Well, if you REALLY want to be correct, hydrazine and N2O4 got us onto the moon (and back off of it again), as well as enabling us to enter (and leave) lunar orbit....
1.) Spend a few hundred $ setting up a corporation. 2.) Buy an.mp3 under the auspices of said corporation. 3.) Sell the corporation and rights to the.mp3 for $3 4.) ??? 5.) PROFIT!
Completely agree, but down-scheduling is one of the best ways that Obama could force the issue without being seen as usurping the powers of Congress.. Eventually, I would love to see alcohol. tobacco, and grass all regulated the same way. If you want any of them, grow them or make them yourself. Tobacco and cannabis are plants, for dog's sake. Homebrewing, winemaking, and distilling are fine old traditions, not that hard to learn, and a nice geeky hobby, as well.
Gets the government and corporations out of the perverse incentive of deriving income from potentially harmful/addictive substances.
Finally, the Controlled Substances Act allows Obama to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III without having to go through Congress, changing it from contraband to regulated drug overnight.
^this
The upcoming Senate hearings would be a good place to force the issue, as well.
Rescheduling the raw plant down to CIII would be a great move for Obama to make, but I wonder if he has the balls to do it.
Schedule 3, is where THC itself actually sits, as long as it is sold by Big Pharma. Homebrew hash oil is still illegal for you without a Rx.:)
Gotta keep the money flowing the right way, ya know.
Waiting for the "compromise" with the GOP, where manufacture/distribution is handed to Big Tobacco, who can then sell "Marlboro Greens" through every quickie mart.
The ONLY reason that the feds won't be going after recreational users is that they simply don't have the resources to do so. The DEA has ~5500 agents in total, not nearly enough to go after everybody in WA and CO who likes to smoke grass.
What they are likely to do is much the same as what has been going on in CA and other medical marijuana states--go after the people who are distributing the pot commercially. As soon as the framework is in place for legal distribution and cultivation to start, the federal harassment will kick in. They will start going after stores selling the stuff, shops where people are smoking it, etc.
If the tactics in CA are any guide, they won't even be using the drug laws to do their dirty work. They will use the tax code where they don't allow the dispensaries to deduct the cost of the MJ they sell as a business expense, requiring them to pay more in taxes than they make by selling the stuff. Or they will go after the landlords of the storefronts the dispensaries operate from, threatening property seizure unless the "illegal activities" are evicted. Or go after the banks where the dispensaries have business accounts, wit the threat of prosecution for "money laundering". There are many ways that the feds can make it impossible to run a marijuana business, even without busting anyone for actual drug violations.
Cash transactions at banks over $10,000 are subject to special reporting requirements, thanks largely to the War on Drugs. It wouldn't surprise me if trying to make any kind of cash transaction for $16K draws unwanted attention in the current police state environment.
Obviously, she was taking the money she earned selling drugs, and laundering it by buying iPhones for cash, then reselling them. Makes perfect sense to a cop, who has been trained to assume that EVERYBODY is a criminal....
IIRC, Gene Kranz and a couple others from Mission Control have stated that the CYA guy from Grumman was a cinematic invention by Ron Howard. And that Grumman actually distinguished themselves quite well during the mission.
They damned well better have, considering the towing bill they sent NAA:
Actually, as a PhD geologist (the only scientist who ever went to the moon), he is eminently qualified to talk about the geological origins of the moon.
His positions on climatology and global warming... not so much. I think those just came along with getting involved in GOP politics. He was a republican senator from NM, and his wackier positions have all emerged since then. Apparently, he believes that environmentalism and global warming are not only "communist", but also "a stalking horse for Nazism". Maybe he breathed in too much moondust or something?
Yep. The Lunar module was built by Grumman (way before Northrop got involved with them) on Long Island, and the Command and Service modules were built by North American Aviation in Downey, CA. NAA was taken over by Rockwell, and eventually became part of Boeing.
The Saturn V rocket was built by Boeing, NAA, and Douglas, with the guidance computer being built by IBM.
it is not unreasonable that we demand they have similar powers over knowing when pot smokers inhale their illicitly legal drug.
How do you enforce that? Require that all pot be smoked in government-registered devices that stamp each toke with a timestamp and GPS location, and send the data to the local law enforcement agency?
