Status: Unusual product
Want some marijuana? Of course, here in America it's illegal to buy the real thing, but you can buy
mock marijuana... lifelike marijuana plants made out of silk and wood. It would be a pretty cool conversation piece to have sitting in the corner, especially if the police ever show up unexpectedly. The mock marijuana is sold by
New Image Plants, operated by pro-pot activist Joseph White. It's a small business. Most of his customers, ironically, are law-enforcement agencies. But he did just sell $40,000 worth of his plants to the set director of
Weeds, a Showtime series about a marijuana-dealing suburbanite soccer mom. White notes that he does have some customers who seem to think he's selling the real stuff, but he notes that:
"We cannot be held liable for stupid people smoking our plants."
Actually I did once hear that while it's illegal to buy and sell marijuana plants, it's legal to buy the seeds. I thought this was an urban legend (if not, it's a strange loophole in the law), but a quick
google search reveals that there are quite a few internet sites offering to sell marijuana seeds. Personally, I'd be very cautious about giving money to these sites (not that I was planning on doing so, mind you). I'd be worried that they would take the money and run.
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Scraping the bottom of the barrel there, aren't they? Looks like they collected a bunch of random words and picked a few at random: marijuana, soccer mom, suburbanite, series.
Point I am getting at is the seeds are available for purchase from reliable sources, especially if you are a research/teaching laboratory.
Until recently it was the law here in the UK that magic mushrooms could also be bought and sold, but not prepared - the packets said things like "for ornamental use only" on them.
Also US bills are made principally of hemp!
Sadly, when you're 'caught' with say 2 grams, it is up to the local police to decide what they'll do with you. Oddly enough, it is of great importance to be good friends with the police if you're a marihuana afficionado...
Anyway, I think on-line seed sellers are as reliable as any seller. What's illegal in the US, is quite legal in other parts of the world (in Belgium there are so-called grow shops which sell everything to grow your own weed - they just don't sell weed).
Has anyone ever been to San Francisco? There are a bunch of stores in SF, Oakland, and Berkeley that sell all the pot you could ever want. Yes, you are supposed to have some terminal disease or glaucoma, etc. But that's all a bunch of BS from what I've seen. PPL smoke pot out on the street here in SF. It's just that the vast majority here just choose not to. And no, I haven't smoked pot in over 10 years. 😕
Marijuana (the smokable weed) and hemp (the plant grown for its fiber for making rope, cloth, or paper) are the same plant species but are different selectively-bred cultivars. From what I've heard and read, the variety grown for fiber has only trace amounts of the drug THC (i.e., not enough to get anyone high), and the strains used to produce drugs don't have very good fiber for rope, etc.
So maybe what you get if you send off for "legal" seeds is seeds for the buzzless, rope-making hemp.
Does anyone read the Fortean Times? Their back pages are full of adverts for cannabis seeds, so i guess it is legal to buy them here.
Cannabis users are regular ,productive members of society not the drug crazed junkie terrorist the U.S Drug Czar claims them to be.
You say it creates victims...
You say users seek treatment...
Your WRONG!!!
It does create victims, but not how you imagine, Every day families are ripped apart and thousands are imprisoned in the USA for simple possession of cannabis.
Since 1932 over 8 Million U.S citizens have been imprisoned for possession alone.
In 2006 nearly 700,000 were imprisoned for simple possession.
THESE ARE YOUR VICTIMS!!!
CANNABIS USERS ARE NON-VIOLENT OFFENDERS NOT CRIMINALS!!!
As for treatment:
YES many cannabis users are in drug treatment BUT not to break free of addiction.
They were offered treatment OR jail time and to remain free they chose to attend out patient treatment instead.
It is BS to use that argument when they are essentially FORCED into a program that blindly addresses a false addiction whilst wasting much needed funding and increasing BOGUS statistics.
WHO ARE YOU to prohibit or condone the use of cannabis.
We live in a society of alcohol, tobacco, oil, war and greed.
Cannabis is the least of our worries.
for you non smoker watch "super high me" its the same consept as the documentary "super size me" try it! if you enjoy a drink every now youll also enjoy smoking marijuana i smoke every day all day every 3 hours and oh yes i can stop like i said i stop for a couple months. try smoking a ciggaret every 3 hours youll see how hooked youll be