So what? Hash is unavailable in most parts of the country most of the time these days. It used to be quite common, but it wasn't all that strong. The biggest hash producer in the world is Morocco. Europe buys most of their product, and it is not nearly as strong on average as the indoor grown hydro weed. Reports I've seen put average potency of seized hash not much higher than the cheapo Mexican pot seized here. It can be made from expensive hydro weed, but it's only done on a very small scale because they only get a couple of grams of hash per ounce of pot so it makes no sense for indoor growers to go into commercial hash production when they can make a lot more money just selling buds. They'll get several hundred dollars for an ounce of primo indoor grown pot. They wouldn't get anywhere close to that from the couple of grams of hash they could make with the same ounce of buds. This is a non issue. Hash is nothing but compressed marijuana resin, and it's something most pot smokers today will never see.
“And they are considering making salvia, another plant, illegal. When the cop stops you, you confess to pot possession, not salvia possession, and to save lab fees to tell the difference, you pay $100 with no record.”
If a cop can't tell the difference between salvia and pot he's a sorry excuse for a cop. Most cops will have a field test kit with them so they can see what drug they have, and I've never seen salvia in person but from the pictures I've seen it's just leaves that don't look anything like pot leaves, and hardly anyone is going to be carrying pot leaves anyway. People smoke the buds, not the leaves. You sound just like these whining cops and prosecutors in Massachusetts bringing up non issue after non issue.
I’ts interesting that the state should get a citizen-backed law decriminalising pot, and then immediately extend it to hash, hash oil, and apparently pure THC, without legislative input or due process. It's funny, too, I think, that they perceive a problem with public use of something that will get you a $100 ticket, so they need to “tighten up” public pot use laws, like it's OK to smoke anything anywhere anyway (tobacco). That's why I posted that article.
As for excluding or not excluding salvia, goes to show it's a War On Some Drugs.
The whole thing is quite amusing.
Other articles I dredged up but did not post related to evaluating whether citizen-based initiatives should be allowed, since this was one of them, and Prop 8 here in CA was, and what if the people in MA were allowed to vote on gay marriage?
lol pass the popcorn!