timouse

...maybe!

Full on legalization/regulation is a ways off, but while it appears the "Cannabis Reform Bill" has become a victim of our Minority Parliament, and may not get passed, I actually like the provisions in it that allow for up to 3 plants being a ticketed offence only (read: decriminalized). I think if everyone who smoked just grew 3 plants, you would take away a lot of the market for the gangs, etc.

A lot of people don't like the Bill as it does have harder sentences for grow ops, etc. Fair enough. But as I say....baby steps people!

i agree that decriminalization is the first and appropriate baby step. as far as grow ops go, the reality is that there are many post smokers out there who won't want to or won't be able to grow their own. this is my biggest problem with the way that the cannabis reform act looks at the picture. If they are gong to allow people to smoke, they need to consider where it is going to come from, and if they did this from their usual position of self interest, there is a very obvious revenue up-side...

if quality growers could set up a legitamate business and supply good safe product to a lot of people, then the criminals might be encouraged to go legit.

there was an empty warehouse 2 doors down from my office in mississauga that was busted recently. they had converted the whole building into a great big farm, and produced millions of dollars worth of product before being closed down. i would fully support having them open up as a legit business, and if they put up a storefront as well, i know where me and the guys in the plant would go on their way home from work

indeed. thanks for posting this. i totally missed hearing that neil had a blood clot in his brain...i understand that they can treat them with medication as opposed to pooping you open for a better look.

any word on how he's doing and how they dealt with/are dealing with it?

the torrent's running at 14-15k/s at the moment. hop on if you can, looks like a great show!!

edit later...i'm now at 40k/s down, 10 to 20 up...hop on!

....yet the people on the right who can actually make some of these reforms happen (or support them politically) - the federal Conservative Party is nowhere near some of those groups, they are still standing in the Commons singing the virutes of mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences.

Mr. Russ Hiebert (South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale, CPC): Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to follow up on a question I asked last fall regarding the government's plans to deal with the crisis in marijuana grow operations that has exploded out of control across Canada in recent years.

Specifically I asked the Minister of Justice about mandatory minimum sentences for those convicted of cultivating marijuana. I noted that the offenders were getting slaps on the wrist even for repeat offences....etc.etc.

They advocate minimum sentencing for a slew of offences, ignoring the fact that south of the border, they don't act as a deterrent, and prevent judges from action with their own discretion in levelling sentences appropriate to diffent situations/cases.

Refoooooo-rm!!!

if they truly looked at the issue objectively, they might notice that grow-ops are as popular as they are becuase of the money involved. if you could sell wheat for $70 a quarter oz, then there would be houses in thornhill full of indoor what fields

if i could grow it legally & claim the income on my taxes, i would happily do so. could i write off the purchase of a new bong? "testing equipment."

Hmmm, I like it and he definitely deserved an A, but yeah Tooly, I read that years ago and it's played the telephone game and morphed a tad.

indeed. there are a finite amount of text-jokes out there...it's the ultimate in recycling

if this isn't steve allen, you're stealing my bit!!

last spring when niffermouse and i were in bc, we heard of a report by the Fraser Institute that stated that pot production in BC had eclipsed forestry as the biggest dollar cash crop in the province. they went on to examine the fiscal windfall that would occur were pot legalized & taxed.

i figure that if a bunch of right-wingers like the Fraser Institute are willing to come out & say something like that, there is some reason to hope for a change in the law. Given as well the actions of the senate during the summer of '03, this could begin to get interesting. never mind that the source of thorgnor's excellent article is bloomberg news, so even the suit & tie people are beginning to see the light

i saw this on CNN the other night and it warmed my heart now if only more of them would be forced to resign under a cloud of scandal

Last night Schwa confessed his deep passionate love for Trey. He wants to have his babies.

and he would now prefer to be adressed as loretta.

american pie by don mclean.

got it on on headphones right now, i don't think i've ever really paid that much attention to it.

killer piano noodling going on through the verses. happenning bass player too...

The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid- term...thanks geomouse for sending this to me

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different Religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you", and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct...leaving only Heaven thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A"

what she said...my brother and i got this just after my folks got a vcr. i think we wore our copy out.

I think it is a typical human reaction of "What Have You Done For Me Lately"?

trey seems to have legions of really gutted former fans who can't believe that he disbanded phish, and seems to have gone in a different musical direction...the only way he could have not done this though would have been to take the jerry trip and be remembered as a near deity...

just my $0.02

hope it goes well...are you guys upstairs or downstairs??

Who?

don't you mean "whom?"

have you ever seen the mr bean where he paints his room white by exploding a can of white paint in the middle of the room?

just a thought...way more entertaining than applying primer with a brush

i've always found them to small to draw on.

i like this one, 2hrs 45 minutes in...

he's not the best choice of actor, but he dies at the end, so i like it

Happy Birthday POG.

(Try to stay awake.)

what he said.

your house is cool, and as it oughta be with such cool inhabitants and wallpaper is fun as hell...at first. by the 3rd room it's way less entertaining...but satisfying at the end...

happy housiversary!

new avatar anyone??

ben harper - "strawberry fields"

the grateful dead - "ticket to ride"

the rheostatics - "across the universe"

indeed! have a greeat birthday!!

Backbacon appreciation thread? I'm in! Talk about someone who radiates such a love of good music and having a great time.... Gotta feel pretty lucky to have met him. What the fuck is he doing way over in Chatham, though?

what he said. thanks for the fabulous times in chatham, and for generally just being you...

P.S.-timouse, I think you're right. We're back-analysing. We'll never really know. I just read a book called BLINK. It's fascinating. The premise is simply that our brains are incredibly good at assesing things instantly and not very good thorough analysis. It seems our brains are good at convincing ourselves that what we hope is right is actually right. The longer we look at something, the more possible any idea seems. It's an incredible book. Malcolm Gladwell is the author, I think, and he backs his work up with a massive amount of research.

that's perfectly put i've had enough of trying to figure this out, and he simpsons is on now

party in mousegoode!