How ironic that the day California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announces a $6.2 million deduction in state park funding that it’s reported that Mexican drug cartels are growing marijuana on state and national lands.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, law enforcement officials have already seized about 1 million plants and expect this year’s multi-billion dollar crop harvest to be the largest ever.
The state’s 31 million acres of forest often goes unnoticed due to the lack of sheriffs and rangers patrolling parks. The governator’s budget will probably close around 100 parks, freeing up even more land for pot distributors.
Cannabis, marijuana, weed, herb, chronic, etcetera – there are a hundred names for the plant. Now unless you’re a weed historian you may not know how it got to the Americas so the friendly people over at Showtime’s series “Weeds” provide us all with a abbreviated timeline. Check it out.
One-hundred and fourteen and still smoking… well maybe not but it doesn’t change the fact that 114-year-old Sulaiman Adebayo, of Nigeria, had 6.5 tons of marijuana confiscated from him this past week.
The chairman of Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency believes the case is larger than Adebayo’s involvement. Large-scale illegal marijuana farms in Nigeria smuggle the bud into neighboring countries.
Adebayo thought the bags contained rice. As a supporter of buds it’s a shame Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency didn’t leave the old fella a sack or two from the reported 254 they found.
