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		<title>On Second Thought&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the message board and cam chat didn&#8217;t work out. I took them down because nobody was joining and I don&#8217;t have enough time to put the effort into it right now with all the other sites I&#8217;ve got and trying to find a job and whatnot. Instead, I&#8217;ve compiled a list of all the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, the message board and cam chat didn&#8217;t work out. I took them down because nobody was joining and I don&#8217;t have enough time to put the effort into it right now with all the other sites I&#8217;ve got and trying to find a job and whatnot. Instead, I&#8217;ve compiled a list of all the places I go to interact with like-minded people. There&#8217;s not very many, but it&#8217;s something&#8230; I&#8217;m really trying to get this place back to what it used to be.</p>
<p><a href="http://stonersunited.com" title="Stoners United" rel="nofollow">Stoners United</a> is the first website I found that catered specifically to stoners. There have been a lot of changes since I first started visiting almost a year ago &#8211; It&#8217;s more of a stoner social networking site, complete with a Stoner TV, a couple of video chats with a steady flow of people, and a bunch of groups and fun stuff to take part in. When I was absent for a couple of months there, a lot of the people I met ended up getting banned for one reason or another, so almost all the people in there now are new to me, which makes me feel kind of weird. I haven&#8217;t gone in there much lately because of it, but I&#8217;m working on getting over my shyness again.</p>
<p><a href="http://420greenroom.net" title="420 Green Room" rel="nofollow">420 Green Room</a> is where a lot of my old friends from <abbr title="SU: Stoners United">SU</abbr> ended up, so this is where I spend a majority of my time nowadays. This is another almost social networking type site, complete with the cam chats and groups and whatnot. It&#8217;s also teamed up with Radio Xenu, so they&#8217;ve got constant music playing and lots of fun live shows by members of the chat. </p>
<p><a href="http://ggdub.com" title="GG Dub" rel="nofollow">GG Dub</a> is a community for mostly chicks, but there are some guy members. They&#8217;re a bunch of really chill people, and have communities on Facebook and MySpace as well. Their biggest feature is their &#8220;Dubs&#8221;, which is what they call it when they take the pictures you&#8217;ve posted and stamp them with their logo in fun colors.</p>
<p>Some others that I&#8217;ve heard of are <a href="http://420chan.org">420chan</a>, <a href="http://seshroulette.com">SeshRoulette</a>, and <a href="http://grasscity.com">GrassCity</a>.</p>
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		<title>Join WeedChat Fridays at 4:20</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve updated, but I&#8217;ve had a lot of health problems that had to take precedence over my websites. I&#8217;ve also gotten been asked by two friends to join the Sweet Leaf Team, so look out for posts from my fiance, Jay, and my best friend, Ben. Now [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know it&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve updated, but I&#8217;ve had a lot of health problems that had to take precedence over my websites. I&#8217;ve also gotten been asked by two friends to join the Sweet Leaf Team, so look out for posts from my fiance, Jay, and my best friend, Ben. </p>
<p>Now onto the real point of this post: There&#8217;s a new place on the web to talk about everything marijuana law reform, medical marijuana, and cannabis culture.</p>
<p>Every Friday at 4:20pm PST, (7:20EST), you can join in on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://twubs.com/weedchat">WeedChat</a> on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://twubs.com/">Twubs</a> . All you do is join Twubs with your <a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com">Twitter</a> account, and join the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://twubs.com/weedchat">WeedChat</a> &#8216;Twub&#8217;, or group, via the button on the right hand side. It only takes a few seconds to join, and you&#8217;ll be connected with several like-minded people to share ideas, beliefs, and maybe even learn something new.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to try my hardest to be there &#8211; Having a life that only happens at night time, on the weekends, is going to make it sort of difficult, but I definitely advise you all to take part and let me know what your experience was like. I&#8217;d love to hear from you!</p>
<p>Also, as a last little tidbit: I&#8217;ve made a new Twitter profile specifically for this website and marijuana related issues. You can find my profile <a href="http://twitter.com/sweetleaftrib">@sweetleaftrib</a>, and I&#8217;ll almost always follow you right back.</p>
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		<title>Happy 4/20!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been home much, so I&#8217;ve been lacking on the updates, but I have a feeling I&#8217;m going to be home a lot more often over the coming weeks. Anyhoo &#8211; Enough excuses and onto the real reason you&#8217;re here&#8230; It&#8217;s mo&#8217;fuckin&#8217; 4/20, bitches! No matter what country you&#8217;re in, you should be celebrating [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t been home much, so I&#8217;ve been lacking on the updates, but I have a feeling I&#8217;m going to be home a lot more often over the coming weeks. Anyhoo &#8211; Enough excuses and onto the real reason you&#8217;re here&#8230;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s mo&#8217;fuckin&#8217; 4/20, bitches! No matter what country you&#8217;re in, you should be celebrating correctly by smoking as much marijuana as possible!</p>
