that picture fits this so well.... way to go consumerist not only can we laugh at this but all the stoners now have a serious case of the munchies and are on the hunt for donuts

Fucking potheads...

Totally dope.

I think The Consumerist is the only place where I'm OK with dropping jokes and double entendres. You guys do it with everything. Well done.

However, it really frustrates me when I see what are normally straight forward non-humorous publications writing about pot with headlines like
"New Pot Legislation Up In Smoke"
"Law on Weed is Hazy"
"Medical Marijuana is Good for Joints"
And then continue to riddle their story with as many lame jokes as possible.

There's a serious discussion to be had, and one of the reasons no one takes is seriously is because of how the press covers it.

This App is genuinely trying promote local activism. I'm glad that it's sparking debate (oh jesus, now I just did it), but I really wish that people would argue about it in an intelligent manner.

The Crest Premium strips work really well. Your teeth get even whiter a few weeks after you've used the product.

@EBounding: Dang, had the wrong story open. :humiliation;

@EBounding: Wake'n'bake'll do that.

@EBounding:

Hey there, maybe you shouldn't be using this particular iPhone app so much...

Wouldn't this be facilitating illegal activity? If it is in fact accurate, I can imagine the cops using it with great success.

@ohnoes: No, it's fostering a legal activity.

And I'm pretty sure the cops already know where the dispensaries are. If they don't, they could just use the phone book or something.

There's nothing funny about pot. It's like joking about AIDS or african children starving to death. Our current drug policy causes incalculable human suffering and the wasting of potential. It has caused Mexico to become a failed mafia state run by the rule of violence and drug money. It has disenfranchised millions from society - labeling them criminals, unable to find jobs or go to college. Sure, cannabis is not a harmless drug, it has it's dangers - but they pale in comparison to the harm caused by those trying to "save" the users.

"Stoner" cinema - cheech and chong, half baked, etc. have really set the movement back, because they let people easily focus on the humor of the whole thing, and ignore the black hearted viciousness with which our drug policy is carried out.

Something like this certainly helps, in some small way - primarily by tying together the activism side - attorneys, organizations - with the desire to consume the substance and generating publicity.

But the priority of the activists shouldn't be in taking the substance - which certainly has a potential for abuse, and should only be taken recreationally with great rarity - as in highlighting the tremendous human suffering that current policies needlessly create.

@SakhiGolden: Something tells me potheads are fucked a lot more than you are.

@spanky: Googlemaps FTW!

@ohnoes: It's not like they're showing drug dealers' addresses. From the article: "...it only shows dispensaries for legal, medical marijuana..."

Now if I could only remember where I left my iPhone...

@zyodei: And iPhone apps are the devil too, right?

But really, this story isn't about illegal pot. It's not even about whether legal pot is a good idea or not. It's about an iPhone app that can help someone with a prescription find out where to fill it. The prescription just happens to be for pot.

@Wombatish: Also, you seem to be going in two different directions... pot is no laughing matter, it's as serious as AIDs, Darfur, our failing relationship with Venezuela and North Korea, but it's really ok and you're glad that people are trying to make it ok to use (except they shouldn't actually use it because it's addictive, they should just make it not illegal)? One side seems Fire and Brimstone-y and one side is like "eh, consume in moderation and we're good".

Maybe (no sarcasm, really) I'm just missing your point, but I'm lost.

@zyodei: "The movement", wow pothead, go find something more useful to spend your time on than wasting hours lamenting about how great the world would be if you could be bombed out of your skull 110% of the time.

The fact that people are so desperate to make these drugs legal by any means necessary is further evidence that they never should be.

But what if I sold my iPhone to buy pot?

@Radi0logy: On the contrary, I support legalization, but I've never touched the stuff, and probably never will. Were it to be legalized, it would be as good a source of revenue as alcohol, and would kill the black market almost overnight. Just look at Prohibition. It didn't stop anyone from drinking, wasted millions in governemnt money (and caused countless party fouls!) and made people like Al Capone rich. When the amendment was repealed, boom, the bootleggers were suddenly out of business (except in the mountains of the south, but they were bootleggers of a different sort).

@Radi0logy: You seriously believe that the fact that people want something is a good reason to prohibit that thing?

The OP is about medical marijuana, which many people are desperate to get because it's the safest, most effective treatment available to them. Whether or not some commenter here is a 'pothead' is irrelevant.

