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THE SMARTEST CITIES IN AMERICA LOVE CANNABIS
Does cannabis use and a college degree go hand-in-hand? A survey by 247wallst.com reveals the "The Most Educated Cities in America" – and the top three are all 420-friendly.
The survey ranked cities across the nation based on the percentage of residents aged 25 or older with a bachelor's degree or greater level of education. The top three most educated cities are all college towns with thriving cannabis industries in states employing different models of marijuana regulation.
The cultures surrounding large institutes of higher learning have always expressed a more evolved attitude toward marijuana, but the correlation between educated communities and cannabis law reform has rarely been illustrated. As tales of smoking pot and brain damage continue to resonate among naysayers, evidence that cannabis is not a drag on society continues to roll in.
Demographic information regarding income levels and poverty statistics were included in the survey listing, per 2013 US government data.
Corvallis, Oregon
Bachelor’s degree or higher: 52.2 percent
Median household income: $47,808 (188th lowest)
Median earnings — bachelor’s degree: $36,211 (18th lowest)
Poverty rate: 23.1 percent (23rd highest)
College: Oregon State University, enrollment nearly 25,000
Statewide marijuana legalization: Passed but not in effect
In November of 2014 Oregon voters legalized adult use of marijuana, but the survey was done before that vote was taken. The state has enjoyed a strong medical program for years, and some communities have permitted the patient support industry to enhance the lives of their qualifying citizens.
Corvallis has done just that, and has been successful at it. A recent article featured in the local paper describes the relationship between the city's four dispensaries and the police chief with the word "trust."
The chief has a "perspective that allows us to grow with him," said Brock Binder, the owner of High Quality Compassion. "He’s provided an environment that allows us to do that.”
The community could use the economic boost. With a 23.1 percent poverty rate and a median household income near the bottom of the charts, Corvallis will benefit from the jobs created by the patient support industry in a way the other two of the top three cities cannot.
Oregon State University's Corvallis Campus offers a course titled "Marijuana Policy in the 21st Century," perhaps educating the next wave of cannabusiness operators. The class began this term and enrollment was at capacity.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Bachelor’s degree or higher: 53.5 percent
Median household income: $59,660 (46th highest)
Median earnings — bachelor’s degree: $46,829 (136th highest)
Poverty rate: 16.7 percent (174th highest)
College: University of Michigan, enrollment 44,000
Statewide marijuana legalization: None
Ann Arbor has a long history of cannabis law reform practices. John Sinclair's 1969 arrest and sentence of 10 years in prison for possession of two joints sparked a cannabis revolution nationwide. The concert held in Ann Arbor to rally support for his cause featured John Lennon and is the stuff of rock legend. That case sparked the city to decriminalize the possession of marijuana, reducing the crime to a ticketable offense with a penalty of $5. The possession ordinance is still in effect today, although the price of a violation has risen with inflation.
That concert was the genesis for a long-standing tradition of celebrating the wonderfulness of the marijuana plant in an annual gathering on the U of M campus, a rally of national significance now known as Hash Bash and The Monroe Street Fair. Past speakers have included presidential candidates, heads of national organizations and top elected officials.
Michigan's medical marijuana law was passed in 2008 but there are no rules governing a distribution network. Much like in Oregon, cities in the Great Lakes State have accepted or banned marijuana commerce as they saw fit. The Ann Arbor Medical Cannabis Guild is a dispensary organization that has established strong relations with city officials despite the absence of state sanction for the industry. Ten dispensaries are scattered around the city, and neighboring Ypsilanti has licensed a half-dozen more, with no evidence of disruption to the communities they serve.
Boulder, Colorado
Bachelor’s degree or higher: 53.5 percent
Median household income: $59,660 (46th highest)
Median earnings — bachelor’s degree: $46,829 (136th highest)
Poverty rate: 16.7 percent (174th highest)
College: University of Colorado at Boulder, enrollment 23,000
Statewide marijuana legalization: Yes
No state has seen its marijuana use more scrutinized than Colorado's. International reporters and continental spin doctors has evaluated the industry – and the effects of full legalization of marijuana use by adults – from every conceivable angle. Most of the attention has focused on two centers of the state's marijuana trade and activity: Boulder and Denver.
Colorado has enjoyed a medical marijuana law for many years and certain urban centers have become accustomed to the presence of a formerly vilified industry. Boulder's integration with the cannabis industry is a more measured approach than Denver has taken. The Boulder Revised Code mandates that "persons or locations with over six plants or 2 ounces of product become a business under our local code and each business in our city limits must have a valid and compliant city Medical Marijuana Business (MMB) license, along with a state license from the State Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division, to legally operate."
Considering each Colorado resident 21 and over can legally purchase one ounce of marijuana from a dispensary and several residents may be gathered in a single home to celebrate life and plot world domination, this policy seems less enlightened than one would associate with the nation's most educated city for 2014. Nevertheless, Boulder does sport a thriving industry of both medical and adult-use marijuana distribution centers and is an integral part of the cannabis scene in Colorado.
America's Smartest Cities Love Pot
BY RICK THOMPSON · MON FEB 02, 2015
BY RICK THOMPSON · MON FEB 02, 2015
Grow Hack: Germinating Seeds via HIGHTIMES.com
BY SIRIUS J · MON FEB 02, 2015
Germination can be frustrating: you might have just invested a pretty penny in some seeds, waited a long time for them in the mail or gone to some great lengths to acquire them one way or another. Even if they’re just some random bag seeds you never expected to get, waiting for the first signs of life can be nerve-racking.
