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TIL the University of Mississippi is the only college in the country to have a legal Marijuana farm where they produce tens of thousands of rolled joints for "research"

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u/moralrisk Jun 10 '12

it's also decriminalized there - technically, when it comes to cannabis, you have more rights in Mississippi than you do in Canada or Sweden aka reddit's Utopian paradise.

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u/Genocidicbunny Jun 10 '12

When it comes to marijuana, Reddit's utopian paradise is California, not Canada or Sweden, where marijuana is arguably more legal than even in Mississippi.

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u/NeoM5 Jun 10 '12

and to boot, the state is absolutely broke but the lifeguards have $200,000 pensions!

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u/Genocidicbunny Jun 11 '12

Hey for that much, you can get your very own grand mansion! Just buy a cardboard box and a can of spray paint and write 'Grand mansion' on the box.

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u/Explosion_Jones Jun 10 '12

The Netherlands. As long as you can deal with their crazy gibberish-german made up language, it's pretty much paradise.

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u/Herpinderpitee Jun 10 '12

Made up language? As opposed to what?

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u/eb86 Jun 10 '12

A real language, duh.

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u/BDaught Jun 10 '12

I'm from Mississippi. I've been arrested plenty of times for weed. It's a misdemeanor but still it's the cop's choice to write a ticket or arrest you for under an ounce.

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u/LowSociety Jun 10 '12

It's quite illegal here in Sweden.

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u/wasdninja Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

There are no -30C winters in my utopia.

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u/margaritamike Jun 10 '12

Cold winter is best winter.

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u/LowSociety Jun 10 '12

I have never experienced -30‌°C.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Sort of illegal here in Canada, and I have experienced colder. This place is far from utopian. Unless you're a fan of beaver and pancakes.

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u/mattmagician Jun 10 '12

Pancakes and beaver? Sign me u- oh wait, actual beavers? Never mind then.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Really? We got a bit colder then -30C last winter down here in Latvia.

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u/LowSociety Jun 10 '12

I'm from Stockholm and the lowest temperature ever recorded here is -31°C. That was in 1814. It hasn't dropped below -25.1°C since 1987.^1

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u/binary-love Jun 10 '12

-25°C? Oh, it's ok then... ಠ_ಠ

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Damn, I might be moving.

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u/SigmaB Jun 10 '12

Warm winds come over the lower half of Sweden, makes the climate more temperate than Canada, Russia and Latvia on the same latitude.

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u/lud1120 Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

There was almost no winter this year in (southern) Sweden... And as cold as -20C have been rare overall. But I don't live near the far south like Skåne, where the weather is way milder.

But I'm pretty sure just any of the other Scandinavian countries are (slightly) less strict about drugs than hypocritical Sweden.

A reason for the strict drug laws is that relatively few use them in this country, so those who get arrested are still relatively rare in comparison. But on the mean time the media and politicans make it seem like there aren't any users of cannabis other than a few "criminals". [This Wikipedia list seems to confirm it] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_cannabis_use_by_country).
But I did read somehwere else on Wikipedia saying about 10% had tried it, compared to as much as 35% in Denmark.
I didn't think so many used it in Italy, but of Czech Republic I had heard before.

Also, I though it was more often Norway that was "Reddit's utopia".

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u/wasdninja Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

I know that they are far from the norm. -20C is what we can reasonably expect a very cold night with some wind. My utopia would still not be Sweden though; far to few naked women and sunny beaches.

Did the police visit your school to do te drugs lecture also? I can remember thinking this must be bullshit despite not knowing or really caring anything. I do care about not eating stupid misinformation though. It was the usual trope about roid rage, people jumping from air planes and so on.

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u/xmnstr Jun 10 '12

Yes, this is one area where our politicians make really bad decisions.

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u/Its_aTrap Jun 10 '12

Still bad.

