When reading news stories from across the pond, we see constant reference to the phrase “cannabis factory”. The news reports almost always read something to the effect that the police have closed xx number of factories in the last 12 or 18 months, and they closed another today . . .
In Canada they’d be referred [...]
LUI Day 5
LUI seedling at day 5 from germination. temp and humidity control are essential. temp 89F at plant level, relative humidity 42%,the room temp is only 76F so even fluorescents can put off a fair bit of heat. . .
Day 5 final notes . . .considering the warm temps at plant level we decided [...]
Here’s another piece criticizing the move here in Canada towards an American style drug war, this time from Nelson Daily News. That paper doesn’t have an active website, but the article was reproduced online by the Media Awareness Project . . .
IT’S A MOVE TOWARD THE AMERICAN DRUG WAR STYLE
Proposed Legislation: Federal Legislation [...]
We’ve known for a long time that electric use patterns could be used to identify massive commercial style grow-ops, it’s actually been a common tool for law enforcement in the USA for some time. As we’ve learned, most everything that happens in the US drug war will usually get exported to other venues, and [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>Another story about upscale suburban grow operations, this time near Atlanta . . .
‘Grow houses’ may soon be on the market
For sale: County must decide what to do with the residences seized in marijuana busts.
GEORGE CHIDI - 2007 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ATLANTA, Ga. - The comfortable two-story house for sale on Waterstone Drive [...]
Under the category of “old news”, we’ll give our readers another taste of fairly recent journalism covering the drug war, focusing on the movement of marijuana grow-ops to the suburbs. This entry was sourced from the Oregon’s Bend Weekly . . .
Upscale pot growing houses sprouting in California
by Matt Krasnowski - Apr 09,2007
DIAMOND BAR, [...]
Believe it or not, we actually found this article at PoliceOne.com, a online news source that bills themselves as: “The News That Law Enforcement Trusts” . . . It’s not anything special in terms of a story, just your typical large scale grow-op in an apartment complex, but it’s not everyday [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>No less a pot celebrity than Jorge Cervantes has been telling folks to grow on government land as long as we can remember, but of course it’s a tradition that predates disguise wearing pot celebrities. In fact, as far back as the 1970’s, Foggy remembers hikers on certain portions of the Pacific Crest [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>One of the issues that is of great concern for us here at the Cannabis Chronicles, is the increasing involvement of gangs and organized crime in cannabis production and sales. As we’ve mentioned previously, it seems to be an unintended consequence of prohibition, the more valuable an illicit herb crop has, the more [...]
Read the rest of this entry >>In a day and age where cutbacks in government services are the norm rather than the exception, our illustrious RCMP is ramping up their efforts to eradicate cannabis grown on government land.
Here’s a portion of a recent article from the Victoria Times Colonist:
Marijuana busts set a record
Team finds 19,000 plants at 350 sites in [...]
Not long ago we “discovered” a book by the name of “Bud Inc.“, that was written by Ian Mulgrew, an award winning business reporter from the Vancouver Sun. It’s a fascinating read about the business side of Marijuanas, and we hope to review it soon here at the Cannabis Chronicles.Â
One of the things that makes the book so [...]
