https://vimeo.com/ondemand/culturehigh/107375127 12.99
FULL Union Doc
The Culture High out now 17/10/14 (By creators of The Union)
Its too bad the TYT guy was enlisted, they have the most bias media since Goebbles and I think it hurts the project's reputation.
been wanting to see this.
Graham Hancock
October 17 at 3:22pm ·
I'm honoured to have been amongst the interviewees in "The Culture High". Journeying across the North American landscape, The Culture High is the riveting story that tears into the very fiber of modern day marijuana prohibition to reveal the truth behind the arguments and motives governing both those who support and oppose the existing pot laws. With budgets to fight the war reaching billions and arrests for simple possession sky rocketing to nearly a million annually, the debate over marijuana’s legality has reached epic proportions. Utilizing the quirky yet profound nature of its predecessor, The Union: The Business Behind Getting High, The Culture High raises the stakes with some of todays biggest names, unprecedented access to footage previously unobtainable, and incredibly moving testimonials from both sides of the spectrum. Top celebrities, former undercover agents, university professors and a slew of unforgettable characters from all points of view come together for an amusing yet insightful portrait of cannabis prohibition and the grasp it has on society as a whole. The Culture High will strip search the oddity of human nature and dare to ask the question: What exactly is going on here?:
Oh FUCK yeah, nice thread greenseed.
I have some friends here who are really becoming quite knowledgeable experts at the art of growing hemp, not just for smokeables but for medicine and also for industrial use (one freind right now is working on a real industrial hemp farm for a week, I can't wait to hear what he learned when he gets back. They have been teaching me a lot about the science and chemistry of cannabis as MEDICINE.
From what I'm learning, most of the new laws allowing cannabis for medical reasons etc are FAR from proper, and are just setting up for a huge corporate monopoly. Medicine comes from OIL, or EATING it. You get very little medicinal value from smoking (some but not the maximum potency).
Yet the laws all avoid this simple science. Oil is NOT produced, and is still illegal to make. Medical marijuana is dispensed to smoke, not to eat (they could be selling butter, cookies, breads etc.
Also, despite the fact my friend has found this man with an industrial hemp license, he is telling me that the restrictions on this are still insanely severe and it is still very impossible to make a real industry out of hemp.
This SUCKS, because it is maybe the fastest, more useful safe renewable resource known to man. In one swoop we could save the trees (you can make building materials, concrete [hempcrete], paper, all kinds of textiles), you could END PLASTIC (all the garbage and packaging and shopping bags and bottles etc. Hemp makes a great plastic that is BIODEGRADABLE) which would also take a huge stab at the Oil industry.
And more importantly, it would absolutely revolutionize the medicine industry. This shit cures almost everything, even cancer. And people can make their own medicine, for FREE.
I have some friends here who are really becoming quite knowledgeable experts at the art of growing hemp, not just for smokeables but for medicine and also for industrial use (one freind right now is working on a real industrial hemp farm for a week, I can't wait to hear what he learned when he gets back. They have been teaching me a lot about the science and chemistry of cannabis as MEDICINE.
From what I'm learning, most of the new laws allowing cannabis for medical reasons etc are FAR from proper, and are just setting up for a huge corporate monopoly. Medicine comes from OIL, or EATING it. You get very little medicinal value from smoking (some but not the maximum potency).
Yet the laws all avoid this simple science. Oil is NOT produced, and is still illegal to make. Medical marijuana is dispensed to smoke, not to eat (they could be selling butter, cookies, breads etc.
Also, despite the fact my friend has found this man with an industrial hemp license, he is telling me that the restrictions on this are still insanely severe and it is still very impossible to make a real industry out of hemp.
This SUCKS, because it is maybe the fastest, more useful safe renewable resource known to man. In one swoop we could save the trees (you can make building materials, concrete [hempcrete], paper, all kinds of textiles), you could END PLASTIC (all the garbage and packaging and shopping bags and bottles etc. Hemp makes a great plastic that is BIODEGRADABLE) which would also take a huge stab at the Oil industry.
And more importantly, it would absolutely revolutionize the medicine industry. This shit cures almost everything, even cancer. And people can make their own medicine, for FREE.
