Pot is burning issue on Mendocino ballot
Marijuana is so ubiquitous here that everyone, from schoolteachers to kids, can tell you when a sinsemilla bud is ripe. From late summer to fall, the county reeks with the skunk-like stench of ready-to-harvest weed. The annual $1.5 billion pot crop constitutes two-thirds of Mendocino County’s entire economy.
“You tell people from other parts of the country that folks grow pot all over town, and they think this is just a freak show here,” said Ross Liberty, who owns a welding shop in Ukiah. “They’re not far off.”
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Marijuana ‘grow houses’ are creating problems in Arcata, Calif.
About $55,000 in damage was caused in this rental house in Arcata, Calif., where marijuana was being grown and a piece of equipment started a fire. The owner didn’t know how the house was being used.
Officials estimate as many as 1,000 of the 7,500 homes in town are used for pot, reducing housing stock and creating building-safety problems.
Collenberg found her charred and sooty rental filled with grow lights and 3-foot-high marijuana plants. Seeds were germinating in the spa. Water from the growing operation had soaked through the carpeting and sub-flooring. Air vents had been cut into the new roof. A fan had fallen over, causing the fire.
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Don’t call it reefer madness
Because libertarians never achieve political power, they have the luxury of advancing passionately held, logically consistent theories that will never be tested in real life.
Conservatives, who do accede to political power from time to time, must temper theories — especially those that make physical appetites their touchstone — with a view to their consequences for society. From hard experience, conservatives understand there is many a slip between the cup of theoretical individual liberties and the lip of desirable social outcomes.
Like most liberals and many other conservatives, I don’t believe possession or use of marijuana should be criminalized. But unlike most liberals and all libertarians, I don’t think it should be legalized.
Cannabis Entrepreneur’s Money Returned
Just another example of how Switzerland respects liberty much more than ‘the land of the free.’ I particularly like how not only did the government have to return the man’s funds (they stole) because no crime was committed in Switzerland, but the Supreme Court also ordered the government to compensate the man! I love it. No wonder so many Swiss like Ron Paul!”
Senator Barack Obama on Medical Marijuana–Aug. 21, 2007
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Bulls forward Joakim Noah arrested for possession of marijuana
Chicago Bulls forward Joakim Noah, son of former French Open champion Yannick Noah, has been charged with with possession of marijuana and having an open container of alcohol.Gainesville police spokesman Sgt. Rick Roberts says Noah was arrested around 1:50 a.m. Sunday after an officer spotted him on a sidewalk holding a plastic cup containing an amber drink, a violation of city law. During a search at the station, officers found marijuana in his pocket.
Noah, a graduate of the University of Florida in Gainesville, was released after signing a notice to appear before a judge — standard procedure for such offenses. He could face up to 6 months in jail and a $500 (€318) fine for the marijuana charge.
Noah led the University of Florida to consecutive U.S. college championships before being picked ninth by the Bulls in in last year’s National Basketball Association draft.
Customs slip cannabis into passenger’s bag
A passenger who landed at Tokyo’s Narita airport over the weekend has ended up with a surprise souvenir courtesy of customs officials — a package of cannabis.
A customs official hid the package in a suitcase belonging to a passenger arriving from Hong Kong as part of an exercise for sniffer dogs on Sunday, Reuters.com reported.
However, staff then lost track of the drugs and suitcase during the exercise, a spokeswoman for Tokyo customs said.
Customs regulations specify that a training suitcase be used for such exercises, but the official had used passengers’ suitcases for similar purposes in the past, domestic media reported.
Tokyo customs has asked anyone who finds the package to return it.
Cannabis Community Inspired by House Speaker’s Defeat
The UK cannabis community is feeling a little more positive regarding the legal status of cannabis today, after a pretty redhead named Heather Brooke took on the “old boys network” of Parliament, and won the right to demand a full disclosure regarding a £12 million per year housing perk which MP’s from both sides of the house, were keen to keep quiet.
For over 3 years Ms Brooke and her ‘righto-know’ freedom of information organisation have fought a David & Goliath-esque battle against “the establishment”, which was fronted by House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin, who is expected to launch an appeal against Ms Brooke’s victory.
Cannabis grower used greenhouse
A court has heard how a man built a greenhouse in his flat in the Scottish Borders in order to grow cannabis.
Nathan Grier, 26, cultivated a total of 32 plants in the living room of his property on Galashiels Road in the village of Walkerburn.
However, his £2,000 crop was uncovered after neighbours smelled an unusual odour coming from the building.
B.C. to sell site of record grow-op seizure
The site of the largest marijuana grow-op ever seized under B.C.’s Civil Forfeiture Act is being put up for sale.
Solicitor General John van Dongen said the grow-op in Likely, B.C., in the province’s central Interior, was big enough to supply one marijuana cigarette a day to every person in B.C.
The operation was busted in November 2006 by Williams Lake RCMP. Inside the house, police found every room equipped with high-powered lights connected by unapproved wiring and about 5,600 marijuana plants.
But the grow-op was capable of producing much more, police realized - up to 22,000 plants a year, van Dongen said they estimated.
