It's Monday again, so I walked into my local dispensary and had a look at their flower case. The right side, stocked with 7 different indoor sativa strains had the usual, cap-wreck, biodisel, illuminati to name a few. The left side of the case is reserved for indicas, I had my heart set on the Romulan, but decided against it, in favor of an Ortega x Sweet Tooth cross called Legend's Ultimate Indica. It's quite tasty, a real downer, don't try this one during the day, lest ye be stuck to the couch. On Monday's, this particular pot club lets you "spin the wheel", which is exactly what it sounds like. They have a wheel, with pegs on it and several items from the display cases listed in each section. I was hoping for a free gram, but the canna-gods gave me Gummies. Yes, I said it, pot gummies. They have a very strange tecture, I got six little different shapes and colors in my gummie bag. I can't say much for the potency, since the LUI more or less "did the trick".

I was really glad to see Brad Pitt on Bill Maher over the weekend, it just lifted my spirits. We have such great, progressive, free thinking folks out there and you'd never know it, most of the time. I was going to go see Inglorious Bastards on Friday anyway, but now I'm going to bring 10 friends with me. Take a bong hit for Brad! "Look at the big brains on brad, that's right, the metric system".

The new theme and site logo is working out really well, I think. It's amazing what you can get done on the Internet, if you know the right folks. Speaking of the right folks, if you're in the same head space as we are at Smokedot, you should join us on SlashNET in #Smokedot. You can click on the IRC Chat link in the upper left hand corner to join with our on-site IRC client. Otherwise you can get yourself ChatZilla, XChat, or whatever and join in.

I'm still looking for volunteers to help post cannabis related news and/or create content. Drop me a line if you're interested.

Posting news for a website that plays on Slashdot.org's name, of course I've been to a LinuxWorld conference or two. I remember the last time I went, a fellow geek and cannabis user and I went to the Slashdot "Ask Rob" area of the conference room. Several /. fans were gathered around Rob Malda and anyone with a question was given the microphone and could address Rob. Earlier that week, I had read an article somewhere that the editors at Slashdot were being tired of asked why and how they are different from Digg.com. I'm sure they were not only tired of being asked about it, they were tired of the website creeping up on their unique hit numbers.

I was handed the mic and asked Rob why he thought there was a growing trend in websites that let the users vote stories up or down. He was aggrivated by my question and quickly replied with something to the effect of "we've already had that question, you missed it, noob". Then he went on and on about how having the editors at Slashdot pick the stories is much better because blah blah blah, I stopped listening after a few seconds. Gee, sorry Rob, I just got there... *cough* 

Anyway, we've applied a new Slash looking theme to the site. We would just like to remind everyone that here at Smokedot we're all about the cannabis, but we're also all about the technology. It's an ever growing part of our lives and the Internet generation is behind the wheel. We've got a new logo on the way, so that terrible thing Cobain whipped up can be sent back to hell, from which it came. I'm really glad to see the site change into something that looks more respectible. Thank you for reading and make sure to drop me a line if you're interested in contributing to Smokedot with news, content or what-have-you.

Keep smokin'.

Ow my head.

The site looked like a GoDaddy ad for a while, sorry about that. Oh yeah, and we didn't post any content for 4 months....

So, I'm the one guy running the site and I just couldn't run it by myself. I still can't, but I'll be posting news here and cleaning up various things when I can. I'm very active in the medical marijuana scene and I'm more or less putting the pot club owners' kids through college, so I can share with you all the wonderful strains I come across in my journeys. Maybe I'll even buy a camera so I can take macros of those beautiful buds and concentrate.

I don't have much time today, but if you're a person and not a bot, thank you for stopping by, there will be more Smokedot to come.

Oh Jeez for the love of Jah it's COLD! I'm tired of this, aren't you? I'd like to be able to walk outside in a t-shirt again, that's for sure.

I've been trying a lot of interesting cannabis lately, I'm delving into the indicas lately, because I just want to get to bed early. A cold, dark evening is no evening to be without MJ. I'm really excited about what's going on in America right now, we have a new president, he's smart, he's funny and he.... actually knows what he's doing. I'd imagine at least some of our readers have trouble remembering a time without Bush. 

