Posts Tagged pot growers
Smart grid shines spotlight on pot growers
Posted by admin in Technology on March 1, 2011
Data captured by smart-metering systems could help police locate pot-growers. Police in Ohio have been subpoenaing the utility records of people suspected of indoor-marijuana growing operations.blogs.computerworld.com
Coming Soon to a City Near You: the Walmart of Weed
Dubbed by NPR as the “Walmart of Weed,” the “Home Depot of High Times,” the “Best Buy of Buds,” “Target of Trees,” the shelves of the 10,000-square-foot weGrow marijuana emporium are stocked with products for legal pot growers.www.brobible.com
California Warns Hunters: Watch Out for Pot Growers
California’s public lands are overrun with medical marijuana growing operations, guarded by armed crews toting powerful weaponry — and hunters are at risk, according to a law enforcement panel. many say if pot was legal this wouldn’t be a concern.www….
Canadian pot growers use black bears to guard operation
Posted by admin in World News on August 20, 2010
Police said Wednesday they were astonished to find at least 14 wild black bears guarding an illegal marijuana growing operation after a recent raid on the property in westernmost Canada.rawstory.com
Canadian pot growers use wild bears to guard stash
Posted by admin in World News on August 19, 2010
Police said Wednesday they were astonished to find at least 14 wild black bears guarding an illegal marijuana growing operation after a recent raid on the property in westernmost Canada.rawstory.com
SmartMeters are Latest Legal Tool to Smoke Out Pot Growers
Posted by admin in World News on April 23, 2010
California marijuana advocates are worried utilities are about to enlist the help of SmartMeters to become “Big Brother”. They fear that new high-tech devices will be used to tip off police to the existence of growhouses.
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.
Promise ignored, DEA begins raids on medical pot growers
Posted by admin in Political News on February 14, 2010
A day after telling a Denver news station of his profitable medical-marijuana operation, Chris Bartkowicz found himself under arrest by drug-enforcement agents who say they will continue to arrest growers despite a promise from the Obama administration to respect state laws allowing the growing and selling of marijuana for medicinal use.
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.
Why not de-criminalize marijuana use?
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on October 8, 2009
Who knew that good old American capitalist competition could help defeat Mexican drug cartels? The Washington Post has a fascinating report today about American pot growers, whose illegal resourcefulness is giving the Mexican cartels a run for their heaping piles of money.
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.
Legal U.S. Medical Pot Growers Hurt Mexican Cartel Profits
Posted by admin in Political News on October 7, 2009
Recent changes in state laws that allow the use and cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes are giving U.S. growers a competitive advantage, challenging the traditional dominance of the Mexican drug traffickers, who once made brands such as Acapulco Gold the standard for quality.
This is how you win the war on drugs.
Posted by admin in World News on October 7, 2009
Local pot-growers in the U.S. are severely hurting the profits of the marijuana cartels.
Mexican Pot Growers Elude Border Security: Plant It Here
Posted by admin in Political News on September 28, 2009
Mexico’s drug cartels are leapfrogging tightened border security and establishing sophisticated marijuana-growing operations in North Texas and Oklahoma, law enforcement officials say. The traffickers’ farming operations, known as “grows,” have been an increasing problem on public lands in California and other Western states for some time.
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.
The Highs and Lows of Medicinal Marijuana
The conclusion of a two-part series about the impact of the medical marijuana law. Last week, Northern Express profiled two pot growers who have a “passion” for marijuana. They love to grow it, they love to smoke it. They believe it can make people feel better and even cure them.
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