Quick Hits (News)72,321 Plants Discovered East of Porterville may Yield a Tulare County RecordBy: Jason D. Plemons (Fresno Bee) TULE RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION - Local, state and federal law enforcement officials on Monday finished cutting down a marijuana garden worth an estimated $289 million that agents discovered last week in a remote location along steep hills here. Click here for the full story. Tommy Chong May Appeal SentenceBy: Staff Reporter (AP) PITTSBURGH - Attorneys for actor and comedian Tommy Chong are considering appealing his nine-month prison sentence for conspiring to sell drug paraphernalia on the grounds that a federal judge sentenced Chong based on the character he played and not the person he is. Click here for the full story. Medical Privacy Laws Frustrate PoliceBy: Matt Apuzzo, (AP) HARTFORD, Conn. - Sgt. Andrew Gallagher knew the 9-year-old boy was hospitalized, but that was about all. The Stamford police investigator tried to reason with a nurse: He was investigating a car accident. He needed to know the boy's condition. Click here for the full story. US Court Rules Feds Wrongly Seized Patient's Medical MarijuanaBy: Norml SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge ruled that the US government wrongly seized one ounce of medical marijuana belonging to Prop. 215 patient Chris Giauque after a state court had ordered the Humboldt County sheriff to return it to him. Former Humboldt County Sheriff Dennis Lewis had asked the government to seize the pot from his custody so as to avoid returning it to Giauque. Click here for the full story. |
Growin' Our Own (Feature stories)The Inside Dope on the Marijuana BusinessBy: Quentin Hardy (Forbes) In the quiet countryside just outside Vancouver, B.C. an ambitious young entrepreneur surveys a blindingly bright room filled with lovely plants--dozens of stalks of high-power marijuana. Almost ready for harvest, they hold threadlike, resin-frosted pot flowers, rust-and-white "buds" thickening in a base of green-and-purple leaves. The room reeks of citrus and menthol, a drug-rich musk lingering on fingertips and clothes. Click here for the full story. Marijuana Beer in 15 MinutesBy: Bud Life Have you ever wondered about marijuana beer? What would it be like to drink some marijuana beer? In this story we explain how to make your own marijuana beer and its really easy. All you need is a micro brewery home kit, water, and an ounce of marijuana. The rest is up to nature's process of fermentation and your patience. There are Hemp Beers and Ales available in the U.S. but these are no THC alcoholic beverages. Hemp is hemp, but if it's legal where you live you can make your own homebrew complete with a THC kick. The subject for this story came from one of our Canadian readers and we merely filled in some more details about brewing beer. Do not do this where it is illegal to do so and this is offered as an educational story about the home brew. We do not advocate doing this if its illegal where you are. You're on your own. Read on ... Click here for the full story. What a Good Teacher Can DoBy: Candy Cotton When I say a 'good' teacher I mean a superlative, motivating, close-to-genius one. Everyone called this one Auntie - even her students. Especially her students. She taught in a one room schoolhouse up in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Yup, there was one up there. At least, there was one until Auntie retired. She taught grades K through 8, all subjects, by herself. Righteous pioneer type shit, y'know? Except it wasn't all that long ago and Auntie didn't just teach the three Rs. She could also teach algebra, trigonometry and physics, and had done so at a prior teaching job. Click here for the full story. Jimson WeedBy: Amy M. Arnett, MD Jimson weed (Datura stramonium) is also known as Jamestown weed, Jamestown lily, thorn apple, devil's apple, madapple, stinkweed, stinkwort, devil's-trumpet, fireweed, dewtry. Habitat and range.This is a very common weed in fields and waste places almost everywhere in the United States except in the North and West. Click here for the full story. |
Pipeline (Other stuff)Passing the Cabbage and Singing the Blue Baby BluesBy: Elmore Stone Well it finally happened. The biggest name in talk radio, old Rush Limbaugh himself, admitted, on the radio no less, that he was addicted to Oxycontin. Oxycontin, for your edification, is a synthetic derivative of opium. A pain medication. Indeed, a prescription pain medication. More importantly, a schedule II controlled substance. If obtained illegally it is also known as a federal crime. Click here for the full story. To all Parties Interested in Medical Marijuana and SB 420 --By: John Vasconcellos (Senator, District 13) & Mark Leno (Assemblyman, District 13) We are well aware and appreciate that some persons have expressed concerns regarding the final version of our SB 420 - designed to fulfill the directive of the people of California (when they in 1996 enacted Proposition 215) by creating a state distribution system for medical marijuana. We hope by this statement to make utterly clear our intentions with respect to this bill. Click here for the full story. Wrong way SmugglersBy: Staff Reporters (AP) PINE VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - An interstate surrounding a Border Patrol checkpoint in the pine-covered mountains east of San Diego is turning into a nightmare for motorists. Many residents say they avoid the remote area after dark, fearing they may collide with immigrant-smugglers who increasingly are avoiding inspectors by driving the wrong way on the freeway. Click here for the full story. Race Bias, Judge Tosses EvidenceBy: Bill Dedman, (Boston Globe) A Latino man caught with 2 pounds of cocaine in the trunk of his car may go free, after a judge found that the State Police troopers who arrested him had routinely searched more cars driven by minority motorists than whites. Click here for the full story. |
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