Ya it's really very crazy how suppressed one plant with so many benefits can be. Regarding the oils, baked goods etc. A BC judge earlier this year rule the illegality of these unconstitutional. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/medical-pot-cookie-prohibition-ruled-unconstitutional-1.2736526 not sure if that applies to all of Canada or just BC.
This is FUCKED up:
Weed-friendly Colorado considering ban against edibles
State health officials in Colorado are considering rules that would remove marijuana-infused edibles from the shelves of retail shops where pot products have legally been available to adults since the start of the year.
Now nearly 11 months after the United States saw the longstanding federal prohibition against weed challenged in Colorado with the opening of state-sanctioned retail shops in compliance with the passage of a first-of-its-kind law, Amendment 64, regulators in the Rocky Mountain State are pursuing possible changes.
Colorado law currently allows adults to legally purchase marijuana and products made with the plant’s potent chemical, THC, but the state’s Department of Public Health and Environment says rules need to be put in place limiting what types of edibles are made available.
Many forms of edible marijuana "are naturally attractive to children," the department argues, according to the Associated Press, and thus in violation of the law’s "requirement to prevent the marketing of marijuana products to children."
The AP reported on Monday this week that state regulators say this problem could be overcome if new rules are adopted mandating that edible marijuana products are packaged in such a manner that won’t make them resemble other items that are absent THC. In doing so, however, it’s possible that the majority of edibles currently available will soon become contraband.
According to a local NBC News affiliate, Jeff Lawrence of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has recommended that a 22-person group tasked with considering changes to state law looks into eliminating pot brownies, cookies and other candies from the list of weed products that currently can be sold in retail shops.
"To allow the production of retail marijuana edibles that are naturally attractive to children is counter to the Amendment 64 requirement to prevent the marketing of marijuana products to children," reads his recommendation. "The intent of the Amendment and subsequent laws and rules was to decriminalize the use of retail marijuana, not to encourage market expansion within the marijuana edibles industry that subsequently create potential consumer confusion or mixed messages to children."
The NBC affiliate, 9News, reported that the group will meet on Monday this week for the third and possibly final type to decide what kind of changes, if any, should be undertaken to keep pot products from ending up in the hands of children. News of the proposed change comes only days after police in Denver, Colorado released a video warning parents to keep their children away from potentially THC-tainted candy this Halloween.
"By limiting the scope of allowable retail marijuana edibles to products that are not easily confused with ubiquitous food products, this recommendation creates a more defensible and transparent regulatory framework," the recommendation reads.
According to the Huffington Post, which also viewed the recommendations, the Health Department is pushing for changes that would "Prohibit the production of retail edible marijuana products other than a simple lozenge/hard candy or tinctures that are plainly labeled using universal symbol(s) and that users can add to their products at home.”
"Hard candy/lozenges would be manufactured in single 10 mg doses/lozenges and tinctures would be produced and labeled with dosing instructions, such as two drops equals 10 mg,” the recommendations read.
Mason Tvert, communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, told HuffPo that adopting such a suggestion would run counter to what Coloradans decided when they agreed to legalize marijuana in 2012.
"Colorado voters chose to end marijuana prohibition because they wanted to see marijuana controlled," Tvert said. "Banning edible products is the quickest way to lose all control over them. These products will continue to be in high demand, but banning them will ensure they are not properly labeled, packaged, or subject to health and safety standards. The goal should be to develop effective regulations and educate consumers, not remove all regulations and keep consumers in the dark."
http://rt.com/usa/197632-colorado-edible-marijuana-ban/
Weed-friendly Colorado considering ban against edibles
State health officials in Colorado are considering rules that would remove marijuana-infused edibles from the shelves of retail shops where pot products have legally been available to adults since the start of the year.
Now nearly 11 months after the United States saw the longstanding federal prohibition against weed challenged in Colorado with the opening of state-sanctioned retail shops in compliance with the passage of a first-of-its-kind law, Amendment 64, regulators in the Rocky Mountain State are pursuing possible changes.
Colorado law currently allows adults to legally purchase marijuana and products made with the plant’s potent chemical, THC, but the state’s Department of Public Health and Environment says rules need to be put in place limiting what types of edibles are made available.
