Pot/drugs: An all-encompassing explanation.

[tokinGLX]

it is a little easier here in colorado, tho laws are being proposed that will make it harder. 
if you have documentation of your medical condition, it is as simple as going to a pot doc.  if you do not know how to find a doctor that will write the recommendation, most dispensaries will be able to point you in the right direction. 
if you dont have documentation, then establishing that paperwork as soon as possible is the best thing to do.  while some doctors will write the recommendation without any previous medical history, those patients are the ones that the state will end up rejecting the applications of.

but anyways, you pay the 70-90 to the doc and $90 to the state.  right now it is a 4 month wait for the state to respond.

growing is a joy, pothead or not. these plants grow so vigorously, if you treat them well the returns are excellent.  it is extremely easy to be a vendor here in colorado, all of the dispensaries are always looking for good product.  it is not something i have gotten into, aside from selling clones every now and then to them

[the last yatto]

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's much more straightforward here. Your doctor fills out the paperwork. The fee is $50, and there are no "prescriptions". The state expects you to either grow your own or already have a licensed grower lined up. You provide the address where the marijuana will be grown and that's pretty much that. There are no rules about tags and you can have up to 24 plants.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am pretty sure my doc will sign my papers. He's suggested pot in the past.

[tokinGLX]

and you can have up to 24 plants.

damn, that is a lot.
the limit here is 6 plants, with only 3 allowed to be flowering.  as well patients are limited to 2 ounces of dried meds- tho the plant numbers and the dried amount are subject to the doctors discretion.  if they write that the patient needs more, then that is perfectly fine.  a friend of mine makes butter and glycerine tincutre with it, so his doc wrote him for 20 plants. 

the good thing about colorado is that medical marijuana has been amended into our state constitution by a vote of the people.  so a lot of the proposed laws that are set to make mmj access harder will just be getting shut down.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think the reasoning for the 24 plants is that they're assuming people will grow for more than themselves, and also that they will grow a large enough supply at any given time that they won't have to grow anymore for a while. You're allowed to have up to 24 oz as well.

Keeping in mind that many people with green cards are severely ill/disabled and couldn't possibly maintain a constant grow op, if they can grow at all, it's very reasonable.

I'm thinking that if I do get a card, assuming the dispensary bill passes I'll grow my max number of plants and donate the excess to a dispensary.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

to be fair though, most people dodge the government registration part, because, as even when you are all paperworked up, the police still kick through your door, take all your tagged plants and loose cash, (http://theava.com/archives/3968 subscription needed but lss Joe is jsut the latest and loudest (lol literally) person to be all legal, yet be busted, took to court, have his cash seized and lose lots of money on fees etc, and given the mentality of most of the persons around here involved in such a thing, i.e ex radical hippies, vietnam vets, paranoids, harrassed care givers & other similar persons, it's no wonder they do not want to "sign up with the man and let em com poke round ma shit"

Legally we can hold 3 pounds, 24 flowering plants, and unlimited vegatitive state clones.

I've never heard of that happening here... not to anyone with a card, anyway.

[Maria]

This is a funny thread, coming from a ruco who's yelling at shit that ain't there half the time.

He's not a fraggle, but he acts like one sometimes.

[Maria]

Nigel, who is that in your picture?

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

I have resigned myself to trolling stoners that piss me off as a coping mechanism to still wanting a smoke and hoping that an anti-psychotic strain is being grown somewhere. ScouseSpag is still cool with me.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Nigel, who is that in your picture?

Nina Simone, she's the fucking BOMB and a half if you like oldfashioned jazz. Search her on Youtube, she's amazing!

[nuclearcabbage]

pot is magical to me...
as is anything else in my perceived reality really...

i do think it can take you "higher" into the planes of conciousness..
as can anything else in your percieved reality really..

i dont think anyone was saying anything about it making you "more enlightened" or "more in the know"  than anyone else.

as for the stoner stereotypes..yeah, they exist.

but not everyone that smokes weed falls under them.

[Maria]

Nigel, who is that in your picture?

Nina Simone, she's the fucking BOMB and a half if you like oldfashioned jazz. Search her on Youtube, she's amazing!

Okay, that's who Roger has been listening to, I just never saw her picture.  Then I get jumped. 

Hell, yeah.  Lady Gaga does the same thing for me, but Nina Simone is pretty fucking cool, really.  Both of them make me want to get laid or get in a fight.

[Maria]

pot is magical to me...

Then you're a fraggle.  Don't be a fraggle.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

I really hope I wasn't as full of shit as nuclear cabbage when I was smoking on the daily.