Pubdate: Thu, 09 Jun 2016
Source: Westword (Denver, CO)
Column: Ask a Stoner
Copyright: 2016 Village Voice Media
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Author: Herbert Fuego

DEAR STONER: CAN I USE MY MMJ CARD IN VEGAS?

Dear Stoner:I'm going to Vegas in October and wonder if I can use my 
Colorado medical card to pick up a little medicine while I'm there. Rich

Dear Rich: Nevada is one of the few medical marijuana states with a 
reciprocity law that allows out-of-state patients to possess and 
purchase cannabis while they're visiting. Although the state might 
not have as many dispensaries or options as you'll find in Colorado, 
Nevada has become a haven for patients coming from states with more 
restrictive regulations - and those coming from states with no MMJ. A 
February article in the Las Vegas Sun detailed how pre-screened 
tourists with a valid California ID or U.S. passport boarded a 
California-bound bus in Vegas and were connected with a doctor, who 
evaluated the tourists for a California medical card. If the tourists 
were approved, a medical marijuana recommendation was printed on the 
bus in Vegas, where the new patients were then free to visit 
dispensaries and carry and consume cannabis.

The same Sun article also said that obtaining a California card that 
way is actually easier than getting a Nevada-issued MMJ card, which 
usually takes a few months. So not only can you buy pot with your 
Colorado (or any other state's) medical marijuana card in Nevada, but 
you can get a second medical marijuana card in Nevada...from 
California. Thankfully, all of this mumbo-jumbo could become a thing 
of the past after November, when Nevada votes on legalizing recreationally.

Dear Stoner: Why does my poop always smell like weed?

Nojack

Dear Nojack: Do you eat a lot of edibles? I once ate a pot brownie 
before getting in a car with my parents and started getting gassy 
thirty minutes into the ride. I let one rip that smelled exactly like 
a skunky bottle of chronic; my parents thought I was smuggling flower 
and pulled the car over. Now we laugh about it.

Like broccoli, eggs and heavy meats, marijuana can make your bowel 
movements smell a certain way. And if passing gas in public weren't 
already awkward enough, eating a lot of hemp-based foods, like hemp 
protein, will also make your farts smell like weed. But if you're 
only a toker, then you shouldn't be dropping deuces that smell like 
pot. That means you're either swallowing smoke, which is not 
something you should be doing (smoke of any kind in the stomach is 
never good), or you have some sort of infection that makes your shits 
smell danker than they should. If that's the case, ask a doctor - not a stoner.
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