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...here discovered 480 homes growing marijuana indoors. Last year, 1,022 grow houses were busted. "This isn't your grandma's marijuana," quipped a Miami-Dade narcotics officer at one bust as he tossed garbage bags stuffed with confiscated marijuana into an unmarked police truck. Levels of THC - the agent in marijuana that produces feelings of euphoria, and in some users mild hallucinations and paranoia - have risen dramatically because of indoor techniques. Thirty years ago, most marijuana contained about 7% THC. Today, indoor growers boast THC levels of 25% or higher thanks to the additional care that indoor plants receive...
...Most of those shows he discovered while he was a talent agent for William Morris in London. He built relationships there and figured out how to refine the ingredients of the European shows to appeal to the American viewing appetite. Some shows remained unpalatable: Kath & Kim, an archetypal Australian comedy, did not fare well. Neither did some of his other, more homegrown fare: a revamped Knight Rider, American Gladiator and Restaurant, a reality show that followed the fortunes of Rocco DiSpirito, an upstart chef not unlike Silverman...
...bars before. At the end of a night out, my pals jokingly yell "Not it!" when it comes time to decide who drives me home. Once, a kind girlfriend drove me to the other side of the county so that I could attend a meeting with a literary agent, while she waited downstairs at a Coffee Bean. As much as I wanted to pretend that it was sort of like being an executive with a car service, it really wasn...
...This was not a raid," says DEA special agent and media spokeswoman Violet Szeleczky. "At 10:15 we knocked on the door of the clinic, went in and said we had a search warrant for the premises. They cooperated fully...
...Just across the road from the Smokehouse is the plusher Cameron Highlands Resort, www.cameronhighlandsresort.com. Bedecked in Jim Thompson textiles (in memoriam the former CIA agent turned silk mogul, who disappeared while on a walk in the Camerons in 1967), the 56 rooms and suites offer lush views of the Cameron Highlands Golf Course and the hills beyond. The Highland Bar is the venue for sundowners and single malts, and the Jim Thompson Tea Room the place for high tea. If you don't feel like ingesting it, head for the Spa Village and have it applied externally - in the form...