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DAVESBABYDOLL · 07-16-2009, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by dv8grl

I have never paid $50 for an ounce, are you kidding me, that would be like FREE!!!!!!!
Depending on the quality,...... I'd pay $50 an O for dirtweed, hell I've been known to pay $100 for an O of dirt.

LMFAO You have paid $50 for an O of dirt? That's just hard up. lol

***ahippiechic*** · 07-16-2009, 08:54 PM

I've paid 95.00 for a q/o before, but it was really good Kush.

SHELBYDOG · 07-16-2009, 09:52 PM

Well the plus of it would be with the government selling it for $50 an oz all our personal dealers would have to lower their prices.
But than their's that quality factor & lines will be drawn I'm sure.

It'll be interesting should it happen & eventually it's gonna.

dv8grl · 07-17-2009, 08:10 AM

Yeah.. $50 a gram for some sticky-icky is one thing.

ElleGee · 07-20-2009, 09:54 PM

Need Marijuana? Your iPhone Can Help.
Apple has approved an app that will let users find legal dispensaries of medicinal marijuana.

Sarah Jacobsson, PC World
Jul 20, 2009 8:00 pm

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We've seen a lot of unexpected, and sometimes cool, iPhone apps approved by Apple, but today's news might top the rest. Apple has approved a marijuana--that's right, marijuana--app called "Cannabis," which lets users find the nearest (don't worry: legal) supplier of medicinal marijuana.

Created by the founder of Ajnag.com, which was founded in 2006 and was the first medicinal marijuana locater on the Web, the new app is quick and easy to use. Simply open it up on your iPhone or iPod Touch and you'll see a map with the nearest distributors. The app gives you information on each of the locations, and even step-by-step directions with Google Maps.

That's not all, though--the creators thought of everything. If you run into any, erm, legal troubles with your newly-secured marijuana, Cannabis also gives you the locations of the nearest lawyers who specialize in marijuana cases. And, if you happen to live in one of the 37 states where marijuana is not legal, the app also provides you with the location of the nearest marijuana activist groups--so you can do your part to promote reform.

Cannabis provides the locations of legal marijuana locations in the 13 states where medical marijuana is legal, as well as in the parts of Europe where marijuana use is legal.

It will not point you to your local dealer in Golden Gate park or to the nearest White Castle, though, so potheads should save themselves the $2.99 download fee.

But, if you're a legitimate user of medicinal marijuana, and you often find yourself in situations where you absolutely must obtain some, then, good lord, get thee to the App Store!

http://www.pcworld.com/article/16873..._can_help.html

SHELBYDOG · 07-30-2009, 12:32 PM

Florida's Hydroponic Pot: House-Grown and Super-Potent

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By CARMEN GENTILE / MIAMI Carmen Gentile / Miami – Thu Jul 30, 3:15 am ET
California may be the center of the marijuana trade and the controversies over its legalization. But Florida has surpassed it in one important category: the Sunshine State is now the country's leader in indoor marijuana cultivation. It is a potent distinction because most of the marijuana grown this way is cultured hydroponically - that is, mostly without soil and with a carefully calibrated cocktail of chemicals and lighting - to create some of the highest level of highs on the market.

In 2006, Florida law enforcement here discovered 480 homes growing marijuana indoors. Last year, 1,022 grow houses were busted. "This isn't your grandma's marijuana," quipped a Miami-Dade narcotics officer at one bust as he tossed garbage bags stuffed with confiscated marijuana into an unmarked police truck. Levels of THC - the agent in marijuana that produces feelings of euphoria, and in some users mild hallucinations and paranoia - have risen dramatically because of indoor techniques. Thirty years ago, most marijuana contained about 7% THC. Today, indoor growers boast THC levels of 25% or higher thanks to the additional care that indoor plants receive. (See pictures of 4/20, the unofficial pot holiday.)

Indoors, high-powered lights that stimulate growth can remain on all day, their nourishing rays reflected off the metallic-coated paper covering walls. The chemical fertilizers used are just as powerful and nourishing, spawning fast-growing plants that produce more THC than those raised outdoors. (See pictures of America's cannabis culture.)

TIME accompanied undercover agents on a recent bust on a quiet street of a working-class Miami suburb. As soon as the agents enter the front door, they know they've acted on a good tip. The pungent smell of plant life fills the air. The ceiling of the master bedroom is a constellation of high-powered lightbulbs emitting a nourishing glow onto what officers estimate is more than 100 lb. of particularly potent marijuana plants with a street value upwards of $800,000. (See pictures of stoner cinema.)

While most of the marijuana is freshly cut and drying on a clothesline stretched across the room, pots of smaller plants still months away from maturing line the walls. An irrigation system supplies water and chemical fertilizers to the plants via a hose that runs into the adjacent bathroom, where the toxic brew used to accelerate plants' growth is dumped down a drain.

On the Florida market, a pound of indoor grown marijuana goes for upwards of $4,000. But in the Northeast, the best market for Florida growers, the same marijuana goes for about $8,000 a pound. Unlike their closest regional rivals, Florida growers can produce up to four crops annually.

