Bob Morris Posted on Sat Oct 8, 2011 7:00 am.
Federal prosecutors are sending letters to landlords renting space to legal-by-California law grow rooms saying their property could be seized if they don’t evict the tenants. Gosh, it’s almost like they want the Mexican drug cartels to control all the growing. Because that’s exactly what will happen. It gets even crazier. A House committee has [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Thu May 5, 2011 6:15 am.
A little-spoken-of war is taking place behind California’s fences and property lines – trespassing marijuana growers are setting booby traps, resorting to violence and vandalism, and spoiling the land by stealing water and spraying dangerous chemicals that leach into streams. The growers, who are usually are Mexican drug cartels, often send boys under 18 to [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed Apr 13, 2011 12:45 pm.
Cannabis production results in energy expenditures of $5 billion each year, with electricity use equivalent to that of 2 million average U.S. homes. This corresponds to 1% of national electricity consumption or 2% of that in households. A single Cannabis cigarette represents 2 pounds of CO2 emissions, an amount equal to running a 100-watt light [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Thu Mar 3, 2011 21:11 pm.
Should they pay the city’s new marijuana business tax and risk being arrested by state or feds? If they don’t, the city might shut them down.
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Bob Morris Posted on Sun Jun 27, 2010 19:28 pm.
Legalization is coming, folks. California already has a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana and in some places, like Boulder CO and Humboldt County CA, it already is virtually legal. So, what will the feds do when states legalize it? Send in the Marines? Check those who scream the loudest against legalization, might be they have [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed May 5, 2010 1:18 am.
Any economist armed with basic macroeconomic theory could explain how U.S. drug policies create the perverse incentives that have fueled the violence- and how to fix these policies to end the carnage. Legalizing marijuana in California would be a tremendous step in the right direction. Though it may seem counter-intuitive, economists understand that legalizing marijuana [...]
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Josh Mull Posted on Tue Apr 20, 2010 16:14 pm.
An honest 420 look at marijuana in Afghanistan. There is definitely a huge drug problem, and our strategy seems to be the cause of it. Our allies that we desperately rely on are all high on drugs, selling drugs, or both. And not only are we paying for it, people are dying because of it.
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed Apr 7, 2010 14:36 pm.
Voters in Nederland Colorado just approved an initiative legalizing marijuana. This isn’t just for personal use or possession up to a specific amount. Rather marijuana is now completely legal there. This includes growing and transport. In addition to being an intelligent move on many levels, not the least of which is crippling the drug cartels, [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Apr 5, 2010 12:26 pm.
They say it’ll drive down prices and destroy the local underground economy. Growers in Humboldt County are even meeting with civic officials to determine what to do, which I guess means it’s de facto legal there. They should do what Joe Kennedy, patriarch of the Kennedy clan, did. He was a major bootlegger in Boston. [...]
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Alan S. Russet Posted on Thu Nov 5, 2009 21:02 pm.
“It’s not a subculture here,” said Barnett, who heads the Mountain Valley Unified School District. “Marijuana is drying in their houses. It’s falling out of their pockets.” It’s capitalism in action, but on the other hand…
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