It's so soothing to see that the Obama administration won't be raiding medical Marijuana states anymore-- it's such a relief! We don't have to worry about guys with machine guns showing up at the pot clubs anymore. Well, maybe a few. 

I'm working on moving the site forward, but as always, it's really tough to do.... by myself. If you think you can help with news on the site, feel free to drop me an email at phusion at smokedot.org. As always, you can come chat on Slashnet by clicking on the IRC Chat link on the left hand nav bar. Thanks for reading, keep smoking. 

Marijuana High,

Eight time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps is a pothead.The 23 year-old swimmer turned stoner was photographed inhaling marijuana from a bong. Not just any bong. A very expensive RooR bong. Cannabis enthusiasts admire RooR bongs more than Olympic athletes. Because of the longstanding false belief that people who use marijuana bongs can't possible win 14 Olympic gold medals.

Phelps inhales the effects of marijuana.

The list of celebrity stoners is long. However, getting outed in America as a cannabis user is akin, apparently, to eating babies. Phelps will loose plenty of celebrity sport endorsements. The once media darling will only have Cannabis Culture and High Times bidding for his appearances.

RooR however wins big with the Olympic sized stoner scandal. The German makers of uber fine glassware will be delighted their expensive limited edition durable bongs recieved such wonderful media exposure.

This particular RooR stands at just over a foot tall (18 inches), made with 7mm thick glass, with a 5 inch diameter base, complete with artist signature and red RooR label laced up neck. Ice notches allow up to eight ice cubes to be jammed into the RooR neck to provide an incredibly smooth cool marijuana toke.  

RooR known for their incredibly crafted, uniquely deisgned, hefty hauling marijuana bongs may want to approach pothead Phelps about an endorsement deal. 

I Toke The Chronic,

Cuz I Got The Chronic Pain

Mernahuana

Hey folks,

Yeah, so nothing has happened on the site for FOUR MONTHS. Boy, does that suck. Are we all too stoned to work on the site, you ask? Yes and no. Our "fearless leader" Cobain has been MIA for just as long and I can't carry the site by myself, let alone with just him on board.

Smokers! If you are out there and are interested in helping build community, make posts to the forum, or admin the forum or even post news and/or articles for Smokedot, please contact me! You can reach me at phusion@smokedot.org or Phusion420 on AIM. Or you can just leave a comment on this blog entry!

Alright, enough of that, you'd like to hear what strains I have been smoking on, I'm sure. Alright... let's see...

Chocolate Chunk (pic) -- West Sonoma County Indoor Hydro. 100% Indica, Cali selected Afghani Blend. Soothing Calm, Evening Appropriate. This particular strain of cannabis is a _real_ treat. The deep, fresh, chocolate smell is enough to make anyone exclaim; "DUUUUUUUDE" after just one wiff. The taste is a musky chocolate flavor with a strong, hashy after taste. This one will put you right to bed.

Jolly Rancher (pic) -- West Sonoma County Indoor Organic Soil. 70% Sativa. Haze x Grape Ape. Meditative Relax, Afternoon Appropriate. A sweet blend of the potent Haze strain and the always yummy Grape Ape. I enjoy this strain in the afternoon, due to the sativa dominance and heady high. The fruity smell coming from the nugs could easily be mistaken for candy.

Ship Wreck (pic) -- West Sonoma County Organic Soil. 60% Sativa- Mothership x TrainWreck. Floaty Buzz, afternoon appropriate. What can I say!? I'm a sucker for a good Sativa hyrbid, this strain is just so fucking beautiful I don't know what to tell you. Check out the amazing high res pic shot, isn't that just wonderful? It reminds me, of course of pure TrainWreck... this is one hell of a strain. Sweet taste, incredible high.

Thank's for reading, tune in next week for more medical cannabis strains.

Hello there. ndnbob here. I have an aerogrow system and am wondering what I should use  The seeds I use are mexican but can get BDS seeds. I need to know what chemicals to use and what proportion. Thanks

It's been a long, hot summer-- holy hell, the tape holding up my many Tool posters is MELTING. I have recently enjoyed a very excellent "Lavender" harvest and I think my hand is going to fall off from trimming all of that. Where is the poor mans industrial manicuring machine?

