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STEPHEN GASKIN founder of hippie commune the Farm PRIORITIES Universal health care; campaign-finance reform; legalizing marijuana LATEST BOOK Amazing Dope Tales...
...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...
...holds up a fat sprig of marijuana buds and points out the crystals of dried resin that sparkle like tiny diamonds in the flat winter sunlight. These crystals make the local pot, which has been perfected through indoor growing under virtual 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...
Known as "B.C. Bud," this pot is finding a lucrative market among U.S. users of recreational drugs. A pound of dried B.C. Bud--whose active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, accounts for up to 30% of its weight--sells for about $8,000 in New York City. The more common marijuana from Mexico, with a THC content of about 5%, sells for as little...
REEFER MADNESS Tune in, aging hippies. Middle-aged and elderly marijuana users may increase their risk of a heart attack fivefold in the first hour after lighting up. The danger--like the high--seems to subside by the second hour. Pot raises the heart rate by about 40 beats a minute, scientists say, and this is especially problematic for folks with undiagnosed coronary disease. For someone in good physical shape, marijuana is about twice as risky...