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Todd and Adams in particular carried out extensive structure-activity relationship
(SAR) studies in !:I3-TRCs I planted Flo one time. It is very slow germination strain, so you better to wail about 7-10 days for the
germination. Flo was a one of my favorite strain, especially taste, it really taste like Royal Nepal. High was like
medium up-lifting high, very relaxing weed. Don't expect big yield from this strain. I grew both Blueberry and
Flo. I think still Flo has better quality than Blueberry."
"I read somewhere (so who knows what its worth) that most, if not all, of that breeder's strains came from
crossing Thai indica with a Thai sativa... The Blueberry, Flo, B.Velvet, are all supposed to be related--probably
distant cousins from the same original crosses. Sorry no real facts..."-Shabang Medical: multiple sclerosis “This state of the art Indica is the result of over 20 years of select inbreeding. Bred
for vigorous growth, high yield, and superb high. A must for growers who prefer short bushy plants. The buds
have an extremely frosted, resinous appearance and the yield is high.
"NL#5 is NL with another plant crossbred. Part indica, part sativa. Grows great outdoors, flowers quickly and has
a pretty good yield. I know a few that have grown it. Call it the "Christmas tree" bud, the plant looks like one..
Thumbs up to it, it is a great strain." -V Cushman and N I've been promising you all a report on Kong when she finished. She's just finishing outdoors now. I've been
sending ~S~ pictures and maybe he'll post them and give everyone a looksey. Kong shows 2 different
Pheno-types from it's hybrid crossing. I call one tall and the other bush. The tall (9') leans towards it's White
Russian x Bubblegum side. Long slender buds up to 16". The smell and taste are incomparable. It's the best
I've ever tasted. Ok what everyones wanted to know , the potency. One word, excellent. It rates right in there
with my best. I can't honestly report on the yield yet but well over a pound at my estimation. The bush (10') ,
yeah I know , taller than tall , has dense , chunky buds and will be the bigger yielder. I'd say 2 LBS plus. It's
not as sweet as it's sister but holds her own well. The potency is very good. They both are heavy with crystal
production. I just got a first class digital camera and will show you through ~S~. Remember I didn't get or start
these seeds until June. If you're wondering should you try Kong? I give it my highest recommendation. Good
work , Paul , you've got a winner!" - Danbo
“I grew Sensi Seeds NL#5 and it was one of the best plants I had ever seen. VERY distinctive aroma and taste,
I agree with Skunkman, its like a psychedelic couchlock, the buzz goes for loooong. Plus its one of the best
indoor plants I ever saw, very short and compact, mega-phat top-cola, pretty fast (8 weeks), wont grow much
longer after inducing bloom, excellent flower/leaf ratio. I had good 400 gr./s.m. which I consider nice. Only
drawback I noticed was you better watch the air humidity, they have a tendency to catch bud rot, and the colas
are just too fat and sticky so the air won’t go into. But when you keep moisture down to max. 50% rh. you
should do well. To my experience they are true-breeding, but on the other hand I heard that too much
inbreeding out of a small number of species might cause some problems and show up some indica aspects
you may not want to have. I heard of NL#5 F2 that smelled and tasted like shit and had a very dull buzz.” -
huzzit
"(For multiple sclerosis) my friend is currently using a pure indica (NL#5) with good results..." - pot newz Razdan and G
“A FOAF grew Early Pearl for a couple of years. How To Make Bongs it's nice and versatile.
a foaf grew some in and out. indoors in
rockwool under a 400w it yields a/ just <1 oz. at 3 ft.
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1 lb. at 6 ft. finish around the end of September out, 8 weeks in. A foaf think the plant is a mix of sativa/indica. it has longer node Bongs And Bowls spacing than you may like indoors like a sativa, but it grows fat wide fans like an indica. the high is kind of mixed too, a little spacey, followed by complete body freeze. its nice...” - cuz “Northern lights #2 = originally a Hindu Kush X Thai cross. It was selectively inbred and developed into a stable almost all Kush type cross that is mostly indica.” “I haven't done #5, but # 2 (Oasis) was great. Most people say that the NL strains have little or no taste or smell, but my experience with #2 was that it had an oniony, garlicky smell and taste. The buzz was it. Couch-lock, but surprisingly psychoactive, given indica's reputation. I don't think you can go wrong with a strain that highly touted.” - SkunkmanThe most important thing is that they must be dried. Mold is your biggest enemy once you harvest. If you have excessive moisture in the grow room you may have battled mold well before harvest and afterwards it's even more difficult. The trick is to dry them slowly so that certain biochemical processes can go on but not so slowly that mold can get Kali Mist a foot hold. The key is to control Kali Mist humidity.
among professional criminals for profit. How we characterize marijuana selling depends on what level the transaction takes place. This might lend sustenance to the ideologically involved contestants, since they may, without distortion, portray dealing in a fashion which pleases their biases. Just how involved the large-scale dealer is huasi ayahuasca huasi in marijuana selling is obliquely determined by the size of the seizures of imports from Mexico. In terms of the number of these smuggling attempts, clearly the overwhelming majority are of relatively insignificant quantities—under a pound. The largest recent border seizure was about a ton of marijuana. An operation of this size obviously requires organization: a micro-bus, middlemen in Mexico, drivers and high-level dealers for distribution. This is not Cosa Nostra organization, but it is organization. If we mean
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by "organized crime," a syndicate involving thousands of tightly knit, lifelong committed gangsters whose entire livelihood derives from illegal activities, then marijuana probably is not sold, never has been sold, and never will be sold by professional criminals.If, however, we mean an independent operation involving a score of individuals whose Cheap Glass Bongs activities are coordinated, and who will earn their living for a few years from marijuana sales, then it is true that marijuana is often sold by professional criminals. Just how much of the total of marijuana consumed derives from this kind of source is impossible to determine. This is why a consideration of the level at which a deal takes place is important. The importer is often a criminal: his livelihood is importing grass; he is a capitalist who sells an illegal product with no particular commitment to marijuana as an agent of mindtransformation, an element in a subculture, or a catalyst in social change. He probably does not smoke marijuana. The unsystematic business practices of "head" dealers created a vacuum into which he stepped.
