tiny brains.
Vrede too wrote: ↑Fri Nov 19, 2021 10:15 amWhat's your excuse? You can't remember that you'd posted about Vancouver flooding from one day to the next, nor that the O Really's have been southbound for weeks.
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Sounds like someone needs to lay off the fish.neoplacebo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 20, 2021 8:11 pmThe best way to smoke salmon is to whack the tail off a couple of inches ahead of the fins, allow a moderate drying time, and then loading the whacked off tail portion up with the stickiest of the sticky, lighting it off and robustly inhaling from the gaping mouth while looking the fish right in the eyes.
It's a metaphor for the entire drug war.A DEA Raid Meant to Clean Up a New Mexico Town. Instead, It Made Everything Worse
... At dawn, 150 law-enforcement officers, including DEA and FBI agents, descended on the town, beat down doors, and in one instance shot and killed pet dogs in their determination to find suspects in the heroin trade. Thirty-four people were arrested....
Parents went to prison, children were raised by relatives and families were split apart. Sixty percent of children in poverty in Rio Arriba County today live with grandparents because their parents are in jail or dead. At least five children at Chimayó Elementary went on to die of apparent drug overdoses.
But one thing stayed remarkably the same after the bust: addiction. Rio Arriba County, where half of Chimayó is located, remained number one in the state for overdose deaths, a ranking it’s held every year from 1996 to 2020. (The other half of Chimayó is in Santa Fe County, which ranked eighth.) The raid didn’t even reduce heroin availability. Addiction in Chimayó is still so intergenerational that some residents can hardly envision a future without drugs and overdoses.
“It was a waste of taxpayer money,” Francesquita’s mother, Bertha, declares about the bust....
Just Say NO to NO!$84/ounce!!!How Oklahoma Became a Marijuana Boom State
... Next door to a Pentecostal church in the tiny town of Keota, the smell of marijuana drifts through the air at the G & C Dispensary. Strains with names like OG Kush and Maui Waui go for $3 a gram, about a quarter of the price in other states.
Trailer trashed.Down the road, an indoor-farming operation is situated in a residential area near mobile homes, one of about 40 in the town of just 500 residents. “It might look strange, but this is where the action is,” said Logan Pederson, 32, who moved this year from Seattle to Oklahoma to manage the small farm for a company called Cosmos Cultivation.
Ever since the state legalized medical marijuana three years ago, Oklahoma has become one of the easiest places in the United States to launch a weed business. The state now boasts more retail cannabis stores than Colorado, Oregon and Washington combined. In October, it eclipsed California as the state with the largest number of licensed cannabis farms, which now number more than 9,000, despite a population only a tenth of California’s.
The growth is all the more remarkable given that the state has not legalized recreational use of marijuana. But with fairly lax rules on who can obtain a medical card, about 10% of Oklahoma’s nearly 4 million residents have one, by far the most of any other state.
Fueled by low barriers for entry and a fairly hands-off approach by state officials, weed entrepreneurs have poured into Oklahoma from around the United States. It costs just $2,500 to get started, compared to $100,000 or more across the state line in Arkansas. And Oklahoma, a state that has long had a tough-on-crime stance, has no cap on how many dispensaries can sell marijuana, the number of cannabis farms or even how much each farm can produce.
... Signs of the explosive growth are hard to miss. There are now towns with far more dispensaries than food stores. And cannabis operations now outnumber wheat and cotton farms. The industry has also created thousands of jobs in a state that remains among the poorest in the country. Supporters of the industry also argue that the less punitive approach to possession of marijuana and other drugs, along with other sentencing reforms, has eased pressures on the state’s prisons.
Ed Keating, the chief data officer at Cannabiz Media, which tracks developments in the cannabis industry, compared the startup costs in Oklahoma to Connecticut, a state with a similar population. There, cultivation licenses tend to go for about $50 million and it can cost more than $10 million to buy a dispensary.
Big multi-state marijuana companies have largely chosen to sit out Oklahoma’s boom, Keating added, opting instead for states where market access is restricted and far more costly. “These mom-and-pop dispensaries are providing a service just like the local liquor store, the local carwash,” he said.
