If you have ever wondered how to grow marijuana in your house, this is the video for you.
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Another great grow-op has been discovered.
In Cheech & Chong’s movie “Nice Dreams,” a character named Weird Jimmy had set up a marijuana grow room inside a swimming pool. Now some Brits have been caught doing the same thing.
From the Manchester Evening News:
Cannabis farm in swimming pool
A PRIVATE swimming pool stuffed with cannabis plants worth £800,000 was discovered by police by chance.
Officers were “speechless” when they stumbled upon the massive cannabis factory in the grounds of a large detached house in a well-to-do area of north Preston.
The pool outhouse was decked out with infra-red lighting, heaters and ventilation equipment and there was a sea of marijuana greenery instead of water.
The raid was launched on Monday morning after a court official told Lancashire Constabulary he had seen a man running away from the property when he had gone to question the occupants about an unrelated unpaid fine.
Officers who attended the Tudor-style house on Durton Lane drafted in search dogs, forensic teams and a police helicopter.
They found more that 1,000 mature cannabis plants, with a street value of between £700,000 and £800,000.
This haul led officers to raid a second property in the Queen’s Road area of Fulwood, where they found a large number of cannabis plants being cultivated. But these plants were mostly immature or seedlings.
‘Speechless’
Detectives are now hunting the group of men and women they believe rented the Durton Place mansion.
Chief Inspector James Lee said: “I am speechless at the level of this discovery.
“We have had experienced search-trained officers working at the scene and they have never seen a drugs cultivation operation like this in over 20 years.”
He continued: “‘We know that the property on Durton Lane was rented to four people who have been described as oriental in appearance, two men and two women.
“We urgently want to trace them and would urge them to come forward and speak with police.”
A Lancashire Constabulary spokesman said neighbours told officers they had no idea of the drug den operating in their midst.
“They’ve said they thought the noise from the lighting and heating equipment was simply caused by machinery needed to run the swimming pool.”
British stoners rented this mansion for their grow-op.
The swimming pool was turned into this pot farm.
Lesson from Cheech: When the police come, you’ve got to get up on a ladder and pretend to be swimming.
I’m pretty sure that the first guy I saw stoned was Greg Brady from ‘The Brady Bunch.’ At the time, I had no idea.
Barry Williams was a 17 year-old star on his day off. In his biography, I was a Teenage Greg, Williams recalls:
“I was introduced to a thin, hand-rolled, yellow joint. ‘Listen, man’ said one of the buds, ‘toke slow — this is some real heavy shit.’”
“‘Cooool,’ I thought… Several drags later, the stuff had kicked in hard.” Which is when the Brady Bunch’s assistant director called him back to the studio “to shoot the driveway scene”…
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Possible good news for Catholic stoners with erection problems:
Pope Benedict XVI has reviewed the annulment practices of the Vatican judges. He has warned them to stop being so willing to annul Catholic marriages.
According to The Hindu:
The Pope ordered the clampdown after figures showed that the church’s appeals court allowed 69 annulments in 2005 for reasons which included husbands being too attached to their mothers.
The court, known as the Sacra Rota, considers petitions from couples claiming their marriages were never truly valid.
Apart from the get-out clause for women married to “mummy’s boys”, an “inability to assume conjugal obligations”, usually due to a childhood trauma, appears among the successful reasons for annulment in 2005, as do alcoholism, use of cannabis, infidelity and a serious lack of “moderation in judgment” by a partner.
Whether or not cannabis use will be accepted as a justification for future annulments has not been announced.
Scientists at Melbourne University have released a disturbing finding about marijuana. According to an article in The Age, scientists have determined that marijuana is “the drug for life’s future losers”.
The way “scientists” arrived at this conclusion is outrageous.
Almost 2000 students aged 14 and 15 were studied since 1992 to determine what effect alcohol and cannabis use had on the rest of their lives.
To determine students who were in “very high risk levels” for cannabis and marijuana use, scientists had to determine what a high level of use would be.
Using any amount of cannabis every day was determined to be highly risky. No justification was given for this. One single toke and a student was placed on this list.
To qualify as a heavy user of alcohol, scientists decided that 14 year-old children would need to be consuming more than 43 drinks per week for boys and 28 drinks per week for girls.
The fact that the alcohol parameters did not immediately disqualify all of the children was not mentioned as being of concern.
It is difficult to believe that after thousands of years of use, marijuana would suddenly begin turning people into losers. In the US, prohibitionists have been promising this pandemic of marijuana-induced idiocy for decades, yet the boardrooms of today are filled with the stoners of the 60s.
If this is true, it is curious that, in the US, the most well educated regions of the country are almost always the most marijuana-friendly, while the least productive segments of society are almost always involved with alcohol. Under bridges and in old refrigerator boxes across America, homeless alcoholics are under no threat of being displaced by a hoard of broken stoners.
The real reason that people with problems are often found to smoke marijuana is simple: many people smoke marijuana. If we were to study marijuana use among creative people, this logic might allow us to conclude that marijuana leads to artistic ability. If scientists were surveyed, one might think that marijuana use leads to inquisitiveness. We could announce that marijuana use leads to winning Olympic gold medals in snowboarding, recording platinum albums, or becoming the President of the United States.
