Maybe I'm a cynic but I don't think it's coincidence he's decided to do this so close to a London Mayor Election! See the same move by political parties a lot in manifestos, election campaigns and the rest...then it suddenly seems to go all quiet on that front. Hope I'm wrong and the UK are taking steps to decriminalising though.

isnt that democracy in action to some extent

I think it is democracy in action to some extent, but I don't think the intention behind it comes from a pure place. I reckon it's more a simple vote grabbing strategy that has been used for a while now. Like I say though I hope I'm wrong.

Although, on a global scale decriminalisation seems to be slowly but surely on the rise, so I definitely do have some hope. Also the health and economical benefits of cannabis are getting more difficult for them to ignore!

I think it will ultimately be the money left on the table that will make the UK government finally move, because the idea of taking an illegal market that is worth billions and taxing it is incredibly enticing, even for right wing politicians. Several of them have invested in North American cannabis operations already.

But public opinion must be undeniable for tory governments to act. Labour, Plaid and SNP can easily make the decision without offending their voter base, but tories can't. Millions of old people still around that grew up with 'All drugs are bad' ingrained into them from childhood, so have never experienced them to have an independent opinion of. Like old racists, their views cannot be changed so easily, and tories count on their votes heavily for power.

The legialisation campaign should be based on the tax issue get a coach and paint on the side,You pay £31,000,000 a year policing cannabis imagine if we spent that on the NHS!
(not sure where i got that idea from).
Imagine a protest where people were demanding the right to pay tax. "The Weed like to pay more tax" movement.

Pun of the year award for you. Brilliant.

Definitely. The link says society spends £19b a year on all the illegal drug trade, so even napkin math style it is obvious the financial benefits are colossal for the government. This is the argument that needs to be made, because it moves people disinterested in social benefits. It moves people that only look out for their own financial interests, who can't be reached with arguments of the benefit to others.

"I don't think the intention behind it comes from a pure place" - no doubt but that itself is a pretty democratic thing if democracy is a reflection of us ;)

It's at least signalling and that helped in the states when big names stood up for weed. Also puts a little voice in cops' heads - and jurors.

This is just personal use, everything else about it will still be criminal. And is Plod really bothering with personal use any more or have they ‘decriminalised’ it in the same way as burglary, shoplifting, theft from cars etc- i.e can’t be arsed to show up as it means taking your pen out ?

Won't happen.

Couple top people in Government run massive hemp farms for pharma drug companies. That's the main reason I think that it hasn't and won't be legal for even medical use.
Hope I'm wrong though and would want it to happen tomorrow.
And just London?? What about Skegness

maybott's hubby isnt it?

:)

Think so. It's all very shady with the Conservatives.

More so now with all the tax payers money awarded for contracts to their mates during this pandemic

It’s already legal for medical use, since 2018. You can get a prescription right now privately really easily and it’s legal for regular NHS GPs to prescribe it, if you can find one that has read the research and is willing to.

Also, even without a prescription, if you can show that you have a condition that is on ‘the list’ for prescriptions then the CPS won’t prosecute you as they consider it a mitigating circumstance.

Outstanding news if that's correct about being able to show you have a condition. I have arthritis - I don't need weed for it as I have some hardcore medication, but there's absolutely no denying the green also helps. Nice to know if things go pear shaped I might be less at risk than I otherwise would be. Shame it has to be this way though.

You can get a UK Cancard right now, it’s just started...see google.You need to obtain your medical records (but you don’t have to say why you want them) and have a recognised condition (the list is on the website). The CPS has confirmed that the card will be a mitigation for personal possession and use and will not pursue such cases. It’s a start!

Thanks Polly, I’m going to have look now! 😊

I signed up for the first payment, and had doubts there side even though I too still need more hardcore drugs for my condition, it was worth the 70 just to be in contact with taomc ltd when it was. Then they release the data from Nice when they get enough and get on with recreational that properly should of came first, just a load of ball bags really. May do it again when can afford it just daft nice slinked off somewhere with there studies just not fair, delaying it and exploiting abroad so British citizens cannot obtain a source of it just not fair of gov.

who cares? most of the weed in coffe shops is over priced sprayed shit. we get better in the uk! :)

Agree mate most shops gone to shit nowadays grow better weed my self

They have tried that before and epically failed.

I’m certain some parts of Amsterdam have this policy, I had pals working somewhere in Holland and needed Dutch ID to Evan enter a cafe! They had to hang outside and try get locals to buy for them! Then it was the low THC content were cafes are forbidden to sell weed over certain strength.