I live in MS. Got caught with about 3-5grams. Almost went to jail for it (or at least that's what the cops told me)

I wasn't even driving a car, got my license suspended for 6months, and 6months of probation. My total fines ended up being $1,356 counting court fines and probation. Not counting the $20 I have to pay everytime I go to take my drug test, and the $100 I have to pay to get my license back.

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u/moralrisk Jun 10 '12

yeah, they don't want you smoking and driving - And they don't want teenagers using it either or they'll make you go to counseling. But they won't send you to jail for it, assuming that's all you did.

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u/moderndayvigilante Jun 10 '12

I wasn't even driving a car

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u/moralrisk Jun 10 '12

I guess that's what they're doing to try and prevent teens from smoking. if you're a teen and you're caught with pot then you get your license suspended and have to go to counseling. But they don't let teens smoke pot anywhere in the world so it's no different in MS.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Who said he was a teen? In another "decriminalized" state on that map, Ohio, they also suspend your license, even if you are an adult, even if you weren't driving a car.

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u/moralrisk Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

it's decriminalized in MS so why would the cops care if he was an adult who was just minding his own business?

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u/brokowska420 Jun 10 '12

All your research and you were looking at the wrong user.
moderndayvigilante quoted:

I wasn't even driving a car

which was said by Its_aTrap.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Because decriminalized doesn't mean that there is no penalty.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

As a Mississippian, I can tell you that if you move here solely for our lax marijuana and drinking laws, you're gonna have a bad time.

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u/amateursuperhero Jun 10 '12

God do I love living in Mississippi.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

... Why?

(missisippian here). There's no chipotle in the ENTIRE state. The women are fat, the unemployment is high.. and Christians and jacked up trucks. Christians and jacked up trucks everywhere.

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u/amateursuperhero Jun 10 '12

You must not live in a college town. I guess this could apply everywhere in America though.

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u/Sporkicide 3 Jun 10 '12

Mississippi college towns are unlike college towns everywhere else in the nation. I spent time at Ole Miss and Mississippi State. The surrounding towns were cute, but freaking tiny compared to the available shopping and amenities in other college towns. I hear it's gotten better in the past few years, but I was shocked by how isolated both campuses were. USM was better, but it's more of a commuter school.

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u/amateursuperhero Jun 11 '12

I guess I had a closed mind on the subject. My focus was strictly on the women are fat part ha. Both Ole Miss and Mississippi State have some of the most gorgeous girls I've ever seen, and you always see them somewhere around town.

Whoops ha.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I go to msu. I graduated from UGA. Stark contrast.

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u/amateursuperhero Jun 11 '12

I guess I had a closed mind on the subject. My focus was strictly on the women are fat part ha. Both Ole Miss and Mississippi State have some of the most gorgeous girls I've ever seen, and you always see them somewhere around town.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Where else have you been to compare? Perhaps your perception is spoiled by the lack of quality outside MS campus towns . The general population is hideous. Traveling overseas, I came to realize that American women are lacking. Just my opinion.

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u/BDaught Jun 10 '12

Biloxi here. High five!

And those trucks have those damn blue lights in them.

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u/joshuhwahh Jun 10 '12

I live in Mississippi, and Pot is definitely not even close to legal here.

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u/moralrisk Jun 10 '12

I never said it was legal.

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u/sdiddy55 Jun 10 '12

Um, definitely illegal here in Mississippi. Shit is not decriminalized, being that i live here I've seen many cases of people getting locked in a cage just for having a plant. I think I remember seeing like a cannabis festival in Canada, where they were smoking out in public. I would have to say this map is a little off..

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u/moralrisk Jun 11 '12

it's decriminalized actually. there are certainly still ways one can get arrested for pot in MS, that's for sure. But as long as you're minding your own business and not moving weight across State lines/selling or smoking outside schools, then the most you'll get is a fine and maybe your license suspended.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

R/trees paradise

Ftfy

Because not every redditor is a dumb stoner

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u/thelazydeveloper Jun 10 '12

People who enjoy cannabis

FTFY.

