For the first time in 12 1/2 years of living off my solar panels and batteries, I finally depleted my batteries last night. I've been close a few times, my experience has been that three days of stormy overcast was pretty much the limit for my system. Not generally a problem in the desert because three days of overcast is very unusual. But here in the Pacific Northwest during fall and winter, weeks of overcast is quite normal. I knew I wouldn't...
Looks to me like ISP gets the award for warning about cannabis edibles being handed out for Halloween. They even included photos of counterfeit candies. I'm watching for the similar warning (from cops, of course) about fentanyl "laced" cannabis. Be on the lookout for your local idiots to make fools of themselves....
I voted yesterday. I had my choice of qualified, though boring, candidates for local offices. There were virtually no initiatives or referendums which was most unusual for Washington. I then drove to the dropbox, and it was done. I could have gone to the mailbox, but the dropbox was a right-hand turn. My county already has a 75% return rate, with 95% anticipated. We had a 55% return rate for the primary, and the auditor counted the ballots nine...
The family situation I eluded to a while back persists, and until that stabilizes or resolves I feel the need to stick around. The other factor delaying my departure for points south are the unknowns around the virus. Way up here on the Olympic Peninsula the outbreak is under control, there are about 3 or 4 new cases reported every month with zero active cases at the moment. The two factors which contribute to this success are the diligence of...
Four states are voting to legalize a cannabis market this time. Others have medical marijuana issues on the ballot, but as usual I tend to ignore those. Arizona -- Arizona has such a well-developed medical marijuana program that it looks like a fully legal market in other states. Should the ballot measure pass, transition to the fully legal market will be almost instantaneous. And pass it will. Unlike the last time they tried to legalize, there...
Stores opened in Maine this weekend, 4 years after voters passed their legalization initiative. You see, the governor didn't like the law the voters passed, preferring the underground market which has done quite well for those four years. As is typical, launch day had few stores open with very limited supply, long lines of buyers, and high prices. In Vermont cannabis was legal, but you couldn't sell it. That was corrected last week when the...
Gov Newsom signed into law an appellation rule for cannabis. Appellation refers to a particular area where a crop is grown; it protects the growers against fakers relying on the reputation of the protected growers. The laws are legally quite strong. "Champagne" is the classic example of a protected appellation. Napa Valley and Sonoma County are appellations for CA wines. Now the cannabis growers can rely on the same protections the grape...