I'm enjoying the 4th of july weekend, it sounds kind of like World War 3 outside right now... but hey, we've got to celebrate the independance of our nation by blowing up a small chunk of it, right? Simpsons quotes aside, I'm glad to see we are getting some news submissions, we're all about community here at Smokedot and we'd like to see what kind of stuff you can find out there.

As for new strains, I've run into a few that you might be interested in, seemingly in the spirit of the summer movie lineup, a strain called "Silver Surfer" showed up in the local dispensary. It's an indoor, organic strain, grown in soil, with 80% sativa content... a very uplifting and tasty strain. The "Blue Magic" was also quite good, another organic 80% sativa strain, grown in soil. The lemony taste was a big surprise.

I'm going to try to enjoy the rest of the weekend and not get hit by any stray fireballs, keep on smokin'.

I'm a big alternative music fan, in fact, some would say that I live in the 90's. It's true, in my opinion, rock music and the offshoots there of have gone terribly down hill into over produced, manufactured bullshit bands that should be beaten and hung and left for dead in a ditch. So, with that out of the way, I'd like to inform everyone of a new song on Beck's website. For those of you who have been reading the site, you'll know I'm a proponant of the Anonymous anti-scientology movement and I'm not a big fan of Scientologists... yes.. Beck is a member of their twisted ranks and I can only hope that his involvement in the cult is merely a joke or an afterthought, but that's wishful thinking on my part. At ANY RATE, the new song is called Chemtrails and I thought that the song was relevant to this site... since here in California, we see chemtrails all the time, a deadly fog descending on the denizens of northern California.

I'm glad that this week is over, it went by very quickly and I'm glad to see it go, I really need this three day weekend coming up, to recharch my batteries. I've been feeling a bit off kilter lately, something is wrong with my chemistry or something, my head is all out of wack. It certainly isn't due to lack of medicine, that's for sure. I'm going to drink a lot of water and increase my vitamin intake and hope for the best.

Last night I went on a brief campaign to increase Smokedot's exposure, I really think we're an interesting site and there's a lot of demand for news about Marijuana, medical Marijuana and the conflict that they create in the USA and all over the world, due to prohibition. I submitted the URL and the feed URL to many feed and aggrigator sites... building a community is tough! I'll be posting more and more content as time goes on, look for more reviews in the next couple of months.

Thanks a lot for visiting, keep on smokin'

I just received my review copy of Steve Bloom's "Pot Culture" and flipped through the first few pages and read the forward by Tommy Chong. From what I can tell, this book is going to be very popular, it includes all the slang and collective knowledge of stoners everywhere. I haven't read enough of it for a proper review, but make sure to look for that in the future.... maaaan. Did you know that the use of "man", such as "hey man, what's up?" was a way of fighting the racist use of "boy" against African Americans? I didn't...

We've been knee deep in a serious heat wave in California. With 105F+ tempatures across the board, I'm glad that I spent most of the week in an air conditioned colocation facility. I'm usually in favor of too hot than too cold, but people are dropping like flies out here, it's scary. Make sure to drink plenty of water, people. It just may save your life.

This weekend has been pretty lax for me, I haven't gone out to any bars or parties, or even left my town in the last couple of days. With any luck, once again my phone will ring and insanity will follow. Carpe Noctum!

..I may find peace within the emptiness ..

So, I woke up with a sore throat and a bad cough this morning, so I called in sick. Yes, I am playing GTA4, yes I am actually sick. I've managed to sit indoors all day on this incredible spring afternoon... it's no fun. I must say, there have been some incredible strains popping up at the pot clubs.. want to hear about the latest ones? Of course you do!

Black Berry Soda: Indoor, organic, hydro, 60% sativa, fruity floral taste

This stuff lives up to its name, the buds have such a dark purple color, you'd think it was covered in blackberry soda. It tastes really good and does the trick, if you find some of this stuff, make sure to sample some!

Sweet Tart: indoor, organic, hydro, 80% Sativa, sour candy taste

The sweet tart is very nice, once again, pleasant smell and taste and it knocks you right on your ass, try it!