Nttawwt.But unlike local businesses, where the customers are typically residents, critics assert that growers in Oklahoma are producing far more marijuana than can possibly be sold in the state and are feeding illicit markets around the country.
We need more Oklahomas.Because of lower costs for licensing, labor and land, growers can produce cannabis for as little as $100 a pound, and then turn around and sell that for between $3,500 to $4,000 a pound in California or New York, said Mark Woodward, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics.
... Despite a saturated market, she said she believes the state’s cannabis industry is still in its infancy. Activists have begun organizing to secure a referendum on the ballot next year that would legalize recreational use of marijuana. Doing so could bolster the state’s growers, who Tischauser said could look to meet demand from neighboring Texas, where legislators have resisted full legalization of cannabis.
For critics of Oklahoma’s approach to marijuana, that would be a move in the wrong direction.
“It smells like weed all the damn time, even right here in our offices,” said Haskell County Sheriff Tim Turner, a Republican, pointing toward one of the dozens of licensed marijuana farms in his county, this one across the road from his department. “We’re one of the reddest states around, but we have the country’s most permissive marijuana laws.”
Or, perhaps, just perhaps, the messages you are sending to them has landed them in the state loony bin?neoplacebo wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 4:44 pmDamn, these TN state legislators must be asleep at the switch. Since TN has no state income tax, you'd think they'd be all over this thing. I think they're confused. No, I know they're confused; about this and much else. And they may be still pondering the messages I send some of them.
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Vrede too wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:09 amWrong, silly. If these TN state legislators were in the state loony bin neoplacebo would not need to send them messages. He could just walk down the hall.viewtopic.php?p=152492#p152492
I'm actually of the opinion that "the state loony bin" is, in fact, the state capitol building in Nashville. You do remember the idiot legislator Kent something or other that I was forced to send a message to.....he's the one that was chugging something from a Hershey's chocolate syrup bottle right there on the floor of the legislature. If I remember right, he also had a small bottle of hot sauce in his other hand. Nothing like chocolate syrup and hot sauce. Dumbass.
OK, I'm now wondering just how you were forced to send a message to that legislator... did they use thumbscrews on you?neoplacebo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 5:35 am
I never heard anything back from that clown. Guess he's still in shock.
I felt obligated, or forced, to send that idiot an email after reading the story about how him and some of his GQP cohorts threatened to abolish the state medical licensing board if the board follows up on its intention to sanction doctors that promote misinformation about covid. The asshole legislator I wrote to alleges he "doesn't know what misinformation is." I spelled it out for him.Ulysses wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 5:53 amOK, I'm now wondering just how you were forced to send a message to that legislator... did they use thumbscrews on you?neoplacebo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 5:35 am
I never heard anything back from that clown. Guess he's still in shock.
Or did they just threaten to stomp the living daylights out of you?
I need to know these details.
Now, don't knock the chocolate syrup and hot sauce combo. I've never tried it, but someday I might be forced to.
Well, now, that could be rough. I hope you cloaked anything that might lead a legislative staff to discover your true identity. You don't want to find someone named Kent something or other in your home late at night trying to ply you with a chocolate picante sauce. But if it does happen, please do share your impression of the mixture here right away. We will have gourmet chefs standing by.neoplacebo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:00 amI felt obligated, or forced, to send that idiot an email after reading the story about how him and some of his GQP cohorts threatened to abolish the state medical licensing board if the board follows up on its intention to sanction doctors that promote misinformation about covid. The asshole legislator I wrote to alleges he "doesn't know what misinformation is." I spelled it out for him.Ulysses wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 5:53 amOK, I'm now wondering just how you were forced to send a message to that legislator... did they use thumbscrews on you?neoplacebo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 5:35 am
I never heard anything back from that clown. Guess he's still in shock.
Or did they just threaten to stomp the living daylights out of you?
I need to know these details.
Now, don't knock the chocolate syrup and hot sauce combo. I've never tried it, but someday I might be forced to.
Oh, were you a big fan of Reconstruction?neoplacebo wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 5:35 pmToo bad. Another likely failed attempt at Reconstruction.
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