California will vote on legal marijuana

Thing about Portland is the rest of Oregon is give or take, littered with very conservative people. If they do just a city wide mandated thing that's cool, but I could see cops (sheriff) really taking advantage of that once people are out of the city limits.

In the next 10 years, I see it being legal in Cali, Maine, Colorado, Florida, Washington State, and quite honestly, North Carolina (but certainly not SC, it's still way too conservative/old school). I think NC and Cali will be the main suppliers as it becomes legal across the country. Despite being southern and seen as conservative, NC is filled with college towns/cities, chilled out mountain and beach towns, and miles of some of the best soil farmlands in the country (sub tropical climate). I bet NY isn't far behind either.

NY is weird. people up here are quite liberal at times but just weird about shit.

i don't see anything happening here until 2 years after 3 or 4 states give it the OK.

  On 4/1/2010 at 4:00 PM, theSun said:

NY is weird. people up here are quite liberal at times but just weird about shit.

 

i don't see anything happening here until 2 years after 3 or 4 states give it the OK.

what's weird is having upstate NY and NYC in the same state. they couldn't be more opposite. regardless, i would think that NY would be next in line after California and Colorado.

  On 4/1/2010 at 4:13 PM, uptowndevil said:

  On 4/1/2010 at 4:00 PM, theSun said:

NY is weird. people up here are quite liberal at times but just weird about shit.

 

i don't see anything happening here until 2 years after 3 or 4 states give it the OK.

 

what's weird is having upstate NY and NYC in the same state. they couldn't be more opposite. regardless, i would think that NY would be next in line after California and Colorado.

no shit!

i hate NYC and i also hate that all my fucking tax money is routed into that fucking shithole while buffalo slowly crumbles apart. also all the politicians in NYC (Albany too) are as bad as DC. wretched bullshit.

edit - i guess it could be worse, i could live in new jersey

  On 4/1/2010 at 7:45 PM, theSun said:

  On 4/1/2010 at 4:13 PM, uptowndevil said:

  On 4/1/2010 at 4:00 PM, theSun said:

NY is weird. people up here are quite liberal at times but just weird about shit.

 

i don't see anything happening here until 2 years after 3 or 4 states give it the OK.

 

what's weird is having upstate NY and NYC in the same state. they couldn't be more opposite. regardless, i would think that NY would be next in line after California and Colorado.

 

no shit!

 

i hate NYC and i also hate that all my fucking tax money is routed into that fucking shithole while buffalo slowly crumbles apart. also all the politicians in NYC (Albany too) are as bad as DC. wretched bullshit.

 

edit - i guess it could be worse, i could live in new jersey

don't feel too bad. nyc is crumbling too.

new york is a tax vacuum, i got 2 parking tickets while i was there and promptly paid both of them off totaling about $275, about 3 months later i get a letter in the mail saying that because of a new 'driver responsibility program' i now have to pay an additional $350 to make sure i can still keep my NY drivers license. That was my breaking point and said fuck it, so now my license is suspended in NY, i wish i never paid any of the tickets to begin with.

Popular California outdoors writer arrested in pot bust

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100402/ap_on_re_us/us_marijuana_outdoors_writer

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SAN FRANCISCO – A popular California outdoors writer was free on bail after authorities said Friday they found a large marijuana growing operation in his barn in the town of Weed.

 

Deputies served a search warrant on 55-year-old Tom Stienstra's home last week and seized 60 plants and more than 11 pounds of processed marijuana, the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office said.

 

Stienstra was arrested for investigation of possessing marijuana for sale and released March 26 on $75,000 bail. His wife and two other men were also arrested.

 

Prosecutors have sent the case back to the sheriff's office for further investigation and have not filed any charges, Siskiyou County District Attorney Kirk Andrus said.

 

Messages left for Stienstra and his lawyer Eric Bergstrom were not immediately returned.

 

Stienstra writes for the San Francisco Chronicle and appears regularly on Northern California radio and television stations.

 

He is the author of more than 20 guidebooks that together have sold more than a million copies and was twice named writer of the year by the Outdoor Writers Association of America, according to the biography on his Web site.

 

Scales, packaging material and other paraphernalia were confiscated from Stienstra's barn and home, sheriff's spokeswoman Susan Gravenkamp said.

 

Deputies found medical marijuana recommendations for Stienstra, his wife and her 18-year-old son, who was not arrested, Gravenkamp said.

 

Until recently, California law limited medical marijuana users to possessing six mature or 12 immature plants, and 8 ounces of processed dried marijuana unless individual counties set higher limits.

 

The state Supreme Court struck down those limits in January, sending police, prosecutors and users into a state of confusion over how much marijuana will not count as too much.

 

Chronicle editor-in-chief Ward Bushee said the newspaper knew little about the allegations against Stienstra and hoped the case was resolved quickly. In the meantime, the Chronicle would continue to publish his columns, Bushee said.

 

While not as well known as some other locales, Siskiyou County along the Oregon border is a major marijuana-growing hub in the state, with hundreds of thousands of plants seized there last year alone, according to the sheriff's office.

Now how much money did this cost the tax payers, government, and of course the guy who just lost a shitload of an investment. Granted I am well aware that it is still illegal and he was "breaking the law". But srsly come on. Town of WEED for effs sake.

:facepalm:

That's a whole lot of weed

  On 4/3/2010 at 3:16 AM, Brandi_B said:

While not as well known as some other locales, Siskiyou County along the Oregon border is a major marijuana-growing hub in the state, with hundreds of thousands of plants seized there last year alone, according to the sheriff's office.

This is in my neck of the woods.

I drive through Weed every now and then. Sylvia Massy Shivy - known for producting Tool, Beastie Boys, Johnny Cash etc. - has her studios there.