Oh boy, a smoke and tobacco shop opened up on Western Ave (the Winsome Lass location). More business for our local oncologists and hospitals in the near future.

Brilliant indeed. What year is it again? 1957?

i think it is more a HEAD shop, like you can buy your bong and stuff to smoke weed? I might be wrong tho?

Yep. A paraphenalia shop. Just what we DON'T need in Petaluma. Google it and see all the idiotic comments from the weedsmokers. Where is the McDowell Drug Task Force on this one?

If no drugs are being sold out of the place, the task force has no business there.

I know my opinion may not be the most popular, but I think if more people were smoking weed instead of drinking, downtown Petaluma would look less like a cross between a Mixed Martial Arts expo and a police state on weekend nights.

I won't be patronizing the Mighty Quinn, but I'd much prefer to deal with silly, giggly, red-eyed people over testosterone and alcohol-enhanced gorillas any day. And I'd rather the police go after the gangs than bother consenting adults who want to smoke.

Can't quite figure out how there is 'retail leakage' in the head shop category!
WE already had one head shop in town (Off Limits) and now we have the Mighty Quinn as well?
Who knew that P-town was such a 420 crowd?
I thought we were just blessed with meth-heads.

The sign is HUGE. Who allowed that???
The bongs in the display window are HUGE.
Not a good message for youngsters walking by.
"Hey mommy, hey daddy, what's that?"

I dont believe that thier products should be visible to the outdoors, but theres a head shop two hundred feet away in the courtyard where everyone hangs out and nobody complains about that. Its really easy for you to point your finger and say something shouldnt be there because its not one of YOUR intrests. This town seems to be all about keeping out the businesses you dont want here(walmart, ect), but nobody cares that powells sweet shop ran windsome lass out of here in the first place.
Last time i checked, its innocent until proven guilty, and The Quinn hasent broken any laws. I bet it would be nice to flex your muscles and bully the quinn out of town, but this is a free America where we teach tolerance for the way other people like to live their lives.

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Originally posted by KRRH:
The sign is HUGE. Who allowed that???
The bongs in the display window are HUGE.
Not a good message for youngsters walking by.
"Hey mommy, hey daddy, what's that?"

Right....

so why don't you tell them the truth? that some people like to smoke an herbal plant which makes them happy, maybe a little bit sleepy and hungry too?

do they ask you "what's that mommy" when you pass the liquor store? what do you tell them then?

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Originally posted by walk2k:

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Originally posted by KRRH:
The sign is HUGE. Who allowed that???
The bongs in the display window are HUGE.
Not a good message for youngsters walking by.
"Hey mommy, hey daddy, what's that?"

Right....

so why don't you tell them the truth? that some people like to smoke an herbal plant which makes them happy, maybe a little bit sleepy and hungry too?

do they ask you "what's that mommy" when you pass the liquor store? what do you tell them then?

I agree. Education's the main thing here... it's up to each individual to make sound judgements. Even if there are no advertisements, people who want to do drugs /smoke whatever will find ways to get them. Many people also tend to enjoy doing things that seem "forbidden" and off-limits... it's human nature, kind of :-)

Well, at least the town is getting some sort of revenue out of the pot industry. Not really offsetting what we are paying those task force GI Joe's who are back-packing it into the woods to plow fields, but its something. You know, the DEA shouldn't destroy that stuff, it would probably fetch a good price overseas in those markets where it isn't illegal. A way out of our budget crisis? lol

MQ is hardly a cancer.
Though it is not everybody's "cup of tea", it's a clean, friendly place. I for one welcome it to our fine city!
We are in a huge financial hole in this state and we are overlooking an untapped revenue source.
People are going to smoke weed... period...
If it were legal and regulated our $ issues would not be as big of a problem. Not to mention taking this funding source away from gang-bangers.

wake up and smell the buds!

It's merely a paraphenalia shop. The also have hemp clothing and a bunch of sundries like used to be available at Spencer's at the mall, if you remember those back in the 70's/80's (blacklights, posters, etc.). In other words: HARMLESS. It's about time you tell your children about it KRRH - you are doing them a disservice by keeping them sheltered.

They are not licensed to sell weed - for that you need a prescription and you can go buy it legally in Cotati, Guerneville, Santa Rosa, San Rafael, San Francisco, Oakland, etc. Let's not get up in arms over nothing folks, like our more conservative neighbors up in Windsor - weed could likely be completely legalized within our lifetime, at least in California. And what a cash cow it will be: talk about revenue! You can pull the state of its current mess with just a fraction of the taxes it would bring. Weed is harmless. Now tobacco, alcohol, and automobiles on the other hand...

(well said, Joe the Plumber!)

from one study:

Lung Cancer Risk of One Marijuana Joint a Day Equals Daily Pack of Cigarettes

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Jan. 29 -- Smoking a single marijuana joint may be as carcinogenic to the lung as 20 tobacco cigarettes, researchers here determined.

Those who smoked the equivalent of one joint a day for 10 years had a 5.7 times higher lung cancer risk than nonsmokers even after adjusting for tobacco use, reported Richard Beasley, M.B.Ch.B., of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand here, and colleagues in the Feb. 1 issue of the European Respiratory Journal.

The effect on lung cancer risk in the population-based case-control study was even greater than the one joint to five cigarettes equivalency for lung damage previously reported by the research group. (See: One Cannabis Joint Equals Smoking Up to Five Cigarettes)Action Points
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Inform interested patients that this case-control study supports a dose-dependent risk of lung cancer from smoking marijuana.


Consider asking patients about cannabis use along with routine questions about smoking status.
Smoke from cannabis contains up to twice as many carcinogenic polyaromatic hydrocarbons and tend to be smoked without filters while inhaling more deeply, leading to higher concentrations of smoke inhaled, the investigators noted.


Although cough, wheeze, and other respiratory effects expected with any type of smoking have been found with marijuana, the association with lung cancer has been inconclusive. (See: Marijuana Linked to Respiratory Complications)


However, the New Zealand findings provide sufficient evidence that some components of cannabis itself or cannabis smoke are real lung carcinogens, according to an accompanying editorial by Christian Brambilla, M.D., and Marc Colonna, Ph.D., both of the Institut Albert Bonniot in Grenoble, France.


"The prudence principle should be sufficient to convince everybody that lung cancer has to be added to the list of secondary effects of cannabis smoking, along with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease," they wrote.

That's why you should use a vaporizer. No carcinogens because the combustibles don't actually combust - they're just heated enough to release their essential (curative) oils. Doctors recommend it (or consuming it other ways like in baked products). Gotvape.com is a good place to learn, but of course you should do your purchasing at The Mighty Quinn, support your local businesses.