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Too long to post entire transcriptWhen reporter Tony Dokoupil was a teenager, he found out that his father had sold marijuana, but he just thought his parents "were hippies." A few years ago, while working on a story about his father's drug dealer past, he discovered that actually, in the 1970s and '80s, his father, Anthony Dokoupil, had been a big-time marijuana smuggler.
"He was arrested in the early '90s on a job selling 17 tons of marijuana," Dokoupil tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross, "which was enough at the time to roll a joint for every college kid in the U.S."
Dokoupil is now writing a book about the controversial plant, and is the author of the recent Newsweek cover story "The New Pot Barons," about the group of entrepreneurs who are growing medical marijuana in Colorado and hoping to cash in on the plant's recent legalization there for recreational use. On Election Day, Colorado and Washington became the first states to greenlight marijuana for recreational use, which is big news for the expanding marijuana industry.
If legalization is here to stay, Dokoupil says Colorado's tightly regulated for-profit medical marijuana market will likely be the basis for the legalized recreational markets in other states as well. In Colorado, more than 1 million square feet of warehouse space outside of Denver are dedicated to growing marijuana, and hundreds of dispensaries sell it. To manage this growing business, the state has 200-plus pages of regulation to explain what is legal and isn't. Marijuana grown in the state, says Dokoupil, is tracked from "the time it blooms to final sale every single ounce is accounted for."
Interview Highlights:
On the initial "Green Rush"
"After Eric Holder and the Obama administration suggested that they weren't going to crack down on medical marijuana, everybody and their brother grabbed a trash bag full of weed out of their backyard and were like, 'All right, medical marijuana here for sale!' ... Then Colorado was really interesting ... because there's a core of young, educated, politically connected and well-financed guys who said, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa. We can't have former black market drug dealers and bikini girls as the face of our industry, because the community's not going to accept it.
"So they partnered with law enforcement. They partnered with state legislators. They hired incredibly high-level political consultants and lobbyists who have worked nationally. And they are the inside force that led to the creation of Colorado's regulated medical marijuana industry, which is unlike any in the country and which will be the basis for the legalized, regulated market. And so in response to the craziness that we saw in 2009 ... a movement toward controlled, regulated, not-in-your-face, nonconfrontational pot culture has begun."
On Colorado's tightly regulated, commercial medical marijuana growing market
"So in Colorado, the medical marijuana growers have to have 24-hour video of their operations, and that video is accessible by the state at any time they can tap into it. And they all have these badges, and they had to go through background checks to get these badges. So there's an attempt to keep black market money out of it ... in Colorado, you're unlikely to see a situation where a dispensary is, in fact, just a front for a Mexican cartel. And then they had this additional rule, which is pretty revolutionary it's called a 70-30 rule, where 70 percent of all the marijuana that each store sells, they have to grow themselves. ... That goes a long way to eliminating the introduction of black market weed. ... Stores aren't just buying all their weed from Mexican cartels and marking it up. ...
"That's a huge reason why the feds have focused on California. California doesn't have tight regulations on who grows marijuana, where it comes from. So the feds move in, and what they claim is that these med marijuana businesses are fronts for what are in fact just old-school black market drug dealers. And they're not growing medical marijuana in small batches for patients. They're growing it in Mexico, or they're growing it in the hills, and they're just bringing it in, and it suddenly, magically becomes legal once it gets in the store. But in fact, it's based on illegality. Colorado doesn't have that."
On the commercial pot-growing houses in Colorado
"I hope that in the future there are tours of marijuana warehouses in the same way that there are tours of breweries today, because it's really incredible. By law, you have to grow indoors in Colorado. And to do that, these rooms are rigged with lights that mimic the effects of sunlight to grow the plant, and different rooms have different seasons. And there's a perpetual grow, and different plants require different kinds of sunlight. So you walk into these warehouses, and at first you don't see anything because the actual plants are inside smaller rooms within rooms. And all you hear is the buzz of electricity. It's damp you expect a forklift to come in from a side door. And you get a little deeper in and you open one of these doors, which are about the size of, like, Winnebagos where the actual plants are, and your eyes just recognize, 'Oh my god it's summer sunshine.' It's like you want lemonade.
"And then you see a field of plants waving gently because they're stirred by fans, and there will be classical music playing, or there will be hard rock depending on what the grower says the plant likes. And then you go to another room and you open the door, and it will have, like, a honey-coated light, and you'll be like, 'Oh fall! I want a pumpkin latte how beautiful.' And there will be workers in there, too. And the workers are like the Keebler Elves of cannabis. They live among the plants. They sleep there. They're caring for the plants constantly. They're deeply, devoutly about the plant, and they're usually shirtless or walking around barefoot."
On the threat of big marijuana business
"We've seen legalization in two states that's the first step toward legalization in other states. That's a step toward legalization nationally. So you have a third vice industry like tobacco and like alcohol. The problem with that is that 80 percent of the profits tobacco companies and alcohol companies make comes from heavy users. The business model is based on people consuming more than they should. And so there's a strong economic incentive for big marijuana companies to create as much addiction as possible. And yeah, sure, marijuana is less harmful than Jack Daniels, but it's not the same thing as safe or helpful in the home or helpful in the workplace, or good.
"And so the long-term worry is that you have sophisticated marketing programs in place, distribution programs in place, that create a double or tripling of the current level of marijuana usage. And ... by the way, Americans [already] use marijuana at triple the global average. So we're talking about a tripling of a tripling, and that's a big deal. It's something to think about, which is why many people are in favor of or I believe will become more in favor of as they realize the risks of severe limitations on the size of marijuana businesses and the advertising that they can undertake."
On the cult of marijuana smugglers like his father, in the '70s and '80s
"The people who were defying President Reagan and before that, Nixon, are not typical characters. So the golden era of marijuana is considered to be the '70s and early '80s, and the swashbuckling hero types who brought in marijuana at a time when the government was trying to crush marijuana culture those people are not, they're just not normal people. They don't have normal egos. They don't have normal connections to substances themselves. They see themselves as larger than life. They're entitled to whatever comedowns they should want in exchange for the fantastic good they've done, flooding the market with good marijuana.
"And by the way, this is not them just saying that this is how they're seen. This is the way how people in the '70s and '80s saw marijuana smugglers they saw them as heroes. There's a very, very interesting article written by Timothy Leary, the acid-dropping Harvard professor, called 'The Dope Dealer as Robin Hood,' and it makes the case that the folk hero of the '70s is the marijuana smuggler as important as rock stars and underground artists. And this was an influential article it was reprinted in High Times. And then even more recently when my article came out, I had people write to me and say, 'Oh, your father is the Rosa Parks of legalization.' I was like, 'Oh my God. What?' " [Copyright 2012 National Public Radio]
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Legal marijuana, for recreational use? Whoever thought we'd see that happen? But last Tuesday, voters in Colorado and the state of Washington passed ballot initiatives to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana. Oregon voted down legalization.
