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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBS13) — CBS13 takes you behind closed doors to get a look at a new business opening up in Sacramento that’s being called the “Wal-Mart of Weed,” and they’re hoping to make the city the new cannabis capital.

KOVR’s Mike Dello Stritto was in Arden-Arcade late Thursday night where workers at the weGrow hydroponics warehouse were getting ready for their grand opening on Saturday.

Non-stop preps for 10,000 square feet of medical pot products are underway. They say it’ll be the biggest business of its kind in northern California.

But they’re not selling pot at weGrow.

“We do not sell any medical marijuana here,” said Mike Garcia, a spokesman for the store.

But it’s there – you can see it, and smell it.

“It’s just here for display, nothing in here blooms,” said Garcia.

They’re scraping together everything you need for weed at weGrow, which calls itself “The First Honest Hydro Store.”

Garcia said the store offers “the different levels of how to grow your medical cannabis,” from fertilizer to getting the finished products, and everything in-between.

There are products like “Big Bud” and “Bud Candy.” Then there’s “Piranha” and “Tarantula,” pot plant food, both of which will take a big bite out of your wallet at a cost of $327.42.

In fact, the products are so high-end, they expect to see a lot of organic farmers come there to seek out ways to help grow their more traditional crops.

But it’s not exactly the type of store that neighbors thought would move into the vacant Fulton Ave. warehouse.

“We went and met all the neighbors. We haven’t had anyone say that, ‘Hey, we don’t want you here,’” said Garcia.

But some residents said they weren’t sure what exactly to expect.

“He didn’t go that detailed with it,” said business owner Vartan Gilian.

Some neighbors said they felt misled about what’s opening next door, and they’re worried about opening the door to trouble.

“It’s gonna bring a lot of lunatic, crazy people,” said Gilian. “It’s gonna change the neighborhood quite a bit.”

With sparks already, there might be some things to smooth over. But weGrow hopes to grow on its neighbors, while bringing a boost to the economy.

“We believe this is gonna have a tremendous economic impact on Sacramento,” said Garcia.

But besides the economic impact, they just want to have a positive impact. In fact, come grand opening on Saturday, not just the usual suspects were invited. Elected leaders, the sheriffs department, and even the fire department were asked to come drop in.

In coming months, weGrow plans to open stores in Arizona, Colorado, New Jersey and Oregon.

The enterprise started in Oakland last year as a warehouse store called iGrow.

Pot isn’t sold or grown at the store. In the past, hydroponics outlets have avoided any mention of marijuana because pot cultivation is illegal under federal law. But hydroponics stores have exploded as states approve medical marijuana use.

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  • Mark

    Where Is it?
    What are their hours?
    Is there a web site?
    Who wrote this almost useless article?

  • Lupe

    The store in Oakland sucks. We couldn’t get anyone to help us- I guess they were too stoned…

  • Nothing New

    Please let there be a fence around it! Where they can get in but not out. What a bunch of fools!

  • Pat

    Are they accepting job applications?

  • Oldtimer

    Isn’t this supposed to be illegal? Oh, wait, I forgot about our new Mexican market. Oh well, the laws of supply and demand, eh? Someone better open a Jihad store and training franchise for immigrating Muslims. Something that sells IED components and monkey bars for training. It pays to be prepared for the future.

  • Kuhaudo

    your an idiot

  • Mike R

    Do they have a snack bar there?

  • Jeff

    Pot has been growing on this planet since the dinosaurs.

    You religious extremists need to get off your high horse.

    Alcohol kills thousands of people every year, but we never hear your outrage over that….hypocrites!!

  • Tmwsiy

    He’s an idiot. But “your” an idiot too.

  • Kuato

    I guess it also pays to be racist. Maybe you should try some pot oldtimer then you could chill out from all your hate your spreading. The problem with this country is un educated folk like yourself, can you even point yourself out on a map? It’s small minded people like you who impede progress. Medical MJ helps people so when you get cancer because your far too overweight don’t be so quick to judge.

  • Bellah

    Why worry?, there’s all the pot you want in HELL.

  • Garr Obo

    10,000 sp ft? That’s only 100X100. I’ve been in barber shops larger than that.

  • Jim

    Make drugs legal and put heavy restrictions on the users . That would do two things . Make a lot of money for the state and it would drive the Mexican drug gangs out of business .

  • Cheech N. Chawng

    DAVE: It’s me: Dave.
    WeGrow: Dave’s not here, man…

  • Fortunatus

    And we are wondering ….why all the killings and beheadings in Mexico?

    and threatening it, Mexico, to become a lawless narco state.

    Answer: Because of the insatiable demand here from mindless potheads who need their fix.
    Hey potheads out there: you are indirectly responsible for all those murders. But of course, you can’t think straight.

  • T9m Horgan

    15 years too late! where is the store,Love my homegrown

  • Dave Inaklina Nachwurst

    DAVE: No… I’M DAVE!!
    WeGrow: Welcome to GoodBurger home of the good burger

  • Free HueydeweynLui

    Hemp will save the planet!
    Hemp
    Hemp
    Hempety-freakin’ HEMP!
    Hemp toothpaste
    Hemp soap-on-a-rope
    Rope a dope
    Cassius Clay float like a butterfly sting like a mutha
    Ali
    Alley Oop
    Oops a Daisy
    Daisy Cutter
    Cut a rug
    Cut a big one
    He who smelt it: dealt it
    Deal me in.
    In, out: Let’s get cracking !
    Crack is Wack!!!

  • Renn Stimpfy

    Urine eediot!!!

  • Leo Troutski

    Fortunatus — Clear thinking pot puffers with conscience no longer support Mexican drug market, cartels, thugs, civilian killers, thank you. With fully functioning brains we calculate the imperative of keeping our enterprise local. Your smug superiority says it all about people of your ilk incapable of conjuring any positive emotions. Best wishes to you in your pursuit of virtue. My euphorically charged brain urges me to convey love and compassion to all mean spirited dissenters who, as usual, fail to get it.

  • Greg

    “Hey potheads out there: you are indirectly responsible for all those murders.”

    The act of smoking pot doesn’t hurt anyone else. The black market was created by our government policy, which is supported by YOU. Just like during alcohol prohibition, black markets create gangs and violence. If you ended prohibition of marijuana all of the violence associated with it would end just like it did with alcohol. How many gangs do you see on the street corners dealing beer?

  • Jerry

    ‘we are do sell’? Mike, may need some fresh air?

  • Cindy

    To the people who say legalizing drugs will shut down the drug gangs in Mexico, how far are you willing to go? The only way to completely shut out the gangs is to legalize EVERYTHING – marijuana, cocaine, meth, heroin, etc. Do you seriously want to open that can of worms? Yes, I realize people already do those drugs illegally, but just think of the legitimacy legalization adds to those drugs. Do you really want your children to grow up thinking of meth or cocaine in the same way as alcohol? Personally, I think the price is way too high.

  • Seabass

    Mindless potheads who need their fix? Someone REALLY has zero clue why there are drug cartels in the first place. You do realize that organized crime around illegal drugs grew because.. Oh.. I dunno.. They were made illegal? The exact same thing happened to another commodity in the United States.. What was it.. OH YEAH! It was called ALCOHOL and a little thing now referred to as “Prohibition”. We should have never repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, now those booze users are just going to satiate their “fix”!

    I’m afraid you, Fortunatus, are the one who cannot think straight. It’s not supply and demand that creates violence, it’s insane and money-wasting programs such as the “War on Drugs” that does. You make something illegal, an underground market will grow for it. Cannabis is quite literally a harmless plant with more medicinal and pragmatic uses than you could shake a stick at. The legalization and regulation of cannabis, just like alcohol currently, is the only way to reduce the power of drug cartels who deal in it.

    If anything, Fortunatus, it’s people such as yourself who are indirectly responsible for all those murders. It is your ignorance of not only the effects of the plant but also the reasons as to why there’s a war on drugs in the first place and passive attitude. While the government and corporations work hard to keep it illegal, you’re happy with just plopping your hard-working American butt down on your couch and watching some House Hunters; who cares about the issues? Who cares about what’s really happening to my country? Not you, Fortunatus.

  • Jon

    Just another example of how this state has gone to pot.

  • JLin

    Alcohol is a natural homeopathic cleanser for the blood pipes dude. It’s been growing on this planet since the dinosaurs. Pot jams the lungs with tar and causes lung cancer and ruins more brains than go juice. You collectivists need to get off your unicorns.

  • Hank Warren

    War on Marijuana, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our right:
    They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
    They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
    They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
    They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
    Impeach Obama and sweep out the Congress.
    (Last link of Banned Book):
    http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526

  • JLin

    LOL

  • watson

    Easy, Big Boy.

  • Mike

    When calling someone uneducated, you may want to spell it correctly. You alsom may want to review the difference between “your” and “you are”. Also, the ambiguity of “progress” makes it okay to impede. It is a good thing that Hitler’s progress was impeded.

  • Seabass

    Yes, Cindy, legalize EVERYTHING. Regulate it. That’s not a whole “can of worms”. That’s called “taking responsibility”. People in this country use drugs, all sorts of drugs, and will continue to do so. The least we as Americans can do is, instead of throwing non-violent “criminals” in prison, instead legalize them, regulate them, and create avenues of education for people and rehabilitation for the truly sick and addicted. Right now, all sorts of people are thrown into prison for just using some drugs. And what happens in prison? They get to meet lots of nice fellows who teach them how to use weapons, join gangs, and live a life of violence inside those walls that not even the prison system can control. Is that what you want to happen to your children, Cindy? You want them to learn about drugs the HARD WAY? Or we can do it the easy way; legalize it, and have them learn about drugs and their effects the same way they do about alcohol and cigarettes: in a school health class.

    Children will grow up thinking of meth and cocaine the same as alcohol; as habit-forming, harmful substances. But we don’t punish people for getting drunk at home. We don’t punish them for going out to have a drink with friends. They should be allowed to learn and understand the risks, and decide what they want as individuals when they grow up. We do it with alcohol and hey, guess what? Things aren’t too shabby here.

    Stop being afraid of things you don’t understand and instead learn about them. Without ignorance, without fear.

  • jenfrank

    Beautifully said Leo!
    Namaste!

  • Mike

    Additionally, Oldtimer stated nothing regarding race or hate. Last I checked, Mexican was a nationality and Muslim was a religion.

  • topdawg

    Now, now, don’t offer any false hopes.

  • Fortunatus

    Those potheads, who can’t think things thru straight anymore, apparently are too doped up to reason in this forum.

    When you make that which is illegal now, legal……you create MORE DEMAND on the market place.

    Firstly, it is the already mindless doped up pothead who will buy more of the product.

    Secondly, a new generation of new customers will be introduced to the product.

    We could count on doubling, at least, the total demand. A humongous demand will be created that will have to be met from somewhere. That the drug cartels will be happy to supply.
    And in fact, as we speak, knowing well what is coming down the pipe, they are already positioning themselves now staking out territory for themselves. Hence all the killings.