The multi-kilogram top-level dealers to whom he sells are also primarily profit seekers. The crucial difference between the importer and his dealcustomers is that the dealer sells to consumers as well as to other dealers and is very likely (14 of 18)4/15/2004 1:08:20 AM The Marijuana Smokers - Chapter 10 to be a consumer himself. Next to the consumer, friendship transactions are common. Thus, to say that marijuana is a business is both true and false. At some levels it is; at some, it is not. To say that it is big business is misleading. A monthly take of a quarter of a million dollars, split twenty ways, might represent the very top of the profession. Lower down, even dedicated hustling brings in what an unskilled factory worker might make. Below that, Plantar Cannabis the profit motive breaks down entirely. A commonly encountered argument against the use of marijuana employs the differential association theory: by using the drug, one is thrown into association with the criminal underworld and, therefore, at , 11,377 (1968) I grew it, or at least something called Early Girl, that I got from Holland in the late '80s. It was pretty average all the way around in my opinion. About average yield, high, and everything else. I got some California Orange at the same time and liked it a little better. That was a while back, though. They might have improved it in recent years.” – Been There BEER Image Cannabis cis ~ trans Conversion Uliss et al I grew this last year outdoors.
about 5' tall at harvest, lots of short side branches with plenty of buds. yield was about 4 oz. of average quality weed. excellent hashy taste which Cannabis Legal peaked at about 1 month of curing and then started to decline. high was average and didn't last very long. maybe due to accidental pollination. susceptible to bud mold in high humidity.” dr.atomic d 2200 PPM overflow water at times due to laziness and not checking." "1000mh about 40w/square ft Took 50 clones and 95% were successful and rooted in about 7 days Cinderella is a most interesting hybrid. It was selected/bred for indoor cultivation. It is a short, plant with dense Beer Bongs colas. The most interesting and handy feature is that you can actually tell the sex when the plant reaches about 12-14
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inches tall. If it is a female, the two telltale pistils are evident at this point. On my 5 females, I put them on 12/12 when they reached 24 inches. They started flowering by day two and explode within 10 days. You can harvest in 50 days They have a fantastically pleasant fruity smell and you can see the resin with 10 days or so. They produce and excellent yield, require very little time to cut and trim off of the plant when you harvest, and the high is great. A creative, up high. Puts you in a good mood and gets you doing things. A friend of mine said she cleaned her whole house and had a good time doing it - You find humor in everything." "I have only praise for this plant and a tip of the hat to the Brothers Grimm. Thanks Guys"" -Mr. Worthington ""Nexus> I have a Flat ScrOG that's W=3ft,L=6ft,H=1ft from bottom of plants. My screen is Cheap Bongs 2 ft from a 1k hps air-cooled + on a light rail III, Well my question is how violent of a stretcher is c99 and how much of the screen should I let her fill up? I don't want c99 stretching so much she hits the light and burns." " =Soul=> I flower my clones at 12"" tall and they end flowering @ 2 ft tall yielding from 1 to 2 ounces dry. Yo should let the branches grow to 8"" above your screen then switch to 12/12. The final height will be less than 2 ft, allowing your lamp enough distance from the plants (the light mover HELPS)." "Nexus> I got 4 c99s and 6 Mr. Nices in the screen growing in a Beer Bongs drip/NFT custom made system. I am about 1-2 weeks away from flowering depending on c99? Also how powerful of a yielder is c99, I have heard sooooooo much spam in the past about her." "=Soul=>It's easy to be misconstrued as ""spam"" when a strain is getting valid positive feedback as we've seen in the case of the Cinderella line. It's truly impressive to have combined rapid flowering and hermaphrodite resistance in a potent, tasty, good-yielding, true strain. That's BOUND to earn some glowing reviews. To illustrate the yield I'll simply say that a 12"" clone of C99 consistently flowers into a 2-foot tall plant with an average yield of 1.5 ounces, depending on how densely they're arranged. I have found that 40 clones (10 RW slabs @ 4 plants per slab) in a 4'x8' area is about optimal. I grow the plants with single colas, or at most, two main colas. They are supported by using twist-ties to attach each cola to wires running the length of the rows.
