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Does Weed Have '5' On the Economy?
The Recession is Over! How We Celebrating?
WTAN Says: If the Media Pops that Junk Up in the Bronx, They Might Not Live
Signing Off: Since the Establishment Loves Biggie, Do You Think His Birthday Will Become a National Holiday?
Even Men Are Asking Why, Double X, Why?
Can Double X Get Feminist Media On the Same Cycle of Hate?
WTAN Signing Off: The Weekend We Substituted Susan Orlean in for Sasha Grey
Susan Orlean, Defender of the New Yorker Universe, In Her Own Words
In the Case of Dan Baum, Everyman, vs. the New Yorker: How Do You Plead?
In Which We Discuss the Hipster Reality Show Casting Call

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TRexstasy
06/13/09

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Whaaaaaaaat? I'm sorry, I'm having a little trouble following what's going on here.
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TedSez
06/13/09

In reply to Does Weed Have '5' On the Economy?
You know that if legalization ever happens in California, the next day Trader Joe's will come out with "Trader Cheech's Two-Buck Kush," and that'll be the end of profitability.
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BookishLookish
06/13/09

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Ain't got no rent, man.

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kimberlydebarge
06/13/09

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Nice article-- but I've never bought "hedgefund guy"'s argument. The only people who will grow their own weed are the same kinds of people who roll their own tobacco cigarettes. The vast majority of people will be happier to put in less effort and get a consistent product at the corner store. Guaranteed.
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kimsama
06/14/09

@kimberlydebarge: Exactly. Hardly any of my friends can keep a fucking spider plant alive.

I am so uncool that I've never smoked, but if I did, I couldn't be arsed to grow it, first. I can hardly delay gratification enough to grow tomatoes every summer.
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VoxPopuli
06/13/09

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Also, I'm kind of hoping that the above picture is an American Apparel ad. I'd feel kind of sorry if someone were dressed head to toe like one of Dov's Angels out in public by choice.
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VoxPopuli
06/13/09

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Sure, go ahead and tax it and just legalize it federally while you're at it. It's far less harmful to society and one's health than alcohol.
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ChillbearLatrigue
06/13/09

@VoxPopuli: I like drinking. I think that all that pot does is foul up the taste of a really awesome brownie. Can't we have both?
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VoxPopuli
06/13/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: Sure - actually, I don't do either, but I think both should be legal. Alcohol is already legal and I wasn't calling for banning it.

Yeah, yeah - I know, Prohibition. I can't see that happening today, so no worries about the demise of happy hour.
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bjonston
06/13/09

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Anybody know what time it was three minutes ago?
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Foster Kamer
06/13/09

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Note from the Weekend Editor:

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bangers
06/13/09

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despite all the news today, i wasn't going to smoke this afternoon...until, as though a sign from god, upon reading this article i found a little leaf in my bed.

thanks for the push, gawker.
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SeaBassTian
05/31/09

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This twisted train of thought is wishful thinking from professional cheerleaders. I need more than a gut feeling forecast before I re-adjust my "daily Triscuit rations".
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BookishLookish
05/30/09

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Assimilated, fashimilated, the world was a better place when De La was on the charts. Who flipped the mediocre AOR beats into funky freshness better?
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I Love New Jersey
05/30/09

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Of course the recession is over since it has evolved into a depression.
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krismry
05/30/09

@I Love New Jersey: Definitely devolved into a depression about August 08 when the dads came back from summer break to find out the quants had gone and blown up the lab. Had to do some fancy footwork to pretend the dollar, the us bonds, the such as were still real and wiley coyote wasn't halfway across the grand canyon walkin on air after the roadrunner...so let's celebrate by dancing the night away, since it gonna last about ten more years conservative estimate.
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T.A.N.
05/30/09

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Waterfall!!!!!111!!!
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Foster Kamer
05/30/09

@T.A.N.: Summertime! Audience reach!
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NatelysWhoresKidSister
05/25/09

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Two nights ago, I spent 45 minutes railing to a cute fella about how modern feminism will slay literature and culture where it stands, how in 50 years we changed the way we raised girls but not boys, so we've got a culture of men entirely unprepared for coping with shifting gender roles and how the best thing we can do for the feminist movement, at this point, is focus our energies on raising competent, confident men in a completely egalitarian world.

The next morning, that same cute fella send me a text message calling me "turdface." Feminism still has a long way to go.
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The Lone Scout
05/26/09

@NatelysWhoresKidSister: Are you making a prima facie generalization that men are less competent and less confident than the average alienated human in our (certainly not egalitarian) world?
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skahammer
05/24/09

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My knowledge is limited to the US legal system, but my instinct is that low conviction rates, by themselves, demonstrate almost nothing.

It would be extremely useful to know what the spectrum of other prosecution outcomes included, before simply concluding on the basis of a couple of reported low conviction rates that a justice system isn't working. I suspect there could be a lot of "prosecutions" begun that never actually make it to trial due to the prosecutor's own decisions, for instance, and a lot more that end in plea agreements or other arrangements rather than convictions.

Is data like that available? Because when considered in isolation, this one statistic just doesn't reveal very much.
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Ginmar Rienne
05/25/09

@skahammer:

You're ignoring the presence of sexism in law enforcement, which tends to be dominated by conservative white men.

Meanwhile, in LA, thousands of rape kits are languishing untested, waiting for the statute of limitations to expire, which means that thousands of rapists are walking free. Oh, yeah, and a bunch of guys are whining about how women lie.
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skahammer
05/26/09

@Ginmar Rienne: You're ignoring the presence of sexism in law enforcement

You might be misreading my comment a bit. "There's sexism in law enforcement" is just an assertion, which may or may not be true depending on what the data reveal.

I'm not at the level of making assertions yet -- I'm trying to make sense of the data. Since the data seem incomplete, commenting on an assertion, in one way or another, would be premature and pointless. That's not "ignoring." That's trying to find a way to arrive at an informed opinion on something that seems worth having an opinion about.
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