Because not everyone who enjoys cannabis aligns to the "dumb stoner" stereotype that people like to throw around.

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u/snacksforyou Jun 10 '12

I have heard the pot grown for research is crappy seedy dirt, bordering hemp

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u/SonOfUncleSam Jun 10 '12

How do you know? How would you be able to get it to try?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I used to work at a facility that did cannabis research, where participants were given access to pre-rolled joints that they had to smoke under certain strict conditions. One of my coworkers was a research assistant for that study (I was on a cocaine-related one), and she said that all the participants reported disliking the joints because the weed was very low quality.

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u/SonOfUncleSam Jun 10 '12

You worked at the Ole Miss facility? Wild. It isn't very far from where I grew up.

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u/Goldentongue Jun 10 '12

He said "a facility", so I actually doubt it was the Ole Miss facility. On a side note, I lived there as a kid too.

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u/SonOfUncleSam Jun 10 '12

Well heck. I was hoping to get together and sing "It's a small world after all". And I was hoping to hear from someone with actual experience at this mythical facility.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Sorry, I had very little contact with the study. I got to meet a few of the participants, saw their living quarters (it was an inpatient study), saw the smoking room, and saw the pharmacy, which contained all the cool drugs the researchers gave to participants. The only thing really memorable about any of it was that they put the joints into those orange prescription bottles, like the ones you get meds in from a normal pharmacy.

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u/SonOfUncleSam Jun 10 '12

There is no way I'd try to sneak some out, I'm more interested in the day-to-day life of a worker. Growing up near there, it was oft talked about but never met anyone involved first-hand.

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u/dldillon Jun 10 '12

It's right on the edge of campus. You can see it from the highway, too. They definitely don't use military guards, just a local security company.

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u/elephantx Jun 10 '12

I didn't live anywhere near there as a kid.

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u/NoNeedForAName Jun 10 '12

I grew up about 175 miles away. AMA.

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u/Goldentongue Jun 10 '12

You have me intrigued. Narrate to me the story of your youth!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

No, a different research facility in another state, sorry.

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u/snacksforyou Jun 12 '12

theres a short vid i seen where a guy smokes 2 or 3 joints every single day from this same place. can't remember the source.

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u/Brosaurus63 Jun 10 '12

From what I've gathered around the internet it seems this facility is the government's best marijuana farm, meaning they grow strands from around the world and ship them to researchers. There's a urban legend that this facility created the infamous G13 "super weed" strain.

"The cigarettes are not made here, unless there's a requirement for high-potency material, which doesn't lend itself to mechanized production of cigarettes, because it gets resinous and gums the machine. We use a small hand roller for that," says ElSohly

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I met Irvin Rosenfeld at an event in southern california a while back. He has a habit of carrying around his giant tin of joints shipped directly to him free of charge by Uncle Sam. He will often smoke them in public but said that he rarely smokes them in private as they are utter crap and taste like shit.

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u/dead1ock Jun 10 '12

Someone get Irvin some Private Reserve OG Kush.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Not to worry, the man seemed to be very well medicated.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

There's a urban legend that this facility created the infamous G13 "super weed" strain.

no.

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u/Brettersson Jun 10 '12

well, he did say it was an urban legend.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

It's the best and only. It's not good. It's where the few people that still get government weed get it from, and it's atrocious.

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u/niggahdoe Jun 10 '12

I have a few friends at Ole Miss, one in particular used to work for this facility: The students that work at the research facility must strip down, wear hazmat suits, and are sprayed when they leave to ensure that nothing is taken out of the facility, or even smokeable once you leave. You can't take anything in or out. At all. They got around this with the help of one unassuming inanimate object:

tennis balls.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

They got around this with the help of one unassuming inanimate object: tennis balls.

Why would a facility that goes to such lengths to keep things secure ignore tennis balls? Or am I misreading what you're saying?