This increases yield by forcing the garden into a light-efficient profile. When Beer Bongs you let the colas ""fall all over one another"" the (Big Bud x Skunk #1) 23.25 oz. Cured, VERY well manicured. Also made 2 lb of butter, that turned out way too strong) and 10 grams of hash. There were 8 1/2 plants grown from clone(one was a complete runt, I don't know why I even let her live). Plants were vegged in an aeroponic/NFT system for 3 weeks under a 1000MH with an AgroSun bulb. They were about 18-20 inches tall when switched. Each plant was topped twice. Flowering was in an NFT system. The first 2 weeks a single 1000MH w/ AgroSun was used. A second identical light was added at the third week. Flowering took about 70 days. These were the most crystallized plants of this variety that I've ever grown. Slow cured over 1 1/2 months. First on newspaper, then into paper bags, then into mason jars. Smell is incredible. High is incredible. Normally I find BB a little less potent that I'd like. This crop just floors me. High starts out mellow, upbeat, then when you start the second round of bong hits it just hits you like a wave. Immediate couch melt. Cancel your plans, you're not going anywhere. But it lets your mind stay somewhat sharp, which is the best thing about it. Overall I was pretty pleased with this harvest. I had a couple of problems in the early weeks of flowering with mites, and then nearer the end the cold started to set in a bit. So considering that I was pleased with the yield. Although it did suffer the typical Big Bud problem of slightly looser buds. I had one plant that was a monster! A good 8 inches taller than all the other plants, I ended up having to tie her down. 4 huge colas each around 4x11. That plant probably yielded almost 4 ounces alone - Content
Green Spirit is a short resiny 8 week strain that crystals up nicely and has a real bomb taste. mellow yellow vs knaster besser The only drawback I see cheap bongs orange county is the mold susceptibility trait inherited Sensiseedbank from its Skunk#1 forefathers.-McgeeGreen Spirit is a short bongs and bowls resiny 8 week strain that crystals up nicely and has a real bomb taste. The Cannabis Seeds Shop only drawback I see is the mold susceptibility trait inherited from its Skunk1 forefathers.-Mcgee
Shishkeberry did great in the desert. very stony, stupor inducing indica with bb (sort of) flavor. very smelly during flowering...so use caution where ya plant it. it's as easy to grow as any other and clones easy. but very stiff branches/trunk so hard to train during veg w/o breaking stems. not terribly tall...maybe 6-8'... but I suggest it be grown at 45-60 degree angle from start if finish plant-height is a prob. most excellent long and large "beer-can-cola" (among the best buds I’ve ever seen) buds on main stem with all branches producing...so I’d say above avg. yield too. IOW, I would never kick her out of the bed... btw, I’m at 36 degrees latitude +/- with long, hot season but Shishke finished around end of Sept to mid-Oct, if I recall correctly. it did finish before the majority, at any rate. m.g.Cannabis Legal align="justify"> Harper and not for weed bongs A
o see how the weed killer reacts with it. For now, do your weeding by hand. When you have weeded a grow area your plant will grow much better without having to worry about competition for light. Generally throughout the plants grow cycle you will have to weed the patch every week for the first 2 - 3 weeks and then once every month until as such time as the competition has been left truly and well behind. Some grow areas may be weed free in March, but come June the area may not seem like it has been weeded at all because of the 237 speed of weed growth. Whenever you visit your plants make sure you pull up a few weeds as it does help. If you feel that your area is very dense with weeds then you may consider a ground cover. A ground cover is basically a cover that is placed on the ground with holes in it that the marijuana plant grows up through. Covers can be anything from plastic bin liners to sheets of paper. Of course this does not look good if you want to create a stealth grow area, but it does keep the weeds down. Figure 10.3 - Some outdoor seedlings by GrowerManiac. 238 Watering: This is Mother Nature's job most of the time. All your water should come from the heavens. If you find that you have a drought or a long warm spell during summer then you may wish to carry some water to your grow area. If you have to trek over long distances then it is suggested that you fill a sack with plastic bottles of water. Some garden growers use sprinkler systems during dry spells. This is great but again may attract unwanted attention that you do not need. How much water your plant needs depends on how big your plant is. Some larger plants will require a minimum of a gallon of water per day. Natural loam soil will be able to hold water for anywhere between 4 - 6 weeks before becoming extremely dry under the sun. Deep pockets of water may be held below the surface that would not be noticed by the grower on the surface. The best way to judge whether your plants need water or not is by the way they look. If they are wilting badly, then they need water. If not, then they may be okay. In general outdoor plants tend to wilt a small bit anyway during the summer months. If you want to really make sure that your plant has a water source underneath it, simply dig a small hole about a foot deep to the side of your plant but keep an eye out that you do not hit any major roots. Put your hand down inside the hole, does it feel dry? Or does it feel cool and moist? If it is cold and moist then the soil has stored some water below the surface. Your plants can drink this 239 without problems. Figure 10.4 - Outdoor rooftop grow by Inf3cted. Nutrients can be added to the soil during the grow. Switching to a P feed during the flowering weeks will also help. Outdoor soil treatment is much like indoor soil treatment bar the weeding. For further information on feeding check the indoor grow chapters. If you have good sunlight and e e trees for the mere sake of it, nor should one use them as lumber. These trees are generating substances that other beings use as their nourishment. If one urinates and defecates on the tree, the tree will then emit something harmful to these beings. That is the reason they are very defensive. In the background we see cities, towers, monuments, and parks associated with the kapukiri. To the left we see huts where the great shamans of various tribes arrive in spirit, to be trained regarding the kapukiri.There one learns that a young man should not sleep in the bed of an old man. Native people, particularly the elderly, don't like anyone to touch what belongs to them. All that belongs to the shamans must be respected-the bed, the plates, etc. This is because a young man is full of filth.
When one becomes old, one learns to be cleaner. The city in the centre symbolises the purity of a shaman when, already old, he goes to another stage.
It is the purity that the person acquires through his death, when he leaves this life and is transported to another place. This is when a person has been ordained, when he has been requested. Not everyone goes there. I don't reject the Christian belief according to which Christ said to his disciples: "Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards" [John 13:36]. But this does not hold true for everyone. Christ said: "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you" [John 14:2]. But this doesn't mean that this is for all humanity, but for certain chosen persons. Christians were mistaken when they thought that everyone shall go to heaven. VISION 31 CUNCATUYA This vision shows us how a woman, suspecting nothing, contracts the cungatuya disease from the water she drinks. There are two ways of getting the disease. One gets it after a sorcerer sends his mashu or bat to drop its yachay or phlegm in order to bring the disease.
