The 4th edition of the fair Cannabis Tipo Forte will be held in Bologna, Italy, from tomorrow, 30 may, till next sunday, 1 june. The location is the same than the last 3 years, the Palanord, with almost 10.000 sq. mt. of space for the exibition. The calendar of events is particularly rich this year, with a seed cup, a video area and many debates, most of them about medical cannabis. While we won’t be present with a booth, we will be widely rapresented by our new italian distributor Semitalia, and by our resellers Campo di Canapa and Hemporium. By the booths of these companies will be possible to buy our seeds and ask detailed information about our genetics. For all the italian cannabis lovers, and for all those that are in Italy at this moment, this is event that you can’t miss.
The Oaksterdam University has celebrated this week its first 160 graduates in “Agricultural science of the cultivation of the marijuana”. The deus-ex-machina of this operation is Richard Lee, formerly a pusher in the Oakland area, that took inspiration from similar project that exist in Amsterdam. Thanks to the proposition 215, in California is possible to grow cannabis if the purpose is to produce medical marijuana and Lee has open his school to give the right technical and egal knowledge. Different counties regulates the matter in different ways, so each city has a maximum number of plant per person, per cooperative or per company. Lee university teachs not only to grow marijuana at the higher level, but also to deal with the law in the correct way. As a law’s teachers they have hired Chris Conrad and Laurence Lichter. Lee is preparing to open another school in L.A. The full course costs 200 USD, 125 euro. This is their internet address if you want to know more: http://www.oaksterdamuniversity.com/
Today we read another news of the kind that pisses us off enormously, and it shows how the brainwashers of the whole world are alive and kicking. The news is: one joint is dangerous for the health like one packet of cigarettes, yes, you’ve read right, so one joint is 20x dangerous than tobacco. Do this experiment: inhalate one hit of a cigarette, and exhale the smoke through a white tissue. Repeat the experiment with a new white tissue, but this time take a hit of a joint. Now, what is more dangerous? Anotherthing: is there anybody out there that can eplain to us why the jamaican people, famous cannabis smokers, die for cirrosis rather than lung cancer? Result: there are millions of people that are trying to brainwash us in every way. Keeping the brain connected can help against them, but you can also do something to give to the tabacco industry less money, so also less money to pay these “experts” to say these bullshits: STOP TO SMOKE TOBACCO!
A few weeks ago,the first marijuana vending machine opened in L.A. These machines supply marijuana to people who are prescribed marijuana for health reasons. First the patience need to get a prescription from a doctor; then the patience is fingeprinted; then a prepaid card is issued, that also contains information about the dosage and type of drug prescribed. Once a patience has a card, whenever he need a new supply, he can access the Anytime Vending Machines. The first one of this machines was positioned at the Herbal Nutrition Centre in Los Angeles. There are strict security measures to avoid that someone else can pickup the presciption, included a live fingerprint scan.
A professor of the professional institute Marco Polo of Florence, Italy, is in trouble for an amateur video that is finished on Youtube. In the video (that you can see here) the professor smoke a big handmade sigarette. Further, the girl that is shooting the video with her mobile phone is saying “even a joint now…if somebody enter now they arrest you”. No doubt that the prof has received the help of all its student: now that the prof is suspended and under accuse, all of them have answered that it was not a joint. We haven’t had any doubt.
The creativity of the nederlanders is second to none, and this news confirm it 100%. A few days ago, two employees of the energy company, have found an illegal cable stealing 10000 v electricity. Following the cable, the police have found that the whole inside of a bridge, the Prins Willem Alexanderbrug, long about 1 km, was prepared as a giant growroom. The bridge is located between Echteld and Beneden-Leeuwen, in the province of Gelderland. Such a growroom was able to generate, according to the experts, a minimum of 1 million euro per harvest. However it seems that the operation was discovered even before that the production could start.
There are many people coming from the mountain area of Kashmir that every day reach Mumbai with cannabis cultivated in their backyard. The big city represents a fast way to get money out of it. Even the police is aware of it, as an officer says that they have filed three to four cases against Kashmiris this year. 6 months ago, a man has been catched with 21 kg of hashish. Some other man, a repeated offender risks even the death sentence. According to the official UN records, cannabis herb seizures made in Asia account for 5 % of the world total. And in the meantime, Mumbai gets high.
It seems that Marc Emery, Vancouver’s Prince of Pot, has agreed to a five-year prison term in a plea bargain over U.S. marijuana seed-selling charges and money laundering. Emery has faced the prospective of a long (life) enprisonement, and now it seems that he close a deal with with US authorities to spend 5 years in a Canadian jail. Many Canadian have seen this decision as a matter of indipendence for Canada as country. Emery haven’t even been in USA, and Canadian laws aren’t so strict about cannabis seeds.Before being arrested under request of the USA, Emery was just once fine 2.000$. His tax declaration stated “marijuana seeds vendor”. We have read a beautiful reflection about this case, written by a canadian, have a read here
Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary of the government of Gordon Brown, has announced that she wants to reserve the the choice of his predecessor to downgrade the prducts derived from Cannabis from class C back to class B. In this way every offender risk up to 14 years of jail. Ms Smith said: “Though statistics show that cannabis use has fallen significantly, there is a real public concern about the potential mental health effects of cannabis use.” Question: what are the scientific evidence of these potential mental health effects? Which data about consumers, increment or decrement of the use etc have been used and why aren’t they released to the public? You know the answer. And if you live in UK,you know what to do.
Unlucky day for a student, probably a minor: the militaries of the italian Guardia di Finanza of Milan have catched the guy during a control using a dog. The animal went crazy once arrived close to the guy. The police then found 40 gr of hashish hidden in his underwear. Later, at home, they have found other 170 gr. and 1000 euro cash. Periodical check with the use of dogs are becoming more and more popular in Italy. And just yesterday the Corte di Cassazione, the italian higher court, have changed his opinion, deciding that growing one plant on the balcony is a crime. During the last half year instead, the same supreme court stated that a few plant are equivalent to personal user (so not punishable).
