Walk
past Kim Phillip’s art gallery in San Diego, or, go ahead, walk
inside. You’ll see walls adorned with student paintings that Kim is
more than willing to sell you,Totech Americas delivers a wide range of drycabinets
for applications spanning electronics. even though the art world is
not Kim’s forum of business. Show her your green card, and you’ll get
access to the real store: a dispensary hidden between yoga and dance
studios in plain sight, selling medical marijuana to customers ranging
from 21 to the their 80s, from reputable lawyers to dread-headed
hippies.
“With my last business, (the federal government) sent a letter to the owner of the building saying that they would take over the property,” Kim said. “What they do is threaten the owners. For a while they were closing down everything, but we just keep re-opening again.”
Kim is one of the many dispensary owners and marijuana users caught between contrasting federal and state laws regarding medical and recreational marijuana.Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. In northwestern Nevada, devoid of dispensaries, the fight has been driven to federally funded institutions obliged to obey national laws to keep their funding – including the University of Nevada,wind turbine Reno.
One of Kim’s customers is her daughter Tori Phillips, a Truckee Meadows Community College student transferring to UNR in the fall. She does not have a medical marijuana card but receives medical marijuana through the dispensary that her mother owns in San Diego.
When Tori’s gallbladder was removed three years ago, she knew the pain was going to be intense, but she had no idea she would be crippled by the corrosive vat of acid her stomach became when her liver was her only line of defense.
“The shit that gives you heartburn? That goes right into my stomach,” Phillips said. “Western medicine is the worst thing for shit like this. I don’t have insurance right now, and weed helps! It helps my stomach calm down, and I’m not in pain afterward.”
Tori Phillips is one of many students who smoke for medicinal purposes, many of whom have Nevada or California medical marijuana cards they frequently try to defend themselves with to Campus Police.
At UNR, medical marijuana cards also lose their leverage. Carol Millie, Coordinator of the Office of Student Conduct, explained that while under federal funding, college campuses are subject to federal laws, which is difficult to explain to cardholders who try to justify using marijuana in the residence halls or elsewhere on campus.
“Our college campus is federally funded,” Millie said. “We have to abide (by federal law) to keep student-loan funding. We can’t jeopardize other student’s ability to get funding. The Supreme Court has already decided that.”
Methods for apprehending marijuana users on campus are not limited to catching students in the act or even with marijuana on them.
“I think smell is now the number one thing to an incident,” Millie said. “Be it in the dorms or out … at Manzanita Bowl: the odor of marijuana is the key telling fact.”
After students have been accused, they have the option of going to take a drug test at a testing center downtown. Students are not allowed to supply their own drug tests. However, marijuana can be in one’s system for more than 30 days depending on the frequency of use, making some students question whether the process is in place to prevent students being high on campus.we sell dry cabinet and different kind of laboratory equipment in us.
“That’s completely subjective,” said Jeff Hemig, a 19-year-old information systems major. “I can come to campus completely sober and have the smell lingering on my coat. That’s way too much. It does more harm than good.”
The OSC has taken further steps to combat marijuana use on campus, largely due to surveys conducted by the OSC that indicate marijuana and alcohol users are less likely to graduate. A sharp rise in students who use marijuana, also indicated by the survey, caused the OSC and Campus Police to seek stricter enforcement. Students who admitted to smoking marijuana within the past year rose from 26.5 to 40 percent between 2006 and 2012, and those who admitted to smoking within the past month rose from 18.3 to 21 percent.Which Air purifier is right for you?
“Twenty-five percent of those who receive A15 violations (campus substance violations) do not return to campus,” Millie said. “Plagiarizing, cheating, fighting — they all had higher retention rates. The data shows that younger students who are smoking pot are not making it to class. Of course, there are those who can, but, overall, that is the trend.”
Hemig is one student quick to dispel any direct correlation between marijuana use and poor scholastic performance. He has been using marijuana recreationally since the age of 16 and graduated from high school with honors.
“Its not the smoking (that inhibits academic performance),” Hemig said, “It’s that kids who are more likely to smoke are already people who are less likely to take on responsibility.”
To combat marijuana use on campus, the OSC employs Cannabis Screen and Intervention for College Students. These are funded by Justice Assistance Grants, federal money from the U.S. Department of Justice allotted for crime prevention programs at state, local, and tribal levels. The program consists of two sessions where students come in and meet with counselors to learn about potential health risks.
“As the adult, they try to understand whether marijuana helps or hurts the student,” Millie said. “One thing that grosses me out is that a lot of dispensaries are in houses with rats. Rat poison gets in your pot. Some analysis even finds black mold spores from the pot being grown in enclosed spaces.”
University of California, Davis veterinary scientists presented evidence last July that rat poison used by marijuana growers may be pushing the fisher, a rare forest carnivore, toward extinction. Marijuana advocates such as High Times magazine discourage smoking moldy weed, particularly of the toxic, black mold variety, Still, many students defend the marijuana they use as superior to the toxic crops that CASICS warns against.
“We have students saying, ‘Oh, my weed isn’t like that. I use hydroponics. It grows in the forest next to a waterfall’ and that may be true,” Millie said. “There’s still evidence that before the age of 24, it does keep your brain from developing appropriately.”
Although marijuana is more difficult to test for than alcohol, safety issues related to public intoxication are still viable. Even marijuana advocates think a line needs to be drawn with impaired driving.
“If you got pulled over, it happened for a reason,” Kim said. “You’re still under the influence. It’s not the same as drinking, but if you can’t function, you shouldn’t be driving.”
Whether campus enforcement comes across as intrusive or genuinely compassionate about the health of students, Millie insists the efforts are not a political statement but a matter of following the law.
