Hey Washington folks - what's up!?
So, here we are, living the life - legal, like we were hoping for when in a brief optimistic moment I joined NORML back in the '70s, and I'm super interested in how it can turn out, so thought it would be interesting to get some thoughts from people, maybe a sort of ongoing conversation where we can drop by from time to time and chip in, with a vignette of the life, or a tip on something that's about to happen.
I guess at this point, after maybe 6 months of meaningfully available legal weed where I am in Seattle, the cultural landscape as it were is still kind of dominated by the old scene, black market and medical. I know that's where a lot of us come from, but the I-502 legal world has the potential to be different, and that's what I think is really interesting, at a cultural level. I mean if you consider how "civilized" societies have adapted to alcohol for the last several thousand years, and cannabis is a lot more complex pharmacologically speaking ...
And for sense of mission, ask yourself how long we have, before we're swamped by the Altria, big pharmaceuticals, etc., and the synthetic corporate driven culture they'll hand us? Come on, let's dig in! Drop, in, say hi, show the flag.
What I hope this thread is not about, is legal advocacy etc. Maybe I-502 is botched, or not. That's covered elsewhere, and so are the other legislative actions. And I don't really mean to exclude non-Washington people, the only thing that's really specific here is that we're all looking at the same stuff on the shelves.
So, here we are, living the life - legal, like we were hoping for when in a brief optimistic moment I joined NORML back in the '70s, and I'm super interested in how it can turn out, so thought it would be interesting to get some thoughts from people, maybe a sort of ongoing conversation where we can drop by from time to time and chip in, with a vignette of the life, or a tip on something that's about to happen.
I guess at this point, after maybe 6 months of meaningfully available legal weed where I am in Seattle, the cultural landscape as it were is still kind of dominated by the old scene, black market and medical. I know that's where a lot of us come from, but the I-502 legal world has the potential to be different, and that's what I think is really interesting, at a cultural level. I mean if you consider how "civilized" societies have adapted to alcohol for the last several thousand years, and cannabis is a lot more complex pharmacologically speaking ...
And for sense of mission, ask yourself how long we have, before we're swamped by the Altria, big pharmaceuticals, etc., and the synthetic corporate driven culture they'll hand us? Come on, let's dig in! Drop, in, say hi, show the flag.
What I hope this thread is not about, is legal advocacy etc. Maybe I-502 is botched, or not. That's covered elsewhere, and so are the other legislative actions. And I don't really mean to exclude non-Washington people, the only thing that's really specific here is that we're all looking at the same stuff on the shelves.