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Colorado Newspaper Looking for Marijuana Reviewer
Westword, an "alternative" newspaper in Denver, has placed an ad for a medicinal marijuana reviewer. The paper has been running reviews by a staff writer, but the writer "wanted to return to the day job," opening up the position. Applicants must write a short essay on "What Marijuana Means To Me," and a MacGyver-like ability to make a bong out of common household objects is a plus.
please post something that hasn't been posted all over the internet for weeks now.
Macgyver would have built a vaporizer.
Just a FYI, the medical marijuana community normally encourages the use of vaporizers instead of smoking. This involves heating the plant material just enough to vaporize the active ingredients, but not enough to ignite it and cause smoke/ash. The result is a smoother, easier administration of your medicine (or recreational drug) without the tar and carcinigans associated with smoking. It also doesn't stink up the house.
Hey!, I'll volunteer.
C'mon Slashdot, you can do better than that.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
But what would you do to relax after a long day's work?
Am I the only one who thought the fertility idol icon was funny, considering cannabis is thought to cause...er...shrinkage.
We are the Borg...
I wonder if you have to pass a drug test.
It's a tough job, so let's get rolling.
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish"
Albert Einstein
And then he'd go on a munchies-induced rampage killing and eating Zoanoids.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Did he run out of new and interesting ways to say, "This is some good shit!"
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
It DOES still stink up the house.
The first person who both desires this job and a) has a resume, b) manages to find the motivation to print a copy of the resume, put it in an envelope, and send it to the HR department, and c) remembers to attend the interview gets the job automatically.
I suspect the position will go unfilled for some time...
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Does the position include free munchies?
I can imagine the first review.
So, dude, like, I'm totally snarfed up on this good shiznet, and, oh, God there's a whole universe in my thumbnail man. Anyway. Just got back from scarfing another 5 pounds of free munchies. Wow, the cheetos are amazing. It's like life, in a little foil wrapper. You know I could make a few hats out of these, but hats are a sign of The Man. Oh, no, speaking of - there's The Man coming in and nattering something about deadlines on a review or something. Gotta go, he's asking me to submit it or something. Whatever. Anyway, corner of West Third and Ninth, see "Frank", rating: Excellente'. Time for some munchiesssss...
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Staff meetings will be held at 4:20?
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I am a HUGE advocate for medical marijuana. It find it absurd that I have a bottle of hydrocodone (which is an opioid [like heroin or morphine]) in my cabinet and can take it whenever I need to, but if a doctor wanted to prescribe me marijuana, she couldn't.
Guys, even if it's a placebo, even if it is really doing *NOTHING* to help people physically and it is all mental (although recent research suggests that placebos can produce physical results), it's still helping; it is still making somebody who might be in pain be able to feel just a little bit better.
A major frown to those who oppose the idea of giving medicine to sick people
Another major frown to this idiotic newspaper. Do you realize what you're doing? You're playing exactly into the fears that the people who oppose this drug have; that it's just a bunch of potheads that want it. Do you review xanax? Vicodin? Perkaset? No? Well then fuck off.
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This article pretty much covers why medical pot is having such a hard time. The cause has been co-opted by people trying to use it as a backdoor to get pot legalized. California is having a lot of problems and people are turning against medical pot because it is being abused so much. A lot of the prescriptions are handed out without an real medical exam for generic things like "chronic pain". Chronic pain is a real condition, but it is being used as an excuse for people to legally get pot.
I'm all for medical pot, but it should be handled like any other medicine. It should be prescribed by a doctor for a legit condition and filled by a pharmacy, not by guys growing it in their back yard. If a doctor is prescribing it needless, he should be prosecuted the same as if he was handing out Ritalin or some other drug to people who don't need it. Unfortunately, many people are more interested in getting high than actually helping people who actually need ti for medicinal purposes.
