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Pot Activists Trying To Enlist Moms
Pot Activists Trying To Enlist Moms
Just thought this would interest some of you....it did me...
DENVER -- Moms got tougher drunk-driving laws on the books and were directly responsible for passing and then repealing alcohol Prohibition. Now marijuana activists are trying to enlist the nation's mothers in legalization efforts with a sales pitch that pot is safer than booze.
The nation's largest marijuana legalization lobby recently started a women's group. The Moms4Marijuana website draws thousands. And just in time for Mother's Day, a pot legalization group in Denver has created a pink-carnation web card asking moms to support legalization.
These marijuana moms argue that pot is no worse than alcohol, that teens shouldn't face jail time for experimenting with it and that marijuana can even help new mothers treat postpartum depression.
"I know so many mothers who support this but aren't willing to come out and say it," said Sabrina Fendrick, head of the Women's Alliance at the Washington-based National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML.
Marijuana activists say they need more moms to publicly back pot use if they are to succeed with public officials.
"The mother is the first teacher, who you turn to for direction in life," said Serra Frank, a 27-year-old mother of two in Boise, Idaho, who founded Moms4Marijuana in 2005. It has no formal membership, but Frank says its website has had more than 12,000 visitors.
Pot activists say both genders sometimes find it easier to attend protests or lobby lawmakers about pot than to tell their mothers they smoke weed. So legalization groups hope that if moms, arguably the nation's most powerful lobby, get on board with making pot legal, laws will change in a hurry.
"All the things moms get behind, people listen," said Diane Irwin, 48, a medical marijuana grower in southern Colorado who also is a mother of two.
There's still a marijuana gender gap. According to an Associated Press-CNBC poll released last month, women opposed legalization in greater numbers than men. Just under half -- 48 percent -- of male poll respondents opposed legalization to 63 percent of women.
"We have enough problems with alcohol. I feel if we legalized it, it would make people say it's OK," said 37-year-old mother Amanda Leonard of St. Augustine. Fla., one of the poll respondents
Trying to soften moms up a bit, Denver-based Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation, or SAFER, is asking members to "come out" about their pot use this Mother's Day and argue that pot is safer than booze. The group says it has about 20,000 members nationwide.
SAFER's online Mother's Day card has a typical start -- "Thank you for raising me to be thoughtful and compassionate" -- then transitions to: "I want to share some news that might surprise you, but should not upset you: I believe marijuana should be legal."
For $10, card senders can add a book for their moms titled "Marijuana is Safer." The book, published last year, argues that marijuana is healthier than booze. SAFER says several thousand copies have been sold, and group members handed out free copies as Mother's Day gifts to Colorado's 37 female lawmakers last week.
There's no good national count of how many mothers use pot, but anecdotal evidence suggests plenty do. Moms from Florida to Washington are facing criminal charges for using marijuana or supplying it to their children.
In February, 51-year-old Alaska mom Jane C. Cain was arrested along with her 29-year-old son for allegedly growing pot in the house. The Wasilla woman says she initially feared reprisals from neighbors and didn't answer the door.
"But it turned out people were just coming by to bring homemade food, casseroles and cakes and such," Cain said with a laugh. Her case is still pending, but Cain says that even conservative neighbors say she's not wrong to use marijuana for her frequent migraines, though medical marijuana isn't legal in Alaska.
"Now I go wherever I want and hold my head up high," Cain said. "Five or 10 years from now, people who oppose marijuana will be considered old-fashioned. It's a benign substance, so why shouldn't we have it?"
Irwin, the Colorado medical pot grower, said mothers who use marijuana face a stigma men don't. Irwin says she secretly used marijuana while pregnant to fight morning sickness and after giving birth to battle postpartum depression. Since she started growing pot, Irwin said she's run into many moms who admit to using the drug. She argues that even children could benefit from marijuana use, though Irwin never gave either of her kids pot nor smoked it in front of them.
In fact, she remembers flushing her son's pot down the toilet when he was a teen. But last year, after her now-grown son started a Denver marijuana dispensary, Irwin sold her hair salon, bought a greenhouse and started raising pot for him.
"I look at the kids now who are so medicated, on Ritalin and all the rest, and I'm wondering why we don't explore what's natural, and that's marijuana," said Irwin, who is moving to Denver to work full-time at her older son's dispensary.
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Associated Press Writer Greg Risling of Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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On the Net:
Marijuana Mother's Day card: http://bit.ly/apofDp
NORML Women's Alliance: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group(underscore)ID-8059
Moms4Marijuana: http://www.moms4marijuana.webs.com
Pot Activists Trying To Enlist Moms
Just thought this would interest some of you....it did me...
