Age of Marijuana Use and Psychosis

[Tgo01]

This article talks about the new steps in place, but again, probably not far enough to truly make a stab making them completely idiot proof: http://www.thecannabist.co/2015/01/2...s-feb-1/28775/

I'm actually 100% fine with the changes proposed in that article. They're common sense steps to make it harder to OD unless you choose to completely ignore any and all warnings. I'd be curious to hear TGO1's take on it.

Packaging: Each standardized 10-milligram serving must be demarked “in a way that enables a reasonable person to intuitively determine how much of the product constitutes a single serving of active THC.”

Labeling: There will be more explicit warnings and thorough information on labels, including warning statements such as “This product is unlawful outside the State of Colorado” and “The intoxicating effects of this product may be delayed by two or more hours.”

Potency: The Marijuana Enforcement Division is providing incentives for companies to produce 10 milligram products by putting greater burdens on manufacturers of products between 10 and 100 milligrams.

Plus child proofing containers? All sounds very good to me. That's like exactly what I've been asking for this whole thread.

I also like your idea Fallen about having these things behind the counter.

Also the article isn't too thorough on what the warnings all include but it really should have a warning about the dangers of overdosing. I still think there is too much misinformation out there that the only thing that might happen if you take too much THC is you might savagely eat a whole pizza.

Fallen, I appreciate your sensibility and logical approach to the discussion.

He's saying the exact same thing I am :/

Only difference is he is for it to apparently shut people like me up.

[Fallen]

Only difference is he is for it to apparently shut people like me up.

Recreational marijuana is a relatively new phenomenon, as such it will need to go through a growing period where the laws and regulations are refined in order to better serve the situation. Other states have been watching Colorado and Washington in order to learn lessons on every facet of the business so that they can better institute their own practices. New states will learn from the old, and the whole process will be streamlined in the years to come.

[Tgo01]

Recreational marijuana is a relatively new phenomenon, as such it will need to go through a growing period where the laws and regulations are refined in order to better serve the situation.

That's what I said earlier too. You're catching a break from everyone cause you said it second

[Androidpk]

That's what I said earlier too. You're catching a break from everyone cause you said it second

Or because he is rational and not blowing this out of proportion.

[Tgo01]

Or because he is rational and not blowing this out of proportion.

All I did was cite the exact same things the article he linked to cited; namely the number of children admitted to the hospital for ingesting THC and the guy who jumped to his death.

A website called "the cannabist" agreed with basically everything I have said so far. The "industry is speaking out in favor of the regulations" I have been asking for. When do you realize you were wrong? How many more slaps across the face do you need?

[Androidpk]

All I did was cite the exact same things the article he linked to cited; namely the number of children admitted to the hospital for ingesting THC and the guy who jumped to his death.

A website called "the cannabist" agreed with basically everything I have said so far. The "industry is speaking out in favor of the regulations" I have been asking for. When do you realize you were wrong? How many more slaps across the face do you need?

Yeah, sure, that's all you did. You came across as an ignorant latrin wannabe.

[waywardgs]

In Colorado how it works is you enter the store, they take and electronically verify your ID, you wait till a private room is open, you go in and they close the door, everything is kept behind the counter. The cashier/weed guy explains everything and anything you buy is placed in a special childproof plastic locking envelope. The weed itself comes in non-childproof plastic bottles. Everything is cash. You get your ID back upon exiting the store. It's more stringent than liquor by far.

[Tgo01]

Yeah, sure, that's all you did. You came across as an ignorant latrin wannabe.

How many more slaps across the face do you need?

At least one more apparently.

Here is what my posts have looked like in this thread:

I'll give Latrin credit for one thing; marijuana obviously isn't always Cheech and Chong and someone doing 5 MPH down the road while consuming large amounts of chips. I linked to a story in the other thread where someone ingested a large amount of marijuana and basically went temporarily insane and jumped off a 5 story building. Another person ingested a large amount of marijuana and went crazy and shot his wife after she called 911 because she was worried he was going to kill himself.

Latrin's side of the argument is often mocked for "falling for the propaganda" against a harmless drug while those who say such things usually refuse to believe any negative evidence associated with marijuana use.

I still think marijuana should be legalized but I'm starting to lean away from this whole free for all that people can just enter a pot shop and walk away with 10 pounds of weed. If we're going to get serious about an obviously very serious drug it should have more oversight and regulation than some schmuck working at a pot shop saying "Ddduuudddeee! These cookies are like, potent and shit! Only eat a fifth of a cookie at a time!"

People often bring up alcohol as a comparison against marijuana. Okay, that's great. Alcohol has some heavy regulations regarding it:

21 years older to purchase/drink it
Stores held liable if they don't properly card people
No open containers while driving
Laws against driving while intoxicated
Bars are supposed to recognize when someone has had enough to drink and cut them off
Need a license to sell alcohol
Many states and cities have laws against being drunk in public or drinking in public

All sorts of laws and regulations. But when it comes to marijuana it's usually "Dude! It's safe! What's the worse that can happen, someone drives 5MPH in the right hand lane? LOL!"

Apparently they aren't too regulated if someone can sell a cookie to someone and say "Now promise to only eat a fifth of this at a time" and then sells the dude at least 2 cookies.

I'm just saying if more than a fifth of a cookie is "too much" then maybe they should put less marijuana or whatever in the cookie and make the whole cookie safe and say okay, only one cookie for you mister.

That's exactly what I'm getting at. People obviously don't know enough about this shit so we should be selling them less of this stuff, not more.

If one cookie is 5 times too much then we should be selling smaller cookies or less potent cookies, not selling them at least 2 cookies and saying "Okay, just cut one of these in fifths."

If people actually listened to experts and didn't think they knew more than everyone else we wouldn't even be having this problem in the first place.

Here is what your posts have been like in this thread:

I don't think we need to over regulate just because people can't follow directions.

Quit being such a fucking Latrin. "See pks posts." Dumbass.

I have a low tolerance for idiocy.

No one is going to OD off 2 cannabis edibles.

Going to the hospital because you feel dizzy doesn't mean you overdosed. And out of the staggering amount of cannabis sold in Colorado last year you're concerned with 2 deaths? One of whom was also on prescription pain meds?

And yet I'm the one who came across as an "ignorant latrin wannabe."

You have grandeured your last delusions.

[Androidpk]

I'm the one who came across as an "ignorant latrin wannabe."

That's what I said.

[Warriorbird]

Here is what my posts have looked like in this thread:

Not that I'm the biggest fan of Androidpk in the world, but you were trolling leifa pretty hard too.