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Marijuana

26 Things You'll See At Cannabis Industry's First Big Conference

The Huffington Post | 6.25.2014 6:30 PM

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The National Cannabis Industry Association is hosting its first annual Cannabis Business Summit at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver this week. See product photos here.

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  1. Paul.   11 years ago

    26 Things You'll See At Cannabis Industry's First Big Conference

    1. How to navigate byzantine regulations for an industry that hasn't even gotten off the ground.
    2. Profit.

  2. pan fried wylie   11 years ago

    You have made too many comments. Please try again later.

    On my first comment of the day:

    27. Massive Federal Raid

    1. Brandon   11 years ago

      I wish Notorious had gotten that.

      1. Notorious G.K.C.   11 years ago

        Blocking of comments or a federal raid? Because I got lots of the former, just not enough to shut me up entirely.

        I've avoided federal raids because I haven't told them about my secret stash of endangered bald ea...wait, I think someone's at the door.

  3. Notorious G.K.C.   11 years ago

    How to Kill/Cook/Eat a Squirrel

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....19326.html

  4. Notorious G.K.C.   11 years ago

    "This post contains a graphic step-by-step depiction of the skinning, slicing, and disemboweling of a real squirrel. If you're eating, have always felt a deep affinity for woodland creatures, or faint at the sight of dismembered squirrel gonads, please skip this post."

    http://www.artofmanliness.com/.....-squirrel/

    1. Suthenboy   11 years ago

      Shorter trigger warning: " If you are a pussy, don't click on this."

  5. Notorious G.K.C.   11 years ago

    "Start by snipping off Mr. Squirrel's feet and tail with the shears. Use the bone-cutting notch at the base of the shears. I do the same thing with the head, but it a) requires some hand strength and b) deprives you of that Appalachian delicacy, squirrel brains. I am not a fan, so I toss them. If you happen to be a squirrel brain enthusiast, by all means skin and split the skull in your own way.

    "You are now left with a sad-looking, tailless, headless squirrel."

    http://honest-food.net/2013/09.....l-cooking/

    1. Suthenboy   11 years ago

      You don't skin and split the skull. You skin it and remove the eyes. Then you boil the heads whole in onion/garlic water until well done.

      You remove them from the water, grasp the zygomatic arches with your thumb and forefinger with one hand then lift the nasal bone with the other. The nasal bone and the frontal bone will easily lift away and the marble sized brain will roll right out. Douse it with liberal amounts of Tabasco sauce and pop it in your mouth. Delicious.

      Do not do this if cholesterol is a problem for you.

      1. GILMORE   11 years ago

        "alternatively - Don't!"

      2. Episiarch   11 years ago

        Rabbit is pretty much the same, even down to the little brain. Tasty.

      3. Ornithorhynchus   11 years ago

        I read a news report years ago that said squirrels in some parts of the country can carry scrapie. I would avoid the brains until you find out how common it is in your area.

        1. Sevo   11 years ago

          I read that say, 10 years back. Since then, I haven't heard of a single case.
          I'm thinking the prevalence approaches mad-cow disease in humans.

          1. Sevo   11 years ago

            Just for the heck of it, there have been 228 cases of BSE reported, world-wide, since 1996.
            Prolly up there with deaths caused by meteorites.
            http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/02/.....index.html

            1. Sevo   11 years ago

              Uh, that's HUMAN cases.

        2. Cdr Lytton   11 years ago

          http://www.thelancet.com/journ.....8/fulltext

          1. Sevo   11 years ago

            From the link:

            ..."While conducting a study of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in south Florida, one of us (JRB) observed an affected patient who was originally a native of Kentucky and had a history of eating squirrel brains."...

            I'll bet he had a history of doing some other things, too.

            1. Cdr Lytton   11 years ago

              But probably not eating their dead. Probably not.

  6. Notorious G.K.C.   11 years ago

    An Ode to Squirrels, by the Geto Boys

    (EXPLICIT LYRICS)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF8c3BjFWsw

    1. GILMORE   11 years ago

      I applaud your taste in rap music.

      Geto Boys are the shit.

  7. Notorious G.K.C.   11 years ago

    I am SO SORRY...the squirrels just got to me...

    1. Notorious G.K.C.   11 years ago

      Here's a cat calming down a fussy baby...

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWXigjFm4TM

      1. AlmightyJB   11 years ago

        It was trying to get it to go to sleep so it could steal it's breath. At one point it licked the baby's head to see how it would taste.

  8. Brandon   11 years ago

    Is one of them a SWAT team?

  9. Episiarch   11 years ago

    I've said this before and I'll say it again; the amount of products, innovation, jobs, and commerce the legalization of MJ will result in will be staggering. Especially if the fucking scumbag state governments will get at least a little out of the way, which Colorado seems to be doing way better than Washington. Which is why Paul is in such a bad mood.

    Honestly, a nationwide legalization without an insane regulatory regime could result in a boom. If Obama and the rest of the politicians weren't so fucking stupid they'd realize this, but...CONTROL.