The city will be nothing without the tourists. This is crazy..I hope the plug remains open because that's the cali spot haha <3

Thanks to LB and the great quality of greenery for sale on here Amsterdam is now just another metropolitan city that I might revisit. However were they to rescind tourists ability to smoke the herb they will merely be “cutting off their nose to spite their face”!

As a grandad I grew up in in the 80s and 90s when the main staple of any toker was hash. If we were lucky once in a while we could score some what was known as “bush weed” similar to Thai. O and if we were REALLY lucky we could get some skunk but that was rare as hens teeth.

Oh how times have changed!

Stay safe Biggaz!

you'd think the legalised sex slavery would be of greater concern than coffee and weed but to each their own.

Would be a sad day but like you said they have threatened it enough times before.
They would 100% feel it with a reduction in Weed tourist's.

I'm roughly twice a year on average.
Still you can grow just as good green if you try hard

I feel the same I always wanted to visit purely for the smoke but now it seems pretty pointless when we have LB :)

You would think they would ban the prostitution first but “hey ho”. Pun intended.

I live in holland and there not a chance they will ban tourists from coffeeshops every so often they come up with this but it will never pass through government they make to much in taxes and most dutch dont even use coffeeshops they to expensive

It's not the nicest of places, most dealers are out to rip people off, Holland however is an amazing country, getting flower hash and shrooms in Rotterdam and ending up fishing on a carp lake in france with no recollection of how i got there was one of the best trips :)

Lol. That must of been fun

I drove to Dam once for 2 nights, done aload of shrooms the 1st night and couldn't leave my hotel. Drove home the next day with a block of hash the size of my fist

Ha Ha good to know you got away with a souvenir. I remember the girl in the shop saying what ever you do, don't eat the whole bag, so ofcourse i did which is why i didn't catch any fish, i was with a group of mates and to this day none of us can remember how we got to france and managed to borrow some fishing gear, been to Holland many times since, i love the people and the vibe but not the straight roads, no good for biking..

Well that would be a damn shame if it ever came to fruition...

The nostalgia I get from visting Amsterdam is half the magic!

In recent years the quality has fallen to keep up with demand, now its the complete opposite.

-SMONKEY

First time I went to the Dam I loved it and had a great time. Every time since then, whenever I go, I just think I should take the money I spent on a flight and somewhere to stay and spend it in the UK on a couple of Os. Then I could sit in the comfort of my own home, without the associated knobs that seem to be a permanent fixture in the Dam and enjoy myself.

Maybe I'm just old.

Everyone should do the Dam at least once though.

I ignore The Guardian. If a piece of news doesn't fit in with their rhetoric, they ignore it or use scare tactics. They've been completely wrong about everything that's happened over the last five years. It won't happen.

Yeah. Sadly it's quite likely this time around. When I was there in February last year, speaking with staff in a few coffeeshops, this was a huge concern. Now that covid has paved the way for a new world....I think it might happen. I will still go to amsterdam for my regular visits, though. The city is incredible ♡

carbon filter is not just for growing, i have one i run on my smoking table, it sucks all the smoke out the air.

That sounds perfect, How big is it approximately?

well, im using a mini 6 inch on just now with one of the blue variable speed fans, previously i had a 6 inch full sized carbon filter, it ran on my desk for ten years before it wore out, takes out all smells.

i simply have the carbon filter sitting there and the fan fits into the flue on the filter, if you wanna get hi tech you can also add a hepa filter to the intake or exhaust so all dust is also taken care of.

Air tight Mason Jars

They are cheap, they completely hide the smell if it’s air tight, great storage. Preserves and cures the herbs while in the jar.

Would you suggest one with a screw lid or a buckle down one?

Buckle down are my fav

Okay thanks for that mate:)

What LUD said. As long as they have a good rubber seal your golden. Added a link to the jars in question. If you have a Asda near by they always stock them in the kitchen section.

Two words: Sandalwood Incense.
I smoke in my room all the time with the windows and curtains closed and it never smells like weed.
Lavender works well too, but sandalwood has a stronger smell so it overpowers the weed

Thanks, I have never heard of that before, it sounds great I will look into it, cheers

Jesus, so that's why we still call it weed today

Was catchier than Dried Pubes

And why my dad won't smoke modern bud, he things its like acid.

