This bud's for you, and you, and you too

[babylonsister]

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-stein9-2008may09,0,1913406.column

This bud's for you, and you, and you too
Joel Stein
How I got my hands on some marijuana -- the legal (and easy) way.
May 9, 2008


Sometimes I can't believe how Californian California is. Women walk around half-naked, waiters call patrons "dude," and medical marijuana is legal. But I wondered just how legal. Could anyone buy it? Even me, who doesn't have cancer, AIDS, arthritis, glaucoma or even any previous pot-smoking experience?

Medical marijuana isn't really legal -- in 2005, the Supreme Court said federal anti-drug laws trump state laws -- but California and 11 other hippie states have been flipping off Washington for years.

Finding a medical marijuana distributor is shockingly easy, as Times columnist Sandy Banks noted in her recent columns on getting pot to treat arthritis. Sprinkled innocuously around L.A. County are more than 200 dispensaries that look like health food stores or pharmacies -- including three just at the intersection of Fairfax and Santa Monica. To shop at these places, though, you need a doctor's recommendation on an official form. Once you have that, no California cop can arrest you for holding up to eight ounces. That amount, I'm guessing, was based on conservative medical estimates of how much Snoop Dogg would need if he came down with glaucoma at the same time Animal Planet aired a "Meerkat Manor" marathon.

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Wondering if I had an unusually easy time, I called High Times magazine's 2006 Stoner of the Year, Doug Benson, a comedian who just released "Super High Me," a documentary in which he stops smoking pot for 30 days and then, for his next month, is high every waking minute. As part of the documentary, he got his medical marijuana certificate. "I told my doctor I had a weak back. And when he said, 'How long?' I said, 'About a week back.' " He did not get rejected. As a patient or a comedian.

In fact, Benson buys all his pot from a dispensary now. Even with the sales tax, he pays the same price and, he said, gets more consistent quality than he did from a dealer. "I had a dealer who came by my house, but this is more convenient," he said. When I asked him how that could be, he explained: "I used to have to sit there and listen to his stories. Because dealers like to hang out."

I always wondered what would happen if marijuana were legalized for anyone over 18. It seems it already has been, and nothing happened.

[here_is_to_hope]

1. We have it this easy in Oregon too...

Not getting the certificate part, our Doctors are a bit more stringent that mentioned in the article but when it comes to the dispensary, yes. My little town of 18k has two! And we are 100 miles from even a city of 100k.
The quality is good (organic and locally grown) and the price is actually cheaper than the Canadian bud that passes through here.

[babylonsister]

2. If I could only convince my DH to move! nt

[Cooley Hurd]

3. "I told my doctor I had a weak back. And when he said, 'How long?' I said, 'About a week back.' "

:rofl:

Stoner humor, no doubt.:D:hi:

[babylonsister]

4. I thought that was pretty funny, too!

Now, if I only had a dube...:smoke:

:D :hi:

[1620rock]

5. I guess those of us without a source will have to stick to tobacco and liquor...sooo much safer.

:sarcasm:

[Bennyboy]

6. My MMJ Doc spent more time with me

in one session than my regular MD has in ten years total.

He asked me about my pain and depression, gave me some herbal remedies (besides pot) and really explained why and how I got my pain and how to alleviate it.

my regular doc wrote me a prescription for Zoloft after a two question diagnosis. BTW< the ZOLOFT ruined my life.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. downside is

gives me the munchies...

and do you know how expensive munchies are these days ????

@#$!^&$#!!! Bushies...ruining everything.