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...product, previously a crude substance dubbed "Mexican brown," now competes with purer varieties from Southeast Asia. At the same time, Mexico's marijuana has made a comeback with bargain-minded smokers; it costs only $100 or less an ounce on the street, compared with $200 for California's superpotent sinsemilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buried By a Tropical Snowstorm | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...preferred crop today is sinsemilla (a seedless marijuana produced through intensive cultivation of only the female plant) that has a very high concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, marijuana's psychoactive ingredient. Sinsemilla produces a heady euphoria and sells for around $2,000 per lb. This is roughly the yield from a single plant. The sinsemilla produced by U.S. growers is so prized that seeds have been smuggled into Mexico and Colombia to enrich crops there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grass Was Never Greener | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

From such Californians, one learns that funk is fun. But no antidote has yet been found to the bite of the state's most annoying insect, the California Cute-Fly, which gathers in swarms at art schools and among the hills of Marin County. Quaintness, a whiff of sinsemilla, weaknesses of the bone structure, a pervasive reek of the petted ego-such are the main signs of this gnat's attack, coupled with the hermetic babblings which, on that coastal paradise of the half-blown mind, stand in for Imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Molding the Human Clay | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

Because the sinsemilla plants need a lot of sunshine, most large plots can be spotted from the air by experienced agents, who summon raiding parties armed with search warrants, flak jackets and chain saws. They cut down and truck the stalks to incinerators. The cultivators who are caught usually get off with probation, though the maximum penalty is a $5,000 fine and ten years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Pot Shots in California | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...potgrowers are fighting back. Some try to hide their sinsemilla stalks among tall sunflowers. One imaginative cultivator hung red Christmas-tree balls on his pot plants, trying to make them look like tomato plants from the air. The ruse did not work, because any cultivated ground in the middle of a forest attracts the suspicions of drug-enforcement officials. A few growers have even taken shots at the agents' low-flying planes, causing one casualty: a sheriff was wounded in the back while circling a marijuana patch in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Pot Shots in California | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

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