    Thirdly, as far as cost to society is concerned. Smoking pot kills off brain cells. That is the dirty little scientific fact that is very little mentioned.
    Case in point, Amsterdam where a very liberal drug policy was in force since 30 years. The result: a generation of potheads in mental institutions. Courtesy of the tax payer. Is that what we want?

    Fourth: Smoking pot causes cancer. In fact it has more health risks than smoking regular cigarettes. Who pays?

    Fifth: How are all these millions of potheads getting the money to buy pot? Typically they quit school and quit jobs left and right because they can’t hold a job down.

    Sixth: Normal people are getting tired of potheads around them (enough already) with their silly speak who think they really are Einsteins but in reality sound stupid.

  • jenfrank

    Everything should be legal. I can make my own decisions and I believe that others can too!! I do not need someone in the Church or Government to control me and tell me what is right or wrong. If the government really cared about our safety all of our cars whould automatically turn the lights on while we were driving and every car would have the safety features the expensive cars have (auto-sensors, auto-breaking, etc).

    Wake up and use your own mind! It is a great feeling!!

  • Stuart Pitt

    Absolutely correct. Why is this so difficult for people to understand? You can’t deal with problems that hide in the shadows. Bring the problems into the light so we can effectively deal with them. Or do so many of you subscribe the the ignorant theory of “out of sight, out of mind”?

  • Lance

    Soon there will be a “how to do Meth” store next to it. You can start with weed and then go next door to do meth. Only in America.

  • topdawg

    This is simply evidence that the culture is so devolved, corrupted and stupefied that we are ripe for conquest. And there are plenty of people in this country now, (most of which we have imported from the middle east) who plan to do just that.

  • INVADE MEXICO

    Thats all we need more potheads like you walking around…we need to INVADE MEXICO with tanks if we have to and wipe out as many of these sub-human drug dealers as possible (along with hezzbollah partners)….this would take about 2 weeks….let the drug dealers regroup and then go back in with Army Rangers and Navy Seals and do it again…..every couple of months if necessary….also send missles into South American drug cartel bosses….what do you think about that….MORON?

  • Welrdelr

    Drugs and violence go hand in hand. I work at construction and some workers use drugs and at times they are a danger to everyone around them

  • JimsTowne

    Mike Garcia, a spokesman.
    Let me guess, Jerry’s brother?

  • iDUDE

    RE: #4 show me a study where Cannibas smoking has caused cancer. Your sources please

  • Bryan

    Just don’t smoke a cigarette anywhere near the place.

  • Prospero

    Prohibition and violence go hand in hand.

    The impact on non-users in safety, taxation, and corrosion of liberty is vastly more severe due to enforcement of prohibition, than what the handful of addicts that might exist could ever cause.

  • Pothead

    Sounds like a lot of opinions to me, no facts here. Just more reefer madness.

  • LIBERAL MORONS

    Seabass…a typical brainwashed WIMPY LIBERAL who obviously has no children….LIMP WRISTED liberals are soooo brilliant they have no common sense…with your philosophy there would be 50 times more drug addicts walking around with unlimited access to drugs….MORON.

  • Albert

    Fortunatus,

    Keep up the good work. Your facts are very interesting. Now, do you have any nude photos you can send to me ASAP?

    Thanks,

    A guy who is real high.

  • steve

    1st: You are a moron if you think smoking pot is gonna cause you cancer over cigarettes.

    2nd: Stick to what you know, not what you speculate.

    3rd: we dont care what you ‘normal’ people think… we are NORML

    4th: lol@ quitting school & jobs cause we cannot hold a job down. I am one of MANY people with a 4 year degree & the same job since graduating in 1997 from SCSU.

    …5th: you are a moron.

  • Prospero

    You needn’t demand sources, his premise is bogus. Lots of things “cause cancer”. In a free society, we don’t outlaw what amounts to a dietary preference, because it “causes cancer”.

    The government is not empowered to be our nanny.

    If, on the other hand, you are a liberal who thinks we should ban salt and transfats and non-organic farming, but should ignore the health impact of pot, then you need to get your own philosophy in order.

  • Pothead

    #1, is the way business should work
    #2 If it’s legalized, cartels will not be running the show.
    #3 Lots of links to actual info, You should read some:
    http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/
    #4 See above
    #5 LOL.
    #6 ROTFLMFAO, BTW I feel the same about people who drink and smoke cigarets.

  • Katy V

    I think you’re sounding stupid by trying to be so knowledgeable about the subject. I’m a smart, educated, WORKING woman who smokes pot but is still capable of buying my own car, my own home and completely taking care of myself. You can’t put every “pothead” into the same category…. just like you can’t say everyone that drinks a glass of wine every night is a loser alcoholic. It doesn’t matter what someone’s vice is… it’s how the person is. There are actually responsible people out there who just prefer smoking pot to drinking alcohol because the effects are not as bad. I’d be willing to bet you’ve been drunk before in your life, AND you’ve probably even driven drunk…. Is that really better???????

  • Pothead

    But you’re ok with all the alcoholics working next to you.

  • Jeremy

    first and foremost the fact that cigarettes are legal in america and pot is not makes all arguments against pot moot. do some actual scientific research on both and please cite sources when arguing your case on the pro’s/con’s of each. On another note. Most drug cartels i would assume dont have pot as their main source of profit. im sure heroine, meth and crack all fare better in the profit margin then pot does; even when the usa was caught red handed in drug cartel schemes it was never over pot – furthermore if pot heads were so stupid – please tell me how the innovations of hydroponics have been advanced so greatly but said pot heads. and meth and weed are not even in the same ball park as far as drugs go; one is a naturally grown substance; then other is a man made and highly toxic compound resulting from the mixture of corrosive chemical compounds…

  • LIBERAL MORONS

    It’s a FACT…POT causes LUNG CANCER…you overeducated LIBERAL MORONS…just dont want to hear it….same as cigs..you just get a buzz on pot…only difference….your 60′S PROFESSORS lied to you..most of you are sooo gullible…WAKE UP SHEEP.

  • Katy V

    Amen Jeremy! :o )

  • Dan Armbruster

    Breathing air causes cancer if you read enough reports from “specialists”. What’s your point? You seem very heII-bent on disparaging any who either indulge socially or medically from need. You are so wise in knowing all there is to know about everyone other than yourself…that’s sarcasm for the uneducated pot-denouncers with no concern for anyone but themselves. At 60 years old and have been smoking since the 60′s, I challenge you to find fault with my writing, grammar or any subject you choose to attack with. You seem to know so much about “potheads”. We, according to you, “typically” quit school and quit jobs. I am still at the same place I’ve been since returning from the Marines in ’71. They allowed me to take a period of time to complete my college education I earned in the Corps. I have been promoted through the years to a high end management position and will retire in just a couple more years. You HAVE to be a liberal because you know everything about everyone. I expect your retort to point out how stupid I sound

    OPINIONS VARY.

    You’ll also notice I don’t resort to typical child-like name calling like you do to bolster your inadequacies in your mind because you feel inferior. If only those like you had the mental fortitude to take on someone on person rather than disparage from a distance for fear of reprisal.

    I don’t blame you. You should live in fear. Fear that someone will expose your fallacies to everyone and you’ll end up alone. Awwww, poor bunky.

    Lastly, thanks for being such an upstanding citizen pointing out how flawed the rest of us are…..again, more sarcasm for you.

  • Russ

    First any conjecture about how the market will respond to demand must also consider supply. Being that it is a plant which is readily cultivated, the capacity for supply is exponentially higher than any demand could hope to cover. One individual can easily produce more product then they could use in a year. This will more then cover a doubling in demand, and leave the drug pipeline looking for a product that will not grow in their customers back yard.

    Secondly the study which demonstrated necrosis of brain tissue was preformed in the 70′s on monkeys. The subjects were given what was the estimated consumption for a 24 hour period in twenty minutes. The smoke was forced through a mask to the monkey. Take any substance burn it and force smoke into the lungs of an animal without air to breath and you will cause cell death. The study has been roundly rebuked by all but the politicians hoping to get elected off the fear it harbors. The cell death was due to asphyxiation not due to THC.

    Third the Netherlands enjoys lower rates of drug addiction and associated costs of addiction that that of the USA. It is lower by a wide margin and has been since they took the relaxed approach. The aggressive punishment scheme employed by the United States has not succeeded in lowering usage of any kind.

    Fourth the causation of cancer is idiopathic for the majority of cancer. The fact that there is no “smoking gun” study to point to marijuana as a cause is beside the point. Legalization or restriction of a product based on its inherent risk is not practiced. If it were alcohol and tobacco would be illegal as well.

    Your fifth and sixth points are emotional and may reflect personal experience, but are baseless claims. If millions of people quit their jobs, one would assume they would not be able to afford to buy a black-market product. The evidence at hand shows a product highly inflated in value. A product that is readily consumed despite organized efforts to stop its distribution from the top down. This means that not only does the consumer have an excess of income prioritized for this, but they are willing to risk penalty to consume the product. This speaks of an employed organized and motivated individual, not the slacker stoner stereotype you attempt to portray them as.

    Please feel free to rebut, rebuke, or address my responses.

    have a nice day
    :)

  • Jasper

    Pot heads are idiots !!!! =)

  • GULLIBLE LIBERALS

    Cigarettes are naturally grown,MORON….they both cause LUNG CANCER…only difference is you get a buzz on pot….your 60′s PROFESSORS lied to you…most of you LIBERAL WIMPS are embarrassingly gullible.

  • Prospero

    I was agreeing with you lol! You’re not making your side look very good right now…

    I don’t want anyone on any substance with me at work. What they do after work is of no concern to me.

    If you want to argue against prohibition, the only logical basis for argument is individual liberty. Liberals tend to want to control our salt and transfats and energy sources based on arbitrary notions of “health”.

    If you’re going to be arbitrary, then you have no basis for arguing liberty. If you want to argue for liberty, then you shouldn’t be supporting people who ban salt and transfats in the name of “health”.

  • Cool budz

    What were we just talking about?

  • kari

    so, would you say the same thing when they put in a bevmo?

  • sean patriot

    Oh Good, something to make liberals even dumber.

  • kari

    would you say that about a beer or wine making store.

  • Dirk Diggler

    I can’t wait to grow my tomatoes!

  • kari

    i’m a tea party conservative who smokes pot and makes six figures. it’s about personal freedom. please stay out of my wallet and my personal life.

  • Vintage

    I smoke pot and enjoy pot, but even I know it causes lung cancer. Anything that is smoked has tar, and tar causes lung cancer. That’s a medical fact.

    If you want the medical benefits of pot without the tar, you can vaporize or eat it.

  • Russ

    not wanting anyone on any substance is a bit of a blanket statement right? Or does your office ban coffee? I know the basic idea you are conveying… but how big a difference is there between a coworker on 4mg of Xanax and 4 hits of pot? Ideally your response would be the best situation. I think we take for granted that our coworkers are sane and sober, and the pharmaceutical industry wants us to feel that way. It just boils down to the individual and how/where/what they use. One over arching rule will be unable to address every situation equally or effectively.

