CapeCodOnline.com – EAST SANDWICH — Massachusetts residents with certain medical conditions have been able to obtain doctor certificates for medical marijuana for more than a year, but dispensaries are still months away from opening.

So a Sandwich entrepreneur has stepped into the breach, selling seeds that his customers can plant to produce marijuana crops for their own use. Business is booming, according to Zachariah Kay, owner of Bay State Seed.

“We started selling seeds Nov. 13 and hoped to be selling about 100 packs per month within six months,” Kay said. “We were selling 100 packs per month by the second month.”

The spokeswoman for the Department of Public Health declined to say whether sale of medical marijuana seeds is legal. Anne Roach said it was something “state law enforcement” should answer. The state district attorney’s spokesman said it was a question for DPH to answer.

Once dispensaries open in Massachusetts, only patients who can prove that going to a dispensary would be a hardship will be allowed to continue to grow their own medical marijuana.

Holmes doesn’t see that as the demise of the Massachusetts seed distribution business, particularly in light of marijuana’s history in his home state of Colorado, where recreational pot is now legal.

“I think everything is fluid,” Holmes said. “What is a medical system now could wind up as a retail system in a few years.”

Meanwhile Kay is optimistic about the future of his business. “Whatever way the law goes, there will still be a need for seeds and I’ll still be here.”

We have a staunch record of being big supporters of the live and let live philosophy around here at The Real Cape. We would never dream of telling this guy what to do or how to live his life, but we can give him a little friendly advice.

If you have a kinda but not really legal gray area in the state of MA but definitely 100% illegal on a federal level marijuana seed selling business? You might want to ease back a little on the Cape Cod Times articles and YouTube videos promoting yourself.

If you think the feds care one second about state laws when it comes to you bragging in their faces about how you are raking in money hand over fist selling pot seeds then I have two words for you. Tommy. Chong.

They put Tommy Chong in prison because his son was selling bongs in California, I’m 97% sure that you might be at risk. Don’t get me wrong, we think weed should be legal as much as the next guy, but that doesn’t mean I’m about to talk about my cash cow business selling seeds in a video on the 3rd biggest website in world.

Slow your roll my man, nobody is going to be getting your “medicine” if you are doing 3-5 in Concord.

BostonGlobe.com – PLASTIC BAGS litter the median strips of America. In some trash-filled corners of Massachusetts, they cover the ground like a layer of topsoil. Flushed out into the ocean, they combine with other garbage into massive rafts of refuse, killing marine life. That’s why towns from the outer Cape to the Berkshires are seeking ways to reduce this serious environmental threat. But they’d do well to follow the example of other municipalities that have been successful in coaxing consumers to switch to reusable supermarket bags.

Tomorrow, Provincetown residents will vote at a town meeting on whether or not to ban small plastic bags in their town. Under the proposal, restaurants and retailers would be banned from distributing single-use plastic shopping bags, such as those often found in supermarkets.

I have a quick question. Did anyone think about what the hell we are all going to use in our bathroom wastebaskets if they ban the supermarket style plastic bag? Do they even sell plastic bags that size? The plastic bag/bathroom wastebasket relationship is so wonderful and symbiotic, do we really want to mess with it?

I have a feeling GLAD might be behind this legislature. I wouldn’t put it past them to hire lobbyists to get this law passed in towns across America just in time for them to launch their new Double Force Flex Super Drawstring Bathroom Wastebasket Bags. Oh look we happened to have these ready for the shelves right when supermarket bags became illegal!

This could be the biggest scam on the people of this country since that time they convinced us all that we need to start going to the store to buy water in single serving bottles instead of having it delivered right to our faces from out of our walls.

P.S. FUCK! I just realized that we can kiss the post shopping, 17 bag per arm, one trip from car to kitchen counter with all the groceries technique goodbye too! I don’t know about you but I think I’d trade a couple of choking sea turtles for not having to buy tiny bags for my bathroom AND making 12 trips to get the groceries in.

MassLive.com – A 31-year-old Centerville woman was arrested Friday afternoon, after her physician called police to report she was heavily intoxicated and driving with her infant son in the car.

Kimberly Brown was arrested in Osterville not long after she left her doctor’s appointment, and police were shocked just how intoxicated the woman allegedly was. One officer reported that the Brown nearly fell asleep as she stood in the roadway while he questioned her.

According to the Cape Cod Times, the infant boy’s state Department of Children and Families caseworker also witnessed the woman driving erratically and called police as well. She drove to the site of the stop and took custody of the child after Brown was arrested

Brown passed out in the rear seat of the police cruiser after admitting she had a history of pain killer abuse. She was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs, driving without a license, driving an uninsured motor vehicle, driving with a revoked registration and driving negligently.

Hey it’s not her fault, it’s the drugs. How can a new mother possibly be expected to drive sober with her baby in the car when drugs are so addictive? I’m surprised she even got arrested, seems like they should have charged the drugs with 3 counts of being too awesome to put down when your driving around town with your kid.

EasthamVacationGuide.com – Ask any long-time Outer Cape vacationer and they’ll all tell you the same thing: The Beachcomber on Cahoon Hollow Beach in Wellfleet is an institution. Open daily from Memorial Day to Labor Day since 1978, it’s where we love to go to have a few cold, tall ones, listen to live bands and get our beach bum on. Its the only oceanfront restaurant on Cape Cod so, really, do you need any other reason to make it a destination?

I’m a bit torn on this one. There are a few different angles going on here. Firstly, The Beachcomber is fucking awesome. It absolutely is an institution and deserves all the praise it gets, this is not even a question. I sort of feel bad because The Beachcomber is also not responsible for this article, Easthamvacationguide.com is.

My second problem is that I don’t want to be hypocritical here either. I mean using ridiculous semantics and hyperbole is pretty much the backbone of this website. The thing is we use it for comedic purposes, there’s nothing funny about this is there? Or is it meant to be sarcastic and humorous and I’m missing the joke?

Thirdly, I understand what they are getting at. They are excluding harbors, sounds and bays from their definition of “ocean”. This is just plain wrong though, saying Vineyard Sound or Cape Cod Bay are not part of the ocean is like saying your kitchen is not part of your house. Maybe if they used “open ocean” it would make sense, but even that is a stretch.

Either way The Beachcomber is a fantastic place and they did not write this article, but it is NOT the only ocean front restaurant on Cape Cod. Calling it that may pass the semantics test but it just doesn’t pass the sniff test. Not to mention The Real Cape’s “don’t be so fucking pretentious test”.

P.S. The worst part is that somewhere in some state that constantly smells like the Barnstable County Fair some douchebag is telling his buddy that Cape Cod sucks because it only has one ocean front restaurant.