Happy Halloween all y'all

[Rwise]

I want to find who is giving these out! (see pic) The dude in Florida got popped, so he'll set this year out.
Anyway enjoy the season!

[SoOrbudgal]

Hmm never seen them nor heard of them. I don't really look at the edibles when i go into the dispensary. But i can see why they would ban this type of labeling.

[Rwise]

I was going to drop more pics, but there's to many, just goooogle "kush kat" and look at all the violations.
And yes that kind of packaging is not legal in my state.

[Bluey]

Plain packaging is the go. Anything that could attract the eye of kids is a big no no IMHO and has the potential to ruin it for all.
The marketing used for vape juice & pods is often just eye candy for kids and has resulted in blanket industry bans in many countries and well deserved I might add.

[Farmbuck]

What is funny here in Canada, it's totally legal from sea to sea BUT they cannot use fancy packaging like putting a cannabis leaf as a label. Go figure !

[Gingerbeard]

During the California weed prohibition era, products had all sorts of name brand variations. The real candy makers got hot and made people stop.
During the California weed prohibition era, you could get all sorts of 1000mg edibles. They are now maxed out at 100mg.

[Rwise]

What I, have seen here, not that I go look often, was 100mg.

[Gingerbeard]

Sooooo... where does advertising to children stop? Happy Meals? Candy? Why don't people get on the booze industry for flavored alcohol that is not liqueur? How about the stores that sell and advertise them? Alcohol destroys more lives than vape pens but is accepted. Obesity is and is going to cost super-fund quantities of money in medical.
How about candy in the shape of weapons? Cigar and cigarette shaped gum? Liquor stores have knives, man pills, and those previously mentioned flavored liquors on the check-out stand. If there are a hundred flavors of something, what do you name them? Flavor 1, Flavor 2, and so-on? Advertising is advertising.
Parents are the number one defense against kids getting into bad stuff. My parent's reasoning for not smoking is it smells bad. But most of my relatives smoked and got to chew a lot of gum. I started for peer pressure. Same with drinking. Alcohol tastes bad and is for adults. Peer pressure got me, again. Let's not talk about the sex talk I never had. Thank the gods for the peers. Guns? Oh, I knew what guns did pretty early and have always respected them. Hard drugs? Stories about my uncle.
Shall we talk about weed strain names? Shall we talk about social media?
More kids are hooked on sugar, caffeine, and junk food than are hooked on vape pens. Someone is going to pass me the empty pipe for saying this, but it is not advertisers/manufacturers fault that kids have access to their products. It is the fault of the people who sell the products to kids. The only way to stop people from using something is to get rid of it altogether.
I'mma gonna stop before I really get into the hypocrisies of people who say, 'Stop this bad thing but ignore these other bad things that I like.' And I'm rambling.
And I'm missing the Cowboys game and need to do some drugs.

[Bluey]

Here we have blanket bans on cigarette advertising in any form. Alcohol advertising is almost completely banned, alcopop drinks are banned (advertising to kids), advertising of all vape products is banned. The sale of vape products is banned in some jurisdictions.

The sooner we ban advertising of gambling services the better and the same with 99% of fast food shit...just look at the incidence of obesity next time you walk down the street, it's rife and out of control.

Marketing this shit to kids is farked yet we allow it because the political will is not there to ban it. Why not? Because cvnts like the Murdoch's make a fortune from advertising this shit and they control a large part of the mainstream media and influence who we vote for. They even backed the lie that the election was stolen and admitted to it in court all in pursuit of profits. And they want us to vote for those pricks who help them profit the most, simple.
The tobacco industry loves getting kids hooked...it's part of their business model and has been since before my time.
Good parenting is not the solution for kids and alcohol and/or tobacco abuse. Although it's a good start it's far from effective.

[Rwise]

Just ban capitalism!

[OldManGrower]

Any philosophy, economic system or religion taken to it's logical extreme will always fail.

[Rwise]

Its a good day to just kick back and get stoned! Its cold and rainy, all the plants are in jars and I'm playin with my new toy, a trimbin. Other than it costs to damn much, its great! Ran 2 batches and the second I got way more than the first. The remains of the first batch is having a hot bath in a pot of water and butter. I have been bonging the kief, I'll have to say I like! I'll be making more on these cold days.

[Gingerbeard]

Rwise are you thinking hunting and gathering? I'm down for that. Nothing more advanced than shells and beads.

