RED SKY AT MORNING

= G-13 in the evening !

Got up around two to write (not unusual) and broke around six to get the paper. Reaching for it, butt raised to the east when it registered ~ what a powerful orange glow infused everything! I turned my head to the sunrise and took off sprinting for the back of the house and my camera. Hadn't moved that fast all year, and got back out in time to get off a dozen or so shots before it faded.
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Navy Wife arrived this morning, altho her dog - a pug/beagle concoction named Kobe after the Famous-Rapist Laker - did not. He sat in a cage at Dulles all night, got to LAX early this afternoon, and arrived here a couple hours after dark freaked out and wearing a plastic collar so he can't lick where his balls used to be. This dog has had a rough week, but we'll try to accommodate. Pinays are all about to head off for yet-another Midnight Mass and the beginning of official 'rounds' ~ gonna be a lot of eating going on tomorrow, I'm afraid. I'm puppy-sitting, and writing a Bud Review.
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Farmacy visits are almost as much fun as a good afternoon in a used book emporium ~ I really like bookstores, I do ... Planned to head down to Green Angel of Malibu for clones & hash this afternoon. Very high quality shop, broad-ranging menu with better than average staff, well run. Selection is among best in area, and while it isn't cheap, prices aren't unreasonable. This is a Best Practices outfit = Recommended. Sacred Mountain (Santa Barbara) is more oriented toward my community & its Localized economy. I know these folks better and personally like them; some of them are Friends, so Sacred Mountain is my default farmacy. Selection is limited compared to some outlets, prices reasonable, and they'll discount larger purchases. Staff are well-informed, willing to engage patients about appropriate strains, and demonstrates a remarkably patient-oriented work-culture, a reflection of the Values brought by these people to their tasks. Another Best Practices shop = Recommended.

On off chance Sacred Mountain was open, called there ~ they were, and I did head up there. Wasn't a lot in stock - DEA visited earlier in week and they've reduced their Risk ... but o boy ob did they have a couple winners for me ~ a bargain outdoor OG, an interesting southeastern Asian "Saigon" which will "bring me back" I'm told by an earnest 20-something. Heaven forbid it does that, altho the prospect of anything redolent of Thai Stick is a welcome prospect ~ anyone out there willing to teach me how to tie one off properly, btw ?

But the real reward for the trip was the first G-13 I've ever seen ! This isn't the G-13, of course, but a downstream "Mr. Nice" strain which rates a double Hot-damn on several counts. G-13 is a 'Strain with a Story' to begin with, whatever it turns out to be ... the story I got today was that it was diverted from a "government" breed program, which meant the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. It's a miserable four-acre patch surrounded by barbed wire, guard towers, kleig lights and the monopoly on federal pot production ~ it is the sole-source provider, on apparently perpetual contract from the early '70's. Cast in the best possible light it is a total fucking waste of tax resources.

Mahmoud A. ElSohly showed up in the NYT this week. He's a NIDA-owned pharmacist who operates the fed pot franchise at RIPS and he was crowing some about their 'breeding' program which I suspect to be pure PR shill, probably spur of moment. I love the NYT but they understand Sufi politics better than the domestic cannabis industry. This was a lame interview, but the separation between medical quality cannabis Grown American compared to their ditchweed is -- help me, Mikey -- Chateau Beapdecoop to Mike's Hard Lemonade. I think he was embarrassed and was winging it when asked about genetically modified cannabis:

"That actually has been the trend over the years in the cultivation in the illicit market, and also in the legal market, where we are doing genetic selection, where we select specific materials that have the genes that produce higher levels of THC or some of the other ingredients."

They may select from random outcomes, but I've FOIA'd these guys bigtime and don't see them as being anywhere near able to do any controlled genetic breeding. Hell, they have trouble coming up with 3% pot. They're good at converting their crop to tars with which rhesus monkeys may be tortured for NIDA's amusement. These guys can pick daisies ~ they can't breed pot.

May just have to drop another FOIA bomb on this boondoggle just to see what's tucked in their filing cabinets. Always fun to establish the Truth of a Matter, and last time was such grand good fun ... rolled down the PCH with prospect of once again hanging the RIPS-NIDA Gang up with its own rope danced thru my head, an 8th of Carlton Turner's ex-pat finest ~ the D B Cooper of Fed-Pot ~ packed into the cooler in the trunk. G-13 ... I can hardly wait to try this on.

Fuckin A. I'm laughin' my ass off all the way home.

@ Hey, Carlton, remember me ? I'm baaaaccccckkkkk !!!! @

24 Dec 08