Author Steve Elliott ~alapoet~

Cannabis and LGBT Activists Submit Signatures for Safe Access

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 8, 2012 Legislation, Medical, News

Fifteen percent of registered voters in Imperial Beach, California have signed the initiative to overturn the city’s current ban on safe access to medical cannabis and replace it with reasonable regulations.

The Safe Access Ordinance of Imperial Beach, a collaborative effort between Canvass for a Cause, a San Diego based LGBT non-profit, San Diego Americans for Safe Access, and concerned citizens, launched the first ever initiative to regulate safe access to medical cannabis in Imperial Beach. If passed, the measure would repeal the city’s current ban and replace it with strict zoning regulations and operational requirements for medical cannabis dispensing collectives and cooperatives.

Toke Readers Get $1 Off Grow Mugs At Haight-Ashbury Street Fair

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 8, 2012 Culture, Products

The 35th Haight-Ashbury Street Fair in San Francisco

Sunday, June 10

11:00 am to 6:00 pm

Haight – Ashbury, San Francisco, CA

Price: Free to attend

Age Suitability: All Ages

The 35th Haight-Ashbury Street Fair is this Sunday, June 10, 2012! Once a year, on the second Sunday in June, the Haight-Ashbury community hosts a special celebration and everyone in the World is invited.

Music is in the air; people dance in the streets; a festive atmosphere springs up; and Haight Street, once again, becomes the center of Peace, Love and Happiness. This annual event is the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair, one of the most highly anticipated public events in San Francisco.

The 35th Annual Haight-Ashbury Street Fair will be taking place on Sunday, June 10, 2012, from 11 am until 6 pm. A variety of activities will be taking place including three stages offering live entertainment; a six-block Vending Area featuring arts & crafts, food and other merchandise; an area dedicated to the entertainment of families with children; and an opportunity to celebrate with many other like-minded people.

Medicinal Milkshakes and the End of Marijuana Prohibition

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 8, 2012 Culture, Legislation

SOAR Study Skills

In America, the fountain manager at one of the original Walgreen’s, Ivar “Pop” Coulson, took the traditional British milkshake (booze and all) and added ice cream. These babies took off like … ice cream mixed with booze

By Jack Rikess

Toke of the Town

Northern California Correspondent

I have a theory about beer: Consumption of it leads to pseudo-military behavior. Think about it – winos don’t march. Whiskey guys don’t march, either. Beer drinkers are into things that are sort of like marching – like football.

~ Frank Zappa

I drink your milkshake.

~ There Will Be Blood

Beer goes where angels and politicians fear to tread.

~ Jack Rikess

June 8, 2012

I love basketball and it is Finals time. It is down to few remaining games. The players are exhausted from a truncated season shortened because of contract negotiations that plagued the beginning of the season.

(As a side note: Part of the arbitration dispute that almost sidelined the whole season, besides that the owners wanted the players to take a pay cut, was the issue of being drug tested for cannabis-during the off-season. The pro hoopsters won the right not to pee in a bottle for weed during their four months off.)

For the past few months, Budweiser has been the major sponsor of the NBA Finals. That means I’ve been watching the same commercials over and over, sometimes the exact same message, 15 to 20 times a night. The repeated advertisement I hate the most is the stupid Budweiser commercial extolling the virtues of it being the end of Prohibition. An optimistic, bright-eyed kid beats the band running downs Main Street announcing Prohibition is over to a waiting, thirsty, hops-hoping nation of Americans! We’re back in business. Booze is King, again!

Attorney General Defends Medical Marijuana Crackdown

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 8, 2012 Dispensaries, Medical, News

What On Earth?

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder claims the Obama Administration is only going after those who are “taking advantage” and “acting out of conformity … with state laws”

Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday defended the Department of Justice’s crackdown on medical marijuana, claiming growers and dispensaries “took advantage” of state medical marijuana laws.

Holder, appearing before the House Judiciary Committee, admitted that the Obama Justice Department had broken with the Bush Administration in pledging not to go after anyone acting within state medicinal cannabis laws, reports Dan Freedman of the Hearst Washington Bureau.

More High School Students Smoke Marijuana Than Cigarettes

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 7, 2012 Culture, News

More high school students in the United States now smoke marijuana than smoke cigarettes, according to the federal government.

