Hundreds Line Up in D.C. For Free Marijuana Seeds

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Hundreds Line Up in D.C. For Free Marijuana Seeds

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Washington, D.C.—On March 27, hundreds of people lined up for blocks outside of Libertine bar in the city's Adam's Morgan neighborhood to get totally legal—and totally free—marijuana seeds.

"This is the end of the Cannabis Campaign," says Adam Eidinger, chairman the DC Cannabis Campaign and organizer of the seed-sharing event.

Last November, D.C. residents voted in favor of Ballot Initiative 71, which legalized the possession of up to two ounces of marijuana. The initiative also allows residents to grow a small number of marijuana plants. "We're seeing the new law in action," says Eidinger. "People are picking up free seeds from people who are willing to share them and they are going to go home and grow marijuana in their homes in Washington D.C."

About 90 seconds. 

Produced by Joshua Swain. Additional help with Todd Krainin and Robert Mariani.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

You had them at free. And at marijuana.

[Fist of Etiquette]

And posted at 4:20, you sly devil.

[Marshall Gill]

Trailer Park Boys season 9 now on Netflix! WooHoo!

[Rich]

"Freedom is also posting on the internet photos of people getting marijuana seeds."

[Raston Bot]

I look forward to selecting cannabis at the American Horticultural Society's annual seed sale/fundraiser.

[crab_apple]

The Better Homes and Gardens biggest bud competition.

"Why last year Doris Beaker won with the biggest, dankest buds I've ever seen but this year I've got a secret new fertilizer and plan to win the blue ribbon prize!"

Afterwards there will be a smoke-off and pie eating/dorito eating competition.

[BigT]

Burpee's is now Munchies

[Bruce Majors]

The one thing they didn't catch was all the entrepreneurs hawking everything from PETA to hydroponics to those in line http://insomniaclibertarian.bl.....dy-of.html

[bassjoe]

If 10% of the people receiving these seeds actually manage to grow something that gets you high, I'll be shocked.

It's an extremely fickle plant, bred for decades to be completely useless at defending itself against pretty much everything, because that diverts energy from THC production. And growing it such that it produces sufficient THC is pretty hard (from what I've heard, of course); it's not exactly useful to the plant to make high levels of THC, it needs to be tricked out.

[R C Dean]

Dunno. In my experience, its a frickin' weed. The latest strains may be overbred, I couldn't say, but all the fuss and bother of grow ops is generally directed at (a) maximizing volume and (b) maximizing stealth.

[Zeb]

Hemp is a weed and grows like one (hence ditch weed being a thing). Good quality marijuana is rather trickier. There are a lot of things that can go wrong. I think bassjoe overstates the difficulty. It's not terribly hard to grow something tolerable from decent seeds. But to grow something marketable takes a lot of work and some knowledge. And in DC, I imagine a lot of people can only grow indoors, which requires good lights and ventilation.

[crab_apple]

This is my experience as well, I mean, so I've heard.

[Marshall Gill]

Generally, you don't use seeds after a very short time, anyway. Once you grow a good plant, you clone it. Or so I have read.

[Hyperion]

Good lights, good soil, correct watering with proper drainage (most people kill plants indoors from over watering and poor drainage), knowledge of how to cut the light hours and bring to bud, remove male plants (unless you want lots of seeds). It's not difficult, but most people with no experience and no knowledgeable friends to help or how to google something and learn, will kill the plants early on.

[Hyperion]

It's not that difficult. The climate of DC would allow you to successfully grow this plant outdoors and easily get some good buds.

But, growing indoors is different. I know people, lots of them, who will kill any houseplant, no matter how hardy.

But again. Some good soil, grow lights on timers, correct watering, anyone could do it. All you need to do at a certain point is lower the light hours and the plants will start to bud. Remove any males and in a couple months, you should have good stuff.

[Zeb]

It would, of course, be better if there were no legal restrictions. But I think that the DC situation might be preferable to something like they have in Washington state where you can buy from state licensed stores but can't grow your own legally. Even if it is technically illegal to sell it in DC, people will on small scales and no one will care about that or be able to enforce it unless people act really stupid. A grey market is in many ways much better than a heavily regulated legal market.

For people who want to obey the law and don't want to grow, WA might be preferable, but I don't really care about that.

[Juice]

I kind of hope they keep it this way. No commercialization. That way there are no taxes and no real regulations. Sure it would be preferable to have commercialization without those things, but that is simply not possible, so I'll take this as a compromise.

[itsbren]

considering some of the effects of this on concerts, maybe we'll see some at the Erik Hassle concert at the 9:30 Club on the 27th? It's going to be a pretty EPIC show, if you guys catch my drift! especially if he plays "Pathetic", because that will DEFINITELY get the crowd going!

[CLamb]

Not totally legal. To be more accurate, illegal. Federal law bans possession of all parts of the Marijuana plant.

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