FINALLLY! Pot vending machines in California!

[Bennyboy]

LA area pot club to start using vending machines for after hours patients!http://gizmodo.com/348628/marijuana-vending-machines-opening-for-business-in-la

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Bennyboy...

I wonder how long those will last till the Feds bust 'em?

:shrug:

[Bennyboy]

2. I would say they painted a big old target....

on their clubs with this. even though it makes sense and seems to me to be okay, it will cause an uproar for sure...

[pokerfan]

3. Medical marijuana prohibition is an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.

Peter McWilliams (1950-2000)

http://www.petermcwilliams.org/video/McWilliamsDSL.ram


Medical marijuana prohibition is an outrage within an outrage within an outrage. The first outrage, of course, is the War on Drugs itself. Prohibition does not work, has not worked, cannot work, and anyone who says it can is either deeply delusional or is making money on the Drug War.

The next layer of outrage is marijuana prohibition. Marijuana 61 years ago was unjustly criminalized based upon lies by the self-serving drug czar of his day to a Congress who lapped it up like milk because it happened in the summer and it was hot and they wanted to go home. And so they voted in the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 after ninety seconds of debate. The prohibition has been unrelenting. More than 12 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana since that time. This is a plant that has never hurt anyone in 5000 years in a country where 400,000 people die prematurely of cigarettes and 100,000 people die prematurely from alcohol. That this herb, this plant, this weed should be so illegal in this country that since the 1995 Omnibus Crime Bill, if you possess enough of it, our government will put you to death. Meanwhile we have a speaker of the house and a president and a vice-president who have all admitted to smoking marijuana.

These are pothead baby boomers and it's outrageous that they should put their fellows in prison.

Finally, the outrage within the outrage within the outrage is medical marijuana. In the War on Drugs, unlike any war in American history, unlike any modern civilized war of the past two centuries. In this War on Drugs they are not stopping the battle and allowing the Red Cross on the field. In fact, they are shooting directly at the sick and at those who are trying to help them. And they are shooting to kill. A friend of mine named Todd McCormick was arrested for growing marijuana in his own home after Proposition 215 passed in California that allowed for cultivation. He was treated for cancer nine times before he was 10. The DEA came in, destroyed his plants, and wants to put him in prison for a ten-year mandatory minimum, possibly life, plus a $4 million fine. That's shooting to kill. It's been going on for 11 months now.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear pokerfan...

I hear you, and I agree!

It is a horrible situation, and it needs to be stopped...

Great rant!

Thank you for it...:hug:

[pokerfan]

5. It's just so fucking insane

And of course, the feds got their wish. They killed him:

http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/Peterm.htm

McWilliams, a Californian, a computer genius and a poet, had been suffering from AIDS and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma since 1996. And under California's Proposition 215, which passed in 1996 and legalized marijuana for medical purposes in the state, he used pot to suppress nausea and keep down his food and medication.

In what many consider to have been a politically motivated prosecution -- McWilliams was a popular author and medical-marijuana activist whose book, "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do," argued fervently against the criminalization of consensual acts -- McWilliams' home was raided by federal agents in 1997, and he was charged as a drug kingpin with conspiracy to sell marijuana.

A federal judge ruled that McWilliams could not rest his defense on his illness or on Proposition 215, which made his actions legal in his state, because federal drug laws superseded California's. McWilliams pled guilty to avoid a 10-year mandatory-minimum prison sentence.

While out on bail and awaiting sentencing, prohibited from using medical marijuana, McWilliams died. He was found dead in his bathroom in Los Angeles at age 50. He choked to death on his own vomit -- unable to keep down his medication.

[regnaD kciN]

7. McWilliams wrote two of the biggest-selling non-fiction books of the last thirty years...

The TM Book and The Personal Computer Book -- the latter of which probably introduced computers to more people than all other books combined.

Disgraceful that he could be treated like a narco-trafficer. :argh:

[pokerfan]

8. The complete text of a bunch of his books are online

http://www.petermcwilliams.org/mirrors/www.mcwilliams.com/books/books/index3.htm

[pokerfan]

6. Bosses can fire workers for using medical marijuana

according to the California Supreme Court:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/01/24/financial/f101657S57.DTL&tsp=1

So I doubt the feds are gonna tolerate vending machines.

[Dr. Strange]

9. This makes so much sense...

you can stock up for when the munchies hit.