Gone to Pot! Giant Marijuana Plants All Over California!
Before It’s News
October 27, 2013
By Dan Rather
The old expression about everything being bigger in Texas just got trumped by what’s happening in California. In my career as a reporter, I’ve been on more than a few drug raids and seen my fair share of marijuana plants. But nothing prepared me for what’s growing in northern California. As Mendocino Sheriff Tom Allman describes them, they’re “super-mega-steroid marijuana plants. We followed Sheriff Allman along on a raid near Ukiah where deputies had just discovered more than a hundred plants the size of giant Christmas trees, some reaching 15 feet high. It’s the latest trend in pot farms, or what are increasingly looking like pot plantations! So how’d they get so big? Sheriff Allman says it’s a combination of genetic modification, fertilizers, pesticides, California’s ideal growing climate and water, lots of water.
While the super plants we found in an illegal growing operation were in Mendocino County, they’re popping up all over the state, and much of the time on public land where illegal large-scale cultivation of marijuana is destroying local ecosystems. And, increasingly, it’s not locals who are farming the pot plants. Allman told me that Latin American, even European syndicates, have moved in to the back woods where they are growing far from prying eyes. This is a multi-billion dollar business and those who I spoke to used words like “crisis” and “out of control” to describe what’s going on here. Think about this — illegal marijuana farms in northern California are actually sucking the mighty Eel River dry, and that’s threatening the native salmon population.
While the diversion of water from rivers is a big concern, the use of toxic pesticides — some banned long ago in the U.S. — to keep anything and everything away from crops is also troubling. These pesticides are poisoning wildlife and contaminating the water supply. We also discovered that these chemicals show up in marijuana that’s not only headed for the black market, but in supplies due to be sold in California’s medical dispensaries.
Despite Resistance, Uruguay Near Passing Landmark Marijuana Laws
by Elizabeth Renter
Natural Society
October 17, 2013
Here in the U.S., we hold up Colorado and Washington as being models of future marijuana policy. Where they legalizes recreational marijuana, creating regulated and taxed systems, the majority of states are still trying to determine how to implement medicinal pot. In Uruguay, however, lawmakers have taken one big step towards creating a nationwide regulated marijuana industry, and they’ve done it despite the resistance of the people.
In Uruguay last month, members of the lower house of parliament passed a bill that could create the world’s first such nationwide regulated marijuana market, on a vote of 50-46. Next the bill will head to upper house later this year where it is expected to pass if the current momentum sustains.
The bill will create a system where residents can grow and possess marijuana, though they would be limited to purchasing 40 grams per month and could grow up to 6 plants at a time. It would establish marijuana growing collectives and dispensaries. Unlicensed possession or cultivation (black-market pot) would result in criminal charges, as it does now.
Canada bans small weed ops for ‘enormous’ commercial profits
by Rady Ananda
Activist Post
October 1, 2013
Medical marijuana patients in Canada can expect a 50-100% increase in the cost of medication next year, all so that large commercial interests can monopolize the habilitative herb, CBC News reports.
Health Canada has banned private-dwelling production of this 34-million-year-old plant, because the Mounties complained about missing out on taxes for weed sold outside the licensed market. Actually, they called the activity “criminal” because, after all, no matter that the plant is safer and more effective than many lab-drugs, the government criminalized it.
The 4,200 small growers, who are limited to selling to only two patients, must close down all operations by March 2014, or apply for licensing under the new regime which has much stronger security protocols, necessitating serious infrastructure upgrades and paperwork protocols.
Users will be required to buy only from the large-scale factory farms, because – we all know – factory farms are so much better for the environment and the local economy.
In June, Canada passed new regulations banning pot “home grown” by cannabis patients, and bowed to pharmacist refusal to sell the herb, The Province reports, referring to the potential for break-ins and theft. It’s okay to sell highly addictive and destructive oxycontin, barbiturates and amphetamines, and, lawd knows, no pill head would ever break into a pharmacy for these drugs.
Over two-thirds of Canada’s 37,359 approved medical marijuana users grow their own under a license, some for as low as $1 a gram. (Mail order buyers pay around $5 a gram.) Home production is being criminalized so that major corporations can overcharge the sick and dying at the rate of $7.60 – $10 a gram.
The CBC News report characterized the profit potential under Canada’s new weed regime as “enormous” for the big companies, estimating a $1.3 billion business in 2014. No doubt. It’s easy to get rich when you criminalize your competition.
Genetically modified strains can also be sold without notice to patients, since Canada lacks a right-to-know policy regarding GM products. The new policy deliberately defeats the “know your farmer” notion, so patients will be stuck ingesting whatever is engineered into the plant.