    1. Zeb   11 years ago

      I think you are right. Just look at the already existing legal pot accessory industry. The vaporizers and grinders and such that you can buy now are remarkably refined and slick products. And you can buy them in half of the convenience stores in some states where weed is illegal. If the whole thing went legit, it would explode (in a good way).

  10. GILMORE   11 years ago

    "26 Things You'll See At Cannabis Industry's First Big Conference"

    #1 - Doritos...
    ...
    ...
    ...

    1. Sevo   11 years ago

      Don't know, I was commonly a sucker for Oreos.

    2. Episiarch   11 years ago

      Pork rinds and salmiak, brah. That's the way to go.

      1. Sevo   11 years ago

        Now that you mention it, I remember fresh sour-dough and some decent cheese.
        Now I'm getting all hungry...

    3. AlmightyJB   11 years ago

      I'm thinking it would be a good time to move to Colorado and open a food truck.

  11. Pl?ya Manhattan.   11 years ago

    Is this place still messed up?

    1. Notorious G.K.C.   11 years ago

      This got through.

  12. Irish   11 years ago

    EPA newsletter tells employees to stop shitting in the hallway.

    In the email, obtained by Government Executive, Deputy Regional Administrator Howard Cantor mentioned "several incidents" in the building, including clogging the toilets with paper towels and "an individual placing feces in the hallway" outside the restroom.

    Confounded by what to make of this occurrence, EPA management "consulted" with workplace violence "national expert" John Nicoletti, who said that hallway feces is in fact a health and safety risk. He added the behavior was "very dangerous" and the individuals responsible would "probably escalate" their actions.

  13. Cdr Lytton   11 years ago

    OT: Tyler Cowen interviews Ralph Nader

    Nader:

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt foresaw some of this when he sent a message to Congress when he started the temporary national economic commission to investigate consecrated corporate power. That was in 1938. In his message he said that whenever the government is controlled by private economic power, that's facism.

    *facepalm*

    1. Sevo   11 years ago

      Is Nader a bit around the bend by now?

    2. WDATPDIM!?   11 years ago

      If he actually said what you wrote, dude has some bigger problems than failed Prog ideas.

    3. Atanarjuat   11 years ago

      The looming spectre of face-ism...scary thought.

      1. Atanarjuat   11 years ago

        I've cracked the code. Only idiotic posts get through. If your comment has any substance, wit, or insight it will get rejected every time.

  14. Irish   11 years ago

    Let's look at two opinions by Vox.com writer Sarah Kliff and see if we can spot the contradiction:

    1.

    White House: More health spending means Obamacare is working

    Most of the data ? both from the federal government and private research firms ? shows that health care costs are rising because people are using more medical services. At the same time, health care prices ? how much a hospital charges for a knee replacement, for example, or an MRI ? are growing slowly.

    So it's good that health care costs are going up.

    Sarah Kliff today:

    Sarah KliffVerified account
    ?@sarahkliff
    That time when health care spending went down and people got sad about it. #bizarrowonkery

    When people spend more money on healthcare, that's wonderful! When people stop spending money on healthcare, that's wonderful too!

    No matter what happens, it's all just so wonderful!

    1. Sevo   11 years ago

      "Most of the data ? both from the federal government and private research firms ? shows that health care costs are rising because people are using more medical services."

      And one reason is that more people now have other peoples' money to spend on it!
      But ignoring that, I was of the opinion that the claims of hight US medical care costs were somewhat distorted in that Americans treated medical care as a consumer good; that cosmetic surgery ain't free, folks!

    2. Cdr Lytton   11 years ago

      Ah! The first class mind at work!

      ----

      WTF?

      THERE WAS A PROBLEM POSTING YOUR COMMENT
      You have made too many comments. Please try again later.

      Someone send ambulances over to John and Bo quick! No way those guys are going to make it with this new squirrel rationing.

  15. SweatingGin   11 years ago

    With Lerner trying to a audit Grassley, it seems like something is left out.

    How did she get an email to him by mistake?

    Did the sender write the email and send to the wrong address? They aren't even close. It's not an autocomplete issue.

    Paste the wrong address? Maybe. Big maybe. Hard to think the same person is inviting speakers as is arguing with the director of the IRS department that decides if they can be a nonprofit.

    Would love to see the header trail on that email.

    1. Sevo   11 years ago

      SG, where's the object of your post? Sounds interesting.

      1. SweatingGin   11 years ago

        I haven't read the email in question, this is just speculation and wondering how she got the email. It could all be explained and I just didn't catch it.

        1. Sevo   11 years ago

          Yeah, but what thread mentions it? I hadn't heard about that email at all.

          1. SweatingGin   11 years ago

            They haven't posted a thread yet, I think (missed most of them today at work)

      2. SweatingGin   11 years ago

        I misremembered, it was a paper invitation in the wrong envelope.

        Email without headers

        And then I posted too many comments, apparently.

  16. Francisco d'Anconia   11 years ago

    Is this thread working?

  17. Francisco d'Anconia   11 years ago

    Why come I can post here but not on TI thread?

    1. C. Anacreon   11 years ago

      What TI thread?

      1. Francisco d'Anconia   11 years ago

        The buried one.

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