[Rwise]

Seems like it has value until I own it, then it aint worth shit! Just think that capitalist made your bacon cost more (mine too) and never touched it, moved it or has position of it in any way, just mark it up and sell it. What guarantee, if I didn't show up they didn't pay me. As for "the boss" I told many to take this job and shove it, I aint workin here no more! Standing around a heater, the "boss" stuck his ugly mug out the office the guys all headed back to work, cept for me. I can fuck off just as good in front of him as I can behind his back. The gov does make a profit, but just like my X they spend more than they make.I have known many businesses that went banckrupt every 7 years to get out of depts, spent more than you made, just file bankruptcy. I cant speak to the commie pinkos with going all political.

[Gingerbeard]

What I got out of what you said was:
Seems like it has value until I own it, then it aint worth shit like my X they spend more than they make

[Rwise]

LOL, my X is low value, at least from my point of view!

[Gingerbeard]

OldManGrower There is no logic in philosophy or religion. Religion is philosophy but philosophy is not necessarily religion. Economic system logic is relative to its era and reigning political system.
Holy shit! We just opened a Pandora's box of GWE taboos!!!

[OldManGrower]

Please Forgive Us Mr. Fourside

[Gingerbeard]

Deep shit, man. Real deep shit. Got me thinking about that eccentric history (or something) professor in college. Remember? All he talked about were his kachina dolls and First Nation tribes and their systems of war and trade and worship, and junk.

[OldManGrower]

Yeah, had me one of those.

[Rootsruler]

See them all the time when I'm in Cali at a Taco Sesh.

[Rwise]

This train certainly got derailed, and just look what it crashed through.
Being at the end of a dead end road, I'll see no ghouls or goblins tonight, to scary and to far to walk down my road. When I lived in town, many would stop in to get a treat, I kinda miss that.
Just going to be me and my bong here tonight, but we will have fun anyway.

[Gingerbeard]

This will be 10 Halloweens in this apartment. Ain't never had no beggers. Our neighborhoods are mostly void of streetlights but populated with enough street folk to keep nights sketchy.
What happens around here is parents shove vans full of as many kids as they can and head to the good neighborhoods where the kids have to grab as much as they can before being forwarded to another neighborhood. Typically, those vans are from the south and you will find the Halloween candy being sold at the border for the next few days.

[Gingerbeard]

My hood has hoods.

[Rwise]

My cars all have hoods

[Gingerbeard]

Traditionalist.

[Rwise]

From the other side of our planet

[Gingerbeard]

Oh, shit! It's coming right for me!

[elStummo]

Sooooo... where does advertising to children stop? Happy Meals? Candy? Why don't people get on the booze industry for flavored alcohol that is not liqueur? How about the stores that sell and advertise them? Alcohol destroys more lives than vape pens but is accepted. Obesity is and is going to cost super-fund quantities of money in medical.
How about candy in the shape of weapons? Cigar and cigarette shaped gum? Liquor stores have knives, man pills, and those previously mentioned flavored liquors on the check-out stand. If there are a hundred flavors of something, what do you name them? Flavor 1, Flavor 2, and so-on? Advertising is advertising.
Parents are the number one defense against kids getting into bad stuff. My parent's reasoning for not smoking is it smells bad. But most of my relatives smoked and got to chew a lot of gum. I started for peer pressure. Same with drinking. Alcohol tastes bad and is for adults. Peer pressure got me, again. Let's not talk about the sex talk I never had. Thank the gods for the peers. Guns? Oh, I knew what guns did pretty early and have always respected them. Hard drugs? Stories about my uncle.
Shall we talk about weed strain names? Shall we talk about social media?
More kids are hooked on sugar, caffeine, and junk food than are hooked on vape pens. Someone is going to pass me the empty pipe for saying this, but it is not advertisers/manufacturers fault that kids have access to their products. It is the fault of the people who sell the products to kids. The only way to stop people from using something is to get rid of it altogether.
I'mma gonna stop before I really get into the hypocrisies of people who say, 'Stop this bad thing but ignore these other bad things that I like.' And I'm rambling.
And I'm missing the Cowboys game and need to do some drugs.

I started smoking and drinking not because of advertising, but specifically because of my peers. Their argument was that we're already grown up, and you don't want to be a loser. At that time, it seemed persuasive enough to join them. However, I hate advertising in any form now. They've started shoving it everywhere. A couple of days ago, I saw a video, like, directly inserted into a game, seems like Assassin's Creed. I understand that they don't care, the main thing is to make money. But damn.

Gingerbeard commented
10-30-2023, 05:08 PM
Deep shit, man. Real deep shit. Got me thinking about that eccentric history (or something) professor in college. Remember? All he talked about were his kachina dolls and First Nation tribes and their systems of war and trade and worship, and junk.

I had a similar professor for mechanical engineering. He made us look at all these equations as if they were mysterious rituals. Every time he started explaining, I felt like I was immersing myself in another reality. Seems like we were studying science, but it felt more like magic.

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