Posted on 01/18/2017 11:10:28 PM PST by BenLurkin
“There’s hundreds of thousands of tourists coming to town, and they think D.C. is fully legal. But they can’t actually legally procure the cannabis,” said Nikolas Schiller, co-founder of DCMJ.
In the District, it is legal to possess 2 ounces or less of marijuana, and it’s legal to grow it. But it’s not legal to sell marijuana for recreational use.
Schiller said that’s where President Donald Trump could come in.
“We believe he can make America great again by allowing Americans to grow what George Washington once grew, which was cannabis,” he said.
Schiller’s group, and others in the D.C. Cannabis Coalition, are urging federal legalization of marijuana.
Friday morning, starting at 8 a.m., on the northwest corner of Dupont Circle, the group will hand out the joints.
“We’re checking IDs, because the law in the District of Columbia only allows adults, 21 or older, to possess cannabis,” said Schiller.
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Feels like something designed to get media articles, which, hey, it worked.
I hope that they all get arrested...or kicked in the privates, by upstanding Trump supporters!
I am not a pot smoker but I can appreciate and respect this type of protest.
They want a law or laws changed. They are speaking their mind.
Legalize it for licensed distribution to adults, then tax it.
Correct me if I am wrong, but Washington grew hemp - not cannabis to smoke. Hemp is a pretty useful plant that was an unfortunate victim of marijuana.
They are also HANDING OUT AN ILLEGAL/ILLICIT SUBSTANCE. This isn’t the way one changes minds, nor laws.
They tried the legalize and tax it route here in Washington. It does not work very well - the courts treat it as defacto legalization so much of the activity remains outside the law, but there is no risk to be prosecuted.
It did not help that they put a Cadillac tax on it at the outset, but now they are lowering taxes. Still doubt it will have much impact on the “illegal” market. With the potency of the stuff they are growing now I believe there will be more than a few public health issues arise from heavy use despite those who claim it is harmless.
That’s NOT working out well, for those states that have legalized it.
Hemp was what what ROPE was made from in those days and lots of people grew that crop. THEY DID NOT SMOKE IT!
After around ~50 years of it being deliberately cultivated solely for the THC content (ie; getting high) not surprisingly it’s more potent. What they were puffing on in the 60’s would be called ‘ditch weed’ now unless it was the far more powerful imported stuff.
“That’s NOT working out well, for those states that have legalized it.”
I have a Sister-in-law who’s lived in Boulder, Co for 20+ years. She reports it legal cannabis IS working well there. So you have definite proof it’s not working in Alaska, California, Nevada, Washington state, Massachusetts, Oregon, Maine plus the other 20+ states that have legal medical marijuana programs in their states?
Please share you proof to validate you blanket statement. Thanks.
It’s legal in DC, Mrs. Grundy.
> Hemp was what what ROPE was made from in those days and lots of people grew that crop. THEY DID NOT SMOKE IT!
Hate to burst your bubble, but they sure as heck did smoke it... unless you can come up with a reason why those who didn’t smoke it would concern themselves with separating male and female plants.
> Hemp is a pretty useful plant that was an unfortunate victim of marijuana.
Reality check: those are two names for the same plant. The first is what Americans had always called it. The second is what was used to associate it with Mexicans during the Reefer Madness scare.
It’s illegal basically for one reason - hemp paper threatened the Hearst empire, and he had enough newspapers at his disposal to con the country into banning a new technology that would have threatened his wood-paper manufacturing assets.
Attention snack vendors - follow these guys around if you want to sell a LOT of potato chips.
“Reality check: those are two names for the same plant.”
That is only partially correct and entirely misleading. The following cut &paste is from an 1998 article by David P. West, Ph.D. for the North American Industrial Hemp Council:
Botanically, the genus Cannabis is composed of several variants. Although there has been a long-standing debate among taxonomists about how to classify these variants into species, applied plant breeders generally embrace a biochemical method to classify variants along utilitarian lines. Cannabis is the only plant genus that contains the unique class of molecular compounds called cannabinoids. Many cannabinoids have been identified, but two preponderate: THC, which is the psychoactive ingredient of Cannabis, and CBD, which is an antipsychoactive ingredient. One type of Cannabis is high in the psychoactive cannabinoid, THC, and low in the antipsychoactive cannabinoid, CBD. This type is popularly known as marijuana. Another type is high in CBD and low in THC. Variants of this type are called industrial hemp.
If you read the quote again you’ll see it supports what I said rather than contradicting it. That is, if you understand taxonomy and what it means to be unable to definitively sort variants into separate species.
It’s the same plant, it’s just used in different ways.
Washington said (paraphrased, from memory) that one of his greatest joys was sitting on his porch at the end of the day with a pipe full of “sweet hemp”.
I think this was later in his life.
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