Justin_M's blog

 Yup, some 15 million self proclaimed pot heads roam the country. And that sweet leaf will be starring in some of the summer's comedy releases featuring a few slightly befogged, yet familiar faces. This summer is bringing us a bumper crop of movies and TV shows--Pineapple Express, The Wackness, Humboldt County and Showtime's Weeds among them--with THC in their DNA. Not stoner stories so much as plots that happen to involve pot, they ask, 37 years after the war on drugs was declared, whether there's a place in the culture for treatments of pot that neither criminalize nor celebrate it.

 Pot subculture is flourishing even as the government supresses real scientific research and keeps the wheels of prohibition and oppression rolling, releasing its own "studies" that mislead the public to try and convince people that its become more potent leading to, you guessed it, more "potential" (a blatantly absurd lie) health risks. And yes, it has gotten more potent, but you know what people do to compensate for good bud? They smoke less. Realistically the weed you'll find buried in the sock drawer or hidden in that little black box at that waaayyyy tip top of the closet is only between 3-5% THC. The White House bloates that figure to make the assumption that most commercial weed in the stash box  is now at over 9% THC, and some of it probably is. If you can afford to pay 25-30 bucks a gram for it. Just so you know one well rolled, average size, dubbie uses about 3/4 to a full gram, so you can do the math to figure out how much it would be to stay supplied for the week. Weed shops in the Netherlands have strains that go as high as 16% THC...and guess what, no crazies running around zonked out and stupid on weed, nope, they're functioning, tax paying, go to work everyday, people who contribute back to society even if the only way is by buying more pot in the coffee shop.

Tax it. Regulate it. Smoke it. Share it.