DENVER -- Moms got tougher drunk-driving laws on the books and were directly responsible for passing and then repealing alcohol Prohibition. Now marijuana activists are trying to enlist the nation's mothers in legalization efforts with a sales pitch that pot is safer than booze. The nation's largest marijuana legalization lobby recently started a women's group. The Moms4Marijuana website draws thousands. And just in time for Mother's Day, a pot legalization group in Denver has created a pink-carnation web card asking moms to support legalization.
These marijuana moms argue that pot is no worse than alcohol, that teens shouldn't face jail time for experimenting with it and that marijuana can even help new mothers treat postpartum depression.
"I know so many mothers who support this but aren't willing to come out and say it," said Sabrina Fendrick, head of the Women's Alliance at the Washington-based National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML.
Marijuana activists say they need more moms to publicly back pot use if they are to succeed with public officials.
"The mother is the first teacher, who you turn to for direction in life," said Serra Frank, a 27-year-old mother of two in Boise, Idaho, who founded Moms4Marijuana in 2005. It has no formal membership, but Frank says its website has had more than 12,000 visitors.
Pot activists say both genders sometimes find it easier to attend protests or lobby lawmakers about pot than to tell their mothers they smoke weed. So legalization groups hope that if moms, arguably the nation's most powerful lobby, get on board with making pot legal, laws will change in a hurry.
"All the things moms get behind, people listen," said Diane Irwin, 48, a medical marijuana grower in southern Colorado who also is a mother of two.
There's still a marijuana gender gap. According to an Associated Press-CNBC poll released last month, women opposed legalization in greater numbers than men. Just under half -- 48 percent -- of male poll respondents opposed legalization to 63 percent of women.
"We have enough problems with alcohol. I feel if we legalized it, it would make people say it's OK," said 37-year-old mother Amanda Leonard of St. Augustine. Fla., one of the poll respondents
Trying to soften moms up a bit, Denver-based Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation, or SAFER, is asking members to "come out" about their pot use this Mother's Day and argue that pot is safer than booze. The group says it has about 20,000 members nationwide.
SAFER's online Mother's Day card has a typical start -- "Thank you for raising me to be thoughtful and compassionate" -- then transitions to: "I want to share some news that might surprise you, but should not upset you: I believe marijuana should be legal."
For $10, card senders can add a book for their moms titled "Marijuana is Safer." The book, published last year, argues that marijuana is healthier than booze. SAFER says several thousand copies have been sold, and group members handed out free copies as Mother's Day gifts to Colorado's 37 female lawmakers last week.
There's no good national count of how many mothers use pot, but anecdotal evidence suggests plenty do. Moms from Florida to Washington are facing criminal charges for using marijuana or supplying it to their children.
In February, 51-year-old Alaska mom Jane C. Cain was arrested along with her 29-year-old son for allegedly growing pot in the house. The Wasilla woman says she initially feared reprisals from neighbors and didn't answer the door.
"But it turned out people were just coming by to bring homemade food, casseroles and cakes and such," Cain said with a laugh. Her case is still pending, but Cain says that even conservative neighbors say she's not wrong to use marijuana for her frequent migraines, though medical marijuana isn't legal in Alaska.
"Now I go wherever I want and hold my head up high," Cain said. "Five or 10 years from now, people who oppose marijuana will be considered old-fashioned. It's a benign substance, so why shouldn't we have it?"
Irwin, the Colorado medical pot grower, said mothers who use marijuana face a stigma men don't. Irwin says she secretly used marijuana while pregnant to fight morning sickness and after giving birth to battle postpartum depression. Since she started growing pot, Irwin said she's run into many moms who admit to using the drug. She argues that even children could benefit from marijuana use, though Irwin never gave either of her kids pot nor smoked it in front of them.
In fact, she remembers flushing her son's pot down the toilet when he was a teen. But last year, after her now-grown son started a Denver marijuana dispensary, Irwin sold her hair salon, bought a greenhouse and started raising pot for him.
"I look at the kids now who are so medicated, on Ritalin and all the rest, and I'm wondering why we don't explore what's natural, and that's marijuana," said Irwin, who is moving to Denver to work full-time at her older son's dispensary.
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Associated Press Writer Greg Risling of Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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On the Net:
Marijuana Mother's Day card: http://bit.ly/apofDp
NORML Women's Alliance: http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group(underscore)ID-8059
Moms4Marijuana: http://www.moms4marijuana.webs.com
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Cannoiseur
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canna looks good
i'm not familiar with the barneys either but there were at least 4 versions of sweet tooth released so who knows
is that your first run with her or have you flowered her before?
