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31 August 2021

TWO OLDER LADIES ARE TALKING

 


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08 November 2016

DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY DIGEST Greg Palast in Ohio on GOP Effort to Remove African Americans from Voter Rolls in Battleground State 8NOV16


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20 August 2015

'Patriot' guarding 'Muslim free' gun store accidentally shoots himself & DAILY KOS RECOMMENDED 19&20AUG15

AND SO IT GOES......from +Daily Kos 

'Patriot' guarding 'Muslim free' gun store accidentally shoots himself

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A "patriot" accidentally shot himself outside the Save Yourself Survival and Tactical Gear store in Oktaha, Oklahoma.
The Save Yourself Survival and Tactical Gear store and gun range has had a string of ugly incidents after declaring they are "Muslim free":
“We do not want to have any jihadis training on our gun range and then going down to our local armed services office and having better marksmanship than they showed up with,” said Neal, an Iraq War veteran. “I’ve seen what Muslims and jihadis do to people. It’s just not going to happen in my store.”
Several residents of tiny Oktaha, Oklahoma (population 390) have turned out to stand in front of the store and guard it with loaded weapons. Yesterday, one of these men accidentally shot himself while "on guard":
A Checotah man shot himself in the wrist while "defending" a survival gear store and shooting range in Oktaha, said Muskogee County Sheriff Charles Pearson. Terrence Veninga, 57, was volunteering Tuesday morning as an armed guard with several other self-described patriots at the Save Yourself Survival and Tactical Gear store and gun range, a self-professed Muslim-free store.
His gun, an old Colt .45 revolver, fell from its bucket holster and discharged. The bullet hit him in the wrist, Pearson said. Veninga was guarding the store because of alleged threats against it, Pearson said.
Complicating matters even more for the "patriots," a U.S. war veteran, who is also a practicing Muslim, showed up to challenge their policy:
“They just said, ‘This is private property. You are not allowed here,’” Martin explained. Martin said that once the men learned he was a veteran, they said he was allowed on the gun range.
“They’re saying now it’s just [banning] someone who’s an extremist or terrorist,” Martin said.
Martin drove from California to confront the owners after he heard of their sign. He said he hopes his showing up sparks conversation on discrimination.
So, in one short day, one of the men shot himself and they were forced to back down from the policy after a veteran showed up to challenge it. You have to imagine this isn't quite going down the way they'd hoped. You can see an interview with Chris Martin, the veteran who confronted them here: (click link for story to see video)


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16 August 2013

Almost Nobody Shows Up for Steve King's Anti-Immigration Rally in VA & MORE FROM DAILY KOS 15AUG13

REPIGLICAN TEA-BAGGER extraordinaire rep steve king r IA has taken his xenophobic anti-immigration reform show on the road. Check out the pictures of his total failure to draw a crowd at his stop in Richmond, VA on 12AUG13. This and other articles via Daily Kos on Obamacare in Montana and Idaho, voting rights in Texas and Ohio, 1912 school testing in Kentucky, Social Security, and disaster relief hypocrisy from Arizona repiglican tea-baggers....
"If you bring people from a violent civilization into a less-violent civilization, you’re going to have more violence right? It’s like pouring hot water into cold water, does it raise the temperature or not?"
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This appears to be Rep. King himself, speaking to a vast ocean of nobody:
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02 May 2013

Pot Shop - Macklemore Thrift Shop PARODY

NOT suitable for LEOs or DEA types, but this is pretty funny. The war against pot is a failure, it should be legalized for medicinal and personal use, regulated and taxed. The privatized for profit prison system will take a hit, but they could make up some of their losses if the government actually prosecuted and jailed those responsible for bringing the economy to the brink of collapse in the "great" recession we are still struggling to get out of. It is a sad commentary on the criminal justice system when a person can be sentenced to a longer prison term for possession of pot for personal use than for almost destroying the national economy. Talk about harming children and families and destroying peoples health! The bank-financial cabal and wall street have harmed and destroyed a lot more people than the occassional spliff! BY THE BY, I have yet to try it, it's just that I am against the waste of tax dollars, the ignorance and hypocrisy of politicians and the judicial system and the corruption of the privatized prison cabal in this country. http://www.norml.org
http://youtu.be/Znpt_Umixcs

Published on Jan 9, 2013
Available on Itunes and it supports my next campaign!https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/pot...
My facebook: http://www.facebook.com/steveberkecomedy

Written and Performed by Steve Berke, featuring Sexy Sax Man, Towelie, and David King Cain with special guest Playboy Playmate Amanda Cerny (@AmandaCerny on twitter/Instagram)

Special thanks to Macklemore for his cameo in the video and for believing in the legalization of marijuana.