I started smoking weed in '70, and the main difference I can tell between late 70s and now is that back then sinsemilla was just a part of the market, with a lot of packages containing seeds and more leaf and stem (amount varied with price). Today it's all sinsemilla (so much so that the term isn't even used anymore). The quality is pretty much the same. We had thai sticks and Hawaiian that certainly equaled top shelf strains of today (as far as anyone could tell - there wasn't much precision on reporting THC levels). I'm happy with the situation, but I stopped smoking between about '83 and 2009 (job), and wasn't amazed by any changes in potency; just the fact that it's all sinsemilla. I did feel silly when I first got back in the market and asked a seller whether or not his product was sinsemilla and he didn't know wtf I was talking about. I quickly found out that was a stupid question... :>)

I remember references to what I thought was the "sense" now I get that was sinsimilla :) Thanks

Yep, that's what it was called. Just Spanish for "without seed". Speaking of Spanish, if we could find Oaxacan sinse we considered ourselves lucky, because it was just about as good as Thai but cheaper. Availability (in my part of Texas) wasn't reliable at all though. Now, it's like going to the weed supermarket. We're living in the future in that sense. Life is good and getting better...

Alternate title: The State of Irish Cannabis

LMAO

Started smoking back in the 80s red leb ,black.good shit joints or hot knives they rocked.

Yeah bro the stuff with the cloth attached to it, red leb think there was gold leb too it was lovenly stuff. Early 90s.

How did people live with that? With the way weed has gone it's a different world and are kids will think the same as are weed lol

Let's hope there's a little weed in their shunt/ brain interface

I was there from 1972-ish, it was mostly pretty good in the Uk depending who you knew, or what grew ;) Avoiding the street ofc.

Most of the pictured weed was grown outdoors on a hillside without fertilisers, boosters and the other shit habitually used today.

I partook in the some of the countries of origin at the time too, thank you Magic Bus. I preferred hash at the time and still do, real Temple Balls were trippy, Leb was a knockout and the black in the Dam was unbelievable and so on. Impossible to get around here, so pleased to have found LB at last!

Vaguely remember smoking some stuff looking similar to that here in the UK circa late 90s.

Cannabis has came a long way

The Pen Pipe! Just turn the metal tip into a bowl brah

where were you . Back in the day I remember so many times we could have used this. why didnt we ever think of this. lol.. love it. thankyou

When we were little the wikihow salesman used to come door to door with books like this

Holy shit! Did that in school 15+ years ago. Do kids even have pens at school anymore!?!?!

I bought a device on eBay that screws onto almost any bottle, turning it into a bong. When the bong water gets nasty just throw the bottle away and attach it to a new bottle. It's not completely DIY but it still has some merit nonetheless. Besides, nobody likes dealing with bong water and it's easier to hide when compared to a regular bong.

People we need to turn our bottles into bongs!

Not a bong

and this is not the Hacker News, chill.

At least he didn't downvote and turn it all grey

Russian Bot

Thats incredible haha

Consider the Apple Bong.

Dude if Apple made a bong...

The Genius Bar would suddenly make sense.

It would cost 500 bucks and be worth it

Toilet paper bong is the other end of the market

That they would sell newer versions of there Bong every few months. That cost more then the last one and has miner improvements. Auto makers found it didn't work for them but it has worked for Apple

Dude I thought this but you gotta see the new green one

It would be the most overpriced worthless bong. Haha

If you mean best and don't mind finding some tubing and drilling you will have something that beats most expensive bongs

The bottle and small pipe combo is the most quality and convenience I have ever had the high honor to imbibe.

You take a real simple weed pipe, metal or glass, and stick it in the mouth of the bottle.

If the bottle is plastic use any sharp object to stick a hole at the base.

Hold the bottle horizontally, put a straw in that hole and prepare for a monstrosity of a hit.

If it's a glass bottle you need something super sharp for the hole at the bottom, the tip of a strong knife or an ice pick does the job easily.

Water is optional, you don't need and its hard to balance. The best part of this is no cleanup, chuck the bottle when you are done, imagine a bong with a disposable chamber, that's what you got now bro.

I think what you have there is a DIY steam roller, I had one of these and loved it, yes water is totally optional its the expansion that does the magic and water is almost guaranteed to make a mess.

Haha awesome

Try, a 500 ML soda bottle + a few inches of garden hose + cake icing socket... voila !! Homemade shotgun bong

Shit that works!

Similar to what we done back in the day!

Cut the bottom off a 2 litre bottle of pop, stick it in a bucket of water, use a milk bottle foil cap to to make a cap and fill with weed. Light it and pull up. Make sure you press down as you inhale.

Some genius Bong ingenuity here!
Another pro cannabis point proven from this topic alone:

You give smokers a bunch of weed and nothing to smoke it with and suddenly they become engineers! Brilliant. : D

A milk bottle

My special skill is that I can McGyver a bong out of almost anything.

