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Post by marylandstoke on Apr 20, 2023 20:27:08 GMT
Happy 4/20 everyone 💨
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Post by elystokie on Apr 20, 2023 20:31:41 GMT
Same to you Mr Maryland 😊 Just on my way back from Hyde Park, it was full of people smoking the herb, absolutely wonderful atmosphere 👌
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Post by Eggybread on Apr 21, 2023 8:29:48 GMT
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Post by elystokie on Apr 21, 2023 12:00:52 GMT
4/20 is the date (April 20th in US date format) that the cannabis community celebrate the plant and/or protest against the associated continued criminalisation. It started as a time for a group of students in the US to meet up and smoke weed after college and has morphed over the years into a day to celebrate the weed. 4:20pm is also considered by many a reasonable time to commence your days use if you've had shit to do 🙂 inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/420-what-meaning-name-20-april-why-associated-weed-hyde-park-2284248
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Post by marylandstoke on Apr 21, 2023 12:10:46 GMT
4/20 is the date (April 20th in US date format) that the cannabis community celebrate the plant and/or protest against the associated continued criminalisation. It started as a time for a group of students in the US to meet up and smoke weed after college and has morphed over the years into a day to celebrate the weed. 4:20pm is also considered by many a reasonable time to commence your days use if you've had shit to do 🙂 inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/420-what-meaning-name-20-april-why-associated-weed-hyde-park-2284248Still does my head in even after all these years.
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Post by elystokie on Apr 21, 2023 12:22:59 GMT
4/20 is the date (April 20th in US date format) that the cannabis community celebrate the plant and/or protest against the associated continued criminalisation. It started as a time for a group of students in the US to meet up and smoke weed after college and has morphed over the years into a day to celebrate the weed. 4:20pm is also considered by many a reasonable time to commence your days use if you've had shit to do 🙂 inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/420-what-meaning-name-20-april-why-associated-weed-hyde-park-2284248Still does my head in even after all these years. The date thing I'm presuming?
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Post by Eggybread on Apr 21, 2023 13:03:04 GMT
4/20 is the date (April 20th in US date format) that the cannabis community celebrate the plant and/or protest against the associated continued criminalisation. It started as a time for a group of students in the US to meet up and smoke weed after college and has morphed over the years into a day to celebrate the weed. 4:20pm is also considered by many a reasonable time to commence your days use if you've had shit to do 🙂 inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/420-what-meaning-name-20-april-why-associated-weed-hyde-park-2284248So its a US term, just never heard of it before.With shit to do I would say 4.20 is way too late in the day.
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Post by elystokie on Apr 21, 2023 16:09:05 GMT
4/20 is the date (April 20th in US date format) that the cannabis community celebrate the plant and/or protest against the associated continued criminalisation. It started as a time for a group of students in the US to meet up and smoke weed after college and has morphed over the years into a day to celebrate the weed. 4:20pm is also considered by many a reasonable time to commence your days use if you've had shit to do 🙂 inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/420-what-meaning-name-20-april-why-associated-weed-hyde-park-2284248So its a US term, just never heard of it before.With shit to do I would say 4.20 is way too late in the day. Haha, I suppose it depends what shit it is you have to do
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Post by elystokie on Apr 22, 2023 7:11:29 GMT
4/20 is the date (April 20th in US date format) that the cannabis community celebrate the plant and/or protest against the associated continued criminalisation. It started as a time for a group of students in the US to meet up and smoke weed after college and has morphed over the years into a day to celebrate the weed. 4:20pm is also considered by many a reasonable time to commence your days use if you've had shit to do 🙂 inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/420-what-meaning-name-20-april-why-associated-weed-hyde-park-2284248So its a US term, just never heard of it before.With shit to do I would say 4.20 is way too late in the day. More on the story is that one of the students involved became a roadie for a band called The Grateful Dead and used the term around the band who also adopted it as a term for weed and it then spread to their fans and elsewhere.
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Post by cobhamstokey on Apr 22, 2023 8:37:57 GMT
So its a US term, just never heard of it before.With shit to do I would say 4.20 is way too late in the day. More on the story is that one of the students involved became a roadie for a band called The Grateful Dead and used the term around the band who also adopted it as a term for weed and it then spread to their fans and elsewhere. The Grateful Dead were ace they were part of the Hait Ashbury hippie scene in the late 60s. Still going now i think.
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Post by Eggybread on Apr 22, 2023 9:33:39 GMT
More on the story is that one of the students involved became a roadie for a band called The Grateful Dead and used the term around the band who also adopted it as a term for weed and it then spread to their fans and elsewhere. The Grateful Dead were ace they were part of the Hait Ashbury hippie scene in the late 60s. Still going now i think. I think they packed it in when Jerry Garcia singer/guitar passed away. Never my cup of tea tbh ,more into 60s garage and Zappa ,Beefheart, Velvet Underground etc.
