I always call it pot, which I understand outs me as an old person. But there are so many names for chronic, all over the world. What is your favorite?
I always call it pot, which I understand outs me as an old person. But there are so many names for chronic, all over the world. What is your favorite?
The Sticky Icky
jk that stuff does not exist anymore. Just this dessicated prepackaged nonsense.
When we were youths, I read the Beatles had a code phrase, something like let’s have a laugh(?). Then, a friend and I were laughing a little too much when we saw Joe Walsh’s record titled Got Any Gum? That became our code phrase.
Lies! You just need to grow it yourself or make friends with a grower. I live in a legal state and have two great dispensaries in my town, but I still frequent a few local growers more often since it’s cheaper and better!
I live in California, am nearly 60. We have hundreds in our cities. You have to use weedmap to make sense of it. We also have major cartel violence issues that have tainted the underground scene. The industrialization of weed has brought us this garbage. It is true, I have visited old friends up in the Bay Area not too long ago, and the real stuff can still be acquired but it is no longer common or easy to acquire. The idea of local growers is really great. It should be a farmer’s market commodity. That would be brilliant. But, no, some time back, legal dispensaries in California were forced to package everything. Prior to that, when they were initially launched, they’d weigh out the fresh stuff in front of you and put it in a container that didn’t make you want to wring their necks. The packaging alone is an atrocity against the environment.
Has brought “this garbage” as in more cartel violence or garbage weed?
Because if it’s the former, I’d like to know why you think that is, and if you think that cartel violence would’ve been smaller if instead of slowly decriminalising and having problems with clashing with federal law, it could’ve been made 100% legal (but regulated) instantly back some years ago?
Because sometimes I tend to think that cartels won’t want to give away their markets and since they may also wield indirect political influence, some decriminalisation will help them and some will hurt them.
And I think if it was legal properly and easily as other products the cartel couldn’t compete just by being violent because of the amount of people participating in supply. They’d actually have to make good weed. And if they’re just growing weed instead of gunning people down they’re not really a problem anymore.
And since they could actually use the courts then, and it’s smarter for business than straight up wars/gun violence… They’d become just like another corporation in any other market.
I’m in backwards Finland. Been growing for some decades. Supply has increased and Finland doesn’t need to import weed from anywhere so we don’t have any cartels really and our own organised criminal organisations are pretty fucking mild compared to anything the US sees. But since Germany legalised, we’re prolly gonna follow in like 15 years time.
Caused more of the dehydrated stuff. It’s not even garbage before it’s processed, of course. The cartel factor is something I’m imagining is a whole other problem as I’m not fully informed on that but some of it was in response to commercialization being something they could exploit. My mom lives out in a rural area and she told me a lot of her conservative neighbors jumped on the bandwagon, put up greenhouses on their farms without permits. Enough time has passed where most of them even got busted and the more cartel-connected greenhouses (at least near her) were all raided and slashed to the ground, are now abandoned ecological disasters.
I agree with you the rollout and the naivete of legislation contributed to the opportunities for organized crime to rush in and fill the void.
Yeah, we have never needed to import so supply and demand isn’t the only driver. The fact that we are Alta California, connected to Baja California explains the sort of Breaking Bad networks that can flow up and down. I no longer live in the Bay Area so I don’t hear too much about this but I knew people who described a whole other world, say North of San Francisco. I’m ashamed to say I grew up exploring California but, like most folks, true Northern California is an enigma to most of us. I believe the people I know who have firsthand descriptions of it. We’ve been friends for a long time and they had friends who were running their own illegal ops going way back to before our clumsy legalization.
Northern Europe really understands quality of life and is so impressive to me.