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Marijuana harvesting in Kyrgyzstan sometimes involves naked horseback riding
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on September 11, 2011
The Chu Valley between Kyrgyzstan and Kazkhstan is the home to an extremely hardy type of marijuana that resisted Soviet-era efforts to stamp it out. Law-breaking marijuana farmers in the region harvest the crop normally, but they also procure their st…
Morocco: Marijuana economy goes up in smoke.
Posted by admin in World News on July 29, 2010
For generations this remote mountainous town has been the heart of Morocco’s cannabis-growing area, where growers earned a reasonable living from cultivating marijuana. But now farmers are angry that they are being forced to pay bribes to local police …
How the Walmart-ization of Weed Could Kill Small Growers
Posted by admin in Political News on July 29, 2010
The closer marijuana comes to full legalization status in California, the more likely it is that the plant will be treated like any other crop–that is, as an industrial cash cow that often squeezes out small farmers. And the marijuana industrializatio…
Colombia’s marijuana boom takes root CNN
Posted by admin in World News on May 12, 2010
Farmers in Colombia turn to growing marijuana to get by due to lack of government investment. CNN’s Karl Penhaul reports.
Dope Farmers: Keep Pot Illegal!
California will vote on an initiative this November to legalize marijuana. It might even pass. But it turns out that the pot growers of Humboldt County are having second thoughts about the whole thing.
Moving Forward: Cannabis Tax Act & Cannabis Tolerance Act
Posted by admin in Political News on January 21, 2010
CRRHs Cannabis Tax Acts (CTA) would comprehensively reform marijuana laws by regulating and taxing adult sales; licensing the cultivation of the drug for sale in adult-only businesses; allowing adults to grow their own and farmers to grow industrial hemp without license; and letting doctors prescribe untaxed cannabis to patients suffering fro
Homegrown American Marijuana Threatens Mexican Cartels
Posted by admin in Business & Finance on October 8, 2009
Stiff competition from thousands of mom-and-pop marijuana farmers in the United States threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organizations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have not, according to law enforcement officials and pot growers in the United States and Mexico.
War On Drugs Or Mexicans?
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on September 12, 2009
In turn of the century America, during the first years of the 1900’s, marijuana was pretty much completely legal in the United States. Tons of farmers grew it, and millions of American’s imbibed it in medical tinctures, among its other various industrial and recreational uses. However
yes390
Posted by admin in Political News on August 7, 2009
California Assembly Bill 390 would legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana in California for adult recreational use. AB 390 was introduced by Tom Ammiano in February. This bill would reduce funding to drug cartels, reduce crime, increase jobs, contribute $1.4 billion in new tax revenues to California, and let farmers grow industrial hemp.
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