“Many individuals make the decision (following their incident) to not be a part of the (UNR) community,” Millie said. “I can respect that. They’re saying, ‘I understand your rules, but they’re not working for my lifestyle.’ If they decide or if the law decides different – you bet we want them back.”
“With my last business, (the federal government) sent a letter to the owner of the building saying that they would take over the property,” Kim said. “What they do is threaten the owners. For a while they were closing down everything, but we just keep re-opening again.”
Kim is one of the many dispensary owners and marijuana users caught between contrasting federal and state laws regarding medical and recreational marijuana.Compare prices and buy all brands of solar panel for home power systems and by the pallet. In northwestern Nevada, devoid of dispensaries, the fight has been driven to federally funded institutions obliged to obey national laws to keep their funding – including the University of Nevada,wind turbine Reno.
One of Kim’s customers is her daughter Tori Phillips, a Truckee Meadows Community College student transferring to UNR in the fall. She does not have a medical marijuana card but receives medical marijuana through the dispensary that her mother owns in San Diego.
When Tori’s gallbladder was removed three years ago, she knew the pain was going to be intense, but she had no idea she would be crippled by the corrosive vat of acid her stomach became when her liver was her only line of defense.
“The shit that gives you heartburn? That goes right into my stomach,” Phillips said. “Western medicine is the worst thing for shit like this. I don’t have insurance right now, and weed helps! It helps my stomach calm down, and I’m not in pain afterward.”
Tori Phillips is one of many students who smoke for medicinal purposes, many of whom have Nevada or California medical marijuana cards they frequently try to defend themselves with to Campus Police.
At UNR, medical marijuana cards also lose their leverage. Carol Millie, Coordinator of the Office of Student Conduct, explained that while under federal funding, college campuses are subject to federal laws, which is difficult to explain to cardholders who try to justify using marijuana in the residence halls or elsewhere on campus.
“Our college campus is federally funded,” Millie said. “We have to abide (by federal law) to keep student-loan funding. We can’t jeopardize other student’s ability to get funding. The Supreme Court has already decided that.”
Methods for apprehending marijuana users on campus are not limited to catching students in the act or even with marijuana on them.
“I think smell is now the number one thing to an incident,” Millie said. “Be it in the dorms or out … at Manzanita Bowl: the odor of marijuana is the key telling fact.”
After students have been accused, they have the option of going to take a drug test at a testing center downtown. Students are not allowed to supply their own drug tests. However, marijuana can be in one’s system for more than 30 days depending on the frequency of use, making some students question whether the process is in place to prevent students being high on campus.we sell dry cabinet and different kind of laboratory equipment in us.
“That’s completely subjective,” said Jeff Hemig, a 19-year-old information systems major. “I can come to campus completely sober and have the smell lingering on my coat. That’s way too much. It does more harm than good.”
The OSC has taken further steps to combat marijuana use on campus, largely due to surveys conducted by the OSC that indicate marijuana and alcohol users are less likely to graduate. A sharp rise in students who use marijuana, also indicated by the survey, caused the OSC and Campus Police to seek stricter enforcement. Students who admitted to smoking marijuana within the past year rose from 26.5 to 40 percent between 2006 and 2012, and those who admitted to smoking within the past month rose from 18.3 to 21 percent.Which Air purifier is right for you?
“Twenty-five percent of those who receive A15 violations (campus substance violations) do not return to campus,” Millie said. “Plagiarizing, cheating, fighting — they all had higher retention rates. The data shows that younger students who are smoking pot are not making it to class. Of course, there are those who can, but, overall, that is the trend.”
Hemig is one student quick to dispel any direct correlation between marijuana use and poor scholastic performance. He has been using marijuana recreationally since the age of 16 and graduated from high school with honors.
“Its not the smoking (that inhibits academic performance),” Hemig said, “It’s that kids who are more likely to smoke are already people who are less likely to take on responsibility.”
To combat marijuana use on campus, the OSC employs Cannabis Screen and Intervention for College Students. These are funded by Justice Assistance Grants, federal money from the U.S. Department of Justice allotted for crime prevention programs at state, local, and tribal levels. The program consists of two sessions where students come in and meet with counselors to learn about potential health risks.
“As the adult, they try to understand whether marijuana helps or hurts the student,” Millie said. “One thing that grosses me out is that a lot of dispensaries are in houses with rats. Rat poison gets in your pot. Some analysis even finds black mold spores from the pot being grown in enclosed spaces.”
University of California, Davis veterinary scientists presented evidence last July that rat poison used by marijuana growers may be pushing the fisher, a rare forest carnivore, toward extinction. Marijuana advocates such as High Times magazine discourage smoking moldy weed, particularly of the toxic, black mold variety, Still, many students defend the marijuana they use as superior to the toxic crops that CASICS warns against.
“We have students saying, ‘Oh, my weed isn’t like that. I use hydroponics. It grows in the forest next to a waterfall’ and that may be true,” Millie said. “There’s still evidence that before the age of 24, it does keep your brain from developing appropriately.”
Although marijuana is more difficult to test for than alcohol, safety issues related to public intoxication are still viable. Even marijuana advocates think a line needs to be drawn with impaired driving.
“If you got pulled over, it happened for a reason,” Kim said. “You’re still under the influence. It’s not the same as drinking, but if you can’t function, you shouldn’t be driving.”
Whether campus enforcement comes across as intrusive or genuinely compassionate about the health of students, Millie insists the efforts are not a political statement but a matter of following the law.
“Many individuals make the decision (following their incident) to not be a part of the (UNR) community,” Millie said. “I can respect that. They’re saying, ‘I understand your rules, but they’re not working for my lifestyle.’ If they decide or if the law decides different – you bet we want them back.”
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