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Market? Industry? Those words represent the whole problem. I think we're in a totally different frame of reference here. I'm planning on moving there because I want to have at least a chance of seeing forests and mountain ranges in the short time I have left. The fact that I'm going to...

It bothers me a lot that you are trying to shut me down with insults. I'm looking for people who actually understand the issue, who can do some activism that has a chance to be effective. You want the issue to "run its course" which in the very near term leaves us with nothing. We don't need...

They passed a law that controlled the number of pure sativa strains. Over there, it's a little bit like passing a law that requires a certain amount of the milk on the grocery shelf to be low fat.

It's on a very short list of absolute best cities to live in, but a lot of people have figured that out and there's intense competition for every resource. So not a good place to be if you don't have your job and housing situation worked out. Not such a great place to be poor.

What seems like an easy and obvious thing to us one-issue activists, probably doesn't actually occur to anyone in his shoes. He might have puffed some decent Hawaiian schwag enough times to count on both hands back in the day, but to think the legalization issue even gets a passing thought for...

The Constitution itself places treaties as equal to itself. Article 6. This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the...

Congress could. You do understand that an EO can't undo a treaty, right?

Why don't the 75% of Americans who oppose cannabis prohibition ever live anywhere near me?

Perhaps, but it's going to a Grand Jury for that determination. The only real difference between this case and the way it "normally" would go, is that Zimmerman would have been arraigned and if released, he would be released on bond. As it stands, he is released on recognizance. Nobody has...

In any case, testimony of the medical experts who personally examined him will trump any of this photographic evidence. Both the defense and the prosecution have that, and are (wisely) not broadcasting it to the public. What's with this police department anyway? They don't even have the...

I won't elevate it by calling it "evidence." But it is painfully obvious that it's the reflection of the overhead lights. They are pretty obvious on the cop's bald head as well, and even the non-bald cop's hair. Look at the police cruiser's back window to see how intense they are, and in the...

I knew someone else on RIU would understand what they were seeing in this photo. A sad waste of 4100K metal halide lighting! Reflected in Zimmerman's fat, wet, bald head!

Look closer. What you see is not a red "x", you're seeing the reflection of four overhead light reflectors. The exact sort of institutional metal-halide lighting you'd expect to find in the sallyport of a police parking structure. Round reflectors in groups of 4. The red "X" is the space...

Fair enough, I shouldn't have said "nothing." Almost nothing. My favorite new development is the enhanced picture today... that shows the reflection of overhead MH lights on Zim's wet, shiny bald head. People see an "x-shaped" gash. I see the reflection of a sad waste of lumens.

The US attorneys are all looking for new jobs in January, regardless of who wins in November.

There shouldn't be enough money involved to *need* books. If you're making a profit from cannabis, you're doing it wrong. You're helping sustain prohibition by making yourself a target. Whatever they are doing, they made enough money doing it to afford some prime California real estate. My...

Not everywhere. It's not technically illegal in Uruguay, and Iran allows cannabis cultivation on a limited scale. Yeah I find that ironic. No country that is a signatory to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is allowed to legalize marijuana without running the risk of UN sanctions.

The President cannot issue an order that contravenes any part of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the keystone of marijuana prohibition in almost every country where it is prohibited. An EO decriminalizing cannabis would constitute a crime, and would be grounds for impeachment.

As any grower knows, after the first few cycles, the marginal costs of cultivation are not even worth a thought. In places with legal cultivation, it's really hard to understand why it isn't nearly free. One of the biggest problem patient cultivators have is what to do with the surplus.

Obama could, if he wanted to, send a private message explaining that this was a career-limiting move, "don't let it become a career-ending one", and they'd get the hint. He doesn't even kinda-sorta take an active pro-cannabis position.