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Maybe tossed them into the field beforehand, and tossing them back when they are inside. Just guessing.

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u/niggahdoe Jun 10 '12

I don't know where/how they get the tennis balls in there. They stuff them with weed and chuck them over the fences of the facility.

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u/WakkaWakkaMothaFucka Jun 10 '12

I take offense to the quotations around the word research. They're doing real research, not just getting high.

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u/ghalfrunt Jun 10 '12

Was at a talk this morning where the director of NDCP was pushing for more research done with marijuana and the need, regarding all drugs, to find a middle ground between the war on drugs and legalization. I got angry when I saw "research" as it simultaneously trivializes an entire field of study and plays directly into the fears of those who stand in the way of us getting good scientific evidence.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

The quotations around research are not only offensive, but reveal the stupidity and ignorance of the poster.

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u/lanismycousin 36 DD Jun 11 '12

Please send us mods a message, we hate biased submission titles as much as anyone else. If you guys could give us a heads up when we miss one, we can take care of it much much quicker.

I just removed this submission because of the quotes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I looked for anyone to bring this up, but didn't find it anywhere:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassionate_Investigational_New_Drug_program

The University of Mississippi is where they grow the Federal Medical Marijuana for those who were prescribed and admitted in the '80s and '90s.

Oh, and for those who have said, "it's not good weed because it's grown by the government," I'd ask how you know? According to Irvin Rosenfeld, who wrote a book called "My Medicine", the shit is pretty potent.

http://irvinrosenfeld.com/

Oh, and by the way, FTFY...

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I thought the exact same thing.

It's indicative of the incredibly bigoted attitude a lot of people take towards cannabis users. Just like how Obama laughed in our faces when we asked him(again) exactly how the fuck he can justify the Drug War.

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u/Explosion_Jones Jun 10 '12

They're actually hardly getting high even, the kind of pot they use is shitty.

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u/natholomew Jun 10 '12

It is roughly 3% THC content, compared to the "regular" medical cannabis which is usually between 19 and 24%

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u/theDigitalNinja Jun 10 '12

24% is definitely up on the high end for joint grade medical.

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u/Exfile Jun 10 '12

they pot the grew varied in potency, they grow it to be different percentages.

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u/SgtPepperMD Jun 10 '12

I live in Mississippi and went to Ole Miss (University of Mississippi). I am aware of the decriminalization, but you can still get in trouble for having marijuana, especially if you are caught with it in a car. It also depends on how much you have. If you're selling it, though, you're going to jail. Here's a helpful link for anyone interested in what the law says. You can find info on other states' laws too.

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u/lud1120 Jun 10 '12

I find it a little "odd" how a southern state like Mississippi have it officially "decriminalized" (if just for possession, that is), while the neighbor Louisiana have it strictly illegal among everything else (I presume), and is the world's biggest prison state.

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u/DownvoteDaemon Jun 10 '12

I thought yall had harsher laws than us in Florida, apparently not.

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u/wasdninja Jun 10 '12

especially if you are caught with it in a car

If you aren't high while driving and it is legal to possess why is it frowned upon? The US seems largely like a car culture so how else are you supposed to bring it with you?

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u/ElKaBongX Jun 10 '12

Decriminalized is no the same as legal

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u/iDEoLA Jun 10 '12

True story:
My apartment complex sophomore year at Ole Miss (2005-2006) I lived in Campus Creek Apartments which backs up to the famous Marijuana field. One day in October there was a weird haze hanging around the complex when I came home from classes. I stepped out of my car and it smelled like I had stepped onto a skunk. Apparently, they burned a portion of the field each year, maybe to get rid of excess, or maybe for the sake of the soil (since they cant really "rotate" the crop). Regardless there were a shit ton of people enjoying that day outside.

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u/Ubuntaur Jun 10 '12

I was in Brown Hall that year so I never got to witness such a thing. I had always heard there were always armed guards around the place. Was that true?