"I'm not against legalization, not at all
I'm against glorification, you are not Snoop Dogg
Moderation, that's the key
But the door's unlocked
It's up to you how you use it
Make the call, c'mon" - Macklemore (Blue Scholars)

Please take 2 seconds and sign the petition:https://www.change.org/petitions/fede...

Directed by Brian Hunting, Devin Hunting, Steve Berke

Starring: Sexy Sax Man Sergio Flores, Amanda Cerny (@AmandaCerny on twitter/instagram), Olivia Matthies (@OliMatthies on Instagram) Kristen Mia, Ashley Bedell, Jana Kruse and Nina Taylor.


Special thanks to The Sound Doctor for creating the track, and for Jordan Postrel for adding to it. Check out the Sound Doctor's channel: www.youtube.com/TheSoundDoctors

Special thanks to Linda Kaplan, M.D. Her website:http://LindaKaplanMD.com

January is Glaucoma Awareness month: http://www.nei.nih.gov/

Special Thanks to Chris Sullivan who helped shoot and DP several scenes, Destinee Handly for her amazing nail art, and Michael Malone and Marko Gojanovic, who let me shoot at their house and kick their asses in FIFA!

Lyrics:
Im gonna smoke some weed, only got 20 dollas in my pocket
Imma huntin, looking for a pot shop, this is fucking awesome!

Walk into my house like what up, i got some good pot
I'm just pumped up got some herb from the pot shop
Ice in my fridge it used to be frosty
My friends like "Damn, that's a stoned ass donkey!"
Rollin' in hella high, looking like it's fifa time
Dominating all my friends, as I eat some chili fries
Draped in a snuggie with my girl sitting next to me
Probably shouldn't have had a big gulp full of ice tea
PISS!
But shit it was 99 cents!

I be blazin and smokin it
Bout to go and get some munchie snacks, passing up on those cracker jacks
Reeces Pieces are where it's at, Gotta get me some soda pop
Cotton mouth has been creeping up
But can't remember where I put my keys,
Yeah, that's what's up.
Imma take your grandpa's ride, Imma take your grandpa's ride
No for real, ask your grandpa, Can I take his 65?
Deville Cruisin to my local Publix
Nothing better than rolling with 2 super fly chicks!
They had frozen burritos, I bought frozen burritos
I bought some Ben and Jerry's, then I bought some Cheetos
Hello, Hello, my main man Obama
A couple states have just reformed their laws on marijuana
Whatcha gonna do, send the feds there? Hell no!
The DEA's would be like "Ah, they got Volcano"

What you know about the science of marijuana?
What you know about people suffering from glaucoma?
They need it, they need it, it helps them with their condition
If don't believe me, then just ask some eye physicians
Thank your granddad for voting for that guy Richard
Nixon is the President who made the plant illegal
But science is now showing that its medicine for people
And the private sector's fighting to keep all of that illegal
Alcohol and Tobacco, Pharmaceutical, Prisons
I'll take those four major lobby groups and fight those motherfuckers
They making money day and night, all those motherfuckers
And bribing congress out of sight, all those motherfuckers
They be like, "Oh, it's immoral and unhealthy"
I'm like how many people are you making wealthy
Anti-marijuana lobbies are making all kinds of profits
And they don't want you to stop it cause of all the special interests
I call that getting swindled and pimped, shit
I call that getting tricked by the government, that law's hella old
So its time to update it, regulate it, and then get it under state control
Peep Game, look into my political telescope
Think it's going to stay like this forever, nah, it hella won't, nah, it hella won't.

Let's end the war on drugs, It's time to pull the plug
These special interest groups are nothing more than corporate thugs
Let's end the war on weed, the people have agreed.
These special interest groups have kept these laws with bribery

Imma smoke some weed, only got 20 dollas in my pocket
Imma huntin, looking for a pot shop, this is fucking awesome!

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20 April 2012

4/20: How 'Weed Day' Got Its Name 20APR12

THE real origin and history of 420, and check out my earlier post IT'S 420 DAY!!! Marijuana Recipes: 'High Times Cannabis Cookbook' Author Gives Edible Weed Advice 20APR12 http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/its-420-day-marijuana-recipes-high.html

 This article was originally published on April 20, 2009, and has been reposted each year since. This year, it is updated to include the full identities of the men behind the coining of the term "420," as well as additional details. Carly Schwartz contributed to this story.