  • bigboy98349

    Dude, exhale.

  • Jeremy

    Actually I’m a conservative. And tobacco is naturally grown.. But all the other chemicals added to cigarettes are not. so please before you try to debate through name calling an null arguments.. Again do your research

  • rushanna

    can’t stand to look at people with dopey eyes and slur speach wake up

    America

  • Jakcey

    You are an idiot. Please kill yourself and any offspring you may have produced.

  • LIBERAL AGENDA

    Another GULLIBLE LIBERAL…I have known friends from the 60′s who died of lung cancer and never smoked a cig….only smoked POT….I have no associates or friends who have never smoked and got lung cancer…I realize there are very few cases( compared to cigs and pot) of lung cancer who have never smoked any substance and have lung cancer….your monkey experiment was laughable set up by POTHEAD HIPPIES in the 70′s….any clear thinking person would have conducted a long term study with monkeys…but they were apparently afraid of the results….it didn’t fit there LIBERAL AGENDA.

  • Ted

    TO KCBS 13
    The article states that the emporium is opening in Sacramento and later states that it will be located on Fulton Ave. Both of those statements cannot be true. So…if this business is not going to be in Sacramento, then it is absolutely incorrect to say that it will make Sacramento the “new cannibas capital.” Look, I understand how hard it is to make local news interesting and worthy of viewing and ratings. But CBS is going to lose me as a viewer/website visitor if you continue doing stories that show you don’t actually have any regard for the proud municipal boundaries and neighborhoods in the area. This isn’t the first time this has happened.

  • Dan Armbruster

    Well , let’s just get the Christian haters off their butts now. I feel like stirring the “pot”. Yes, pun intended.

    In the bible, Genisis 1:29 in the King James version, God said: “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”

    There are different versions because people glean different meanings from the same words. You’ll notice that in this verse, God commands us to use all herbs and all plants. Marijuana is an herb. So therefor, I am commanded to use it. But a vegetarian will propose it means that we are not supposed to use meat, but plants instead.

    Kinda like different people see different meanings….sound familiar? Live and let live. No one has said pot users are made more violent. Laid back? Sure.

  • Tupac Lives

    That would be tight dude!

  • thesaint80920

    Where do you get this ludicrus mythology from?
    1st – most people using medical mmj, have a valid medical reason for its use.
    2nd – Multiple generations of ‘new’ customers have come forward creating a bigger demand on the Medical market. The Medical market is NOT supplied by the cartels. It happens to be supplied be local growers, licensed by the state in which they operate their business. There is absolutely no indication or evidence that any drug cartel is positioning itself on territories(US, Canada or Mexico) for a claim in the Medical MMj Industry. The killings you refer to, are not because of the MMJ industry, but has been linked to the sale and control of the ‘Meth’ problem in the US and Mexico.
    3rd – There is no study or link to the use of MMJ causing its users to become mentally unbalanced causing institutionalization. The use of MMJ is not only limited to ‘Smoking’. It is used in many various ways, from food to external application, such as topical creams.
    4th – There has never been a reliable and comparable scientific study done linking the use of MMJ to cancer.
    5th – The statement ‘How are these millions of potheads getting the money to buy pot? Typically they quit school and quit jobs, because they cant hold a job down.’ has to be one of the most assinine statements ever made. Millions and millions of users of MMJ hold longtime employment and ‘have more education under their belts than the so-called ‘normal’ person. The MMJ market at this point is a little costly for most unemployed persons. Those are supported usually by the underground market.
    6th – This comment is a ‘case in point’ ! By ‘normal people’, you are refering to the close minded, uninformed persons, who use hearsay, but don’t have any facts to base their idiotic allegations on.

    Before you comment on a subject, you need to have actual facts, backed up by an actual study, or it just becomes an absurd opinion such as what you stated above.

  • Jeremy

    Is it just me or is this guy full of opinions and no facts.. Automatically assuming anyone who states Facts about pot is a liberal and for some reason is trying to debate the meteors of pot solely on cigarettes… I. Yet to hear him/her refute the stated facts with actual evidence.. Other than him saying both can cause klingon cancer.. Which I’m not sure anyone was debating in the first place

  • Mike_88

    It’s really the glucose in marijuana that stimulates peoples minds. Same with wine. Marijuana smokers are basically smoking glucose, that is why it hits the brain with euphoria. If you ever had to have marinol you will see the difference. They sell glucose tablets at the local drug store. You take a quarter tablet in the morning and afternoon and you will find you have energy to get through the day with less coffee and alcohol. To much and you will blow your weakest link. Cancer loves glucose. Don’t overdue it.

  • Charlie

    You in my opinion are a moron. Firstly I would like to adress your comment on pot being more harmful than cigarettes. Marijuana is a plant that grows naturally, is harvested, and cured and then smoked. That is the entire process. You may make the age old argument that you have no idea what your getting from your pot supplier. Thats why marijuana should be legalized. While most people with any experience with this plant can easily identify the qualities of legitimate marijuana it would elimate the possibility of getting anything other than what your paying for if this plant was regulated and taxed by the federal goverment. Cigarettes contain preservatives, and you also smoke cigarettes at a drastically increased volume compared to marijuana. You are spouting the same things that you have been told all of your life I assume, because most of what you said is not supported by any scientific study, or actual information. As to your comment about the drug cartels supplying the huge demand the exact opposite would happen. Drug cartels would cease to make huge profits off the very laws that make what their doing so lucrative. If marijuana is legalized it would bring a massive economic boost with it. It would create jobs, and generate revenue in the billions. I would go on to counter ever single thing you said, but at this point im a little bored of pointing out your ignorance.

  • VINTAGE IS HONEST

    I don’t agree with your pot use….but I do RESPECT YOUR HONESTY….unlike others I have read….smoking pot causes LUNG CANCER.

  • DenyIgnorance

    It’s a proven fact the war on drugs doesn’t work…it’s fact. People will smoke marijuana regardless if its illegal or not. Marijuana doesn’t cause cancer, it is actually prescribed to cancer patients as it reduces cancer growth. I even have a link.

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.htm

    Everything you think you know about marijuana is a social stigma that goes back as far as prohibition. Marijuana was actually a common drug before then…until propaganda such as movies as Reefer Madness or government legislation gave marijuana a bad name. The benefits of marijuana and hemp out weigh the sociological brainwashing our culture is accustomed to. Practically every pharmaceutical drug has its chemical structure based off the structure of THC. Something to think about.

    The Constitution was written on hemp paper, and you should know that our country at one point in time had a hemp crop industry. Do you research and use your intelligence to back up your claims. Unintelligent rants are based off emotions and personal judgments. Otherwise you sound like a politician…if that doesn’t tell you something. Deny Ignorance.

  • Jeremy

    I’m a Christian and I find it funny that the same Christians that will undoubtedly argue and flame you on this will also be ones that have a glass o wine or enjoy the benefits of modern medicine like brnadryl (another mind altering drug)… I believe the bible does say something about moderation – so I’ll argue that point.. But I see no fault in your logic;

  • MC57

    THEY ONCE SAID POT WAS A GATEWAY DRUG, NOW CANCER, WHY NOT. DOCTORS SAY USE IT TO FIGHT CANCER. I DO:NT GET IT. HOW MANY WAYS CAN YOU KILL YOURSELF BY DRINKING?( PLEASE PASS THE JOINT)

  • thesaint80920

    cigarettes are not ‘naturally’ grown ! Tobacco is grown and then cigarettes are made by man after over 700 carcinogens are added to increase the likelyhood of addiction. There are NO scientific studies linking the use of MMJ to cancer.

  • Prospero

    Russ, you apparently have no idea what I’m saying. Nothing I’ve said disagrees with your examples.

    You need to clear your mind of your prejudices and preconceptions, and slowly read what I wrote, not what you think I wrote.

  • Green Guy

    Well as I see it, YA DON’T NEED TO SMOKE IT ANY MORE. Thanks to bakery products, and smokless vaporizers.

  • Green Guy

    Well as I see it, YA DON’T NEED TO SMOKE IT ANY MORE. Thanks to bakery products, and smokless vaporizers.

  • thesaint80920

    thanks Russ, you have stated exactly what needs to be reiterated to the general uninformed, over emotional public…………cudos to you my friend !!

  • Brithefireguy

    I’m a retired firefighter. I went out with a back injury. Six back surgeries later, marijuana dramatically helps with pain. In fact, so much so, that I most days I do not have to rely on my conventional pain meds. I’ve paid my dues. I pay my taxes. I have a degree. My wife and I are raising daughters who are on the honor roll. Personally, I don’t like to smoke it. I dislike the taste of smoke in my mouth. That’s why I bake it into certain foods or take it in other forms. In my years of firefighting, there has not been one call where someone was injured as a direct result of marijuana. “Potheads” don’t get stoned and go beat up their wives. “Potheads” don’t get beligerent and want to fight everyone. “Potheads” more often than not want to eat and lay down and watch a movie. A person drinking?? Let’s not go there.

    Fortunatus, this a free country last time I checked and you are definitely entitled to your opinion. But what you wrote is definitely just that, an opinion.

  • Prospero

    To me, the most amusing thing about this story is that they are charging people $400 to grow a plant that you can’t kill even with agent orange lol!

    It has just about the botanical requirements of hops, and can be easily and abundantly grown with things you can buy at Home Depot or Lowes.

    So the comparison to WalMart misses the mark. WalMart provides your basics at bargain prices. This store provides your basics at radically inflated prices.

  • Brithefireguy

    And you don’t get a buzz on cigarettes?????

  • Dan Armbruster

    Thanks. I was actually referring to those who hate Christians, not Christians themselves. I expect to hear about how I and you are morons for believing. As I mentioned…..To each their own. But I won’t stoop to their level and call them names and decry them as anything but what they themselves purport to be…observers of beliefs from the dark ages.

  • A

    I say that alcohol and cigarettes have done more damage in this country than any pot smoking ever did! Personally if it was legalized, I would never take another drink again. Folks are right, pot is less harmful than alcoholl, cirgarettes, meth, heroine, heck even fast food. Most of us who smoke hold down a regular job and have for many, many years. Do I think it’s a gateway drug, no more than alcohol. Also, are you on Prozac, Xxanax, any prescription for that matter? Guess what, pot doesn’t have all those side effects that those legal mind altering substances do. Also, have you ever heard of someone high going on a violent rampage – not me. Chills me out and makes me able to deal better with the morons of the world like you. Also, I would assume you’re liberal since you’d like to tell me what to do with my life. Thanks, I can handle that all on my own. I darn sure don’t need the government telling me how to run my life. Get a grip!

