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Offering both single seeds and conventional packs of marijuana seeds from the major seed banks. We allow you to build up a unique collection. It is our aim to be the cheapest place in Canada to buy marijuana seeds and we will beat any online price from a reputable competitor.
Autoflowering Seeds - new site category
As the popularity of autoflowering seeds continues to grow, and with lots of people asking us where to find them, we've now added a brand new site category.
It can be found above the seed banks on the right hand side, and we've also moved the Feminized Seeds category to the top of that list too.
Let us know if there's anything else you'd like us to add, so we can continue to be your number one for marijuana seeds!
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Pot Use Higher Than BC Average, School Survey Shows
A September survey of islands students in grades 7 to 12 has found that their use of alcohol is about the same as the provincial average, but their use of marijuana is significantly higher, superintendent Angus Wilson said at last week’s school board meeting ( Nov. 30 ).
The survey, done as part of the RCMP’s new Community Prevention and Education Continuum program, found that almost half – 46 percent – of students surveyed have used marijuana, Mr. Wilson said.
Additionally, of the students who have used marijuana, 40 percent use it more than three times a week, he said. These rates are way above the provincial average, he said.
On the other hand, the students’ use of alcohol is about the same as the provincial average, and is significantly below the rate for the northwest zone. The northwest has one of the highest alcohol consumption rates in the province.
The survey also asked students about their home and school life.
“One positive thing is the students do seem to be connected to their schools and their culture,” Mr. Wilson told trustees.
Mr. Wilson said he will make a full presentation on the survey results at the December school board meeting, but wanted to share a few highlights right now. The purpose of the survey, he said, is to give the people running the program an idea of what the situation is here. For example, a school district where significant numbers of students are using cocaine would have a different program than a school district where the drug of choice is marijuana.
Students have been given the message that drugs and alcohol are bad many times, but this program is different, Mr. Wilson said. It will be looking for fresh ways to present information to teens, like how drug use can affect sports performance, or how spending on drugs and alcohol can affect one’s ability to save up for a new car.
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Willie Nelson Takes a Hit
Country music superstar Willie Nelson was arrested Friday morning for allegedly having about 6 ounces of marijuana after his tour bus was stopped at the Border Patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, about 85 miles east of El Paso. He posted bond and was released shortly after.
Nelson, 77, was traveling from California to Austin, where he owns a ranch.
Nelson, who has written hundreds of songs including “Crazy,” “Whiskey River” and “On the Road Again,” was stopped at the checkpoint about 9 a.m.
Border Patrol agents searched Nelson’s tour bus and found the marijuana, which Nelson claimed was his, said Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West.
Nelson, who has performed duets with Toby Keith, Julio Iglesias, George Jones and many more, was taken into custody and booked into the Hudspeth County Jail. West said that Nelson posted a $2,500 bond and was on the road again by 1:30 p.m. Friday.
“It’s kind of surprising, but, I mean, we treat him like anybody else,” West said.
“He could get 180 days in county jail, which if he does, I’m going to make him cook and clean,” West said.
“He can wear the stripy uniforms just like the other ones do.”
A court date has yet to be set.
The Border Patrol checkpoint along Interstate 10 at Sierra Blanca averages 10 to 15 drug-related arrests a day West said, and he expects several more arrests during the weekend as holiday travelers pack the road.
Nelson’s publicist Elaine Schock could not be reached for comment Friday, and no changes had been made to Nelson’s tour schedule. His next performance will be today at the WinStar casino in Thackerville, Okla.
Nelson came to fame during the outlaw country music movement in the 1970s alongside artists such as Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash.
His career took off after the release of his 1975 album “Red Headed Stranger” which included his hit song, “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.”
Nelson also appeared in several movies including “Barbarosa,” “The Electric Horseman” and “Honnysuckle Rose” and on many television shows.
Friday’s arrest is the latest of Nelson’s brushes with law enforcement involving drugs.
In January, six members of Nelson’s band and crew were issued citations in North Carolina for allegedly having marijuana and moonshine.
