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  • REVEALED: Chinese gangs are behind THOUSANDS of illegal weed farms across the US - sparking fears that CCP could become new cannabis kingpins

    03/03/2024 5:01:29 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 45 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 03 03 2024 | Miles Dilworth and Will Potter
    Chinese gangs have set up thousands of illicit weed farms across the US as they begin to challenge Mexican cartels for supremacy as America's cannabis kingpins. Authorities in Oklahoma, Oregon, California, New Mexico and Maine have all been battling a surge in Chinese weed farms, with some thought to be linked to criminal gangs known as 'triads'. The spread is seemingly uncontainable, with police in Penobscot County, Maine, last week arresting three Chinese nationals at a weed farm and seizing 40 pounds of the drug alongside $4,700 in cash. It is thought to be one of around 270 illegal weed...
  • Health effects of weed laid bare: Marijuana is behind 3 in 10 schizophrenia cases, can be a death sentence in pregnant users, but Biden STILL wants to ease restrictions on the drug

    09/17/2023 7:49:37 PM PDT · by chickenlips · 112 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | September 4, 2023 | Cassidy Morrison
    A nationwide social experiment launched by a wave of marijuana legalizations is finally bearing results in the form of higher depression rates and addiction. It started in 2012 in Colorado and Washington, setting off a domino effect that has seen restrictions lifted across nearly 40 states, including 23 where it's legal to use marijuana recreationally. The Biden administration now aims to demote the drug from its schedule I status, which lumped it in with heroin and LSD, to schedule III, the first step toward total decriminalization at a federal level. Marijuana has been lauded for its purported benefits for pain...
  • California Assembly Passes Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelic Drugs

    09/08/2023 6:49:53 AM PDT · by DFG · 26 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/07/2023 | Paul Bois
    The Democrat-controlled California state assembly passed a bill that will decriminalize psychedelic drugs for personal use. “The measure cleared the lower house of the Democratic-controlled state legislature Wednesday, with 42 members voting yes, 13 opposed and 25 not voting. Five of the Assembly’s 13 Republican members joined their Democratic colleagues to vote for the bill,” noted the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). "A broader version of the bill previously passed the state senate. That chamber is expected to pass the final version by next week, sending the measure to Gov. Gavin Newsom,” it added. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has yet to...
  • 'Really Dire': California Pot Tax Revenue Falls for 7th Straight Quarter

    06/13/2023 1:21:59 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 86 replies
    KSBW ^ | Jun 13, 2023 | Lester Black
    Warning lights continue to flash bright red for California’s cannabis industry as companies struggle to pay their bills, legal cannabis sales continue to drop and pot tax revenue falls for the seventh straight quarter. The latest tax figures released by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, or CDTFA, showed that cannabis excise taxes fell a whopping 18.8% in the first quarter of 2023. That’s the seventh quarter in a row in which excise tax collections have fallen for the industry. The falling tax revenue is the latest domino to fall in what appears to be a long-brewing economic...
  • The Legalization Of Polygamy Was Always The Logical Consequence Of Obergefell

    05/26/2023 4:33:54 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 58 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 05/26/2023 | Jonathan S. Tobin
    If marriage is possible between any two individuals, then why not three, four, or any number of consenting adults, regardless of their sex?In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the landmark case of Obergefell v. Hodges, legalizing gay marriage in all 50 states and the District of Columbia by a 5-4 vote. Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion for the case, didn’t seem to believe that the issue of polyamory could possibly be relevant or arise due to the court’s decision. Just eight years later, The New York Times published an article last week that celebrated Somerville, Massachusetts,...
  • West Virginia officer will not face charges for striking, killing 13-year-old with cruiser off-duty

    05/13/2023 4:19:06 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 12 replies
    AP ^ | May 12, 2023 | LEAH WILLINGHAM
    HARLESTON W.Va. (AP) — An off-duty deputy sheriff in West Virginia who struck and killed a 13-year-old girl with his marked cruiser last year will not face criminal charges in her death, according to the prosecutor investigating the case. Special Prosecutor for Cabell County Mark Sorsaia determined the “tragic loss” of 13-year-old Jacqueline “Laney” Hudson in December 2022 was a “direct result” of her own erratic behavior while under the influence of alcohol and marijuana, according to a letter dated Thursday clearing former Cabell County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeffrey Racer of negligence..... Hudson was killed on December 30, 2022 just after...
  • ‘Most Hippie’ Town in Washington Outlaws Drugs After ODs in Streets, Fentanyl Death of 5-Year-ld

