I purchased Marijuana and then found out I am a Jew.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

What a week.

This month in Washington State retail stores started selling marijuana and my adult son informed me that there was a pot shop in a neighboring town, 50 miles down the road. We shop once a week in that town so my husband and I stopped by there. I was expecting crowds of people, maybe protesters and police hanging about.

We weren't sure which was the shop selling it in the building and weren't about to just open random doors and ask if they sold weed. Then a man, about 70, came out the shop on the right and before he closed the door said, "Call me when you get the good stuff in". In we went.

No one was in the store expect the shopkeeper. My husband inquired about his stock and I sat down to try to control myself from laughing. No hushed tones or code words....just a weed connoisseur describing his wares. My head was filled with the lines from the movie 'Half Baked'. I wanted to ask him, "What, did you go to weed college"? To control myself I had to bury my face in the official Washington State brochure, 'Marijuana Use in Washington State. An Adult Consumer's Guide. What you should Know".

The official guide describes Edible Products, Concentrates and Vaporizing Pens. Driving and DUI. Where to consume and the law. Brochure was produced by the Washington State Liquor Control Board.

We settled on a little bag of Bubba Kush. 2 Grams. Sub total $34.10 Tax $11.22 Total $45.32

For you weed connoisseurs the label reads as follows;

Harvested 7 -6
THC - D9A (%) 12.34
THC - D9 (%) 1.73
CB (%) 14.4
CBD (%) <.01

Warning - This product has intoxicating effects and may be habit forming.
This product is unlawful outside Washington State.

I took a picture with my phone and sent it to our son who was very surprised indeed. It was a surreal feeling alright. I just popped it into my handbag and that was that. I'm sorry to say I don't have the right brain receptors and I do not feel anything from weed. Not a damn thing. I was told that the legal weed, Bubba Kush, is "pretty decent" though.

Buying this weed was a laid back and pleasant experience. I have known pot/hash smokers since 1969 and have never seen any negative outcomes from it. I look forward to the day that this product is legal all over the U.S.

Then the first of my 23&Me DNA results came in. Turns out my Haplogroup is Ashkenazi Jew!! I was born in England. My dad is English and my mum Welsh. We have deep roots in the UK. My mitochondrial DNA is very rare and almost unheard of in Western Europe. I may have inherited from a single woman who lived less than 2,000 years ago. My Haplogroup community is very small and some are stunned like I am, especially the Arab dude from Kuwait!!

Anyway, we've been having a lot of fun with it.

[villager]

1. Welcome to the tribe, then!

Not always an easy tribe to be in!

Gearing up for a fast this fall on Yom Kippur then?

[Boudica the Lyoness]

4. Thank you for your welcome.

I certainly have been wandering around the wilderness for a long time and it's good to finally find my tribe.

I have a lot to learn as I embrace my Jewyness.

[villager]

9. well, start with some good chewy bagels and some *rugelach*

[Boudica the Lyoness]

15. I find myself oddly drawn to them

They look good!

I found the recipe

[villager]

16. And you have 'til next spring to get ready for Hamentaschen!

[Brigid]

10. Arab dude from Kuwait?

[Boudica the Lyoness]

18. Weird, but that's what he wrote.

I went back and read it again. Arab from Kuwait.

In his profile he wrote this;
Ancestry Information

Birthplace: Kuwait

Family Locations: Arabian Peninsula. Hijaz, Makkah, Madinah, Kuwait, Najad

[Voice for Peace]

28. I wonder if there is a genetic reason for no effect from pot?

?

[ret5hd]

2. Is kush kosher?

[Boudica the Lyoness]

5. lol

I hope so.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. $22 a gram!? That's about double the black market price.

Washington will need to rethink its pricing and taxation scheme if it wants to be competitive.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

6. I think the price will come down

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and the quality will improve. The good shopkeeper told us he is about to run out and there will a period of dryness until the big growers come on line.