OG Kush x Blueberry: Indoor, organic, soil, 70% Sativa, disel-berry taste

If you've had either strain, you'll know they're the cat's meow, so combining them was a really good idea. This medicine is tasty like blueberry and very strong like the OG Kush... works well for joints!

Jack Herer: Indoor, organic, hydro, 85% Sativa,  key lime pie taste

Check out his site if you haven't yet, this magical strain of herb is light in color, VERY tasty and quite potent. A staple of California pot clubs, give this one a toke or two, it'll really cure what ails yah.

That's it for now, I've got to run back to the club and see what kind of lollipops and etibles they have, smoking doesn't seem like an option and I still don't own a vape! Lame! I'm going to go play some more GTA4, stay up, never give in and keep smokin!

Dr. Leveque is worth watching. He knows what he is talking about. He even told me that with my Diabetic Neuropathic Gastro Paresis I would qualify for MMJ to control the waves of nausea I surf from mild to severe every hour of everyday in the western states anyway. I have it saved in my email file of his Video Part 7. I don't know how to create a link to it so you will just have to take my word for it.

However, I live in the state of Iowa where pigs (not cops, but real pigs) rule, there are 6 pigs to every human in Iowa. No wonder Sen Tom Harkin (D-IA) say's, "If you smoke marijuana you will find yourself huddle'd in a corner willing to sell your children for just one more puff of marijuana."  He is so pig headed he lumps marijuana in the same feircly addictive catagory as heroin, cocaine and meth. Some states only allow MMJ use for the nausea caused from chemo. While this is a very valid use for MMJ, my disorder causes nausea and vomiting just as bad if not worse than chemo related nausea. Plus their's goes away when treatment is stopped my goes away when I die.

It's a life long disease where my digestive muscles in my stomach are paralyized limiting me to soft easily digestable foods like, bread, yougurt, chicken soup and my favorite ice cream. I have lost over 100 lbs and counting in the last year. Does anyone else know of the extremely theraputic and safe effects of marijuana use in controlling chronic nausea? Other then Marinol there is no other long term drug safe for the control of chronic nausea. The most prescribed is Regalen/Metroclopramide and it causes irreverseable Parkinson like shakes and tremors, and this is Legal?!?! Make sure those of us in the USA use your vote to put the right people in office and remove ignorant and prejudiced people like Sen Tom Harkin (D-IA.) Peace...

Well guys if you know anything about me then you must know that I have been battling an addiction with opiates for well over two years now. I used to believe that roxicet was my girl, and that she could get me through anything. After finding an amazing girl that really can get me through anything I realized that I had to give up the opiates. They were draining my wallet, and complicating my relationship with my soul mate.

One night after two days of not being able to score my cousin handed me a suboxone and told me that it would help me get through the withdrawals. I always reference any pill with Google before I take it. If you read through the forums you will see a few posts where Jack told me that I should find a doctor and get on suboxone permanently. Well two days later I was in the doctors office explaining my addiction to him while being completely honest. I told him that I had taken a suboxone the day before and that it help with my cravings. He gave me a two week prescription to suboxone and told me to look up NA meetings in my area and start attending them.

Here I am eleven days after I stopped taking opiates and I am completely stable on my suboxone and I feel like I'm on top of the world. I've attended two NA meetings with a friend of mine from work, and I honestly don't want to go back to where I was. You never realize how draining having an addiction is. Not only do you spend all of your money on drugs, but you also spend all of your time, and energy looking for them. My bank account looks a lot better than it did almost two weeks ago, and I have never gotten so much done at work and around the house.

If you are battling an addiction I can not tell you that you need to quit. You have to be at your low, and absolutely want nothing more than to make your life better. While I'm still an infant in a sober world, I would be more than happy to help anyone out of that hole called addiction. Here is to many more days, months, and years of being sober.

My internet ceased to be a couple of weeks ago due to the stupidity of fellow house mates. Having recently reobtained said internet this weekend, one of the first actions set in motion was to download "Super High Me". What luck that on the morning of 4.20, said download was completed. Score!

