Marijuana Dispensary Offers Free Pot In Food Drive

[509inc]

Can you believe this? Pot for Food.

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/30/132469159/marijuana-dispensary-offers-free-pot-in-food-drive

http://www.ktvu.com/news/26317562/detail.html

 

[tmurph01]

Well,... you have to admit, at least they know how to get in touch with the locals! Haha.


Cheers!

 

[509inc]

It blows me away how you can trade a can of food for pot in one state and loss your freedom in another.

 

[tmurph01]

It blows me away how you can trade a can of food for pot in one state and loss your freedom in another.

You ain't kidding. Luckily for me WV is pretty relaxed when it comes to guns, alcohol, cars, and property, but even the "Mountain State" has hard drug laws.


Cheers!

 

[iaefebs]

Can you believe this? Pot for Food.

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/30/132469159/marijuana-dispensary-offers-free-pot-in-food-drive

http://www.ktvu.com/news/26317562/detail.html

Do me a favor. I will send you 8 cans of food. I'll PM you my return address

 

[509inc]

Do me a favor. I will send you 8 cans of food. I'll PM you my return address

Sorry buddy I live in the land where if caught they would give you the lethal injection if they could.

 

[Hex]

http://www.jackherer.com/

http://www.jackherer.com/thebook/

Emancipation Proclamation, and US Constitution written on weed paper. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew and cherished it, and at one point in American history it was illegal NOT to grow.

We've gone a good deal backwards since those days.

 

[Hex]

American Historical Notes

In 1619, America’s first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia, “ordering” all farmers to “make tryal of “(grow) Indian hempseed. More mandatory (must-grow) hemp cultivation laws were enacted in Massachusetts in 1631, in Connecticut in 1632 and in the Chesapeake Colonies into the mid-1700s.

Even in England, the much-sought-after prize of full British citizenship was bestowed by a decree of the crown on foreigners who would grow cannabis, and fines were often levied against those who refused.

Cannabis hemp was legal tender (money) in most of the Americas from 1631 until the early 1800s. Why? To encourage American farmers to grow more.1

You could pay your taxes with cannabis hemp throughout America for over 200 years.2

You could even be jailed in America for not growing cannabis during several periods of shortage, e.g., in Virginia between 1763 and 1767.

(Herndon, G.M., Hemp in Colonial Virginia, 1963; The Chesapeake Colonies, 1954; L.A. Times, August 12, 1981; et al.)

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis on their plantations. Jefferson,3 while envoy to France, went to great expense, and even considerable risk to himself and his secret agents, to procure particularly good hempseeds smuggled illegally into Turkey from China. The Chinese Mandarins (political rulers) so valued their hemp seed that they made its exportation a capital offense.

The Chinese character “Ma” was the earliest name for hemp. By the 10th century, A.D., Ma had become the generic term for fibers of all kinds, including jute and ramie. By then, the word for hemp had become “Ta-ma” or “Da-ma” meaning “great hemp.”

The United States Census of 1850 counted 8,327 hemp “plantations”* (minimum 2,000-acre farms) growing cannabis hemp for cloth, canvas and even the cordage used for baling cotton. Most of these plantations were located in the South or in the Border States, primarily because of the cheap slave labor available prior to 1865 for the labor-intensive hemp industry.

(U.S. Census, 1850; Allen, James Lane, The Reign of Law, A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields, MacMillan Co., NY, 1900; Roffman, Roger. Ph.D., Marijuana as Medicine, Mendrone Books, WA, 1982.)

*This figure does not include the tens of thousands of smaller farms growing cannabis, nor the hundreds of thousands if not millions of family hemp patches in America; nor does it take into account that well into this century 80% of America’s hemp consumption for 200 years still had to be imported from Russia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland, etc..

Benjamin Franklin started one of America’s first paper mills with cannabis. This allowed America to have a free colonial press without having to beg or justify the need for paper and books from England.

In addition, various marijuana and hashish extracts were the first, second or third most-prescribed medicines in the United States from 1842 until the 1890s. Its medicinal use continued legally through the 1930s for humans and figured even more prominently in American and world veterinary medicines during this time.

Cannabis extract medicines were produced by Eli Lilly, Parke-Davis, Tildens, Brothers Smith (Smith Brothers), Squibb and many other American and European companies and apothecaries. During all this time there was not one reported death from cannabis extract medicines, and virtually no abuse or mental disorders reported, except for first-time or novice-users occasionally becoming disoriented or overly introverted.

From chapter one:
http://www.jackherer.com/thebook/chapter-one/

 

[ultravista]

Putting a new spin on "weed and feed" eh?

 

[TxBrew]

It blows me away how you can trade a can of food for pot in one state and loss your freedom in another.

Me too.

They raised a lot of food.

 

[riverfrontbrewer]

In some shops here in CO, you get a free quarter just for signing them up as your caregiver. 2X more pot shops than Starbucks in the City & County of Denver.

 

[maxamuus]

Wonder if the brothels in Nv do food drives....

 

[ultravista]

Hey hey hey, I'm here in Las Vegas, I'll check into it and report back.

 

[superjunior]

well I guess they got plenty to eat when they get the munchies

 

[509inc]

well I guess they got plenty to eat when they get the munchies

No they are giving food for pot. Which means they have no munchies for after they smoke.

 

[Zamial]

Hippies wanting to help people...I think this place needs sterilized with fire...

But seriously this is the 1st of many "positive marijuana story" I suspect in a long string of up coming ones. Once the state of Cali releases the revenue report and can show a massive taxable market, it will probably get legalized in other states as well.

This would also be a great way for the tobacco farmers to generate a cash crop since it appears that tobacco is on the way out.