    05/07/2023 8:42:12 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 62 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 7, 2023 | Marjorie Hernandez
    A town which once prided itself as being the “most hippie” in Washington has taken drastic action to outlaw drugs, after state-wide decriminalization led to spiking crime and child overdose deaths. The proudly liberal city of 92,000 has been pushed to its limit, with the fire department responding to 223 overdoses — 2.5 calls per day — between January and April 12, according to Cascadia Daily. Among the dead are two teenagers and a five year old, who had overdosed on fentanyl in March and was found dead by police with foam coming from her mouth. Overdoses have become so...
  • New York City Is Discovering That Legalizing Marijuana Wasn’t Really a Great Idea

    04/17/2023 10:44:50 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 85 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 04/17/2023 | Robert Spencer
    Decriminalizing marijuana, we’ve been told to the point of stupor for years, would simply be a matter of recognizing the way society has changed and coming to a mature accommodation of a widespread current practice. It would free up valuable police resources to deal with actual crimes and real criminals, and end a longstanding injustice in which — you guessed it! — people of color were, we were told, disproportionately targeted for arrest and prosecution. So the state of New York has legalized marijuana, and how’s it going? Doritos and Patchouli oil sales through the roof? Maybe. But there have...
  • Mexican Cartel-Style Violence Spreading in California over Marijuana Grow Fields

    02/05/2023 9:01:32 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 49 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/05/2023 | ILDEFONSO ORTIZ and BRANDON DARBY
    Contrary to political rhetoric, Mexican-style cartel killings and gun battles appear to have already reached the U.S. and are spreading — particularly in California. The region experienced an explosive growth of cartel marijuana grow operations that are taking advantage of legalization and lax laws. This week, federal authorities clashed with one of two gunmen who are accused of killing a family of six — including a 16-year-old female and her baby. The murders took place last month in Tulare County, California, in what some authorities have dubbed a cartel killing.
  • Breaking: Oklahoma Says 'No' To Recreational Marijuana

    03/07/2023 6:32:18 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 68 replies
    News 9 Oklahoma Citu ^ | 3/7/23 | News 9
    Oklahoma has rejected recreational marijuana, per a vote Tuesday on State Question 820. The Associated Press called the race with the "no" votes up by more than a 60 to 40 percent margin just after 8 p.m. Tuesday. State Question 820 would have legalize recreational marijuana for adults 21 and older. If passed, SQ 820 would have gone into effect on June 5
  • Scientists Discover a Startling Potential Link Between Marijuana Legalization and Asthma

    02/24/2023 8:22:56 AM PST · by Red Badger · 40 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | FEBRUARY 23, 2023 | By COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
    A rise in asthma cases has been observed in children from certain racial and ethnic minority groups in states where recreational use of marijuana has been legalized. A recent study conducted by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and The City University of New York has revealed that there has been a rise in the prevalence of asthma among teenagers in states where recreational use of cannabis has been legalized, as well as among children from certain racial and ethnic minority groups in states with recreational legalization, in comparison to states where it remains fully illegal. The findings...
  • 7 dead, 1 critically injured after shootings at 2 farms in Half Moon Bay; suspect in custody

    01/23/2023 6:08:19 PM PST · by artichokegrower · 87 replies
    ABC7 ^ | January 23, 2023
    HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (KGO) -- Seven people are dead and one is critically injured following shootings at two farms in Half Moon Bay this afternoon, a source confirmed to ABC7 News. The shootings were reported at Mountain Mushroom Farm and Concord Farms. The suspect has been taken into custody, sheriff's officials said.
  • How falling pot prices killed a 3rd generation family pot farm

    12/14/2022 7:54:10 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 49 replies
    SF Gate ^ | December 14, 2022 | By Lester Black
    … Pot farms across the state are shutting down as wholesale cannabis prices have crashed by as much as 95% since California voters legalized weed in 2016, according to SFGATE interviews with over a dozen California cannabis farmers, who could get as much as $2,000 for a pound of pot in 2016. Today, they’re lucky to get $400 — and some pot is selling for as little as $100 a pound. Economists have been predicting that legalization would cause a drop in wholesale pot prices since states first began discussing the pot reform. But cannabis farmers say that California’s government...
  • Biden's marijuana payoff a looming disaster