Also last Tuesday, Massachusetts voted to legalize medical marijuana. Seventeen states, including Colorado and Oregon, as well as Washington, D.C., had already done so. My guest, Tony Dokoupil, has been writing about the changing legal status, business and culture of marijuana for the Daily Beast. He wrote the recent Newsweek cover story "The New Pot Barons" about how the marijuana entrepreneurs have been preparing for legalization. And he's writing a new book about marijuana that's part history and part memoir about his father, who was a big-time marijuana smuggler in the '70s and '80s. More on that later.
Tony Dokoupil, welcome to FRESH AIR. So let's just start with an overview of what changed legally during this election regarding marijuana.
TONY DOKOUPIL: Well, it's been a profound change. In two states, marijuana has not only been legalized for personal consumption and possession, but over the next year, it will see the creation of a regulated retail model, which is something that doesn't exist anywhere in the world. And that process is going to be contentious, it's going to be fascinating to watch, and if it's not interrupted by the government, it's going to be historic - by the federal government I mean.
GROSS: And what are some of the other states that had marijuana changes in their law?
DOKOUPIL: We've seen the march of medical marijuana legalization from 1996 to today, and it's been accelerating, and that's an important part of acceptance around legalization. I mean, I think medical marijuana's acceptance is what explains the rapid acceptance and approval of legalization in Colorado and in Washington.
GROSS: So if Colorado will soon have a regulated retail model for marijuana, what does that mean?
DOKOUPIL: It means marijuana in Colorado would be available, much like alcohol and beer is available in Colorado. You'd go to the store, there'd be brands. You pick it up off the shelf, walk to the counter and exchange money - show your ID, exchange money and walk out, do what you want with it except for give it to kids. So, identical.
GROSS: So you can smoke marijuana in Amsterdam. What's the difference between that model and what's emerging in Colorado?
DOKOUPIL: So Amsterdam is - you can buy small amounts over the counter, and you can - but you can't actually possess it. And crucially, and this is the big distinction, there's not a regulated commercial growing model. So what you do in a coffee shop, quote-unquote, in Amsterdam, buy marijuana is acceptable, but that - the owner of that coffee shop is committing a crime every time they go back to their stash house and pick up a new supply.
In Colorado, that would not be the case. Everything would be regulated.
GROSS: So let's focus on Colorado some more. How did this pass? I mean, I'm still kind of shocked. Maybe I shouldn't be. But I just didn't - I didn't expect legalization to be on the ballot and to get passed. So who was behind it passing? Like how did they manage to win?
DOKOUPIL: Well, they got major backing from the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C., which is a big organization run by a former member of NORML, which is the old grandfather organization or marijuana legalization. And it's a very well-funded, savvy organization. In the past, it's received money from George Soros and from Peter Lewis, the founder of Progressive Insurance.
And they were the legal - the leading donor of the marijuana initiative in Colorado. And they also got a lot of smart help in-state. There's a guy named Brian Vicente, who moved to Colorado a decade ago to be a snowboarder, ended up going to law school and then became a really effective advocate for marijuana legalization.
He led a failed campaign for legalization in 2006, stuck with it and was victorious in 2012.
GROSS: Now the idea is that marijuana sales will be taxed. Did that help sell the idea of legalizing it?
DOKOUPIL: I'm sure the fact that the economy is not doing well, and, you know, many cities and municipalities are struggling to pay their police forces to, you know, get new fire trucks, you know, the fact that you could have tax revenue that would fix these budgetary problems from marijuana, that certainly helped the legalization case.
But it's not a slam dunk. I think people should realize that these really fabulous projections of tax revenue are not a guarantee because in Colorado and Washington State, they're proposing really steep taxes, you know, 15 to 25 percent. And if you consider that an ounce of marijuana is $250, about, today, you're talking about $30 to $60 of tax.
And, you know, people evade cigarette taxes for much less at stake than that. So this tax revenue is entirely dependent on people paying the tax and not finding ways around it, which they've done to a great extent with cigarettes.
GROSS: So you think there might still be a black market, in spite of the legalization.
DOKOUPIL: Well yes, there could easily be a black market despite legalization. There could be a black market to evade taxes. There could be a black market to transport the legally grown Colorado marijuana to other states. So that's another, you know, economic question mark here. A lot of people say oh, legalization is going to save so much money because law enforcement won't have to bust pot smokers anymore, but yeah, law enforcement's going to have to be doing other things now around marijuana.
They're still going to have to guard the state borders and make sure people aren't trucking the stuff out of state or buying too much in an attempt to then resell it to people who don't want to pay 15 or 25 percent in sales tax.
GROSS: What's very confusing about this, and I think everybody's confused about this, is that Colorado and in the state of Washington, it's legal now to buy, to sell and buy marijuana for recreational use. But marijuana is still a controlled substance under the federal law.
So the federal law and these two state laws are at odds. So what does the Justice Department plan on doing? Have they said anything about that yet?
DOKOUPIL: The Justice Department hasn't said anything about - other than that they're reviewing the situation. There's speculation that a federal injunction will be issued, preventing the legislatures in each of these states, Colorado and Washington state, from moving forward with what the voters have asked for until it's sorted out legally. And that's what everyone expects.
GROSS: Colorado's Governor, John Hickenlooper, opposes legalization, and after the law was passed, he said federal law still says marijuana is an illegal drug, so don't break out the Cheetos or Goldfish too quickly, a quote that has since become quite famous.
DOKOUPIL: Right.
GROSS: And Colorado's attorney general, who opposes legalization, says that the amendment didn't comply with required language under the Taxpayers' Bill of Rights, and therefore the tax can't be imposed. So, even on the state level, there seems like there's going to be potential obstacles going forward.
DOKOUPIL: Yeah absolutely. I'm actually surprised that the - Colorado's attorney general has not said he will defend the will of the voters because we saw a big historic development in Oakland earlier this year, where the federal government is trying to seize assets from the biggest medical marijuana dispensary there, and the city of Oakland for the first time ever has said no, we're going to represent these people, you know, the city attorney generals are defending local business against federal law.
And I'm surprised that that's not happening in Colorado because of the duty of the attorney general there is in fact to defend the will of the people against anything that would curb what they desire at this point.
GROSS: How has the Obama administration dealt with medical marijuana, and does that offer any clues as to how it might deal with legalization?
