marijuana winning big at the polls. CO/MASS/wash pass (4 Viewers)

[Wingnut]

No debit/credit in Florida either. It's either cash or thru an app called CanPay. I wasn't paying attention when it was explained to me on exactly how it works, so I just use cash.

 

[urbanhack]

No debit/credit in Florida either. It's either cash or thru an app called CanPay. I wasn't paying attention when it was explained to me on exactly how it works, so I just use cash.

You are basically loading cash on a gift card, so they process that with a credit card transaction and then you pay with the merchandise using the gift card.  You can keep re-loading it using a CC. But the fees are outrageous. The software company I used to work for installed our point of sale system at the Surterra Wellness chain and we had to write that integration to CanPay.

 

[General Malaise]

You are basically loading cash on a gift card, so they process that with a credit card transaction and then you pay with the merchandise using the gift card.  You can keep re-loading it using a CC. But the fees are outrageous. The software company I used to work for installed our point of sale system at the Surterra Wellness chain and we had to write that integration to CanPay.

It's essentially how I used to have to fund off-shore books 10+ years ago.  I will not miss having to do routine business at ACE Cash & PayDay Loans to gamble on sports.  What a factory of sad those places are. :(

Would be fun to start a thread on the ways we used to have to buy weed in our past. 

 

[the moops]

Would be fun to start a thread on the ways we used to have to buy weed in our past. 

I would sometimes have an internet stranger from the pacific northwest, who likes to video himself shoving large amounts of food into his face, mail some homemade cookies to me

 

[Amused to Death]

NJ *finally* on the brink of selling recreational pot. 

Legal Marijuana Sales Expected to Start Within Weeks in New Jersey

A state commission has granted seven medical-marijuana companies permission to start selling cannabis to all adults at 13 dispensaries.

The exact timing for the first legal sales and the locations of each of the 13 medical-marijuana dispensaries remains unclear. But it is possible that at least some of the companies will have satisfied all the requirements before April 20, an unofficial cannabis holiday made famous by a group of teenagers in California.

 

[General Malaise]

I would sometimes have an internet stranger from the pacific northwest, who likes to video himself shoving large amounts of food into his face, mail some homemade cookies to me

Holler, GB!  Anytime.  

 

[the moops]

Recreational marijuana access reduces demand for prescription drugs

Legalization of recreational marijuana reduces demand for costly prescription drugs through state Medicaid programs, according to an analysis by a Cornell researcher and a collaborator.

When states legalize marijuana, the volume of prescriptions within the drug classes that align with the medical indications for pain, depression, anxiety, sleep, psychosis and seizures significantly decline, the researchers found.

 

[urbanhack]

Recreational marijuana access reduces demand for prescription drugs

Legalization of recreational marijuana reduces demand for costly prescription drugs through state Medicaid programs, according to an analysis by a Cornell researcher and a collaborator.

When states legalize marijuana, the volume of prescriptions within the drug classes that align with the medical indications for pain, depression, anxiety, sleep, psychosis and seizures significantly decline, the researchers found.

wait until we can do the same with psylocibin in the near future.

https://www.thelundreport.org/content/oregon’s-psilocybin-program-stands-millenia-indigenous-experience

 

[Juxtatarot]

Recreational marijuana access reduces demand for prescription drugs

Legalization of recreational marijuana reduces demand for costly prescription drugs through state Medicaid programs, according to an analysis by a Cornell researcher and a collaborator.

When states legalize marijuana, the volume of prescriptions within the drug classes that align with the medical indications for pain, depression, anxiety, sleep, psychosis and seizures significantly decline, the researchers found.

Self medicating should be bad in theory but I’m not so sure it actually is in this case.

 

[Herb]

Recreational marijuana access reduces demand for prescription drugs

Legalization of recreational marijuana reduces demand for costly prescription drugs through state Medicaid programs, according to an analysis by a Cornell researcher and a collaborator.

When states legalize marijuana, the volume of prescriptions within the drug classes that align with the medical indications for pain, depression, anxiety, sleep, psychosis and seizures significantly decline, the researchers found.

This just means that one more extremely powerful and well-funded lobby (Big Pharma) is aligned against recreational cannabis. 

 

[Hoh]

Am I right to be concerned by the number of cars on the road that absolutely reek of weed?  Driving feels less safe these days.

 

[the moops]

Am I right to be concerned by the number of cars on the road that absolutely reek of weed?  Driving feels less safe these days.

Depends. If instead of reeking of weed they were popping some pills or drinking beer, you should feel more safe

 

[Hoh]

Depends. If instead of reeking of weed they were popping some pills or drinking beer, you should feel more safe

A fair point.  But I would wager the sheer number of impaired drivers is on the rise.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

I have a banquet tonight that I got roped into attending, so my regular weekday evening downtime is completely eliminated.  I felt like whining about that fact in this thread for reasons that should be obvious.

 

[urbanhack]

I have a banquet tonight that I got roped into attending, so my regular weekday evening downtime is completely eliminated.  I felt like whining about that fact in this thread for reasons that should be obvious.

You should be extra upset that this is happening on 420.   

 

[the moops]

Ridiculous that here in MN it isn't legal yet. But this is a good step towards that

Governor Tim Walz

@GovTimWalz

It's time to legalize adult-use cannabis and expunge cannabis convictions in Minnesota.

https://twitter.com/GovTimWalz/status/1516926643864055809

 

[Amused to Death]

Ridiculous that here in MN it isn't legal yet. But this is a good step towards that

Governor Tim Walz

@GovTimWalz

It's time to legalize adult-use cannabis and expunge cannabis convictions in Minnesota.

https://twitter.com/GovTimWalz/status/1516926643864055809

NJ voted to legalize recreational use in 2020. We just had our first rec sales yesterday.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

A fair point.  But I would wager the sheer number of impaired drivers is on the rise.

Back in high school my buddy’s dad was making fun of me because he saw me driving 35 in a 45…he could tell I was baked

 

[the moops]

Back in high school my buddy’s dad was making fun of me because he saw me driving 35 in a 45…he could tell I was baked

Back in like 1994 I was commuting into Boston one day. Was on 95 South and there was like a mile long train of cars in the passing lane going like 40 mph while every other lane was cruising along at 60 mph. Like most others, I finally decided to move over to the right lanes to actually drive highway speeds. I get up to the front of the line, and there is my buddy Mark smoking a joint being high as can be as there is a line of 50+ cars behind him in the passing lane. I honked, he just looked over and smiled and turned the radio up.

 

[urbanhack]

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/senate-bill-to-federally-legalize-marijuana-and-promote-social-equity-finally-filed-by-schumer-booker-and-wyden/
 

In any case, the main thrust of the now-filed 296-page legalization bill closely resembles that of the earlier version, which weighed in at a mere 163 pages—though the senators highlighted a number of changes, which generally expand on the draft.

For example, there are revisions concerning cannabis industry workers’ rights, a federal responsibility to set an impaired driving standard, banking access, expungements and penalties for possessing or distributing large quantities of marijuana without a federal permit.

The bill would also create a new federal definition for hemp that would increase the permissible THC by dry weight to 0.7 percent from the current 0.3 percent, but also make it so all THC isomers would be included in that total, not just delta-9 THC.

“For far too long, the federal prohibition on cannabis and the War on Drugs has been a war on people, and particularly people of color,” Schumer said in a press release, adding that CAOA “will be a catalyst for change by removing cannabis from the federal list of controlled substances, protecting public health and safety, and expunging the criminal records of those with low-level cannabis offenses, providing millions with a new lease on life.”

 

[FairWarning]

Common sense drug policy - oxymoron