Off Topic Cannabis

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Not sure if any other city's have a 420 event?


What went down at the 420 protest in London's Hyde Park
Thousands descended on Speaker's Corner for a day of relatively impunity-free weed smoking

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I’m stood watching a policeman confiscate and fastidiously bag a young man’s grinder, a procedure which, given that there are people smoking weed around him as far as the eye can see, doesn’t feel so much like shutting the door after the horse has bolted, as after an entire stampede of them have already made it 50 miles down the road.

Hyde Park is absolutely packed for 4/20 this year, the annual celebration of cannabis that in the UK also serves as a protest against the government’s stagnant drug laws.

I’m bad at estimating crowd sizes, but there’s a similar density of people to what you’d find at a festival, and this stretches a good couple of hundred metres back from Speaker’s Corner, while the scent of bud reaches Marble Arch station.

Talking to attendees, who mostly sit in gaggles around mini-speakers, innocuously crafting enormous, architecturally-confounding joints, it seems attendance is up from last year, as frustration only increases in the wake of fairly rapid decriminalisation/legalisation around the world.

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This much was already clear from our reportage on it, two stories in particular: ‘Colorado is making so much money from cannabis it's having to give some back to citizens’ and ’A year after marijuana legalisation in Colorado, 'everything's fine' confirm police’ having attracted almost 100,000 shares between them.

“It’s like, why not here?” one man, who wanted to remain anonymous, tells me. “I came from Italy where we have a lot of referendums about this and are near to legalising just purely from an economic point of view.

“It’s really good for the economy, but here it’s a rich country and the police are really, really strict. In Italy, if they found you with 10 grams they’d probably say 'Okay, just don’t do it again', but here you could probably only get away with carrying one joint, at a stretch.”

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“I doubt legalisation will happen here,” a teenager a few metres away chimes in. “You can think about all the people who smoke weed that would vote for [parties supporting legalisation], but there’s just too many people who still think it’s the devil.”

Indeed, a study last year deemed weed to be 114 times less deadly than (the very much legal drug) alcohol, but such scientific research never seems to get Parliament’s attention, a recent debate on legalisation precipitated by a petition with over 100,000 signees having been steamrollered by Tory MPs pretty quickly.

A lot of people at the protest aren’t aware that this debate even took place last year though, and it has to be said that for every person that is clued up on the situation there are at least three who are just here for the opportunity to smoke with relative impunity. Also it's very sunny.

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One girl in a marijuana leaf-print onesie pauses from simultaneously hitting a cone and laughing gas balloon to stand up and shout at me: “I’m here to protest and I think weed should be legalised because, without weed babe, there ain’t no love, there ain’t no joy.”

I think there are few people here who expect the rally to actually affect change; the biggest draw seems to be the amusement of watching the police try and enforce a law in the face of such vast and concentrated civil disobedience.

One policeman claims entrants to the park are being carefully checked for illegal substances by police dogs, but either the K9 units are woefully underperforming (23 arrests were made), or they’ve been trained to only seek out large quantities. “The focus is on the dealers,” the officer tells me.

Ironically, given the implied danger of cannabis given its illegality, the only real threat of the day comes from a police horse, which at one point shakes off its rider and goes bolting into the park.

Words by @christophhooton | Photos by @alan_schaller

 

One girl in a marijuana leaf-print onesie pauses from simultaneously hitting a cone and laughing gas balloon to stand up and shout at me: “I’m here to protest and I think weed should be legalised because, without weed babe, there ain’t no love, there ain’t no joy.”


see this is why we can't have nice things.....

 

My eldest called me on Wednesday tea time to say "Do you want to meet for a smoke, it's 420". I didn't have a ****ing clue what she was talking about We had one before the Derby

 

i tend not discriminate between dates of smoking, every day is a good start i find

 

I wish I ****ing had.

 

Afghan Black

 

I think smack would have been a better idea

 

Fantastic article

 

What one?

 

This one Sucky mate, that's why I said it on this one. I wasn't stoned when I said it. I bet you was when you read it lol.

 

yeah i was but still theres a good 20+ articles in this thread, so be specific

 

The whole thread ****sake Sucky.

 

that'll do

 

(ANTIMEDIA) At 10 months of age, Kalel Santiago of Puerto Rico was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma. He endured chemotherapy, radiation treatments, and surgery for two years—and survived. Then he was diagnosed with something permanent: severe autism that disabled him from speaking.

“While he was in the hospital, we noticed he didn’t speak at all and had some behavior that wasn’t right, like hand flapping, and walking on his toes,” his father Abiel Gomez Santiago told Yahoo News. “But we waited until he was 3 and cancer-free to look at his behavior.”

According to Yahoo, “He and his wife Gladys — also parents to two older boys, now 18 and 20 — did a cram course in educating themselves on autism. They tried various schools and therapies and eventually found impressive success with a unique surf-therapy school near their home.”

Eventually, the Santiago family stumbled upon a treatment of real potency and potential: CBD oil.

Through a fundraising program, they were able to receive a tiny bottle of the oil. Kalel was given oral doses twice a day.

Within just two days, he was finally able to speak. “He surprised us in school by saying the vowels, A-E-I-O-U. It was the first time ever,” Abiel said. “You can’t imagine the emotion we had, hearing Kalel’s voice for the first time. It was amazing. The teacher recorded him and sent it to my wife and me and we said well, the only different thing we have been doing is using the CBD.”

Soon after, he began using consonants, too, speaking like his parents never thought possible.

“He said, ‘amo mi mama,’ ‘I love my mom,’” Abiel says. “I don’t know how to thank [the CBD oil makers].”

Kalel’s story is yet another piece of evidence piling onto the mountain of support for cannabis oil and full marijuana legalization. Please share this with as many people as possible.

 

Looks exactly like one of my mates!

 

Made some lovely brownies last weekend, yum yum

 

what was your ratios like?
before the internet i once made a hash cake in a cake making machine, used about a qtr of hash (finely grated)

made the cake normal, once it was cooked i cut it in half and done cherry jam and cream sandwich type sponge thing (not much of a baker) and used about half the hash sprinkled inbetween, and the other half i mixed into the icing i covered the cake with.

i think i used way to much hash because it blew my face off and tasted really strongly of hash more than the icing and jam

only other time ive ingested was hash shakes in dam a few times