Russia to open marijuana retail chain

[notesdev]

The first store to sell marijuana will appear in Russia in Nizhny Novgorod. However, it is not going to sell the psychotropic substance to everyone. Persons under 18 years of age will not be allowed to purchase this product, and pregnant women will not be able to enter the store either. The opening is planned for June. At the moment, the store chain management is holding negotiations with suppliers.

It has been decided to open a network of similar stores later in Moscow, Irkutsk and Samara.

It will be recalled that, as of December 2010, it is allowed by law to sell marijuana in Russia. The State Duma approved the project to distribute the psychotropic substances for medical purposes. Marijuana is also known as an anesthetic, antiepileptic, anticonvulsive, and antiemetic medicine.

http://www.newsbcm.com/doc/726

Meanwhile, here in the Land of the Free ™ ...

Oklahoma Mom Gets 10 Years for Selling $31 of Marijuana

An Oklahoma woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling $31 of marijuana.

Patricia Marilyn Spottedcrow, a 25-year-old mother of four, and her mother, Delita Starr, 50, sold an $11 dime bag to a police informant in Oklahoma on Dec. 31, 2009. The informant returned two weeks later to buy $20 of marijuana. Spottedcrow, who worked in nursing homes before her arrest, told The Oklahoman she did it to get some extra money.

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http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/21/oklahoma-mom-patricia-marilyn-spottedcrow-gets-10-years-for-sell/

[Brigid]

1. Looks like growers in Kentucky have found . . .

a bunch of new customers. :evilgrin:

[eridani]

7. There have been several convictions in Illinois thrown out--

--because it's apparently illegal to stop someone just because they have Kentucky license plates.

[RagAss]

2. Russia gets it.

[niyad]

3. in the meantime, the ONLY business here that is growing (no pun intended) is the object of concerted

efforts to shut it down (fascinates me that all the repukes running in the recent municipal election whined about "getting rid of the stranglehold of regulation on business", except when it comes to mmj.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Russian stoners driving around municipal parks will never be able to stop their

cars after reading "No Parking On Grass".

[Shagbark Hickory]

5. So they're getting a medical mj dispensory. Well, we've had those for years and years.

It's not like they legalized mj.
The woman getting 10 years is more newsworthy.

[Rageneau]

6. Must be nice to live in a free country -- like Russia

I wonder if any of the words in their national anthem stick in their throats like "Land of the free; home of the brave" stick in mine these days.