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Cake day: February 11th, 2025

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  • Pretty sick of these kinds of doomsdayers rolling over and spreading panic instead of focusing on calling out all the bullshit. Not that that’s even an effective approach. What needs to be repeated over and over is the obvious failures in simple enough terms they can become mantras, slogans, ways of beating the propagandists at their own game. We’re more creative and smarter than them yet we let ourselves lose the propaganda war. Well, not us per se, but legacy media and feckless Democrats.



  • Has brought “this garbage” as in more cartel violence or garbage weed?

    Caused more of the dehydrated stuff. It’s not even garbage before it’s processed, of course. The cartel factor is something I’m imagining is a whole other problem as I’m not fully informed on that but some of it was in response to commercialization being something they could exploit. My mom lives out in a rural area and she told me a lot of her conservative neighbors jumped on the bandwagon, put up greenhouses on their farms without permits. Enough time has passed where most of them even got busted and the more cartel-connected greenhouses (at least near her) were all raided and slashed to the ground, are now abandoned ecological disasters.

    I agree with you the rollout and the naivete of legislation contributed to the opportunities for organized crime to rush in and fill the void.

    Supply has increased and Finland doesn’t need to import weed from anywhere so we don’t have any cartels really and our own organised criminal organisations are pretty fucking mild compared to anything the US sees.

    Yeah, we have never needed to import so supply and demand isn’t the only driver. The fact that we are Alta California, connected to Baja California explains the sort of Breaking Bad networks that can flow up and down. I no longer live in the Bay Area so I don’t hear too much about this but I knew people who described a whole other world, say North of San Francisco. I’m ashamed to say I grew up exploring California but, like most folks, true Northern California is an enigma to most of us. I believe the people I know who have firsthand descriptions of it. We’ve been friends for a long time and they had friends who were running their own illegal ops going way back to before our clumsy legalization.

    Northern Europe really understands quality of life and is so impressive to me.


  • I live in California, am nearly 60. We have hundreds in our cities. You have to use weedmap to make sense of it. We also have major cartel violence issues that have tainted the underground scene. The industrialization of weed has brought us this garbage. It is true, I have visited old friends up in the Bay Area not too long ago, and the real stuff can still be acquired but it is no longer common or easy to acquire. The idea of local growers is really great. It should be a farmer’s market commodity. That would be brilliant. But, no, some time back, legal dispensaries in California were forced to package everything. Prior to that, when they were initially launched, they’d weigh out the fresh stuff in front of you and put it in a container that didn’t make you want to wring their necks. The packaging alone is an atrocity against the environment.


  • Bonus @lemm.eetoTrees@lemmy.worldWhat's your favorite word for cannabis
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    12 days ago

    The Sticky Icky

    jk that stuff does not exist anymore is rare now. Just this dessicated prepackaged nonsense.

    When we were youths, I read the Beatles had a code phrase, something like let’s have a laugh(?). Then, a friend and I were laughing a little too much when we saw Joe Walsh’s record titled Got Any Gum? That became our code phrase.













  • Can’t say I ever cared about karma. Lemmy reminds me of stripped down original reddit. Almost original. I remember when Reddit didn’t even have thumbnails. Back then, there was a thing called memepool. You didn’t know what you were going to get when you clicked on links on either site. There was a lot of fun unpredictable content and Reddit still meant you read it and we’re vouching for it. It was like this whole world of quality stuff from really smart people. Thumbnails and subreddits ushered in a series of trashings and lead to intense divisiveness reddit never recovered from. . .