On Sept. 18, 2006, Nelson and members of his band including tour manager David Anderson were issued citations for drug possession at a traffic stop on Interstate 10 in St. Martin Parish, La. Nearly 1.5 pounds of marijuana and 3 ounces of hallucinogenic mushrooms were found on Nelson’s tour bus.
Nelson and Anderson pleaded guilty in that case and each was sentenced to a $1,024 fine and six months of probation.
Nelson also was arrested in 1995 after he had pulled off the road along Interstate 35 south of Waco to sleep after an all-night poker game. Police officers saw a joint in the car’s ashtray, and Nelson told the officers that there was also a small bag of marijuana on the car’s floorboard.
The prosecutor in the case dropped the charges after a judge ruled that the marijuana seized from Nelson’s car was inadmissible because the officers had no probable cause to search the car or to arrest Nelson.
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B.C. man charged with feeding grow-op bears
A man accused of taming as many as 26 bears guarding a marijuana grow-op in B.C.'s Kootenays has been charged under the provincial Wildlife Act.
About 15 docile bears were discovered during a police raid on a Christina Lake property in August. The animals were roaming around like friendly pets -- one even lounged on top of a police car.
Police suspected the animals were being used to guard the site, where they uncovered 2,300 marijuana plants.
Property owner Allen Wayne Piche has now been charged with one count of feeding dangerous wildlife for allegedly feeding dog food to the neighbourhood black bears, making them dependent on humans.
Conservation officers believe that more than two dozen bears were visiting Piche's property to be fed.
The charge carries a maximum fine of $100,000 and up to a year in jail for first-time offenders. A second offence could double those penalties.
Piche released a video after news of the raid spread, claiming that he's been feeding the bears for a decade, and denying that he had trained them to guard the marijuana plants.
He says he started by feeding a single old bear he sensed was looking to him for food, and the situation snowballed from there.
After the raid, authorities considered destroying the bears in the interest of public safety. They eventually agreed to let Piche continue feeding the animals on a reduced schedule until they go into hibernation.
Officials believe that most of the bears are now in hibernation for the winter. Piche will be required to fence his property off to stop them from returning, and if the bears behave, they will be left alone.
Piche is scheduled to appear in Grand Forks provincial court on Dec. 14.
The RCMP have recommended charges of cultivating and possessing marijuana in connection to the grow operation, but those have yet to be approved.
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Pot Shots at the Criminalization of a Soft Drug
Drug cartels, criminals, police chiefs, alcohol manufacturers and retailers, prison employees and big pharma, can now sleep easier.
California’s Proposition 19 was defeated last week 54% to 46%. Marijuana prohibition remains in force in California. Recreational possession and use of pot remains illegal in North America.
But don’t let your guard down. Keep lobbying against lifting pot prohibition because sooner or later people are going to come to their senses and accept that prohibition has been an abject failure.
All it’s managed to do is push up the price of pot and give a near monopoly to drug cartels, resulting in higher profits for criminals and increased violence when dealers try to protect their turf.
At the same time we’ve made criminals out of recreational pot users.
In spite of billions of dollars spent enforcing prohibition, pot is almost as available as liquor products. Perhaps even moreso since minors can purchase pot more readily than they can purchase alcohol products.
I’m not in favour of or advocating pot use, just common sense.
When judges, retired police chiefs, scientists and economists tell us prohibition doesn’t work and is a colossal waste of money, isn’t it time to at least debate the subject intelligently using evidence based facts rather than scaremongering reefer madness arguments?
Even the Globe and Mail has recently advocated a search for something better than the current war on drugs.
The number of myths surrounding marijuana is staggering.
It is a gateway drug. It causes mental illness. It is more dangerous than tobacco. It is highly addictive. It kills brain cells. All myths that can be debunked.
But it is no myth that alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana. The Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs in England recently rated marijuana with a harm score of 20 compared with alcohol at 72.
Might legalization increase marijuana usage? Perhaps in the short term, but we’re told marijuana is more widely used in North American than it is in the Netherlands where it is legally available in government-run shops.
Would more teens experiment with marijuana if it were legal? Perhaps, but with the easy availability of it, any teen who wants to experiment can already do so.
