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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department has uncovered a mult-million dollar indoor pot operation which has been growing marijuana in a warehouse for three years.

Deputies raided the building at 911 41st Street North in Birmingham Thursday night after a two month investigation.

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Full article.

The article states that between 400 and 500 plants were confiscated. I’m a little skeptical over the assessed value of the pot, but I think it has been pretty well established by now that our government vastly overinflates the value of street drug seizures. The part of the article about the pot being able to cause “LSD-like hallucinations” would be humorous if it weren’t for the large contingent of ignorant folk who believe statements like this.

Leave your thoughts below.

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Cannabis is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco, according to a report by a British research charity Thursday, which called for a “serious rethink” of drug policy. 

A funny thing happened today. It was the first day in several months during which 24 marijuana-smoke-free hours passed in my presence. I smoked no marijuana for 24 hours plus. It was a fairly trying experience, but I got to go to a concert where a particular electronic band performed. That was pretty cool. I was sober, but a friend was kind enough to buy me a beer! I still had not smoked at this point, but weed is cool in that even though I was going through crazy withdrawal I wasn’t in any real pain or anything of that nature. Try pulling that shit with an addiction to any other drug. Nope, not gonna happen—not with nearly as much ease, anyway.

Well, now that you’ve made your way through that little detour, leave your thoughts on this badass nug below.

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The White House drug czar’s office, aka the Office of National Drug Control Policy, has been claiming loudly and frequently for several years now that its aggressive anti-marijuana campaign has been a rousing success. As deputy ONDCP director Scott Burns put it in a recent California newspaper interview, “drug use is down in the United States dramatically since 2001 by every barometer and indicator that we use. … Twenty-four percent reduction in marijuana use by young people 12 to 18 years old.”

Uh, not quite.

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Full article here.

From the article:

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Chief Ron Smith of the Detroit offices of U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the drugs were sealed in 602 individual plastic packages. “The people packing them hope that they’re airtight so that it reduces the scent. In this case, they were vacuum-sealed,” Smith said.

“It doesn’t always work for them because once you have a substance like that, as you’re packing it the scent actually gets on the outside of the packaging too.”

The total weight of the drugs seized was 327 kilograms.

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Click any of these pictures for high res!
These were sent in by a reader. You see that first picture? That is how you smoke a bowl, gentlemen. Contents are a nice sticky pinch of Blueberry Haze topped with some Charis hash. Speaking of hash, though, I don’t think the Barney’s Rubble hash in the next pic can be topped. The two pics on the bottom are an unknown Durban Poison cross and some Trinity, respectively.

Ultra high res as always. Just click on it.

Just look at all those orange hairs and white trichromes entangling that dank-ass nug of weed. Hell yeah.

Reading this could very well keep you out of jail.

It sucks to get busted. The above document, which was written by VladTemplar, tells you exactly what to do when the police attempt a violation of your rights. Have you ever wondered where the best place to store your drugs while driving is? Wonder no more (the trunk). You will also be instructed on how to deal with police who bang loudly on your door when you’re just trying to toke and listen to a little music. More advanced topics such as search warrants and the ol’ stop and frisk are also covered.

Full article from the Seattle Times

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A new rule determining how much pot constitutes a 60-day supply for medical marijuana users was finalized today, a decade after Washington voters passed an initiative legalizing marijuana for people suffering from terminal and debilitating illnesses.

The new state rule, which goes into effect Nov. 2, sets the supply limit at 24 ounces of usable marijuana plus 15 plants.

The 24-ounce amount is unchanged from an earlier draft of the rule. Some states allow more, others less. It’s the same amount in Oregon.

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All credit goes to VladTemplar for originally writing this.

So you want to know the state of the law eh? Then listen up.

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