Kovnik Obama wrote:

 rubiksnoob wrote:

 Kovnik Obama wrote:

 rubiksnoob wrote:


Nope. Not unless you're this guy.

Well, I'm happy my 3.9 average disagrees with you. And the grants committee at the CRSH.

Whoa there big guy. I'm sure mama's proud.

Well, she is, especially considering she's the example I'm trying to follow in my family.

Also, isn't James Franco a major pothead and a legendary student? Our averages are on 4.3 here, not 4, so I'm not sure what 3.5/4 qualifies at. Considering he's taken more than 3 times the amount of courses than normally permitted, I'd assume it's pretty badass.

 Kovnik Obama wrote:

 rubiksnoob wrote:

 Kovnik Obama wrote:

 rubiksnoob wrote:


Nope. Not unless you're this guy.

Well, I'm happy my 3.9 average disagrees with you. And the grants committee at the CRSH.

Whoa there big guy. I'm sure mama's proud.

Well, she is, especially considering she's the example I'm trying to follow in my family.

Also, isn't James Franco a major pothead and a legendary student? Our averages are on 4.3 here, not 4, so I'm not sure what 3.5/4 qualifies at. Considering he's taken more than 3 times the amount of courses than normally permitted, I'd assume it's pretty badass.

 rubiksnoob wrote:

Oh, please. Everyone knows that weed lowers your IQ. There's studies and everything, man. If you really smoked as much weed as you say you do you wouldn't be able to stay in college. Scientific fact.

 Kovnik Obama wrote:

 rubiksnoob wrote:

Oh, please. Everyone knows that weed lowers your IQ. There's studies and everything, man. If you really smoked as much weed as you say you do you wouldn't be able to stay in college. Scientific fact.

Is this a serious retort? Because there's also studies on how texting lower your IQ...

Anyhow, last test I did 1 year ago put me at 133.
2-3 years earlier I tested at 126.
The differences are possibly due to taking different tests, but still... As someone who has been smoking for the last 7-8 years, I feel confident it hasn't proved to be such a handicap.

 youbedead wrote:
SCIENTIFIC PROOF, WEED RAISES INTELLIGENCE

 Kovnik Obama wrote:

 youbedead wrote:
SCIENTIFIC PROOF, WEED RAISES INTELLIGENCE

I write well under the influence, but I really need to proof read my essays then, because sometimes arguments no longer make as much sense once I crash

 youbedead wrote:

 Kovnik Obama wrote:

 youbedead wrote:
SCIENTIFIC PROOF, WEED RAISES INTELLIGENCE

I write well under the influence, but I really need to proof read my essays then, because sometimes arguments no longer make as much sense once I crash

Just be careful I've heard even one marijuana will kill you, I had a friend who injected 9 marijuanas and exploded

 whembly wrote:

 youbedead wrote:

 Kovnik Obama wrote:

 youbedead wrote:
SCIENTIFIC PROOF, WEED RAISES INTELLIGENCE

I write well under the influence, but I really need to proof read my essays then, because sometimes arguments no longer make as much sense once I crash

Just be careful I've heard even one marijuana will kill you, I had a friend who injected 9 marijuanas and exploded

Rookies...

Haven't ya'll heard of THC infused gummy bears?

 Kovnik Obama wrote:

 whembly wrote:

 youbedead wrote:

 Kovnik Obama wrote:

 youbedead wrote:
SCIENTIFIC PROOF, WEED RAISES INTELLIGENCE

I write well under the influence, but I really need to proof read my essays then, because sometimes arguments no longer make as much sense once I crash

Just be careful I've heard even one marijuana will kill you, I had a friend who injected 9 marijuanas and exploded

Rookies...

Haven't ya'll heard of THC infused gummy bears?

That sounds awesome in so many ways. Although I've heard somewhere that THC pills aren't that great because it misses a few additionnal chemicals that interact with THC to make the high more intense...?

 youbedead wrote:
Interesting, must experiment

 youbedead wrote:

 Kovnik Obama wrote:

 rubiksnoob wrote:

Oh, please. Everyone knows that weed lowers your IQ. There's studies and everything, man. If you really smoked as much weed as you say you do you wouldn't be able to stay in college. Scientific fact.