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A bong made out of household items (such as water bottle and makeshift bowlpiece), or "ghetto bong" can create unwanted smoke that could be bad for you and is unnecessary in getting high. My friend once smoked a ghetto bong with a foil bowl piece and got thick yellow smoke, which after inhaling resulted in vomiting and probably other bad things. Therefore it is not recommended to use ghetto bongs unless in dire circumstances. Sure, my friend was laughing through his tears he was so baked, but I don't think it was very good for him.
"oh, God there's a whole universe in my thumbnail man."
Think you might have mistaken marijuana for mushrooms.
Now if you were staring at your thumbnail, and suddenly realized you didn't know WHY you were staring at said thumbnail... now THAT'S marijuana.
They should also make this person the restaurant critic!
there's nothing placebo going on with marijuana's proven ability to stimluate appetite. for many wasting diseases, such as cancer, this is a godsend. and of course marijuana relieves stress, which is an issue for anyone facing a major disease
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... the hookers and blow Reviewer position.
Heres my essay :
What hookers and blow mean to me and how they changed my life.
I just wanna party, which naturally only works with blow and women. Since hookers are not considered human I can have sex with em in front of a mirror and try to hunt 'em down with a chainsaw.
So In conclusion I have to say that I love hookers and blow.
I do not know how to build bongs BUT i can make lines on any surface.
The root of the problem is that pot is still a schedule 1 drug.
This means it is "highly addictive with no medicinal value".
Until you get it reclassified, nothing can be done on the federal level in the US.
The British removed it from their equivalent scale last year.
Mexico recently changed their possession laws to match those of Amsterdam.
Bet you didn't hear that on the 6 O'clock news.
exactly like other legal drug, ethanol and nicotine are administrated ?
The simple matter of fact is that THC is as dangerous as the other aforementionned poison. But it is culturally OK to poison yourself with alcohol (a bit less accepted for smoking) but less or downright not culturally accepted to smoke pot. There is NO REASON whatsoever to have one prescribed and the other free for sale in supermarket.
That said, I do not consume either of those 3. But I dislike the hypocrysis people show when they want to forbid one but allow the others.
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Anyone else (of the few who don't use adblock or the likes) happen to see an anti-drug ad just below the story?
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Do a search and just spend the $50 for a properly designed vaporizer where the stuff stays at room temperature until right before it's in your lungs, as you inhale heated air through it at the business end of 3 foot tube with a knob to modulate current. Basically the setup should be a tube, with a heating element at the intake, just below the green stuff, which is at the bottom of the part of the tube (the whip) that you briefly connect. Required current varies by strain, somewhat annoying.... well not really.... come to think of it.
A light bulb would be useful only if you could break the glass and inhale air directly heated by the filament to draw out your *ahem* distillate. Maybe a tungsten filament can survive operating at a steady state temp far above 200 C with an occasional blast of 20% oxygen cooling it down; but it would have to at least be visibly glowing a bit. Usually the air is heated by hot ceramic. Don't make the mistake of baking the stuff, and collecting it onto a cooler surface as a brown gooey mess. That film of goo should have gone straight into your lungs.... well not really.... come to think of it.
"Dave's not here, man."
In other news, the FBI recently caught thousands of potheads in a fake job posting for the same job.
I'm UK based, and our only medical marijuana programme is the use of the synthetic variants such as Marinol, which doesn't do anywhere near as good a job of relieving pain. It's a Class-B drug here, so it's not technically illegal to prescibe it as a doctor as it does have medicinal value, but I imagine there are other regulatory roadblocks to doing that. Which is a shame, because I know people who have tried Marinol for their pain and found it wanting, but when introduced to a vaporiser and some good bud they can get a few hours relief. When you can see a cancer patient smile because they've attenuated their pain without having to reach for the opiates, it just beggars belief that the UK government won't try something like the approach they use in some US states. Hell, the UK government even admits they grow some good shit for research purposes.