  • pixie1942

    I guess that’s why commifornia is on the ocean so it won’t make a big hole when it sinks…

  • lulu

    Interesting you know so little about reality before you open your mouth. Maybe you ought to try turning your television off for a bit and reading more books. Much to the surprise of scientists at UCLA, they found that marijuana smoking caused less lung cancer than people who didn’t smoke any marijuana or any cigarettes: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html
    Perhaps that is because of cananbis’s cancer-killing phytochemicals: http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2009/08/19/cannabinoids-for-treating-cancer/
    Of course, there’s no scientific links to smoking cannabis and killing cancer, but there’s also no link to smoking cannabis and getting cancer. As for legalizing cannabis causing more demand. There might be, although it will be hard to gauge as most of the demand was previously illegal and thus not kept track of. But to really get an accurate view of what would happen if marijuana was wholesale legalized there are historical examples that give us a clue into what would happen. Take alcohol prohibition in 20th century USA, it’s difficult to connect prohibition to either a rise or lowering of alcohol consumption. However, it is easy to connect alcohol prohibition to a rise in alcohol prices, an increase in violent crime, and an increase in black market activity. http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/miron.prohibition.alcohol. Considering this, I would much rather have marijuana prices come down and a decrease in mafia-related marijuana trafficking from Mexico, which is of lower quality anyways than a minor, probably temporary, increase in cannabis users.

  • MC57

    THANK YOU, (A), COULD NOT HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER, IF YOU GROW INDOORS MIGHT WANT TO TRY ALL FOX-FARM PRODUCTS CHEAPER BUT VERY GOOD FOR THE BABIES! GOOD SMOKING

  • STUOIDISASSTUPIDDOES

    SMOKING POT causes LUNG CANCER ,you gullible MORON…. that’s a medical fact….your 60′s LIBERAL PROFESSORS have lied to you…..as well as you dumb azz friends…..everytime you take a hit,your getting closer to lung cancer…MORON

  • thesaint80920

    rushanna,
    you must to be refering to the many drunks encountered when at or leaving the bar !!

  • SpiritRoper

    If it’s so bad, then go somewhere else.

  • anon

    Yeah its real easy to grow, if you want horrible weed.

    If you’ve ever tried to grow high end plants, then you know it takes high end products.

  • http://BeyondChronic.com Old Hippie

    That’s why medical patients use vaporizers or edibles or tinctures. Smoking anything is bad for you! But cannabis is not.

  • terry

    You are the moron STUOID…… Marijuana has about 150 components while tobacco has over 1500, The chemicals involved are completely different. While it is not good to inhale any type smoke, Numerous studies have been done and not one shows a risk of lung cancer. YOU need to wake up and check your facts before ranting about something you know nothing about.

  • Mary Wright Pippert

    And they wonder why California is in such bad shape.

  • john

    I just cannot wait to visit LA shortly and drive down the freeways next to pot smokers high on weed! Thrilling.

  • la Confidential

    OLD NEWS The owner of this rip off company Darr Mann is a wussy wannabe idea straling chump.

  • donna

    Sacramento may well be the place where a whole lot of pot is sold but it will never be the capital of pot. Northern California foothills are the growers. These old farmers grow organic from seeds. It is going to take a long long time for the newbies to catch on and really learn how to grow a plant to its max with sunshine and mulch. As for those that say it is not a good thing, you best get over it and realize it is the largest cash crop in the state and it is never going away, legal or not.

  • Dr. John Williams PHD

    You indeed need to check your facts again sir.. You sound ridiculous commenting with unfactual info.

  • OH

    So many young people are on medical marijuana, and guess what that means, the working class gets to pay for them to get high, pay for their couches to be potatoes on, and buy the munchies that feed them via food stamps. Good job California, that was such a wise decision to legalize it. With more dope flowing at cheaper prices, we’ll get to support more lazy bums with a doctors excuse.

  • MORONIC POT HEADS

    OLD HIPPIE AND TERRY….I was there in the 60′s…my old friends who continued smoking pot are brain dead MORONS…or dead,some from lung cancer…who all told me the same thing….hey,man it’s cool no cancer…..I’m not a gullible LIBERAL who believes this B.S. about”cannabis”(sounds so innocent)….”a herb”…sure MORON…..these old hippies end up teaching or work for the government….NO WONDER THIS STATE HAS GONE FROM THE GOLDEN STATE TO NEAR BANKRUPTCY….CHEECH AND CHONG MENTALITY…”everything is cool,man”

  • Ed Baker

    People don’t smoke anywhere near as much pot as they do cigarettes. It’s pretty harmless – much less harmful than alcohol…

  • LOL

    CA legalized it?

    BTW, I’m 99.99999999999999999% sure no “working class” money goes towards it.

  • Riley

    The former United States Surgeon General said, Marijuana is not addictive, contains no nicotine and is far less harmful than cigarettes. He was the Surgeon General during the Regan administration. We didn’t listen then, and the government isn’t listening now. Grow pot here, tax it and but a death knell on drug smuggling from Mexico.

  • Ed Baker

    You are doing so already. If they want to smoke it they will – the law is irrelevant.

  • Robin

    Nicely put A, half the population running around on happy pills ignoring reality 24/7, cigarettes a deadly addiction to slow death, and alcohol making folks do things they regret for the rest of their lives …. pray sanity rules rather than greed, that this God-given medicine be available to grow and use without penalty.

  • Ed Baker

    So should they be buying booze instead? Lazy people on welfare will always exist – get over it before you die of a heart attack.

  • John Betgeorge

    you know blah blah about cali in bad shape cus of pot smokers..simple fact, more then 70% of engineers smoke in silicon valley…if it werent for those pot smokers you woulld have no computer to troll on…cali is the 4th largest economy on the planet so save all the rants about how good its not…i dare to ask where some of these people come from and what do their states produce, if anything?

    and to the person calling everyone a moron..do us a favor.
    if you want to be taken seriously, please stay focused on the facts and really try to have a point..

    that actually makes it more interesting.

  • Richard Cranium Jr.

    Everything’s fine, the marijuana plants have reassured me that more people die from alcohol and cigarettes. What? Schizophrenia? Who said that?

  • Russ

    “I don’t want anyone on any substance with me at work.” … OK check.. I read it slowly. I feel my comments still directly apply. I feel that your discussion of liberty and prohibition are polarized as an approach, and are limited in application. That was the reason for providing examples where prohibition failed ( its ok to come to work hopped up on Xanax ) and that zero limitation is unfeasible as well. I would also note that I never said you were wrong. In fact I made note to point out I thought I understood the intended meaning of your blanket statement at the start. My point is not one arbitrary rule will work. Which as you said doesn’t disagree with what you wrote. It just contradicts the open ended statement about the presence of any worker under the influence of any substance.

  • Jim

    Incorrect – a UCLA study and one at Harvard concluded that inhaled cannabis over many years has a protective anti-tumor effect on the lungs. Educate yourself and stop spreading unfounded anecdotes.

  • andrew

    then don’t come here. you won’t be missed.

  • MC57

    NEWS FLASH! GROWN MEN BUYING BOOZE FOR KIDS, IN MARYSVILLE CA. ALCOHOL IS LEGAL. RIGHT.

  • andrew

    I am an accountant, 1 year shy of my CPA designation. I am also a veteran of the United States Army, having served as a Combat Medic and having been wounded while on deployment. Do I not deserve to ingest medical marijuana (instead of the Oxycontin that has been prescribed. I don’t use the Oxy because I don’t like the side effects.)? I don’t sit on my azz; in fact, except for my Veterans benefits, I collect no welfare type money of any kind. I work 8hrs a day/5 days a week; and 10hr days/6days a week during tax season. You don’t know what you are talking about.

  • mikejha

    Why would anyone who thinks of them self as a conservative/republican be against this? This is probably the one thing liberal California politics got right and it really should have been my party that pushed for this considering banning it is nanny style politics that nobody should be proud of enacting in the first place.

    P.S. we don’t need anymore government testing to find out if its harmful or not, Ive been “testing” it my entire life and can vouch for its safety, im “testing” it right now.

  • andrew

    I know of NO ONE who has suffered schizophrenia from medical grade cannabis. Maybe if you smoke mexican brick weed but I really wouldn’t know. It seems like everyone from different states keep referencing schwag.. To my Cali brothers and sisters: don’t blame them, they simply don’t know what GOOD weed looks/smells/tastes/feels like.

  • andrew

    Amen!

  • andrew

    that would be the liberals, not the stoners

  • Russ

    I guess I would start by offing up the idea that industrial hazards, environmental hazards,and occupational hazards are the cause of many forms of lung cancer. DET and farmers come to mind, as well as asbestos and the lung cancer it causes. Secondly when offering evidence “I know a guy” tends to be ignored by most folks. This is because one can find seemingly contradictory evidence to most any accepted tenant. It is understood that such occurrences will exist and continue to exist. The study of medicine can be seen as the study of averages in this way. The “monkey experiment” was conducted by the FDA. It was funded as part of the move to criminalize marijuana. The evidence of research bias (looking for a desired finding rather than evenly weighing results) is easily visible in the study. It was and has been the key component is furthering the notion that pot is dangerous. Its flawed approach is exactly the reason it persists. The long term studies you suggested have been done. Much to the displeasure of the anti-marijuana movement the studies all came out favorable. I also find it interesting that the argument is always framed as liberal vs conservative. The conservative philosophy would want an open market place with as little restriction on trade as possible. Legalization certainly fits that mold.

  • Richard Cranium Jr.

    An example of anecdotal evidence: My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with the girl who said that I am the best at posting messages online.

  • Sevnth

    What bunch of idiots – Hemp is THE CURE – go to You Tube, look up “Run From the Cure” – Cigarettes kills, Cannabis heals, it’s THAT simple, anything else is a LIE, period – A Giant Pharmaceutical Industry LIE!

  • AD

    THC, the active incredient in marijuana, is a carcinogen. It doesn’t cure cancer, or even help cancer patients. It causes cancer! At the same time, it overwhelms the immune system. Cancer patients need to rally their immune systems to fight the cancer. The last thing they should do is pollute their bodies with a carcinogen and immune system blocker.

    The human body cannot process THC, and therefore stores it in the fat cells where it overwhelms the immune system that works overtime in a futile attempt to get rid of it. So it sits in the fat cells like a ticking time bomb. It takes the human body about 7 years to completely replace all cells. Therefore, even if pot heads stopped smoking immediately, it would take 7 years to completely detoxify their bodies of THC. During that time, the ticking time bomb can go off, causing virtually any type of cancer, and is especially dangerous for breast and prostate cancer. Ever wonder why so many pot heads like Bob Marley and Frank Zappa died quickly of prostate cancer at an age so youthful that they should have been able to easily beat the disease? Those aren’t isolated instances. The statistics show that male pot heads have a high death rate from prostate cancer.

    Marijuana has no medicinal properties. Pot heads claim that it reduces nausea from chemotherapy. But there are safe treatments for that nausea. The first thing a cancer patient should do is detoxify the body and free up the immune system to fight the cancer. But THC toxifies the body, and therefore is the last thing a cancer patient should take. In addition to being a carcinogen, all of the other properties of THC are negative and dangerous.