Is this a serious retort? Because there's also studies on how texting lower your IQ...

Anyhow, last test I did 1 year ago put me at 133.
2-3 years earlier I tested at 126.
The differences are possibly due to taking different tests, but still... As someone who has been smoking for the last 7-8 years, I feel confident it hasn't proved to be such a handicap.

SCIENTIFIC PROOF, WEED RAISES INTELLIGENCE

 Jihadin wrote:
Try the gummy under your tongue. Just woke up. Besides its where I stick my 800mg vicodin bullets when I need quick relief. Taste lke crap but with so many capillaries running close to the surface....

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
So this is a great business opportunity. I'm already sourcing investors for a roving chow truck "Monster Munchies" the only monster truck themed roach coach in the world, coming soon to a local Colorado college campus near you!

 whembly wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
So this is a great business opportunity. I'm already sourcing investors for a roving chow truck "Monster Munchies" the only monster truck themed roach coach in the world, coming soon to a local Colorado college campus near you!

Oh gak!

That's an EXCELLENT idea!

I call dibs on the Boulder market! Hippies and college kidz!

I'm going to call may pa on this! Great business idea.

 whembly wrote:
Also... Kevin Smith attributed weed to his creativity.

 whitedragon wrote:

 Ratbarf wrote:
You know we wouldn't even be having this debate about State vs Federal if Lincoln wasn't such a prick.

Lol wut?

 Glorioski wrote:

 whembly wrote:
Also... Kevin Smith attributed weed to his creativity.

I've thought up better films than Jay and Silent Bob on fruit pastels.

The worst thing about cannabis is the people who smoke it on a regular basis don't shut up about it and feel obliged to shove their love of it in your face. Fine, you need stimulants to improve your life, good for you. Other people don't want to listen to your love letter to weed all the time. I did plenty of it in my time, wasn't for me. To be honest I had more fun doing ecstasy. Stop making out people who have never smoked it are missing out on something, they're not.

 Glorioski wrote:

It is legal to purchase and smoke in private or in designated cafes. They made it so only Dutch citizens could do it recently because of so called 'weed tourists' causing trouble. i.e. they got sick of spotty students with board shorts and dreadlocks turning up.

 d3m01iti0n wrote:
This may have been brought up already......but are the people who were arrested/fined for possesion in Colorado previously going to be reimbursed? Seeing as how they have now decided it "okay"?

 Kovnik Obama wrote:

 Glorioski wrote:

 whembly wrote:
Also... Kevin Smith attributed weed to his creativity.

I've thought up better films than Jay and Silent Bob on fruit pastels.

The worst thing about cannabis is the people who smoke it on a regular basis don't shut up about it and feel obliged to shove their love of it in your face. Fine, you need stimulants to improve your life, good for you. Other people don't want to listen to your love letter to weed all the time. I did plenty of it in my time, wasn't for me. To be honest I had more fun doing ecstasy. Stop making out people who have never smoked it are missing out on something, they're not.

Same could be said about any drink, sport, music genre or celebrity. People who are constantly telling other people about interests they don't share are annoying. Glad we've cleared that up, any more nuggets of profound wisdom you'd like to share?

While voters in Colorado and Washington legalized the recreational sale and use of marijuana, the federal restrictions on drug use are setting up a regulatory nightmare. Just look at the potential trap banks are in.

They cannot lend or handle payroll for any company in the business because that would be a violation of federal drug money-laundering laws.
Some banks could argue that means they cannot even be a conduit for all the tax money promised from legalization because, from a federal perspective (and, for national banks, the federal perspective is all that matters), marijuana is still illegal. If they do business with marijuana shops, banks in these states could face civil or even criminal penalties.

"Don't break out the Cheetos or Goldfish too quickly,"Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has cautioned.
These huge roadblocks will make it difficult, if not impossible, to institutionalize the business infrastructure of pot, and therefore make it difficult to collect taxes. And taxes are needed since studies show increased drug use leads to increased crime – and someone has to pay for the police.

