Posts by BenWilson
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Ideally, you would want to germinate many, and then pick the best, but that strategy will definitely skirt the regulatory line.
Yes, I think the law should be amended to define what is a plant and it should not include seedlings and little clones (a maximum height seems like an easily measurable system). Otherwise it is unworkable and people will break it and the cops will have to enforce a stupid law.
Not sure how low potency males would be a feature though?
Some people just prefer it less potent, and don't have large appetites. It's a way of making sure you don't get too high. Once the law isn't making people try to minimize the size of what they're carrying to hide it from police I don't personally think uber-potency will continue to be the selling point it was under prohibition. People drink beer and spirits, even though spirits is obviously more convenient for bootleggers and sly groggers. In a sane consumption environment (ie after prohibition, hopefully only a short time from now), the use of it could become less grossly about who is the blazedest, and a lot more about tastes, styles, deliberate low consumption, safe pleasant consumption environments etc.
Overall, these regulations are draconian in my opinion and yes, let's hope they quickly become irrelevant and far more lenient.
I think they will. If they're needed to get the reeferendum over the line, then I'm good with them. But would it hurt to get some minor details like the definition of a plant not including a twig with a tiny leaf on it, or a seed with some emerging roots? These things could be accidentally overlooked in a garden. I've got adventitious tomatoes everywhere in mine, and I can't recognize them until they form a couple of leaves. Ironically, too, tobacco is an annoying weed that is almost impossible to eradicate.
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Hard News: The Cannabis Legalisation and…, in reply to BenWilson,
I’m honestly not sure what this is supposed to achieve, or what actual harm would be done by allowing people to see what they’re buying.
Yes this has me stumped too. I guess they are saying it should not be easily visible to passers by or accidental visitors to the shop who did not know that was what the shop was for (which the law sets up as a likely outcome, since by being unable to advertise you also can't warn people off). But presumably upon request to purchase cannabis the ability to then inspect it is sensible. Yes, I know you probably don't inspect your tobacco before buying it (although smelling a cigar before you buy it is not uncommon), but they didn't legislate against inspecting it, because the bad effect on quality is likely.
I mean maybe in a mass produced market of the future like what tobacco is now, then buying in prepackaged boxes from 4 major chains and knowing what you'll get every time is where things will go. But on the way there is going to be a phase where smaller suppliers that can't necessarily be trusted are operating. In such cases, you have to inspect produce.
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Mind you the casual home grower might not want big volume and low potency male plants might be a feature rather than a bug. A more likely problematic outcome for the careless gardener is forgetting to even harvest and finding dozens of plants in the garden the following year.
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Hard News: The Cannabis Legalisation and…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I wonder how many people will even bother to grow from seeds with a 2 plant limit. Around half of your plants that even manage to germinate will be the wrong sex and not useful. But if you clone your own plants then you will probably be in violation of the plant number limits.
But I expect it will quickly become as irrelevant as the laws around growing tobacco.
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Hard News: A fun but flawed weed documentary, in reply to Russell Brown,
There’s talk of a Part 3 focused specifically on our options, which would help.
I'd probably watch that
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Hard News: A fun but flawed weed documentary, in reply to nzlemming,
Yeah, I couldn't bear to watch it either, I knew I'd just end up angry. I'm glad more serious people have the fortitude to go through with it and then report on it.
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Hard News: E-cigarettes and the path of…, in reply to Alfie,
When the alternative to vaping is smoking, known to kill massive numbers of people, both fast and slow, I'm struggling to see what the deal is here. OK, it might get new people who were not already smokers, especially children. But again, so might cigarettes. I know which one I'd rather they were doing. Which is not to say that e-cigarettes are known to be harmless, it's just a balance of harms thing. And yes, I expect dangerously doctored cannabis extracts are another unintended consequence of prohibition, all the more reason to end that. Sadly, it's probably still safer to smoke weed than vaporize it, just for this reason. Which again, is not known to be perfectly safe, but again, balance of harms.
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LOL, Leaf and Tips, now there is a real blast from the past. That was like getting a Topsy instead of a Jelly Tip.
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Speaker: The economics of shit speech, in reply to ,
Blogs are on the road to oblivion.
People said that about newspapers 20 years ago. And it's probably still true but they have had remarkable legs. Blogs are not as popular as Twitter, certainly, but they still sit there are very low cost ways for people to generate content they are in 100% control over, so I don't see them disappearing. I'll still read the good ones regardless of the supposed inevitability of history. Probably they have to be social media savvy to drive audiences to them, but I'm yet to see any social media that can deliver a high quality discussion, and I don't think the desire for that will disappear from this earth for good.
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OMFG. It's laugh or cry, really. I hope Alex is OK.
At an autism course I went on we really got a sense of how lightly we had got off when we heard the tales of the people with the escape-artist poo-smearer. It might sound casually funny but I think they were really close to breaking. The mum spent an hour running through a forest chasing the child whilst carrying her baby, unable to gain on him, at one time. Like something out of a horror movie, really.