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Even the most black-thumbed city slicker could hardly fail to grow a bumper harvest of marijuana. The hal lucinogenic weed - which grows wild throughout America in every kind of soil - requires no plowing, fertilizing, harrowing, mulching, weeding, spraying or watering. To raise a crop of dreams, all the would-be "grass" farmer need do is scatter seed some time in the spring, then go off to a love-in for 60 to 80 days. When the female Cannabis sativa bears its resinous flowers, the farmer simply plucks the plant and dries the top portion in the sun, an oven...
...rural with the prospect of easy cash. Early this summer, John H. ("Ian") Fralich, 18, a cape-draped hippie guru in Washington, B.C., leased a wooded, 35-acre farm in Virginia's rolling hunt country and seeded one acre in marijuana-enough plants to produce a $100,000 harvest at current market prices. He hoped to turn his grass farm into a psychedelic community along the lines of Timothy Leary's dream-dome in Millbrook, N.Y. But the plan went to pot last month when the "narcs" (federal narcotics agents) raided the farm and mowed the grass. "Like...
Financial Coup. On the West Bank, in the Gaza Strip and even on the Golan Heights, educators are preparing for September school reopening-except in the Sinai capital of El Arish, where youngsters will be let off until Oct. 1 to help with the date harvest...
...smugglers as exists anywhere on earth. They come and they stay on for only one reason: be cause of certain distinctions of climate and soil, Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy, finds the place unusually congenial. Each spring the hillsides blossom into white and purple waves of flowers. The annual harvest produces 1,000 tons of raw opium - 90% of the world's supply...
...basis of a "coffee year" that begins in October and ends in September, the grower nations represented at the London conference will harvest 62,200,000 bags of coffee beans this year, each bag containing 132 Ibs. of beans. Of this staggering total, the consuming nations will get only 46,850,000 bags, leaving another 15,000,000 or so to be consumed at home or added to the warehouses. What makes the gap more disturbing is that some coffee-drinking nations are not even drinking as much as they used to. In the U.S., which takes...