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If marijuana were to be legalized and regulated, what would be the economic impact of such a change? Fred Crowley, a research economist at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, created an input/output model of the marijuana business at the request of 'The Colorado Springs Business Journal'. Crowley commented briefly on the model, "“[My] analysis is based on the assumption the money from the sale of marijuana is spent in the local community. It was assumed $80,000,000 income is made from the sale of marijuana. “It was assumed the income is earned by a cross section of households selling the drug from lower to higher income levels. “Needless to say, the anal…
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http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/aceau/gumball1.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/aceau/gumball2.jpg These gumballs are not your typical candy-coated chewing gum but instead are packed with as much as 1 gram of high-grade marijuana. Following the recent discovery and seizure by Maryland police of two weed-packed yellow gumballs imprinted with a happy face, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in May of 2006, released an Intelligence Alert Bulletin titled, "Greenades" (Marijuana Gumballs) in Howard County, Maryland. According to the DEA and the Maryland State Police-Forensic Sciences Division Laboratory, each gumball is bright yellow with a happy face on…
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from...ent/5371500.stm When will these people learn to eat normal food!!
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hey there all just thought this was a good read its about the Guatemalan Prison thats has been run by the inmates for the past 10 years there was luxury homes, drugs, jacuzzi's and some of the inmates houses were gaurded by trained dogs now this place sounds like my kind of prison not now though cheerz :Dj:
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News from the abc news website. Australian motor-sport legend Peter Brock is dead after his car hit a tree east of Perth today. Brock was competing on the first day of the Targa West Rally when his vehicle hit a tree near the small community of Gidgegannup. His co-driver has been taken to hospital but his condition is not known. Brock was 61 years old. No other cars are believed to have been involved. Known as 'Peter Perfect' and the 'King of the Mountain', Brock won the Bathurst 1000 nine times in the 1970s and 1980s and won the 1979 race by a record six laps. That is 2 well knowen aussies in the last week dead, it just goes to show it can happen to any o…
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Author: News.com.au Staff writers Date: September 04, 2006 02:14pm Source: News.com.au Copyright: Copyright 2006 News Limited. R.I.P Steve
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Howards attack on the rights of the Australian people continues, this time focusing on traditional land owners. This is an email I received from www.getup.org.au. Please visit the website and register your concern over this issue. There are also lists of your state Senators phone numbers there, so call them up and tell them that you're not happy with the Governments continued abuse of power.
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right ive just found this news artical about Israel using depleated uranium munitions against Hezbolla... I was under the impression that Hezbolla were the terrorist??? this is just wrong and I will explain why.. I was watching a doco the other day on iraq and it stated in this doco the use of depleated unranium munitions when the us went into Iraq the first time...it also stated that the soliers were never told about the radiation levels with the targets that were hit.. The pentagon knew 6 months before hand.. now all the soldiers are dying from radiation poisoning... the areas hit were said to carry dangerous levels of radiation for 450million years.... now how the fu…
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RITUALS associated with drinking tea are typically rituals of relaxation. In Britain, workers will take a break for a "mornin' cuppa". So, when a group of entrepreneurs bought the rights to sell a drink made with tea and cannabis in the UK, it could have been the perfect opportunity for marketing a product guaranteed to make consumers zone out. Instead, C-Ice is concentrating on what it claims are its health properties. "The health angle is by far the most interesting one for us," says Harinder Kohli, C-Ice's UK commercial director. Kohli says C-Ice can boost the immune system as a result of the vitamins, minerals, omega oils and amino acids found in cannabis. The dri…
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Sat May 27, 6:54 AM ET ST. PAUL, Minn. - When a teacher asked a 6-year-old boy to pull a folder out of his Scooby-Doo backpack, a bag filled with 25 smaller bags of marijuana fell out instead, a court document said. ADVERTISEMENT The teacher gave the drugs to a school administrator, who called police. Before officers arrived at HOPE Community Academy, the boy's father showed up. He took the backpack from his son and quickly walked away, according to a criminal complaint. The father was later arrested and told investigators he hid the marijuana in the backpack, and left it in a bedroom closet. When he discovered the backpack was missing, he ran to his son's nearby sc…
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MUSIC fans will be able to legally record their CD collections onto iPods and MP3 players under a raft of proposed changes to Federal Government copyright laws. Taping TV and radio programs and using copyright material for parody or satire will also be legalised as part of the reforms. And in a move expected to be welcomed by artists, the Government plans to introduce new enforcement measures to combat piracy. The changes are part of a major overhaul of copyright laws to be announced today by Attorney-General Philip Ruddock in response to millions of Australians who effectively break the law every time they reproduce copyright material for personal use. The key c…
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Author:CRAIG BILDSTIEN KARA PHILLIPS Date: 13 May '06 Source:Advertiser - Adelaide http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/commo...255E910,00.html Copyright: Advertiser Newspapers Pty Limited STATE MP Sandra Kanck says ecstasy - which has been linked to more than 110 deaths in three years - "is not a dangerous drug". The Democrats leader told Parliament that after 20 years, there was still no ``evidence that it is a dangerous substance''. She suggested the drug could have been given to victims of last year's fatal Eyre Peninsula bushfires to help them cope with their trauma. Bushfire recovery effort chairman Vince Monterola said he was astounded by the comment, l…
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Associated press Fri May 12, 10:09 PM ET WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Four men were arrested Friday for investigation of trying to burgle a medical marijuana clinic after someone used a garden hose to climb down from the roof, authorities said. The men, whose identities were not immediately released, were arrested without incident and did not manage to steal any pot, sheriff's Detective Sylvia Arreseigor said. A deputy responded to a burglar alarm at The Farmacy medical marijuana dispensary about 5:45 a.m., where he saw someone inside the closed shop and called for backup, Arreseigor said. The burglar apparently cut open a metal grate on top of the roof and used a gar…
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Man Arrested After Taking Pot Plant Photos Thu May 11, 9:38 PM ET STATESBORO, Ga. - An east Georgia man landed in jail after photographing his healthy plants and going to local drug store to have the pictures developed. ADVERTISEMENT His bumper crop was marijuana, according to police, who arrested him as he went to pick the photos up. Statesboro Police Capt. L. C. Williams said Byron Charles Mattheeussen, 21, was charged Tuesday with manufacturing marijuana, manufacturing marijuana within 1,000 feet of a housing project, and possession of drug related objects. Williams said a photo lab technician called police after seeing the subject of the photos. Officers con…
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