DOKOUPIL: The Obama administration has been really aggressive on medical marijuana, and he's taking - you know, the administration has taken a lot of heat for this. There have been raids on dispensaries in California, mostly in California, and, you know, people criticize the Obama administration for being worse than Bush on this subject, but what Bush didn't have to deal with is the explosion in the medical marijuana business, the number of dispensaries.
So when Eric Holder came in 2009, said, you know, the Justice Department is no longer going to focus on medical marijuana, on busting medical marijuana users, that led to an up tick in the number of people selling in states where it was legal, and then there was this now famous memo called the Ogden Memo, where - saying that, you know, if local sellers of medical marijuana are in clear, unambiguous compliance with state law, then the Justice Department should not use its resources to stop them.
And that set off what everyone refers to as the Green Rush, where you had just, like hundreds and hundreds of dispensaries. And then in response to that explosion yes, the Obama administration started doing things. But that's a very different thing than this legalization question.
I think in California, that explosion had to be answered by the feds because there is in fact no local enforcement that was able to respond to medical marijuana. This is probably getting a little bit in the weeds, but, you know, California has medical marijuana, but it has - it never bothered to regulate it with specifications that you would expect. There's only a few pages on the books saying this is what's legal, and this is what's not, and these are the bright red lines.
So no one really knows what's legal, and when local law enforcement finds something that they're not (technical difficulties) and the feds come in, and they bust people. You haven't seen the same sort of busts in Colorado because they have this huge book, this 200-and-something-page regulatory structure that says what's legal and what's not.
So, you know, so to answer your question, I don't think what the Obama administration has been doing in response to medical marijuana is an indicator of what it will do in response to legalized marijuana. I think they're totally separate questions.
GROSS: So if you're just joining us, my guest is journalist Tony Dokoupil, and he's been writing about marijuana. He has a book on marijuana that he's writing right now. He had the recent Newsweek cover story on Colorado and "The New Pot Barons," and of course Colorado and Washington, state of Washington, just legalized marijuana last Tuesday in the election. Let's take a short break here. Then we'll talk some more. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is journalist Tony Dokoupil. He is writing a book about marijuana, and he wrote the recent Newsweek cover story on Colorado and "The New Pot Barons." Colorado is one of two states that legalized marijuana last week in the election.
Colorado already has a for-profit marijuana market. Can you describe what that market is like now?
DOKOUPIL: Colorado is an amazing state because it has the world's, the industrialized world's only regulated, for-profit cannabis market of any kind. It happens to be medical, but it's going to be the basis for the legal market, as well. It's an amazing system.
It was created by this career lawman named Matt Cook, who was director of enforcement at the state level, and he took - he constructed this regulatory system using a little bit from used car sales laws and a little bit from casinos and a little bit from gambling. And he - it's extremely tight. He says he can regulate anything.
And so what you have there is commercial grows, you know, more than a million square feet of warehouse space outside of Denver dedicated to growing marijuana, and then you have hundreds of dispensaries dedicated to selling it. And the marijuana grown there is tracked from the time it's put into - not the ground because they're growing it indoors, but by the time it blooms to final sale, every single ounce is accounted for.
It's an incredible system, and, you know, legalization will likely borrow from it heavily in the next year or so.
GROSS: You toured several pot warehouses. Would you describe the rooms in which the marijuana plants are grown?
DOKOUPIL: Absolutely. I hope that in the future, there are tours of marijuana warehouses in the same way that there are tours of breweries today because it's really incredible. By law, you have to grow indoors in Colorado, and to do that, these rooms are rigged with lights that mimic the effects of sunlight to grow the plant. And, you know, different rooms have different seasons in them, and there's a perpetual grow, and different plants require different kinds of sunlight.
So you walk into these warehouses, and at first you don't see anything because the actual plants are in smaller rooms within rooms, and all you hear is, like, the buzz of electricity. It's damp. You know, you expect a forklift to come in from a side door. And then you get a little bit deeper in, and you open one of these doors, which are about the size of, like, Winnebagos, where the actual plants are.
And your eyes just recognize oh my God, summer sunshine. It's like you want lemonade. And then you see a field of plants waving gently because they're stirred by fans. And there'll be classical music playing, or there'll be hard rock, depending on what the grower says the plant likes. And then you'll go to another room, and you open the door, and it'll have, like, a honey-coated light, and you'll be like oh fall, I want a pumpkin latte, how beautiful.
And then there'll be workers in there, too, and the workers, they're like the Keebler Elves of cannabis. They live among the plants, they sleep there. They're caring for the plants constantly. They're deeply, devoutly about the plant. And they're usually shirtless or walking around barefoot, and it's like you - it's like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory except for cannabis. Like they're these people who are so committed and so interesting. It's so unlike who you would see at, like, the Coca-Cola factory that it's just a phenomenon experience. It's a feast for, you know, all of the senses.
GROSS: So this legal marijuana is grown with such kind of care and love, under such controlled circumstances, indoors. Compare that to the product that comes in, say, illegally from Mexico.
DOKOUPIL: It's not even - it's not comparable. You know, Mexico historically grew its marijuana, you know, in these hilly - in ravines growing out with mule piss and, like, whatever fertilizer they could find. It was like it wasn't grown in ideal circumstances. No one cared about the quality in the '60s and '70s. People weren't educated about marijuana to the extent they are today.
So traditionally, Mexican marijuana is grown outdoors and sold to, you know, the gringos, who will smoke anything. It's been transported illegally, so it's crushed in transit. In the old days, at least, it used to, you know, smell like gasoline or like seawater or whatever - however it was brought into the country. And it was not attractive to look at.
You can look at High Times magazine, sort of the Playboy of pot, from the '70s, and the centerfolds, which, you know, are women in Playboy but are marijuana buds in High Times...
DOKOUPIL: This is true. This is true. It's not an attractive thing. It looks like something you chewed at dinner and then put on the corner of your plate. It's like a root vegetable, like broccoli you couldn't digest. It's - that's what the marijuana leaves used to look like.
And now it's like a - it's a perfect, furry little acorn, like a green corn on the cob with just fur and these - and then you hold it up to the light, and the crystals shine. You know, the THC, the stuff that gets you high, comes - you know, it's a crystal on the plant. And the layers are so thick on marijuana that's grown today that it's like a little chandelier. It's nothing like what you used to see.
GROSS: And when it's sold, it's already, like, dried and crushed, and there's no stems or seeds or twigs in it.
DOKOUPIL: No, no stems, no seeds, no twigs, no tarantulas, no bugs.
GROSS: Tarantulas, great.