"These operations are mushrooming all over the state of Florida," says State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle for Miami-Dade County, the de facto capital of the state's indoor pot industry. Taking these operations down is dangerous work. Some growers stockpile automatic weapons to protect themselves - and to fend off thieves who are after the valuable crop. (Watch TIME's video "Medical Marijuana Home Delivery.")

Miami Police Major Charles Nanney says informants played a crucial role in the success of a statewide crackdown in June that resulted in the seizure of 6,828 marijuana plants and 120 residential marijuana labs over the course of a few days. Among the best tipsters, they say, are electricians paid big money by growers to wire the sophisticated network of lights and air conditioners used to cool plants and subject them to round-the-clock illumination. The energy-chugging networks require an expert's touch to bypass the electric meter and tap straight into the grid. A sharp increase in electricity used to be a telltale sign of a grow house. Some growers have caught on, however, and are learning to mask their energy profile.

Money-laundering is an attendant crime. But so is trafficking in undocumented migrant workers. A single marijuana growing operation can consist of a dozen homes or more, requiring many hands to tend to the plants. And when arrests are made, those taken in are often neither the homeowner nor the person named on the lease. The actual operators usually elude capture. Still, workers are lured by the promise of a piece of the profits and rent-free living, sometimes raising children among the deadly high-voltage lights and other potential life-threatening apparatuses associated with indoor marijuana. (Read "Is Marijuana the Answer to California's Budget Woes?")

The state's real estate catastrophe contributes to the problem as well. Captain Joe Mendez from the South Florida High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), says operators flush with cash are attracted to the abundance of cheap homes in Florida, particularly in Miami-Dade, which leads the state in foreclosures. While Florida's legitimate economy continues to flail, the HIDTA captain says indoor marijuana is thriving even though law enforcement is arresting more people every year. Says Mendez: "If the economic downturn remains as it is, I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/2009073...08599191340100

Hydro weed is everyones reason for not legalizing pot.

ElleGee · 08-10-2009, 06:03 PM

State Rep. Thomas Slater dies

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NBC 10 NEWS
Published: August 10, 2009

PROVIDENCE—Rep. Thomas Slater, a state lawmaker who successfully urged legalizing marijuana to ease the pain of chronically ill patients, died of cancer Monday at his Providence home, legislative leaders said. He was 68.

Despite being seriously ill with cancer, Slater, D-Providence, faithfully attended sessions of the General Assembly into the summer to oversee an expansion of the state’s medical marijuana program. He insisted he would recover just weeks ago.

First elected to office in 1994, Slater is best known for sponsoring legislation that in 2006 made Rhode Island that 11th state in the country to allow chronically ill patients to possess small amounts of marijuana to ease their symptoms. The drug remains illegal under federal law.

But the law had a defect: It never explained how those patients could legally purchase the drug. Several patients reported being robbed and assaulted after turning to street dealers.

At Slater’s urging, lawmakers passed legislation this year by a wide margin allowing up to three nonprofit stores in the state to legally sell marijuana to registered patients. Slater received a standing ovation from his colleagues - and even some critics - when the bill passed in the House.

As representative of a poor section of Providence, Slater spoke out against budget cuts that limited welfare benefits to the poor and reduced health care for children.

He is survived by his wife, Jody McKiernan, and three grown children. Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced.

http://www2.turnto10.com/jar/news/lo...er_dies/21419/

ElleGee · 09-07-2009, 12:23 AM

State to set rules to govern compassion centers

01:00 AM EDT on Monday, September 7, 2009

By W. Zachary Malinowski

Journal Staff Writer

PROVIDENCE — So, what’s next with the new law that calls for the establishment of three compassion centers in Rhode Island that will provide medically licensed patients with places to legally buy marijuana?

Officials from the state Health Department will soon review a transcript from a recent community hearing in which dozens of people interested in running the marijuana distribution centers raised many questions about how the program will work.

Among the questions: What kind of security system will be required? What must be done with the excess marijuana? Can vans or other forms of transportation be used to ship the marijuana to patients in other parts of the state?

Meanwhile, law enforcement officials have continued to question the wisdom of the program. They have expressed ongoing concerns that the operators could illegally peddle drugs on the side, or they could be targeted by criminal groups seeking to grab their valuable stash of marijuana.

Two state officials, including Charles Alexandre, chief of the Health Department’s Office of Health Professionals Regulation, patiently fielded the questions at the community hearing, but they had few answers. Instead, they repeatedly said that they are required to follow the General Assembly’s statute that permits the opening of the compassion centers.

Rhode Island is just one of three states in the nation that has approved the sale of marijuana for medicinal purposes — the others are California and New Mexico. And, no one is quite sure how it’s all going to play out.

“We are definitely trailblazing right now,” said Stephen Hogan, executive director of the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition. “We don’t really know what’s going to happen. This is all new.”

At the hearing, the Health Department distributed a 22-page document that covered the proposed draft amendments in the “Rules and Regulations Related to the Medical Marijuana Program.” Included in the draft were nine pages involving the operation of compassion centers.

Among the issues addressed are security, criminal background checks on people employed at a compassion center and how much marijuana can be dispensed to a licensed patient — 2.5 ounces over a 15-day period.