Though small ops are being wiped out, Canada will allow cannabis imports. Nice to know the nation is doing so well economically that small-time growers don’t need the income. And we can be sure that creative inventions like the one below will fall prey to pesticide laden plants in factory labs:
A Tacoma, WA man got 15 years (!) in prison for designing and operating eight of these ‘Ferris Wheel’ growers that rotated over 1,500 plants under grow lights while periodically spraying them with a nutrient solution.
Heaven forbid cost-effective treatment for a wide variety of illnesses could be manufactured in the home, naturally, organically and safely. No, no, Big Pharma and the biotech industry would lose profits, and predatory capitalism as featured in the West doesn’t allow anyone to be independent of it. These are the real criminals in all of this, along with their crony regulators.
We would expect nothing less from Health Canada who fired its food safety scientists for exposing the dangers of genetically modified bovine growth hormone.
Rady Ananda is the creator of Food Freedom News and COTO Report, Rady Ananda’s work has appeared in several online and print publications, including four books. With a B.S. in Natural Resources from Ohio State University’s School of Agriculture, Rady tweets @geobear7 and @RadysRant .
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“We conclude that the legalization of medical marijuana leads to an improvement in the psychological well being of young adult males, an improvement that is reflected in fewer suicides.”
This story didn’t make it past the network news filters, was ignored by the mainstream media, and numerous mental health/suicide prevention organizations would not even comment about it!
Wall Street Journal – Does Medical Marijuana Reduces Suicides?
Then, 17 days later:
American Independent – Study: Suicide Rates Fall When States Legalize Medical Marijuana
Why would a “good news” marijuana story, like where suicides markedly declined, be ignored by the media?
The Daily Chronic: http://tinyurl.com/lzldkxr
Now some truth and daylight as reported by three American researchers who had their findings published by the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany.
Why wouldn’t it be published in the U.S.? Is it safe for a researcher and his or her future academic funding to challenge government dogma and publish contrary evidence domestically?
Apparently it may not be, because it contradicts the misinformation and the socially engineered negative propaganda campaign against marijuana by self-serving interests since 1937.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGZEMwMx2vk
If the results of this study reported the opposite results, it would be the lead headline nationwide, I assure you. The emperor truly has no clothes!
Implications of the research:
• Marijuana improves the “psychological well being” of young adult males and saves lives!
• Marijuana’s major actions are that of an anti-depressant, anti-anxiety and anti-anger medication.
• Marijuana reduces alcohol consumption in this at risk population.
[hat tip: JenniferDestined ToSurvive]
Cannabis plants spring up all over German town after campaigners plant thousands of seeds in protest against the ‘demonisation’ of the drug
by Olivia Williams
Mail Online
July 21, 2013
- Gottingen in Germany is sprouting Marijuana plants all over town
- A group called ‘A Few Autonomous Flower Children’ sowed seeds in June
- Members say the guerrilla gardening is to protest restrictive drug policies
Justin Trudeau On Bill C279, GMOs, U.N NWO, UNPA, Syrian Rebels and Decriminalizing Pot
by Frankie Gotz
Canadian Awareness Network
July 22, 2013
In the past the Canadian Awareness Network has had opportunities to ask Justin Trudeau some questions. Some past questions were about Bilderberg Group also if he became Prime Minister would he change what his father did with the policies of the Bank of Canada which allowed private banks to create national currency, we’ve questioned him if he was involved with Power Corporation of Canada to find out if he’s following his fathers footsteps and a whole lot more. In fairness majority of the questions C.A.N has asked Trudeau were questions about things he has not done yet.
For two previous questioning sessions please click the bolded titles below:
On June 20th 2013, Justin Trudeau paid a visit to the city of Hamilton at the Dundas Farmers Market. C.A.N and friends were there to great him with political questions pertaining the U.N New World Order and much more.
THE QUESTIONS ASKED (CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER IN FILM):
1. Dex asks Trudeau if he supports Bill C 279 (controversial transgender bathroom law)
2. Since Trudeau paid a visit to Dundas Farmers Market which had venders selling organic foods Anthony asked him if he supports banning GMOs.
3.Jay gave Trudeau a sincere “good luck” for his career as being a politician and informed him that he does not want to be ruled by the United Nations New World Order..
4. Since Trudeau told Jay that the NWO is a bad thing I confronted Trudeau about him being signed onto the United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA).
5. Jay asks “Justin, do you think Canada has any business supporting United States proxy war in Syria?” … Jay informed Trudeau that the rebels in Syria are Al Qaeda and CIA is shipping weapons to them which they are using on the Syrian population.
6. I ask Trudeau if he supports decriminalizing marijuana.
Please click play on video below for Trudeau’s answers (and check description of video on YouTube for more links):
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