Warren Haynes, the Allman Brothers Band guitarist, routinely plays with the surviving members of the Grateful Dead, touring as The Dead. It's the spring of 2009, he's just finished a Dead show in Washington, D.C., and he gets a pop quiz from The Huffington Post.
Where does "420" come from?
He pauses and thinks, hands on his sides. "I don't know the real origin. I know myths and rumors," he says. "I'm really confused about the first time I heard it. It was like a police code for smoking in progress or something. What's the real story?"
Wavy Gravy is a hippie icon with his own ice cream flavor who has been hanging out with the Dead for decades. HuffPost spots him outside the same concert. Asked about the term 420, he suggests it began "somewhere in the foggy mists of time. What time is it now? I say to you, 'Eternity now.'"
Depending on whom you ask or their state of inebriation, there are as many varieties of answers as strains of medical bud in California. It's the number of active chemicals in marijuana. It's teatime in Holland. It has something to do with Hitler's birthday. It's those numbers in that Bob Dylan song multiplied.
The origin of the term 420, celebrated around the world by pot smokers every April 20, has long been obscured by the clouded memories of the folks who made it a phenomenon.
The Huffington Post chased the term back to its roots and was able to find them in a lost patch of cannabis in a Point Reyes, Calif., forest. Just as interesting as its origin, it turns out, is how it spread.
It starts with the Dead.
It was Christmas week 1990 in Oakland. Steven Bloom was wandering through The Lot, that timeless gathering of hippies that springs up in the parking lot before every Grateful Dead concert, when a Deadhead handed him a yellow flyer.
"We are going to meet at 4:20 on 4/20 for 420-ing in Marin County at the Bolinas Ridge sunset spot on Mt. Tamalpais," read the message, which Bloom dug up and forwarded to HuffPost. Bloom, then a reporter for High Times magazine and now the publisher of CelebStoner.com and co-author of "Pot Culture," had never heard of "420-ing" before.
The flyer came complete with a 420 backstory: "420 started somewhere in San Rafael, California in the late '70s. It started as the police code for Marijuana Smoking in Progress. After local heads heard of the police call, they started using the expression 420 when referring to herb -- Let's Go 420, dude!"
Bloom reported his find in the May 1991 issue of High Times, which the magazine found in its archives and provided to HuffPost. The story, though, was only partially right.
The origin of 420 had nothing to do with a police code, though the San Rafael part was dead-on. A group of five San Rafael High School friends known as the Waldos -- by virtue of their chosen hangout spot, a wall outside the school -- coined the term in 1971.
The Waldos never envisioned that pot smokers the world over would celebrate each April 20 as a result of their foray into the Point Reyes forest. The day has managed to become something of a national holiday in the face of official condemnation. Officials at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of California, Santa Cruz, which boast two of the biggest "smokeouts," pushed back in 2009 in typical fashion. "As another April 20 approaches, we are faced with concerns from students, parents, alumni, Regents, and community members about a repeat of last year's 4/20 'event,'" wrote Boulder's chancellor in a letter to students. "On April 20, 2009, we hope that you will choose not to participate in unlawful activity that debases the reputation of your University and degree, and will encourage your fellow Buffs to act with pride and remember who they really are."
But the Cheshire cat is out of the bag. Students and locals will show up around four, light up at 4:20 and be gone shortly thereafter. No bands, no speakers, no chants. Just a bunch of people getting together and getting stoned.
THE FIVE WALDOS
Today the code often creeps into popular culture and mainstream settings. Some of the clocks in "Pulp Fiction," for instance, are set to 4:20. A "Price Is Right" contestant won YouTube celebrity by bidding either $420 or $1,420 for everything. In 2003, when the California Legislature codified the medical marijuana law that voters had approved, the bill was named SB 420.
"We think it was a staffer working for [lead Assembly sponsor Mark] Leno, but no one has ever fessed up," says Steph Sherer, head of Americans for Safe Access, which lobbied on behalf of the bill.
California legislative staffers spoken to for this story say that the 420 designation remains a mystery, but that both Leno and the lead Senate sponsor, John Vasconcellos, are hip enough that they must have known what it meant. Vasconcellos says he has no idea how it got the number 420 and wouldn't have known what it meant at the time. (If you were involved with SB 420 and know the story, email me.)
