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September 21, 2007 7:03 PM   Subscribe

Wanted to know where to buy smoke in Ketchikan, Alaska? Here is a community written travel site where the advice can be dramatic, "Traffiking=DEATH....Don't get caught!!!!!!," or oddly politically topical. Or just plain helpful. Bon Voyage!
posted by psmom (18 comments total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
Helpful for those stopping by Ketchican on a sea cruise. What an awesome town to live in, I bet. Tourist dollars get delivered to you every morning, and they all set sail by 4:00.
posted by anthill at 7:08 PM on September 21, 2007


T'was born there more than 26 years ago. Sadly, I don't remember anything about it.
posted by The Confessor at 7:21 PM on September 21, 2007


I lived there for a bit in 1996. (Tried to move there and failed...) What an interesting coincidence to see that place as the first example here.

It's a strange town... Part of me would like to go back and try living there again, but without a good bit of money (read: ability to go a long ways away, likely back to flat land) a few times a year I'd probably go nuts.

Maybe it'd be a good place to retire to...
posted by c0nsumer at 7:24 PM on September 21, 2007


You wanted your first metafilter post to be a "Worldwide Marijuana Travel Guide?"

Really?
posted by dersins at 7:55 PM on September 21, 2007


Well, psmom could have posted it to travel.metafilter.com and it would have been really useful.
posted by Jimbob at 8:18 PM on September 21, 2007


Nice!

But is this more of a local issue or are they making it "official" so the feds have a harder time wading in and fucking around with no-harm-no-foul that has already been in effect for a while?

They have the medical marijuana thing in there, but are the local cops still going to enforce against people who don't have permits - did they even go after people without permits before this bit of legislation?
posted by porpoise at 8:29 PM on September 21, 2007


Huh?
posted by peeedro at 8:34 PM on September 21, 2007


The only time I've ever been randomly hit up to buy weed was in a little restaurant in Seward, Alaska.
posted by 517 at 8:46 PM on September 21, 2007


Awesome! I'd like to see the formula used to assign each town its tolerance score.

This widget here is especially fun.

(This is a fine first post)
posted by EatTheWeek at 8:47 PM on September 21, 2007


I didn't realize Tehran was so pot tolerant. I hate them for their freedom!
posted by maryh at 9:00 PM on September 21, 2007


I'd like to see the formula used to assign each town its tolerance score.

Great idea. And then show a gradient map of tolerance across the country...and then the world.
posted by telstar at 10:01 PM on September 21, 2007


The Vancouver entry would be more accurate if they pointed out that "where you can buy" is "everywhere, and you will probably be offered whether you want it or not". I grew up in a drug-filled neighbourhood in Toronto, but the only time I've ever been both asked for drugs and offered drugs was the one day I spent sitting in a Vancouver park.
posted by jb at 3:11 AM on September 22, 2007


Being on vacation in Lisbon or Sicily North-African men show some well-kneaded lump in the palm of their hands when you walk by and say "pssst, hashchisch?".

That groses me out. Being Dutch I'd at least need a menu to choose and the stuff carefully weighed and packaged.
And even then I'll probably leave it to the tourists.
posted by jouke at 4:27 AM on September 22, 2007


Ok, so the scale says 1=very illegal, and 5=legal, or virtually so. So, in Johor, you get executed for trafficking or possession of large quantities, or thrown in a hole for decades for small quantities. And that's a 2. I'd hate to see what happens in a place rated 1.
posted by absalom at 6:40 AM on September 22, 2007


The only time I've ever been randomly hit up to buy weed was in a little restaurant in Seward, Alaska.

Maybe you look like a cop? Or maybe I just look like a stoner?

It's happened to me in Panama, The Bahamas, Belize, Sri Lanka, Fiji and so on and so on and so on...
posted by JaredSeth at 7:38 AM on September 22, 2007


they all set sail by 4:00

4:20, dude.
posted by fourcheesemac at 9:54 AM on September 22, 2007


Their geography's a bit controversial - one list for the United Kingdom (minus Belfast but including Jersey) and a separate one for Scotland. Their entry for Wales seems to be about Limerick and the one for London degenerates into an alarming load of nonsense about clubs, cabs and car hire.
posted by ComfySofa at 3:39 PM on September 22, 2007


Or maybe I just look like a stoner?

I get this everywhere too. Short hair, clean-shaven, straight-dressing, and mysteriously attractive to drugs.
posted by Wolof at 6:49 AM on September 23, 2007


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