    Its entertaining whenever the pot heads try to compare mariuana to alcohol. There is nothing in common between alcohol and THC. They have totally different effects on the body, and there is no relationship in their chemistry. Pot heads love to fool themselves with their homegrown myths. Wonder where such propensity for self-delusion comes from? THC alters natural brain chemistry in a very adverse way, causing paranoia, psychosis and delusion. Enjoy the stuff at your own peril if you simply can’t resist it, but at least be honest about it and stop using the BS excuse that it’s for medical purposes!

  • Clint

    According to research at UCLA, chronic pot smokers have up to a 36% reduction in their likelihood of getting lung cancer. Other solid research shows theat longterm pot users have a 63% reduction in gettting head and neck cancer over nonsmokers. THC stunts the ability of tumors to survive and spread. THC induces selective cell death in cancer cells while sparing normal cells.
    Light up!

  • Dan Armbruster

    @STUOIDISASSTUPIDDOES…First thing, your screen name says it all…”Stupid is as stupid does” is what it should have said, but I guess your way makes sense…to you. What does “stuoid” mean anyway? I guess it’s a reference to you. Is there ANY civility in your repertoire, or are you just looking for a dimwit to respond in kind so you can fight? Not gonna happen here bunky. Do you feel superior now that those big words have scared everyone smoking pot off?

    gullible MORON…
    you dumb azz friends…
    MORON…good enough to use twice? Wow, impressive.

    These were the words you chose to show your superiority over pot smokers? BRILLIANT! So you understand, that’s referred to as sarcasm. I know you have so much going on in that brain of yours, you may not have heard of sarcasm, but now you have. Use it to your benefit. Oops, I thought you were someone with a skill set of advanced vocabulary use…my bad.

  • Scott

    C’mon lulu, you’re telling me that constant irritation of the lungs and throat through any kind of smoke isn’t going of increase the risk of cancer? And what about emphysema?

    I’m all for legalization and vaporizers (or better yet chocolate bars infused with THC), but believing that there’s no risk is just as bad as the disinformation of pot being a gateway drug, etc.

  • AD Really?

    Hey I will give you this, Great english debate paper. Great form… proves you have no idea or linked facts to your case though. The phamacudicals that you take daily are causing more harm that any THC… go get that flu shot and add some mercury in you. Alcohol is a comapraison because it is a legal substance that causes more deaths than anything.

  • Concerned Patient

    Ive been reading everyones comments and seems no one wants to mention the people that are actually benefiting from medicinal cannabis ,i have seen and witness people that use it everyday and cannot go with out it,call them “potheads”,”stoners” anything you want if its helping them ,MORE POWER TO THEM, Isn’t there any Compassion out there for the people who really need it,ask your self “if at any time someone in your family needed Cannabis to ease the pain or to just make life better would you still be against using Medical Cannabis”.

  • Staci

    WOW, they just closed their store in Oakland because they couldn’t sell anything and are overpriced and now they are moving to Sac??? They founder Dhar Mann is embroiled in lawsuits for unpaid vendors and employees, guess they need to find a new area to cause trouble!!!!

  • mike

    Unfortunately they are a bunch of thieves…

  • Big Ed

    I did electrical work for these guys and was never paid, and they just closed their Oakland store cuz they went out of business…

  • cliff

    well said, they owe me several thousand dollars to me……

  • foreman

    Get as stoned as you want but please recognize that most of the pot grow sites are on remote public land where growers poison the water with chemicals, divert waterways, hack down acres of trees, kill wildlife and use guns to keep hikers and campers at bay. Enjoy your joints but don’t be ignorant as to the source of your pleasure and the environmental devastation.

  • RC

    1) Bob Marley did not die from prostrate cancer. Please name your source to support your statement, “The statistics show that male pot heads have a high death rate from prostate cancer.”

    2) The immunosuppressant qualities of Cannabis should prove to be very helpful in the treatment of a number of immune system diseases. I for one would prefer the effects and “side-effects” of Cannabis over the extremely toxic and expensive biological drugs prescribed to treat my condition.

    3) I am not a pothead. In fact, I do not use Cannabis, though I am very open to the concept because of the numerous adverse effects the approved pharma products cause.

  • Truth

    New studies actually show THC preventing cancer, by killing mutated cells in the lungs. Google it.

  • RC

    Foreman, please recognize that everything you describe is the result of ILLEGAL grow operations because the plant is ILLEGAL. Change the legality, regulate and tax and drive out the thugs, gangs, and idiots from growing irresponsibly. If you truly adhere to the philosophy of, “Get as stoned as you want,” then you must agree that prohibition is the problem.

  • DudefromthatPlace

    I smoke pot every day, but you’d never know it if you met me – I work hard, make a six-figure salary, own my own beautiful home and pay my taxes. Sorry to bash your stereotype of a smoker. If you don’t like pot, just stick with your own intoxicants (as if they’re any better) and stay out of my business.

  • cabaret voltaire

    I smoke pot everyday, don’t work and am a raging alcoholic. I also take an assortment of psycho-tropic medications. I have high blood pressure and cholesterol because I eat hot dogs everyday. My hygiene has suffered because I rarely shower. Otherwise, I’m content.

  • felix maxim

    LEGALIZE IT!!!

    Alcohol is much worse for health than weed and leads to infinitely more violent crimes. “The percentage of state prison inmates who reported being under the influence of alcohol at the time of their offense was almost thirty-three percent (33%)” (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1997). Yet weed is illegal and alcohol isn’t.

    What I find really funny and ironic is that some of these people knocking on weed are probably alcoholics. These people drive around on alcohol, with cirrhosis of the liver and smack their wives or children in drunken fits and then turn around and want to judge people when they smoke a substance that I have never in my life heard of making anyone violent or terminally sick. Definitely most of the anti-weed politicians are closet alcoholics or God knows what. Alcohol totally eradicates ones’ conscience, while weed, in my opinion, amplifies it and makes one really sensitive to the things they do to others.

    The world would no doubt be a better place if people switched from alcohol to weed. Less violence, less accidents, and less health care bills would be the result. Though I’m not saying they should make alcohol illegal. people should have the choice. It’s just that people need to be properly educated, and weed needs to be legal so that we aren’t sending the message that alcohol is okay but weed is bad! Then maybe more people will choose weed over a chemical that does so much harm to the body and society as a whole.

  • BL

    The economic impact? How about the moral impact?
    Welcome to Marijuana Republic !
    What is next? Maybe medical vodka? The future is the degradation!
    Shame! Shame! Shame!

  • jimmy

    Dhar Mann just closed his Oakland Store and now they are opening in SAC, maybe because he is running away from all the vendors and employees he owes money to!

  • Brent K.

    Right on Felix.

    BL you are a fool.

    I’m a grad student at Stanford University and have a GPA of 3.8. And yes I smoke pot every day. As far as morals BL, I have a feeling a lot of people like you saying “Shame! Shame! Shame!” and casting moral judgment without knowledge of the facts could use a joint or two to improve your outlook on life and your fellow man (whom just happens to choose a different lifestyle than you). You see it is more of a moral problem when there are so many fools okay with alcohol but not something as innocuous as marijuana. It also speaks to the problems in education and biased, over-sensational propaganda on TV that condemn marijuana as if it were some demonic substance.

  • Ar Amytas

    Well if there are enough states legalizing Mari-juana we can turn our country intoa replica of Mexico.

  • A

    There’s nothing immoral about it. Marijuana is a natural plant. It’s the most effective natural/organic way to heal yourself with no harmful side effects – unlike synthetic pain killers which kill your kidneys and liver. Anyone who falls for the brainwashing of the american government is just another sheep.

  • Todd Ballantine

    This store is selling hydroponic supplies, that’s all. Not a big deal. I think the term “medical marijuana” is kind of a farce though. What does it cure? Hey, if you wanna get high I don’t have a problem with that but don’t act like it’s more impressive than getting drunk just because you say it’s “medicine”. Also, how do you prove that marijuana does less harm to society as a whole? All the people that I know who smoke a lot of pot are not exactly what I would call “go getters”. In fact, most of them are on welfare and don’t seem ashamed to let the government take care of them. Maybe they are healthier than people who drink a lot but I don’t know how their living longer lives is going to help the society that has to take care of them.

  • Bucky Dent

    Lock them up! Californians are simply crazy and I can’t believe we’ll have to bail your crazy state out of bankruptcy because of lunatics like you all…

  • scott harvey

    Do what you want, just don’t call it medicine. It isn’t. What other prescribed medicine can you select your own dosage, quantity and quality?

  • Ken K

    The posts here confirm that medical pot is a hoax and excuse for dopers to get high.

    I can drink a beer with dinner and drive home but smoking pot is cearly done for the high. I used to smoke pot in my teens and twenties and it had robbed me of all ambition. All I wanted to do was sit around, watch TV and eat cheetos. Great life if you’re a vegetable.

  • gene

    only in the land of fruits and nuts!!!

  • Joshua Kocses

    I couldn’t have said it better. I got my permit last year for medicinal marijuana, and have used the medicine since 1995 when I left active duty. I served tours in our nation’s military as a US Marine, in the US Army, graduated from my state college with a bachelor’s degree that I paid for with my GI Bill and own money, and have been employed with the same company for over 10 years now. The stereotypes are so wrong. The time has come for our nation to lay down their hatred and embrace the tax paying members of our society who have been oppressed for so many years.

  • alex

    They’re all frigin nuts in California. The world is going to hell in a hand basket and all they want to do is get high. What a bunch of stupid losers.

  • John

    Okay you say its not medicine, why not? If it works to reduce pain and help people to eat who need to eat, then why not call it medicine? What is your definition of medicine then? Why would you say Morphine is medicine but not marijuana? Why would you say Valium helps anxiety but not marijuana Just because you FEEL like it isn’t medicine. Just because you are squeamish about marijuana a cancer patient shouldn’t be able to use it? Why don’t you justify what you are saying instead of just making opinionated statements? IIf the cancer patient wants to call LSD medicine because it makes him feel better, then let him. Then let scientists and medical experts decide what is a medicine or not because they sure are more informed than you.

  • dogger

    Sure, tell the cancer patient.
    A patient with some of the symptoms that go along with living with cancer can tell you how thankful they are that they can get their weed without worring about arrest, bad product or crime.
    Sure, everyone thinks they can get a prescritption. Maybe, but at least those who need it can get it.

  • John

    Who are you to tell people who are in pain and dying what is a medicine and what isn’t? It is not morally wrong to let people smoke pot who are terminally ill with cancer. But it is morally wrong to deny suffering people the right to happiness and freedom from pain.

  • Joshua Kocses

    Genesis 1:30 “And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground–everything that has the breath of life in it–I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.”

  • dogger

    I guess if you have a bad case of cancer, sitting around and eating cheetos would fall under “a good day”.

    Use you brain.

  • dogger

    Amen

  • Nugget Master

    Yeah and these people, because they don’t think, would have it that cancer patients go to jail for marijuana. Because of their twisted idea of morality.