The code also pops up in Craigslist postings when fellow smokers search for "420 friendly" roommates. "It's just a vaguer way of saying it, and it kind of makes it kind of cool," says Bloom, the pot journalist. "Like, you know you're in the know, but that does show you how it's in the mainstream."
The Waldos have proof, however, that they used the term in the early '70s. When HuffPost spoke with the men in 2009, they requested anonymity, preferring to go by the names they call each other -- Waldo Steve, Waldo Dave, Waldo Mark, etc. Pot was still, after all, illegal.
Since then, however, California has decriminalized possession of marijuana so that getting snagged costs little more than a parking ticket. Medical marijuana shops dot the landscape, and the plant has become dramatically more culturally acceptable.
In the spring of 2012, they agreed to go on the record with HuffPost.
"The baby boomers have been taking over. People are dying off. The generations behind them are fine," explains Steve Capper.
"I think I read recently a poll where somewhere like 47 percent of the American public are okay with marijuana," says Dave Reddix. (In March 2012, a Rasmussen poll found 47 percent of Americans support legalization of marijuana.)
Mark Gravitch also agreed to be identified. The other two aren't yet ready.
The Waldos' story goes like this: One day in the fall of 1971 -- harvest time -- the Waldos got word of a Coast Guard service member who could no longer tend his plot of marijuana plants near the Point Reyes Peninsula Coast Guard station. A treasure map in hand, the Waldos decided to pluck some of the free bud.
The Waldos, who were all athletes, agreed to meet at the statue of Louis Pasteur outside the school at 4:20 p.m., after practice, to begin the hunt.
"We would remind each other in the hallways we were supposed to meet up at 4:20. It originally started out 4:20-Louis, and we eventually dropped the Louis," Capper, 57, says.
The first forays were unsuccessful, but the group kept looking for the hidden crop. "We'd meet at 4:20 and get in my old '66 Chevy Impala, and, of course, we'd smoke instantly and smoke all the way out to Point Reyes and smoke the entire time we were out there. We did it week after week," says Capper. "We never actually found the patch."
But they did find a useful codeword. "I could say to one of my friends, I'd go, '420,' and it was telepathic. He would know if I was saying, 'Hey, do you wanna go smoke some?' Or, 'Do you have any?' Or, 'Are you stoned right now?' It was kind of telepathic just from the way you said it," Capper says. "Our teachers didn't know what we were talking about. Our parents didn't know what we were talking about."
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THE DEAD
It's one thing to identify the origin of the term. But Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary already included references to the Waldos by 2009, when HuffPost first wrote this account. The bigger question: How did 420 spread from a circle of California stoners across the globe?
As fortune would have it, the collapse of San Francisco's hippie utopia in the late '60s set the stage. As speed freaks, thugs and con artists took over The Haight, the Grateful Dead packed up and moved to the Marin County hills, just blocks from San Rafael High School.
"Marin County was kind of ground zero for the counterculture," says Capper.
The Waldos had more than a geographic connection to the Dead. Mark Gravitch's father took care of real estate for the Dead. And Dave Reddix's older brother, Patrick, managed a Dead sideband and was good friends with bassist Phil Lesh. Patrick Reddix tells HuffPost that he smoked with Lesh on numerous occasions. He couldn't recall if he used the term 420 around Lesh, but guessed that he must have.
The Dead, recalls Dave Reddix, 57, "had this rehearsal hall on Front Street, San Rafael, California, and they used to practice there. So we used to go hang out and listen to them play music and get high while they're practicing for gigs. But I think it's possible my brother Patrick might have spread it through Phil Lesh. And me, too, because I was hanging out with Lesh and his band [as a roadie] when they were doing a summer tour my brother was managing."
The bands that Patrick managed for Lesh were called Too Loose to Truck and Sea Stones; they featured not only Lesh but rock legend David Crosby and acclaimed guitarist Terry Haggerty.
The Waldos also had open access to Dead parties and rehearsals. "We'd go with [Mark's] dad, who was a hip dad from the '60s," says Capper. "There was a place called Winterland, and we'd always be backstage running around or on stage and, of course, we're using those phrases. When somebody passes a joint or something, 'Hey, 420.' So it started spreading through that community."
Lesh, walking off stage after a Dead concert in 2009, confirms that Patrick Reddix is a friend and says he "wouldn't be surprised" if the Waldos had coined 420. He isn't sure, he says, the first time he heard it. "I do not remember. I'm very sorry. I wish I could help," he says.
