The picture gallery can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/185K0/diy_launch_box/1 — I will probably go through and add captions with helpful hints in the next week or so

The videos can be found here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/i9f49s – 4 movies in a zip archive ,15.25MB, 3gp format (what my phone saves it in) — if anyone wants to post these elsewhere or convert them or whatever feel free.

The schematic I made in google sketchup to work out the dimensions (print this if you are trying this, its a huge help):

The materials used:

• Red Maple Wood Block (I got mine at Lowes, about $2 for a piece which they cut to 2 1/2 length for me)
• 1/2″ x 6″ copper pipe hook, stainless steel coated in copper (I got mine at Lowes, and the link is a slightly bigger size, but has a good picture — just go to the pipe section at a large hardware store and you will find it) – Cost about $2
• Stainless Steel Tea Ball, (Works, but mesh is slightly to large, tiny flecks get through when it is really dried and ground. Something like this, which is available here — I’m guessing about .006″ mesh, 304 stainless steel) – Cost about $2, but I had one anyway
• Plexiglass cover (I went to michaels crafts framing department and had them cut a few for me — paid about Five bucks for 6)
• Batteries — atleast 2000 mah, the higher the better – cost about $8
  Materials total: $20, with plenty of extra material for screwups, and including batteries which is a significant portion of that total

The tools used:

• Wood saw (mine wasn’t a good type, so the cut where the negative terminal is uneven and junky)
• Spade drill bits (I used 1 1/16″ for the large circle above the trench, and 9/16″ for the battery slot
• Regular drill bit (To drill holes to connect copper rods to trench area. Just compare it to the pipe hangers, it should be a perfectly snug fit, no vapor should be able to escape, but not crazy hard to push in. One of my standard bits was absolutely perfect, I just forget the size)
• Regular drill bit (I used another size to drill the hole you inhale through, which also drilled the trench beneath the large circle. Don’t recall the size, but you can figure it out.)
• Wood Chisel, 9/16″ (I used this make the trench area nicer, and to shave it down so that the screen could get pinned under the rods more easily)
• Sand paper, to beautify it

Thats it — even if you have to buy all the tools you will be saving money and have the fun of a DIY project

Things I would do different:

• get a better saw so the notch is better
• use a better screen like previously mentioned
• make the screen have a deeper trench

That’s about it.

I tried getting a video of me vaporizing tobacco in it, but it wouldn’t show on my camera phone so I didn’t post it. It worked though, and tobacco takes a higher temp than herb

I would have tried for herb vaporizing, but I’m broke as a joke and will be for some time.

“You know you’re a stoner when friends make you a Bob Marley cake,” she said. “You know you smoke way too much f—ing weed!”

It’s unclear as to how and when the request will be made, but one thing is clear, the request is a mandate hidden deep within House Bill 1284 from 2010, which originally established the statutes for medical marijuana in Colorado. A passage describing the duties of the state licensing authority states the following, under the heading of “The state licensing authority shall,”

IN RECOGNITION OF THE POTENTIAL MEDICINAL VALUE OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA, MAKE A REQUEST BY JANUARY 1, 2012, TO THE FEDERAL DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION TO CONSIDER RESCHEDULING, FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES, MEDICAL MARIJUANA FROM A SCHEDULE I CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE TO A SCHEDULE II CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE.

And just who might the state licensing authority be? Earlier in the same document, this position is designated to “the executive director of the Department of Revenue or the deputy director of the Department of Revenue if the executive director so designates.” Barbara Brohl was appointed to this role on June 30th by Governor John Hickenlooper, and is the person who will be making this request of the DEA.

Source: Westword

“For the federal government to interfere with state and local implementation of California’s medical marijuana law is tantamount to a government bailout for criminal gangs and violent drug cartels. For some reason the federal government wants to force legal medical marijuana patients toward a dangerous criminal market and away from an above-ground industry that pays over $100 million per year in state taxes and provides jobs for thousands of our citizens. California voters can tell the feds to back off and let Californians implement our own laws by voting to regulate marijuana like wine next November.” said James Gray, former superior court judge from Orange County.

The press conference will be taking place at the Plaza of the Flags, which is behind the Santa Ana Courthouse (Located at: 700 Civic Center Drive West, Santa Ana, CA 92701), it is scheduled to begin at 10:00 AM.

Source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/454723

Steve Ackerman of the Organic Alternatives dispensary in Fort Collins and Kim Cordova of United Food and Commercial Workers both shared their approval at the tryst of the two entities. “We are the retail food, pharmacy, agriculture, food processing, and healthcare Union in Colorado and around the nation,” Cordova said in the announcement.

Also announced was a press conference at which the UFCW will elaborate more on the medical marijuana workers joining the union and the conditions surrounding the ordeal.

Source: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_19107764

In Gov. Gary Johnson’s IAMA (AMA), he gave viewers insight into his platform and policy, as he touched on some key topics, albeit lightly: the differences between his platform and that of Ron Paul’s, his views on his ability to handle foreign policy, and more. Perhaps the most interesting thing he stated was a vow to “defang the DEA” and issue an executive order to declassify marijuana as a schedule 1 narcotic.

If you’re curious and want to learn more about Gary Johnson, visit GARYJOHNSON2012.com.

And guess what? I CAN HAS! Obviously, this (these) were made by a redditor, and his name is hooly. He sells these reddit alien pipes on etsy.

Each garden would be limited to a maximum of 45 marijuana plants. The law also authorizes cities and counties to adopt zoning regulations, business licensing requirements, taxes and health and safety regulations related to these dispensaries.

Source: Standard Examiner

Potential applicants must consider a detailed security plan and outline the entire cultivation, harvesting and storage processes; then they must submit these along with a $5,000 application fee, $2,500 of which is non-refundable. Applications received are run through a vigorous and meticulous screening process.

Last month, the health department rejected 31 letters of intent to apply for one of 10 cultivation licenses or five dispensary licenses because of errors as simple as forgetting to put down an email address. [...] Applicants also must heed the finer points of the process, such as making 10 printed copies and one electronic PDF of all application materials. [...] No one can “amend, add to, correct, revise, or supplement” an application after it is submitted, so the health department advises applicants to take heed of revised rules in the regulations posted Friday.

You can view more information about the Washington D.C. Medical Marijuana Program at the Health Regulation and Licensing Administration website.