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I've lived in California for 15 years... and I still don't get the Santa Cruz mindset. Maybe if I hang out in the tent at the event, it'll make more sense ;-)
When life hands you a lemon, trade it for a lime and break out the tequila!
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Theres nothing to "get". You either agree or disagree. You disagree. Someone else said why during the festival? Some people working booths will be there 8,10 hours or more and will need to "dose" themselves. It's not about getting it, it's only agreeing or disagreeing politically.
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I just heard today at a seminar on employee termination, that in Berkeley and SF they have local laws which do not allow employers to test employees for drug or alcohol use unless they are bus or truck drivers. You can go to work stoned in these cities and nobody can take measures to prove it or use it as a basis for termination. I guess it makes sense for these places.
I've worked in places in the entertainment industry involving writers and artists where productivity skyrocketed when the employees were stoned.
Us stuffed shirts quickly learned how not to see any such characteristics, though.
my son was at UCSB then when the 'no alcohol on the streets over Halloween' law, or similiar was let to go on-hold for a weekend. Party! not that they need much excuse in Isla Vista.. (school T-shirts: 'UCSB: 7 or 8 of the best years of your life')
That tradition is still running strong today. Every Halloween, and every year they make the front page of the newspaper with their antics.
...commute is so bad.
Why not move to S.B. - or even Ventura?
I got there, saw it and moved there. Then I got a divorce and wound up moving into a place that was supposed to be rental property (Palmdale). My plan was to move back to Ventura in six months or so. I bought my house in Ventura right after the Northridge earthquake for just over $200k. I sold it in 2001 for just under $400k. By the time I started looking to buy in Ventura again, that same house was valued at about $800k. In other words, thanks to my excellent timing I found myself priced out of the market unless I was willing to move into a dump in Oxnard or something. That situation may change, though, so we'll see.
Can anyone name what "medical problem" it would be that would require attendees to light up DURING the "festival?"
What? They can't make it from noon to five without hitting their weed, or take a break and come back...they need to hit their medical marijuana during the festival.
Do they care about second hand smoke, or just their right to hemp?
I'm sure that medical marijuana will be effective in allowing them to overcome their serious illnesses to allow them to dance around in tie dyed shirts and skirts, too.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of medical marijuana, but don't bullshit me. If you wanna get high, get high, but don't discredit a medical intervention by making a grand gesture of getting stoned at a festival as an act of "solidarity."
When I lived in San Francisco, the director of the local medical marijuana "clinic" would make a big show of lighting up when they'd have public events to promote the clinic - yet he had no medical problem!
You'd think someone who is serious about establishing something as a legitimate medical intervention would insist on doing it properly. I don't recall seeing people without cancer shooting up on chemo in support of its use for patients.
Bloody Hell, that clinic also used to allow each patient to bring someone who the clinic allowed to get stoned with them...they should call that the Rush Limbaugh approach.
In this case, every person dancing around at that festival like Jerry Garcia is still alive deserves to get kicked in the ass and driven to the clink. Not for smoking an illegal substance, but for parasitizing a medical issue for their own pleasure. Be honest, for crying out loud.
Peace.
Have you ever been to a festival where there weren't food vendors? Of course not. I think the food vendors were behind this idea, and they (of course) probably have to pay a percentage of their total revenues to the city for the right to set up at the festival.
Have a toke -- for medicinal purposes, of course -- and suddenly you're starving.
Good theory, Bruce. We used to call it the "munchies". Uhh,yeah, man. I,like, got the munchies. Far out and solid, man.
movies like Up In Smoke, right? (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink)
...that's what it is.( wink,wink)
there is probably a caravan of Suburbans headed up there now. Catching the seriously-ill pot users is so much easier than trying to eradicate street gang drug sales. Those sick people can't run and don't have guns.
...who take advantage of the medical pot situation and should be busted.A group in LA were busted recently with $90+ million in cash and caught trying to buy property in Costa Rica - from profit made selling medical marijuana.
The state law legalizing it says the sale must be non-profit.
at least not that I saw. The DEA's actions that I read about were in the form of sending letters to property owners where medical marijuana providers were the renters, trying to intimidate them. And then they raided ten medical marijuana operations in full riot gear, rounding up people using crutches and exhibiting other obvious maladies.
But there are always those who abuse things. I wonder if any of those caught in the article you linked to are the same ones who advertise heavily in the LA Weekly. "Free gram with each new subscription!"
... and I think our Federal attitude is extremely short-sighted. Tremendous appetite stimulant for AIDS patients undergoing the body wasting associated with that terrible disease. Works as an anitemetic for some chemotherapy patients where nothing else will. Lowers intraocular pressure for glaucoma patients (although there are other viable alternatives in almost all cases). And on, and on. Further study and support(federally-funded), would be the appropriate, compassionate course.
My experience would seem to indicate a somewhat lax application of the CA rules for prescribing.
I practiced in Watsonville for 5 years; just a short hop down Highway 1 from Santa Cruz. My patient population included lots of late teens / early twentysomethings. I lost count of how many patients had a medical history negative for any health issues, but positive for "medically prescribed marijuana". Lots of "nudge-nudge", "wink-wink".
When life hands you a lemon, trade it for a lime and break out the tequila!
I got high with a friend and realized that the pain from arthritis was lessened considerably throughout the evening.
I just hate the side effects, though. Feeling as though my IQ had dropped 40 or 50 points really made the trade-off look unappealing.
I mean, take 50 points from someone with an IQ of 138 is crippling, but taking 50 points from my IQ of 85 REALLY made the world seem strange.
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There is more medicine in a single song than any hospital.
yellow pages ads that read "We'll get you a prescription, or you don't pay!". You can't get much more blatant about abuse than that.
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