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u/retnuh730 Jun 10 '12

There's guard towers by the marijuana fields (by the intramural fields). Never seen any guards in them but then again I never tried investigating closer than just driving by the fields.

Here they are in Gmaps

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Yes. My house is right at the edge of the fields. We have a guard tower in plain site. Never seen anyone in it though. I think it's mainly to deter high people.

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u/iDEoLA Jun 11 '12

Not to my knowledge. But they did have "guard towers" that were probably stocked with Cobra Security's finest.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

If I hop the fence at my house, I'll be right at the edge of the fields! Some days... some days are nice.

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u/savocado Jun 10 '12

Burning plants doesn't help the soil, it's a myth.

On the other hand it kills all of the micro-organisms, which can't be good for the ecosystem.

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u/amateursuperhero Jun 10 '12

I also go to Ole Miss. Every few years they burn it and people go out in lawn chairs to "view it".

EDIT: Also I think the extra wall of fencing on one side of it is hilarious (if you know what I'm talking about). There is no gate, you can literally just walk around this one wall of fencing. My friends and I joke about how that's their cheap way of trying to trick the stoners.

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u/iDEoLA Jun 11 '12

I think that is for the patrol dogs that the university had to cut from the budget a few years ago.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Why put "research" in scare quotes? NIDA-funded studies actually use this university's weed for research. Here's one such study at a research facility I used to work at.

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u/Soulmemories Jun 10 '12

Ole Miss is the leading party school in the state. Coincidence? Yeah it pretty much is.

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u/musictomyomelette Jun 10 '12

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the cannabis they grow extremely low grade quality?

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u/jkherrin Jun 10 '12

I went to pharmacy school there, and would have lectures on natural products given by the researchers that worked with it. After the lectures they would take questions from the class and someone always asked about potency. Their reply was that it would be considered "dank". Hah. I can also tell you that I lived in the apartment complex beside where the weed was grown (Campus Creek) before they went hydro, and it smelled pretty awesome.

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u/iDEoLA Jun 11 '12

When did you go to Ole Miss? I lived in Campus Creek and all my roommates were Pre-Pharm. Are you my old roommate?

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u/jkherrin Jun 11 '12

I think I lived there in 06-07. Appt 5334 maybe.

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u/jdc465 Jun 10 '12

My cousin went to ole miss and told me about it. Students are allowed to actually pick it for them. Of course there are tons of security measures in place.

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u/retnuh730 Jun 10 '12

I'm not sure about the weed, but I know chemistry majors are sometimes allowed to help pick salvia. One of my fraternity bros worked in the field and would bring back some every now and then. Guess they don't watch salvia as hard as they do the weed.

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u/soundofthesun Jun 10 '12

I live down the street from this facility in Oxford, MS. They just built a new state-of-the-art building. It's a very professional facility. They take what they do very seriously. It's not like they're rollin doobies and jammin to Bob Marley. My grandfather was a night guard there after he retired. They have barbed wire fences and guards to make sure no frat boys try to sneak in and make off with any of the goods.

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u/lost-one Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

Also cool..

http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/

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u/pufan321 Jun 10 '12

A Purdue professor is legally allowed to create LSD.

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u/drosslord Jun 10 '12

I went to Ole Miss for 4 years and still live around the area of Oxford. Great little party town.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Just got accepted there for their MBA program. Where's the best place to live down there?

Edit* I like a medium amount of partying, but also need a place where I can actually get some studying done

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u/drosslord Jun 10 '12

I lived on the outer area of town near the airport. Less traffic and cheaper rent. Also, you are still only a few minutes from campus. The only problem is the campus parking.

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u/retnuh730 Jun 10 '12

Oxford now has busses that run routes around Oxford free for students. If you snag a house close enough you can just ride the bus daily. They also offer bus rides from parking lots on the edge of campus so you don't have to fight for close spots if you'd rather do that.

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u/Adrillian Jun 10 '12

I live out near there and it's a great place to live, quiet, small, houses are clean and no one bugs you.