DOKOUPIL: No really, like smugglers in the old days used to, you know, get their weed from Colombia, and they'd put it on a sailboat - or Jamaica - and then they'd - you know, they'd pack the sailboat as much as possible and sleep on the bales and make the sea journey. And they'd wake up, and, you know, a spider on their chest because, you know, all kinds of things live in these plants. I mean, it's organic matter that's being grown out in nature. So all kinds of creepy-crawlies, but, you know, none of that here, none of it.
GROSS: You describe how, initially, the marketing of the medical marijuana was very tacky. So describe how it was initially sold.
DOKOUPIL: Sure, this is somewhat of a long answer because marijuana began under Prohibition, of course, so there was a lot of - you know, it was confrontational, sort of smoke-in-your-face culture, protest culture, anti-government culture, counterculture. And so, you know, strains of marijuana have names like Polio and, you know, Green Grenade and, you know, things that you don't traditionally associate with medicine.
And then they had - there were these big marijuana festivals where, you know, just you can buy plastic bags already full of smoke and just inhale the plastic bags. You can eat any number of marijuana food products. And then of course there were the annual smoke-ins, where people go to some public place and commit mass civil disobedience. You're disobeying the federal law against marijuana.
So marijuana culture grew up out of that prohibition, and now there's - you know, under medical marijuana has been an attempt to get away from that, to shift from the culture of protest to a medicinal culture. And that's been a bit of an awkward pivot because, you know, if you have cancer, and you say, you've got cancer, you know, you know what would be really great while you're undergoing chemotherapy, you should smoke marijuana.
Oh really? Let me try some. What's it called? Try this, it's called Polio, or it's called Green Crack.
DOKOUPIL: It's a bit jarring. Oh, you've got glaucoma, have this Green Crack. That will help. And, you know, that doesn't mean it doesn't help, but it just, there's a - it's incredibly awkward.
GROSS: And you were also describing in your article a time when, like, girls in bikinis would be selling five dollar joints, and, you know, guys in sandwich boards would be advertising...
DOKOUPIL: Oh yeah, so after Eric Holder and the Obama administration suggested that they weren't going to crack down on medical marijuana, everybody and their brother dragged a trash bag full of weed out of their backyard and were like all right, medical marijuana here for sale.
DOKOUPIL: And, you know, doctors popped up and were selling instant - you know, you needed a doctor's recommendation, but this became a complete scam, right. A doctor, for like $35, I'll give you a recommendation. You know, it's not a prescription, you're not violating any code that you've - you know, no AMA code.
So yeah, there would be guys in sandwich boards. There would be doctors on-site, in stores, just sort of signing prescriptions, and pot smoking was happening like crazy. And then Colorado is really interesting, and this is the focus of my cover story, in fact, because there's a core of young, educated, politically connected and well-financed guys who said whoa, whoa, whoa, we can't have former black-market drug dealers and bikini girls as the face of our industry because the community is not going to accept it.
So they partnered with - they partnered with law enforcement, they partnered with the state legislature. They hired incredibly high-level political consultants and lobbyists who work nationally, and they are the inside force that led to the creation of Colorado's regulate medical marijuana industry, which is unlike any in the country and which will be the basis for the legal regulated market.
And so in response to the craziness that we saw in 2009, which still exists in Washington state, by the way, and in California to some extent, you know, something more subdued, a movement toward control of regulated, you know, not in your face, non-confrontational pot culture has begun.
GROSS: Tony Dokoupil will be back in the second half of the show. He's been writing about changing marijuana law, business and culture for Newsweek and the Daily Beast and is at work on a book about marijuana. I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross, back with journalist Tony Dokoupil, who has been writing for Newsweek and The Daily Beast about the changing legal status, culture and business of marijuana. Last Tuesday, Washington and Colorado became the first states to legalize marijuana for recreational use. They already had legalized medical marijuana. Dokoupil is at work on a book about marijuana that's part history and part memoir, about his father who was a big-time marijuana smuggler in the '70s and '80s.
When we left off, we were talking about Colorado's regulated medical marijuana industry, which Dokoupil says will be the basis for the new regulated legal market.
And Colorado passed a bill to create a framework for controlling the industry, a sales framework.
DOKOUPIL: That's right, a very stringent sales framework. So, in Colorado, the medical marijuana growers have to have 24-hour operations, and that video is accessible by the state at any time. They can tap into it. And they all have these badges, and they had to go through background checks to get these badges. So there's an attempt to keep black-market money out of it.
So, in Colorado, you're not going to see a situation - or you're unlikely to see a situation where, you know, a dispensary is, in fact, just a front for a Mexican cartel. And then they had this additional rule, which is pretty revolutionary, where there's a 70 - it's called a 70/30 rule, where 70 percent of all the marijuana that each store sells, they have to grow themselves. So that goes a long way to eliminating the introduction of black market weed. So stores aren't just buying all of their weed from Mexican cartels and then marking it up.
And that's a huge reason why the Feds have focused on California. California doesn't have tight regulations on who grows marijuana, where it comes from. So the Feds move in, and what they claim is that, you know, these are fronts, these businesses, these medical marijuana businesses are fronts for what are, in fact, just old-school like market drug dealers. And they're not growing medical marijuana in small batches for patients, their growing it in Mexico or their growing it in, you know, in the hills and they're just bringing it in and it's suddenly, magically becomes legal once it gets in the store, but in fact, it's based on illegality. Colorado doesn't have that.
So getting back to Colorado, in Colorado, there is a licensing fee that's, like, thousands of dollars. And who needs a license? What is the license?
Right. So if you want to grow or sell medical marijuana in Colorado, you need a license. And the licensing process is this really stringent process that includes the background check I just talked about, and it's very pricey. So if you're, like, just a hippie spiritualist, unfortunately - and this is controversial - you may struggle to survive, to have the capital to survive in the current medical marijuana business in Colorado.
And, in fact, there was this amazing day, incredible day in Colorado, when all the applications had to be in. So in 2009, there was this explosion, the green rush, hundreds of marijuana stores. Suddenly there were more than Starbucks in Colorado. And then a year later, the new regulations come online and everyone has to apply for a license. And there's a grace period and all the rest, but everyone has to apply.
And then on deadline day, there's, like, a mad rush of people trying to get their applications in. And these applications are like, some of them are more than 1,000 pages. That's what ends up - people end up turning in, like, pushcarts full of paperwork for their applications. But other people who were less organized are there with, like, you know, graffiti style markers, filling them up and filling out the applications as they walk in.
And when you talk to people in Colorado, you could tell - they could tell, on that day, who was going to be a player one year later and who was, you know, on, you know, in day one of bankruptcy.
GROSS: So it's very controversial, whether the business guys or the hippie guys should be - should have a right to the business.