We already know marijuana has medical uses “” indeed some components of pot may have anti-tumor effects “” and we allow its compassionate medical use to help alleviate chronic pain, nausea and side effects of chemotherapy. We do so grudgingly in Canada where it can take three to six months and sometimes longer to get a one year permit, even though the use of pot can reduce the need to take other, more expensive drugs.
Is there any rational reason to criminalize recreational pot use when we don’t criminalize alcohol use? If the only reason is alcohol is already legal, then remember marijuana was legal in Canada until 1923 and alcohol use was illegal in the U.S. between 1920 and 1933.
Don’t take my word on the need for drug reform. Take the word of the authors of the 2002 Report Of The Senate Special Committee On Illegal Drugs:
Thirty years ago, the Le Dain Commission released its report on cannabis. This Commission had far greater resources than we did. However, we had the benefit of Le Dain’s work, a much more highly developed knowledge base since then and of 30 years’ historical perspective.
The Commission concluded the criminalization of cannabis had no scientific basis. Thirty years later, we confirm this conclusion and add that continued criminalization of cannabis remains unjustified based on scientific data on the danger it poses.
Instead, Canada is poised to pass Bill S-10 which would allow a minimum sentence of six to nine months for anyone caught growing six or more marijuana plants. Wonderful.
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Mexico Seizes 105 Tonnes Of Marijuana
Mexican security forces seized at least 105 tonnes of US-bound marijuana in the border city of Tijuana on Monday, by far the biggest pot bust in the country in recent years. Soldiers and police grabbed the drugs in pre-dawn raids in three neighbourhoods after police arrested 11 people following a shootout, army Gen Alfonso Duarte Mujica said at a news conference.
The marijuana was found wrapped in 10,000 packages, which were displayed to journalists by soldiers in masks. Duarte said the drug had an estimated street value in Mexico of 4.2 billion pesos, about $340 million. Duarte said authorities were still counting and weighing the packages and the amount could increase. He said the drugs – wrapped in different colours and labelled with apparently coded phrases and pictures that included Homer Simpson – would be incinerated immediately after the weighing and counting is completed. The bust began when Tijuana municipal police on patrol came under fire from gunmen in a convoy of vehicles, Duarte said. One police officer and one suspect were injured.
Police arrested 11 people who were travelling in the convoy and called the army and state police for reinforcements, Duarte said. He said the detainees led the security forces to three different neighbourhoods in the city, which is across the border from San Diego, California. The drugs were found stored in tractor trailers and houses. Duarte said local criminal gangs were gathering the drugs to smuggle into the United States. He did not identify any of the gangs or say where the marijuana originated.
Although Mexican drug cartels smuggle marijuana from South America, the drug is increasingly produced in Mexico. Cannabis production in Mexico increased 35 percent to 12,000 hectares (29,652 acres) in 2009, from 8,900 hectares (21,991 acres) the previous year, according to the US State Department’s 2010 International Narcotics Control report. The report attributed the increase to drug cartel efforts to “diminish reliance on foreign suppliers.” The Tijuana bust dwarfed marijuana seizures of recent years. Major pot seizures this year in Tijuana and other parts of the country have amounted to about a dozen tonnes each.
Before this seizure, soldiers in Baja California state, where Tijuana is located, had confiscated a total of 115 tonnes of marijuana this year. The seizure comes as overall marijuana confiscation and crop eradication has dropped in Mexico. Security forces seized 1,385 tonnes of marijuana in 2009, down from a yearly average of 2,000 tonnes in previous years, according to the US report. It said Mexico eradicated 14,135 hectares (34,927 acres) of cannabis in the first 11 months of last year, compared to 18,663 hectares (46,116 acres) in all of 2008. The report said the decline comes as Mexican security forces focus more on hard drugs like methamphetamines – but also as resources are increasingly deployed to confront drug cartel violence.
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B.C. medical marijuana user lights up in the Commons to protest law
OTTAWA — A medical marijuana user lit up a joint in the House of Commons Monday to draw attention to what he calls unfair rules set by Health Canada.
Samuel Mellace, who lives in Abbotsford, B.C., is a licensed pot user under the federal government's medical marijuana program. He started smoking a joint Monday afternoon while in the public gallery of the House of Commons as the daily question period came to an end. Mellace took a few drags on the joint before a security guard asked him to put it out and leave the gallery, which he did without incident.
