> The hemp industry is lobbying the German government to tax cannabis products at no more than €10 a gramme of bud This is double the street cost of the product. The black market will thrive.
What? No way this is true
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You can still find lower THC cannabis at any dispensary. Most carry from 10 to 30%. Most also carry CBD flower and very low dose edibles. I also don’t understand this argument because you can just take 1 hit and be done. No one is forcing you to finish a whole joint. Should liquor be outlawed because it is stronger than beer?
No, I disagree immensely and I will explain why. I want 2-5% of THC. A joint should be like drinking a single beer to be perfect in my opinion. If you sit down to relax in the evening you don‘t drown a single shot. The joy is in the process and to feel a light buzz
And you can absolutely obtain such a thing. CBD weed is usually 2-3% THC. Almost every dispensary carries it in some form.
Also to people with higher tolerance a joint IS like a beer. THC tolerance builds slowly but lasts a very long time unlike alcohol (anecdotally).
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Fall into canals; move in flocks between narrow city centre streets making a lot of noise; bike around with disregard to common traffic rules. I'm not Dutch and I really enjoy going to Amsterdam, have friends living there, etc. From what I gather those are the main complaints, just annoyances and not really major problems. Financing criminals when these same tourists go searching for other drugs, that's a real issue.…
> Fall into canals; move in flocks between narrow city centre streets making a lot of noise; bike around with disregard to common traffic rules. Sounds like you're describing the behavior of people who've had too much to drink. Alcohol is already legal.
Yes, but people can stay home and do that, they don't have to come to Amsterdam.
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#394I think the legalization of cannabis in Europe has a lot of potential. I just wish that we would take measures to avoid the ever increasing levels of THC dosage in weed to insane levels, like you see in the US or California specifically. I firmly believe that cannabis can do a lot of good, but the poison is in the dosage. It has been shown in the past that increasing THC while decreasing CBD leads to an increase in n…
When I lived in Arizona before it was legal, the vast majority of weed came from Mexico. A quarter pound cost $200 and was a mix of male and female plants, full of seeds, grown in fields. I was a daily user for about 20 years. I moved to coastal state where it was legal. Now it's all hydroponically grown, all female and all seedless. I was a daily user for about 12 years and had to completely stop using it. It would…
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#395I think the legalization of cannabis in Europe has a lot of potential. I just wish that we would take measures to avoid the ever increasing levels of THC dosage in weed to insane levels, like you see in the US or California specifically. I firmly believe that cannabis can do a lot of good, but the poison is in the dosage. It has been shown in the past that increasing THC while decreasing CBD leads to an increase in n…
I would recommend to consume only low THC + high CBD strains.(1)
For me the difference of these strains to some of the modern high THC + low CBD ones is comparable to drinking a good glass of wine versus chugging down some highly potent moonshine.
Some moderns strains are completely overbred and dangerous to some people in my experience.(2)
Knowing the Germans, I‘m optimistic, they‘ll regulate it properly, so that everything you will be able to buy legally, should be quite safe.
1) https://greatist.com/health/high-cbd-low-thc#_noHeaderPrefix...
2) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_hyperemesis_synd...
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#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the law automatically can be invalidated by a court. There are three parts to the law: 1. The legislature must draft the law 2. The executives must enforce the law. 3. The judicial must punish for breaking the law. If (2) never happens, then it never gets to (3). And courts can "invalidate" a law: jury nullification.
SCOTUS ought to invalidate the DEA and drug scheduling considering they’re overturning other perceived federal overreaches.
Republicans are in favor of the DEA and drug scheduling though.
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SCOTUS ought to invalidate the DEA and drug scheduling considering they’re overturning other perceived federal overreaches.
Republicans are in favor of the DEA and drug scheduling though.
That’s no longer true - Republicans are split down the middle on legal pot.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/356939/support-legal-marijuana-...
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If you do try it again, then go for a park/forest with less people.
No. Starters should stay inside their own home where they feel safe and comfortable
Agreed. I can’t imagine if I had experienced the above in a public setting. I probably would have required an ambulance to leave.
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#399Personally can't wait for the equivalent of Appellation d'origine contrôlée for weed. "It's not Champagne Double Cork Kush unless it comes from the Champagne region." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellation_d%27origine_contr%...
Fighting over who owns genetics is already happening
AOC is not about genetics, it's about land, for the most part.
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Congress created them originally, but they gave DEA very wide authority to change them. (This is also why federal drug legalization could, in theory, be achieved through executive order, if Dems had the spine for that.)
Thanks didn’t know it was actually congress. Makes more sense to me now. But does congress even have authority to regulate that? Does it fall under unenumerated rights that fall to the people? I guess I remember hearing they regulate it under interstate commerce?
Yes, it's the expansive interpretation of the Commerce Clause. This is the Supreme Court case that fully fleshed out that doctrine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
Basically, if they can somehow connect it to interstate commerce - even if it very indirect, like in this case where growing something for personal consumption affected demand - it's "constitutional", supposedly.
This is the case that explicitly extended this reasoning to drugs: