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October 1, 2017
Today, purely by chance, I wandered into the 47th Annual Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival.
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I was sorry I hadn't carried my camera. Just took a couple shots with the iPhone.
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I was sorry I hadn't carried my camera. Just took a couple shots with the iPhone.
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"Purely by chance": You didn't inhale.
Psychedelic is a progressive condition caused by anthropogenic forcings enhanced with chemical adjuvants.
How can anyone today still wear tie-dye clothing? (I never wore it when it was au courant.) Ugh!
"Today, purely by chance, I wandered into the 47th Annual Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival."
SO why did you have tickets pre-purchased online?
Were the first 46 festivals held in a basement?
Bad for your health and for humanity- all the carbon emissions and thermal gain from burning organic material. You’re killing the planet.
How can anyone today still wear tie-dye clothing? (I never wore it when it was au courant.) Ugh!
Forget it, Jake. It's Madison.
Its funny that many of the same Leftists that wish to ban Football because of CTE, want to legalize Pot.
Because its so healthy, don't you know.
Maybe some medical professional has some stats on how many ER admissions are due to MJ use.
Of course, if we go back to ye olden days, before Welfare state and Cars, I'll be in favor of legalizing Pot, herion, Cocaine, and anything else anyone wants to digest.
How were the samples?
Nothing says good times than a buncha 58-year old stoners, in tie-dye shirts, mumbling about something or other at a festival. Heh-Heh!
I can't imagine working so hard to waste time.
Dude!
The usual bunch of rocket scientists.
They say marijuana tends to increase appetite for food. I could use that.
Anyway, the war on pot is pretty stupid. These tie-dyed weirdos don't market their ideas well, but they are correct.
Legalization here in Nevada was not driven by a bunch of stoners in tie-dyed shirts but some guys in sharp suits and with Big Money. The State is happy to allow it, as with Gambling, in exchange for a cut off the top. The Paiutes are building a huge grow-house on their Rez up north, and the liquor distributors are getting a piece of the transport action. This is not a cottage industry.
These words:
Purely by chance, I took a shot.
Madison smokes while the World burns.
Seems about right.
Another beautiful day to walk around in Madison. Except for the lack of rain, this is being a nice Fall.
Pot's legal in Wisconsin?
"Today, purely by chance, I wandered into the 47th Annual Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival."
SuuuUUUURRrrreeee...
A friend and classmate from college became a devoted stoner. He was a very musically talented, high IQ guy and an all conference college football player. He majored in economics. After college he moved to Madison, smoked a lot of pot, used lots of recreational drugs and became a career house painter. Got a garage you need painted?
And we ignore the violation of Federal statutes under the, "Hey my state legalized it!" blanket.
I wish the Feds would follow suit of decriminalization of simple possession for individual use. But, until that time there are a LOT of self-identifying law breakers around.
But it's just impossible to imagine the Feds could ever take the law seriously, right...... right?
It is called sedition.
The "legal" pot trade is strictly cash. The banks won't touch it, for very good reasons. There are, however, means of laundering vast amounts of cash, which do not invite scrutiny. What could possibly go wrong ?
Speaking of MJ.
Scott Adams is a big Pot head, and a perfect example of the why we shouldn't give rich/powerful people too much power.
Y'see Scott has a lot of weird medical issues, one of which, is "Cured" by MJ. I have no doubt it does. According to Scott Adams, MJ allows him to sleep at night. But only if he smokes it.
As a result, he's a fanatical MJ legalization supporter. Which is fine - for Him. But what about the other 320 million Americans? Well, Scott Adams doesn't really care. Cause Him.
Nothing wrong with that.
But what if all America's power elite were viewing issues from the same "Is it good for me?" or "is it good for my Ethnic group" lens? Oh wait, I think they are. Which is why the USA is so fucked up.
Any time you put any type of smoke in your lungs, especially over an extended period of time, it's bad. That said, I was at the Broncos-Cowboys game two weeks ago with the 45-minute lightning delay, and the balconies on the outer part of the concourse were getting quite a workout from the smoking crowd killing time until play resumed. Mile High Stadium indeed....
I've never met a heavy user who was not permanentoy impaired
Pot meet Kettle. They start smoking over the same fire, but the former progresses to mount the hallucinating dragon, which suppresses, distorts mental function.
Far more important than the drug culture, Catalonia has voted to secede from Spain.
No one knows precisely what will happen if Catalan officials actually follow through on their pledge to use the vote — chaotic as it was — as a basis for declaring the northeastern region independent, a provocative move that would threaten Spain with the possible loss of one of its most prosperous regions, including the popular coastal city of Barcelona, the regional capital.
Hundreds of police armed with truncheons and rubber bullets were sent in from other regions to confiscate ballots and stop the voting, and amateur video showed some officers dragging people out of polling stations by the hair, throwing some down stairs, kicking them and pushing them to the ground. Anguished, frightened screams could be heard.
Police were acting on a judge’s orders to stop the referendum, which the Spanish government had declared illegal and unconstitutional — and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said going forward with the vote only served to sow divisions.
I could not care less what a bunch of druggies do. What happens Spain is important.
We are either free born or we are not. Period the end.
I'm thinking alcohol is a far worse and more widespread problem than pot. Not to say pot isn't a problem. But we need our bread and circuses. National legalization in less than ten years unfortunately.
The smell didn't attract the Professor, so maybe she flowed with the crowd of long hairs with beards until they congregated in one place and surprise, surprise they were not artists.
Does Madison smell of marijuana lately? Downtown San Francisco does, sometimes. Its pretty windy here in the afternoons.
It is happy time of year for pot heads because outdoor cannabis is harvested now and ready to be consumed. Like tomatoes grown in a field taste better than hydroponic tomato, weed grown in fields is much better than hydro. They are having a festival to celebrate harvest of outdoor pot, kinda like thanksgiving but different.
Several months ago, I dropped by to see my eldest niece, a 30 year old hipster, and she and her boyfriend were smoking weed and watching Game of Thrones. Out of curiosity, I took a hit. Just one. The last time I smoked pot was in the early '80's.
They warned me that today's pot is much more potent than the Acapulco Gold we smoked in the '70's, but even so, I wasn't prepared for it. I went from completely sober to utterly wasted in 10 seconds. I knew immediately I couldn't drive. I drank several gallons of water and sat there with them for 3 hours instead of the 1/2 hour or so I had intended on staying, waiting for it to wear off.Weirdly, I did not feel hungry at all, just thirsty, and I knew better than to have a beer and make matters worse.
I wasn't a big pothead in the 70's and I did not enjoy the experience over 35 years later. Unlike the gradual buzz of alcohol, which serves as a warning that it's time to switch to water, the high is too sudden and too drastic. Obviously, a person who hasn't smoked pot in decades has lower tolerance - but even so, good God, this stuff is really in a different universe than the weed boomers who haven't passed a joint around since desert boots were a thing remember.
In fact, the experience actually made me question my support for marijuana decriminalization. If that's the stuff they are smoking nowadays, it's actually frightening to think of young people smoking it all the time.
Spain is important. The Catalan business could easily be a precursor to all sorts of breakups. Most nation-states are actually assembled from fragments.
Note that Catalunia was a founding member, so to speak, of Spain as a polity, being an integral part of the kingdom of Aragon. When Ferdinand of Aragon got hitched to Isabella of Castile the kingdoms were united in what has been known as Spain.
Catalunia was Spanish before Brittany was French, not long after Gascony was French, 200 years before Alsace and Lorraine were French, and 120 years before Scotland was British.
No Spanish government can permit this, no matter the cost. It is an existential crisis.
Tommy Duncan said...
A friend and classmate from college became a devoted stoner. He was a very musically talented, high IQ guy and an all conference college football player. He majored in economics. After college he moved to Madison, smoked a lot of pot, used lots of recreational drugs and became a career house painter."