  • Terry McEntire

    Oh yeah, legalized mj has done wonders for the economy of CA. Potheads are so out of touch with reality, they don’t know how stupid they are!

  • dogger

    You better pray that someday you can get some when you really need it.

  • Terry McEntire

    Don’t forget to include poison ivy and all the toxic plants, too!

  • Terry McEntire

    “No harmful side effects” Well, the first noticable side effect is a deficiency in cognitive reasoning so that potheads sound really stupid. Also, many people are allergic to it; forcing them to endure the stench is a violation of civil liberties.

  • Joshua Kocses

    Terry McEntire,

    Marijuana is listed by the Surgeon General as one of the top ten most NON-LETHAL substances. It is not toxic or poisoness. You’re argument is foolish to compare or claim that poisoness plants and toxic substances have anything in common with Cannabis.

  • Terry McEntire

    Amen!

  • John

    Forget the economy in this situation, marijuana helps people who are terminally ill cope with their pain and the prospect of death. Are you going to deny them that right because you want a jeep? It’s not like we are starving from lack of food in America. We are still a very wealthy country relatively speaking. Alleviating suffering should always come before economy. Get your priorities straight and have a heart.

  • Joshua Kocses

    People are allergic to Speed Stick, penut butter, and possibly your body odor? Are you suggesting a ban on penut butter? I know people who will die if they eat penut butter. No one has ever died from Marijuana overdose or an allergic reaction. If so, please show us your proof.

    All you have is hate inside, that is the true shame here. Truth is, the very people who you are slapping in the face, are the ones who have been, and will continue to turn the other cheek. Evenutally, folks like yourself will see the truth. One day at a time. I guess this dialog is a start.

  • Terry McEntire

    But YOU mentioned “every green plant for food.”

  • Terry McEntire

    Dead on!

  • Crabjuice

    Your ignorance is profound.

  • alan

    Hilarious commentary. One point I’d like to make is that most people seem to focus on the seemingly ‘non-productive’ nature of a habitual user of marijuana and that they themselves are unproductive when/ if in their past they themselves have smoked the stuff. How productive is a person with a few beers in them? How productive is a person that uses pain killers, a legal drug? How about turkey? Should we ban the consumption of turkey because it makes you sleepy and tired? Slippery slope people, this is a slippery slope.

  • Bob

    Strychnine is natural too. Dude.

  • Joshua Kocses

    Ken, you have no problem with drinking and driving, yet you have a problem with someone 3000 miles away sitting in their own bedroom eating or smoking a green non lethal vegtable?

    Talk about a double standard. Lazy people are going to be lazy with or without pot. Once again, YOU chose to sit around and watch TV and eat Cheetos. Many other people find the opposite, some of us paint, write music, write code, tend bar, work as nude models, practice law, practice medicine, go to college, work hard jobs and don’t use alcohol at all.

  • usperxmop

    Yep, it is a natural plant. However, it was originally grown during WW II as a source for manila rope. So, now you know why rope is spelled like dope

  • JG916

    what is the address to this place?

  • Crabjuice

    Really? What should I call a substance which relieves my arthritis pain and calms my back muscle spasms?
    Apparently, you are unaware that MANY chemical drugs started out as natural remedies before they were synthesized in a laboratory. Natural remedies typically have wide latitudes in doses.
    Finally, there are many remedies on drug store shelves which come in Regular and Extra strength doses which the customer gets to choose from. The customer also gets to choose the brand (quality) and how many tablets to take.

  • TPain Smokem’PeacePipe

    To the people who feel that it can be argued that cannabis is or is not a medicine, you should check your cultural programing meter – it’s probably reading “totally indoctrinated”.
    This article is really bringing some ignorant people out of the woodwork.
    One thing about cannabis is that it is what you make it. If you are sedentary and not very motivated in general, cannabis will help you with that mind set. If you’re energetic and striving, then cannabis can make your pursuits new and fresh by altering your state of consciousness….making rudimentary tasks and experiences seem new and fresh. If you are in a good mood, it will make you laugh your ass off. If you are depressed, a sad song can bring you to tears.
    I’d also like to fill the indoctrinated crowd in that the intoxication from cannabis is very minimal once you build up a tolerance. For most people this means you can ingest or smoke or consume cannabis and still carry on your everyday activities….because the psychological high is minimized.
    I work a highly technical job and have to show up on time, and have to meet deadlines and interact in team programs and meetings…..I do this all while under the influence of cannabis and no one is the wiser.
    I can eat, I can move my body with less pain, I can use it when I want with no side affects of not having it for a while or using it more heavily.
    For the people who argue the legalization issue from a moral standpoint, I have no time for you. Our ancestors came to the new world to escape religious oppression. If you have a moral issue with people using cannabis, your value system is being oppressed by religious doctrine and orthodoxy. No one can help you out of that hole but yourself.

  • Smart Arse

    Your whole statement is a contradiction. Why do you drink the beer is it because you enjoy the substance inside, such as the Alcohol? Don’t you know that beer does not hydrate you? Its a toxic substance that causes liver disease. I used to drink in my 20′s and it caused me to lose my license, has harmed more relationships then smoking a joint ever has, and was more addicting then I could have imagined. Oh and yes I drink and I got hungry so I would drink and drive to McD’s. I would be hung over in the morning so I would call in sick, just to sit at my house to drink some more. Drinking is great if you wanna be unemployed sitting in a bar, with a head ache, and less money in your pocket then the amount of oz. in your beer. Ken K your not as informative as you think your being, frankly you only help my point. Darn ill sit at home and be no worse then a drunk drinking a beer with my food.

  • Crabjuice

    I’m going out on a limb here. I’m willing to bet that a lot of the anti-marijuana comments here are coming from the same people who complain about gun-grabbers.
    They say, “you’re afraid of guns because your ignorant. You want to take our guns because you think they’re dangerous. If you understood and used them intelligently, you wouldn’t feel that way”.
    Get where I’m going with this? Educate yourselves, people!

  • Seabass

    Haha, I shouldn’t have known better than to expect Americans of all “people” to understand an idea like drug legalization. You’re all too busy personally attacking people or trying to make a legitimate, serious issue into a Red Vs Blue shouting match.

    You’re all so engorged at the idea of proving your point at any cost that you can’t even form a coherent argument. This is why your country is being flushed down the toilet. Citizens like this poster. Enjoy your “country”, I’ll enjoy my freedom.

  • jmounday

    Some people smoke cigarettes and live a long life some drink beer/wine to excess and live just fine some own a gun and never use it.mj the same thing I have family members who indulge in the smoke and are fine and responsible people some have lost a job and become a total pot head,so what it is not what they do it is how they do it. But government is a problem as it is involved in morality we propagandize our children in k-12 by government fiat. We decided many years ago to fight drugs as it was destroying peoples lives, the heroin and cocain epidemic of the past comes to mind.Some attempt to compare it to alcohol however we as in many cultures had already embraced alcohol as a norm.The attempted to outlaw it turned out badly. Similar to the issue with journalist/news outlets the internet as a free medium has made it impossible for news outlets to charge for content.Only through the force of government will we realize legalization of pot, Sadly the more advantageous by product is textiles and other products that cannabis can make would be a boom for farmers and industry but again government is in the way…

  • Homer S.

    If there is no medical benefit to marijuana, then why does the pharmaceutical industry manufacture a synthetic marijuana drug called Marinol?

    The fact is, when people realize you can smoke or eat a little pot and no longer need Ambien, Xanax, or any other number of addictive but legal drugs, pharmaceutical companies stand to lose billions in sales.

    The real drug problem is with “legal” narcotics prescribed for every minor thing, making our country the most medicated on earth.

  • ron

    I think that you need to be very aware of the people around you who prefer not to smoke, And do not wish that their children get high. Otherwise you can have all you want legalize it we could use the taxes but do not give a contact high.

  • Jill

    So while these dopes waste their future retirement on marijuana, I’m supposed to go to work to pay for their healthcare, food stamps and earned income tax credits.

  • Chris A.

    If you use or condone the use of alcohol, an objectively, scientifically, and medically more dangerous and harmful substance/drug, then your statement is blatantly hypocritical and thus its validity and your sincerity are at best questionable. I will however give you the benefit of the doubt and consider your perspective to be merely based on innocent ignorance caused by the rampant misinformation propagated by the self-serving government and corporate interests over the years. God Bless you and your family in the name of Jesus Christ.

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  • Ringo

    Don’t be a dope Jill. read a book and educate yourself.

  • heatherfeather

    Not to worry Jill, most of the potheads have girlfriends, mothers, or other straight up people who they can mooch off of. They exist this way because so many people love puppies.

  • DJL

    Jill,
    just because someone uses MJ to cope with an illness does not mean that you are footing the bill for any of their care. there are a lot of people that smoke MJ and live totally normal and productive lives that contribute the same or more than you do to society. Do not be so hasty to judge when you do not know the full story of each person’s situation. Get informed

  • American Sharecropper

    Here’s one Tea Party Republican who completely agrees with you. Some of us are trying to legalize in Arizona for precisely the same reasons you outlined in your well thought out comment.

    There are more than a few types of indoctrination, I find the political type just as annoying. I take great pleasure in poking sacred cows and puncturing stereotypes, almost as much pleasure as smoking the occasional bowl.

    I too work in a highly technical job, I have an advanced degree, I make very good money and once a week or so (usually Saturday evenings) I smoke marijuana. I don’t drink, I work out daily and eat right. I don’t have a problem with people who drink, I choose not to partake but I also don’t understand why anyone would deny my form of recreation.

    If you believe smoking marijuana is in anyway more dangerous or harmful than virtually any other drug available, you should take a cold hard look at your premise.

  • American Sharecropper

    Crabjuice, I think you would be surprised at how wrong you are. I find the anti-marijuana crowd equally represented by both left & right. The only difference I can see is the people on the right tend to be a little more intellectually flexible and less combative when discussing things of a contrarian nature.

    Your limb is not so much a limb but an outdated and inaccurate stereotype.

    Perhaps you should educate yourself before demanding it of others, of course I suggest this out of love.

  • Jason Burnstein

    Lets hope that medical marijuana users will have to hand over their driver license as long as they have a prescription, or I can predict the following….oh ,wow man, I really ran over that little kid? Bummer….

  • vivian

    Gee, there are a lot of really sick people in Sacrmento. Do they get their RX from the same MDs that give out Sick Slips to govenment union protestors? Maybe they should turn the Pot House into a psychiatric hospital. The libs closed the State Hospitals to provide street counselling years ago; we all know how well that has worked out>

  • Tim_CA

    Misleading Headline. This is a 10,000 sf gardening store.

