Oh that's right

[minoanmiss]

Happy Weed Christmas.

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[ex_flameandsong751]

Thank you!

[acelightning73]

Thanks! I'm so glad that they're making progress towards allowing research into how to use Mother Nature's gift for medical purposes. Gummies are what help me maintain my sense of humor about all the weird shit that happens.

[med_cat]

Mhm, did you indulge? :P

(just kidding ;))

[minoanmiss]

Aahahha youthful conditioniing sticks. It was a matter of survival for a Black teenager to go nowhere near weed and I'm still disinclined.

[med_cat]

;))

I have no plans to indulge, myself, for a number of reasons...but a number of people in this area do.

[lunabee34]

snort

[bikergeek]

My friend Becky snorted three whole marijuanas at a party once and died instantly.

[minoanmiss]

falls over laughing

[bikergeek]

You're familiar with the meme, right?

The best part was when Taylor Swift wore a shirt riffing on the meme.

[flamingsword]

😂😂😂

[minoanmiss]

I was familiar with the meme but not the T-shirt. that's pretty funny.

[lunabee34]

Dies laughing.

[bikergeek]

See what marijuana does to people?

[lunabee34]

<3

[sabotabby]

LOL

[bikergeek]

I hope they get around to legalizing it federally (i.e. descheduling it) at some point soon, because reasons.

[minoanmiss]

word. and to letting not a few more people out of jail/expunging records

[bikergeek]

yeah that too. I hope they get around to pardoning/expunging low-level weed dealers, along with those who are in jail for simple possession. There are a bunch of people who got arrested over the decades for deals with a friend like "Hey can I buy a joint off of you for a couple bucks?" and similar.

[minoanmiss]

so true. so very true.

I was commenting to RK that my one annoyance with the current decriminalization is that the demographic sets of people making money off decriminalization and the people economically and socially disadvantaged by the former criminalization (such as by being incarcerated and then being ex-convicts) are almost completely disjoint. I hope the sets can come to overlap a bit more with time and further destigmatization.

[bikergeek]

Yeah. Some of the reasons I can imagine for this:

1. White people are the most likely to have the social and political connections to be able to get the needed licenses to sell and the zoning permissions to open a shop.

2. Getting a weed license may be like getting a liquor license in that you have to have a clean criminal record, another area in which PoC face obstacles due to the racist nature of our legal-penal system. (I have no idea what the rules are in Mass., but I know that you have to have a clean record to get a liquor license, and I don't see any reason why weed licensure would be any different.)

3. Purely a guess here, but I'm guessing that the people who are most likely to set up shop to sell weed, are the same ones who had a going business selling it when it was illegal, and managed to avoid police attention. (see #2)

[flamingsword]

I almost spit-taked some pizza because of “weed Christmas”. Thanks for the laugh!