Many forms of edible marijuana "are naturally attractive to children," the department argues, according to the Associated Press, and thus in violation of the law’s "requirement to prevent the marketing of marijuana products to children."
The AP reported on Monday this week that state regulators say this problem could be overcome if new rules are adopted mandating that edible marijuana products are packaged in such a manner that won’t make them resemble other items that are absent THC. In doing so, however, it’s possible that the majority of edibles currently available will soon become contraband.
According to a local NBC News affiliate, Jeff Lawrence of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has recommended that a 22-person group tasked with considering changes to state law looks into eliminating pot brownies, cookies and other candies from the list of weed products that currently can be sold in retail shops.
"To allow the production of retail marijuana edibles that are naturally attractive to children is counter to the Amendment 64 requirement to prevent the marketing of marijuana products to children," reads his recommendation. "The intent of the Amendment and subsequent laws and rules was to decriminalize the use of retail marijuana, not to encourage market expansion within the marijuana edibles industry that subsequently create potential consumer confusion or mixed messages to children."
The NBC affiliate, 9News, reported that the group will meet on Monday this week for the third and possibly final type to decide what kind of changes, if any, should be undertaken to keep pot products from ending up in the hands of children. News of the proposed change comes only days after police in Denver, Colorado released a video warning parents to keep their children away from potentially THC-tainted candy this Halloween.
"By limiting the scope of allowable retail marijuana edibles to products that are not easily confused with ubiquitous food products, this recommendation creates a more defensible and transparent regulatory framework," the recommendation reads.
According to the Huffington Post, which also viewed the recommendations, the Health Department is pushing for changes that would "Prohibit the production of retail edible marijuana products other than a simple lozenge/hard candy or tinctures that are plainly labeled using universal symbol(s) and that users can add to their products at home.”
"Hard candy/lozenges would be manufactured in single 10 mg doses/lozenges and tinctures would be produced and labeled with dosing instructions, such as two drops equals 10 mg,” the recommendations read.
Mason Tvert, communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, told HuffPo that adopting such a suggestion would run counter to what Coloradans decided when they agreed to legalize marijuana in 2012.
"Colorado voters chose to end marijuana prohibition because they wanted to see marijuana controlled," Tvert said. "Banning edible products is the quickest way to lose all control over them. These products will continue to be in high demand, but banning them will ensure they are not properly labeled, packaged, or subject to health and safety standards. The goal should be to develop effective regulations and educate consumers, not remove all regulations and keep consumers in the dark."
http://rt.com/usa/197632-colorado-edible-marijuana-ban/
Masato wrote:From what I'm learning, most of the new laws allowing cannabis for medical reasons etc are FAR from proper, and are just setting up for a huge corporate monopoly. Medicine comes from OIL, or EATING it. You get very little medicinal value from smoking (some but not the maximum potency).
Yet the laws all avoid this simple science. Oil is NOT produced, and is still illegal to make. Medical marijuana is dispensed to smoke, not to eat (they could be selling butter, cookies, breads etc.
My state is actually one of the first to legalize the oil or pill form, not the plant. could be turning.
Masato wrote:This SUCKS, because it is maybe the fastest, more useful safe renewable resource known to man. In one swoop we could save the trees (you can make building materials, concrete [hempcrete], paper, all kinds of textiles), you could END PLASTIC (all the garbage and packaging and shopping bags and bottles etc. Hemp makes a great plastic that is BIODEGRADABLE) which would also take a huge stab at the Oil industry.
AMEN. been screaming this over @ EY on all the fossil fuel threads (& damn near everywhere else). It is right in front of everyone's face & no one will acknowledge it. It being used to replace plastic & fuel alone could potentially stop all kinds of problems I foresee on the horizon.
Masato wrote:And more importantly, it would absolutely revolutionize the medicine industry. This shit cures almost everything, even cancer. And people can make their own medicine, for FREE.
therein lies the problem imo^^.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/sen/committee/371/ille/library/spicer-e.htm
Ironically, this history of Cannabis from 10000BC on from this canadian gov website seems pretty thourough other than the conclusions made at the end.
Ironically, this history of Cannabis from 10000BC on from this canadian gov website seems pretty thourough other than the conclusions made at the end.
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