Is there anybody born after 1946 or so who doesn't know at least one kid they went to school with who became a devoted stoner and ended up living in mom's basement, working a menial job and basically living for that daily high? In my case, it was a boy who was very sharp and bright in grade school who ended up dropping out of college and getting a job at a gas station. He was still living at home at age 40, the last time I saw him.
Many people can smoke it fairly frequently without any ill effect, but it seems to sap the ambition and personality out of a sizable minority of people.
That is true of the niece I mentioned. A college dropout with a barista job who says she wants to be a writer, but never actually seems to write anything, just as her 30 year old "artist" boyfriend talks a lot about being an artist, but isn't creating anything. I love her, but she and the boyfriend are stuck in permanent adolescence. (And yes, they are leftists, of course, but they couldn't get their asses to the polls last November and they certainly don't have the energy to become antifas. So thank God for small favors.)
No, I guess I don't think it should be illegal, any more than booze should be. But I wish people would stop pretending it has no serious ill effects.
Robert Cook said...
How can anyone today still wear tie-dye clothing? (I never wore it when it was au courant.) Ugh!"
I admit to having a few back in the day. Cut me some slack. I was 12.
Walking around in tye-dye today is akin to baby boomers wearing spats and cloche hats in 1968.
I could not care less what a bunch of druggies do. What happens Spain is important.
Agree. It looks like the Spanish government is getting wrong footed by the Catalan government. The optics of riot police hitting regular civilians trying to vote is a no win situation for Madrid. Better to let them have their vote and then discredit it and not acknowledge it.
Arguably, the strongest card the Spaniards have in keeping Catalonia in Spain is making it clear that Barcelona FC would not be able to play in the Spanish league if Catalonia succeeds.
Today's pot just stanks. Smells gross.
Maybe the Spanish government needs to smoke some pot and mellow out.
I mean..as Amexpat suggests, if the vote has no validity, why crack skulls over it?
It pains me to my soul every time I reflect that so many of my countrymen would much rather toke a doobie than read Seneca.
@Exile,
Great story!
In my late 20s, I had to visit Telegraph Ave in Berkeley for work-related tasks, and I would regularly see guys and gals from high school, who were stoned, begging for $$ on the sidewalk, and looked terrible. I felt bad for them. I remembered them at age 15 experimenting with dope, partying, still young, making jokes in class - it didn't seem too harmful at the time. But the years caught up with them, right when I started advancing in my career, getting married, buying a house, etc, etc - all that boring, square, middle-class stuff.
That was 25 years ago. I shudder to learn what happened to them since.
Facsism always threatens America but lands in Europe. I'm not worried about a bunch of lingustic snobs wanting to split off from a bankrupt country on a worn out continent thousands of miles away.
Marijuana is very very bad for the 5 to 10 percent or so (nobody knows the actual percentage, but it is much larger than zero) of people who cannot handle it - there is something in some people's genes that gets activated towards psychosis by marijuana. Think of those pictures of a dozen of so native Americans, who lack hundreds of generations of alcohol tolerance, passed out less than 50 yards from the liquor store. Marijuana does not debilitate that quickly but - believe me, I know what the facts are - even the mild stuff can trigger, in a few percent of people, mental illness. Joke about it all you want if you are not susceptible. But it is what it is.
That was 25 years ago. I shudder to learn what happened to them since.
They became full professors at prestigious universities.
In fact, the experience actually made me question my support for marijuana decriminalization. If that's the stuff they are smoking nowadays, it's actually frightening to think of young people smoking it all the time.
The "pot lobby" has been pushing the cannabis is benign bullshit since the founding days of NORML. Most of their arguments are based on research done in the sixties when marijuana was literally a weed. Today's pot is hardly that. Without human participation, most cultivars are ill-equipped to survive as volunteer colonists on wasteland. In terms of co-evolution Cannabis sativa is heading down the same road as tobacco did hundreds of years ago, only much more quickly as the practice of horticulture has changed from a set of trail-and-error rules of thumb to a hard science.
