http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-straight-dope/Content?oid=15280231 Comments On: The Straight Dope by Dominic Holden en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Flory]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:50:42 -0800 The Stranger Posted by bigsexy]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:08:46 -0800 The Stranger
Posted by Mr. Foo]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:56:29 -0800 The Stranger Posted by alguna_rubia]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:43:18 -0800 The Stranger Posted by 5th Columnist]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:39:10 -0800 The Stranger
By the way, here is something Dominic wrote regarding several studies: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…

@45 Gregoire is our governor until January (I think it is 12th).


Posted by Ross]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:52:07 -0800 The Stranger
Raymond Yans says the approvals send "a wrong message to the rest of the nation and it sends a wrong message abroad."

Yans heads the International Narcotics Control Board. His job depends on strict control. He told The Associated Press on Tuesday he hopes Attorney General Eric Holder "will take all the necessary measures" to ensure that marijuana possession and use remains illegal throughout the U.S.


Posted by launchme101]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:38:19 -0800 The Stranger
Raymond Yans says the approvals send "a wrong message to the rest of the nation and it sends a wrong message abroad."

Yans heads the International Narcotics Control Board. He told The Associated Press on Tuesday he hopes Attorney General Eric Holder "will take all the necessary measures" to ensure that marijuana possession and use remains illegal throughout the U.S.


Posted by launchme101]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:33:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by saltyseadog]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:24:49 -0800 The Stranger http://www.canorml.org/healthfacts/drugt…

so happy. i thought it was zero tolerance, which would then be impossible to prove and therefore made me nervous. but 5 nanograms means your high.

http://www.canorml.org/healthfacts/drugt…

Posted by oh!]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:27:52 -0800 The Stranger
I also think a lot of people would be shocked to know that many of the fruits and veggies they buy are patented and didn't come to existence by good farming and petroleum alone.


Posted by mtnlion]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 22:08:23 -0800 The Stranger
i'd like to grow hemp on family land. For purpose of hobby crafting stuffs, as well for something to out-compete the invasive blackberry, horsetail and stinging nettles. The spot is alongside rural road. Will need be legal or risk land seizure and fines which can't be paid on this income.

Though it seems that Alex Whiteplume might finally have had a legal harvest by planting certified non-thc plants. http://www.freepress.org/departments/dis…
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Posted by 5th Columnist]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:52:17 -0800 The Stranger http://www.cannabis-med.org/english/faq/…

Implication: Employers who know or should have known their employees are cannabis users, and that the effects of this use results or could result in inability to perform a task to the needed level for safely or effectiveness will very well leave that employer vulnerable to lawsuits.

* cognitive deficits appear detectable at least 7 days after heavy cannabis use
* users show significant impairments in tasks that require more complex manipulation of learned material (so-called "executive" brain functions)

This is not to suggest that a task like driving would be influenced when not high, but only that some higher level tasks are impaired for as much as a week after a test. Should McDonald's need to test --maybe not. Should a hospital - maybe so. Should an airline -- because of the fact that a pilot could be impaired 4 days after use, they may have to. If pilot error is involved in a crash, and the pilot was known to have used in the days before hand, the potential exists for the airline to be liable. For sure.

Posted by theRealityIs]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:19:20 -0800 The Stranger
Implication: Employers who know or should have known their employees are cannabis users, and that the effects of this use results or could result in inability to perform a task to the needed level for safely or effectiveness will very well leave that employer vulnerable to lawsuits.

* cognitive deficits appear detectable at least 7 days after heavy cannabis use
* users show significant impairments in tasks that require more complex manipulation of learned material (so-called "executive" brain functions)

This is not to suggest that a task like driving would be influenced when not high, but only that some higher level tasks are impaired for as much as a week after a test. Should McDonald's need to test --maybe not. Should a hospital - maybe so. Should an airline -- because of the fact that a pilot could be impaired 4 days after use, they may have to. If pilot error is involved in a crash, and the pilot was known to have used in the days before hand, the potential exists for the airline to be liable. For sure.

Posted by theRealityIs]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:13:09 -0800 The Stranger
My plans to grow hemp next spring might be premature. But i'm not willing to wait till 2014. So i'd like to help right now in whatever way i can. Will send a few emails to state rep, but what else is happening? i know there are people who been fighting for legalization of hemp for ages now. How to hook up with them?
Posted by DaveC]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:01:53 -0800 The Stranger
My plans to grow hemp next spring might be premature. But i'm not willing to wait till 2014. So i'd like to help right now in whatever way i can. Will send a few emails to state rep, but what else is happening? i know there are people who been fighting for legalization of hemp for ages now. How to hook up with them?
Posted by DaveC]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:58:12 -0800 The Stranger
By the way, CHRISTINE Gregoire is no longer our governor. I'm not certain you've been doing enough research.
Posted by ivvie]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:10:53 -0800 The Stranger
@28, thanks for "nuh-uh!"

@30, of course patenting natural forms of life is legal--just ask Monsanto. And if one of their patented tomato seeds ends up in your garden, prepared to get sued. It's a fucked world we live in; just smile and take it.

Why are all the hugest stoners the ones who know the least about 502 and/or are totally misinformed about its implications?

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Posted by Patrii]]> Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:41:29 -0800 The Stranger Posted by 5th Columnist]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:50:07 -0800 The Stranger
I'm guessing the thinking among nice, well-meaning liberals is that without such a test (and to be sure: it doesn't exist and isn't on the horizon) law enforcement will tend to error on the side of letting people off the hook.

There may be some truth to that in some cases but there may be other cases where people get dragged off to jail based on their inability to pass a field behavioral test (for whatever reason [not to mention the fact that the results are ultimately a judgment call not science]) or because they fail a saliva exam. (A field saliva exam at last check was under development but it will only be able to tell law enforcement if thc is present in the bloodstream not how much or how recently the person smoked it.)

As someone who has in the past suffered seizures during blood draws (it happens to some people, incidentally, and typically doesn't have anything to do with a seizure disorder or epilepsy) I find the idea of coerced blood tests by the state almost as scary as reckless stoned kids on the roads.
Posted by Anonymouse_CA]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:41:00 -0800 The Stranger
It makes no sense to me the the president has a micro brew recipe and brews beer in the white house but I cant grow a house plant of a legal plant in my home or yard. I think the plant is very pretty and it smells nice and I would like to have one. I would like to grow a plant in my home just to look at. What is the logic behind this stupid stipulation of needing a prescription or a license. I can grow parsley sage, rosemary and thyme but not this controversial plant, ridiculous.

Maybe someday the plethora of proven chemical killers like MSG, tobacco, high fructose corn syrup, will be illegal and you will need to be 21 to purchase candy and crap like Franken food or sit at a McDonalds bar. Wouldn't that be great, Burger King, KFC,Wendy's and Jack In The Box etc... bars where they card you or weigh you before they are allowed to sell you that crap. Or maybe require you to get a prescription, have you prove a need to eat that poison. One can only dream.
Posted by house plants are nice]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:12:48 -0800 The Stranger