The victim then becomes very weak and dies, as he cannot ingest any nutrition. Secondly, one can get it when the same bat or rnashu drops its saliva into the water one is about to drink. This happens if one leaves one's jar without a cap. Here we see how a woman is drinking contaminated water, causing this awful cungatuya disease sent by a sorcerer through his mashu, which dropped the phlegm into the jar on the grill. To the left, however; we see how a vegetalista is curing the disease by sucking it with the mann of his throat. To prevent any intrusion upon the circle where the healing is being performed, the doctors have raised strong tingunas of surprising colours and posted animals of prey, such as the yachaygavilanes wise sparrow hawk], the tahuicuros Monasa nigrifons] and the supay-unchalas unchala = Aramides cajanea], as well as the push co-yuyo plant and the thorns of casha-huasca thorny vine].
The master is also seen raising his magnetic powers in the fe trees for the mere sake of it, nor should one use them as lumber. These trees are generating substances that other beings use as their nourishment. If one urinates and defecates on the tree, the tree will then emit something harmful to these beings. That is the reason they are very defensive. In the background we see cities, towers, monuments, and parks associated with the kapukiri. To the left we see huts where the great shamans of various tribes arrive in spirit, to be trained regarding the kapukiri. There one learns that a young man should not sleep in the bed of an old man. Native people, particularly the elderly, don't like anyone to touch what belongs to them. All that belongs to the shamans must be respected-the bed, the plates, etc. This is because a young man is full of filth. When one becomes old, one learns to be cleaner. The city in the centre symbolises the purity of a shaman when, already old, he goes to another stage. It is the purity that the person acquires through his death, when he leaves this life and is transported to another place. This is when a person has been ordained, when he has been requested. Not everyone goes there. I don't reject the Christian belief according to which Christ said to his disciples: "Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards" John 13:36].
But this does not hold true for everyone. Christ said: "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you" John 14:2]. But this doesn't mean that this is for all humanity, but for certain chosen persons. Christians were mistaken when they thought that everyone shall go to heaven. VISION 31 CUNCATUYA This vision shows us how a woman, suspecting nothing, contracts the cungatuya disease from the water she drinks. There are two ways of getting the disease. One gets it after a sorcerer sends his mashu or bat to drop its yachay or phlegm in order to bring the disease. The victim then becomes very weak and dies, as he cannot ingest any nutrition. Secondly, one can get it when the same bat or rnashu drops its saliva into the water one is about to drink. This happens if one leaves one's jar without a cap. Here we see how a woman is drinking contaminated water, causing this awful cungatuya disease sent by a sorcerer through his mashu, which dropped the phlegm into the jar on the grill. To the left, however; we see how a vegetalista is curing the disease by sucking it with the mann of his throat. To prevent any intrusion upon the circle where the healing is being performed, the doctors have raised strong tingunas of surprising colours and posted animals of prey, such as the yachaygavilanes wise sparrow Pipes Water Bongs hawk], the tahuicuros Monasa nigrifons] and the supay-unchalas unchala = Aramides cajanea], as well as the push co-yuyo plant and the thorns of casha-huasca thorny vine]. The master is also seen raising his magnetic powers in the fe trees for the mere sake of it, nor should one use them as lumber.
These trees are generating substances that other beings use as their nourishment. If one urinates and defecates on the tree, the tree will then emit something harmful to these beings. That is the reason they are very defensive. In the background we see cities, towers, monuments, and parks associated with the kapukiri. To the left we see huts where the great shamans of various tribes arrive in spirit, to be trained regarding the kapukiri. There one learns that a young man should not sleep in the bed of an old man. Native people, particularly the elderly, don't like anyone to touch what belongs to them. All that belongs to the shamans must be respected-the bed, the plates, etc. This is because a young man is full of filth. When one becomes old, one learns to be cleaner. The city in the centre symbolises the purity of a shaman when, already old, he goes to another stage. It is the purity that the person acquires through his death, when he leaves this life and is transported to another place. This is when a person has been ordained, when he has been requested. Not everyone goes there. I don't reject the Christian belief according to which Christ said to his disciples: "Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards" John 13:36. But this does not hold true for everyone. Christ said: "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you" [John 14:2. But this doesn't mean that this is for all humanity, but for certain chosen persons. Christians were mistaken when they thought that everyone shall go to heaven. VISION 31 CUNCATUYA This vision shows us how a woman, suspecting nothing, contracts the cungatuya disease from the water she drinks. There are two ways of getting the disease.
