dispensaries

i remember smoking weed in school once before history class and nothing of note happened making it totally unworthy of an anecdote. It was like there was the lesson on one hand, and on the other there was me, stoned, listening to the teacher talking. It was just a lesson.

and there are a million reasons to prefer dispensaries over street dealing. should i go on?

  On 2/19/2010 at 10:41 PM, Rambo said:

i remember smoking weed in school once before history class and nothing of note happened making it totally unworthy of an anecdote. It was like there was the lesson on one hand, and on the other there was me, stoned, listening to the teacher talking. It was just a lesson.

i don't know if this is what you're saying but one time smoked some really good weed and it was like my mind was bifurcated, i was experiencing life normally in one hemisphere and much much better in the other hemisphere, also one of the only times i was able to successfully play it off that i was obviously high

missed your last post--

i agree that many people who are buying from dispensaries don't need it medically. but compare the situation to alcohol. would you rather have your alcohol dispensed in a safe, controlled environment, where you knew exactly what you were getting and minors couldn't get the stuff willy nilly, or do you want prohibition and all the problems it invites? pot itself is relatively benign, but when you drive it into the black market, the business side of things can get ugly.

fuck. posted twice again.

  On 2/19/2010 at 9:42 PM, Awepittance said:

the whole medicinal angle is a joke though, with any other drug prescription they would designate you an amount and a dosage to take in a certain frequency. with weed its just an open season card to buy however much you want if thats 1 gram or 4 pounds

i do agree that it's odd to have an "open season" card, but maybe that's a good first step into maybe giving people a license to smoke weed. Like get checked by a doctor to make sure you aren't schizophrenic or suffering from anything the weed may amplify or worsen. Then it's okey dokey smokey. Maybe some years later it can drop to just an age requirement. Or it could go the other way, more tightly controlled, grown and distributed by Johnson & Johnson.

Is it always a card? I thought some people were prescribed certain amounts? I know nothing about medical marijuana

medicinal marijuana here (netherlands) has to be picked up at a pharmacy with a doctor receipt and you'll get a refill of "generic marijuana". that's about as discreet as it gets i suppose.

  On 2/19/2010 at 10:50 PM, ms-dos said:

missed your last post--

 

i agree that many people who are buying from dispensaries don't need it medically. but compare the situation to alcohol. would you rather have your alcohol dispensed in a safe, controlled environment, where you knew exactly what you were getting and minors couldn't get the stuff willy nilly, or do you want prohibition and all the problems it invites? pot itself is relatively benign, but when you drive it into the black market, the business side of things can get ugly.

 

fuck. posted twice again.

okay point taken. they, or we, since this is a result of the people as a whole, should just dispense at liquor stores. liquor stores fuck up property value too. i cant even go to the bathroom nowadays without tripping over a liquor store or weed dispensary. i definitely dont want prohibition. i just dont like this middle ground right now.

i agree with everything ms-dos has said except i disagree that it helps with depression.

i've been going through a particularly nasty case of depression for the past two years. i'm on heavy anti-depressants etc. blah blah blah. smoking weed makes me feel better for the hour or two that I'm high, but it probably makes me feel more pathetic in the long run because when I have access to pot, the only thing that I want to do is smoke more pot. that's not necessarily a great prescription for someone with a damaged view of themselves. maybe it's only me that's experienced it that way, but I doubt it.

  On 2/19/2010 at 10:57 PM, Adjective said:

  On 2/19/2010 at 9:42 PM, Awepittance said:

the whole medicinal angle is a joke though, with any other drug prescription they would designate you an amount and a dosage to take in a certain frequency. with weed its just an open season card to buy however much you want if thats 1 gram or 4 pounds

 

i do agree that it's odd to have an "open season" card, but maybe that's a good first step into maybe giving people a license to smoke weed. Like get checked by a doctor to make sure you aren't schizophrenic or suffering from anything the weed may amplify or worsen. Then it's okey dokey smokey. Maybe some years later it can drop to just an age requirement. Or it could go the other way, more tightly controlled, grown and distributed by Johnson & Johnson.

 

Is it always a card? I thought some people were prescribed certain amounts? I know nothing about medical marijuana

was chatting up this broad at my neighborhood bar. she brandished her license for me... it was a massive, fold-out birth certificate/ parliament-looking piece of parchment. i lolled.

in amsterdam the shops are so integrated into society, part of the cities culture without any medicinal pretence whatsoever. and the quality v. price is amazing.

theis pharmaceutical facade does seem weird.