Possession of things like paper, tinfoil or apples would need to be controlled , as they would be "illegal paraphernalia precursors", or course.
The DEA has the power to place anything they want to into Schedule 1, based on nothing more than the whim of unelected bureaucrats. They did it years ago with MDMA (ecstasy), and more recently with GHB,, various synthetic cannabinoids, and several compounds being sold as "bath salts".
Such emergency scheduling powers are SUPPOSED to be subject to congressional review (based on impartial scientific findings), but history shows that such decisions are simply rubberstamped by congress without any actual review taking place.
Marijuana clearly has medical uses so including it as a Schedule 1 substance is misleading to say the least.,
Agreed. But then again, the same can be said for several other Schedule 1 drugs, as well. LSD, MDMA, mescaline, and psilocybin were being used in psychotherapy before they were banned, often with very encouraging results. The War on Drugs killed the entire area of study until very recently, with the DEA and FDA being dragged kicking and screaming to allow a couple of highly restricted studies to be conducted.
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Well, if you REALLY want to be correct, hydrazine and N2O4 got us onto the moon (and back off of it again), as well as enabling us to enter (and leave) lunar orbit....
1.) Spend a few hundred $ setting up a corporation. .mp3 under the auspices of said corporation. .mp3 for $3
2.) Buy an
3.) Sell the corporation and rights to the
4.) ???
5.) PROFIT!
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Can_you_get_put_on_the_sex_offenders_registry_for_public_urination#ixzz20ShoPVh1
There was an anti-sodomy law in Texas until as recently as 2003!
And in Alabama, sale of blow-up dolls, dildoes, and butt plugs is currently still illegal...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Obscenity_Enforcement_Act
Completely agree, but down-scheduling is one of the best ways that Obama could force the issue without being seen as usurping the powers of Congress.. Eventually, I would love to see alcohol. tobacco, and grass all regulated the same way. If you want any of them, grow them or make them yourself. Tobacco and cannabis are plants, for dog's sake. Homebrewing, winemaking, and distilling are fine old traditions, not that hard to learn, and a nice geeky hobby, as well.
Gets the government and corporations out of the perverse incentive of deriving income from potentially harmful/addictive substances.
If M$ has any US govt. contracts (and they surely do), they fall under the Drug-Free Workplace Act.
http://www.dol.gov/elaws/asp/drugfree/screen4.htm
Thank Ronnie Raygun for that one.
Finally, the Controlled Substances Act allows Obama to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III without having to go through Congress, changing it from contraband to regulated drug overnight.
^this
The upcoming Senate hearings would be a good place to force the issue, as well.
http://www.thedailychronic.net/2012/13829/senate-judiciary-committee-to-hold-hearings-on-marijuana-policy/
Rescheduling the raw plant down to CIII would be a great move for Obama to make, but I wonder if he has the balls to do it.
Schedule 3, is where THC itself actually sits, as long as it is sold by Big Pharma. Homebrew hash oil is still illegal for you without a Rx. :)
Gotta keep the money flowing the right way, ya know.
Waiting for the "compromise" with the GOP, where manufacture/distribution is handed to Big Tobacco, who can then sell "Marlboro Greens" through every quickie mart.
The ONLY reason that the feds won't be going after recreational users is that they simply don't have the resources to do so. The DEA has ~5500 agents in total, not nearly enough to go after everybody in WA and CO who likes to smoke grass.
What they are likely to do is much the same as what has been going on in CA and other medical marijuana states--go after the people who are distributing the pot commercially. As soon as the framework is in place for legal distribution and cultivation to start, the federal harassment will kick in. They will start going after stores selling the stuff, shops where people are smoking it, etc.
If the tactics in CA are any guide, they won't even be using the drug laws to do their dirty work. They will use the tax code where they don't allow the dispensaries to deduct the cost of the MJ they sell as a business expense, requiring them to pay more in taxes than they make by selling the stuff. Or they will go after the landlords of the storefronts the dispensaries operate from, threatening property seizure unless the "illegal activities" are evicted. Or go after the banks where the dispensaries have business accounts, wit the threat of prosecution for "money laundering". There are many ways that the feds can make it impossible to run a marijuana business, even without busting anyone for actual drug violations.