One gets it after a sorcerer sends his mashu or bat to drop its yachay or phlegm in order to bring the disease. The victim then becomes very weak and dies, as he cannot ingest any nutrition. Secondly, one can get it when the same bat or rnashu drops its saliva into the water one is about to drink. This happens if one leaves one's jar without a cap. Here we see how a woman is drinking contaminated water, causing this awful cungatuya disease sent by a sorcerer through his mashu, which dropped the phlegm into the jar on the grill. To the left, however; we see how a vegetalista is curing the disease by sucking it with the mann of his throat. To prevent any intrusion upon the circle where the healing is being performed, the doctors have raised strong tingunas of surprising colours and posted animals of prey, such as the yachaygavilanes wise sparrow hawk, the tahuicuros Monasa nigrifons and the supay-unchalas [unchala = Aramides cajanea, as well as the push co-yuyo plant and the thorns of casha-huasca thorny vine. The master is also seen raising his magnetic powers in the fe trees for the mere sake of it, nor should one use them as lumber. These trees are generating substances that other beings use as their nourishment. If one urinates and defecates on the tree, the tree will then emit something harmful to these beings. That is the reason they are very defensive. In the background we see cities, towers, monuments, and parks associated with the kapukiri. To the left we see huts where the great shamans of various tribes arrive in spirit, to be trained regarding the kapukiri. There one learns that a young man should not sleep in the bed of an old man. Native people, particularly the elderly, don't like anyone to touch what belongs to them. All that belongs to the shamans must be respected-the bed, the plates, etc. This is because a young man is full of filth. When one becomes old, one learns to be cleaner. The city in the centre symbolises the purity of a shaman when, already old, he goes to another stage. It is the purity that the person acquires through his death, when he leaves this life and is transported to another place. This is when a person has been ordained, when he has been Cannabis Floraison requested. Not everyone goes there. I don't reject the Christian belief according to which Christ said to his disciples: "Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards" John 13:36. But this does not hold true for everyone. Christ said: "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you" John 14:2. But this doesn't mean that this is for all humanity, but for certain chosen persons. Christians were mistaken when they thought that everyone shall go to heaven. VISION 31 CUNCATUYA This vision shows us how a woman, suspecting nothing, contracts the cungatuya disease from the water she drinks. There are two ways of getting the disease. One gets it after a sorcerer sends his mashu or bat to drop its yachay or phlegm in order to bring the disease. The victim then becomes very weak and dies, as he cannot ingest any nutrition. Secondly, one can get it when the same bat or rnashu drops its saliva into the water one is about to drink. This happens if one leaves one's jar without a cap. Here we see how a woman is drinking contaminated water, causing this awful cungatuya disease sent by a sorcerer through his mashu, which dropped the phlegm into the jar on the grill. To the left, however; we see how a vegetalista is curing the disease by sucking it with the mann of his throat. To prevent any intrusion upon the circle where the healing is being performed, the doctors have raised strong tingunas of surprising colours and posted animals of prey, such as the yachaygavilanes wise sparrow hawk, the tahuicuros Monasa nigrifons and the supay-unchalas unchala = Aramides cajanea, as well as the push co-yuyo plant and the thorns of casha-huasca thorny vine. The master is also seen raising his magnetic powers in the f n common patterning of functioning in all of these people, a common pattern superimposed on their individual uniqueness, we may hypothesize something to explain this common pattern. This hypothesized something might be a common personality trait, belief system, physical attribute, or, in terms of our interest a common state of consciousness. Particularly, if we know that all the observed individuals ingested marijuana just before we began observing them, we will be tempted to say that the common pattern of functioning we observe is the result of their all being in a state of marijuana intoxication. Note, however, that it is the empirically observed common pattern of functioning1] that is the crucial defining operation of the state of consciousness; the fact that they had all ingested marijuana serves secondarily to specify something we think to be a cause of the hypothesized state of consciousness. What, then, are the properties of this hypothesized state of consciousness, marijuana intoxication? How do we discover these properties? Clearly the way to answer this is to give marijuana to a number of people and observe what is common in their experience and behavior. Unfortunately, the observation process is much more complex and full of pitfalls than we would expect. Much of our usual experience with the effects of drugs on consciousness misleads us into expecting fairly simple relationships. If, for example, you give a strong dose of barbiturates or other sedatives to a person, he almost always goes to sleep. Hence we describe the state of consciousness (or lack of it) induced by barbiturates as a barbiturate-induced sleep. There is little variability across subjects, and our observational process is simple. With a psychoactive drug like marijuana, on the other hand, the variability across subjects is very high, and the observation process itself may systematically bias what we observe, as will be detailed in the next section. It may even turn out that different people might experience different states of consciousness from using marijuana, that is, the observed patterns of experience and behavior fall into several distinct patterns rather than a single pattern common to all individuals. We generally consider alcohol intoxication, for example, as a single state, yet on a second thought there are clearly some individuals who have very different experiences with alcohol from those the majority of us have. A drug may thus stimulate a reorganization of functioning, but the nature of the new pattern may be determined by factors other than the nature of the drug per se. Let us consider in detail the question of why a given individual, taking marijuana (or any other psychoactive drug, for that matter) at a particular time and place, might experience the particular things that he does. VARIABILITY OF DRUG-INDUCED STATES Our common experience with many drugs inclines us to think along the line that "Drug A has effects X, Uliss et al Dalzell, and R
owing awareness that many seemingly respectable individuals also smoke marijuana:
"After being turned on, I realized that many straight types smoke, too. It's sort of like
when a virgin has just been deflowered; she realizes that others must also be nonvirgins,
too, after having experienced it herself," said a twenty-two-year-old law school student, a
weekly smoker. In fact, there is often a certain degree of disappointment in the experience.
The experience has been billed as bizarre, beautiful, frightening, orgiastic, but either pro
or con, the descriptions are invariably unusual. "At first I thought it would be the
passageway into heaven," a young man of Catholic parentage told me, somewhat
disenchanted that it wasn't. "I expected a fantastic change," said a twenty-three-year-old
woman writer about her experience of being turned on in a cafe in Tangiers; "I was
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disappointed," she added. "I was scared shit," a student in pharmacy told me about an
experience six years earlier.
Aside from the expectation that the high would be much more spectacular, some of the
disappointment stems from the fact that many initiates do not become high the first time
that they smoke, or at least do not recognize it. Marijuana's effect is subtle, and is, as I
have stated, quite dependent on the learning process. In Becker's words,
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the new user may not get high and thus not form a conception of the drug
as something which can be used for pleasure....
... being high consists of... the presence of symptoms caused by
marijuana use and the recognition of these symptoms and their connection
by the user with his use of the drug. It is not enough, that is, that the effects
alone be present; alone, they do not automatically provide the experience of
being high. The user must be able to point them out to himself and
consciously connect them with having smoked marihuana before he can
have this experience. Otherwise, no matter what actual effects are produced,
he considers that the drug has had no effect on him.[8]
It is possible that the drug sometimes does not take effect on an individual who has
smoked once or even a dozen times. A small proportion of individuals seem almost
incapable of attaining a high, at least using conventional smoking techniques. Whether
this is physiological or psychological, it is impossible at this point to determine. Many of
these individuals have been socialized into the subculture, know the proper techniques and
what to expect from them, have seen others enjoying pot, and yet never seem to cross the
threshold of becoming high. More commonly, however, the reason for the lack of
attainment of the high is inexperience. Among our respondents, 41 percent said that they
did not become high the first time and 13 percent said that they weren't sure whether or
not they were high. The attainment of the high, however, usually comes with experience.
