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Post by phil on Oct 12, 2006 6:45:36 GMT -5
Rent "Reefer Madness" and learn about the dangers of the "Evil Weed" ... !!
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Post by samplestiltskin on Oct 12, 2006 9:26:32 GMT -5
with god's help, i will conquer this terrible affliction!
if you have fewer than five plants, it's legal in denver. (we had 21, oops.) and you can carry anything under an ounce here legally. smoking pot in public incurs a smaller fine now than smoking a cigarette in public. meh??
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Post by Thorngrub on Oct 12, 2006 9:43:09 GMT -5
So this is why Bob & Jay are jumping 4 joy in your av.
I gots to move me ass to Denver...
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Post by samplestiltskin on Oct 12, 2006 9:44:44 GMT -5
maybe after november 7, you can move anywhere in colorado and have these rules.  i don't smoke anymore, but i will of course be voting for it! |
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Post by phil on Oct 12, 2006 10:05:16 GMT -5
if you have fewer than five plants, it's legal in denver. (we had 21, oops.)
Last time I grew pot, we had 1 200 plants ... ôôps !!
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Post by RocDoc on Oct 12, 2006 14:21:26 GMT -5
Interesting how ALL of us 'music-heads', especially us near ancients, once had some sorta weed entrepreneur thing going.
Had pounds hidden in the rafters at my parents' house for years...
Being urban we didn't quite have the resources for growing....tho we once DID rip off someone else's plants....the shame!
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Post by samplestiltskin on Oct 12, 2006 14:32:38 GMT -5
Well, I actually know virtually nothing about growing weed except what my roommate told me. I say 21 plants but that means 21 hydroponic buckets, I don't know if there was one plant per bucket or what. My job was to go in at strategic points in each plant's growth and worry, or "stress", the stems to make the buds think a deer was eating them and they needed to protect themselves with lots and lots more resin. It was like giving a little kid a job to do when you want to keep them off your back honestly. I watched him mix his growth solutions meticiously and had absolutely no clue how he knew what he was doing.
The room was so beautiful though. Discovered this magnificent crawlspace in the basement, spent two weeks digging it out a little more (it had obviously been used for growing before, but not for hydroponics) and.... yeah, it was just about the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen when we got done with it; all silver and sparkly and lush and green, with the water flowing through those weird rock things and making a nice soothing sound, the tropical heat and moisture enveloping you, the first lungful of moist marijuana plant when you crawled in. Our electric bills were out of this world, hehe. I kind of miss that guy. He was a cool dude.
Uh oh, getting all nostalgic now. =(
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Post by Thorngrub on Oct 13, 2006 9:28:33 GMT -5
The place I live is Salt Lake City. Believe me when I tell you: it is the city of the future.
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Post by samplestiltskin on Oct 13, 2006 10:36:16 GMT -5
What do you mean?
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Post by Kensterberg on Oct 13, 2006 11:16:50 GMT -5
I think ThoRn means that SLC is five minutes ahead of the rest of the mountain time zone. Or maybe he means that in the future everyone will either be a Mormon or a metalhead -- no middle ground.
Or something.
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Post by Thorngrub on Oct 13, 2006 11:23:24 GMT -5
Kinda hard to esplain (but I'll try). East Coast cities (such as Boston/NY, etc) = tight grid = overpopulated = ghetto crushed under 200 yrs of overstacking = old corroded waterpipes & system = overload of constant violence + pollution = corruption on the verge of critical mass & decay into permanent oblivion whereas West Coast cities (such as Denver, Salt Lake in particular, etc) = more open space = wide grid = less corroded pipework, newer materials = generally more room to spread out, wide open spaces with plenty of room to grow, and when you factor in the ASTRONOMICAL amount of $$ in possession of, say, the MORMONS - what with their "conservative values" base -- you get cutting edge technologies such as what is currently on display at the University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics (where I work) where the proof in the pudding resides in the cutting-edge MRI machines we've just installed; the HUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE which features worldwide leading edge cancer research, the MORAN EYE CENTER, new edifice just constructed which has an eye for room to grow towards the future of optometry, and there is our PUBLIC LIBRARY ( www.slcpl.lib.ut.us/details.jsp?parent_id=7&page_id=5 ) and, well . . . you get the idea. Consider it like this: EAST COAST = the morning WEST COAST = the evening (The sun rises in the east and sets in the west) Hence . . . we are the future over here. In a nutshell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . I see conservative (mormon) wealth married to politics hand in hand carrying each other with technology (and the rest of us, whether we like it or not) into the future. Salt Lake City is an ideal example of the city of the future, whereas Boston is an ideal example of the city of the past. I'm from Boston . . . I should know  |
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Post by Thorngrub on Oct 13, 2006 11:25:02 GMT -5
OH yeah, and there are the metalheads. (almost forgot; thanks Holzman;) . . . Of course, we ARE going to take over. Just biding our time. . . . ;b
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Post by samplestiltskin on Oct 13, 2006 11:37:55 GMT -5
Gotcha. So Denver is included as a City of the Future except no rich Mormons.
Dammit.
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Post by Thorngrub on Oct 13, 2006 11:39:47 GMT -5
Why "dammit"? That sounds ideal . . .
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Post by Kensterberg on Oct 13, 2006 11:40:22 GMT -5
How do you make an old city (i.e. Boston) into something along your model SLC? I don't see a mechanism for getting from one to the other. Also, what happens in fifty years when SLC's infrastructure is beginning to wear out? What happens when population growth chokes the highways necessary to make the wide grid work? (Look at Denver for a textbook example of interstate gridlock. It is impossible to go anywhere in Denver during "rush hour" -- which takes up at least the hours from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.). Is there public transportation to ease the burden on the roads? (Even though I personally don't like public transit systems in general, I do recognize their utility).
I think you're just lucky to be living in a young, wealthy city. Give it time, and SLC is much more likely to become more like Boston than Boston is to become like SLC.
IMHO of course. And remember that I'm feeling quite pesimistic today ...
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i don't smoke anymore, but i will of course be voting for it! 