    10/08/2022 6:00:57 PM PDT · by MikelTackNailer · 35 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | October 8, 2022 | Tom Basile
    On the ropes and with no message about rising crime or the struggling economy to appeal to voters, President Joe Biden has gone to pot. Literally. The president’s election-eve marijuana decriminalization order has him yet again putting politics over people’s lives and health. In a shameless attempt to buy the votes of young people and lower-income minority communities, Mr. Biden is waving his pen around again to dig himself out of the political cellar. The American Left, and some on the Right, along with the Big Tobacco companies already responsible for millions of deaths from their products, have spent heavily...
  • John Fetterman Aims High, Calls for Cannabis Legalization

    08/30/2022 8:41:48 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 24 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 08/30/2022 | Nick Gilbertson
    Pennsylvania’s Democratic U.S. Senate nominee John Fetterman wants to legalize cannabis nationally and is urging President Joe Biden to deschedule the drug, removing it from the list of federally controlled substances. In a press release shared by his communications director John Calvello on Monday, Fetterman, who is Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, called for the decriminalization of marijuana and for Biden to declassify it as a Schedule I drug:
  • Trump’s angry words spur warnings of real violence

    08/16/2022 2:28:27 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 87 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | August 16, 2022 | By DAVID KLEPPER (D-AP)
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A man armed with an AR-15 dies in a shootout after trying to breach FBI offices in Cincinnati. A Pennsylvania man is arrested after he posts death threats against agents on social media. In cyberspace, calls for armed uprisings and civil war grow stronger. This could be just the beginning, federal authorities and private extremism monitors warn. A growing number of ardent Donald Trump supporters seem ready to strike back against the FBI or others who they believe go too far in investigating the former president. Law enforcement officials across the country are warning and being warned...
  • Florida man assures cops that “meth is legal now”

    08/09/2022 7:39:17 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 21 replies
    98.7 KLUV ^ | August 8, 2022 | Miles in the Morning, Jeff Miles, Rebekah Black, and Alex Luckey, 98.7 KLUV
    Early last Thursday morning, police in St. Petersburg, Florida happened upon a man named Enzo Zabala-Cardozo, who was about to fire up and smoke from a glass pipe in an alleyway. Obviously, that is not allowed, but according to Zabala-Cardozo, it was all good! As he turned to walk away from the police, he assured the officers that “meth is legal now.” Zabala-Cordozo offered no other proof or details of his claims, and it was not enough for the police to avoid taking him into their possession. Per The Smoking Gun, Zabala-Cardozo was arrested on a felony drug possession charge...
  • Democrats press Biden to use ‘existing authority’ to take step toward marijuana legalization

    07/06/2022 10:15:19 PM PDT · by Houserino · 97 replies
    The Hill ^ | 7/6/2022 | Aris Folley
    Democratic senators are putting pressure on the Biden administration to use its authority to deschedule cannabis, as a Senate proposal to legalize marijuana faces an uphill battle. Democrats press Biden to use ‘existing authority’ to take step toward marijuana legalization Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and others on Wednesday sent a letter calling on the Biden administration to “use its existing authority to (i) deschedule cannabis and (ii) issue pardons to all individuals convicted of nonviolent cannabis-related offenses.”
  • Thailand cannabis: From a war on drugs to weed curries

    06/21/2022 1:06:57 PM PDT · by LeoWindhorse · 47 replies
    BBC World News ^ | 6/21/2022 | Jonathan Head
    Thailand legalised cultivating and consuming cannabis this month, reversing a hard-line approach of long prison sentences or even the death penalty for drug offences.
  • Cases of Cannabis-Induced Psychosis Rise. Lawmakers Want to Add Mental Health Warnings to Pot Products

    06/12/2022 8:41:41 AM PDT · by Right Wing Vegan · 34 replies
    KQED ^ | 6/7/2022 | April Dembosky
    Indeed, research confirms people who use cannabis are four times more likely to develop chronic psychosis, or schizophrenia, compared to people who don’t. For people who smoke every day or use higher potency products, the risk is up to six times higher. One study found eliminating marijuana use in adolescents would reduce global rates of schizophrenia by 10%. Doctors and lawmakers in California want cannabis producers to warn consumers of this and other health risks on their package labels and in advertising, similar to requirements for cigarettes. They also want sellers to distribute health brochures to first-time customers outlining the...