Tweowing awareness that many seemingly respectable individuals also smoke marijuana:
"After being turned on, I realized that many straight types smoke, too. It's sort of like
when a virgin has just been deflowered; she realizes that others must also be nonvirgins,
too, after having experienced it herself," said a twenty-two-year-old law school student, a
weekly smoker. In fact, there is often a certain Graine Cannabis degree of disappointment in the experience.
The experience has been billed as bizarre, beautiful, frightening, orgiastic, but either pro
or con, the descriptions are invariably unusual. "At first I thought it would be the
passageway into heaven," a young man of Catholic parentage told me, somewhat
disenchanted that it wasn't.
"I expected a fantastic change," said a twenty-three-year-old
woman writer about her experience of being turned on in a cafe in Tangiers; "I was
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disappointed," she added. "I was scared shit," a student in pharmacy told me about an
experience six years earlier.
Aside from the expectation that the high would be much more spectacular, some of the
disappointment stems from the fact that many initiates do not become high the first time
that they smoke, or at least do not recognize it. Marijuana's effect is subtle, and is, as I
have stated, quite dependent on the learning process. In Becker's words,
... the new user may not get high and thus not form a conception of the drug
as something which can be used for pleasure....
... being high consists of... the presence of symptoms caused by
marijuana use and the recognition of these symptoms and their connection
by the user with his use of the drug. It is not enough, that is, that the effects
alone be present; alone, they do not automatically provide the experience of
being high. The user must be able to point them out to himself and
consciously connect them with having smoked marihuana before he can
have this experience. Otherwise, no matter what actual effects are produced,
he considers that the drug has had no effect on him.8]
It is possible that the drug sometimes does not take effect on an individual who has
smoked once or even a dozen times. A small proportion of individuals seem almost
incapable of attaining a high, at least using conventional smoking techniques. Whether
this is physiological or psychological, it is impossible at this point to determine. Many of
these individuals have been socialized into the subculture, know the proper techniques and
what to expect from them, have seen others enjoying pot, and yet never seem to cross the
threshold of becoming high. More commonly, however, the reason for the lack of
attainment of the high is inexperience. Among our respondents, 41 percent said that they
did not become high the first Graine Cannabis time and 13 percent said that they weren't sure whether or
not they were high. The attainment of the high, however, usually comes with experience.
Tweowing awareness that many seemingly respectable individuals also smoke marijuana:
"After being turned on, I realized that many straight types smoke, too. It's sort of like
when a virgin has just been deflowered; she realizes that others must also be nonvirgins,
too, after having experienced it herself," said a twenty-two-year-old law school student, a
weekly smoker.
In fact, there is often a certain degree of disappointment in the experience.
The experience has been billed as bizarre, beautiful, frightening, orgiastic, but either pro
or con, the descriptions are invariably unusual. "At first I thought it would be the
passageway into heaven," a young man of Catholic parentage told me, somewhat
disenchanted that it wasn't. "I expected a fantastic change," said a twenty-three-year-old
woman writer about her experience of being turned on in a cafe in Tangiers; "I was
(11 of 15)4/15/2004 1:05:28 AM
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disappointed," she added.
"I was scared shit," a student in pharmacy told me about an
experience six years earlier.
Aside from the expectation that the high would be much more spectacular, some of the
disappointment stems from the fact that many initiates do not become high the first time
that they smoke, or at least do not recognize it. Marijuana's effect is subtle, and is, as I
have stated, quite dependent on the learning process. In Becker's words,
... the new user may not get high and thus not form a conception of the drug
as something which can be used for pleasure....
... being high consists of... the presence of symptoms caused by
marijuana use and the recognition of these symptoms and their connection
by the user with his use of the drug. It is not enough, that is, that the effects
alone be present; alone, they do not automatically provide the experience of
being high. The user must be able to point them out to himself and
consciously connect them with having smoked marihuana before he can
have this experience. Otherwise, no matter what actual effects are produced,
he considers that the drug has had no effect on him.[8
It is possible that the drug sometimes does not take effect on an individual who has
smoked once or even a dozen times. A small proportion of individuals seem almost
incapable of attaining a high, at least using conventional smoking techniques. Whether
this is physiological or psychological, it is impossible at this point to determine. Many of
these individuals have been socialized into the subculture, know the proper techniques and
what to expect from them, have seen others enjoying pot, and yet never seem to cross the
threshold of becoming high. More commonly, however, the reason for the lack of
attainment of the high is inexperience. Among our respondents, 41 percent said that they
did not become high the first time and 13 percent said that they weren't sure whether or
not they were high. The attainment of the high, however, usually comes with experience.
Tweowing awareness that many seemingly respectable individuals also smoke marijuana:
"After being turned on, I realized that many straight types smoke, too. It's sort of like
when a virgin has just been deflowered; she realizes that others must also be nonvirgins,
too, after having experienced it herself," said a twenty-two-year-old law school student, a
weekly smoker. In fact, there is often a certain degree of disappointment in the experience.
The experience has been billed as bizarre, beautiful, frightening, orgiastic, but either pro
or con, the descriptions are invariably unusual. "At first I thought it would be the
passageway into heaven," a young man of Catholic parentage told me, somewhat
disenchanted that it wasn't. "I expected a fantastic change," said a twenty-three-year-old
woman writer about her experience of being turned on in a cafe in Tangiers; "I was
(11 of 15)4/15/2004 1:05:28 AM
The Marijuana Smokers - Chapter 6
disappointed," she added. "I was scared shit," a student in pharmacy told me about an
experience six years earlier.
