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More students have signed up to participate in this fall's Fast for a World Harvest than in previous years, organizers said yesterday...
...that stand 20 ft. tall. With 1 oz. of sinsemilla retailing for $250, and each stalk producing up to 32 oz. of pot, narcotics officials estimate the value of the California crop at a mind-blowing $1 billion-at least equal in value to the state's grape harvest...
Even though 647 patches were spotted in a single county last year, drug officials seized only 53,000 Ibs., about 15% of the estimated total harvest. But there is an all-out effort to curb this year's harvest, which must be completed before November's rains. Officials estimate that there is a bumper crop, mostly in 27 northern counties. Says California Attorney General George Deukmejian: "We can't expect other countries to carry out drug-eradication programs if we don't make an intensive effort here." The state bureau of narcotics has increased its marijuana...
...patrolling American and South Vietnamese soldiers. Mendocino County, located north of San Francisco, has had several assaults, shootings and even one killing related to pot thefts. Warns Sonoma County District Attorney Gene Tunney, son of the late heavyweight boxing champion: "If you go walking in the hills during harvest time, you're asking to have your head blown...
...year or early in 1981, an alarmingly high base from which the economy will again begin growing. At best, the board predicted a 1981 year-end inflation rate of 9.4%. But any number of external shocks to the economy, such as big new oil-price jumps, a bad 1981 harvest or an excessively cold winter, could send prices leaping to far higher levels than that. The board's liberals fretted over the lack of an effective program of wage and price restraints by the vote-conscious Carter Administration to keep the pressure contained still longer; conservatives worried that...