Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

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@easternsike: It's just a lot more legitimate out here than Gawker seems to believe.

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@m4ximusprim3: I would argue with the final paragraph, specifically:

Technically legal in California, Halem's dicey business model is legit from a state standpoint, but not federally. You can't just call up an get a bag, but knowing the multitudes of dodgy loopholes that exist in the CA medical marijuana policy (i.e. insomnia counts) it's probably not that hard to score a prescription. Line up your doctor's notes ASAP! Because this opportunity may not (probably won't) last.

The federal government has promised to stop raids on dispensaries that abide by state law, so I don't know why this particular business would have any issues. And while it isn't particularly hard to get a prescription, I don't consider that to be a result of "dodgy loopholes." Marijuana does help with minor problems like insomnia and anxiety, so why shouldn't people be allowed to self-medicate? And I basically just think the tone here is stupid. "Line up your doctor's notes ASAP! Because this opportunity may not (probably won't) last." It's ridiculously easy to get legal or illegal marijuana in California, regardless of whether this Twitter business model succeeds or not.

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Granted, people can and do do deadly things when they're drunk or high on other legal/illegal "medication," but at least there's some recognition of and education about how alcohol, pills, etc are dangerous. The wink-wink, hey-bro-fuckin-spark-it way the CA marijuana proponents are pushing their platform tells me that if pot is gonna be legalized (which is fine by me), then we also need a serious and ongoing discussion of how it can be dangerous.

Bottom line: like Doug Benson's doctor said in "Super High Me," no responsible medical practitioner is going to tell their patient to inhale the unfiltered smoke from a bunch of burning leaves.

The medical excuse is BS.

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