Aside from the expectation that the high would be much more spectacular, some of the
disappointment stems from the fact that many initiates do not become high the first time
that they smoke, or at least do not recognize it. Marijuana's effect is subtle, and is, as I
have stated, quite dependent on the learning process. In Becker's words,
... the new user may not get high and thus not form a conception of the drug
as something which can be used for pleasure.
.
.
.
.
.
.
being high consists of... the presence of symptoms caused by
marijuana use and the recognition of these symptoms and their connection
by the user with his use of the drug. It is not enough, that is, that the effects
alone be present; alone, they do not automatically provide the experience of
being high. The user must be able to point them out to himself and
consciously connect them with having smoked marihuana before he can
have this experience. Otherwise, no matter what actual effects are produced,
he considers that the drug has had no effect on him.8
It is possible that the drug sometimes does not take effect on an individual who has
smoked once or even a dozen times. A small proportion of individuals seem almost
incapable of attaining a high, at least using conventional smoking techniques.
Whether
this is physiological or psychological, it is impossible at this point to determine. Many of
these individuals have been socialized into the subculture, know the proper techniques and
what to expect from them, have seen others enjoying pot, and yet never seem to cross the
threshold of becoming high. More commonly, however, the reason for the lack of
attainment of the high is inexperience.
Among our respondents, 41 percent said that they
did not become high the first time and 13 percent said that they weren't sure whether or
not they were high. The attainment of the high, however, usually comes with experience.
Twe
ved in their own subculture's conception of it as harmless and beneficial. Moreover,
the relatively few (but absolutely, many) users who are arrested gives them cause for the
accusation of distributive injustice. Rehabilitation is predicated on the notion that the
transgressor thinks of his transgression as wrong. Users often give up use of the weed
after arrest but for practical reasons, not out of a desire to rid themselves of a nasty habit.
To demonstrate these assertions, a study of arrestees would have to be made. In the
absence of such a study, two users who were arrested or who are serving prison sentences
for violation of the marijuana statutes voice reactions to their legal experiences:
It's rather discouraging to spend time in jail for the "crime" of possessing a
weed. I haven't hurt anybody, I haven't stolen from anybody, I haven't raped
anybody's daughter. Why am I in jail? I don't feel like a criminal.
I committed a charitable act.... I agreed to turn this poor cat onto some
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grass at his request. He promptly turned me in.
This silly grass law is only one small reflection of the mentality that rules
America and dictates what we can read, what we can think and what
position we must use when we make love.
My love to all the gentle people. Our day is coming.
38]
Having been convicted of selling five dollars' worth of seeds and stems to
an informer, I am currently serving a twenty-to-thirty year sentence....
... my bail was set at $4s,ooo—an impossible sum for me to raise.
So I sat
in jail for four months before being tried. There were twenty-five other
marijuana arrests in [the]... County in the past two years, but I am the only
one who has been sent to the penitentiary. Why this special treatment for
me?39]
Law enforcement officers, however, often feel rehabilitation to be a worthy goal. Often
a judge's sentence will hinge on his feeling that a jail sentence actually serves a
rehabilitation function. We are reminded of Lindesmith's description of one such case:
... an occasional judge, ignorant of the nature of marihuana, sends a
marihuana user to prison to cure him of his nonexistent addiction.
The
writer was once in court when a middle-aged Negro defendant appeared
before the judge charged with having used and had in his possession one
marihuana cigarette during the noon hour at the place where he had worked
for a number of years.
This man had no previous record and this fact was
stated before the court. Nevertheless, a two-year sentence was imposed to
"dry up his habit."[40]
What, in fact, are the effects of arrests, convictions, and jail sentences on users? Are
they as likely to use again as they would if they were never arrested? This is, obviously,
impossible to answer. Nor can we compare their later arrest figures with the arrest figures
of a comparable group which was not arrested when they were. (We don't know the base
fved in their own subculture's conception of it as harmless and beneficial. Moreover,
the relatively few (but absolutely, many) users who are arrested gives them cause for the
accusation of distributive injustice. Rehabilitation is predicated on the notion that the
transgressor thinks of his transgression as wrong. Users often give up use of the weed
after arrest but for practical reasons, not out of a desire to rid themselves of a nasty habit.
To demonstrate these assertions, a study of arrestees would have to be made. In the
absence of such a study, two users who were arrested or who are serving prison sentences
for violation of the marijuana statutes voice reactions to their legal experiences:
It's rather discouraging to spend time in jail for the "crime" of possessing a
weed. I haven't hurt anybody, I haven't stolen from anybody, I haven't raped
anybody's daughter.
Why am I in jail? I don't feel like a criminal.
I committed a charitable act.... I agreed to turn this poor cat onto some
(20 of 31)4/15/2004 1:08:37 AM
The Marijuana Smokers - Chapter 11
grass at his request. He promptly turned me in.
This silly grass law is only one small reflection of the mentality that rules
America and dictates what we can read, what we can think and what
position we must use when we make love.
My love to all the gentle people. Our day is coming.38]
Having been convicted of selling five dollars' worth of seeds and stems to
an informer, I am currently serving a twenty-to-thirty year sentence....
... my bail was set at $4s,ooo—an impossible sum for me to raise. So I sat
in jail for four months before being tried.
There were twenty-five other
marijuana arrests in the]... County in the past two years, but I am the only
one who has been sent to the penitentiary. Why this special treatment for
me?39]
Law enforcement officers, however, often feel rehabilitation to be a worthy goal. Often
a judge's sentence will hinge on his feeling that a jail sentence actually serves a
rehabilitation function.
