Do be looking for the union label.

[No Elephants]

Insight: Shrinking U.S. labor unions see relief in marijuana industry

(Reuters) - The medical marijuana shop next to a tattoo parlor on a busy street in Los Angeles looks much like hundreds of other pot dispensaries that dot the city.

Except for one thing: On the glass door - under a green cross signaling that cannabis can be bought there for medical purposes - is a sticker for the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), the nation's largest retail union.

The dispensary, the Venice Beach Care Center, is one of three medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles that are staffed by dues-paying union members. Another 49 in the city plan to enter into labor agreements with the UFCW this year, the union says.

Together, the dispensaries are a symbol of the growing bond between the nascent medical marijuana industry and struggling labor unions.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/06/us-usa-marijuana-unions-idUSBRE91507E20130206

Hey. An agricultural worker is an agricultural worker.

Go, union!

I wonderif this gets the D of J to stop raiding legal (under state law) medical marijuana dispensaries in California?

[Enthusiast]

1. Will wonders never cease?

I kind of wish I felt like toking a doobe. It no longer has much appeal for me. But it might take the edge off my pain.

[No Elephants]

2. It might, indeed. If it's legal in your state, I'd sure give it a try.

Meanwhile, :hug:

[Enthusiast]

3. The pain control element I like.

But the side effects of the "high" I do not. Funny, I used to think it was the best. The best!

You are too sweet.

[No Elephants]

4. I am really not.

Someone told my son that his mom was sweet and he thought that was hysterically funny.

[Enthusiast]

5. Kids. Whadyagonnado?

:hi:

[Divine Discontent]

6. bwahahahahaha.... now that's enough to get me to sign in and say I love this tidbit of info!

made me chuckle!

you are loving, maybe not sweet... your measured smackdown ability prevents you from crossing over from loving to sweet, I guess. You always just lay it out how you feel, and that's a special person. :hug:

me, on the other hand, I'm nothing but...

[No Elephants]

7. You know how many people would line up for sunshine, lollipops and/or rainbows?

Me included.

Now, guess how many would line up for a smackdown.





In fairness to my son, I was just as surprised as he was that this person remarked to him about my sweetness. And, he thought about it some later and then he started referring to me as sweet now and then himself.


I do have a higher degree of empathy than most people I know. I will give myself that much.

When I was in the hospital, an Episcopal priest who was over 70 used to drive all the way from Cape Cod to Boston right after church on Sundays to give me reserved communion, and then drive back after visiting a bit with me. (Now, THAT was sweet.)

One Sunday, he made some comment about my being a good patient.

I contradicted him. But, he held his ground. (I was thinking, "What does he know about it? He's not here to observe me.")

Just then a nurse happened to walk into the room. He whispered to me, "Watch this."

Then he asked the nurse what kind of patient I was. She was very complimentary. After she left, he said, "See?"

I assumed she was just being nice, so she would not get me into trouble with a priest, but I did not debate it with him, lest he call me stubborn (or worse!).

But, thank you for all the nice things you say to me.

[Enthusiast]

8. I like No Elephant stories

even when they are about a difficult hospital stay.