"If financial institutions are federally licensed or insured, they must comply with federal regulations, and those regulations are clear about conducting financial transactions with money generated by the sale of narcotics," Jim Dowling, a former Internal Revenue Service special agent who was also an anti-money laundering advisor to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, told Thomson Reuters.
However, the pressure is on to change federal law, a push which started with California, the first state in the country to legalize medical-marijuana use in 1996. To date, 18 states and the District of Columbia now have such laws on their books, Thomson Reuters reports, a business now estimated at $1.7 billion in 2011 and growing.

However, the federal government has gone after medical marijuana businesses for violating the federal 1970 Controlled Substances Act, a law enacted under President Richard Nixon which says pot is addictive and has zero medical value. Already, the Dept. of Justice has shuttered about 600 medical pot shops in California since the fall of 2011, and has moved against dozens more.

Pot was legal up until 1937, when the federal government backed “Reefer Madness” short films in movie theaters, a push which led to the Marihuana Tax Act, now called the Marijuana Tax Act, which slapped a tax on the sale of pot, as well as fines and penalties for violation of the law.

Before then, the government was regulating the sale of pot as a drug dating back to 1860. Under J. Edgar Hoover, Harry J. Anslinger, chief of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, argued to the Roosevelt Administration that a rising number of people were smoking pot and a crackdown was needed. The government then passed the Uniform State Narcotics Act in 1935, with backing from president Franklin D. Roosevelt, which said states must regulate the sale of pot.

All this has triggered a classic federalist fight, a serious federal-states rights battle now plunked down in the laps of the country’s 50 U.S. state attorneys general. University of Washington law professor Hugh Spitzer says: "Under the U.S. Constitution, the federal government can't force a state to make something illegal."

However, that may not stop the federal government from still sweeping in and shutting down pot shops in Colorado and Washington, even seizing assets as well as charging them with federal penalties via federal money laundering and forfeiture laws. The federal government can also hit these states massive federal lawsuits to stop them from launching drug markets.

On top of all this, the tax revenues from legalization could be wiped out by the costs of resulting crimes in the pot market.
Law enforcement officials and studies have shown that pot dealing has been connected to a range of crimes, notably by drug gangs, from petty thefts to burglaries to assault and murder, as well as money laundering and smuggling. Legalization of marijuana would “almost certainly exacerbate drug-related crime, as well as cause a myriad of unintended but predictable consequences,” the Heritage Foundation says.
Already studies by the RAND Corp. have found a high percentage of criminals who are also regular marijuana users. Rand found that about 60% of people arrested for various crimes tested positive for marijuana use in the United States, England, and Australia. Moreover, it says marijuana metabolites were found in the urine of those arrested more frequently than those of any other drug. The National Research Council, which has also concluded that the “long-term use of marijuana may alter the nervous system in ways that do promote violence.”
The biggest laboratory experiment, Amsterdam, has found a rise in crime, with the city ranked as one of Europe’s most violent cities, reports indicate. City officials have shut or are in the process of closing a number of pot shops because of rising crime. And Heritage notes that the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport has expressed “concern about drug and alcohol use among young people and the social consequences, which range from poor school performance and truancy to serious impairment, including brain damage.”

In California, which has legalized medical marijuana, Los Angeles police have seen a tripling in the number of robberies around marijuana clubs, a more than 57% increase in aggravated assault, and a 131% jump in robberies from cars.

Drug crimes in general are still high. There are six times as many homicides committed by people on drugs versus those looking for money to purchase drugs, reports the Drug Enforcement Administration. It notes that the majority of those arrested for violent crimes test positive for drugs at the time of arrest.

There is “a misconception that most drug-related crimes involve people who are looking for money to buy drugs. The fact is that most drug-related crimes are committed by people whose brains have been messed up with mood-altering drugs,” testified Donnie Marshall, then deputy administrator of the DEA before Congress in 1999.

Joseph Califano, member of President Lyndon Johnson’s cabinet, said back in the late ‘60s: “Drugs like marijuana and cocaine are not dangerous because they are illegal; they are illegal because they are dangerous.”

And all this means the marijuana industry will move in cautious fits and starts, a legal, regulated, taxed business in some states, and yet still a federal crime.