My two cents on these changes.

I read a post comparing people being upset that the boards were drastically changed to someone complaining about an item being removed from a restaraunt menu. As if the people who are upset that a community they became very involved with was turned into something completely different are nuts. The argument is "if I don't like it, I should leave". I probably won't, this is still better then having no way to talk with intelligent people about cannabis, but don't you guys understand why we're upset? The most interesting boards, Experiences and Sexuality, among others, were removed. Why? So we don't look like "stereotypical stoners"? What do we care if that's how we're percieved? We know we aren't, hell- some of us are. Big deal. Cannabis.com, when I discovered it, was a plethora of information and stories, a place to discuss things I'd be discriminated against for discussing in my real life. Now I can get chastised for talking about smoking a blunt because it's not an "approved" method for smoking medical marijuana. Whatta change.
Just my two cents.

Of course we understand why you're upset. And I hope you can understand why we find it upsetting to constantly be in a position where we're defending perfectly legitimate changes. It's a brick wall in both directions. Your complaints aren't going to change what's happening on a privately owned site. And the way we respond to them isn't going to alter your feelings or reaction to the changes.

In the nearly two years I've been here, the boards have undergone a good many changes. Changes in ownership. Rules. Board features. Mods. Advertisers. Age-requirements. Changes in members. It's always changing. And those changes always upset people who haven't yet learned that change itself is the only certainty in life. Particularly those members of your generation who've been raised with the belief that the world is obligated to accommodate you rather than your accommodating it (or rather than your finding new accommodations that suit you).

The Experiences and Sexuality sub-forums weren't removed to prevent you from looking like stereotypical stoners. They were removed because they invited more of the non-medical, non-informative, purely frivolous (and often embarrassingly irresponsible) threads and topics. There are plenty of forums out in cyberspace where folks can talk in that fashion and have all the fun they want. What has increasingly become the differentiator for this forum is its ability to navigate a course of intelligence, information-exchange, medical information and, yes, courtesy. Market research has revealed that that's what sets us apart, and that's why the owner has decided to move us increasingly in that direction.

You probably have seen my response in the other recent feedback thread, which will be deleted shortly, but if you haven't, I'll copy my parting question below:
If you're so impatient that you can't wait to see how things ultimately turn out here, are still so young that you believe you have to be having fun 100% of the time, are so new to adult life that you haven't yet learned how to roll with changing circumstances, or feel one of your much-liked cyber destinations has changed so drastically that it no longer suits your taste, the only remaining question is this: What in the name of heaven is keeping you here long enough to complain? Get out there and find someplace where you can make yourself happier! Get out there and build you own! Let those of us who're working at reserving our final judgment until we see the end product proceed in peace.