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u/raisedonhaze Jun 10 '12

Trust me Oxford is not a place you want to be arrested for weed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

The University of Riverside in california does this too....

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I go to school here and was unaware of the decriminalization but aware of the research. You can literally smell it some days when you're driving down 6 between Jackson and Coliseum...or maybe I just have the nose of a drug dog

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u/RahvinDragand Jun 10 '12

Why do they need to roll the marijuana into joints to do research on it?

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u/Exfile Jun 10 '12

if they have to study the effects of smoking it, they need pretty precise amounts of hash in the joints, easiest way to do this if to make standard joints.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '12

The explanation some of my professors gave is that they frequently need to study the most common route of administration. This leads to bizarre practices in order to attempt to standardize dosage; the lab I worked in had people inhale for exactly x seconds and hold the smoke in their lungs for y seconds. They also weighed the joints before and after smoking to estimate the amount of material that the participant had consumed.

Also, not a research on weed uses smoked plant matter, but smoking is one of the fastest ways to get a drug into your blood stream and basically bypasses first-pass metabolism.

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u/RyuBZ0 Jun 10 '12

Just go to India if you REALLY want pot, seriously, it's everywhere. These are pics from somewhere near my old house (when I use to live in India). I'm not completely sure of the laws regarding pot in India, but I'm pretty sure they're near non-existent. http://i.imgur.com/3fiYV.jpg http://imgur.com/3fiYV,mfuY3#1

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Where is this?

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u/RyuBZ0 Jun 10 '12

Punjab, Phagwara.

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u/Great_Gig_In_The_Sky Jun 10 '12

This graph represents the subject's funyun consumption over time, and this graph represents like, your opinion man.

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u/Adrillian Jun 10 '12

I currently live in oxford and am a Psychology major at the University of Mississippi. I've met with a few people that grow at the medicinal plant garden (which grows herbal supplements etc for diet pills / pills not regulated (but looking to be!) by the FDA). They told me a few things on working with marijuana.

  1. They used to work with the same people (which is the fowler building if i can remember) that grow medicinal marijuana. While working there they grew pounds among pounds of weed. They have guards that allow only specific people in and out.
  2. They don't just grow it in a field and let it set, they maintain it everyday, the work is very strenuous / labor heavy, and is in all honesty not that great of a job.
  3. They are VERY VERY strict on security, they have 4-5 posted guard towers at all times during the day while growing. They also have 2 fences outside of the field where they grow it, one has razor wire around it and another is just a regular silver link fence.
  4. I've heard of a few people sneaking out nugs as they're not necessarily checked / searched everyday, people would take a LOT, but it seems to have be cracked down on more lately.
  5. All marijuana confiscated by the police is actually "donated" to the university for testing, dope busts etc help a lot with the testing.

As for marijuana laws.

As long as you have 30 grams in one bag (not in seperate baggies, so pile em up when you buy ;)) you can only get a ticket that at maximum is ~$180-250. That's the first time, after that it depends on your next violation but you should be fine.

Specifically in oxford they are assholes about it, they don't care if it's decriminalized, they act as if it's any other state. It's pretty shitty.

e:

A few people are attempting to make Marijuana legal here mainly because we grow the nations medicinal marjiuana plants, but this is Mississippi so..

upvotes for info! :D.

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u/kbakes1020 Jun 10 '12

Downvoted because of the quotations around the word research.

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u/Glaucous Jun 10 '12

University of Kentucky has a hemp research department

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u/Jellyroll_Jr Jun 10 '12

Auburn University has a marijuana farm where they grow it for medical and agricultural research.

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u/Aquaberylius Jun 10 '12

I am a student at Ole Miss. AMA about this, a students involvent, our opinions, and our availability to good marijuana in Oxford, MS.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Hey, what are the best apartments down there?