At a news conference on Parliament Hill a short time later, Mellace said he didn't think it was wrong for him to take his medication in the House of Commons.
His complaints about the government's medical marijuana program are twofold: delays in processing applications for licences and restrictions on how medical marijuana can be used.
Mellace wants licensed users to be able to use their legal marijuana in creams or food, something that is prohibited by Health Canada's regulations.
"Smoking marijuana is not the only way," Mellace said. "There's other methods, there's people that cannot smoke it."
His wife is one of those people, he said; she has lung cancer and can't inhale her marijuana medication. Mellace's company, New Age Medical Solutions, makes products that contain marijuana extracts, including a hand lotion and a butter that can be used in baking and cooking.
The smoothies Mellace makes for his wife with the marijuana extracts are technically illegal. Health Canada rules stipulate that licensed users can only possess dried marijuana for medical purposes and that it cannot be processed into another substance. Doing so contravenes the Marijuana Medical Access Regulations and means the byproducts are controlled substances under federal drug laws.
"Any activities that fall outside of the MMAR is an enforcement issue and falls under the jurisdiction of law enforcement agencies," Health Canada said in an emailed response to questions from Postmedia.
Health Canada does acknowledge there is a backlog in processing applications for licenses, which Mellace and other users at Monday's news conference said is punishing patients.
If their licence expires before it is renewed, they say they risk either being caught and charged with drug offences or living in pain while they wait for a new licence, sometimes for months.
"Health Canada is currently experiencing a temporary delay in processing applications, due to a sharp rise in the number of applications received in recent months," the department said. It aims to process applications within eight to 10 weeks and says it has implemented a strategy to improve waiting times that is already working.
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Marc Emery applies to serve his time in Canada
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - The "Prince of Pot" has applied to serve his time in Canada. Fifty-two-year-old Marc Emery was sentenced to five years in prison for selling marijuana seeds to American customers.
Marc Emery's wife Jodie says the Canadian consulate confirms the request has now been sent to Ottawa. "In the next four to six or eight weeks, he will be moved at some point to a correctional institution instead of a detention centre. But we don't know where he will go and when he will go. But once he gets there, then we can actually file that US paper work."
They are now hiring a specialist to deal with the US side of things. "Marc today received first of the forms that he will be filling out for the US application to the Department of Justice. That one is going to have to be reviewed by the Bureau of Prisons, the DEA, the State Department, and then get approval."
She says because it's such a process she hopes to fundraise over $8,000 to pay the specialist.
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Marc Emery's Former Prosecutor Denounces Pot Prohibition
Last week, a federal judge in Seattle sentenced prominent Canadian marijuana activist Marc Emery to five years in U.S. prison, after Emery pleaded guilty in May to one count of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana.
For years, Emery ran a marijuana seed-selling business, the profits from which he donated almost entirely to marijuana policy reform efforts. For that reason, his prosecution by U.S. law enforcement has been viewed by many as purely political, a charge officials have since denied.
But in 2005, then DEA-head Karen Tandy touted Emery’s arrest as “a significant blow” to the movement to end marijuana prohibition, saying “hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery’s illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada. Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on.” Such a statement should provide some insight into why U.S. officials have spent so many resources targeting (even extraditing) Emery over the years.
But of course that’s old news, and not surprising. Instead, what really raised some eyebrows was this op-ed written earlier this month by John McKay, the former U.S. attorney who first indicted Emery in 2005. Writing in the Seattle Times, McKay now says that marijuana prohibition is a failure, is based on “false medical assumptions,” and that a new, science-based approach toward marijuana policy is desperately needed:
"As Emery’s prosecutor and a former federal law-enforcement official, however, I’m not afraid to say out loud what most of my former colleagues know is true: Our marijuana policy is dangerous and wrong and should be changed through the legislative process to better protect the public safety. [...] We should give serious consideration to heavy regulation and taxation of the marijuana industry."
How’s that for evidence of the changing political atmosphere surrounding marijuana policy?
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