DOKOUPIL: Well, yeah, because there are people who believe that marijuana is God's plant and the government doesn't have any business regulating it. People have no business selling it, making a profit off of it, that this is medicine and it's obscene to try to profit off of it. I mean, that is a significant subculture within the marijuana - the wider marijuana culture.
But, you know, the other - this is the other - the other background that's important is because of federal prohibition, the medical marijuana industry is not an industry that has traditional bank loans. You can't walk into Bank of America and say, I have a small business. I have, like, a million dollars, and here's my projections.
And, you know, you can't even - because the banks are afraid that they're going to be complicit in a crime if they give you money. So that creates a kind of elite, especially in Colorado. You have to have access to private capital. That means you either have rich family or rich friends or, you know, some other creative means of getting cash, because you're not getting it through traditional channels.
GROSS: So, you know, if you're in business, there's a lot of, you know, like business tax deductions that you can claim, and that's, you know, that's always very helpful if you're in business. But, you know, in terms of, like, IRS tax deductions, you know, growing and selling marijuana is still illegal with federal law. It's a controlled substance. So you can't - I assume you can't, you know, deduct your business expenses in your federal returns.
DOKOUPIL: Sort of. You kind of can, right? This is a very, very interesting contradiction that the federal government has. So, while the Justice Department raids medical marijuana dispensaries and threatens others, the IRS is happy to accept taxes on the millions of dollars in sales that they generate. With - and the taxes that the IRS takes are huge, much bigger than the average business, because they do not allow deductions related to the sale - to employees, to health insurance, to the sale of the marijuana.
Confusingly, they do allow you to deduct the cost of growing the plant. So the result of that - well, there are two readings on that. You know, one reading is, hey, that's a conscious decision. Clearly, the government is - you know, somebody in the government is in our corner, because if all deductions were removed - which could happen. I mean, there's no reason why it hasn't happened, except for this approval - if all the deductions were removed, no medical marijuana industry - business or marijuana at-large business could survive without IRS deductions. So some people see it as a wink-wink from the government.
GROSS: So a lot of people have been speculating that, you know, when marijuana becomes legal in states, and especially when it becomes legal in more states or if there's a federal law making it legal, that big tobacco's going to move in and take over the industry. What kind of speculation have you heard about that, and have you done any investigation into the possibility of that?
DOKOUPIL: I have. I think it's very likely that the acceptance of marijuana will lead to big players moving in. That could be big tobacco. It could also be a big commercial food company like Kraft Foods. I mean, that's not going to happen tomorrow, but that's the long-term trajectory.
And I actually recently talked to Peter Bourne, who was the chief drug policy officer, the drug czar, under Jimmy Carter in the late '70s, and at that point there was serious discussion of legalizing, or decriminalizing marijuana. And Peter Bourne told me, yeah, absolutely. The tobacco companies, they had plans in place. They were ready to flip the switch if we decriminalize or legalized. They absolutely had contingency plans, he called them, in place.
So, you know, the tobacco companies, when you call them up and you say: Do you have plans? They say, no. We don't have plans. But they'd be stupid not to have plans. And the people who were in the position to know, like Peter Bourne, say yes, they have plans.
GROSS: What are the concerns about what it would mean if the tobacco industry took over the marijuana business?
DOKOUPIL: Well, you know, we've seen legalization in two states. That's the first step towards legalization in other states. That's a step towards legalization nationally. So you have a third vice industry, like tobacco and like alcohol.
The problem with that is that 80 percent of the profits of tobacco companies and alcohol companies may come from heavy users. The business model is based on people consuming more than they should. And so there's a strong economic incentive for big marijuana companies to create as much addiction as possible.
And yeah, sure, marijuana is less harmful than Jack Daniels, but it's not the same thing as safe or helpful in the home or helpful in the workplace or good. And so the long-term worry is that you have sophisticated marketing programs in place, distribution programs in place that create a doubling or tripling of the current level of marijuana usage.
And we're already, by the way, we, you know, Americans use marijuana at triple the global average. So we're talking about a tripling of a tripling, and that's a big deal. I mean, it's something to think about, which is why, you know, many people are in favor of - or I believe will become more in favor of, as they realize the risks - of severe limitations on the size of marijuana businesses and the advertising that they can undertake.
GROSS: When you were in Colorado reporting on the medical marijuana legal market, what are some of the forms that you found marijuana being marketed in?
DOKOUPIL: Marijuana is in anything you want. I mean, it comes in the original plant product and vegetable product, and it comes in hot dogs. I recently toured a marijuana products company, the biggest in Colorado. It's called Dixie Elixirs, and it's soon to be the biggest nationally, because it has a distribution network in place. And they make fizzy sodas with THC and - a lot of THC, 120 milligrams, which, you know, a joint has five milligrams. So we're talking about a serious dosage.
They also make truffles which have won awards. And these truffles, the one I saw has 300 milligrams of THC. That's a powerful hit of marijuana. And they also sell more medicinal-looking items, like pills and this, like, a droplet of THC that you put beneath your tongue. It has, like, a berry flavor, very medicinal. But, yeah, marijuana is in everything. It can be put in anything.
I talked to a woman whose family is involved in the restaurant business, and Wanda James is her name. She's got - her husband runs a couple restaurants in Denver, and she used to run a dispensary, but now she's preparing for opening what she hopes to be the first legal marijuana shop, and she envisions it to be like Whole Foods, but everything will have weed in it.
And there's no reason to believe - I mean, she's someone who you - who is a credible creator of a Whole Foods of marijuana, as she describes it. You know, her husband has very good restaurants. They know how to cook marijuana products. They have warehouse space for the grow. And, so yeah, medical marijuana is currently available in everything you could imagine in Colorado, any food product. And you'll see the same thing in a legal market.
GROSS: My guest is journalist Tony Dokoupil. He's been writing about changing marijuana law, business and culture for Newsweek and The Daily Beast.
We'll talk more after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is Tony Dokoupil, and he's writing a book about marijuana. He recently had a Newsweek cover story on Colorado and "The New Pot Barons." Colorado just legalized marijuana for recreational purposes last week, as did the state of Washington.
You wrote an article about the case against legalization. Would you explain some of the main points in that case?
DOKOUPIL: Yes. I will talk about the case against legalization, although I do so warily, knowing that my - I could be getting emails right this second from people angry at me for bringing up any of the downsides. You know, the push to legalize marijuana is a political campaign, and you don't win political campaigns by saying maybe, could be a good idea, possibly. You know, so you, a lot of the claims are fantastic. They're the outer edge of truth, or way past truth.
And, you know, a couple of them, for example, some people say that legalizing marijuana is going to put the Mexican cartels out of business. Well, no. The cartels have diversified. Some people say that everyone who wants marijuana already has it, so we're not point to see any change. You know, legalization will just mean cops have more time and people won't be going to jail.