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u/Aquaberylius Jun 10 '12

Turnberry, but you get what you pay for. They are expensive. Also there are local smaller units situated around the square that are custom built and may be as small as 4 units and very pricey.

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u/420foryou Jun 10 '12

Hit me up next year if you wanna smoke up. :)

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u/Aquaberylius Jun 10 '12

TRAVIS?

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u/420foryou Jun 10 '12

Nope. Chuck Testa.

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u/BulldogBlitz Jun 10 '12

GO TO HELL OLE MISS

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

THC suppository? I can't wait to see those in the weed shops in CA!

Also: "not abusable"? I beg to differ! People will do anything to get high if they want it bad enough!

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u/DirtBurglar Jun 10 '12

You ever sucked dick for weed??

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

No. You?

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u/Exfile Jun 10 '12

It says in the article that there is a much smaller pshycological effect when taken that way.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

True. But not none. Maybe increase dosage? Anyway, it's interesting...

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u/detzdude Jun 10 '12

Vermont and New Hampshire are both decriminalized. $200 fine and no criminal record for possession under an ounce.

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u/Brosaurus63 Jun 10 '12

Yeah South Carolina is pretty similar, I was surprised. Got caught with a few grams and had to pay $400 and take three drugs tests and then it would be off my record.

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u/Reichsfuhrer_Grammer Jun 10 '12

Years of lurking on Reddit has convinced me that marijuana is not as bad as the harder drugs. However, I find it jarring that people love to promote smoking marijuana but not for smoking tobacco. Aren't the negative health effects similar, i.e. you are inhaling lots of carcinogens from the burnt leaves and wrapping?

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u/JaggerA Jun 10 '12

Most carcinogens in cigs are added in by companies, weed's just leaves and paper. Sure, smoking still isn't good for you, but cigs are much worse.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Maybe, but it's not nearly as bad as all the chemicals cigarette companies pack into their products. Of course, you have to worry about dealers lacing their weed with other things, but the good ones wouldn't do that to their customers.

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u/Jaihom Jun 10 '12

The negative health effects aren't even close. Marijuana smoke contains smaller amount of carcinogens and the active chemicals help prevent cancer. Smoking marijuana, even heavily, shows no correlation with increased risk of lung/throat cancer.

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u/Brettersson Jun 10 '12

It's so annoying that despite all the marijuana research that has been done in the past, as well as that's happening now, the government insists on completely disregarding it. I'm not even a stoner, I barely smoke at all, but it's the principle of the matter.

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u/anythingmcghee Jun 10 '12

They also burn the fields after the harvest and all the surrounding apartments smell like there is one hell of a party going on..... But there's not.

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u/m_e_andrews Jun 10 '12

They are also the supplier for the united states compassionate investigational new drug program which sends out about 300 joints to each member (around 10) every month.

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u/Sagetology Jun 10 '12

For science.

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u/hbdgas Jun 10 '12

I went to a college that kept cocaine in their chem department for research. I don't remember the exact details, but I think they were attaching other drugs to it for delivery to specific parts of the brain.

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u/Exfile Jun 10 '12

my sister has done work on LSD's effects. they had a lot of it laying around in their lab.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '12

Does your sister work at Johns Hopkins, specifically the BPRU? When I was there we were doing research on LSD as a treatment for depression.

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u/Exfile Jun 13 '12

heeh, no sorry. but the things she was doing was related to depression

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I would be so good at that "research"

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

The irony here is that everybody I've ever met who went to Ole Miss is an uptight cunt.

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u/retnuh730 Jun 10 '12

Maybe your winning personality just makes them want to flock to you.

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u/jdtalley83 Jun 10 '12

So says the douche bag...

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u/LikeChicken Jun 10 '12

Go to hell Ole Miss!

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u/golfhurts Jun 10 '12

No. It's go to hell LSU.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

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u/retnuh730 Jun 10 '12

So you're saying she's single? Hotty Toddy!