[Logical]

22. Wow, you are missing the point. nt

[msongs]

25. government prices are artificially too high and will not eliminate cartel competition nt

[Logical]

26. Colorado is selling plenty! nt

[hobbit709]

33. It's a lot cheaper in Colorado.

[Logical]

29. Bet people said the same thing about bootleg liquor. nt

[steve2470]

7. I never knew about that genetic testing

I'm tempted to try it myself. Maybe I'm Ashkenazi too

[awoke_in_2003]

14. I am going to do it...

when I get some money freed up. I need to find out why I love matzo ball soup so much

[Boudica the Lyoness]

19. 23&ME

$99. They send you a test tube to spit in and then you mail it back, all prepaid. You get your results as they come in, online. It takes about 3 weeks for the first results. They even tell you the percentage of your Neanderthal genes. I'm a proud 2.6%

[tridim]

8. There are way too many buzzwords in Cannabis marketing.

Starting with the #1 buzzword, "Kush". The word has lost all meaning, and it is now used only as an upsell.

Regardless, keep having fun! Try a lemony diesel next.

[Go Vols]

24. +1

lol,or blueberry trainwreck

:/

[fizzgig]

11. i made my first trip to a rec shop in co a few weeks ago

it took me about an hour, but it was a pretty easy process. the quality was good, but not worth what i paid.

[hobbit709]

12. Street prices are lower than that.

They're not going to sell much legal weed at those prices.

[Zorra]

13. Wow, awesome! What fun! nt

[xchrom]

17. Mazel tov! nt

[Boudica the Lyoness]

20. You too

Shalom

I'm catching on.

Now to get my adult sons circumcised. I'm having so much fun with this....maybe too much.

[Spider Jerusalem]

21. The odds are pretty good...

that if your mitochondrial DNA haplogroup shows as "Ashkenazi Jewish", the ancestral genetic connection predates the time when there were Ashkenazim as such--and if it's Middle Eastern, it's entirely possible it comes from Jewish ancestry in the Middle Ages, before the expulsion of Jews by Edward I--or even from a slave brought to Britain in the Roman era; there was a case of a family from Yorkshire who were found to have a very rare and ancient Y-DNA haplogroup that's almost entirely found in sub-Saharan Africa, and that was the hypothesis about how it got there, and Britain was Roman at the time of Rome's suppression of Jewish rebellions in the 1st and 2nd centuries (which led to a significant part of the Jewish population of Judea becoming Roman slaves).

[Logical]

23. Why are the reviews on 23 and me so bad? nt

[Ghost Dog]

30. This?

... As of December 5, 2013, 23andMe is only selling raw genetic data and ancestry-related results.[14][4][15]

The price of the full DTC testing service has reduced from $999 in 2007 to $99 in 2012,[21] and it is effectively being sold as a loss leader in order to build a valuable customer database.[11][22][23]

Aggregated customer data is studied by scientific researchers employed by 23andMe in order to better understand inherited disorders. The large pool of data in its customer database has also attracted the interest of academics and other partners,[16] including pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.[11][24]

/... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23andMe

[Inkfreak]

27. "don't have the right brain receptors and I do not feel anything from weed. Not a damn thing."

Wow. That's blowing my mind. I never "met" someone it didn't work on. Thanks for sharing the story, I'm completely jealous. I'm in upstate NY so I can't yet purchase it legally. Hopefully I can have the same experience too!

[Enthusiast]

31. What a fun story!

Especially the DNA part. I think we should test everyone in the USA so some of the white supremacists can find out they have African heritage.

[DiverDave]

32. 45 Bucks? For 2 grams??

Nope, not interested. I could get an eighth of comparable in Oregon.
I thought I was in a '70's dream when I first went in a smoke bar and dispensary in Portland.
A bar that instead of alcohol the bartender? budtender? was lighting peoples joints and bongs. surreal. And the 35-40 strains upstairs...unthinkable back in 1971 when I first toked.
Oh, and surprise, eh?. DNA is a funny little bugger.

[RedRocco]

34. so, legal, taxed, mids are over $1300/oz?

One has to wonder why they want to keep the black market going.