<p>My boyfriend and I started bright and early with a wake and bake, then met up with a friend for a blunt session. My boyfriend got too high and passed out, but I&#8217;m still going, and I love G4 for celebrating with us! I dozed off during Attack of the Show, but I&#8217;m wide awake now, watching Half Baked. What a classic.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m super stoked for Super High Me next &#8211; If you remember, <a href="http://sweetleaftribune.com/reefer-madness/super-high-me">I wrote one of my first posts about the movie last year</a>. I&#8217;ve still yet to see it, but you can bet your ass I&#8217;ll be watching now and writing about it again either later tonight or tomorrow. </p>
<p>For now, I&#8217;m going to keep smokin&#8217; this bowl. I&#8217;ll leave you with a few pictures of me and my good friend, Mary Jane, from the solo-celebration I&#8217;m having now while my boyfriend is down for the count&#8230;</p>
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<p>Hope you&#8217;re all having a wonderful and safe holiday!</p>
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		<title>A Letter to My Father</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past three months or so, I&#8217;ve sent several messages to my father via facebook (sadly, it&#8217;s the only way we can keep in touch) but haven&#8217;t gotten a response. I sent another message on the 17th to say happy St. Patrick&#8217;s day, and just finally got a reply this morning. I was rather [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the past three months or so, I&#8217;ve sent several messages to my father via facebook (sadly, it&#8217;s the only way we can keep in touch) but haven&#8217;t gotten a response. I sent another message on the 17th to say happy St. Patrick&#8217;s day, and just finally got a reply this morning. I was rather taken aback by what he had to say, and I figured this would be the perfect place to share&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>gonna get weed is not a very good thing to post &#8230;.im a little disappointed in that,all the steps you were taking to better yourself seems like you went back to the old ways , i hope you can understand this, i feel we are a little closer and hope this wont piss you off on what im saying i want to see you move foward and have something betterthen to stay in a rut &#8230; well anyway sorry its taken me a while to respond i was just thinking how to put it all so you wouldnt get offended love you and talk soon </p>
<p>- dad</p></blockquote>
<p>My father&#8217;s entire side of the family used to make any holiday or birthday an occasion to all get together and smoke weed. I can&#8217;t imagine why he&#8217;s disappointed in me&#8230; I replied with the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>you don&#8217;t have to worry about offending me &#8211; it takes quite a lot to do so. we&#8217;re both adults and we should be able to talk things out. also, you&#8217;re my father &#8211; i&#8217;d like to think i can talk to you about anything.</p>
<p>i&#8217;m sorry you&#8217;re disappointed, but that&#8217;s not going to change that i smoke pot. I&#8217;m still taking steps to better myself; there&#8217;s no reason to think that i&#8217;ve stopped. i&#8217;m self-employed, i&#8217;m getting my license soon, saving money to get out of my mom&#8217;s house, the right way and for good this time, i have amazing friends and a great boyfriend (though you may not approve). i&#8217;m finally happy, for the first time since i can remember.</p>
<p>people that smoke pot can still be successful. instead of getting upset about it, you should ask _why_ i smoke. it&#8217;s not to get high and it&#8217;s not for recreation! i smoke because of my anxiety and the constant pain in my back. it&#8217;s medically proven to help both, and without insurance it&#8217;s hard to get any other kind of medicine to help me. </p>
<p>there are 13 states in the US that have legalized the medicinal use of marijuana &#8211; new york could be the next. would you still be disappointed if i had a prescription to smoke it?</p></blockquote>
<p>I haven&#8217;t gotten a response yet, but I can&#8217;t imagine it will be anything pleasant. Although it sucks to have disappointed my father after just getting him back in my life after 18 years without him, I am extremely proud of myself to have stood up to him and defended myself and my beliefs.</p>
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		<title>Shamans: World&#8217;s Oldest Stoners</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of eighteen researchers in Xinjiang ((Xinjiang is considered an original source of many cannabis strains worldwide.)), near Turpan in northwestern China have found the world&#8217;s oldest marijuana stash! According to this article, the seven-hundred-eighty-nine gram (28.17 ounce) stash was buried next to a 45-year-old man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture. It [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A group of eighteen researchers in Xinjiang ((Xinjiang is considered an original source of many cannabis strains worldwide.)), near Turpan in northwestern China have found the world&#8217;s oldest marijuana stash! According to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/28/marijuana-origins.html">this article</a>, the <strong>seven-hundred-eighty-nine</strong> gram (28.17 ounce) stash was buried next to a 45-year-old man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture. It was found to be about 2,700 years old, the oldest so far that could be tested for its properties. </p>
<p>The study was published this week by the British-based botany journal. The lead author was American neurologist Dr. Ethan B. Russo, also a full-time consultant for <a href="http://gwpharm.com">GW Pharmaceuticals</a>. The company operates a cannabis-testing laboratory in England and allowed Russo use of the facility for tests on 11 grams of the tomb cannabis. &#8220;To our knowledge, these investigations provide the oldest documentation of cannabis as a pharmacologically active agent.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>The substance has been found in two of the 500 Gushi tombs excavated so far in northwestern China, indicating that cannabis was either restricted for use by a few individuals or was administered as a medicine to others through shamans, Russo said, It certainly does indicate that cannabis has been used by man for a variety of purposes for thousands of years.</p></blockquote>