The compassion centers are designed to augment the medical marijuana program that allows caregivers approved by the Health Department to grow up to 24 marijuana plants inside their homes for licensed medical marijuana users.

Since the legislation became a permanent law in 2007, about 900 medical marijuana users have been issued licenses, while 725 caregivers have been approved to grow and distribute the drug. The users must provide the Health Department with a signed form from a physician that says they suffer from illnesses such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, epilepsy or other debilitating conditions.

Annemarie Beardsworth, spokeswoman for the Health Department, said that there will not be another informal community hearing. Instead, she said, Health Department officials will address many of the issues raised at the recent hearing and incorporate them into the rules and regulations for opening a compassion center.

Once the rules and regulations are completed and posted for public viewing, the Health Department has 30 days to change anything. After that, she said, the department will begin accepting applications from those interested in opening a compassion center.

“The rules and regulations will set the minimum standards for what the compassion centers will have to meet,” Beardsworth said. “When the applications come in, you have to make sure they meet all of the minimum requirements.”

She said that the Health Department should begin accepting applications this fall, and that the first compassion center should open for business early next year. Hogan, of RIPAC, said that about 50 individuals or organizations have expressed an interest in opening centers.

Once the first one is up and running, the legislation calls for two more to open in the months that follow.

http://www.projo.com/news/content/ME...1.3387595.html
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Now I have no idea why this story is posted for the 7th.. but that's RI for you

ElleGee · 09-07-2009, 04:53 PM

Thankfully, in every state in America you can buy marijuana. It is said that 40% of American's have smoked marijuana at least once in their life. Some (like yours truly) prefer to smoke more than just that one time.

CelebStoner has an article featuring which states in the union have the highest percentage of marijuana smokers. It turns out the tiny state of Rhode Island beat out the other 49 states to be crowned the biggest stoners in America by having 16.12% of its population 12 and older smoke on at least a monthly basis. However, Vermont came in a close second with 15.75%. Then, it drops off a bit at the third place state, New Hampshire, which had 13.82%.

Personally, I live in Michigan, which came in 10th place with 11.91%. That makes sense to me. I live 45 minutes away from Detroit and that's where everyone I know gets their bud. It's never out of stock, always cheap, and its always quality.

Also, is it just me or does Alaska seem ridiculously high on this list? They came in 4th place with 13.79%. Alaska's current population is 686,293. This means 94,639 people are smoking reefer with Russia in their backyard. Is it even possible to hot-box an igloo?

The one state that seems low on this list is Hawaii. It came in 38th place with a sad and confusing 9.04% stoner population. Its the ****ing Aloha State for God's sake! Hawaii is all about island living; Surfing, eating pineapples, chilling on the beach, and smoking some good weed. Apparently stereotypes are not always true.

In last place with only 7.17% of its citizens smoking, is Utah. I can't say that this is surprising, considering 60.4% of the state's population is Mormon. I guess if you're Mormon you are too busy wearing magic underwear, banging your multiple under-age wives, and being racist to enjoy ripping a bong-load.

This graph shows the percent of people 12 and older who have used marijuana in the past month. (From a 2006-2007 government survey)
1) Rhode Island 16.12%
2) Vermont 15.75%
3) New Hampshire 13.82%
4) Alaska 13.79%
5) Massachusetts 13.49%
6) Oregon 13.12%
7) Colorado 12.99%
8 ) Maine 12.66%
9) Montana 12.62%
10) Michigan 11.91%
11) Washington 11.81%
12) New York
11.64%
13) Connecticut 11.36%
14) Wyoming 11.31%
15) Minnesota 11.28%
16) California 11.24%
17) New Mexico 11.20%
18) Delaware 11.16%
19) Ohio 10.69%
20) Wisconsin 10.61%
21)Nevada 10.17%
22) Virginia 10.13%
23) Arkansas 10.09%
24) Kentucky 10.03%
25) Louisiana 10.01%
26) Tennessee 9.96%
27) Missouri 9.95%
28) Georgia 9.88%
29) Indiana 9.87%
30) Maryland 9.71%
31) Kansas 9.70%
32) Illinois 9.53%
33) Florida 9.44%
34) Arizona 9.35%
35) Pennsylvania 9.32%
36) North Carolina 9.22%
37) New Jersey 9.10%
38) Hawaii 9.04%
39) West Virginia 8.82%
40) Nebraska
8.71%
41) South Carolina 8.66%
42) Idaho 8.64%
43) North Dakota 8.59%
44) South Dakota 8.56%
45) Oklahoma 8.51%
46) Alabama 7.96%
47) Texas 7.92%
48) Mississippi 7.79%
49) Iowa 7.32%
50) Utah 7.17%

Are you surprised the state you live in is high (or low) on this list? Let me hear your thoughts.

Good Times,

Kyler Durden

http://hailmaryjane.com/rhode-island...ds-in-america/
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I thought this was interesting..

jeanea33 · 09-07-2009, 05:12 PM

wooohoo we our number 11

hesnothere · 09-07-2009, 05:19 PM

I have a feeling people in New Jersey are lying through their pipes.