But that's not true. Prohibition does have an effect. The fact that marijuana is illegal today means, you know, approximately a third fewer people use it. And additionally, the marijuana that's on the market is weaker, because it's generally the Mexican stuff.
And so the case against legalization is, look, we want to discourage the use of this. We don't want our markets flooded with cheap, strong weed, and we don't want to be on the road to the creation of a vice industry. And by the way, you know, if we do legalize, all these supposed benefits - like huge tax revenue or reduction in violence - those are not guaranteed. They're not guaranteed at all.
GROSS: You have a personal connection to this story about marijuana, which is that your father was a marijuana smuggler in the '70s and '80s. Did you know that when you were growing up?
DOKOUPIL: I didn't know that. I did not know what my father's occupation was. I didn't find it out until I was in my teens, and in my teens, my understanding of it was just that my parents were hippies and they sold a little marijuana. And then a few years ago, I wrote a Newsweek story in which I actually investigated my father's connection to the drug business, and I got his federal records.
And surprise, surprise, he was arrested in the early '90s on a job selling 17 tons of marijuana, which was enough, at the time, to roll a joint for every college-age kid in America. So, in retrospect, I've learned that he had no other occupation for 20 years other than marijuana smuggler and dealer, you know, starting small and growing to multi-ton shipments for years.
And, you know, marijuana taught me to read, because marijuana paid for my private school. You know, it bought my baseball gloves. It put presents under the tree at Christmas. So I'm very much a product of marijuana.
I got about halfway through the first paragraph, noticed how long this was, and decided it would just be better to smoke a bowl.
Have at it, JSJ
MJ destroys brain cells and motivation/initiative.
If anything, it should be decriminalized. You get caught with a 1/2 oz of it outside your home, you pay a hefty fine.
Grow MJ and mushrooms in your own home, no problem.
Legalization of Pot.
Decriminalization of Drug Posession/Use.
Coversion of Drugs from a criminal to a medical treatment issue.
High Tax rate on Pot.
Convert funding currently wasted in the "War on Drugs" and the new Tax revenue stream from Pot to better societal use.
And see how it works. It can always be undone later if it fails, and it can't do much worse that the current War on Drugs failure.


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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an injunction blocking a U.S. Bureau of Land Management timber sale near Ashland that was given the go-ahead by a U.S. District Court judge in May.
Five Oregon-based conservation groups, led by the Soda Mountain Wilderness Council, filed an appeal in the San Francisco court after U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner dismissed the plaintiffs' case against the BLM's Sampson Cove timber sale in May.
The Court of Appeals granted the injunction in June but has not yet made a ruling on the case.
The 2.6-million-board-feet timber sale is made up of about 30 units scattered mostly between Dead Indian Memorial Road and Highway 66 east of Ashland, an area conservationists say has the potential to expand the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
"This is a really special area and we wish that the BLM would be focusing on how to enhance it instead of trying to squeeze every last drop of blood they can out of it," said Dave Willis, chairman of the Soda Mountain Wilderness Council. "The sale is commercially driven and depends on reopening old roads and new road-building, and that is just not appropriate here."
KS Wild, Oregon Wild, the Center for Biological Diversity and Cascadia Wildlands joined the Soda Mountain Wilderness Council last year in filing two separate lawsuits against the BLM to stop the Sampson Cove timber sale and the nearby 3.2-million-board-feet Cottonwood timber sale in the area of Jenny Creek between Highway 66 and Howard Prairie Lake.
The Cottonwood timber sale is awaiting final judgment in Medford's U.S. District Court, and the plaintiffs are prepared to appeal the ruling if it is not in their favor, Willis said.
"Local scientists have recommend that this area be included in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument," Willis said. "We have several concerns ... but we think Cottonwood has serious problems with what it does to Pacific fisher habitat."
For each timber sale, the BLM completed a National Environmental Policy Act analysis and determined that no significant environmental impact would arise from the logging, records show.
Medford BLM officials did not return telephone messages.
Although none of the timber sales can be awarded until the pending lawsuits are settled or decided upon by a federal judge, they have been sold.
Cottonwood was purchased by Murphy Co. of Eugene for about $173,674; Sampson Cove was purchased by Boise Cascade LLC of Boise for about $255,000, records show.
In each lawsuit, the conservation groups ask the court to block the timber sales until the BLM carries out more thorough environmental analyses of the units and complies with NEPA and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, which they claim the BLM hasn't complied with.
"It's an area that should be managed for its ecological attributes, but the BLM seems bent on putting timber sales in there," Willis said. "It's not the highest and best use of an area."
Sam Wheeler is a freelance writer living in Ashland. Email him at email@example.com.
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Lindsay Lohan's dad is begging the troubled actress to give up her wild ways and check back into rehab after his daughter was arrested following a fight in a New York club early on Thursday morning (29Nov12).
The Mean Girls star was charged with third degree misdemeanour assault following the spat at Manhattan hotspot Club Avenue, and released, and now her estranged father Michael is urging his daughter to seek help.
He tells HollyScoop.com, "I just want her to go into rehab. I love her and I just want her to get the help she needs."
And in a bid to help speed up her decision making, Michael claims he has a spot waiting for her at the Betty Ford Clinic in California, where Lohan spent time in 2010.
She has also previously checked into the Cirque Lodge in Utah.
Meanwhile, Michael admits he's having trouble reaching his daughter following her latest arrest - because she is refusing to speak with him after he secretly recorded his phone call with Lindsay following her fight with her mum Dina in October (12) - and then released it to the media.
He adds, "I have called, but of course she has not picked up."


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Now it's time for the healing to begin. Our community needs closure. Let's make things get back to normal. Today, we will start moving on.
After every tragedy in a community — especially those that gain media attention — we hear these stock phrases. They are well-meaning and they speak to our natural — sometimes desperate — hunger for order in the midst of chaos. But, to me, they feel so wrong.


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Connecticut gun laws stricter than those in NHStaff report
December 15. 2012 11:48PM
New Hampshire has relatively few laws restricting access to firearms, according to organizations that advocate gun rights and those that support stricter gun control legislation.
In the wake of Friday's mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., pundits and politicians have already begun debating national and state gun control laws.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the National Rifle Association websites note that New Hampshire has no laws that prevent the purchase of any rifle, shotgun or handgun, except by convicted felons and minors. The state allows people to openly carry a handgun without a license, but requires a permit to carry a concealed firearm.
The Brady campaign, which is named after James Brady, the press secretary for former President Ronald Reagan who was shot during an attempted assassination of Reagan in 1981, ranked New Hampshire tied for 27th in a 2011 ranking of state control laws, giving the state six points out of a possible 100. The Brady organization ranked California at the top for gun control laws, followed by New Jersey, Massachusetts and New York.
