Operation Pipedreams

Operation Pipedreams was a sting operation targeted to sellers of bongs, pipes etc. The estimated cost of this operation was over $12 million and included the resources of 2,000 law enforcement officers.

"People selling drug paraphernalia are in essence no different than drug dealers. They are as much a part of drug trafficking as silencers are a part of criminal homicide." – John Brown, acting DEA chief.

Well in US not only you can buy a silencer, you can buy the gun itself, obviously he missed that. Of course John Brown, of the Drug Enforcement Agency, has little interest in guns and murder outside of the world of drug dealing. In the last couple of days, however, he has overseen the arrest of at least 55 people whose only stated crime was the manufacture and selling of smoking accessories. His equation of bong-makers with drug traffickers is ludicrous at best, and his apparent indifference to the legal sale of silencers across America makes him a hypocrite caught in his own words.

Out of the 55 people targeted only one was sent to jail, actor Tommy Chong, while government officials denied that Chong was treated any differently from the other defendants, many felt that he was made an example of by the government and that they were threatened by him, yet they deny that. I bet the government didn't have any other problems back in 2003 but to bust people like Tommy Chong.

Huge Underground Grow

Here's a grow in Tennessee, probably one of the most elaborate grows ever, and it got busted, I think it was because of the huge power usage spikes,they should've used generators...

Colombian Drug Lords House

Here's some pictures from a house that belonged to a drug lord from Colombia, I think they've counted about 206 million $ in cash, and this is not the only house, there are more.

Drug Enforcment Administration on THC pills.

Have no illusions about the true nature of the so-called "War on Drugs" and the actions of the DEA. The War on Drugs has always been about protecting the profits of the drug companies which have a long and well-documented history of copying street drugs, repackaging them as "medications" and selling them to people as FDA-approved drugs.

Now, yet another example emerges as the DEA moves to legalize THC in Big Pharma's pills while simultaneously making it illegal for anyone else to grow, sell or possess THC. The DEA, you see, is working to change the classification of THC from a schedule I substance (like street heroin) to a schedule III drug (pharmaceuticals). So if Big Pharma grows its own marijuana plants, extracts the THC and puts it into a pill, those pills will be perfectly legal. They're already FDA approved, actually, when made with the synthetic version of THC.

But if a guy grows the very same chemical in his backyard, then extracts THC from those plants, even for his own personal use, suddenly he's guilty of committing a federal crime and will likely be subjected to an armed raid by DEA agents. Interesting isn't it?

Washington Legalization Initiative

Well it seems something slid through my eyes just recently, Washington state released the HB1550 bill, which would legalize, tax cannabis just as alcohol and sell it at specific shops, just like liquor. Now I'm not going babble about how legalization would benefit us, that has been talked about a lot, but if it passes it might spark a revolution at how we look at cannabis.

Read more:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2014270472_edit20legal.html

Silly Conviction

A kid by the name of Touray Cornell faced a felony charge: possession of an illegal substance punishable by serious prison time. The substance: marijuana, found by a police raid on his home. The amount: 1/16th of an ounce.

One-sixteenth of an ounce equals less than two grams. Too little to roll in a cigarette paper. You could be carrying 1/16th of an ounce of pot around in your pant cuff right now and not even know it. But Touray Cornell was charged and he was going down, just as soon as Dusty Deschamps, District Judge for Missoula County could select a jury.

Er…small problem. When each prospective juror learned what the case was about and how much ‘drug’ was involved, they refused to serve. Juror after juror told the judge they would refuse to convict anyone over such a miniscule amount of pot. Twenty-seven prospective jurors were polled; 22 of them said that not only would they not convict, but the whole farce was “a waste of taxpayer money.” “It’s a mutiny,” wailed the District Attorney.

High time too. The war on marijuana has been going on for 100 years, give or take. It is impossible to calculate the Himalayas of money, man hours and human grief it’s cost, but the price tag is surely in the hundreds of billions of dollars; the lives blighted too numerous to comprehend.

And the result? Some time ago you pretty much had to be on a first-name basis with a jazz musician if you wanted to score some pot. Nowadays? Just hang out around any schoolyard or shopping mall and look interested. The Grade 8 connection will find you.

Music

            Well I've been gone for some time now, 2 months I think, recently got some free time on my hands so I thought I'd post something, some music to be precise, so here's a small list in no particular order, different genres, just something nice to chill to.

Damian Marley - It Was Written (Dubstep remix)




Brown & Gammon - Ganja Smuggling



Cypress Hill - I Want to Get High




Peter Tosh - Legalize It




Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf



Bob Marley - Easy Skanking



Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze