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Hiatus

We are going on hiatus the rest of the week as we transition from blogger to wordpress. We will be back monday with a new look and hopefully a week's worth of new posts. Until we meet again...

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Follow Up: The Union - The Business Behind Getting High

This is a follow up to our review of The Union - The Business Behind Getting High. A few days after our examination of The Union was published, the MJO were contacted by the proprietor of Show Me the Facts, another website dedicated to various marijuana issues. Well it turns out that Show Me the Facts is also a big fan of The Union and was able to score an upcoming interview with Adam Scorgie, a co-creator of the documentary. This is the opportunity for us to have any questions we may have about The Union answered.

There are three ways that you can submit your questions to Show Me the Facts:

1. Send your questions to eric@showmethefacts.org with the subject "Question(s) for Scorgie."
2. Use Show Me the Facts' online contact page. [Remember to use the subject heading above]
3. Just leave your questions in the comments below and we would be happy to collect them and pass them along.

On a lighter note, we have to give Show Me the Facts some gruff for their note about our review at the end of their post. Somehow, Show Me the Facts stumbled upon our review and were nice enough to leave this blurb about it:

Not bad, huh? Undoubtedly, "honest" and "detailed" are two good things to be. So what's the problem? Well it turns out that this isn't the same text that was originally posted by Show Me the Facts. Instead, it said this:

Note that in this version our review is "amazing" and a "great read." [You may ask how we found out about this change, and no we are not crazy stalkers. Rather, when Show Me the Facts first posted they left a comment on our website. One of our other writers saw it and went to the website and took a screen shot because well a) we still can't believe other people actually read what we write and b) it said we were amazing and a great read!] Sadly, by the time I was able to personally get to it, the post had been already changed to the second version. So, Show Me the Facts, what happened in the interim period? Why are we no longer amazing? Did you read our review a second time and decide we weren't quite as good as you first thought? Or did your standards for "amazing" become more stringent over a few hours? We demand answers!

As for the rest of the Show Me the Facts website, it is very interesting. It seems to be a newer site, but it is chock full of useful information especially about medical marijuana. However, while at first we thought it was amazing and a great read, now we just find it to be honest and detailed. Just kidding. Show Me the Facts is a great website and we highly recommend that you check it out. Also, for all you Twitterers out there check out their tweets @SMtF. Until next time...

Update: As you can see in the comments below, Show Me the Facts has responded,updated his website, and actually had a correction post. We would like to thank SMtF for his kindness in the face of our shenanigans. Remember to check out ShowMetheFacts.org...

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Economics: How the Banks Screwed Us

Lately, not even the finest cannabis has been able to shake the MJO staff's preoccupation with our nation's current economic crisis. With unemployment numbers swelling to 8.5% of the reporting populace nationwide and GDP actually contracting by 6.5% during the last four months of 2008, the best use for our marijuana has been to help us drift off to a comfortably numb stupor in the face of the severe harsh reality confronting us. However, one question that we return to daily after awakening from our forced unconsciousness is:

"What the f*ck happened?"

In particular, we are often curious about exactly how we got so screwed and also which responsible parties deserves our unmitigated scorn. Today it seems we got at least some answers during Bill Moyers' interview with William Black, a former regulator during the S&L banking scandal of the 1980s. Enjoy.

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Strain Review: White Widow

For today's review MJO takes a look at another strain from the SCPC, this time the famous strain "White Widow." White Widow, a hybrid, has a MJO Score of 74 and a MJO Value Index of 0.62. Details after the jump...

Four factor breakdown (see methodology for explanation):

1. Appearance: 9. MJO Staff Comments: very crystally, bright hairs. Very well cured
   
2. Fragrance: 6. Very organic, chemical smell. Not too strong. Nice smell when burned.
3. Taste: 6. Not very sweet. Bland, nothing distinct.
4. Intoxication: 8. At inception - heady, very uplifting, hits quick, but not as hard as expected. At one hr - still high but not that much.

That gives us a Raw Score of 37 and a corresponding MJO Score of 74. At $60 per .125 g, that gives us a MJO Value Index of 0.62 which represents an "ok" buy. The MJO staff was very surprised that White Widow did not blow away our charts in our Intoxication test. It may be possible that we just got a bad batch.

Have you ever smoked White Widow? What are your impressions? Let us know in the comments.

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MJO Exclusive: Obama Angrily Legalizes Marijuana

Perhaps, the stress of the office is finally getting to President Barack Obama. Today, in a seemingly unprovoked outburst, the President in one stroke legalized marijuana while at the same time lashing out at the proponents of legalization. We have included the surprising comments made by the President below:

"You know, I was just going to wait until the second term when i would be safe politically," Obama said. "But I'm tired of taking sh*t about this on the Internet. I mean I smoked pot, i admitted to smoking pot in my book and on the campaign trail, and I'm known to chain-smoke cigarettes but what do I get? Anonymous people on the Internet treating me like I'm a f*king square. Y'all gonna act like I never smoked an L before? You're going to treat me like I want marijuana to be illegal? That's bullshit."

"Every liberal and their mother wants to tell me about how they've heard of a great new way to raise some revenue and ease our debt. Like I don't know what's going on?"

"The fact is regulating and taxing marijuana would not only bring in a few billion dollars in revenue but it would also save us a few billion in prohibition expenses," Obama continued. "But the thing is I just did a $700 billion dollar bailout, have a 400 billion dollar budget, and dropped some serious coin on the automakers."

"Seriously, we've committed about 12.8 trillion dollars to this financial crisis and we're sitting here talking about a few billion in revenue in savings? Come on! Yeah, so the financial side of the argument to me was always weak to me."

"You think the stoner lobby could have come up with a coherent, convincing moral argument to counter those red-staters that are not for legalization on principled grounds but nooo all i get is this revenue argument. That's really a hard sell when we've just spent all this money. Like I could use that now?"

"But you know what? At this point I'm just tired of all this crap. I don't have the time to waste on this. I've got two wars, an economic situation that looks a lot like the Great freaking Depression, and Geithner keeps calling me asking for more money."

"So f*ck it, you wanted some legal pot? Here you go! I'm done with it. Go get blazed, whatever, I don't care."

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