I've mentioned that Nevada managed to get cannabis and alcohol entangled, and the fight continues. The Las Vegas Review-Journal explains the issues here: Alcohol distributors have appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court to overturn a judge’s decision to not uphold an injunction that would have stopped the Tax Department from giving licenses to entities other than alcohol distributors. That's the senility test. Can your brain figure out what the...
The ferry boat that got entangled is out for a few weeks, leaving just one on the PT/Whidbey route. This messes up a lot of recreational travel plans as the state doesn't have any spare ferries in the summer. That will take a bite out of the tourism money around here. The other a day a pen of farmed Atlantic salmon broke open and many fish have escaped into the Salish. Fish and game immediately asked people to catch as many as they could, and...
Jeff Sessions sent letters to the governors of Washington, Colorado, Oregon, and Alaska (the four legal marijuana states) critiquing their states' marijuana laws and programs. The intent of the letters was to plant a stake in the ground concerning the DOJ's position on the matter. You can find the letters from Sessions, and the responses at the Cannabist if you're interested in the government language. All the governors and their AGs pointed out...
I just saw the trees move. For about two weeks we've been in smoke from wildfires up north, but the breeze is forecast to come up today. Personally, I've had trouble with burning eyes. I went into the hospital for the installation of a few stents in my iliac arteries, the ones that feed the legs. All went fine, but I'm sore and somewhat bruised; I planned on keeping my feet up for several days. Unfortunately I was prescribed Plavix to keep the...
I described how the raids are carried out by the local Sheriff. When the DEA gets involved there's much more theater involved because the audience is taxpayers, politicians,and the media at large. Here's an angle on how they work that I like: The DEA arrests everyone at a raid site, including women and children. The children are taken to Child Protective Services downtown until either of their parents can get out of jail, usually a day or two....
Most guesses are that California produces five to ten times the amount it consumes. That surplus is exported to the illegal states where the price is much higher. It's always been illegal at the federal level to pass pot across state lines, in January it will be illegal at the state level to export it out-of-state. Yet about 75% of the current crop has to go somewhere. Meanwhile, in anticipation of the new legal retail environment, there's a...
This is the preferred time of year for that time-honored cultural tradition in the Emerald Triangle in Northern California: The Pot Raids. Since legal growing begins in January in the state, the Counties have issued permits to many growers, and are processing more. The Sheriff will honor these permits, as well as incomplete paperwork still in process. The trouble is, there are 10,000 growers (a guessed number) in Humboldt County, though only a...
The local pot store is celebrating it's third anniversary this week, it was the fifth retail store to open in Washington State. There are now 505 stores state-wide with 421 reporting sales last month. There are 1197 farmers and processors in the state. Consumers have spent $1.2 billion dollars in the last 12 months, of which $300 million went to the state. The industry ranks just behind breweries in the state economy. When the state began...
The angiogram involves a small incision, then an instrument that goes through the arteries. I was completely out for the procedure, but have some x-ray photos of the problems I have in my legs. Not all can be fixed, but I'll give it a shot in a couple of weeks for the worse parts. I was quite sore and swollen when I got home yesterday, but that's improving a lot while I just lie around and not use my legs much. That could be the case for as long...
A two person row boat just finished, minutes before the deadline of the race. They weren't really going for the speed on this one, so they are dead last. No lives were lost, no watercraft lost. It was a successful event.
Retail sales began today in Nevada, mainly Las Vegas and Reno. They hold the record for passing an initiative to opening stores collecting tax money, 7 months. Whether wise or not they did this by cutting the regulatory bullshit, skipping a lot of the issues important in other states, in the interest of generating income to the state. We'll see how well that strategy works. I'm always looking for what states do to contribute to the body of...