We are reminded of Lindesmith's description of one such case:
... an occasional judge, ignorant of the nature of marihuana, sends a
marihuana user to prison to cure him of his nonexistent addiction. The
writer was once in court when a middle-aged Negro defendant appeared
before the judge charged with having used and had in his possession one
marihuana cigarette during the noon hour at the place where he had worked
for a number of years. This man had no previous record and this fact was
stated before the court. Nevertheless, a two-year sentence was imposed to
"dry up his habit."40]
What, in fact, are the effects of arrests, convictions, and jail sentences on users? Are
they as likely to use again as they would if they were never arrested? This is, obviously,
impossible to answer. Nor can we compare their later arrest figures with the arrest figures
of a comparable group which was not arrested when they were. (We don't know the base
fved in their own subculture's conception of it as harmless and beneficial. Moreover,
the relatively few (but absolutely, many) users who are arrested gives them cause for the
accusation of distributive injustice. Rehabilitation is predicated on the notion that the
transgressor thinks of his transgression as wrong. Users often give up use of the weed
after arrest but for practical reasons, not out of a desire to rid themselves of a nasty habit.
To demonstrate these assertions, a study of arrestees would have to be made. In the
absence of such a study, two users who were arrested or who are serving prison sentences
for violation of the marijuana statutes voice reactions to their legal experiences:
It's rather discouraging to spend time in jail for the "crime" of possessing a
weed. I haven't hurt anybody, I haven't stolen from anybody, I haven't raped
anybody's daughter. Why am I in jail? I don't feel like a criminal.
I committed a charitable act.... I agreed to turn this poor cat onto some
(20 of 31)4/15/2004 1:08:37 AM
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grass at his request. He promptly turned me in.
This silly grass law is only one small reflection of the mentality that rules
America and dictates what we can read, what we can think and what
position we must use when we make love.
My love to all the gentle people. Our day is coming.38
Having been convicted of selling five dollars' worth of seeds and stems to
an informer, I am currently serving a twenty-to-thirty year sentence....
... my bail was set at $4s,ooo—an impossible sum for me to raise. So I sat
in jail for four months before being tried. There were twenty-five other
marijuana arrests in the... County in the past two years, but I am the only
one who has been sent to the penitentiary. Why this special treatment for
me?[39
Law enforcement officers, however, often feel rehabilitation to be a worthy goal. Often
a judge's sentence will hinge on his feeling that a jail sentence actually serves a
rehabilitation function. We are reminded of Lindesmith's description of one such case:
... an occasional judge, ignorant of the nature of marihuana, sends a
marihuana user to prison to cure him of his nonexistent addiction. The
writer was once in court when a middle-aged Negro defendant appeared
before the judge charged with having used and had in his possession one
marihuana cigarette during the noon hour at the place where he had worked
for a number of years.
This man had no previous record and this fact was
stated before the court. Nevertheless, a two-year sentence was imposed to
"dry up his habit."40
What, in fact, are the effects of arrests, convictions, and jail sentences on users? Are
they as likely to use again as they would if they were never arrested? This is, obviously,
impossible to answer. Nor can we compare their later arrest figures with the arrest figures
of a comparable group which was not arrested when they were. (We don't know the base
fved in their own subculture's conception of it as harmless and beneficial. Moreover,
the relatively few (but absolutely, many) users who are arrested gives them cause for the
accusation of distributive injustice. Rehabilitation is predicated on the notion that the
transgressor thinks of his transgression as wrong. Users often give up use of the weed
after arrest but for practical reasons, not out of a desire to rid themselves of a nasty habit.
To demonstrate these assertions, a study of arrestees would have to be made. In the
absence of such a study, two users who were arrested or who are serving prison sentences
for violation of the marijuana statutes voice reactions to their legal experiences:
It's rather discouraging to spend time in jail for the "crime" of possessing a
weed.
"Marijuana: the facts, the truth" by Will Oursler summary I haven't hurt anybody, I haven't stolen from Overgrow anybody, I haven't raped
anybody's daughter. Why am I in jail? I don't feel like a criminal.
I committed a charitable act.... I agreed to turn this poor cat onto some
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grass at his request. He promptly turned me in.
This silly grass law is only one small reflection of the mentality that rules
America and dictates what we can read, what we can think and what
position we must use when we make love.
My love to all the gentle people.
Our day is coming.38
Having been convicted of selling five dollars' worth of seeds and stems to
an informer, I am currently serving a twenty-to-thirty year sentence....
... my bail was set at $4s,ooo—an impossible sum for me to raise. So I sat
in jail for four months before being tried.
There were twenty-five other
marijuana arrests in the... County in the past two years, but I am the only
one who has been sent to the penitentiary. Why this special treatment for
me?39
Law enforcement officers, however, often feel rehabilitation to be a worthy goal. Often
a judge's sentence will hinge on his feeling that a jail sentence actually serves a
rehabilitation function. We are reminded of Lindesmith's description of one such case:
.
.
.
an occasional judge, ignorant of the nature of marihuana, sends a
marihuana user to prison to cure him of his nonexistent addiction. The
writer was once in court when a middle-aged Negro defendant appeared
before the judge charged with having used and had in his possession one
marihuana cigarette during the noon hour at the place where he had worked
for a number of years. This man had no previous record and this fact was
stated before the court. Nevertheless, a two-year sentence was imposed to
"dry up his habit."40
What, in fact, are the effects of arrests, convictions, and jail sentences on users? Are
they as likely to use again as they would if they were never arrested? This is, obviously,
impossible to answer.
Nor can we compare their later arrest figures with the arrest figures
of a comparable group which was not arrested when they were. (We don't know the base
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