<p>Due to the dry conditions and ingredients in the soil, the stash was very well preserved &#8211; It was still green! It was put through a bunch of tests, including carbon dating and genetic analysis. Researchers say the marijuana was found to have a high content of <acronym title="THC: Tetrahydrocannabinol; The active ingredient in marijuana">THC</acronym>, and was &#8220;clearly cultivated for psychoactive purposes.&#8221; </p>
<p>The stash was in a leather basket and in a wooden bowl, and was likely meant to be used by the shaman in the afterlife. Researchers could not determine whether the cannabis was smoked or ingested, as there were no pipes or other clues in the tomb.</p>
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		<title>Sniff Dogs: The Ultimate in Invasion of Privacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a teenage child you suspect is doing drugs? Are you too scared of confrontation to say something to them about it? Sniff Dogs has the perfect solution: For only $200 an hour, you can now rent a retired drug sniffing dog to scout out the drugs in your home! According to Sniff [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you have a teenage child you suspect is doing drugs? Are you too scared of confrontation to say something to them about it? Sniff Dogs has the perfect solution: For only $200 an hour, you can now rent a retired drug sniffing dog to scout out the drugs in your home!</p>
<p>According to Sniff Dogs, a company founded by a mother who was surprised to learn her oldest son smokes marijuana, &#8220;half of American school children have tried marijuana and and most drug taking takes place when they get home from school.&#8221;</p>
<p>The company is confident in the animals&#8217; ability to smell marijuana from up to 15 feet away and residue on clothing from drugs smoked two days earlier. When the dogs detect the drugs, they sit down, leaving the actual inspection to the parents. </p>
<p>Sniff Dogs claims their service is discreet, due to the fact that the search can be completed without the knowledge of your children. Critics claim the service may break down family trust.</p>
<p>Pat Winterstein, a New Jersey mother of three, used the Sniff Dogs service to search her childrens&#8217; bedrooms and stated, &#8220;I trust my kids, but you can only trust them so far. They&#8217;re kids, young adults, they&#8217;re going to make a mistake.&#8221;</p>
<p>Talk about invasion of privacy and lack of trust&#8230; If you have kids that you suspect are doing drugs, my suggestion would be to TALK TO THEM! If they find out you brought a sniffer dog into your home to search them, the fact that they&#8217;re toking up is going to be the least of your worries.</p>
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		<title>Girl Scouts Gone Bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 5,000 marijuana plants in various stages of development were found at the Ella J. Logan Girl Scout Camp in Indiana. State Troopers in an airplane spotted the plots. Some plants were growing on land belonging to a local resident who states he was unaware of the growing operation and rarely ever visits the area. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over 5,000 marijuana plants in various stages of development were <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/16/national/main4264813.shtml" rel="nofollow">found</a> at the Ella J. Logan Girl Scout Camp in Indiana. State Troopers in an airplane spotted the plots.</p>
<p>Some plants were growing on land belonging to a local resident who states he was unaware of the growing operation and rarely ever visits the area. The rest were located in a remote area of the 220-acre camp, accessible only by wading through muck or by canoe.</p>
<p>Two adults and a juvenile were arrested and appeared before the federal court on Monday with charges of possession of over 1,000 plants and intent to distribute.</p>
<p>I guess that&#8217;s why Girl Scout cookies are so damn good! The secret ingredient must be WEED!</p>
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		<title>From Tokyo, With Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 00:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A customs officer at the Tokyo airport recently went against company regulations and hid a package of 142 grams of marijuana in a random passenger&#8217;s luggage to test airport security. According to this article by the BBC News, the passenger unknowingly walked away with it when the &#8220;Sniffer dogs failed to detect the cannabis and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A customs officer at the Tokyo airport recently went against company regulations and hid a package of 142 grams of marijuana in a random passenger&#8217;s luggage to test airport security. According to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7419969.stm">this article</a> by the BBC News, the passenger unknowingly walked away with it when the &#8220;Sniffer dogs failed to detect the cannabis and the officer could not remember which bag he had put it in.&#8221;</p>
<p>If it weren&#8217;t for the fact that you can go to prison in Japan for even the smallest amounts of marijuana, I&#8217;d consider this a blessing.</p>
<p>Officials are asking that whoever finds the package contact them, but <em>come on</em> &#8211; If you found 5 ounces of weed in your bag when you got to your hotel, what would you do with it? I&#8217;m sure calling the police to tell them about it is the <strong>last</strong> thing that comes to mind.</p>
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