Originally Posted by Dayze (Post 6391719)

everyone knows, as soon as you smoke it, you're women will be lured/attracted to black men; and soon thereafter you'll be hooked on heroin and/or crack.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 6391712)

That's a really interesting theory. I'll be interested in seeing if it's true. I assumed it was just the more lax atmosphere.

As a "business", the street people have much lower cost, so unless their supply goes away they're going to be working at a huge advantage to the storefronts. And it seems to me like developing a supply isn't hard. So I guess the only advantage the storefronts have is that some people will prefer to be legal (within the context of getting someone to say they need "medical marijuana") and will pay more for that option. But the downside is that those people all have a history of illegal purchases, which presumably means they're not averse to buying it illegally.

I wonder how it's playing out in California, since it sounds like they're first in line as our perennial social experimentation laboratory.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 6391757)

And just so you know, I don't think all you stoners are evil people or anything. Heck, I even hire you guys to mow my lawn and stuff. But I just want my bike back and not have to fend off skanky dealers on my walk to work.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 6391626)

Originally Posted by BuckinKaeding (Post 6391634)

Just pretend you are a cop and ask them if they'd like to spend the night in jail.

Originally Posted by Brock (Post 6391763)

You must look like a weedhead. Clean up your act. Get those shoes shined.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 6391626)

As history, I don't know exactly what happened, but apparently marijuana sale is legal now in Denver as long as you lie and say that you're a "medical marijuana" provider. I have no idea how a company provides false documents that they're a "medical marijuana" provider, or how a person obtains false documents to "prove" they have a need for "medical marijuana", but it's obvious to everybody in the city that it's a joke. We now have storefronts opening up to sell "medical marijuana", and other than the name they're not even trying to cover up what they're doing. (And yeah, yeah, whatever. If there's a need for medical marijuana that's legitimate, fine. But if there's a real need, its cause is being negatively impacted by all the fraud that's going on in Denver right now.)

So anyway, I've lived here for 16 years. In the first 15 years of living here, I was asked only once if I wanted to buy drugs. Some scary dude asked me once if I "wanted to buy" as I was walking home. Probably not marijuana.

In the last six to eight months, I've been asked three times if I wanted to buy marijuana, twice on my walk home and once when I was out shopping. The people offering me this stuff are skanky, nasty people that I do not want to talk to, much less buy stuff from. I don't want to encounter these people, deal with these people, talk to these people, or quite frankly, even see these people, much less ingest illegal stuff into my body that they're selling.

It's frustrating that these people are getting so emboldened that they're trying to sell this stuff to strangers on the street. And I'm not a guy who fits the profile, either - in fact, I probably look much more like an undercover cop than a buyer of recreational drugs. So if they're walking up trying to sell this stuff to me as I'm walking to work, they're walking up to everyone.

I really hate where this is heading. Denver is a nice city otherwise.

Originally Posted by noswad (Post 6391659)

with the Chemo, hubby has offered to buy thinking it would help but we live in Kansas, I said absolutely NOT. Both of us have awesome jobs that would not be understanding if we popped positive. Besides, I never really got into it. The one time I tried it, I burned my bangs. Seems as I wasn't holding the "bowl" right. That was 25 years ago...have no desire.