Recent content by Nerdmaster

...sometimes it's good to be wrong :) Way to go OCTA!!

If I were a religious man, I'd be praying to every deity out there for this measure to make the ballot and pass. But you are correct, even if it doesn't make it this year, it will eventually. My main concern is the brainwashing from the anti-pot crowd. They have a lot of money as well as a...

I can't figure out why people are assuming this will make the ballot "easily". From the Oregon Secretary of State's site, I did a little math. On May 25, we turned in 107,992 signatures. Of those, only 95,556 were accepted for validation (i.e., entire sheets were tossed out due to the...

Really? Because from everything I've seen so far (and as you mention, too), medical marijuana means letting the government decide who gets treated and what they're allowed to use. I'm not sure how that's a better situation than anybody getting to use it if they feel they need it, and growing...

I applied the tax in a compound sort of way. 2 * 1.25 * 1.25 * 1.25 * 1.25. Not 2 * 2. Assuming the original $2 is taxed at 25%, the first sale is for $2.50. The next sale, getting 25% applied to that $2.50 ends up at $3.125. Etc. I also used 28.5 grams per ounce to avoid too much...

I-502 has a lot of flaws, there is no doubt. But look at CA this year. Prop 19 was barely beaten in 2010, and now *nothing* is even making it on the ballot this year. I would still urge people to vote yes and then work on fixing the flaws later. Better to take a kind of crappy first step...

This could be great for medical use, but if, and only if, we're willing to let the federal government decide what uses are okay to prescribe Sativex. And we also have to be willing to accept the consequences of raw cannabis still being fully illegal. To me, it's a lot like morphine being...

I'm not sure I follow the logic here. The legalization of big pharma's pot means the feds fight against "street" pot that much harder. They use Marinol as proof that we don't need medical marijuana. Give more options to big pharma, and you simply give more ammo to the DEA. Legalize cannabis...

I switched parties to give Ron Paul my vote in the primaries. I don't agree with his stance on abortion, but I also don't think he could ever change the constitution to make it illegal federally. As stated by budbro, many states still don't allow abortions, and I don't think that's liable to...

I should clarify. While this stat looks good, it hasn't really had any effect on really making sure people who need medicine get it. States still cut medical programs, increase fees, etc. And while medical approval has been steadily going nowhere, full legalization support has skyrocketed to...

Medical cannabis approval has been stuck at around 70% for a long time. Medical cannabis has been around for over fifteen years and still has a bad reputation (it's a joke / it's an excuse to get high / there's no such thing as medical marijuana / etc). Many states are getting attacked by the...

Easy way to contact your representatives on this issue: The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act

I believe budbro is right on. Big Pharma controls the only fully legal cannabis today, and will continue to control it if it's simply rescheduled. At this point, only full legalization will get "the man" out of marijuana. As long as the government can point to crappy derivatives or...

Even if you believe 100% the addiction information they write up, it's still not good reason to keep marijuana illegal. A 9% addiction rate, as reported by the government, is hardly a dangerous substance (this is similar to caffeine's rate). And of course the withdrawals are very mild. I...

I was sure I'd read something about this, but I can't find any data to support this now. Anyway, what I thought I read was that early on, it reduced consumption, but as time passed and people became increasingly fed up, consumption increased to be higher than pre-prohibition levels. So in...