  • Bj

    I am a well educated, highly intelligent, responsible adult. I have raised two sons who make me proud everyday. I own my own home, paid off my loan two years ago. I have a job the requires me to be on time, self starting, well spoken and deals with large amounts of other peoples money. I have a health problem the stems from childhood, discovering medical mj a few years ago changed my life. I was able to quit taking 7 prescription pills per day in exchange for 1-2 hits of mj in the evening and occasionally on weekends when doing heavy work at home. I make sure that when I am ready to medicate that my drving for the day is done nor will I be using any heavy equipment. That is where the word responsible comes in. I have coworkers who come into the office still under the influence of their prescription meds who should not be drving but hey they are legal. Please do your research before advocating that mj be illegal.

  • Will Fauqueux

    Just another example of the cultural decay that has accelerated since Jan 20 2009.

  • mike s

    Save a trip the one in Oakland closed for hi prices and bad service and the owner ripped off an bunch of vendors and employees!

  • steve d

    weGrow, coined the “Walmart of Weed” is opening this weekend in Sacramento leaving behind a failed store in Oakland that had its Grand Reopening just a few short months ago. weGrow Oakland and its founder Dhar Mann are embroiled in a slew of lawsuits, labor disputes and complaints of local corruption. Several suits have been filed by employees and vendors for uncollected paychecks and payments on goods and services received. They have suffered in Oakland due to poor sales and a lack of supply due to alienating themselves from the industry. Dhar himself has made promises to potential franchisees of significant operating revenue and profit all while his own store was suffering and now ultimately shut down. I would encourage anyone doing a story to do their research and search the Alameda County court records for pending suits, mechanic liens on his building, labor disputes and situations of unpaid vendors

  • xrepublican

    You are so wrong about the state hospitals, I worked at one at the time. Those were closed by St. Ronald Raygun. You should not be able to hold people against their will and have the government pay for it. Always just a little shy of the truth is the way these neo-cons are. Just like gov. Walker who gave away over $145,000,000 to corporations and then declared a financial crisis which never seems to get out. You people that support corporations are just too dumb.

  • Gary

    I know you “think” all these wonderful things about your drug.In the past I too thought such rubbish. It is not until you get away from the poison you realize the full extent of the damage. It is a will destroying drug, and one of the most dangerous, because of the ignorance of its true nature.

  • Spectator

    I hope the business is successful. California needs the tax receipts. Certainly the people who buy would be glad to pay sales taxes, I doubt many pay income tax.

  • Fanny Forbes Franklen

    “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it”

    ~ Max Planck

    http://911essentials.com

  • Dredd

    All drugs are “will destroying” to some extent, Gary.

    ESPECILLAY the TRUE “gateway drug”… ALCOHOL!

  • DeanO

    Maybe once it opens the Feds will raid it and take everything away. Its still against federal law. These people are fools for growing anything this big. Kiss it all goodbye within 3 months.

  • Cora

    I smoked pot for 30 years and would rather do that than have a drink any day. But I had to provide insurance for my kids so I had to choose the job over the dope. I miss it once in awhile, but I remember how tired it made me, how it killed my drive and how much money I wasted on it over the years. I doubt I’ll ever take it up again – it’s not so bad being clean, kids.

  • durbustweeb

    You’re blaming a guy who hasn’t been governor for over 36 years for the failures of a state that’s been overwhelmingly blue for how long? Dude… enough Cool-Aide for YOU!!

  • Buck Keely

    This is crazy they are going to put the Mexican cartel out business.

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  • Nora

    It’s true nature huh? And what would that be? It is a plant. It can be grown to high THC content and also to an almost non-existent concentration. And what do you make of cannabinoid receptors, and the fact that they are activated by endocannabinoids (one of three ligands that target these receptors) that are only produced by the mammalian body?

    The human body seems to know full well what this plant is, and uses it in cellular functioning. What you seem to be explaining is the idea of being victimized, which is a function of certain learned behavior and rationale. That is poison of a psychological nature.

  • RigidPrinciples

    Gotta love how our Commander in Chief is too weak and frightened to win the War on Marijuana, yet continue to support the prohibition.

  • Tyler

    When are people going to learn that there is no such thing as “medical” marijuana

  • Jack Larson

    tHE DEVILWEED WILL KILL US ALL

  • thedharmann

    weGrow, coined the “Walmart of Weed” is opening this weekend in Sacramento leaving behind a failed store in Oakland that had its Grand Reopening just a few short months ago. weGrow Oakland and its founder Dhar Mann are embroiled in a slew of lawsuits, labor disputes and complaints of local corruption­. Several suits have been filed by employees and vendors for uncollecte­d paychecks and payments on goods and services received. They have suffered in Oakland due to poor sales and a lack of supply due to alienating themselves from the industry. Dhar himself has made promises to potential franchisee­s of significan­t operating revenue and profit all while his own store was suffering and now ultimately shut down. I would encourage anyone doing a story to do their research and search the Alameda County court records for pending suits, mechanic liens on his building, labor disputes and situations of unpaid vendors

  • vic

    this is disgusting.. … iast time I step foot into walmart, I dont want to be surrounded by a bunch of dope smoking hippies who have glaucoma..have some common sense..
    I have smoked pot before ( when I was in highschool) and let me tell you that this is pot not medicine.. Also, coming from a communist country ( where my family escaped to come here) this is what communists do, they want the people to do drugs so that they become so stupid and incapable of making decisions. This is actually very scary because this is Russia in slow motion..If I had a disease I would never want to be so stoned out of my mind that I could I wiuld not be enjoying every second of my life…so this is all BS and I am sad my children have to grow up in a world like this

  • Kevin Stowell

    This drug brought to you by the party of the those who want to “bury you.” Well, the party and Nikita Kruschev.

  • Adam

    Fools, let’s go ahead and make alcohol illegal again. That didn’t create any”un-intended” consequenses did it. Leave it to the high and mighty to rule their serfs.

  • Rocketman

    Every article on legal marijuana seems to draw out the “Reefer Madness” crowd much like moths to a light.
    My Id tells me that the abolitionists should suffer the same fate as those with a chronic, painfully uncomfortable illness. My “Superego” however is trying to prevent me from wishing such upon others.
    As a professional who has been employed in, around, and through the criminal justice system for decades, I must say that chasing down and prosecuting users and care givers only jacks up the price for a much needed, and thoroughly harmless plant. Meanwhile the jack-booted thugs are using extra-judicial means to “crack down” on prescription pain medications. What’s wrong with this picture?
    Believe it or not, my anal-retentive friends, most people are able to enjoy the benefits of marijuana in their off hours only.
    Rocketman
    ~(Ä)~

  • GMAFB

    Ahhh the Left Coast…what will we do for entertainment when you’re gone?

  • NancyM

    And I know folks who use the “marijuana maintenance program” to stay sober!

    Not very successfully, however………

  • el dub

    Even Wal Mart isn’t safe anymore.

    Think about the children!

    lw

  • Wings9191

    Typical Americans, we are worried about a plant that people smoke to get relief while there are real issues of concern to this country.
    I would much rather the governement focus it’s efforts on job, tensions around the world, the economy you know things that will help this country be great again. But instead we want to complain about weed.
    Really?
    Oh ya and just so i don’t get pegged for being on the left coast……..I am a card carrying Republican. This isn’t about political partys folks it’s about helping people that need the help. And if this eases there pain then good.
    God knows i don’t want some of the things that people have that i would NEED this for relief.
    And if it just so happens to take a bite out of the cartels….well that good in my book.

  • wings9191

    Just wondering if you people poking walmart read the store?
    It’s not a Walmart selling weed.
    Just wanted to throw that out there

  • Darrin Morgan

    How does a supply store put cartels out of business? It is not like it is ethical to begin with. Is it logical to think that if California legalizes weed, that a cocaine pusher will be out of a job? No, cartels are smart and diversify their enterprise much like investment bankers. Worldwide, drugs are a Trillion Dollar industry. Legalizing pot in California puts no one out of business and the tax revenue will fall short of expectations.

  • Bobby ray

    Why do people make such a big deal about weed?

  • skylar

    ahahahaha the marijuana poisoning!

  • David Roseman

    when people like you realise that is does!

  • David Roseman

    right on !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • David Roseman

    nancy ignorance is bliss.

  • Timmy

    Bill Clinton willprobably be a prefered customer.

  • aubreyfarmer

    The ignorance that surrounds the use of marijuana just seems to become more entrenched every day. If you need a nanny to tell you what to eat, what to smoke and what to drink then you will fit in quite well with the left and the right. Whatever happened to the individual’s right to determine what they will or will not do. Isn’t this the whole idea of freedom and personal responsibility. Ignorant bliss is a full time occupation for far too many. I don’t want nor do I need you or the government telling me how to run my life. How stupid do you need to be, before you realize that the war on drugs, just like the war on terrorism is in reality an assault on individual freedom. The war on drugs is not a war at all. It is simply pretext to doing away with your freedom. Just another way for the government to convince people to give up their rights. Do a little research and you will see that the government is behind much of the drug trade and the main perpetrators of the so called terrorist activities in the US and abroad. So for all of you who choose ignorance because the truth conflict with your opinion, I say stick it in your ear. Just let me alone to live my life as I please and I will do the same.

  • Bobby ray

    Your so cool man, I want to be like you when I grow up.

  • chad

    You cant win a war against weed, alcohol, or anything else that people want.

  • barrack

    Why because you say so?

  • CleanFun

    I thought Idiocracy was just a movie when it was released.

  • blackness

    probably go to church and pray to the magical man in the sky

  • chad

    On page one of the bible it says that all plants with seeds are for the use of man. I guess you right wingers hate GODS word

  • shawn

    I dare you people to compare the real damage that alcohol does in a person’s life to what cannabis does. How about to your liver. How many fights do you see caused by alcohol? How about Cannabis? Open your eyes and see the truth

  • shawn

    Oh, by the way, Think about the children while you fire up that tobacco cigarette.How about when you crack open that beer,put on the TV and ignore your own children. What is wrong with you people? Are we all sheep that have to have a dictator to tell us what to do. Stand up and be REAL.

  • harry

    I worked for an hvac company that this guy hired. we did a job that cost about 20k and never got paid for it. we have a suit filed against him already

  • rudy

    RUN FROM THE CURE – The Rick Simpson Story (Part 1 of 7)

    Cannabis cures cancer and other diseases. Everyone take their grow up pills and quit letting your grandparents propaganda rule your brain.

  • rudy

    vic your bad experience does not equal the millions of good experiences people have had using cannabis responsibly. Using cannabis as a teenager does have complications. The main one being that it will keep you in the mindset of a teenager. Who care what godless commies do. You are an american now so grow up and realize that you are one person with one opinion and one vote. If you don’t like the law get active and change it like the thousands of well organized cannabis users have (NORMAL)

    Cannabis cures cancer and make the symptoms of many diseases easier to bear. Don’t let your fear and a bad experience rule the lives of the rest of us.

    Oh, and don’t shop at walmart they are evil.