Basically, as long as you have tin foil you can do anything. Make pipes: a few wraps, tight around a pencil, seal with scotchtape lengthways. Fan out the end before doing so. Tear a circle of tinfoil, and a pin ("anyone wearing a badge?"), open the back page of an unloved book, place the foil on the paper, and tap the pin up and down repeatedly and you have a perfectly serviceable gauze that you can poke in the end of your fanned pipe.

I prefer not to smoke out of anything plastic. Just seems like we know not to burn plastic in the outdoors, so keep that shit away from your lungs, right?

Fruit has always been a friend for the thrown together party bong. Watermelon is obviously beautifully carvable. Always thought a papaya, with its natural internal chamber and a couple of pipes would probably be viable. Poke holes into the fruit with a screwdriver or, if you don't have one, a pencil or pen.

Finally, you can make an incredible ice bong, but it's a faff. Get two barbeque skewers. Place them in a pint glass, of water with the ends 10cm from the bottom of the glass. I made an inverted kind of A frame with some tinfoil to hold them. If you do the same, keep the crossbar out of the water. Freeze the glass.

Boil the kettle. Use a combination of twisting and pulling to extract the metal skewers. Then, tilt so that one side is facing down over a sink and slowly pour boiling water into the holes. Eventually, you'll have a bong. Make a tin foil gauze. Smoke like a muthafking champion.

Not sure i have ever had that necessarily but just being baked can alter your vision to a certain degree. I wouldnt worry too much.

Yup all the time haha

Yeah I did a lot! When I get super high :)

Just had an eye test and they are better than average and fully healthy so must just be some good shit x

The MVA used for rx is grown by some humans labelling themselves breath of life. It's 20%THC,4%CBD,1%CBN. My friend described it as "tight nuggets, extremely resinous-good quality". I trust his opinion.Hes been smoking for decades and grew his own for over 30 years till Parkinson's put a stop to that. Hope this helps,man.

Mine arrived today, and yes, your friend is absolutely correct Nick!

I have heard of it

I think they told me that it is grown in Israel. As you'd expect it is very good quality. It's a shame it's an indica as this is enough indica to last me forever! The date on the label on the resealable mylar bag says best before June 2021 btw, and I'm quite sure I can't finish it before then.
Alas there wasn't a sativa option besides some drops that were very weak. It would have been 30ml of the strongest one for £150 and that still would have been nowhere near as strong as MJs, which doesn't do much for me, so I decided ***k that, and just got the bud.

Great to hear this HTA hope they are banging good :) can you please tell me a bit about how you got to this stage? I’d love to know, I’m trying to go private route but without research as it sounded like quite a bit of form filling, but so far this has been my experience privately anyway! I’d love to hear how the flowers are

Of you do go private(and I don't recommend it) make sure you know what their rx is actually filled with.

Who are you guys private with? I looked into The Medical Cannabis Clinics on Harley St. even booked an appointment, but cancelled as I was worried about the quality of their prescriptions. I read that a lot of the bud on private prescription is rubbish. I know prices on here are high, but I’d rather buy a half Oz of good stuff on here than spend the same on an Oz of crap through them. Only benefit is that it’s legal.

I’m still open to the idea because of being able to openly discuss with a dr how cannabis helps me and when. I believe that in itself is valuable as well as consistent supply and legality :)

Hello bud! please check out our organic weed. We have Gorilla Cookies but it might be too strong for you. Sounds like you need an indica for pain anyway but you'd likely want to consider a hybrid leaning one if you plan on smoking in the afternoon or you'll get sleepy. I might be able to help you out with some of my other strains bud, i'll pm you!

Best thing to do is order some strong thc weed and mix it with whatever ratio works best for you, with quality CBD buds.

PM me and I can sort out a free sample, no problem, if not- happy hunting.

Look for Indicas, mostly hybrids available with sativa genetics too so look for a high percentage of Indica genetics sometimes described as "Indica dominant". So Kush and its varieties are a good start. Indica gives a stronger body effect, I use them for pain and inflamation, I do have migraines occasional and it works for that too. Also varieties - Pink Zombie, Honey Cream, Purple Kush, Star Dawg and many others.

I prefer outdoor organic sun grown herb rather than Hydroponic indoor, so I'm using ChronusBuds ( seller - link above) at the moment, very helpful & friendly guy, small amounts possible. His herb does not have that "plumped up" hydro look so it puts some people off- but the effects are very good.

I hope you find what you need.

I've got some Cheese CBD which is great for this. 12% CBD and 8% THC.