BTW, when someone is that casual and confident at assigning selfish motives to other people, it really speaks volumes to their own integrity.

@Radi0logy: While I agree with Wombatish that the point wasn't entirely well-made, you have clearly missed it entirely.

I'm not necessarily 100% with zyodei's sentiments, but dismissing someone offhand with

wow pothead, go find something more useful to spend your time on than wasting hours lamenting about how great the world would be if you could be bombed out of your skull 110% of the time.

..when that was so obviously not anywhere in his/her statement is ridiculous.

@SakhiGolden: Fucking Potheads indeed

So when's the cocaine app coming out?

@Shadowman615: how well does the iphone screen stand up to razorblades?

@spanky: "The OP is about medical marijuana, which many people are desperate to get because it's the safest, most effective treatment available to them."

Whatever you say, apologist. When the majority of "Medical Marijuana" prescriptions are for 18 year old kids with "glaucoma", its clear that the system has been abused. Potheads have campaigned for the effectiveness of marijuana as a medical treatment, desperately hoping that they can then fake that ailment to be "prescribed" the substance. Now that the system has been loosened enough to allow that, they need to find their hookup! Same old story, except the dealers now have Ph.D's.

By the way, "You seriously believe that the fact that people want something is a good reason to prohibit that thing", takes what I said completely out of context. My posting was implying that when people go to the EXTREMES that potheads do to get their drug, it should be CLEAR to everyone not addle-brained and foggy-headed by narcotics that its a bad thing to allow it.

A junkie will do anything to get his fix. Potheads are just junkies with a nicer name.

@Radi0logy: Whatever you say, socially regressive prevaricator.

Please show me a cite for your claim that the majority of "Medical Marijuana" prescriptions are for 18 year old kids with "glaucoma".

The fact that doctors in the US cannot legally write a prescription for medical marijuana pretty much invalidates that. And if you look at the real state by state statistics, you'll see that the median age for registered medical marijuana users is usually somewhere in the 30s, and glaucoma is pretty far down on the list of conditions it's being used to treat. In my state, only 1% of registered patients have glaucoma.

Lying like that is just weakening your already pathetically weak position.

@Radi0logy: So by your logic slavery should have never been abolished, women shouldn't have the right to vote, and prohibition was a good idea and shouldn't have been overturned? I'm pretty sure many people were desperate to make those things legal too...

@Radi0logy: Hyperbole much?

Good lord, you are uninformed.

@Radi0logy: Wow, you... um, you really bought Nancy Reagan's argument hook, line and sinker, didn't you? What kind of extremes are you talking about? Would you apply the same label to the millions of adults who defied Prohibition in speakeasies? Or the ones who pushed to have the 18th amendment repealed? Or would you have vilified them as well? If not, why?

@veg-o-matic: Agreed. And people wonder why we can't have a serious discussion about drug control reform in this country.

@SakhiGolden: I hear fucking is better.....on weeeeeeeeeed

@Radi0logy: I agree! Now, let's go get trashed and murder a hooker!

@zyodei: Sounds like you DEFINITELY need some pot.

@spanky: Lol whatever you say buddy - [www.usdoj.gov]

40% Chronic Pain
22% AIDS-Related
15% Mood Disorders
(23% All other categories)

Chronic pain and mood disorders. But yeah, I'm sure its all completely valid.

"The fact that doctors in the US cannot legally write a prescription for medical marijuana pretty much invalidates that"

A complete lie, as obtaining a prescription in California is not only possible, it is easy to do. I'm sure that "your state", whatever that may be, is special, but most rational people use California as the benchmark. Here's an article detailing how to lie to the doctor to get your prescription filled: [www.ehow.com]

But I'm sure you know all of that already.

@RecordStoreToughGuy: Don't compare junkies with civil rights leaders, please. It just makes you look pathetic.

@Shadowman615: the one to find it, the one to measure lines, or the one that tells you to stop talking so fast?

not soon enough either way.

@Radi0logy: So you consider Prohibition to have been a matter of civil rights? Even so, for you this is just totally different...? I hope you realize that makes very little sense.

Trying to accuse everyone that disagrees with you of being "pothead junkies" that lie to their doctors to get weed makes you look pathetic.

I'm wondering why this discussion provokes such a knee-jerk, angry response in you.

