Anybody else in the states feel like the few states that have regulated marijuana are abusing it and putting off bad views of us as smokers? What im talking about is the people that are growing way more than there allowed and then selling it, having huge smoke outs in broad daylight, Giving anybody in the world a medical card, and the list goes on and on...

I just feel like there representing all of us in a negative manner. And to all the legal growers and honest patients, keep up the good fight!!

[supermanlives]

cali is the worst. but its out there now no going back.in cali anyone can get a rec and i mean anyone.

[Midnight Hour]

Prop 215 from Ca., states that Medical Marijuana can be recommended for ANY Illness which Marijuana provides relief. Based on the law it is the decision of the Doctor. People who grow, and distribute outside of Prop 215 and SB 420 are in Violation of State Law. I personally have no problem with the way the law is written. Link to Prop 215 https://www.chrisconrad.com/expert.wi...5.html#215text

[supermanlives]

the law and reality are different. it was supposed to be for sick people with documented medical history that had tried other meds and found them unacceptable. well thats what everyone fighting for it believed. rip steve mcwilliams. instead in cali you can wake up deciede you want to get a rec and get stoned. pay your 40$ and your stoned the same day.you dont have to be from cali or have cali id even.

[stasis]

Another Divisive thread concept.. FYI, even in Mendocino County, almost no one smokes in plain view of anyone.. Maybe at a Reggae concert, or a Harvest Festival. OK.

As it turns out, in Medical MJ states, almost EXACTLY the same issues are being 'hashed out,' every time... In every MMJ state.

We all know that most of us want to see complete legalization, and if MMJ is the route to that 'end,' well we all know we are for it. (profiteering concepts aside - I believe there will then be a Boutique market, just like Wine)

All my life, I have hoped for legalization. How about you..?

just like ANYTHING else in america the lunatic fringe on both sides of this issue have picked up the ball and started to run with it.

in some ways the fools who have sign spinners outside their dispensaries piss me off as bad as the anti MMJ lobby does.

IMHO 80% of us could sit down and get this clusterfuck figured out in about 10 minutes, but the 10% to the far left and the 10% to the far right are not going to let that happen ......... i am not even sure which 10% is the bigger turd in our collective punch bowl anymore.

[b.ver]

A lot of "us" being portrayed in a negative light is symptomatic of American lifestyles.

The culture that we know now evolved under the consideration that cannabis was an illegal narcotic, and the prohibitive laws make the plant a beacon for the greedy and ambitious.

We by and large in this nation hold the plant in very little regard; most Joe-Smokers are just trying to get baked, while those of us who hold the plant in a sacred or spiritual light are certainly the minority.

We Americans don't have the respect for ANY life forms to really begin to treat cannabis appropriately. We're in Monsanto's arena here, in a nation that has decreed that one man or a collective of men can hold the property rights to something that lives and breathes because they "made" it...

Our ganja culture and our obsession with marketing and profiteering within ALL subcultures is really the driving force behind those peoples' actions. Respect for the plant will always be superseded by its ability to make individuals money within American cultural and social paradigms.

Bleh, it makes me sad, I'm gonna go toke.

[supermanlives]

i think co and maine are doing ok.cali is a joke. i aint complaining but it sure aint a role model for medical mj.

[Hammerhead]

I have had rec in 3 states they where all as easy to get as filling my gas tank.. Everyone loves blaming Cali when there is no difference in many of the 16 states that have MMJ. Cali has alot of bad apples but I dont shit on us all because of them.. Cali has always got the most attention. When your on top everyone trys to bring you down..

[supermanlives]

i aint leaving LOL the more smokers the better reguardless of why they smoke. if the feds would recognise the medical benefits then any doctor would treat it like any other prescription and solve alot of problems. but sham doctors giving a rec without any physical,review of records and charging 40$ aint a model system.