As the Grateful Dead toured through the '70s and '80s, playing hundreds of shows a year, the term spread though the Dead underground. Once High Times got hip to it, the magazine helped take it global.
"I started incorporating it into everything we were doing," Steve Hager, then editor of High Times, tells HuffPost in 2009. "I started doing all these big events -- the World Hemp Expo Extravaganza and the Cannabis Cup -- and we built everything around 420. The publicity that High Times gave it is what made it an international thing. Until then, it was relatively confined to the Grateful Dead subculture. But we blew it out into an international phenomenon."
Sometime in the early '90s, High Times wisely purchased the web domain 420.com.
The Waldos say that it took just a few years for the term to spread throughout San Rafael and start cropping up elsewhere in the state. By the early '90s, it had penetrated far enough that Dave Reddix and Steve Capper began hearing people use it in unexpected places -- Ohio, Florida, Canada -- and spotted it painted on signs and scratched into park benches.
In 1998, the Waldos decided to set the record straight and got in touch with High Times.
"They said, 'The fact is, there is no 420 [police] code in California. You guys ever look it up?'" Bloom recalls. He had to admit that, no, he had never looked it up. Hager flew out to San Rafael, met the Waldos, examined their evidence, spoke with others in town, and concluded they were telling the truth.
"No one's ever been able to come up with any use of 420 that predates the 1971 usage, which they had established. So unless somebody can come up with something that predates them, then I don't think anybody's going to get credit for it other than them," Hager says.
THEIR 420 STASH
The Waldos have evidence to back up their story, now stashed away in a vault in a San Francisco bank. Reddix, Gravitch, Capper and another high school friend, Patty Young, gave HuffPost a tour of the vault, where they keep a flag with 420 stitched onto it, letters, newspaper clippings and other pieces of memorabilia.
The men remain positively giddy about their impact on an international subculture. "Attention, ladies and gentlemen, the Waldos are here!" exclaims Reddix outside downtown San Francisco's flagship Wells Fargo. He picks up a plastic "Caution, Wet Floor" sign to use as a megaphone. "You are witnessing history!"
And there it all is: A clipping from a 1970s issue of San Rafael High's school newspaper, in which a student claimed the one thing he'd want to say in front of his graduating class was simply "4-20." A letter postmarked 1975, from Waldo Dave to Waldo Steve, rife with 420 references. The official 420 flag, which Young tie-dyed in her art class.
The bank teller watches as the Waldos show off their archives. "Do you know what 420 means?" Capper asks him.
The teller pauses, then grins sheepishly. "Yes, sir," he says.
The Waldos are slightly conflicted about what to do next. Reddix is gung-ho about telling the story widely and publicly. Capper is more circumspect, worried that releasing too much would cost them future commercial possibilities.
The Waldos are considering a documentary, a dictionary of the rest of their slang and whatever else might be out there for five guys who coined the term 420 four decades ago.
"I still have a lot of friends who tell their friends that they know one of the guys that started the 420 thing. So it's kind of like a cult celebrity thing. Two years ago I went to the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. High Times magazine flew me out," says Reddix.
But "we never made a dime on the thing," he says, half boasting, half lamenting.
Reddix is now a credit analyst, with a side interest in filmmaking that led to the documentary "Roots Music Americana." He works for Capper, who owns a specialty lending institution and lost money to the con artist Bernie Madoff. When we spoke in 2009, Capper was spending more time composing angry letters to the Securities and Exchange Commission than he did getting high.
The other three Waldos have also been successful, says Capper, who notes he keeps in close touch with them all. One is head of marketing for a Napa Valley winery. Another is in printing and graphics. Gravitch is an operations manager in the construction industry.
"I've got to run a business. I've got to stay sharp," says Capper, explaining why he rarely smokes pot anymore. "Seems like everybody I know who smokes daily or many times in a week, it seems like there's always something going wrong with their life, professionally or in their relationships or financially or something. It's a lot of fun, but it seems like if someone does it too much, there's some karmic cost to it."
"I never endorsed the use of marijuana. But hey, it worked for me," says Reddix. "I'm sure on my headstone it'll say, 'One of the 420 guys.'"
Ryan Grim is the author of "This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America," available from Amazon and at independent bookstores.