When a person does one thing before he does something else, we cannot automatically assume that the first thing caused the second. If we could, we would probably think that refusing to smoke marijuana turns one into an uptight liar. And although there is ample evidence for this, it has never been proven.
The student body at the University of California, Santa Barbara disproves so much of what prohibitionists want to believe about marijuana. Aren’t stoners supposed to be asocial morons?
95% of those who apply to UCSB as freshman are in the top ten percent of their high school class. Only half of those are accepted, with an average GPA of 3.97 and a mean SAT I score of 1845. This makes UCSB one of the “Most Selective” Universities in the US according to US News. The faculty that teaches them includes five Nobel Prize winners.
At the same time, High Times magazine recently ranked UCSB as the second most marijuana-friendly college campus in the country. And the interest is not merely academic. Playboy magazine ranks UCSB as number two on its list of “party schools.”
Apparently smart people can and do enjoy marijuana. And next weekend, you can party with them.
It had to happen eventually. At first it was just sports that were EXTREME! Then candy and chips. Then the toothpaste started getting EXTREME!. And now, even marijuana is being taken to new levels of excess. Oh, hell yes.
“The Smoked Out Show” is a new DVD of a dope smoking contest in which “the last man smoking” wins a trip to Amsterdam. Check out the previews:
The DVD is ten bucks and comes in a baggy. Worth it? Maybe. Everyone who buys a copy can enter to participate in a future contest. For the right dude, that alone might be worth ten bucks.
For us? It’s a sweet idea. But paying for something that should probably be on YouTube?
We’ll just enjoy the previews…
When two incompetent professionals get together to talk about marijuana, the propaganda they excrete can be amusing. From the mouths of the fully functional, this type of talk can be frustrating. But when reporters like Jayme West (KTAR.com) and Phoenix Drug Detective Matthew Shay take a stab at marijuana, it feels like an old, blind Chihuahua snapping at your ankles – more pathetic than threatening.
From KTAR.com:
It’s sung about and it’s talked about a lot on MySpace.com. What is it? It’s chronic.
“Chronic is essentially a generic name for high-grade marijuana,” says Poenix Police Drug Enforcement Detective Matthew Shay.
He says it also goes by the street names of bubble gum, afghanny and skunk.
It’s grown hydroponically rather than outdoors and it’s very potent.
The T.H.C. level in marijuana is what makes you feel high. “The T.H.C. level we had in marijuana back i the ’60s was estimated at two to sometimes five percent. Now I have recently had a T.H.C. level of chronic, high grade marijuana, at 28 percent.” (Did he just admit to smoking marijuana?)
This has been stated frequently in the media, and Slate.com had an excellent response to the claim in “The myth of potent pot.” Daniel Forbes explains the method used to come to this conclusion:
… is disingenuously comparing the best pot of today with the worst of yesterday, rather than comparing average marijuana of a generation ago with average marijuana now.
He’s ginning up the figures he wants by contrasting stuff you might line your cat’s litter box with to the alleged 30-percent pot—the likes of which a lucky (or rich) smoker might encounter once every several years.
Of course, Jayme West could not have known that Detective Shay was bullshitting her. But if Ms. West had been acting like a journalist, rather than the Detective’s puppet scribe, she might have asked Detective Shay why that would be significant.
When prohibitionists claim that marijuana used to be only 4 percent THC and now is a whopping 28-30 percent THC, they are implying that marijuana is in essence a different drug. They know that many older people tried marijuana when they were younger, suffered no ill effects, and consequently do not get too worked up about it. In order to scare these folks, they must be made to believe that, today, things are different. The government may have lied in the past, but today’s higher THC levels make marijuana a dangerous superweed.
By this reasoning, if you put down a beer (at 4% alcohol), and pick up a shot glass of whisky (at 40% alcohol), you have switched to an entirely different drug with entirely different effects. It simply does not make sense.
Like any drug, it is the dose we ingest that will determine the effects, not the concentration. For example, when we drink whiskey (at 40% alcohol), we drink less liquid than when we drink beer. In this respect, higher THC levels would be much healthier than lower levels because we would inhale less smoke.
More half-baked quotes:
“We see people driving around in Cadillacs and Hummers and whatever else that are selling . . . literally what we have is the profit margin with chronic.”(No English translation available)
“I’m talking about dozens of 18, 19, 20 year old kids who have been involved in shootouts over a couple of ounces of high grade marijuana.” (In Los Angeles they shoot each other over the color blue. The problem is probably a little deeper than Detective Shay is aware of.)
“What we don’t need is more violent crime anywhere, especially metro Phoenix.”(How can you argue with expertise like this?)
Some of us have been members of the Democratic Party for a long time. With the 2008 election season approaching, it is a good time to take a look at our own politics as we evaluate those of the candidates we consider.
There is an all-too-common belief among marijuana smokers that the Democratic Party is where they belong. This may be true for other political reasons. For example, the Democrats have a proud history of defending many civil liberties. But they have never been trustworthy on the issue of marijuana.
