Posted on 07/07/2017 10:54:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As canna-business strategist Elise McRoberts walked across an animal skin rug and into the living room of a Pacific Heights home for the recent San Francisco launch of Beboe, an upscale cannabis brand from Los Angeles, she assumed she would see the usual faces on the marijuana circuit — growers, dispensary owners and cannabis chefs.
Instead, the party was a cross-pollination of the worlds of high society, Silicon Valley, politics, fashion and design: industrial designer Yves Béhar, former Mayor Willie Brown, who carried decriminalization bills in the state assembly in the 1970s, philanthropists Katie and Todd Traina, boutique owner Emily Holt, salon-booking service founder Melody McCloskey, sustainable development designer Reed Woodson, venture capitalist Joshua Kauffman, yoga veteran Zander Gladish and social entrepreneur Gwendolyn Floyd, among others.
“I’m used to going to cannabis parties where I know everyone in the room,” McRoberts said, “but I only know one person here. It’s most stylish and fabulous setting for a pot party I’ve ever stepped into — the type of party I’ve always wanted.”
That was just the way Beboe co-founders Clement Kwan and celebrity tattoo artist Scott Campbell had planned it. Kwan, a UC Davis grad who went on to work in luxury fashion (Dolce & Gabbana, Yoox), grew marijuana to pay his way through college. Campbell’s grandmother, Be Boe, fed his cancer-stricken mother pot brownies to assist with nausea during treatment.
Now that cannabis is recreationally legal in eight states and the District of Columbia, the two men see a niche for products that carry an air of respectability.....
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Oh man, that made me cry. I still cry for my mom every day! As hard as it is losing her, I can’t imagine what I’d be like if I lost my husband. We’ll be celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary on Tuesday. You take care, Rochester, and God Bless you too!
So your sad businesses can’t find employee’s because prospects can’t pass a drug test. Got it.
I think anyone dumb enough to apply for a job that requires a drug test they might not pass isn’t someone I would want as an employee. Good for the businesses. That makes me smile. :)
Thanks, TheStickman! The drug warriors seek to malign anyone that doesn’t toe the line for their unConstitutional narrative, much like the prohitionists in the 1920s.
Happy Anniversary, Mama Shawna. Enjoy it with your husband and family. My wife and I would have been celebrating our 35th this coming October. I miss her deeply...
If that’s the case, all weedwankers should hire a stoned-outta-his-mind pothead for their brain surgeries. But alas, even the sober pothead in a rare moment of clarity free from the #FakeFeeling of pot will say, “no way jose.” :)
Plenty of surgeons abuse plenty of substances - alcohol, prescription drugs, schedule III drugs, you name it. It’s a byproduct of any professional job with long hours and high stress. I’d rather have a surgeon who manages stress with weed than with alcohol, percocet, or adderall.
Living in the Bay Area, I know more than my share of recreational stoners. And I can’t think of a single one of ‘em whose life has been improved or enhanced by the use of this drug. Cannabis makes people boring and stupid. Many of their lives are essentially devoted to getting high. The Left demonizes tobacco and to some extent alcohol, yet they promote marijuana. Why? Why this particular drug? My guess is that the Left wants people too stoned and lazy and stupid to question liberalism. Marijuana is a weapon of mass destruction against mental clarity, industriousness and traditional values.
If that’s the case, all weedwankers should hire a stoned-outta-his-mind pothead for their brain surgeries.
Actually, he said just about the opposite, VT - re-read it when you're sober.
[So you’re sad businesses can’t find employee’s because prospects can’t pass a drug test.]
We’ll need additional immigrants to fill those pending vacancies.
We can’t have a national workforce with dropouts who damage their energy and psyche. This is medicine!
Drugs like alcohol & nicotine too, right? Don’t forget caffeine and sugar while your at it, k?
Using an exploitation film like Reefer Madness as an argument against drug laws is like using Fast and Furious 7 as an argument against speed limits.
Was Dwain Esper’s 1930s film Maniac (an adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s the Black Cat with nudity and violence) an expose of the medical profession because it had a mad scientist?
Those films existed outside of the Hollywood system and played largely to “adults only” crowds giving them content that Hollywood could not (even in a day when every city had it’s own local censor board).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0260871/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
“Cannabis makes people boring and stupid.”
People have a right to be stupid. But society is under no obligation to save them from the consequences of being stupid.
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It does seem to make people dull.
Blaming “Reefer Madness” for ANYTHING is a lousy excuse.
True. One of many reasons I did no such thing.
STP?
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