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Heretic on 2012: Fear people, not God (news video feature)

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The young Boston investigative journo Dan Rowinski recently produced this news feature about 2012 (below), as part of his graduate studies at BU.

Dan interviews me (I’m cited as an “apocalyptic expert”), along with Mayan and millennial experts from BU, and end-timers on the street.

I enjoyed watching the piece. The point I make in it is that the risk of chaos in 2012 is very real: not from above, mind you, but from crazy people getting amp’d up with anticipation.

Apocalyptic – 2012 News Feature from Dan Rowinski on Vimeo.

The Sci-Tech Heretic predicts: Pot legal, $15 per ounce, within three years

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Photo: Neeta Lind. Flickr/CC

Photo: Neeta Lind. Flickr/CC

This piece (above), links to the original report from NBC Miami, which is a funny, nicely written bit about Irvin Rosenfeld — one of four tokers who get their supply from the US government, which enjoys the monopoly on legal marijuana.

The MyFox National piece also notes, in the trail-off at the end, that the American Medical Association is about to endorse marijuana as medicine.

Again, my prediction: marijuana will be legal (not only for medical use) by the end of 2012. Estimated price within a year of legalization: $15 per ounce.

NBCMiami.com. reported that Rosenfeld is writing a book on his experiences as the nation’s longest-running legal pot-smoker, tentatively called “Potluck.” He hopes to have it published in the spring. But he expects Friday, Nov. 20, he will set a world record for marijuana consumption when when he lights up No. 115,000.

Link here to the MyFox Maine piece.

PNormal's 2009 Mass. marijuana predictions

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Bud girl. CC/Shreyans Bhansali

Bud girl. CC/Shreyans Bhansali

Now that pot possession (<=1 ounce) is a mere civil infraction in Massachusetts, here’s what we can expect…

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Are they high? And what will those wacky Davis Square folks do next? Photo: CC/Sushiesque

(1) Davis Square becomes home to the Hub’s first (if not widely publicized) “pot café,” where people can light up and munch out, and drink coffee. Odds: 50-to-1

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Sasha Shulgin, speaking at the opening of the Picower Institute at MIT (in this image, he is at a different gathering), said psychedelics will help scientists understand human consciousness. Cannabis studies might be a precursor to these studies. Photo: CC/ASach

(2) University administrators, at Northeastern, MIT, Brown or Harvard, quietly green light  at least one cannabis research project. (Graduate students are being grossly underutilized for this type of thing, by the way.) Odds: 4-to-1

(3) Attendance at MassCann’s 2009 Freedom Rally (Boston Common, Sept. 19)  tops 100,000. Odds: 4-to-1

(3) A hipster doofus at the Freedom Rally moans as cops write him a $100 ticket for possession. The cops rough the kid up a bit, and YouTube video-makers are there. Odds: 3-to-1

(4) The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raids  a Mexican weed smuggling operation in Eastern Massachusetts. Odds: 10-to-1