This is not to suggest that the Republican Party is any better, or that there are no Democrats who believe strongly in marijuana law reform. It is merely an acknowledgement that ending marijuana prohibition will not be a partisan affair. And the longer marijuana smokers marginalize their true allies in Washington, the longer we will wait for the end of prohibition.
Marijuana politics have changed a great deal over the years. But, like a frog in a slowly heated pot, many of us have not noticed that our environment is not what it used to be.
Prohibitionist rhetoric has become increasingly secularized. While cannaphobes used to preach that marijuana would send you to hell, today they more commonly advance health concerns as their justification for prohibition. This shift has begun to put marijuana users at-odds with the core of the Democratic Party.
Today’s marijuana movement is based on John Stuart Mill’s ‘harm principle,” which states that, unless we are harming others, our actions should be no business of the government. This foundation is difficult for most Democratic Party leaders as they have a tendency to support government intervention in many other areas of individual liberty.
(Of course, there are differences between marijuana law and each of these examples, but the underlying paternalism remains constant.)
We cannot expect those who argue in favor of such policies to spearhead an effort to end marijuana prohibition on the grounds of personal liberty.
For over three decades, marijuana reformers have looked to the Democratic Party for help and it has failed us. Even President Clinton was embarrassed by his connection to marijuana. And his ridiculous lie about not inhaling was only the beginning.
In an interview posted on Reason.com, Clinton said:
“I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been de-criminalized in most places and should be. I think that what we really need—one of the things that I ran out of time before I could do [it] is a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment.”
Bullshit. Reason nailed it:
We’re only left to wonder where Clinton was during the past eight years, as state and federal marijuana arrests continued to climb, as did the number of prisoners doing time for nonviolent drug offenses. Or where the president might have been in 1996, when both Attorney General Janet Reno and drug czar Barry McCaffrey threatened doctors in Arizona and California with license removal and jail if they dared prescribe medical marijuana in accordance with new state laws there. Could this be the same guy who canned Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders in part because she dared suggest that drug legalization was worth studying?
Yet most marijuana smokers refuse to hold Clinton accountable for his attack on our freedom.
In 2004, John Kerry was on record as being in favor of medical marijuana, but opposed to the decriminalization of personal possession. John Edwards was not nearly so tolerant. He supported federal raids on patients and caregivers and vowed to maintain the federal prohibition of marijuana (link).
Of course, not all Democrats want to put you in jail for smoking marijuana. Dennis Kucinich is one Democrat who has the spine to stand up for the rights of marijuana users without shame. But let’s face it; Kucinich is a rare bird in the Democratic Party. During his 2004 presidential bid, Kucinich said of medical marijuana, “I support it without reservation.” Today, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will not even take a public position on medical marijuana.
There are not enough Democrats like Dennis Kucinich to affect any national change in marijuana policy from within the Democratic Party alone. And since they are not representative of us, we must not be loyal to them.
With medical marijuana making progress at the state level, libertarian Republicans and Independents (and a handful of Democratic vertebrates) will be the future of marijuana law reform. The left wing’s “smash the state” mentality was sufficient to start the ball rolling towards ending prohibition, but it cannot take us any further. And the core of the Democratic Party does not want to. Howard Dean, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, states plainly, “I wouldn’t crusade against it like Ashcroft, but I wouldn’t legalize it.”
The Democratic Party may be the only hope for many others seeking social justice and civil liberty, but it provides no hope for marijuana law reform.
Today, it is men like Bob Barr and Dana Rohrabacher who are representing us on Capitol Hill. It is a sad state of affairs when we cannot even rely on Democrats like Nancy Pelosi to advance the issue.
Eventually we must discard the old red and blue view of the political landscape and embrace all those who share a fundamental respect of individual liberty, no matter what their party affiliation. Medical marijuana provides an opportunity for this new unity if we can shelve our political prejudice and seize it. The lessons of history, however, do not leave us hopeful.
Three decades ago, marijuana decriminalization was thought to be the thread that would unravel prohibition. Yet, after waking from our apathetic slumber just long enough to shout “Legalize It!” marijuana smokers went right back to sleep and the Democratic Party dozed with us.
Now, Americans are waking up to the smell of freshly cured medical marijuana, but the Democratic leaders appear to have slipped into a coma. If we cannot now align ourselves with those we might otherwise disagree with, then the road to ending prohibition will be very long indeed. We certainly cannot rely on the Democrats alone to get us there.
Is this how Washington is spending its Homeland Security money?
Sheriff: 1,300 Marijuana Plants Seized In Lewis County Raid
April 11, 2007
CHEHALIS, Wash. — Deputies seized 1,345 marijuana plants after a 10-month investigation led them to three homes where they served search warrants on Wednesday morning, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said.The marijuana plants had a street value of $1.3 million and were part of a large operation that included halide lights, ventilation systems and electrical equipment, deputies said.
One person was arrested and two vehicles were seized in the 7 a.m. raid by the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Task Force, the Unified Narcotics Enforcement Team, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Yakima County Drug Task Force and the Washington National Guard.
This required the Washington National Guard