This user works at a medical cannabis dispensary in California. I understand how it may seem ridiculous that cannabis needs "reviewers", considering what we already all know about recreational use. The fact is however, that the types of cannabis vary immensely, and the effects of the different strains vary as well. It becomes a big deal when you're working with patients to target and relieve a specific symptom, while providing them the maximum functionality of their normal lives, a minimum of unwanted side effects. The technical knowledge of the plant goes pretty deep too, and new crosses are created every day so its something you have to keep up with. The plant varies genetically and chemically, with quite significant differences. The effects of cannabis are due to not one, but hundreds of different compounds called cannabinoids, and some are found only in one plant or another, in varying quantities, and these change the effects. For example, the genetic type sativa is of a stimulating nature, rarely provides significant pain relief, stimulates rather than sedates, and can cause anxiety in people prone to it (and it can get severe- panic attacks etc). Pain/insomnia/anxiety patients avoid sativas, depression/fibromyalgia/add/social disorder patients find help from sativas. The Indica genetic type is generally more potent than sativa, usually provides strong pain relief, is sedative- this is the couchlock stoned stuff, a sativa smoker who smokes at work/during the day (yeah people smoke at work, its quite common, you probably have stoned coworkers you dont notice) could not focus and would feel sleepy with an indica. On top of that, each patient is affected slightly differently and has their own preferences and dislikes, and the same strain can vary in potency, taste, and slight differences in effect depending on how it was grown. Thats touching lightly on the differences. Combine that with the fact that most patients dont know these things, and your average dispensary stocks 20+ different types with undescriptive names, and you have a real need for people to test these and inform the patients about them before they buy and are dissapointed. I dont condone putting out ads in the paper for things like this though- we like to be discreet, it avoids problems in the long run, and ensures the real sick patients still have access to what helps them. The cannabis community has established very effective ways of getting that help online, where its not in the middle of what Joe the plumber is reading over breakfast.
If you are a registered california voter or are able to register as a voter in California.... PLEASE head on over to http://californiacannabisinitiative.org so you can download, print and sign the petition and mail it in.
If you can.... PLEASE VOLUNTEER as this initiative will offer the most freedoms but doesn't have the funding the wrong initiatives do. This initiative will release cannabis prisoners and create new jobs and industries around hemp/cannabis.
By the way..... If you're in any way negative about cannabis or hemp you need to check your facts. Chances are you'll find you don't have any to back up your opinions. Please do the research on a subject before 'talking' about it to other people or 'forming an opinion' on it.
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Now I see the need of using marijuana ;)
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
"oh, God there's a whole universe in my thumbnail man."
Think you might have mistaken marijuana for mushrooms.
Now if you were staring at your thumbnail, and suddenly realized you didn't know WHY you were staring at said thumbnail... now THAT'S marijuana.
You know, a small subset of the population actually does react to marijuana that strongly. My wife is one of them (and yes, she has experience with stronger stuff like mushrooms too, so she knows what she's talking about).
Personally, I'm rather disappointed by most illicit drugs. Hollywood told me they would have a much stronger effect. I've tried alcohol, marijuana, mushrooms, acid, opium, ecstasy, cocaine, speed, and DMT, and not one of them made me actually lose control of myself or hallucinate in such a way that I couldn't easily differentiate it from reality. I still haven't tried some of the more exotic hallucinogens (like peyote), but I strongly suspect they won't be much different from mushrooms/acid.
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Isn't Datura considered Entheogenic? I'm not into that stuff, but I did happen to try some of that Salvia that the kids are abusing. The visual effects were most interesting! Going to meet the Goddess is not high on my to-do list, I won't be going back there soon.
Yeah, I used to get that, especially the one about "no-one's going to get you out of bed in the morning to go to work." One of my favorite old bosses would come by every morning with a steaming cup of Peet's, to see if I was busy.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
Just about anything could be considered "entheogenic" if you are using it for a religious/spiritual purpose. A function of intended use, rather than the properties of the drug itself...
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