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IT'S 420 DAY!!! Marijuana Recipes: 'High Times Cannabis Cookbook' Author Gives Edible Weed Advice 20APR12

IT'S 420 Day, and it is "high" time we decriminalize marijuana in the U.S. The war on pot is a failure as well as an obscene waste of money, material and lives. We will save billions of tax dollars with legalization by ending imprisonment for pot and allocating DEA agents on border patrols and raids on now illegal growing operations. The states and federal governments will realize hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue as well as decreased court, law enforcement and prison cost. Personal use of marijuana should be regulated the same as alcohol and tobacco. Doing so will eliminate a huge source of income for illegal drug cartels, mainly in Mexico, and will allow border agents and customs officials to concentrate on border security, illegal immigration and more thorough customs inspections. Savings from not sending people to prison for pot would also provided much needed funding for effective drug rehab programs for our society as a whole, including our prison population and provide funding for real education and rehabilitation of inmates in our prisons. Legalization of marijuana is a win-win proposition for our nation, and it is time we have an open and honest debate about it. On a lighter note, here is a piece from HuffPost on cooking with pot....enjoy! And check this out

4/20: How 'Weed Day' Got Its Name 20APR12 

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Marijuana Recipes Weed Cannabis Cookbook
When most people think of stoner food, they typically think of fatty, greasy items like nachos or chili cheese fries. When most people think of food to get you high, the first thought is usually pot brownies. But there is a whole realm of marijuana cuisine that goes beyond the obvious. Enter "The Official High Times Cannabis Cookbook" by Elise McDonough and the editors of High Times magazine. This cookbook might have some familiar favorites, but it also offers interesting riffs on more advanced cannabis cuisine like farmers' market risotto and potato gnocchi with wild mushroom ragu.
McDonough, a 10-year veteran of High Times magazine, stresses that you can't just throw some marijuana in food and call it a day. Like all forms of cooking, technique is key. Her version of stoner cuisine isn't about what to eat once you're high -- it's about how to create tasty meals that can give you a nice buzz. In the book's introduction, McDonough explains:
Mention the word "marijuana" or better yet pull out your stash, and the first thought that springs to most stoner's minds is rolling a joint, packing a pipe, toking a bowl, hitting a bong, or putting a flame to some other smoking accessory. But it wasn't always that way.
Ancient people throughout the world have use marijuana as a cooking ingredient -- pot brownies only became popular in the 1950s. The passage of California's Proposition 215 in 1996, effectively legalizing medical marijuana, helped in "opening the door for more and more people to realize the benefits of eating their stash instead of smoking it," McDonough writes.
HuffPost Food spoke with McDonough to learn more about the book and the finer points of cannabis cookery. Check out the interview below, and scroll down for some recipes from the book -- including Bar-B-Cannabis Sauce and Cheeto Fried Chicken.

Are you seeing an uptick in the consumption of edible marijuana?
It's definitely a growing part of the industry. It's very similar to what's going with organic food and farmers' markets. The cost of cannabis is falling in California because so many people are growing it. People are trying to find other way to use it and make a profit.
What are the reasons a patient or recreational user might prefer to cook and eat the substance over more traditional forms of ingestion?
When you eat the cannabis as opposed to smoking or vaporizing, it lasts longer. if you deal with chronic pain, you are going to get release for four to five hours instead of one to two hours.
It is more discreet, and it saves your lungs. Chronic longterm smoking can lead to bronchitis.
The staple of French cuisine are the mother sauces (hollandaise, bechamel, etc.) Is there an equivalent in cannabis cuisine?
The basic infusion that you are going to have to master is the butter or the oil. The main way you get cannabis into your food is simmering it in a chosen fat. That involves a chemical reaction of a THC molecule binding to the lipid.
What's the easiest technique for extracting THC from marijuana -- butter, oil, tinctures or something else? 
The easiest standard way is with butter because it is easy and potent. If you are a vegan or you don't want that much saturated fat, olive oil and coconut oil works well.
Can you talk about the process of what happens when you apply heat to cannabis? Does cannabis lose any of its potency when you cook it at a high temperature for a prolonged time? (baking, etc.)
Once it is in the butter, you can bake it at a normal temperature. If you cook at a very high temperature, the THC will begin to degrade and it will lose its potency. For butter, keep it on a low simmer -- you definitely wouldn't bring it to boil. One of the best ways to make a good cannabutter is to do it in your Crock Pot.
It is important for people to know that raw cannabis, the fresh plant out of the ground, is not psychoactive at all. There is a process called decarboxylation after you dry the plant that makes it psychoactive.
What is the key to a good cannabis dish?
Don't overdo it. Especially when people are making stuff and they know you are from High Times. I want to be able to eat a satisfying portion of something without it sending me to the moon.
Theres also such a wide variety of ingredients to start -- dried buds, trimmed leaves, sifted kief, unpressed hash (the most expensive, but tastiest). If you're looking for flavor, you're going to want to used dried cannabis instead of fresh. Sometimes you can get kind of a unpleasant grassy taste from fresh marijuana.
The flavors of marijuana clearly work better with some foods than others -- what are some characteristics of the flavor profile of marijuana and how do you use that to determine good pairings and recipes?
There's a group of chemicals found in all plants called terpenes and flavonoids. Different marijuana strains also have these chemicals. Some strains are citrusy and others can taste like pine. With the advent of laboratory testing, people are doing analysis which allows people to experiment. For example, in the book, for the Tom Yum Ganja, chef Ashley Boudreaux found a hay strain that paired very favorably with the ingredients.
Are there any foods that don't work with marijuana?
I haven't come across things that are unsuccessful, only when there is too much [cannabis] in there. if you do a good infusion, you are going to get a hint of it. It pairs really well with chocolate and peanut butter though.
What are your favorite recipes in the book?
It depends on my mood. I love the cover recipe -- pumpkin pie is one of my favorite things. I like the Ganja Granny's Smoked Mac 'N' Cheese. I also like the lighter stuff like the Rasta Pasta and Reggae Rice and Bean Soup.
Do you have any advice for a budding cannabis chef?
Low and slow. That goes for both eating and cooking. When you are eating, you want to start with a low dose and go slow. Wait an hour to see how it effects you. Same with cooking. Simmer low and slow.
Check out some recipes from the High Times Cannabis Cookbook below.
All slideshow text excerpted from the High Times Cannabis Cookbook.

