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Halcyon Daze

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  1. Halcyon Daze

    Meet up: Ipswich

    I'll endeavor to come. Looking forward to it, cheers
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    P. som seed varieties giveaway

    Wow, Can't say no to this. May I please be considered, Glaukus. THANXXX
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    Weed is now FULLY legal in New York

    Weed is now FULLY legal in New York bringing the count to 18 states and territories in the US where weed is fully legal. Pretty cool, huh. Don't ever give up the fight for your plant and medicine rights!!! Very interesting article here... https://www.forbes.com/sites/alonzomartinez/2021/04/06/a-new-york-state-of-mind--what-legalized-weed-in-the-workplace-means-for-employers/?sh=16a6959828d6 After years of debating and advancing marijuana laws, beginning with legalizing the medical use of cannabis in 2014 to decriminalize minor marijuana-related offenses in 2019, lawmakers in New York have gone all-in legalizing the recreational use of marijuana by adults. On March 31, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the New York State Cannabis/Marijuana Regulation & Taxation Act, reducing barriers to employment for users and encouraging employers to rethink their positions on marijuana. Getting Started The Act creates an Office of Cannabis Management (OCM), an independent arm of the New York State Liquor Authority’s Division of Alcohol Beverage Control. The OCM will be responsible for operationalizing and regulating marijuana within the state and will assume duties over the state’s existing medical marijuana program. The OCM is expected to establish standards for cultivation, create licensing programs for distributors, processors, and retailers of recreational marijuana, adopt advertising and marketing rules and implement a social equity program that will assist individuals disproportionally impacted by cannabis enforcement. While legalization is effective immediately, you won’t find shops opening in your neighborhood until the OCM has implemented the rules necessary to regulate marijuana. Regardless, individuals in New York may currently possess, purchase, share and consume up to 3 ounces of cannabis and up to 24 grams of concentrated cannabis. While it may take months or years for retail sales to start, employers should prepare to comply with the legislation. Employer Impact Thankfully for employers, the New York State Cannabis/Marijuana Regulation & Taxation Act does not diminish an employer’s ability to maintain a zero-tolerance drug-free workplace. Employers are not required to permit or otherwise accommodate the use, possession, sale, or transfer of cannabis in the workplace and can prohibit employees from being impaired during work hours. Notably, for users of marijuana, the Act amends Labor Law Section 201-d, protecting workers’ rights to engage in the use of cannabis outside of work. Specifically, the Act requires employers to not discriminate against a worker’s use of cannabis when off-duty, outside of the employer’s facility, and when not using the employer’s equipment or other property. As it relates to an employer’s pre-employment drug screening program, most New York employers may not refuse to hire a candidate based on their legal use of marijuana. An employer would not violate a lawful recreational marijuana user’s rights based on three specific exceptions: 1. An employer may adversely affect a recreational marijuana user’s employment if an employer is required to bar a marijuana user based on a state or federal statute, regulation, ordinance, or other state or federal government mandate. 2. If a worker is impaired by marijuana while working, and the worker’s impairment interferes with an employer’s obligations to provide a safe and healthy workplace, an employer may choose to take an adverse employment action. 3. Finally, employers who would violate federal law or may experience loss of a federal contract or federal funding may disqualify a recreational marijuana user from hire or employment. The Act places employers who engage safety-sensitive but non-regulated workers between a rock and a hard place. When gauging the deterioration of a worker’s abilities based on marijuana use, an employer must identify “specific articulable symptoms” of impairment to challenge the worker’s fitness for duty. Even if an individual tests positive for marijuana while at the workplace but does not exhibit “specific articulable symptoms” of impairment, an employer may be barred from impacting that worker’s employment. What’s Next? Since the legalization of recreational marijuana in New York is effective immediately, employers should quickly rethink their stance on marijuana and the impact of their adjudication policies on lawful marijuana users. Most employers not subject to federal regulation or other express obligation covered by New York’s new law to bar users of marijuana from the workplace will need to address policy statements that lean otherwise. Similarly, employers may want to rethink pre-employment testing for marijuana since a lawful recreational user cannot be barred from employment. Of note, New York City barred employers from testing prospective candidates for marijuana in 2020. Finally, employers will need to carefully develop and implement policies to assess a reasonable suspicion of impairment at the workplace or while on duty to defend an adverse action taken due to a positive test for marijuana. As the state gets underway in implementing its recreational marijuana program, employers can expect to gain clarity behind the intent and enforcement of existing rules and the possible evolution of the law as time progresses.
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    Weed is now FULLY legal in New York

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    Post your track of the day

  6. Yes. Sulphur would also be one to watch out for with plants younintend to smoke az sulphur oxide gasses are quite toxic. So if you were to use sulphur powder to control mites then you may want to reconsider smoking it for quite a while.
  7. Let's see how you are helping nature in your own back yard! How have your gardening efforts paid off by attracting all creatures great and small back to your little patch of paradise. Birds, insects, frogs,lizards, spiders... I wanna see them all! Show us the fruits of your labor eco-minded Sabsters I'll go first
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    Pseudolithos grafting stock

    Absolutely no idea but since it's in the Apocynacae family start with one of those. Maybe Stapelia might be an easy to come by option.
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    six years later and i'm back

    Sorry Humboldt, I didn't see your post and have made almost the exact same talking points. Great minds think alike bro ;)
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    six years later and i'm back

    LOL That's hilarious. Pretty cool you managed to remember it though. Many people spend most of their time on FB these days whivh is one big shitfight of misinformation. I really like this oldschool forum setup, much better way to teach and learn as one big collective brain. Awesome pics by the way and welcome back
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    Meet up: Ipswich

    I should be there around 12 with a couple other party animals. Yes bring a mask, they still apply.
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    Bridge cactus disease! Help D:

    I've had something similar to this which turned out to be a rat in the garden. Came back a few nights in a row. Yours looks like it could be mice. Maybe try the old 'wine bottle over a bucket of water' trap. You may have a bit of a mouse plague and not know it.
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    Matucana Pachanoi seeds and clones

    Hi trucha, love yr work as always. I've long wondered about the history of these 'Ogun' clones, particularly what happened in the time between you guys receiving them in the mail and Ogunbodede's analysis. Approximately how long were they grown out before the analysis took place, or did that take place pretty much immediately after they came out of the post. Do you think the long period in the darkness had any effect on the study's results? There seems to be a popular thought that they were analysed soon after their long period in the dark and therefore placing cuts in the dark may be a beneficial practice. Any other interesting things to add about Ogun's history? It's certainly garnered a bit of a cult following after the awesome study. Cheers
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    Post a random picture thread

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    Meet up: Ipswich

    I might actually have some free time by then, fingers crossed
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    This section needs a "show wild finds" thread

    They look mean-as, bro!
  17. Not sure but I know it's systemic, so you might have to wait a couple weeks at least. The longer the better I guess.
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    Post your track of the day

    nice drum solo at 4:40 -very crisp indeed
  19. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. Hope you have a wonderful and fulfilling time partying down, while some of us are either working or in lockdown. And if it's not a happy time for you right now then don't let the blues get you down, I sincerely mean it. Anyway crack a coldie for me this Christmas because I'm up to my neck in assignments and it just doesn't work drunk (trust me I've tried). Have a good one and lets all say one big 'GOOD RIDDENCE' to this epic fail of a year
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    Merry Christmas Futhermukkas! 2020 special!

    Onya Humbold, fantastic work bro
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    Post your track of the day

    Something a bit different
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