TCH is like any other drug — whether the effect is benign or detrimental or even deadly depends considerably on dosage. I predict than in a few years we will discover that we had loosed upon ourselves a social plague as devastating as any other intoxicant.
Stoned or not, I highly recommend this tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHfx4xkCO4E
Khruangbin - People Everywhere (Still Alive)
“We feel like there is an ease that comes from being immersed in a space, away from the distractions of the city and everyday life. We make our music in a barn, in the Texas hill country, because it makes sense to us. Being there allows us to make music that comes naturally, and that’s what we wanted this album to be. We wanted to make a record that just let the music happen, and we hope that’s what you can hear.”
The natural history of the tobacco plant is interesting and instructive. Botanists agree that nicotine evolved from a family of alkaloids which first appeared in the Carboniferous as a defense against plant-devouring insects. Though it still has some utility as an insecticide, nicotine primarily benefits the plant that produces it by inducing humans to serve the plant's interests. The ancestral Nicotiana sylvestris was native to Central America, but by 1492 the plant had been spread by human cultivators from Upper Canada to Patagonia. Hybridization techniques introduced by European colonists in the 17th century created a new cultivar, N. tabacum which produced a more potent isomer of nicotine with even greater addictive properties. Co-evolution has created a relationship between the tobacco plant and mankind that is somewhat analogous to the relationship of honeybees to certain nectar-bearing flowers — the bees would starve without the nectar and pollen, and the flowers would likewise die without their pollinators. In the case of human/tobacco relations, however, the politics are more insidious. Nicotine-addicted people suffer profoundly without the smoke but gain little or nothing with it. On the other hand, N. tabacum would go extinct without human cultivation. In effect, the tobacco plant is a parasite functioning as many parasitic nematodes do by using neurologically active chemicals to control the host's behavior, the host, in this case, being H. sapiens.
Cannabis sativa is in the process of learning the same trick. THC started as a kind of "sunscreen" to protect the young leaves and buds of the tropical hemps from UV radiation, and its intoxicating effects on primates was accidental. However, since marijuana moved from neglected patches of waste ground into climate-regulated greenhouses often equipped with controlled spectrum lighting, the protective function has become superfluous, and the accidental characteristics have become the primal survival factor.
Maybe the Spanish government needs to smoke some pot and mellow out.
The odd thing about today's news from Spain is the willingness of Madrid to re-fight the Civil War while a much more threatening reconquista is going on right under their collective nose!
Teamsters union in PR wants pay in advance.
Rip Van Winkle?
Caveman?
New Con Law Prof?
I'm all for medical marijuana if it helps some really ill people. I think it ought to be treated like any other prescription drug though. Really, you don't know what you're getting if you need it for a medical condition. As for recreational use, pretty much everyone I know from the 70s gave it up when they realized that you can't actually accomplish anything if you're in a perpetual fog. The few people that I know that still do are are stuck in neutral.
>Is there anybody born after 1946 or so who doesn't know at least one kid they went to school with who became a devoted stoner and ended up living in mom's basement, working a menial job and basically living for that daily high?
I doubt it; brother in law in my case. Smart guy, too.
Amazing that our ace reporter, AA, was not prepared with her camera. She's paid all those big bucks to bring us the best live news.
On another note, I am amazed at the number of people I've met in the last 10+ years who now admit that there prospects were limited because of being stoned (more or less) in high school resulting in poorer grades and therefore not qualifying for better jobs later in life. Seems to have been a problem starting in the late 80's or so.
"Today, purely by chance, I wandered into the 47th Annual Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival."
Suuure you did. Uh huh.
Pics are from library mall..right next to university book store and at one end of state street: Natural destination for a hip young couple strolling on a sunny day in Madtown.
Same thing happened to me when a group of our family in town a few years ago for niece's birthday..went to State St. for pizza and was just in time for the highly abnormal pro-normalization crowd in parade.
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