So I take the few remaining crumbs that I was saving for a good night bong hit and promptly load the bowl before watching. Hey, it's 4/20 and I'm watching a movie called Super High Me. What else was I going to do?

First let me start by saying that this movie is funny. Is it 'must see' funny? No, I wouldn't say that. But if you're into your stoner humor, and I'm going out on a limb here by assuming the readers of this site are, then this movie will go a long way in making you laugh.

Unlike Super Size Me, the movie was shot over the course of two months. Doug Benson. the movie's guinea pig, was asked to initaly abstain from both weed and alcohol for 30 days before conducting the 30 days uber-smoking-fest. SAT tests, a full physical and even a test measuing psychic ability is applied during both months in order to measure the difference caused by smoking weed. As well as journaling Benson's physiological and mental changes, the film focuses otherwise on cannabis culture, specifically Californian cannabis culture. I mentioned in one of my front page news posts that I didn't know as much about the situation in the US regarding pot and its legal status. Id like to say that because of this movie I know a lot more.

Retrospectively, I'd say the film deals more with people's rights to smoke, State vs Federal law and the dispensaries more than Dough Benson himself. Twice in the movie you see shops being raided and the questionable legality surrounding the DEA's right as well as a "Rouge Cop" going around trying to single handedly shut down shops. Some of the stats in the film are fascinating but I have yet to follow up on any of them so can only take them at face value,

What I liked about the movie was that it wasn't purely an imitation Super Size Me which, if I'm honest, was more or less what I was expecting. Many of the movie's segments was comedian Doug Benson doing stand-up based on what was going on during the two months and was very welcome. I have to admit, he's much funnier when he's blazed out of his skull! One thing I wil give away is that Sarah Silverman smokes up in the back of a club with Benson ;)

Now, let's get one thing straight. The "experiment" might have been designed by someone with a Dr. title but this is not scientific, or rather not scientific enough that one can draw hard conclusions. In fact, near the beginning of the movie there is a disclaimer stating something along the lines of "Everyone reacts to pot differently. This film is a documentation of one person's reaction". That being said, some of the results surprised me. In particular the SAT results, but I won't give too much away! 

All in all a very entertaining. if not slightly shallow. look at cannabis culture and the exploits of one courageous stoner. Does it have it's faults? Sure. Did it live up to what I was expecting? Absolutely and a lot more. As mentioned earlier, I was expecting something along the lines a Green Super Size Me. Instead, what I got was a film that both educated and entertained me which is rare these days. The amount of research done is evident but the interview with the various big wigs in cannabis culture is where this movie really shines. It even has a senator giving an on camera interview! Another thing, however... The Prine of Pot. Marc Emery, seems like a bit of a douche. Now I get the feeling that their choice of how they edited his interview probably had something to do with that. You'll see what I mean if you watch the film.

A cedrtain blend of seriousness and comedy seems to be the earmark of popular docus these days and in that regard, Super High Me suceeded. Overall I strongly recommend this to anyone interested in the effects of pot but more so the legal status and history of medical marijuana in the U.S., California in specific.

Sorry for the bugs we've been having recently with accessing and editing stories, blogs, and comments. I think I have squashed them all, but please let me know if your issues have all been resolved or not by replying to this blog.

-Cobain

p.s. I have something great in the pipeline. Just hold your horses cause it's coming.

I'm chillin' back with a big bowl of "White Cherry", an indoor, organic strain with 80% indica, based on the "Gush" strain. It's treating me well, and so is this Eek-A-Mouse record, man, I sure know how to relax. Anyway, it's been a great weekend, I accomplished quite a bit.. in the partying sense anyway. Northbeach in San Francisco is a rockin' place on a Saturday night, and add some of the most amazing blues music ever, you have quite a night.

What's going on in the news, you ask? Let's go over some of the tidbits:

The site's been up for a while now and we've managed to keep a semi-updated stream of news on the front page. Our unique visits are climbing and I am still short handed. If you have any news experience, or are just a good writer, please drop me a line, leave a comment or send an email to phusion at smokedot dot org. I'd like to move forward with the site, which includes regular news posts as well as the addition of content to Smokedot.