    RUN FROM THE CURE – The Rick Simpson Story (Part 1 of 7)

  • BizkiT

    why dont you allow the free market decide of they want it or not, get out of trying to run peoples lives, if you want a free society let people decide, if they make money, it stays the people have spoken, if no money is spent then the people havespoken. Free marketcapitalism. Stop ur meddling in other businesses because your to lazy to do something with your life. Go make a business that sells liturare about all the affects of marijuana to the user, them open it next door, if you convince peope not to smoke then it goes out of business. Make money doing what you believe is correct.

  • MIke

    This is the kind of stuff that will ensure that Barack Obama is not re-elected. He’s done nothing to crack down on the out-of-control “medical” marijuana and stuff like this is the result. He wants to create a doped up country that’s dependent on government. There’s a reason that every California politcian (including 100% of democrats) didn’t support prop 19. It’s a political loser.

  • DavidJ

    The amount of marijuana consumed would go through the roof if marijauana were legalized. These warehouse spaces foreshadow the disaster that looms. High potency marijuana will become dirt cheap and everyone will walk around in an addictive haze.

    The other down side is that marijuana will be in either the hands of a large Walmart-like business or the government. The peaceful Cali growers will all be out of a job. Manicurists will get paid like $10/hour. The rest of the pot profits will go to rich marijuana CEOs.

  • dcoz

    Any legalization effort should be tied directly public benefits. If you want increased freedom, then you have to take increased responsibility. A great Republican/Democrat compromise is to legalize marijuana, but abolish food stamps, public housing, and welfare. Go use all the drugs you want. Just don’t come crawling to the government when your job and family get damaged.

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  • http://adamunderhill.wordpress.com Little Earthquake

    Based on the anger and frustration across the country right now, this is just what the doctor ordered…

  • Valerie

    Oh NO xrepublican, you are the WRONG One. My husband was on the psychiatric staff and we lived on the grounds!!! Edmund Brown was Gov at the time, later his son Jerry and the State Hospitals were under fire for just what you allege. However, the real reason was to provide “Street Clinics”, so the mental patients could claim “against their will.” at the “do gooders behest. If one is a mental patient, perhaps the UNKINDEST action, is let them out on the streets without supervision even re taking their medications. It is your false statements that have led to the mess in treating people who so desperately need genuine help…not the Sheen..Lohan brand!!!!

  • Jenn Shear

    I dont smoke it.. but I am not against it. The media makes smoking or eating it look horrible.. a bunch of high stupid people laughing and over eating.. that is not true.. what they fail to show is how it helps many people.. many.

  • Donna G

    Ok awesome for this new store but where in Sacramento, CA is it??? Found tons of articles on it..but nothing with the address….ugggg….Can anyone shed the light please? Have a wonderful night ya’all

  • Darrin Morgan

    BizkiT, get a book on grammar and spelling. Educate yourself so you don’t sound like a fool arguing with nonsense.

  • Darrin Morgan

    Wow!! According to this propaganda video, Cannabis cures cancer!!! I am going to get some for my 9 year old son with Leukemia!!! NOT!!!

  • lotsoflaughs

    If you haven’t checked out this blog yet you should…it has some really funny stories and it’s all clean and kid friendly stuff. http://www.jaredslighterside.blogspot.com

  • nutz

    1537 Fulton Ave.
    Sacramento Ca, 95825

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  • Teresa

    @Mike Get your facts strait for once….sound inteligent at least. Californian’s didn’t approve prop 19 because it was poorly written. Vague at best. I smoke and have for years and don’t walk around in a haze. I am a productive member of society who happens to enjoy Marijuana. I would love to hear your opinion on Alcohol and Cigarettes since you have such a strong opinion of Weed. “It’s better to be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt”!! Now sit down and be quiet. I will bet you right here right now that Obama will be reelected unless a more suitable character steps up on the platform……Trump and his hair perhaps…..giving the rich more breaks? hmmmmm

  • D

    I am a medical user and I cannot believe the comments made by conservative morons,are you enjoying a martini while commenting? Yeah that’s much less harmful,idiots I am a fully functional 55 year old who without the marijuana I would not even be able to leave my house. It was around long before man and will be here long after man has gone.Now let’s grow up and deal with much more important problems in this country.

  • Victoria Dennison

    Just what Sacramento needs……..

    There’s enough dumbing of America, don’t you think?

  • Mitch Comstein

    Liar.

  • Soylent Yellow

    God put devil-weed here to temp us. He told me so.

  • Bj

    Well Mitch, as you can see from my comment I am able to put together a complete sentence. Unlike the undeucated, uninformed who are only able to use words of only 4 letters.

    So back at you, Babe: Idiot Oh sorry that has 5 letters maybe you can get some help sounding it out.

  • Denise

    Marijuana use is a reality and is never going to be stopped no matter what laws are passed or not passed in the state or at the federal level. People who have smoked for more than 40 years may one day just stop for no other reason than they just don’t feel like smoking anymore but they will not ever stop because somebody tells them to…I know because that is what happened to me.
    I can tell you as well that I am not a crazy person, nor am I homeless, or an unwed mother or grandmother. I am educated and retired from a job I held for 24 years. I am as healthy as the next person, I have no criminal record whatsoever, I vote and am very patriotic. I don’t do any drugs and never have, I don’t drink to get drunk but only once in awhile to be social (vine wines only). People assume they know who marijuana smokers are or who they might be but they have no clue in reality.

  • d.s.

    I have to walk past this place daily with my kids when we go on our walk pe to get groceries, tget font well pot but go through the door of the store attached to theirs and they sure do …they opened the pot shop under a collective name and put a wall between the shops so they could get permits easier. I wish this and the 2 other dispensaries were not so close to my house, there are people smoking pot on the sidewalk in front of these places

  • d.s.

    Sorry for typos posting from phone, and for the record I do not have a problem with weed used legitimately for medical reasons. What u can’t stand is when I have to have peoples smoke invade my home space or people who smoke on the street, get some edibles or learn to contain your usage lol…

  • Bobcatbob Ingram

    Damn Pot smokers ….You know how they like to act, gathering in friendly groups
    enjoying each others company and refusing to buy NEW cars.

  • k ray

    Hey man don’t bogart that joint my friend, Ok man? Daves not home man!
    Ass grass or weed no one rides for free man! Hey man lets watch some commercials on cable television there going to go non stop for 24 hours ! What a deal man!

  • k ray

    I like this store because they will give people jobs who know about drugs when has that ever happened? And I was wondering do I have to take a drug test like Nancy Reagan saysto get a job there? GO NANCY GO AWAY FOREVER!

  • kray z 1

    WOW CHANGE STORES DUDE , YOUR SO LAME! THEY PROBABLY DON’T LIKE YOU COMING IN THEIR SPACE!

  • mikey

    What world do you live in?

  • Yvonne Blake Horgeshimer

    well we all know that the satanists will take over and eradicate it

  • B Wood

    Denise that is great for you and seem to have everything under wraps.. I have be around it for 17 years myself.. But when see 10-12 year old kids smoking who aren’t getting a chance.. My cusions are so slow and dazed out at 13 years old. Just found out he been trying harder drugs. Not to mention all the people who are now on wellfare( only to get worse) in Northern Cali because there is no longer timber, no fishing and now no pot income..While the pot clubs say there non profit but pay them self a fee of 100-500k per year..California hardly makes any Tax income off this. Only more wellfare . We must have harder law for these reasons aloan. Califorina is going to be if not the biggest wellfare fair state in the US.. Due to no pot laws.. Give the kids a chance to succeed..
    Come on California.. See the BIG PICTURE.. I smoke but the kids future is much more important.. You tell me..

  • Swim

    B Wood, I see kids the same age drinking and smoking cigarettes, no issues there? There is always gonna be the usual F#$k-ups in life. Just let them be a warning to the others. Not all kids who try these things are going down the tubes but I do agree we need to make the welfare safety net only go so far. There are consequences in life, but for some reason we create things like no child left behind and massive welfare programs.

  • my conscience

    The latest MEDICAL SCAM for stoners!!!

    Bunch of druggie losers!!!!

  • cynthia

    Better than walking or driving around in an addictive alcoholic haze.

  • cynthia

    High Five!

  • jackie

    I wonder if I could purchase just enough of that tarantula marijauna fertilizer to fill a one pint flower pot with one small marijauna plant in it, I have a pain in the neck and it would possibly help ease the pain, however I cannot afford $283.00 for a whole bag of the stuff I can get the plant for free, any information regarding this would be appreciated

  • Christopher Schoonover

    yeah would not want to be one of those stupid european countries who has a larger smoking base than america. or maybe the middle eastern countries, no wai thats where half this stuff comes from. how about the asian countries? thats where the other half comes from. and we know that is is heavily used in south america as well as africa. so which country would you like us to be more like?

  • david

    i am 50 years old and worked all my life as a union pipefitter and took cancer and now i can not ever work no longer.the dr’s have put me on pills just so i can deal with life to walk and i am in bad pain.all the pills there giveing me is just killing me,but pot could save my life if it was legail to smoke where i live in ky.i smoke pot and i had no choise but to smoke and to stop taking there pills there pills where killing me,i would rather smoke pot and be in jail then take pills and dye,pot has helped my life 100 times better then those dam pills did that is legail to take but the pills kills people every day in ky but the law says no pot but take your pills.i told one judge i was not going to stop smoking pot for pot is what is keeping me alive and the pills where killing me,i mite end up in jail for wounting to live from smoking pot but i am going to smoke pot or they can jail me its the way i have decided to do.i hope you can read my writing for i had no choice but to quite school and get a job at 15 years old but i did better for my sealf in life then most people could dream of and i still pay my way and dont wount no goverment help.all i wount is the wright to grow my medican and if the law dont like it they can kiss my ass this pot has saved my life and it could save others lifes as well if it was legail in ky,i am growing my medican and if the state of ky dont like it then they can put me in jail pay over 100 thousand a year for my medican and room and bord,so tax payers you wount to pay my way in life and work for me or do you wount to let me grow my own medican and you can save at least 200 grand a year,please every one go to the ky sit and vote yes to make growing your own medican in ky legail you dont even need tp live in ky to vote so please vote yes so i can have a better life to live what time i have left,thank you from a pot smoker for life now on.

  • mc57

    Hye Dave, good luck with Meds. Here in Cali. We do not have those issues. Listen if you want America to understand what you are saying. Look on your tool bar for a (sign) that say’s ABC with a check, this is your spell check bar. click on it and watch the fun. Peace!

  • Fanni

    If you’re looking to buy these arcteils make it way easier.

  • Dave

    !Stop being such a hypocrite! Nobody has ever died from smoking pot. People die EVERY DAY popping “legal” pills! Even the Bible said God put seed bearing plants on this earth for us to use. But you’d rather people consume some crazy concoction of unnatural pills that are produced in a lab! Its amazing how many close minded hypocrites are out there! Open your eyes and wake up! Pot is ALL NATURAL, but you’ve been so brainwashed by the governments propaganda, you don’t know any better. That’s the sad part in all of this!

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  • John Hudson

    Green Thumb Hydroponics TRUMPS these dudes. Website kills theres too. Not sure why they opened with the off brand stuff they got. I would never use it.
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