New Mexico to allow medically fucked up people to grow pot

[Winnow]

http://kob.com/article/stories/S126717.shtml?cat=500

State to allow patients to grow own pot

Starting Sunday medical marijuana will be legal in New Mexico. But now the Department of Health has dropped a bombshell: It will allow people who qualify for medicinal pot to grow it in their own homes.

It’s a decision that has made a lot of state law enforcement officials upset.

The legislature passed the medical marijuana bill into law earlier this year after a decade of lawmakers rejecting the idea. The law allows people suffering from AIDS, cancer, glaucoma and epilepsy to use marijuana for pain relief.

Now, just days before the law takes affect, the New Mexico Department of Health announces it will allow patients to grow their own marijuana because the state still hasn’t figured out how it is supposed to grow and distribute pot.

“This is about providing access now, and we are going to work on the next step,” said Health Department spokeswoman Deborah Busemeyer.

The move has stunned law enforcement agencies statewide who say it flies in the face of what was agreed upon in the legislative session.

“It caught me off guard,” said Captain Gary Johnson of the New Mexico State Police. “I mean, I thought this was going to be very strict in the way this was going to be handled.”

“I really can not believe the state has decided to do this,” said Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano. “Personally, I do support medical marijuana with strict regulation, but the biggest problem with this new change is that it pretty much takes a lot of the regulations away.”

The state has asked the Attorney General’s Office for guidelines on how to proceed since federal law still classifies marijuana as an illegal drug.

“It may stop local law enforcement from knocking on somebody’s door who’s growing marijuana,” said Captain Johnson. “But certainly, I don’t believe it will stop the DEA or federal agents from doing the same.”

If the feds do come knocking, neither the Health Department, police or sheriff’s office say they can do anything to stop them from making arrests for marijuana possession.

Under the new rule, patients will only be allowed to have four mature marijuana plants and three seedlings. Until the Health Department comes up with its distribution plan, patients will have to buy pot on their own wherever they can find it.

Will four mature marijuana plants and three seedlings be enough for one person. Will there be extra available?

[Asheran Mojomaster]

4 plants could be anywhere from an ounce of weed to a few pounds. It just depends on the strain, as well as the lights\fertilizers used, and the knowledge of the person growing about how to grow marijuana.

[Funkmasterr]

4 plants could be anywhere from an ounce of weed to a few pounds. It just depends on the strain, as well as the lights\fertilizers used, and the knowledge of the person growing about how to grow marijuana.

And whether they decide to grow it indoors or outdoors.

[Hesten]

4 plants could be anywhere from an ounce of weed to a few pounds. It just depends on the strain, as well as the lights\fertilizers used, and the knowledge of the person growing about how to grow marijuana.

And whether they decide to grow it indoors or outdoors.

And if half the potheads in the neighbourhood decide to raid it if they grow outdoors

[Aabidano]

The article says "in their own homes", as opposed to "on their own property". I'm assuming that restricts it to indoor growing.

[Canelek]

With the proper care and investment, one can do quite well with those limits! Wow, very cool! The pot laws are so fucking prohibition-era anyways--may as well let em at it. I tolerate stupid people far less that perpetually-stoned people anyways.

[Sylvus]

I watched Reefer Madness (the one from the 30s) again the other day, it was on Showtime.

It's funny to me how such a laughably farcical piece of propaganda still so obviously affects policy 70 years later. And by funny, I mean sad.

[masteen]

Those neegroes still use devil weed to seduce the white wimmins. Keeping it illegal is the only defense we have against em!

[Nick]

I watched Reefer Madness (the one from the 30s) again the other day, it was on Showtime.

It's funny to me how such a laughably farcical piece of propaganda still so obviously affects policy 70 years later. And by funny, I mean sad.

Reefer madness is scary

[Wulfran]

I watched Reefer Madness (the one from the 30s) again the other day, it was on Showtime.

It's funny to me how such a laughably farcical piece of propaganda still so obviously affects policy 70 years later. And by funny, I mean sad.

Reefer madness is scary

It is sad really because of the ways it has influenced most of our governments to give in to hysteria about marijauna instead of actually sponsouring/conducting research to get answers about the long term effects of the drug. I'm not a legalization advocate for the reason that there is so much that is unknown about the effects of chronic use, etc. but at the same time I think the hysteria is counter-productive. We (via our gov'ts) spend billions of dollars fighting a "war" against cannabis when if we spent a fraction on researching the real effects we might be able to legislate, control and tax the growth and sale. I don't feel this way about coke, heroin, meth et al but I think thus far the annecdotal and qualitative evidence we have seen shows that pot isn't in the same category and if the gov't could regulate the THC content similar to the way we control the alcohol content on liquor, I hypothesize the effects wouldn't be any more harmful.

[Lalanae]

Pot can lead to rape.















Rape of a bag of Oreos

SAVE TEH OREOS

[Deward]

Glad to see at least one state is smartening up. I know canada's govt gives out weed to marijuana patients and I have heard it is the vilest crap imaginable. Some varieties of marijuana can grow 6 foot tall so 4 plants is more than enough depending on the usage requirements. Even better is the fact that users can buy it from anyone they want. The next step would be to license the dealers so that patients can know they are getting safe and effective weed. In WI, they actually have laws on the books that allow drug dealers to pay taxes on their selling and avoid being charged with tax evasion. It is still illegal to be selling weed but at least then you won't be charged with tax evasion at the same time. That is how they got Al Capone. He was never charged with bootlegging. He was taken down because he didn't pay his taxes. I doubt a lot of drug dealers pay their taxes in WI but I know some do. If they legalized all marijuana then the government would have another vice they could tax the hell out of.

They make a big deal of saying the federal government can still bust you and they can in all the states that allow medical marijuana. But 95% of all marijuana drug busts are made by state authorities. The local authorities are making a mint by busting all the pot users and they don't want to let go of their cash cow so they use scare tactics to prevent the laws from passing.

I liked the Oreo joke. I would much rather have a bunch of pot smokers around than alcoholics.

[Canelek]

Some varieties of marijuana can grow 6 foot tall

Try 12+ This would most likely be in the Sativa strain, but I have been out of the game so long everything has gone 'medical grade'. It is quite the versatile plant on its own, but with the proper care, it can be quite robust!