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Canada marijuana growers use wild bears to guard pot
LOL…www.breitbart.com
Obama Wants a Bush Crony Appointed as a Top Drug Enforcer –
Under Michele Leonhart’s DEA administration, the DEA has raided a number of legal medical marijuana growers and dispensaries. We must keep the pressure on Obama to appoint someone who respects the intent of CA’s law to allow those with medical prescrip…
Marijuana growers worry about "Wal-Marting" of weed
After weathering the fear of federal prosecution and competition from drug cartels, California’s medical marijuana growers see a new threat to their tenuous existence: the “Wal-Marting” of weed. news.yahoo.com
Michigan Man Wants To Run State’s Largest Marijuana Grow
A Royal Oak, Michigan man met with officials in May to discuss his plan to avoid foreclosure on his 23,000-square-foot warehouse by leasing it to medical marijuana growers, according to documents on the city’s website. If all the warehouse’s space is…
Sheriff Wants Station To Stop Broadcasting Pot Raid Warnings
Posted by admin in Political News on June 11, 2010
Marijuana growers in Northern California’s Emerald Triangle have for decades received reports of pending police raids from a local radio station. Now the police, citing a boom in pot production and “armed illegal drug traffickers”, want the broadcasts to stop.
Oakland to license, tax indoor marijuana growers
Posted by admin in World News on May 28, 2010
Oakland soon could become the first to sanction and tax commercial pot growing operations. Selling and growing marijuana remain illegal under federal law.
Medical Marijuana Growers Score a Defense
People who grow their own medical marijuana and their attorneys celebrate the recent California Supreme Court decision that overturned the law limiting possession to 8 ounces
Revised Crime Bill to Go Easier on Pot Growers
Posted by admin in World News on December 7, 2009
For the second time this fall, a committee of the Liberal-dominated Senate has amended a Conservative law-and-order bill, eliminating an element that would automatically send marijuana growers to jail for at least six months if they’re caught with as few as five plants.
Hundreds from New Mexico OK’d as medical marijuana users
New Mexico in 2007 became the 12th state to approve the medical use of cannabis. But it has taken a while for the program to get off the ground.
The authorized marijuana growers, are restricted to having 95 mature plants at a given time. There are currently 5 authorized growers and 21 applications are pending.
Homegrown Pot Threatens Mexican Cartels – CBS News
Washington Post: American Mom-and-Pop Marijuana Growers Are Cutting Into Profits of Foreign Traffickers. That sure is a interesting spin on the economics of illegal drugs.
New Regs: Colorado Medical Marijuana Growers Getting Screwed
While growers are supplying medicine to dozens if not hundreds of people, they’re no longer considered caregivers unless they provide other services to each and every one of these patients. That’s an impossible task. The job could pass to dispensary owners, but many of them might not be able to handle managing both a store and a farm.
Marijuana growers upend hard-luck California town — latimes
Posted by admin in Business & Finance on November 2, 2009
Has cannabis helped or hurt Hayfork, CA?
Could Legalizing Marijuana Reduce Violence in Mexico?
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on October 11, 2009
If we regulated and taxed marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol, maybe the next headline on this subject would read “Legal U.S. Marijuana Growers Cripple Mexican Cartels; Violence Diminishes.”
Marijuana Supply Chain Gets B2B Channel In California
Posted by admin in Business & Finance on September 8, 2009
A new online marketplace for medical pot suppliers has its own place to do business in the cloud. Today PlainView Systems LLC of Sonoma, Calif. launched its Compassionate Care Marketplace so licensed medical marijuana growers and dispensaries can more efficiently get their drugs to patients. “This is not an eBay for weed,” CEO John Lee cautions.
Pot Plantations on the Rise
Posted by admin in Business & Finance on September 3, 2009
Marijuana growers, many believed to be affiliated with Mexican drug cartels, are expanding in the U.S., clearing land to plant pot in dozens of national forests from coast to coast. Authorities have discovered pot farms in 61 national forests across 16 states this year, up from 49 forests in 10 states last year
Racial Profiling at its Finest.
A federal warning by the U.S. Forest Service to beware of campers in national forests who eat tortillas, drink Tecate beer and play Spanish music because they could be armed marijuana growers!
Forest Service Links Tortillas & Tecate To Armed Pot Growers
A federal warning to beware of campers in national forests who eat tortillas, drink Tecate beer and play Spanish music because they could be armed marijuana growers is racial profiling, an advocate for Hispanic rights said Friday.
In California Forests, Marijuana Growers Thrive
Posted by admin in Political News on August 22, 2009
About 2.7 million plants, nearly 80 percent of the seized crop, have been found on federal, state or other public lands. Officials attribute the plants’ prevalence there to the vast area investigators are expected to cover. “It’s rugged terrain, very difficult to get to and very difficult to see,” said John Heil.
Mexican drug cartel tied to 87,000 acre national forest fire
Posted by admin in World News on August 18, 2009
Wildfire investigators in California are looking for marijuana growers tied to a Mexican drug cartel whom they suspect ignited a blaze that has charred more than 87,000 acres of a national forest.
Quiet SF Neighborhood Perfect For Hiding Dozens of Pot Farms
Posted by admin in Travel & Places on August 12, 2009
San Francisco’s Sunset District holds a reputation as a quiet, sprawling neighborhood of lightly traveled streets, usually swathed in fog and populated by working folks who keep to themselves. But while those characteristics have long lured families, these days they’re also drawing some less wholesome denizens – marijuana growers.
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