Anyone remember Dan Quayle? He was our 44th Vice-President and the guy who misspelled potato. But who knew that even way back in 1977 he thought the war against marijuana was a complete waste of time? Well he did, as evidenced by this quote from him below: Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana…
This is part 25 of our Saturday quote series and it will be the first time the quote comes from someone who is not the least bit famous. A number of people told us that they just assumed we would use a Robin Williams quote on marijuana and a number of others even suggested the
Even if your state has legalized marijuana, your neighbors or your homeowners’ association may not be on board. Most states that have legalized medical marijuana or recreational marijuana limit consumption to places out of view of the general public. In other words, you are mostly limited to consuming cannabis in the privacy of your own
For around fifty years, James Garner was a leading actor in television and film. Turns out he was also smoking marijuana during that entire time and he had this to say about that in his memoir: I started smoking marijuana in my late teens. I drank to get drunk but ultimately didn’t like the effect.
I enjoy it once in a while. There is nothing wrong with that. Everything in moderation. I wouldn’t call myself a pot-head. We wouldn’t call her a pot-head either, just as we don’t call someone who enjoys a daily glass of wine or bottle of beer an alcoholic. And more and more of the country
This was truly the week that was timely for cannabis quotes. That being the case, we cannot resist discussing two of them. “Do you want to hit this?” A common enough question for us lay people, but a man asked President Barack Obama that very question in a Denver bar this past week when the
Oooh oooh that smell — can’t you smell that smell? Ok, we couldn’t resist trotting out the oft-repeated Lynyrd Skynyrd lyric. In all seriousness though, a recent Washtenaw County, Michigan court ruling discussing marijuana odor gives us an opportunity to remind canna businesses and home-growers alike to keep their smells to themselves. Neighbors had been
We’ve said it time and time again, when state agencies start rolling out their marijuana regulatory rules is when things begin to happen. This is also a time when planning too early or too late can mean an ineligible cannabis application. On July 2, the Florida Department of Health issued its first draft regulatory rules for
Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man…. Marijuana has been accepted as capable of relieving distress of great numbers of very ill people, and doing so with safety under medical supervision. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for DEA to continue to stand between those
Many people use decriminalization and legalization synonymously and interchangeably, and that’s not correct. Decriminalization essentially means that a given activity no longer qualifies as criminal conduct and can only be treated as a civil infraction, but that activity is unregulated. Legalization ultimately means the ability to lawfully regulate a given activity, as well as the