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Post by elystokie on Apr 22, 2023 10:04:05 GMT
More on the story is that one of the students involved became a roadie for a band called The Grateful Dead and used the term around the band who also adopted it as a term for weed and it then spread to their fans and elsewhere. The Grateful Dead were ace they were part of the Hait Ashbury hippie scene in the late 60s. Still going now i think. Here's a good account of how the link and tradition developed - merryjane.com/culture/whats-the-connection-between-420-and-the-grateful-deadThis is what the day was like in Hyde Park this year -
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Post by elystokie on Apr 24, 2023 20:33:35 GMT
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Post by elystokie on Apr 27, 2023 15:52:58 GMT
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Post by elystokie on May 22, 2023 15:45:45 GMT
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Post by elystokie on May 22, 2023 17:56:30 GMT
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Post by stokefc on May 22, 2023 18:17:05 GMT
Wow i don' think i could have read that link stoned it's a good job i wasn't , some big words in there and all the proof you need Psychopaths smoke weed whoda thunk and ordinary folk take the brunt when they do something psychotic
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Post by elystokie on May 22, 2023 19:08:38 GMT
Wow i don' think i could have read that link stoned it's a good job i wasn't , some big words in there and all the proof you need Psychopaths smoke weed whoda thunk and ordinary folk take the brunt when they do something psychotic These studies do take some deciphering sometimes for sure, probably why they get mis-quoted so regularly. Robin Murray claimed years ago that cases of psychosis cases would drop from 34 to 20 if there was no cannabis. Sounds a lot, but that's out of 100,000 people so the increase, even if it was true (and it's looking more and more certain that it wasn't) that's just 0.003% of the population, this is something that was considered important when Jacqueline Smith upgraded it from C to B. As you say, people with psychosis are drawn to cannabis (and tobacco and alcohol) because they're looking for solutions and often, with cannabis, according to Dr Nutt, the 'trade off' in terms of their mental health is worth it.
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Post by elystokie on May 30, 2023 6:51:02 GMT
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Post by marylandstoke on May 30, 2023 20:53:34 GMT
Very, very interesting stuff.
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Post by elystokie on May 31, 2023 15:40:53 GMT
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Post by wapiti on Jun 1, 2023 4:21:53 GMT
It's going to be an interesting ice fishing season.
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Post by elystokie on Jun 1, 2023 11:56:01 GMT
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Post by elystokie on Jun 2, 2023 6:43:16 GMT
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Post by elystokie on Jun 5, 2023 11:59:26 GMT
I'm surprised this wasn't already a thing - www.marijuanamoment.net/california-assembly-approves-bill-to-legalize-marijuana-cafes/“Ironically, how the law is written now, we require cannabis shops to only sell drugs,” Haney said. “We believe that if these businesses want to move away from that model and sell muffins and coffee, they should be able to do that. This will support our small businesses, with local government autonomy" The (recently jailed) owner of The Chillin Rooms, an illegal Cannabis café in Liverpool used to be a publican, he went from more a less a fight every week in his pub to not a single fight in 20 years in The Chillin Rooms. Obviously The Chillin Rooms is now closed 🤦
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Post by marylandstoke on Jun 5, 2023 14:55:48 GMT
Meanwhile in Germany….. A German court has given an 82-year-old man a “last warning” to avoid jail after he was found guilty of drug dealing, despite 24 previous convictions. The retired seaman, who said he wanted to improve his meagre €800 (£690) monthly pension by selling marijuana, was handed a suspended sentence by a court in the northern town of Aurich. German news agency dpa reported that prosecutors had asked the court to impose a prison term of 34 months in view of the man’s lengthy criminal record and an existing suspended sentence. But judges said they would make an exception and classify the latest crimes as “less serious offences” because of the man’s particular circumstances and recent health problems. Dpa quoted the presiding judge telling the defendant that it was his “very last warning”. ….Good judging there
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Post by elystokie on Jun 5, 2023 20:05:49 GMT
Meanwhile in Germany….. A German court has given an 82-year-old man a “last warning” to avoid jail after he was found guilty of drug dealing, despite 24 previous convictions. The retired seaman, who said he wanted to improve his meagre €800 (£690) monthly pension by selling marijuana, was handed a suspended sentence by a court in the northern town of Aurich. German news agency dpa reported that prosecutors had asked the court to impose a prison term of 34 months in view of the man’s lengthy criminal record and an existing suspended sentence. But judges said they would make an exception and classify the latest crimes as “less serious offences” because of the man’s particular circumstances and recent health problems. Dpa quoted the presiding judge telling the defendant that it was his “very last warning”. ….Good judging there It'll be interesting to see if Germany follow some of the US States in quashing past convictions when they legalise it, the judge might have had legalisation in mind when he passed the sentence.
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Post by elystokie on Jun 6, 2023 8:01:29 GMT
Parkinson's disease sufferer's might also benefit - www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/can.2023.0023"Conclusion: Cannabinoids have been shown to safely offer important potential in treating motor symptoms in PD and some non-motor symptoms. More large-scale randomized control trials for specific forms of cannabinoid treatments are required to determine their overall efficacy."
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Post by elystokie on Jun 6, 2023 15:14:47 GMT
Parkinson's disease sufferer's might also benefit - www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/can.2023.0023"Conclusion: Cannabinoids have been shown to safely offer important potential in treating motor symptoms in PD and some non-motor symptoms. More large-scale randomized control trials for specific forms of cannabinoid treatments are required to determine their overall efficacy." It's beyond disgusting that Parkinson's disease sufferer's in this country are subject to the same criminalisation that this bloke was (and may still be) unless they can afford the £150 a month fees to get a prescription. Prior to 2018 he would have been a criminal however he got it if it was the UK.
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Post by elystokie on Jun 7, 2023 14:07:47 GMT
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