I've had pretty strange experiences, too. It brings about a subtle psychosis which isn't quite paranoia. I don't feel "they are out to get me". Rather, I start to ruminate on all the things I'm not doing right in my life and get physically ill at the thought of being such a horrible person. Obviously these ideas are blown out of proportion to the truth as I'm thriving (for the most part) in life.

Also as previously noted, I start to notice things that are wrong with my body. The stress and tension built up from a work week aren't eased but rather become more present. I realize I need to eat better because I can feel my stomach complaining. My heart suddenly feels like it ain't doing so well, etc...

  On 2/19/2010 at 11:05 PM, Fred McGriff said:

  On 2/19/2010 at 10:57 PM, Adjective said:

  On 2/19/2010 at 9:42 PM, Awepittance said:

the whole medicinal angle is a joke though, with any other drug prescription they would designate you an amount and a dosage to take in a certain frequency. with weed its just an open season card to buy however much you want if thats 1 gram or 4 pounds

 

i do agree that it's odd to have an "open season" card, but maybe that's a good first step into maybe giving people a license to smoke weed. Like get checked by a doctor to make sure you aren't schizophrenic or suffering from anything the weed may amplify or worsen. Then it's okey dokey smokey. Maybe some years later it can drop to just an age requirement. Or it could go the other way, more tightly controlled, grown and distributed by Johnson & Johnson.

 

Is it always a card? I thought some people were prescribed certain amounts? I know nothing about medical marijuana

 

was chatting up this broad at my neighborhood bar. she brandished her license for me... it was a massive, fold-out birth certificate/ parliament-looking piece of parchment. i lolled.

I want one really bad now.

whether it gets banned or legalized fully, I need to have one of these documents just for my grandchildren to bring to the antiques roadshow

if anyone on this board has a prescription for medical marijuana, I'm curious about how you got it, and what the experience has been like.

  On 2/19/2010 at 11:04 PM, LOL Alzado said:

i've been going through a particularly nasty case of depression for the past two years. i'm on heavy anti-depressants etc. blah blah blah. smoking weed makes me feel better for the hour or two that I'm high, but it probably makes me feel more pathetic in the long run because when I have access to pot, the only thing that I want to do is smoke more pot. that's not necessarily a great prescription for someone with a damaged view of themselves. maybe it's only me that's experienced it that way, but I doubt it.

this happens to lots of people, but not all of them, and maybe not even a majority. i escape this problem by carefully picking the strain i smoke (sativas over indicas for depression), and by making sure that i dose just right. one bowl of an especially stimulating sativa (panama, kali mist) will do me for a good chunk of the day, and i don't lose the ability or motivation to get things done. i might be just a tad slower, but whatever. i'm more comfortable and mentally stimulated this way.

  On 2/19/2010 at 11:05 PM, Fred McGriff said:

was chatting up this broad at my neighborhood bar. she brandished her license for me... it was a massive, fold-out birth certificate/ parliament-looking piece of parchment. i lolled.

yeah, that cracks me up. but it's an additional fee to get your prescription in card form, and the big ass certificate looks better under a refrigerator magnet anyway.

  On 2/19/2010 at 11:07 PM, acidphakist said:

I've had pretty strange experiences, too. It brings about a subtle psychosis which isn't quite paranoia. I don't feel "they are out to get me". Rather, I start to ruminate on all the things I'm not doing right in my life and get physically ill at the thought of being such a horrible person. Obviously these ideas are blown out of proportion to the truth as I'm thriving (for the most part) in life.

 

Also as previously noted, I start to notice things that are wrong with my body. The stress and tension built up from a work week aren't eased but rather become more present. I realize I need to eat better because I can feel my stomach complaining. My heart suddenly feels like it ain't doing so well, etc...

that weed paranoia can be helpful to me. sometimes i have to get high to realize how stupid some of my mistakes, habits and fears are. it forces me to think about important but difficult things that i might otherwise repress. but yeah, it can also be overwhelming in just a terribly distorted and negative way. set and setting are important to pot (and i think people overlook this because, hey, it's not like it's LSD or anything). and the specific strain you're smoking matters too. have you tried going between sativas and indicas and hybrids, and then trying particular strains within each? indicas with a super heavy body stone (purple kush, herojuana -- i apologize fred, the names really are lame in this business) feel much like an opiate below the neck. but sometimes the blunting effect of a good indica can turn against my head. feeling really mentally slow frustrates the shit outta me, and this can lead to all sorts of paranoia and delusions. but these instances are pretty rare. usually i have a fantastic time smoking couch-lock quality stuff.

right now i'm way too high on the strongest indica i've had in months and i'm not even sure how i got to the board

everything sounds like it's drenched in reverb and my body feels amorphous and tingly. i'm sorry if nothing i've said makes sense. i swear i'm not a dumb pothead

fuck it. i'm tired of talking all seriously about weed, JUST GET HIGH PPL

king tubby sounds like dubbed out dub right now.