Conductive clothing should allow the charge to flow over you, rather than through you. The Faraday cage effect and all that.
Of course, when the Taser fails to have the desired effect, the next thing that Porky Pig is going to reach for is their gun...
Didn't some state have that as their motto?
Cash transactions at banks over $10,000 are subject to special reporting requirements, thanks largely to the War on Drugs. It wouldn't surprise me if trying to make any kind of cash transaction for $16K draws unwanted attention in the current police state environment.
Obviously, she was taking the money she earned selling drugs, and laundering it by buying iPhones for cash, then reselling them. Makes perfect sense to a cop, who has been trained to assume that EVERYBODY is a criminal....
It plays anything I have thrown at it, takes up less resources and disc space, and isn't constantly loading updates and security patches.
They earned the nickname "Grumman Ironworks" among pilots, because they were so strongly built and reliable....
IIRC, Gene Kranz and a couple others from Mission Control have stated that the CYA guy from Grumman was a cinematic invention by Ron Howard. And that Grumman actually distinguished themselves quite well during the mission.
They damned well better have, considering the towing bill they sent NAA:
http://everything2.com/title/Apollo+13+towing+bill
Actually, as a PhD geologist (the only scientist who ever went to the moon), he is eminently qualified to talk about the geological origins of the moon.
His positions on climatology and global warming... not so much. I think those just came along with getting involved in GOP politics. He was a republican senator from NM, and his wackier positions have all emerged since then. Apparently, he believes that environmentalism and global warming are not only "communist", but also "a stalking horse for Nazism". Maybe he breathed in too much moondust or something?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Schmitt
Yep. The Lunar module was built by Grumman (way before Northrop got involved with them) on Long Island, and the Command and Service modules were built by North American Aviation in Downey, CA. NAA was taken over by Rockwell, and eventually became part of Boeing.
The Saturn V rocket was built by Boeing, NAA, and Douglas, with the guidance computer being built by IBM.
He was reportedly on bluelight.ru, posting as "Stuffmonger".
Dave Jones' "EEVBlog" recently did a teardown of a couple knockoff AppleUSB chargers. Some pretty scary cruft inside, for sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-b9k-0KfE
Didn't the Apollo program bring us the 8-bit microprocessor?,
Nope. Not even the 4-bit.
The Apollo guidance computer didn't use a microprocessor at all. It was built from thousands of individual RTL 3-imput NOR gates:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
Putting non-existent features onto published maps to provide proof of future copyright infringement is a well-known practice, after all...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
it is not unreasonable that we demand they have similar powers over knowing when pot smokers inhale their illicitly legal drug.
How do you enforce that? Require that all pot be smoked in government-registered devices that stamp each toke with a timestamp and GPS location, and send the data to the local law enforcement agency?
Possession of things like paper, tinfoil or apples would need to be controlled , as they would be "illegal paraphernalia precursors", or course.
The DEA has the power to place anything they want to into Schedule 1, based on nothing more than the whim of unelected bureaucrats. They did it years ago with MDMA (ecstasy), and more recently with GHB,, various synthetic cannabinoids, and several compounds being sold as "bath salts".
Such emergency scheduling powers are SUPPOSED to be subject to congressional review (based on impartial scientific findings), but history shows that such decisions are simply rubberstamped by congress without any actual review taking place.
Marijuana clearly has medical uses so including it as a Schedule 1 substance is misleading to say the least.,
Agreed. But then again, the same can be said for several other Schedule 1 drugs, as well. LSD, MDMA, mescaline, and psilocybin were being used in psychotherapy before they were banned, often with very encouraging results. The War on Drugs killed the entire area of study until very recently, with the DEA and FDA being dragged kicking and screaming to allow a couple of highly restricted studies to be conducted.
http://cannabisculture.com/articles/4131.html
http://weedpress.wordpress.com/science/in-the-news/australian-driving-study-says-cannabis-is-safe/
http://www.ccguide.org/driving.php
Look, these idiots are still classifying pot as a Schedule 1 drug. It's in the same category as cocaine, heroin and LSD.
Cocaine is actually in Schedule 2, as it is occasionally used as a local anesthetic in eye and nasal surgery...