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  Marijuana Consumers Are Under Attack In Multiple States, And It’s Time To Fight Back (Op-Ed)Published on March 6, 2025By Marijuana Moment

“Now is not the time to become complacent, nor is it a time to presume that marijuana will somehow legalize itself.”

By Paul Armentano, NORML

Seventy percent of Americans, including majorities of Democratic and Republican voters, say that marijuana should be legal for adults. Yet this legislative session, lawmakers from both parties are placing cannabis consumers in their crosshairs.

In Republican-led states like Montana, Nebraska, Ohio and South Dakota, lawmakers are seeking to either repeal or significantly roll back voter-approved legalization laws. In Democrat-led states like California, Maryland, Michigan and New Jersey, lawmakers are seeking to undermine existing legalization markets by drastically hiking marijuana-related taxes.

In all cases, elected officials are treating cannabis consumers as targets, not constituents.

These concerted attacks on state-legal marijuana markets are an explicit reminder that the war on cannabis and its consumers remains ongoing and, in some cases, is escalating. Our opponents haven’t gone away; in many cases they’ve simply regrouped and tweaked their strategies–such as by advocating for arbitrary THC potency caps or calling for new criminal penalties for consumers who don’t obtain their cannabis from state-licensed dispensaries.

Those who oppose legalization have also become bolder and more cynical in their tactics. No longer convinced that they can win the hearts and minds of voters, they are now frequently seeking to remove them from the equation altogether.

Earlier this year, Republican lawmakers in South Dakota sought to repeal the state’s voter-initiated medical cannabis access law, despite 70 percent of voters having approved it. The effort failed, but only by a single vote.

In Nebraska, lawmakers are also considering legislation to roll back that state’s voter-approved medical marijuana law and the state’s Republican attorney general has urged lawmakers to ignore the election results altogether.

In Ohio, GOP lawmakers in the Senate recently approved legislation to rescind many of the legalization provisions approved by voters in 2023. Changes advanced by lawmakers include limiting home-cultivation rights, imposing THC potency limits and creating new crimes for adults who share cannabis with one another or who purchase cannabis products from out of state.

In Texas, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued several cities, including Dallas, for implementing voter-approved ordinances decriminalizing marijuana possession. As a result, local lawmakers in various municipalities–including Lockhart and Bastrop–are ignoring voters’ decisions to rethink their marijuana policies rather than face potential litigation.


And in Idaho, where the governor just signed mandatory minimum penalties into law for low-level marijuana possession, lawmakers are pushing for a constitutional amendment forbidding voters from weighing in on any future ballot measure to legalize marijuana.

But attacks on cannabis consumers are not limited solely to traditionally red states. Currently, several Democratic governors are pushing to balance their budget deficits on the backs of consumers.

For instance, Gov. Phil Murphy (D) has proposed raising New Jersey marijuana-related taxes nearly five-fold. A Maryland budget proposal seeks to nearly double the special sales tax consumers’ pay on retail marijuana purchases. These proposed increases, if enacted, will not only lighten consumers’ wallets, but they will also hurt state-licensed businesses.

As lawmakers push marijuana prices artificially higher, many consumers will exit the legal market and begin patronizing the unregulated marketplace, thereby undermining one of the primary goals of legalization.

Regardless of whether one lives in a red or blue state, or in a jurisdiction where cannabis is legal or illicit, it’s time for the cannabis community to stand up and assert itself. Cannabis consumers are neither criminals nor ATM machines. They are hard-working responsible adults. And they vote.

Now is not the time to become complacent, nor is it a time to presume that marijuana will somehow legalize itself. Change only occurs when advocates agitate for it, and when elected officials fear political consequences for failing to abide by voters’ demands.

Those who support legalizing marijuana are not part of the ideological fringe; we are the majority. It’s time for us to act like it and for lawmakers to treat cannabis consumers with the respect they deserve.

Paul Armentano is the Deputy Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. NORML’s state-by-state guide to pending marijuana legislation is available from its Take Action Center.

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/marijuana-consumers-are-under-attack-in-multiple-states-and-its-time-to-fight-back-op-ed/



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Cannabis General / Re: NY men suffer fatality after using weed grown in bat shit
« Last post by KratomToke on February 19, 2025, 12:43:45 AM »
 :goodpost

I am a novice at growing MJ. When I grew my last MJ plant I used regular potting soil.

Plant came out OK.

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Cannabis General / Re: NY men suffer fatality after using weed grown in bat shit
« Last post by jones on February 05, 2025, 06:10:05 PM »
All they had to do is heat it to 160°F in an old oven outside and it would have been fine.

That's called pasteurization.

Its standard practice.

Its lucky they didn't give any away and kill half the town.





I recall reading in a James Axler book about the practice of using 'night soil' as a fertilizer and they mentioned the need to heat it as well

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Cannabis General / Re: NY men suffer fatality after using weed grown in bat shit
« Last post by BurnMan on February 04, 2025, 08:15:09 PM »
All they had to do is heat it to 160°F in an old oven outside and it would have been fine.

That's called pasteurization.

Its standard practice.

Its lucky they didn't give any away and kill half the town.