A youth risk survey [PDF] from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday reported that 23 percent of high school students said they had recently smoked cannabis, while 18 percent said they had smoked cigarettes.

Among students nationwide, the prevalence of current marijuana use increased from 1991 to 1999 (14.7 percent to 26.7 percent) and then decreased from 1999 to 2011 (26.7 percent to 23.1 percent). The prevalence of current marijuana use increased from 2009 (20.8 percent) to 2011 (23.1 percent).

I-502’s Marijuana DUI: FAQs vs. Facts

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 7, 2012 Legislation, News

Barking up the wrong tree

By Philip Dawdy

Cannabis Activist

One of the most controversial provisions of New Approach Washington’s I-502 is its per se DUI limit of 5 nanograms of active THC metabolite per milliliter of blood.

It’s a limit that some critics have dubbed “unscientific” and “draconian.” Others claim that it is not a measure of impairment and would threaten the driving rights of every medical cannabis patient in Washington State.

These are serious criticisms. So how does New Approach Washington defend its 5 nanogram provision?

Senator Adds Hemp Legalization To Farm Bill

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 7, 2012 Growing, Legislation, News

Bodhi Group

Canadian farmer harvests a bountiful hemp crop. He could be joined by his U.S. neighbors if Sen. Ron Wyden’s amendment to the Farm Bill is successful

Vote Hemp Encourages Support for Proposed Amendment by Senator Wyden on Industrial Hemp in the Farm Bill

Amendment Would Exclude Industrial Hemp From the Definition of Marijuana

Vote Hemp released an action alert on Thursday encouraging support for Senator Ron Wyden’s submitted last-minute amendment to the Farm Bill, S. 3240, the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012, which would exclude industrial hemp from the definition of “marihuana.”

Springstock Cancelled; Would Have Supported Medical Marijuana In AR

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 7, 2012 Culture, Legislation, Medical

Springstock

It ain’t happenin’.

This weekend, members of the community of Hot Springs, Arkansas and the surrounding areas had planned come together for three days of music, camping and fun in the sun in support of natural medicine in the Natural State. But the organizers were reportedly told to cancel the Springstock Music and Camping Festival, scheduled for June 8-10 at Bald Mountain Park.

Who, exactly, strong-armed the organizers into canceling the event? Which “powers that be” were threatened enough by Springstock to prevent it from happening? We don’t have the answers to those questions yet, but we’re still digging.

Proceeds would have benefited Arkansans for Compassionate Care (ACC), a nonprofit organization working to pass medical marijuana legislation in Arkansas.

Bath Salts = Bad Idea [Infographic]

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 7, 2012 News, Products

Via Lakeview Health

Those of us who have been through a few media cycles of hysteria over the “latest drug menace” are always skeptical when the mainstream whips itself up into a fine frenzy over the newest chemical bug-a-boo threatening the citizenry.

But even a stuck clock is right twice a day, and it appears that there’s some substance behind the negative publicity surrounding “bath salts,” which in no small part due to sensationalist press coverage, have become the latest quasi-legal drug craze to sweep the nation.

Although bath salts are sold through a loophole as a harmless substance used for relaxation, people are ingesting them seeking euphoria. In addition to experiencing altered moods, some bath salts users are having psychotic episodes marked with agitation, hallucinations and violent behavior.

World Famous Cannabis Café Holding First Expo

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 6, 2012 Culture, Dispensaries, Products

World Famous Cannabis Cafe

Madeline Martinez, World Famous Cannabis Cafe: “As always, we strive to provide safe and legal access to services for Oregon Medical Marijuana Program registrants”

The World Famous Cannabis Café has announced what its press release calls “a new and exciting monthly event,” The Cannabis and Hemp Expo. The first of its kind in the Portland area, the Expo takes place on Sunday, June 10, from noon until 7:00 p.m. at the café, 322 SE 82nd Avenue, Portland, Oregon.

“As always, we strive to provide safe and legal access to services for Oregon Medical Marijuana Program registrants,” said Madeline Martinez, proprietress of the café. “We hope to generate enough interest in the community to have an expo on the second Sunday of every month.”

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