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Cook Ashley Boudreaux devised this barbecue sauce recipe that's perfect for the Fourth of July. Simply smother any meat, vegetable, or tofu in it, then chow down and wait for the ganja-infused fireworks to follow!

Unfortunately, the Land of the Free still imprisons more of its citizens than any other country on earth, including more than eight hundred thousand arrests every year for marijuana. So amid all the talk of liberty this time of year, make a promise to yourself to fight for your rights, and to always remember that until every pot prisoner is released, none of us are ever truly free.

Every year around the Fourth of July since 1972, the Rainbow Family holds its annual gathering in a national forest. These gatherings attract tens of thousands to live lightly on the land, and culminate in a morning of silence, during which all participants agree to pray for peace. Everyone assembles in a meadow where an enormous om circle forms. A parade of children arrives and the silence is broken amid a huge amount of hoopla. Everyone celebrates with dancing, smoking, and the sharing of watermelon slices. If you're ever able to attend, make sure to mix up some of this sauce and bring it along!

Makes 2 cups

1/3 cup vegetable oil (not olive oil)
10 grams commercial-grade (or 5 grams high-grade) cannabis, finely ground
3 tablespoons chopped green onion
Juice of 1 small lime
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
3/4 cup tomato paste
1 tablespoon minced garlic
2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
1/2 tablespoon chili powder
Pinch of cayenne pepper 1 tablespoon honey
1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 cup apricot nectar or pineapple or mango juice

In a Crock-Pot, combine oil, cannabis, green onion, lime juice, and 1 tablespoon of water and cook at no more than 200°F for at least 90 minutes -- the "keep warm" setting will probably do the trick. Add apple cider vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, tomato paste, garlic, dark brown sugar, chili powder, cayenne pepper, honey, ginger, apricot nectar, and 1/4 cup water. Mix well, and simmer very gently on the medium setting for an additional 35 to 45 minutes while stirring occasionally.

Note: Getting a good, solid stone takes no more than 3 to 4 tablespoons per person. Use it for basting, dipping, or as a condiment on burgers and other sandwiches. Refrigerate and it will keep for up to 1 week.
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16 September 2011

Denroy Morgan Pot Bust: Reggae Star Questioning Leads Cops To 310 Pounds Of Marijuana 16SEP11

I'D claim it was for religious purposes......"Jah live, children yeah.....Jah Jah live, children yeah....."
Police uncovered more than 300 pounds of marijuana in the Bronx on Wednesday, a discovery that led to the arrest of two men -- including former reggae artist Denroy Morgan.
The 66-year old, Jamaican-born Morgan came under investigation after he was seen leaving a building in the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx, carrying what appeared to be a brick of marijuana.
Detectives then pulled Morgan over for running through a stop sign and not wearing his seatbelt. Officers detected the smell of marijuana coming from the car and after questioning, Morgan admitted to carrying marijuana in the trunk of his car. 25 pounds were found.
Officers later stopped Wayne Swavy, 46, after he was spotted leaving the same building on 1122 Taylor Avenue with a 16 pound bundle of marijuana. Police stopped his car and also charged him for failing to wear a seatbelt.
Police gained a search warrant and investigated the building, which led police to find over 310 pounds of marijuana, which is estimated to have a street value between $140,000 to $350,000.
Morgan's music became popular after his 1981 single, "I'll Do Anything for You," was released.




