In yet another case of a marijuana shipment gone bad, an attempted delivery of 200 pounds of cannabis from Florida to Maryland went awry last week. It’s reported that the package of pot was accidentally dropped at the wrong address, leading to the police being tipped off about the illicit nature of the package’s [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>In addition to coverage in the mainstream media, the alternative media caught on to the Black Tuna Gang story too. High Times, the oldest and most well established marijuana magazine in North America, (sorry Marc - your Cannabis Culture is a relative newcomer,) also covered some of this fish tale.
The first High Times article [...]
In somewhat the same tradition as Howard Marks, there’s a website authored by the man who was tried and convicted on a variety of charges related to his marijuana smuggling operation known as the Black Tuna Gang. Also in the tradition of Mr Nice, the Black Tuna kingpin has authored a book about his [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>We’re not sure whether to categorize this one as Cannabis related art, or under the Cannabis as Business category . . .
Read the rest of this entry >>IACM-Bulletin of 20 January 2008 brief:
Canada: The regulation which allows growers of cannabis to supply the drug to only one patient is unconstitutional, a federal court rules
Canadians who are prescribed cannabis to treat their illnesses will no longer be forced to rely on the federal government as a supplier following a Federal Court ruling that [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>We do our best NOT to buy products produced by child labor.
Nowdays, that even includes our doobage, because a Jamaican outdoor grow show can be just as much of a “sweatshop” as a third world tennis-shoe or clothing factory.
Ganja farm kids - Youths taken out of school, put to work in ganja fields [...]
11-16-07
The London Finincial Times reported yesterday that GW Pharmaceuticals, the UK drug company devoted to creating medicines from cannabis, rose by 13.5% to 60p after Thursday’s positive report from the UK Government drug regulator on Sativex.
Sativex is GW Pharm’s cannabis based treatment for spasticity in people suffering from multiple sclerosis.
Our beloved Loonie hit’s a 50 year high, and of course the biggest effects are felt by who else? - drug smugglers . . .  :roll:
U.S. dollar deterring Canadian marijuana smugglers
By MICHAEL JAMISON of the Missoulian - Nov 12, 2007
WHITEFISH - For years, backpacks crammed with cash have slipped north into Canada, followed closely by hockey [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>While our primary focus is North American cannabis news and happenings, we do live in a society that is very much globalized, so we feel it’s reasonable to include any English language cannabis news that may be of interest to ourselves and the folks who read the Cannabis Chronicles.
With that in mind, here’s some more [...]
Breaking with the pattern of sophisticated indoor grow operations, here’s a story about an outdoor grow that was noted for it’s “sophistication” . . .
Record-size drug fields found in Dallas, Tex.
Dallas Morning News - 07/23/2007
DALLAS,Tex. — Acting on a tipster’s call to Grand Prairie police Friday, federal agents went looking for 200 [...]
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19,000 pounds of pot is a hell of a lot of weed!
Texas officials seize 10-tons of pot in bust
By Jennifer Leahy - The Houston Chronicle - 03/07/2007
Two men are due in federal court this morning in a case where authorities seized several vehicles, including two school buses, filled with marijuana valued [...]
OMG!!! Another “sophisticated” grow house story?
Fla. agency finds $542,000 marijuana-growing operation
A tip led to a home
By Kelly Griffith - The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. - 03/22/2007
ORLANDO, Fla. - Five men were arrested after law-enforcement agents discovered a sophisticated marijuana-growing operation in a Lakeland home this week, authorities said.
Pot plants valued at $542,000 [...]
A police officer goes to a psychologist for an exam, and while taking part in a word association test, can’t help himself from responding with the word “sophisticated” after the good doctor says - “marijuana” . . . sound far fetched?
Well, think about it for a moment.
The following phrase has become a consistent refrain in [...]
Will suburbanites realize in time that their way of life is threatened by plant prohibition?
Stay tuned for another exciting episode, as folks discover that because of the misguided policies of the war on drugs, grow ops aren’t just for the ghettos and barrios anymore . . .
High-tech ‘pot factories’ popping up in suburban homes in [...]
