Tiki Time! “Am going to cross the Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? Reply at once.” via Robert Rambusch Originally shared by Brian Peters Today I Found Out The Kon-Tiki Thor Heyerdahl was born in Larvik, Norway on October 6, 1914. His father worked as a brewer while Heyerdahl’s mother held a leadership position at a local museum. Heyerdahl spent his childhood trekking through the forest at the edge of town and then climbing mountains with his pet husky. Despite those adventures, he only learned to swim in his twenties- nearly drowning twice when he was young led to an understandable fear of water until then. After studying geology and zoology at the University of Oslo, Heyerdahl embarked on a yearlong stay (1937-1938) on an island in the South Pacific called Fatu Hiva. The trip served the dual purpose of giving Heyerdahl the opportunity to study the local flora and fauna while also serving as a honeymoon with ...
The biggest problem here (CA) is that the promise from advocates that legalization wouldn’t create new users, but would just service existing users proved true. Unfortunately, those existing users already had suppliers that can sell cheaper and more conveniently than any of the new legit retailers. We could probably take some lessons from places like NC in how to (or how not to) combat moonshiners.
ReplyDeleteThere is the possibility of a market glut since the passing of Tom Petty.
ReplyDeleteTim O'Brien NC is a nice place to live, but not often full of legislative wisdom. The battle between Moonshiners and Revenooers made for some colorful stories and NASCAR, but not much in the way of sound policy, because the South. It also was not as gentlemanly as often portrayed: nytimes.com - RIDES WITH THE REVENOOER
ReplyDeleteProhibition of nearly anything (even more universally agreed upon ones, like Murder, Assault, Theft) are hard to manage. It gets weirder and worse when we attempt to Prohibit things with an associated Pleasure Factor (Drugs, Sex, Rock and Roll).
ReplyDeleteThe industry in WA has taken off. The experience is like going to a liquor store. Though shops don't need local pre-approval so maybe that's a big difference.
ReplyDeleteI chuckled to read about the folks clutching pearls at living next to a pot farm. They should become acquainted with hogs.
ReplyDeleteDrew McCarthy Here in Oregon, as well as in Northern California, a lot of those people were already living next to pot farms - they just didn't know it, and the state didn't get a cut of the revenue.
ReplyDeleteThe Colorado law was about funding underfunded programs schools with the money.
ReplyDeleteEverybody else's is about trying to make some people wealthy. I think that night be part of "why".