"New Hampshire has weak gun laws that help feed the illegal gun market and allow the sale of guns without background checks," the Brady website said.
No ranking system could be found on the NRA website, though the NRA provides details about the state's gun laws.
Gov.-elect Maggie Hassan said she believes in looking for ways to increase safety in communities, but did not address gun laws specifically in response to questions posed by the New Hampshire Union Leader on Saturday.
"Our most important job is to ensure the safety of our families and communities, and we must always be looking for ways to keep New Hampshire's children safe from harm," Hassan said in a statement. "At this point, we are still learning the facts surrounding the horrific tragedy in Connecticut, but we owe it to those we've lost to come together and determine what can be done to make our communities safer and better. Now is the time to grieve, to mourn and to cherish the time we have with the ones we love."
Connecticut, meanwhile, has more stringent gun control laws, according to both organizations. It's ranked fifth on the Brady organization rankings, with 58 points out of a possible 100.
"Connecticut has strong gun laws that help combat the illegal gun market, prevent the sale of most guns without background checks and reduce risks to children," the Brady website said.
According to both organizations, Connecticut requires background checks and a permit to purchase handguns, requires a permit to carry a gun, whether openly or concealed, and requires that pistols and revolvers have trigger or gun-locking devices.


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Chris Gibbons and the Crimson host NYU Friday evening at the Malkin Athletic Center (Gil Talbot).
The Particulars
After almost three weeks without a home match, the Crimson returns to the Malkin Athletic Center Friday evening as it plays host to New York University. First serve is slated for 7 p.m.
Scouting the Crimson
Harvard spent spring break on the West coast, playing three of the nations top teams. Although the Crimson returned from the trip without a victory, it did challenge each opponent. In the final match of the trip, Harvard took the third set against the No. 1 team in the nation, Southern California.
Junior Matt Jones continues to lead the Crimson with 3.64 kills per set. Freshmen Chris Gibbons and Kyle Rehkemper are both averaging over two kills per set at 2.52 and 2.21, respectively.
Dan Schreff paces the Crimson with 1.79 digs per set this season. Gibbons is right behind with a 1.60 average and Rob Lothman averages 1.51.
Scouting The Violets
NYU, 14-7, 2-3 in the Hay division, is currently tied four fourth in the most recent AVCA Division III poll with Juniata. The Violets are winners of three straight, defeating Baruch (3-1), Hunter (3-0) and Princeton (3-1).
Taylor Fauntleroy leads the Violets with a 3.65 kills-per-set average. Three other NYU student-athletes are also tallying over two kills in each set, as Nick Capriccio (2.58), Francis Hodgson (2.42) and Patrick Dodd (2.25) are all offensive threats.
Dylan Ramey is collecting 2.31 digs per set, a team-best for the Violets, while Hodgson is NYU's leader in blocks with 93 this season.
Up Next
Four road matches await the Crimson, before it returns to Cambridge for the season finale against NJIT. Four of the five matches are against Hay division opponents.


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Development of Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX is almost complete, according to Gematsu's translation of a leaked Famitsu report. Co-director Tai yause said the RPG is 80-90% complete. The PlayStation 3 exclusive is due in Japan next year, and collects the original game together with portable spin-offs released ahead of Kingdom Hearts 2. No word on a local release as yet, alas.


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PORTLAND – Something wasn't right, but Marty Macisso didn't know what. He had walked into the crowded banquet room to join the Portland High girls' softball team for their end-of-season dinner Friday night.
He was on time. Maybe a few minutes early. Instead of seeing people mingling and finding their seats, many were standing and everyone was looking at him.
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That Marty Macisso has lived his life with cerebral palsy was always beside the point. He can't ride a bike or drive a car, but he can walk or take a bus. He can't speak clearly, but the text messages and notes and letters he writes are prized for their thoughtfulness and insight.
He's spent his life doing for others. It was time, said Portland coaches Kelly Libby and Nicole White, for them to do something for him. The idea for a Marty Party was born.
They told Macisso the dinner was at 7:30 p.m. at Bruno's Restaurant and Tavern. In fact the dinner was earlier in the evening. Thirty minutes before, family and friends started to arrive, which added to Macisso's confusion when he walked in. His eyes went from one smiling face to another. What were his brother and sister doing here?
Why was Robbie Ferrante, one of his best friends and the former Portland High coach, in the room? Why was Dee Regan Allen, a former player and now Westbrook High coach, here with her husband and their baby daughter? Why was a newspaper photographer standing in front of him, camera clicking away?
The surprise on his face gave way to something more emotional.
"He doesn't know it but he is a big deal," said Dee Allen. "He's pure, innocent. He puts the bases on the field, he gets the bats ready, and puts the balls out and all those things we don't even think about, for the love of the game. For the love of the athletes.
"I don't think I could understand when I first met him (as a freshman). By the time you're in your senior year you really get what he's all about."
Macisso grew up on Portland's Munjoy Hill, the eldest of six children of Joan and Martin Macisso. They learned quickly their first-born had cerebral palsy. The motor control centers of Marty's developing brain had been damaged. His most noticeable disability is his speech. Less obvious is his impaired walking.
"In school kids would ask me what's wrong with my brother," said John Macisso. "I told them I didn't know but to watch out. It could be very contagious. If you hang out with my brother for very long you could become just as nice as him."
Joan and Martin Macisso raised Marty to be as independent as the five siblings (three brothers, two sisters) who followed. If he couldn't play street hockey in the local schoolyard or on Munjoy Street, he'd be Don Cherry, the former Boston Bruins coach who favored rather garish suit coats and hats. Or he'd ride in the homemade go-karts powered by his brothers and friends. Or don a Davy Crockett coonskin hat and prowl the neighborhood with his brothers.
In the family photo album there's a wonderful black-and-white of Marty with Gov. Edmund Muskie, taken in the mid-1950s. Marty was the poster boy for cerebral palsy.
Later, as a young man, Marty would take his brothers to Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox. "Afterward he'd take us to a speakeasy to listen to music," said John Macisso. "Marty loves music. He could play the harmonica real well."
One night Marty missed the last bus from Boston. He ended up in the lobby of the Parker Omni House. "We got him a (credit card) after that," said his mom, Joan. "That's where he stays now. They know him by his first name."
Ferrante met Marty for the first time in grade school. "I was picking on him. I went up to him and asked why he talked so funny. He punched me in the mouth. I thought a guy who would stick up for himself like that would make a good friend." They have, for almost 50 years.
