You Can Smoke Pot, but Not Tobacco in Washington

[admin]

I am at the Seattle airport getting ready to board the first leg of the trip home from Washington State. It's a beautiful state and downtown Seattle is very nice, but the entire legislature should be fired.
Here is a picture of someone smoking pot in a marijuana dispensary. That is legal, but don't light up tobacco there as that would be illegal.

Here is the article, "Pot dispensaries sprouting statewide"
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014078275_marijuana30m.html

 

[collin]

Hmmm,.....so Washington would be ok with all the pot-heads in the country moving there and all the pipe smokers moving elsewhere huh? Good.

 

[mikethepipe]

'Makes me feel livid,Kevin...WE are the criminals;this world is going mad. Mike

 

[yoru]

*Bangs head on the wall*

 

[romeowood]

I enjoy smoking both, and this is absurd. I'm glad I'm not the only one that sees the ludicrous imbalance in prohibition.

 

[fred]

The times are changing... With both the Feds and state governments desperate

for revenue, the excise taxes on both medical marijuana and the business taxes

on the dispensaries, we will see more of this. The controversy in the medical

community over the appropriate medical necessity of marijuana has been going on

for years. The pharmaceutical industry stands to either loose significant revenue

or get in on the business of marketing and selling this cheap alternative to a

number of currently profitable alternatives. Long touted as a gateway drug,

marijuana has been the mainstay of the drug cartels, much to the chagrin of both

the FDA and the ATF. It will be interesting to see what effect this will have on

the crime statistics. In any case, this is not going away any time soon.

 

[igloo]

Here comes Joe he went on a bender , beat up his wife and kids , ran his car into a telephone pole and got his third DUI . But at least he does not smoke pot , we would have to fire him for that . :crazy:

 

[hilojohnny]

I have blood shooting out of my eyes!.... :evil:

 

[collindow]

I have absolutely no problem with weed, though I don't enjoy it at all, but this is ridiculous.

You guys know about hookah lounges? They're popping up all around Portland, and possibly elsewhere in the country. They're dedicated the smoking "tobacco" products. I put tobacco in quotes because there is NO tobacco taste in shisha at all, which offends me, as a lover of English blends. Anyways, I went to a hookah lounge with some friends last night (one of whom is quite attractive, and the only reason I was willing to go to the damned place) and asked if I could smoke my pipe.

They said it is against the law. You can smoke shisha, and you can do so for hours, inside this place, but GOD NO you cannot smoke real damn tobacco. It's just so effin' illogical-one kind of tobacco is legal, the other not, and the only differences are one is 90-percent sucrose and is smoked through what is essentially a water bong and the other is dignified and classic...but has the smell of tobacco to it!
Maybe I should run for congress or something when I'm old enough.

 

[krgulick]

Looks like we are through the looking glass, where right is wrong and wrong is right. When will the legislatures get their heads out of their rumps and do something productive for once.

 

[hobie1dog]

From the "Business News": Estimated annual revenue California would receive if it legalized marijuana with a $50.00/ounce tax: $1.4 Billion

 

[puffintuff]

:crazy:

 

[yoru]

Shisha has NO tobacco in 90% of blends these days. . .that includes hooka lounges almost without exception.
Also, $50/oz in tax for pot? That's a bigger insult than making it illegal! I've said more than enough on how I feel about pot itself, but unholy tariffs well . .. call me a real colonial spirit but that gets me just right I tell you that much.

 

[ulsterpaddy]

Weed is acceptable up here in Vancouver more than tobacco as well. It's a joke. Not to mention we shoot up our addicts in safe injection sites and yet we still can't smoke on pub patios or near buildings.

 

[fredvegas]

What would have happened if you lit up a pipe in there? Could they have arrested you, or just given you a ticket?
Also, we could be missing out on a great opportunity here. Imagine creating your own blend? A little bit of Cavendish Sativa? A bowl of Latakia Kind? Some sticky-icky-perique? (Author's note: for that last one, you have to pronounce perique, "per-icky".)

 

[romeowood]

:laughat: Thanks for the much-needed levity Fred.

And put me down for a pound of Cavendish Sativa. :nana:

 

[lordnoble]

Personally, I'm dying to know what sticky-icky-perique-y smells like. It's got to be one of the most unholy, yet enticing smells ever... :lol:
-Jason

 

[jaxz]

SOB Kevin....granted I'm deployed right now, but let me know the next time you roll through Seattle, I'm 35-40 mins south of the city...would be great to meet up if we can sometime.

 

[steamtrain]

African Americans like Pipe Tobbaco and Mary Jane toggther for some odd reason..so if I light up a phlliy blunt in one of these joints with my mary jane?

 

[python]

Steamtrain Said: African Americans like Pipe Tobbaco and Mary Jane toggther for some odd reason..

That's kind of painting people with a broad brush don't you think? :roll:
I have seen plenty of people who aren't African Americans smoke "blunts". Race has nothing to do with this.

Steamtrain Said: so if I light up a phlliy blunt in one of these joints with my mary jane?

The last time that I checked Philly Blunts are NOT pipe tobacco.
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I am closing this thread because it is moving way off track.