To avoid the wait and to be more successful germinating all around, there’s one thing to keep on mind that often gets overlooked: proper soil temperature. Germination rates for the seedlings of any plant are highly temperature dependent; most seedlings like warmer temperatures during the day and cold at night.
Some seeds like it hotter and some a little cooler. The tomato plant, which is often compared to cannabis in terms of cultivation, prefers a soil temperature of 85 °F for germination. Hot-blooded corn and cucumber seeds like 95 °F and have trouble popping below around 55 °F, while spinach seeds are most comfortable at 70 °F but can still germinate at 35 °F. All plants generally take longer to germinate when it’s chilly, and keeping temperatures above 75 °F should keep germination time under a week.
Another issue to consider is night temperature; colder nights at around 60 °F are healthy for seedlings and mature plants alike.
To help foster a good germination environment, try keeping a lamp over your seedlings during the day and monitor the temperature with a thermometer. Incandescent or high pressure sodium bulbs will generate heat and warm you seedlings plenty, while fluorescent and LED lights won’t provide much heat all. If the seeds are in a room that gets chilly at night, turning off the light will fulfill the plants need for a cool nocturnal environment. A simple timer and a 60 W incandescent bulb are pretty much all you need to help solve the temperature issue if you only have a handful of seeds.
(Photo by Ed Borg)
Cannabis Is Making Colorado So Much Money They Literally Have To Give Some Back To Residents
Colorado is making so much money from it's legal cannabis sales that they literally have to give some of it back to residents. So proclaimed a recent AP story by Kristen Wyatt on the booming cannabis industry in the Rocky Mountain state.
The voter-approved law that made cannabis legal in the state was designed to put tax revenues towards schools and other state programs, but an existing state law may send some of the money directly back to residents.
As Wyatt describes it in her piece, the law is causing “quite a headache for lawmakers.”
Colorado’s state constitution sets a limit on how much tax money the state can take in before it has to give some back to the residents. In 1992, Colorado’s voters approved the Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights, a constitutional amendment mandating that all new taxes appear before voters. It states that the state of Colorado must pay back taxpayers “when the state collects more than what’s permitted by a formula based on inflation and population growth. Over the years, Colorado has issued refunds six times, totaling more than $3.3 billion,” Wyatt reports.
“That means Coloradans may each get their own cut of the $50 million in recreational pot taxes collected in the first year of legal weed. It’s a situation so bizarre that it’s gotten Republicans and Democrats, for once, to agree on a tax issue,” Wyatt writes.
Because there is so much tax revenue, and tax collections in Colorado are rapidly increasing, the governor’s budget writers predict roughly $30.5 million will go back to individual residents (about $7.63 per adult in Colorado.)
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Both political parties agree there’s “no good reason” to put cannabis dollars back into voter’s pockets, and lawmakers are scrambling to figure out how to avoid it.
That would most likely require asking residents to vote themselves out of the extra cash, by voting to exempt cannabis taxes from the refund requirement.
Lawmakers will have to figure out if the refund money would go to all taxpayers, or just people who purchased cannabis.
In the past, refunds have been paid through income tax returns, as Wyatt notes, “but Colorado also has reduced motor vehicle fees or even reduced sales taxes on trucks… Lawmakers seem confident that the refund mechanism won’t matter because voters would approve pot taxes a third time if asked.”
The voter-approved law that made cannabis legal in the state was designed to put tax revenues towards schools and other state programs, but an existing state law may send some of the money directly back to residents.
As Wyatt describes it in her piece, the law is causing “quite a headache for lawmakers.”
Colorado’s state constitution sets a limit on how much tax money the state can take in before it has to give some back to the residents. In 1992, Colorado’s voters approved the Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights, a constitutional amendment mandating that all new taxes appear before voters. It states that the state of Colorado must pay back taxpayers “when the state collects more than what’s permitted by a formula based on inflation and population growth. Over the years, Colorado has issued refunds six times, totaling more than $3.3 billion,” Wyatt reports.
“That means Coloradans may each get their own cut of the $50 million in recreational pot taxes collected in the first year of legal weed. It’s a situation so bizarre that it’s gotten Republicans and Democrats, for once, to agree on a tax issue,” Wyatt writes.
Because there is so much tax revenue, and tax collections in Colorado are rapidly increasing, the governor’s budget writers predict roughly $30.5 million will go back to individual residents (about $7.63 per adult in Colorado.)
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Both political parties agree there’s “no good reason” to put cannabis dollars back into voter’s pockets, and lawmakers are scrambling to figure out how to avoid it.
That would most likely require asking residents to vote themselves out of the extra cash, by voting to exempt cannabis taxes from the refund requirement.
Lawmakers will have to figure out if the refund money would go to all taxpayers, or just people who purchased cannabis.
In the past, refunds have been paid through income tax returns, as Wyatt notes, “but Colorado also has reduced motor vehicle fees or even reduced sales taxes on trucks… Lawmakers seem confident that the refund mechanism won’t matter because voters would approve pot taxes a third time if asked.”
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