The Portland girls with Ferrante as coach won the state championship in 2004. Marty got his championship ring. Ferrante got a letter from Marty he can recite from memory. "He wrote about where we started and how we climbed the mountain together to the very top.
"That was Marty. I'd get frustrated by a loss and take it hard and Marty was right there, telling me about tomorrow and how everything will be all right."
Macisso did the same this year with a Portland team that didn't make the playoffs. "It's so gratifying being around Marty," said Libby, in his second year coaching the Bulldogs. "He's saying the things that need to be said. For the girls to hear his perspective on winning and losing helps all of us."
In holiday cards, Macisso typically writes this: "I'm doing fine, with no complaints!"
If only we all could say that.
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Just wanted to do a quick update on the new version of the iOS App.
2.01 was released this past Tuesday.
There have been some major issues with the app and we are currently working to resolve them.
Video looping to the beginning. - We have done two internal pushes to resolve this issue.
'Done' Button does not work. - Engineers are currently looking into this.
App does not open / make it past initial Crunchyroll screen. - Engineers are currently looking into this.
If you are experiencing the above mentioned problems, please supply the following information either via an email to the Customer Support queue, or as a post in this thread.
Can you please tell me what kind of device you have?
Can you please tell me what version iOS it is running?
Can you please tell me if this happens over Wi Fi / 3G, 4G?
Can you please tell me which shows and episodes this has happened during?
Can you please tell me at what time during the show this happened.
Other Known Issues
Airplay - If screen lock is enabled, this will interrupt Airplay. - Engineers are currently working on this problem.
HDMI / Cable Output - Is only currently working for sound. - Engineers are currently working on this problem.
Issues with video quality adjusting even when streaming via Wi Fi - Engineers are currently working on this problem.
Also, just to confirm, the app is still free to use for our Non Premium Users.
You just need to create a Free Account on the website and use that to log in through your iOS Device.
Thank you for bearing with us as we iron out these wrinkles.
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Just an update on the Looping / Restarting issue.
I've just talked with the engineers and we have pinpointed two distinct behaviors.
Looping - The video will play the first 1/2 minutes of the video then loop back to the beginning and only play/loop this portion of a video.
Restarting - The video will play fine for a period of time then attempt to change quality. When this happens it restarts the video.
We pushed a playlist fix yesterday around 11 PM Pacific to resolve the Looping issue.
If you are still experiencing the issue where the video loops the first few minutes of the video, please let us know.
We are still hard at work on the Restarting issue as well as other known issues. (Done button, HDMI, Airplay Interruption, Restarting)
Thank you for all of your feedback as it has been a tremendous help in debugging these problems.
I get the video looping at the beginning issue.
iPhone 4S running the iOS6 beta. Over wifi. Occured during ep 5 of Sword Art Online. I didnt try for anything else. It happened at various times depending on where I skipped it would always play for a little and then head to the start again. I fell asleep stuck in the loop =.=
I've had the video looping to the beginning multiply times
I have an ipod touch 4th gen iOS 5.1.1
The error happens over Wi-fi.
I was watching Working!! Season 2 It happened on every episode about 3-5mins before the end. On ep 8 in this season I had it start over three separate times once after opening theme, another at about the half way mark, then again at the right at around 3-5 mins from end. I don't know if it has something to do with the commercials but whenever they seemed to load it would reset that episode.
I hope this is of some help
Also I want to say that when this isn't happening the app is great and I want to thank you for making it.
Will this let the iPad 3 stream 1080p ?
Had the looping problem during Ep 9 of Sword Art Online - about 2 minutes in to the episode.
I'm using an iPad 2 with the latest OS update (should be 5.1.1).
Hopefully things will be sorted out soon - I became so frustrated with the looping (and crashing after I attempted to close out the app and restart it), that I just gave up and won't be using the app again until another update is pushed through.
Encountered looping through watching several episodes of Un-Go, as well as Hunter x Hunter.
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Videos are not loading well (or not at all) over Wi-Fi, or 3G for that matter. Using iPhone 4S IOS 5.1.1
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Sometimes doesn't make it past the initial Crunchyroll screen.
Haven't tested it enough to experience the other issues.
Despite all the people rating it badly on iTunes, I really like the redesign ( I don't get why people without a premium account don't think they should have to watch ads. ). I think it'll be really good once these issues are taken care of and you can watch shows in HD. The only other thing I'd like to see is the ability to see and post comments on episodes.
I had the looping problem. I believe this was on kids on the slope, though I don't remember which episode.
I also had the app get stuck on the initial ad (system crash? not sure), and the only way I could resolve it was to uninstall and reinstall the app. this happened on Kobochan 1, and Demon King Daimao (don't remember which episode)
It's on Ipad2, ios 5.1.1, used over Wifi.
Can you please tell me what kind of device you have?
iphone 4
Can you please tell me what version iOS it is running?
Can you please tell me if this happens over Wi Fi / 3G, 4G?
wifi and 3g
Can you please tell me which shows and episodes this has happened during?
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Can you please tell me at what time during the show this happened.
12 noon-1pm (somewhere around there)
it was still looping to the start for me.
EDIT** This was today, post update
The old app jumped back to the beginning at random intervals for me and a lot of others ever since iOS 5. I'm hopeful that this will get fixed with the work on the new app. It would be nice to be able to use the app again... Thanks!
Iphone 4s running 5.1.1
over wifi I have had trouble with every single show I've tried not being able to get past any ads because they don't even load and when I go to the home screen while on the black screen or multitask the video pops up again with the time reset to zero it does not play and its not fully on the screen.
Ipod touch 4 running on iOS 5.1.1 - using WiFi
I would like to know what happened to Episode Passes?
Because I still have one left and I can't use it anymore with the new Crunchyroll app.


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A packed room of more than 500 vendors, industry associations and civilian and military stakeholders likely left with more questions than answers when it comes to the Defense Department's new cloud initiative.
DoD held an industry day to roll out its initial thinking about its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud program, and instead of putting to rest rumors and perceptions, officials opened the door to more confusion and uncertainty.
Brig. Gen. David Krumm repeatedly emphasized JEDI is not an IT system or an IT contract.
"This is effort by all of DoD," Krumm said yesterday in Arlington, Virginia. "The Joints Requirements Oversight Council…has defined the requirements for this project. Let there be no doubt these requirements are demanding. They are tough and they are what we need to kick start DoD into using the cloud. We need you to look at this from the warfighters' lens, which is what I want you to take out of today, this is not an IT project. We need availability, with no single points of failure across a diverse geographic landscape, which means across an austere or connectivity challenged areas across the globe."
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With local agency employees our club leaders organize workshops on applying for federal jobs and writing resumes, obtaining a hunter's safety card, learning to fly fish, learning basic avian taxidermy and many others.
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