  On 2/19/2010 at 11:05 PM, keltoi said:

in amsterdam the shops are so integrated into society, part of the cities culture without any medicinal pretence whatsoever. and the quality v. price is amazing.

 

theis pharmaceutical facade does seem weird.

That's a facade too, I'm afraid.

  On 2/19/2010 at 10:17 PM, Fred McGriff said:

also, less word play involving weed advertising on said shacks. potheads, please desuckle yourselves from the neverending hilarious wordplay-providing teat that is living in the "mile high city"

haha, I'm with you on that. There's a shop (or used to be) in Myrtle beach called "THE 420 SHOP" and they have 420, pothead lingo, grateful dead posters, all over the outside of the building. Granted it's Myrtle beach which could win awards for it's tackiness, but srsly, it's really hard to miss the giant 420 420 420 420 420 signs all over that sign of the road.

here's the kicker though. It's not even a head shop. Lol it's pretty much like a hippy version of Hot Topic, with vibrators. When you buy a vibrator they blow one of those long horns that you see at basketball games. Not that I know from experience, I'm just saying. I saw it happen to a raspberry faced young lady. They are mostly novelty type ones anyway.

Anyway, all that "pot lingo" and the store is totally not as advertised. It's like a flea market for hippies dorm rooms that got cleaned out after a semester, b/c they were too lazy to get all their stuff out.

we have one here called 42°

that's kind of clever

I had a friend in Los Angeles tell me that the dispensaries are easy targets for criminals and get robbed all the time. It's almost perfect for the criminals because the dispensaries have little security, carry large amounts of money and weed (just as good as money) and are reluctant to report a burglary to the cops because they're already towing the line of legality.

  On 2/20/2010 at 11:20 AM, ms-dos said:

fuck it. i'm tired of talking all seriously about weed, JUST GET HIGH PPL

 

king tubby sounds like dubbed out dub right now.

major lol at the progression of your posts in this thread

  On 2/19/2010 at 11:04 PM, LOL Alzado said:

i agree with everything ms-dos has said except i disagree that it helps with depression.

 

 

lol @ the idea of a substance having the exact same effect on every person displaying similiar symptoms.

  On 2/20/2010 at 11:50 AM, lullezucht said:

  On 2/19/2010 at 11:05 PM, keltoi said:

in amsterdam the shops are so integrated into society, part of the cities culture without any medicinal pretence whatsoever. and the quality v. price is amazing.

 

theis pharmaceutical facade does seem weird.

That's a facade too, I'm afraid.

depends, imo. on the shithole tourist trap that is warmoestraat (ugh)? it's a facade.

but the last year i lived in holland, i wouldn't go to warmoestraat if you paid me.

i was a regular at a couple of small, local places in osdorp and jordaan depending on where i was at the time.

I had a medical mj card for 3 years in L.A. You can pretty much only get the cards from doctors who's business it is to sell the card. $150 per patient with a dozen patients in hour = lots of $$$$. Regular doctors will never recommend it for their patients, especially doctors who get kickbacks from selling prescription drugs. MJ does help better sometimes than some drugs, but I mostly did it for recreation. I have NO guilt from that. The majority of voters want it legalized. I voted for the medical mj law. Remember how the government is supposed to do OUR bidding and not the other way around? The sooner we get rid of this stupid fucking 'war on drugs' the better.

All that being said, the quality of weed is generally good to great. When I first started going to dispensaries, they were on average very shady, including this place I used to go to that was run by menacing, black gangsters. Good weed but it wasn't worth catching an attitude from them for no reason. Nowadays, places are much more professionally run, but only a couple are very devoted to the medical aspect. There is still a lot of bad cliched weed humor/advertising associated with these places. Sorry I don't like tie dye or the Grateful Dead. :\

  On 2/19/2010 at 9:39 PM, Fred McGriff said:

i'm in Colorado by the way.

Where do you live?

I went back to CO last summer and a lot of my friends had obtained licenses. Some of them (maybe all?) even had licenses that allowed them to grow their own and sell it back to the dispensaries. Sounds like a sweet deal. Suffice to say the weed was all ridiculously good quality.