@Radi0logy: Wow, interesting way to support your contention, by showing me something that directly refutes it. I don't see glaucoma on your list there. Nice of you to LOL at chronic pain, though.

Pain is one of the primary things that medical marijuana is used to treat, so of course it's there. You could say the same thing about aspirin. For people with chronic pain conditions such as arthritis, medical marijuana is the safest effective treatment available. Or do you prefer to have narcotics or excessive doses of NSAIDs be their only options?

As far as the prescription thing goes, far be it from me to question the authority of eHow, but go look here:

[www.drugpolicy.org]

3) How can I find out how to obtain a prescription for medical marijuana?

Because medical marijuana is illegal under federal law, doctors are not able to write a prescription for medical marijuana. But if state law permits medical marijuana, doctors in those states can recommend marijuana without fear of arrest.

This is, of course, a minor point, but it's just more evidence that you have no idea what you're talking about, and that you're basing your position entirely on half-remembered propaganda and paranoid fantasy.

I'm just pointing out that pretty much everything you said is flawed in some way or another. Notice that I didn't even mention the part where you think prescriptions are written by people with PhDs and that marijuana is a narcotic.

@squinko: Ah, I should have RTFA. Thanks for the clarification.

@Underscore_Lysdexia:

Lol, +1 internets to you for Half Baked reference!

@veg-o-matic: Nah, it doesn't provoke an angry reaction in me. I just love watching the potheads freak out and jump in to desperately defend their lover in such a sad, sad fashion. And no, I don't consider prohibition to be a civil rights issue, that was meant to be a response to Hooray4Zoidberg with his ludicrous comparisons between marijuana and slavery/suffrage.

@Radi0logy: Um. What? I didn't mention Civil Rights. I was talking about the 18th amendment, which prohibited the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol, and asking you to please clarify whether you feel the same way about the criminalization and legalization of alcohol as you do about the criminalization of marijuana, and if not, why you feel there is a difference. I also notice that you did not care to answer the question.

Allow me to clarify my statement (please note that at no time do I mention Civil Rights leaders): You claim that everyone who uses marijuana or supports Drug Policy Reform are shiftless junkies only out to experience a non-stop mondo drug trip. What I am asking you to clarify is whether you consider every person who patronized speakeasies (in case you don't know what that word is, a speakeasy was a place that sold alcohol illegally during Prohibition) or pushed for the repealing of the 18th amendment as hopeless alcoholics whose only goal in life was to spend every waking hour completely plastered. If you don't demonize them in the same way, then please explain why you consider them to be different.

@Radi0logy: I was wondering why that was directed at me. Now I feel kinda bad for being so snarky in my reply.

@Radi0logy: Oh, it provoked a reaction. You have accused everyone who has disagreed with you yet of being a junkie. As soon as I post this you will surely count me among them.

You're saying now that's not angry? What would you call it? Just the facts as you know them? There hasn't been a lot of fact or reason from you so far.

I'm betting this will soon disappear from the app store.

This is terrible. If it was JUST for medical marijuana it'd be ok, but the article says it provides info on 'unofficial' sources.

I fail to see the humor in drug use, sorry. If you wanna smoke pot & act STUPID, you're a moron. Pot may not rot your teeth of make you go crazy & rip your skin off, but that doesn't mean its harmless. It makes you act like a damn dumbass & it is a gateway drug, no matter what any pothead says. Back in high school I watched a straight-edge, straight-A guy go from trying weed for the first time at a party, to trying coke, to trying acid, to trying crank, to trying herion, only to end up a junkie with AIDS.

@Radi0logy:

"A junkie will do anything to get his fix. Potheads are just junkies with a nicer name."

Agreed. 100%.

I have no respect for druggies. ALL drugs should remain illegal.

I DO think that the majority of people that called for an end to prohibition were alcoholics. I know *I* can live just fine w/o alcohol, so why would I want it to be legal? Same with weed.

@kabuk1: Well, that's all fine and good, but some of us like to enjoy a beer or two every now and then. Why should you be the one to decide I can't have my Leinenkugel just because you can live fine without it?

@kabuk1: Yeah, like those stupid chemotherapy drugs and asthma inhalers and anti-rejection drugs! I live just fine without these things, and I have no respect for people who take them!

Stupid druggies! Just say no!