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Here's a CBS news story about how one business in Oakland is thriving amid the new pro-cannabis atmosphere in California. Read how Richard Lee's cannabis school, dispensary and other businesses have transformed a neighboorhood, and represents the new way of selling medical marijuana.

https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...n5153158.shtml

Here's another story about Denis Peron and the history of his San Francisco Cannabis Cultivators Club.

https://www.examiner.com/x-14883-Santa-Cruz-County-Drug-Policy-Examiner~y2009m7d11-The-San-Francisco-Cannabis-Cultivators-Club

[fear.loathingSF]

I like how reporters will make up insane prices to make their point. Last week I saw a "huge bust" with plant value in the tens of thousands for about 30 of the weakest clones I have ever seen. Before, the price is astronomical to make the busted guy look like huge drug lord, but when it comes to how much can be raised through taxation, price somehow plummets to only $150 per ounce.

I've been to a few clubs in both Oakland and San Francisco, but my favorite is a little hole in the wall on Haight Street in SF called the Vapor Room. Over a span of three years, about five visits per year, that place always had a few super-killer strains.

I miss Clowntown.

[ourcee]

Originally Posted by fear.loathingSF

I like how reporters will make up insane prices to make their point. Last week I saw a "huge bust" with plant value in the tens of thousands for about 30 of the weakest clones I have ever seen. Before, the price is astronomical to make the busted guy look like huge drug lord, but when it comes to how much can be raised through taxation, price somehow plummets to only $150 per ounce.

I wonder if I can use the same figures for pot when I sue these bastards that illegally confiscated my 1/2 oz. (prop 215 compliant).

take my clone? ok thats a lb

speaking of the sense in our justice system my buddy got a parking ticket today, it took 3 cops an hour to handle it (zero complications, just a simple parking in a handicap spot thing [yeah he's dumb, live and learn]) talk about saving our taxpayer money in these tough times!

I haven't been to Oakland since 82. It was different then.

I seen that CBS thing today. I couldn't find it online when I was looking.

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"The marijuana of the 1960s and Woodstock is not what's being sold on the streets in the United States today, said Chief Bernard Melekian, head of the California Police Chiefs Association. "The narcotic portion, the THC of marijuana in the '60s, hovered around one or two percent. THC today is around 27 to 30 percent."

Prohibitionists keep telling this flat-out lie over and over. One percent THC is equivalent to ditchweed or commercial hemp, totally worthless for smoking. We used to get sativas in 1969 e.g. Colombian Gold and Cambodian. One joint of Colombian passed around would get several of us baked very, very nicely. Higher-THC strains are around these days; only difference in use is to smoke less, and you're good. Less smoke inhalation is better for health, so the more potent strains are actually safer.

[Anti]

I have my DVR set to tape anything with "marijuana" in the description. So I woke up yesterday to find that I had that CBS special on my DVR. Convenient!

I thought they mostly did a pretty good job of being pot-friendly, except for the parts already mentioned above here, where the Sherriff claims that all the weed today is 27+ percent! HAH!

And the part where they show you some 1ft tall clones and say "Each of these plants will produce a 1lbs of weed."

Other than that, they were pretty friendly to the pro-weed side. Which is surprising considering it was on a sunday morning news program that ran right after children's cartoons end.

[♥Mo♥]

Originally Posted by fear.loathingSF

I like how reporters will make up insane prices to make their point. Last week I saw a "huge bust" with plant value in the tens of thousands for about 30 of the weakest clones I have ever seen. Before, the price is astronomical to make the busted guy look like huge drug lord, but when it comes to how much can be raised through taxation, price somehow plummets to only $150 per ounce.

That was one of my first thoughts as well, $150 for an ounce? Please tell me where. As said the numbers are a convenience as needed.

[Patient 957]

Just representing O'town. I moved here 2 months ago. I've met Richard Lee a few times at the patient ID co-op on Broadway; definitely a nice guy. He seems really bent on just the tourism aspect of the legalization movement; which could be concerning in some contexts. Meeting other legitimate patients in the surrounding Bay Area has been very positive. And the local county/city laws make being a patient a lot more convenient than in other areas of Cali (we get up to 72 adult plants at a time here).

I do hope his political influence is as strong as his profit/tourism platform...we vote next week for an increased taxation on the dispensories' sales tax - a hike the dispensory owners themselves have put on the ballot in order to contribute more revenue to help the state. I have a feeling this will pass a lot faster than full-out legalization. I think that's still a decade or two away...but seeable before my generation dies off, for sure.

Peace,

P.957