Quick Hits (News)Marijuana Guru Ed Rosenthal Freed After one-day SentenceBy: Kim Curtis (Associated Press) Ed Rosenthal, the self-proclaimed "Guru of Ganja," walked free Wednesday after a federal judge sentenced him to one day in prison for a marijuana conviction. He could have been sentenced to as much as 60 years behind bars. Click here for the full story. Opium Plantation in Sierra National ForestBy: Stacy Finz (S.F. Chronicle) Officials have discovered 40,000 opium poppies in the Sierra National Forest, 35 miles northeast of Fresno, raising concerns that drug cartels may be looking at California's lush public lands to set up illicit farms. Click here for the full story. Court Backs Jailed Grandpa's Claim of U.S. NegligenceBy: Eric Malnic (L.A. Times) The car Jose Aguado Cervantes bought at a U.S. marshal's auction in 1999 came with more than he bargained for: 119 pounds of marijuana, hidden in the bumpers. Click here for the full story. Profit Margin: Mexico's Growers Dump Coffee and Pot for HeroinBy: Mark Stevenson (Associated Press) Marijuana has long been the main illegal crop on Mexico's Pacific coast, but now growers are switching to a more deadly and profitable product: high-grade opium poppies used to make heroin. Click here for the full story. |
Growin' Our Own (Feature stories)Independence DayBy: Elmore Stone July 4, 1776 - the day we declared our independence from the British empire. We, as a people, have celebrated that independence, that freedom, for 227 years. Every year at this time towns have parades and people break-out the barbecues and the beer. It's time to party! Time to celebrate our freedom. Click here for the full story. Smuggling Weed From Missouri to San Francisco - Part 3By: Two Dumb Shits Click here for part one. Click here for part two. In this story you'll read the details of a smuggling run made by two bay area high school graduates on a commercial jet. After the graduation night party, loaded on mescaline, they drove from San Francisco to the midwest. There they picked a load of green bud "hemp," from a remote Iowa river bottom. They drove it down to the Kansas City, Missouri airport. Leaving the car there, they boarded a TWA flight and flew the midwest hemp back out to San Francisco. In Frisco, they dried it and sold it. Some went to friends and some was sold in the Haight-Ashbury area. Our next adventures: running into a cop and spending our smuggling money in New Orleans. Click here for the full story. From Peru to YouBy: Anonymous Hi! My name is Tammy. I just got the cutest little black dress! I kind of had to, my boyfriend just died. Do you know how hard it is to find anything cute in size 3 with a 42 inch bust? It isn't easy, I'll tell you. But I found one so now I can go to the funeral. I think there's going to be a funeral. My boyfriend's friends have all gone from the house here, so I'm not for sure. Silly me! You don't even know what I'm talking about, do you? Here, I'll explain. Click here for the full story. Off the Beaten Path, Part 1By: Robert W. One of the great places to live back in the late 60's and early 70's is a town named Santa Cruz, California. It had everything one could ask for. Beautiful beaches, beautiful mountains, stunning ladies and great weed. Even better, nobody seemed to hassle you, as long as you didn't hassle anyone else. Back then life was great. Lay out on a beach - pick one - there were plenty. Get stoned, nobody cared. You might even get laid. As I said, life was great. Click here for the full story. |
Pipeline (Other stuff)Libertarians Commend Jurors, Judge for one-day Sentence in Medipot CaseBy: Libertarian Party (Press release) A federal judge who handed down a one-day sentence to medical marijuana advocate Ed Rosenthal in California should be commended along with the jurors who pressured him to do so, Libertarians say. Click here for the full story. On the Right - Reefer MadnessBy: William F. Buckley The experience of Ed Rosenthal of Oakland, California accelerates the day when heavy dilemmas in our legal system might just force a fresh look at our marijuana laws. Presumably that will have to happen when state legislators, congressmen, and presidents are in recess, because the great enemy of sensible reform has been, of course, politicians high from righteousness. Click here for the full story. Medical pot Clubs Thrive Discreetly Fear of feds Keeps Users Quiet in Bay AreaBy: Janine DeFao (S.F. Chronicle) When federal officials shut down the Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative in 1998, Angel McClary Raich faced what she considered a "life-threatening situation." Click here for the full story. Infrared Camera Ruled an Invasion of PrivacyBy: Bob Aaron (Toronto Star) In 1967, Pierre Trudeau announced "the State has no business in the bedrooms of the nation." Recently, Ontario courts have been considering whether the State has any business in other rooms of the house. Click here for the full story. |
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