Ping me a message if you'd like a sample to try for your pain

BudB

generally indica strains are best. Sativa will make your thoughts twist a bit. OG Kush.

I find shatter works better than bud for me personally, it really clears my head

Lemon sorbet

hi check my ORANGE SHERBERT you will be happy

I dont know about strains etc, i dont smoke. I have lumbar spinal stenosis and neuropathy. I buy mj concentrates canna chocolate. One square and im pain free for hours. Theyre cool to chat to as well so he wont mind you asking questions etc. You can also buy a single bar of chocolate if you just want to try.

Hi jjfury

I consume for similar/same reasons I find urban leaf co good for small amounts and they are really nice to speak to, so you could ask them what they recommend. They also cover all budgets and have an understanding of Medical uses and what bud gives what effect as they test/try all their products. You can usually find Reviews and appreciation posts for them on the topics, they are also usually near the top on the items pages. I’d be carful of any vendors with little sales or intro offers just until you feel confident as it can be pretty hit n miss and don’t want you being put off LB when you need to medicate ❤️ I’m not saying never just start off with a reliable vendor and that way you should know when something doesn’t seem right in future :)

Thanks will bear that in mind

Ok thanks

Do you smoke weed normally or is it just for the migraine mate?

I have 24 7 basilar type migraine so I have it at night so I don't cave my skull in lol but I do have anxiety and a sleep disorder so useful for all

It might be worth having a read through the many studies and guides for microdosing with LSD, I started microdosing about a year ago to see if it would reduce my Fibro pain, it didnt. But what it did do was enable me to get restful sleep for the first time in years, I take 0.1g of dried mushroom(psilocybe cubensis) twice a week. The dose is so low I dont know I have taken anything, but now I can sleep much better.

Hope you get some rest bite soon..

Hi okay to start with 90% of UK weed is sprayed which is very sad but its the truth mate. Cali bud is different from UK weed not just in quality but also terpene profiles meaning that the chemical THC is different in cali weed. Why is it different? Well heres why. Its due to the fact that when the plant flowers here in the UK they want to finish it as quick as possible so they cut it early most of the time which at 7-8 weeks of flower. However on the other hand in cali the flowering stage takes 9-12 weeks and in those extra weeks the flower develops a substance called CBN. CBN gives you this relaxed sleepy feeling with minimum anxiety and stress. This is scientifcally proven mate you can look it up. Its never about what strain its always about how the plant was grown. If the plant is grown with love, you will get love from smoking it <3 with all that said try our Pina acai! She's tasty and fruity with a pleasent nice high.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/cannabinol

Cannabinol (CBN) is the nonenzymatic oxidation byproduct of THC and is most commonly an artifact found after prolonged storage, especially at higher temperatures.

Please back up these claims with some links and actually science, cheers

Not sure I'd agree with the 90% figure but I wouldn't know as I've not bought weed in years as a grower. Can I ask though, what is the weed sprayed with? Serious question as I've heard this before but never seen or heard of a spray for sale that would help weed post harvest. Is it a spray that puts weight on the buds or something?

How can you tell if its been sprayed?

Not arguing with you at all I genuinely have never come across a post harvest spray in any hydro shop I've been to over the years so just wondering what it actually is. Not that I'd ever use it!

Thanks.

Cheers BB

https://ukcsc.co.uk/know-your-smoke-grit-spray-and-flush/

Used to be like this a while back , but not had any weed like that for a long time and not on LB, thank god!

Thanks for this.

Facinating that the article advises to "rub crystals on your teeth, if it dissolves, it's fine"

After the article has just mentioned glass being something they spray it with!!

Wouldn't fancy rubbing any glass into my teeth to find out if weed was legit or not, haha.

I'm still confused as to how this is done. How do you spray glass and grit? Especially onto a bud?

I'm sure the dodgy geezers have a way. No surprise I haven't seen it in my local hydro store then!
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Thanks again for the info.

Cheers BB

What are you thoughts on PGR's,( plant growth hormones) just as stuff can be done after the cure-with grit weed, the same applies with the actual grow?

Link to an informative and well composed article:

PGR -ghastly chemicals that are obviously used in many of the grows that end up being sold here. Very dense, large buds,with very numerous long pistils and other effects. The aim = profit ofc. So many buyers on here think that plumped up and huge buds are "fire", it's madness!

I do not want to consume such hormones or hormone pathway enhancers. I refuse it in our food as much as possible and have done so for many decades, growing our own organically - so there is no way I want the damn stuff in my herb.

Thanks to those here who do understand that and grow real herb.