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Cannabis General / Re: NY men suffer fatality after using weed grown in bat shit
« Last post by orthene on February 04, 2025, 05:46:34 PM »
Wondering if the histoplasmosis was a result of breathing in the dust when introducing the fertilizer rather than when burning the finished product. I'd put money on them creating enough dust to inhale and not using a respirator when applying the fertilizer. Once I worked with a crew shoveling about three feet of pigeon shit off the roof of the Toledo Water Reclamation plant. Believe me, all PPE was used. Tyvek suit, elbow length gloves, rubber waders, and a respirator with a HEPA cartridge. Never work around excrement without some PPE.  :jay:
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Cannabis General / NY men suffer fatality after using weed grown in bat shit
« Last post by jones on February 01, 2025, 11:32:30 PM »
New York Men Suffer Fatality After Using Bat Shit for Growing Marijuana | VIDEO
By Chris Richburg
February 1, 2025
 
 
 
 
 
Bat excrement cultivation turns deadly for two NY men // Marijuana smoking (Angela Weiss-AFP-Getty Images)
Marijuana smoking (Angela Weiss-AFP-Getty Images)
*The cost of getting high proved fatally high for two New Yorkers who used the excrement from bats to grow marijuana. Live5News is reporting the unidentified men were 64 and 59, respectively, when they met their end.

At the time, they smoked pot that was tainted with bat droppings containing a dangerous fungus called guano. Despite the benefit of using it, guano made an irreversible impact on the men causing fatal lung infections from pneumonia they contracted from the bat feces.

Described as a “natural superfood” for cannabis plants due to its high nutrients, the bat guano was bought from an online store by the 59-year-old man, the study pointed out. For the 64-year-old, he did not have to look far, since he grew a thick layer of guano in his attic. It so happened that the location had a heavy bat infestation, to fertilize his cannabis plants.

Diving further with details on the guano, Black News touched on it containing Histoplasma capsulatum, a potentially deadly fungus from the eastern half of the US. Histoplasma is typically transmitted by breathing in the fungal spores, in addition to being ingested through the mouth. — although it can also be ingested through the mouth.

A result, the fungus can cause a serious lung infection, making it difficult for users to breathe. Researchers for the study found a first, with fatal cases related to individual exposures to guano currently outnumbering work-related outbreak cases.

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“Given the recent legalization and an expected increase in home cultivation of cannabis, along with the promotion of bat guano for this purpose, it is important to raise public awareness about the potential risk of using bat guano as fertilizer and emphasize the need for protective measures, such as wearing masks when handling it,” researchers wrote.

Despite how it looked, the men’s deaths were not connected. For the researchers, the death marks a growing trend related to bat waste use among people to produce marijuana since its legalization.

Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, symptoms of histoplasmosis become visible three to 17 days after breathing in the fungus. Symptoms include fever, cough, fatigue, chills, headache, chest pain, and body aches.

The 59-year-old patient, an arthritic, heavy tobacco user with emphysema, was admitted to the hospital suffering from breathing troubles, a sore throat, and weight loss for six weeks, the study revealed, adding that the Rochester man appeared to be infected at the time.

Although doctors initially thought the small masses layering the man’s throat and vocal cords might be cancer, it turned out to be from the fungus. Efforts to treat the man for two weeks with antifungal medication were unsuccessful. The study mentioned he was then transferred to hospice care and died.

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The man’s 64-year-old counterpart, a fellow smother with severe peripheral arterial disease and prior aorto-bifemoral bypass surgery, transitioned from complications related to bowel ischemia after months of treatment. The treatment stemmed from lesions in his chest and pancreas because of the fungal infection.

Weighing in on the two situations, researchers warned of histoplasmas infecting “a wide range of the population” with immunocompromised individuals among those with the highest risk.

“These cases also highlight that growing cannabis can be a relevant part of a patient’s history as a risk factor for histoplasmosis,” researchers stated amid recommendations to test commercial biofertilizers containing bat guano for the bacteria before hitting the market.” A wide range of the population may be at risk of acquiring the disease through this exposure, with the highest risk among immunocompromised individuals.”


https://eurweb.com/2025/bat-excrement-cultivation-turns-deadly-for-two-ny-men/


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Good old ohio for you moved here in 2014 :cigar
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Cannabis General / Re: Cannabis Compound Discovered Inside Totally Different Plant
« Last post by jones on February 01, 2025, 02:19:04 PM »
OMG it's hiding!


                                :weed-sign:
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Cannabis General / Re: Cannabis Compound Discovered Inside Totally Different Plant
« Last post by KratomToke on January 27, 2025, 09:29:28 AM »
 :goodpost

 :stoned
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Cannabis General / Cannabis Compound Discovered Inside Totally Different Plant
« Last post by mattynugs on January 26, 2025, 10:08:10 PM »
"This is a plant that grows all over Brazil. It would be a simpler and cheaper source of cannabidiol."

Scientists had previously found CBD in a related plant in Thailand, he said.

Trema micrantha plant
A type of Trema micrantha.
Neto, who had not yet published his results, said he now plans to scale up his study to identify the best methods to extract CBD from "Trema" and analyze its effectiveness in patients with conditions currently treated with medical cannabis.


His team recently won a 500,000-real (US$104,000) grant from the Brazilian government to fund the research, which he estimates will take at least five years to complete.

A study by market analysis firm Vantage Market Research estimated the global market for CBD at nearly US$5 billion, and projected it would grow to more than US$47 billion by 2028, driven mainly by health and wellness use. https://www.sciencealert.com/cannabis-compound-discovered-inside-totally-different-plant
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