Stupid Hempfest

[dawnyp]

I try to bike to work 2-3 times a week and I take the Myrtle Edwards path. They are starting to set up for Hempfest and that means paths are re-routed and will be closed tonight and tomorrow. Need to bike on the roads home which also means a much shorter bike ride. Boo!

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Boo!

[hallows]

:N: :N:

[niq]

Speaking of pot, I tried to find a dry-cleaner in my neighborhood yesterday that could get my suit done by the time of BIL's wedding on Friday.

The first one does the dry cleaning somewhere else, so it wouldn't be done until Saturday
The second one has been replaced by ... the seventh pot shop within a half mile of my house.

Look, stoners, smoke your weed, but stop getting rid of so many useful local businesses!

[jennlin]

Aug 16, 2012 12:43:46 GMT -5 niq said:

The first one does the dry cleaning somewhere else, so it wouldn't be done until Saturday
The second one has been replaced by ... the seventh pot shop within a half mile of my house.

Look, stoners, smoke your weed, but stop getting rid of so many useful local businesses!

tell me more. i really had no idea seattle is allowing these now.

[jennlin]

Aug 16, 2012 14:25:44 GMT -5 kooshball said:

I think pot stores are allowed anywhere in WA not just Seattle.... but we have like 5 within a mile of my house.

i still don't get it though. they actually sell it there? or are they paraphernalia stores? and what are the point? isn't it still illegal? i'm so not in the loop for this. maybe i should take up smoking.

[BlackCanary]

Aug 16, 2012 14:40:34 GMT -5 jennlin said:

Aug 16, 2012 14:25:44 GMT -5 kooshball said:

I think pot stores are allowed anywhere in WA not just Seattle.... but we have like 5 within a mile of my house.

i still don't get it though. they actually sell it there? or are they paraphernalia stores? and what are the point? isn't it still illegal? i'm so not in the loop for this. maybe i should take up smoking.

Medical marijuana cards.

[hallows]

I wasn't aware smoking was something you could just "take up."

[jennlin]

Aug 16, 2012 14:51:27 GMT -5 BlackCanary said:

Aug 16, 2012 14:40:34 GMT -5 jennlin said:

i still don't get it though. they actually sell it there? or are they paraphernalia stores? and what are the point? isn't it still illegal? i'm so not in the loop for this. maybe i should take up smoking.

Medical marijuana.

so why do they have STORES for it? if it's medical, shouldn't it be distributed through a pharmacy?

[dawnyp]

Pharmacies don't sell medical marijuana. Only licensed dispensaries can sell. There seem to be a ton popping up all over the place these days.

[BlackCanary]

Aug 16, 2012 14:54:31 GMT -5 jennlin said:

Aug 16, 2012 14:51:27 GMT -5 BlackCanary said:

Medical marijuana.

so why do they have STORES for it? if it's medical, shouldn't it be distributed through a pharmacy?

Due to Federal restrictions on medical marijuana, patients are unable to obtain it through a pharmacy. Selling marijuana remains illegal, but a patient who possesses marijuana upon a doctor’s recommendation is protected from state and local criminal penalties for possession under state law.

Under the Medical Marijuana Act, the cultivation of marijuana plants for the personal, medical use of a patient is permitted.

A person arrested and charged with cultivation under state law has the right to use a medical marijuana defense, if the cultivation was for personal use only, and if the person is a qualifying patient with a copy of their medical record documenting the physician’s discussion on medical marijuana. Cultivation of marijuana remains a felony under federal law. Federal agents are believed to be unlikely to arrest and prosecute small-time growers of marijuana for medial use because small-scale cases are not a high priority to federal law enforcement. Still, prosecutions by federal agencies are possible.

So it looks like shops are not really legal, but also can not be sold through any pharmacy.

[jennlin]

interesting. thanks for the info BC.

i don't get how illegal stores get licensed.