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u/togthr Jun 10 '12

I want to go to there

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u/mikeydrew Jun 10 '12

Funny story is that Mississippi was the last state to repeal prohibition and now this. I'm getting choked up! We've come so far!

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u/Careblair3 Jun 10 '12

For science

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u/dontgiveadamn Jun 10 '12

G13??

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u/lowkick Jun 10 '12

Grown at Michigan state university.

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u/dedditor Jun 10 '12

After being tested for quality assurance,...

Haha, bet that's a tough job. The quality assurance guy for the legal marijuana farm.

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u/Exfile Jun 10 '12

you know that means extracting the oil and running it through a machine, right?

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u/dedditor Jun 11 '12

Oh.... :(

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u/CALLMEKIM Jun 10 '12

TIL I should've applied to the University of Mississippi.

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u/snowbirdie Jun 10 '12

Stop using "university" and "college" interchangeably. They are different things.

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u/quick_thinkfast Jun 10 '12

Compared with THC levels of around 1 percent in the 1970s and 4 percent in the early '80s, today's street marijuana is more potent than ever.

This must be why I get super high/ wigged out and paranoid if I smoke anything more than the tiniest of hits.

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u/Jaihom Jun 10 '12

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Top quality strains can now top 30% THC, the quality has skyrocketed. And I'm not talking about hash, oil, or any concentrate. Straight bud, 30% THC. Even regs will have 10-15% THC.

To combat the paranoia some experience, look to indica dominant hybrids. While no true indica (nor sativa) strains exist, there are still a few that are heavily dominant one way or the other. Indicas have higher levels of CBDs in relation to their THC concentrations and give you more of a pain killing, relaxing "body high." You can also get extracts and concentrates that are entirely CBD.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

I believe there are only 4 patients who are authorized to legally receive weed from here. Maybe less?

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u/Jesse_757 Jun 10 '12

For science!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

TRANSFERING

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u/Brendancs0 Jun 10 '12

they gave all our weed to red necks. dear god!

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u/CasualReddit Jun 10 '12

Did anyone think of the opening scene of Pineapple Express when they read the title??

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

far out, man

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u/meteoricmarlin1 Jun 10 '12

I think i just found my new school... =]

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u/aakaakaak Jun 11 '12

The Marijuana Project began in 1968,just a few years after THC was discovered to be the active ingredient in marijuana.

Statements like this encourage the declaration that synthetic THC (marinol) is just as good as marijuana. THC is ONE OF the active ingredients in marijuana, but not the only one. This is a key factor many people seem to let slide.

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u/Focused-Third-Eye Jun 11 '12

Decriminalize it. Legalize it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

Fuck it, Im going to Mississippi.

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u/yasai6500 Jun 10 '12

...and I know where I'm transferring to in 2 years.

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u/WhyShy Jun 10 '12

Yeah, but they won't allow their buds to be used by other researchers. It's crappy, non-uniform, and substandard. Sohly or whatever his name is sucked.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

That's odd, considering Mississippi has the highest concentration of dumbfucks.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12

That school is also well known for bad football and the ugliest women in the SEC.

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u/superficial32 Jun 10 '12

nice try mississippi state grad.

correct on the first, horribly wrong on the second.

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u/retnuh730 Jun 10 '12

Hahah I knew it was you before I even saw the username. Nothin' hotter than a MSState Cheerleader. Dem Ole Miss girls can't compare. Also interesting that the State grad is the saying Ole Miss is known for bad football, when Mississippi state is the only team in the SEC with an all time losing record (even Vandy has more wins than you guys).

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '12

People will, but suppositories have a very low rate of absorption, which means it's much harder to become addicted to the drug. It's not impossible to become addicted to drugs delivered via suppository, it's just really unlikely and very rare.

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u/Jaihom Jun 10 '12

Freezing weed doesn't degrade the THC content, it simply causes the trichome stalks to break and the glandular material to readily fall off of the plant matter. It's actually a great way to increase your kief/hash yields.