Word: canadianism
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...Lawrence also beat Harvard this season in New York, 4-2. But that was back on Thanksgiving weekend, when Botterill and junior winger Tammy Shewchuk, the team's top two scorers, were in Montreal playing for the Canadian National Team in the Three Nations...
...elaborate sting last summer, customs agents and the Drug Enforcement Administration helped dismantle a far-flung ecstasy empire run by a Canadian based in Amsterdam who allegedly claimed he could sell 100,000 hits of ecstasy in Miami--in 48 hours. The mastermind was using pious-looking Hasidic Jews as couriers. (Israeli organized crime dominates the global trade, according to the U.S. government...
...busting cultivators, who, even if caught with hundreds of plants, usually get off without jail time. They face fines and seizure of equipment but are typically back in business within weeks. Canada doesn't have U.S.-style mandatory sentencing laws for drug offenses. Law-enforcement officials say most Canadian judges don't view pot cultivation as a serious crime. Says Corporal John Dykstra of the Mounties: "People in the marijuana-growing business want to do business on our side of the border because the risk...
Marc Eery expects to earn about $1 million this year selling seed for high-octane marijuana and books on how to grow it. Most of his customers live in Vancouver, not far from his illegal mail-order business, which is largely ignored by Canadian authorities. It's not a place widely regarded as a hotbed of pot cultivation, but that's changing fast, and Emery, 42, steps to his office window to demonstrate...
...laboratory conditions, twice as potent as competing varieties from Northern California and Oregon and six times as strong as most common Colombian and Mexican products. "This," Emery says, smiling at the minty-smelling weed, "is the top of the market." Across town, Dave Williams, an investigator for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, agrees--but he's not smiling. "British Columbia," he says ruefully, "now produces the best marijuana in the world...