 
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23 June 2011

Mexico Captures Alleged Head Of Cultlike Cartel 22JUN11

AMERICA is responsible for most of the violence and corruption plaguing the Mexican people and their government. The refusal of the American government to take the necessary action to help reduce the number of guns flowing from the U.S. to Mexico (because both congress and the president kow-tow to the nra), and our unwillingness to take the necessary steps to disrupt the flow of drugs into our country, address the demand for drugs in our country and disrupt the flow of drug money back to Mexico all allow the Mexican drug cartels to disrupt, corrupt and destroy Mexican lives, society and the government. WE have a a moral responsibility to address our role in the violence and suffering the Mexican people are experiencing to help the Mexican government and the people in their struggle against the American armed and funded drug cartels in Mexico. From NPR....
by NPR Staff and Wires
Mexican federal police said Wednesday that they had dealt a lethal blow to one of the country's most notorious drug cartels following an operation that nabbed the alleged leader of the cultlike, pseudo-Christian La Familia cartel.
Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, nicknamed El Chango, or "The Monkey," was apprehended Tuesday in the central state of Aguascalientes, officials said. La Familia terrorized western Mexico from its headquarters in Michoacan province, and Mendez is accused of moving tons of cocaine, methamphetamines and marijuana to the U.S.
He was caught without a single shot being fired, officials said.
Mexican federal security spokesman Alejandro Poire, speaking at a news conference in the capital, said the arrest had destroyed "what remained of the command structure of this criminal organization."
President Felipe Calderon on his Twitter account trumpeted Mendez's arrest as a "big blow" against organized crime.
La Familia had been in disarray ever since December, when founder and leader Nazario Moreno Gonzalez was killed in a bloody two-day shootout with police.
He is the alleged mastermind of kidnappings and killings, mainly of members of other criminal organizations.
- Reward statement issued by the Mexican Attorney General's Office
Poire said Mendez represented "the last remaining head of a criminal group responsible for homicides, kidnappings, extortion, corruption and even cowardly attacks on the authorities and civilian population."
NPR's Jason Beaubien, reporting from Mexico City, said that in Michoacan, La Familia was run like a cult and emphasized social programs and the teaching of a Christian-like ideology along with the group's criminal activities.
"They talked about getting people off drugs and banning the local sale of drugs, at the same time their entire focus was on moving drugs and selling tons of cocaine and methamphetamine inside the United States," Beaubien said.
The group used extreme violence — often beheading its rivals — and propaganda to control its territory. La Familia claimed in banners and even newspaper ads that it was "protecting" the people of Michoacan from other criminal organizations.
The Mexican government had offered a $2.5 million reward for Mendez.
U.S. Justice Department spokeswoman Laura Sweeney declined to comment on whether Mendez is sought by the U.S. In February 2010, he was listed as a drug trafficker by the Treasury Department, prohibiting Americans from conducting financial transactions with him and other suspected La Familia cartel members.
Mendez's alleged work in organized crime predated La Familia's origins. He was arrested nine years ago in the city of Apatzingan on suspicion of killing gang members but was later released, the federal attorney general's office said Tuesday without specifying why.
Mendez then led a group of hit men that worked for the Gulf cartel before La Familia's birth. He had a security team known as the "Twelve Apostles," according to the federal attorney general.
La Familia first appeared four years ago when it rolled five severed heads into a Michoacan nightclub, vowing to protect local citizens from rival cartels. La Familia was part of the Gulf Cartel but later became an independent drug-trafficking organization, which ignited a rivalry between the two gangs.
La Familia split into warring factions after Moreno's death, but Mendez was believed to have remained the leader of the main faction, according to federal police.
In March, messages began to appear that a faction calling itself the Knights Templar sought to replace La Familia. The offshoot group's name alludes to a Christian order of knights founded in 1118 in Jerusalem to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land after the First Crusade.
An increase in gunfights between factions and clashes with police in Michoacan forced as many as 3,500 people to flee their hamlets in May and seek refuge in churches, schools and recreation centers in larger towns nearby.
Poire told reporters that with Mendez's arrest, 21 of the country's 37 top drug traffickers have been apprehended or killed since 2009.
More than 35,000 people have died in drug violence since, according to government figures. Local media say the number is closer to 40,000.
NPR's Jason Beaubien reported from Mexico City for this story, which contains material from The Associated Press
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14 January 2011

REAL MEN OF REEFER

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10 December 2010

MERRY-JUANA Marijuana Christmas Tree Seized In Germany 8DEZ10

OK, OK, OK...it is a 6 or 7 foot pot plant....but it is probably for "medicinal" purposes 

Perhaps they should call it a case of "Merry-Juana." A German man is now facing drug possession charges after local police discovered a six-foot-tall marijuana plant in his home that had been decorated with twinkling Christmas lights, the AFP is reporting.
"The marijuana plant had been put in a Christmas tree stand and decorated with a string of lights," officers said in a statement, according to the AFP. "When asked, the hashish fan told the perplexed officers that he had intended to add more decorations to the 'tree' and place the presents under it, according to tradition." Times Live reports that 150 grams of marijuana had been found in the man's home in Koblenz before the tree was discovered.
Turns out he wasn't the only German getting into the Christmas spirit with cannabis this year. On Tuesday, a 21-year-old Munich man was reportedly arrested after making an Advent calendar with marijuana hidden behind each door instead of chocolate. Claiming he had been given the calendar as a present, that suspect was ultimately released but now faces charges of possessing drugs.
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23 June 2010

Lesbian Kagan Speculation Mocked By 'Auto Tune The News' (VIDEO) 21JUN10

Oh, hey! Have we not highlighted the recent YouTube creation from the Streamy Award winning Internet superheroes known as Auto-Tune The News? Here you go, then! This merry summertime jam features the media discussing the merits of legalizing pot, as well as coverage of that time everyone wondered if Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's love of softball was some sort of secret indication that she was a lesbian. You can get a contact high from all the blissed-out, idiotic speculation! Enjoy!

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