My first run, can't wait to try her again because she's definitely more N and Mg hungry than I expected so I'm sure I can increase the yield quite a bit next round. As it is I'm looking at about 8-10oz from two plants so it's looking to be a keeper strain for sure. I'm doing a 4x4 right now in my house with 5 different strains to try and find my favorite for a larger monocrop in the future. Running Snowcap, Sweettooth, Flo, Big momma (master kush x orange crush) and maneater (bred by a friend in cali, trying to release a seedline so I'm doing some test grows for him... Green Crack x Sour D)
Balazar
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Pineapple going into flower.
Pineapple going into flower.
I cleaned these girls up good and sprayed them with azamax and magic green before moving them to the flower system. You will notice there are only 7 plants in 13 buckets. Every bucket that doesn't have a plant in it is about two thirds full of lava rock. The idea I had was to make a RDWC with a bio-filter system that acts like a giant tea brewer 24/7.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=15844&pictureid=373390
http://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=15844&pictureid=373391
http://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=15844&pictureid=373392
I had to pull the lights all the way to the top of the 12' ceiling and top every one of these girls when I moved them in there.
Pineapple going into flower.
I cleaned these girls up good and sprayed them with azamax and magic green before moving them to the flower system. You will notice there are only 7 plants in 13 buckets. Every bucket that doesn't have a plant in it is about two thirds full of lava rock. The idea I had was to make a RDWC with a bio-filter system that acts like a giant tea brewer 24/7.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=15844&pictureid=373390
http://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=15844&pictureid=373391
http://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=15844&pictureid=373392
I had to pull the lights all the way to the top of the 12' ceiling and top every one of these girls when I moved them in there.
StrictlyGateway
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I cleaned these girls up good and sprayed them with azamax and magic green before moving them to the flower system. You will notice there are only 7 plants in 13 buckets. Every bucket that doesn't have a plant in it is about two thirds full of lava rock. The idea I had was to make a RDWC with a bio-filter system that acts like a giant tea brewer 24/7.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=15844&pictureid=373390
http://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=15844&pictureid=373391
http://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=15844&pictureid=373392
I had to pull the lights all the way to the top of the 12' ceiling and top every one of these girls when I moved them in there.
hey balazar. is that the pineapple from cali? or the 'pineapple kush' (also from cali, i guess). i just got a cut of that pineapple, just pineapple, what's it like? other than prolific...that's pretty evident
nice work!!
i got some clones if anyone wants to trade...card holders only.
i got
pure kush (my fav)
cherry lime (another fav)
blueberry (dj short super blueberry pheno)
afghan kush (from nirvana...they haven't sold these seeds in years)
im looking for sour bubble, rez sour diesel, rez or ojd sssdh, and anything from dutchgrown
i got
pure kush (my fav)
cherry lime (another fav)
blueberry (dj short super blueberry pheno)
afghan kush (from nirvana...they haven't sold these seeds in years)
im looking for sour bubble, rez sour diesel, rez or ojd sssdh, and anything from dutchgrown
Balazar
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No kidding. I topped all of these girls. I hope they don't grow into the lights. I was already thinking of putting hooks on the ceiling to tie the tops away from the lights. with 12ft ceilings These are the biggest indoor plants I have ever grown.
Cannoiseur
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you mean you haven't even started flowering yet?!? lol good luck dude.....
maybe some hanging vertical bulbs would be the trick, because I don't know how much that top lighting is gonna do for ya at this point....
maybe some hanging vertical bulbs would be the trick, because I don't know how much that top lighting is gonna do for ya at this point....
Balazar
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I'm weighing in my options.
#1
I could put some hooks on the ceiling (its just rafters with white Styrofoam insulation board covering them). Then tie the tops off to the sides of the lights and remove the bat-wing reflectors that go on top of the cool-tubes.
#2
Build a giant PVC jungle gym type structure around the stand for the buckets. Something a little more complex than a scrog net.
#3 Use a sawzaw to cut the floor of the above office out and raise the lights to where they should be.
The cooling loop for the lights goes into the first three lights in flower then through 2 more in the veg room and then back through the final 3 in the flower room so I don't want to chop up the loop to hang the lights vertical. I'm leaning towards #2 right now.
Cannoiseur
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I think you should just cut like 50 clones off each and then flower them mofos. then they'll be a more reasonable size, and you'll still get like 8oz off each
I would supercrop them in half and tie them sideways. Then arrange so they all fit and flip the lights.. Keep us posted this should be entertaining.
after letting mine go all natural i'm all about supercropping.
I got a little rough with strawberry dlite and it sort of broke when i bent it.. but they always live on..
after letting mine go all natural i'm all about supercropping.
I got a little rough with strawberry dlite and it sort of broke when i bent it.. but they always live on..
Also, sweet bio-bucket setup. Looks like you made yours exactly like BigTokes, and from the looks of it you're doing pretty well. If I may ask, did you have to order most of these parts?
i'll try some pinapple in my garden..
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