Recent content by Shadar

Re: Those Stoned Climbers Have More To Teach Us About Cannabis Consumption Than You T Yup... Rocky Mtn High is very real. Works with booze too. And nothing better than touring CO in the summer in a TR4 or similar vintage sports car. Brings back fond memories for me too. And if you were...

Re: Those Stoned Climbers Have More To Teach Us About Cannabis Consumption Than You T I'm not sure if its a lack of common sense, or an over-dependence on having someone else save their butts. If you've been helicopter-parented, you grew up with a cell phone and 9-1-1 in your hand, then the...

Re: Those Stoned Climbers Have More To Teach Us About Cannabis Consumption Than You T Idiots. I've summitted peaks in Colorado many dozens of times and occaisionally got too stoned to feel comfortable climbing down right away. Any experienced scrambling climber knows that UP is MUCH easier than...

Funny you should mention Lebanese, Big Sur. I was introduced to cannabis while living in Portugal and Denmark in the late 60's/early 70's. All we had (ALL!!!) was black Afghani hash and Lebanese Blonde. So that's all I was familiar with when I returned to the US in 1973, moving to southern...

Yeah, I've been toking since the late 60's, and did some growing over the years for personal use. What blows me away here in WA is that every grower now thinks they have to deliver "new and amazing" strains every year. They won't grow any of the older strains as they claim the market wants...

Good points. As you indicate, it gets even worse with Indica and Sativa, which are at best individual judgements about effects, at least these days. It used to mean something when landrace Sativas looked and smoked VERY different than Indicas. Now everything is mixed and mingled and tweaked and...

Interesting argument. Most of the pushback about the label Marijuana come from those who see it as a racial pejorative (given its origin) and prefer Cannabis because its not charged with either drug abuse stereotypes or cultural history. I haven't spoken the word marijuana in conversation for...

I think you are confusing MMJ with Recreational Cannabis. NW Cannabis and Galaxy are Medical as are the farmers markets. This article had to do with comparing the only two legal recreational markets, CO and WA. No comparison between the medical market (which is very well developed) and the...

Washington is also very good at keeping outsiders and the Feds out of the picture. I haven't heard of any imported weed in the populous western half of WA in many years. Its just lots and lots of small guys who grow a few pounds a month out in rural areas, either in buildings or small...

Nice thing about recreational drugs (as opposed to pharmaceuticals) is that we can have logical paths that arrive at opposite positions. It's possible you are correct, but I'm more concerned in this article with the implications on performance of inexperienced drivers. Love your screen name by...

The supply and location issues will get fixed in Washington over time (there will be over 300 retail shops licensed eventually), but the point you made about smell is an interesting one. Washington doesn't allow open packages in stores and since nothing is grown at the sales locations, the shops...

This is well understood, which is why bus drivers and subway drivers, etc. are not supposed to communicate with passengers while moving. Also why pilots don't permit off-topic discussions during critical phases of flight, or non-pilots in the cockpit during those periods. Nothing new here. This...

A strange coincidence that Marc is being released from prison a day after recreational cannabis goes on sale in Washington state. The world has changed a lot since he was immorally imprisoned, and much of those changes are good when it comes to cannabis, but we've got a ways to go yet. I'm...

I understand that the role of licensed Processors is a bit fluid, but the state wanted to provide for an intermediary between the grower and the retailer. They could be Distributors (selling product from one grower to multiple retailers) or firms making concentrates that go into edibles, along...

The idea is to keep the entrance criteria low enough to allow wide participation in Cannabis businesses, but still have a framework to both tax and control the flow of product, from plant to point of sale. A lot of the citizen feedback provided to the Liquor Board folks was focused on keeping...