Canada: Nelson, British Columbia, Head Shop Busted for Marijuana Sales

7/21/06 http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/445/nelson-bc-marijuana-bust.shtml The Holy Smoke Culture Shop and Psyche-Deli in Nelson, British Columbia, was busted Saturday night and one of the owners, Paul DeFelice, was jailed on marijuana and psilocybin distribution charges.

As a Nelson resident for much of the past four years, this writer has been aware of Holy Smoke, but has never published articles about the activist-oriented establishment. Nelson police have never seemd to have an issue with them.

But it was Nelson City Police who raided Holy Smoke on Saturday, and DeFelice told the Nelson Daily News he was not surprised. Since the change in federal government, he said, police have been given marching orders to make "small-time" busts. "It's pretty screwed priorities when there's murders and violence and robberies, home invasions that they make the priority in something where there's no victim and no complainants," said DeFelice.

Still, the bust was "all good," DeFelice said. "The idea is in the long run we want to be left alone because we're not hurting anybody but at the same time, if they want to come after us, plenty of arguments that we want to make in court, plenty of answers to legal questions that I want to hear. I want to hold the powers that be to account," he said. "I want to educate the public, and if they're going to shine a spotlight on me and give me a platform, I'll definitely use it."

Police are promising more arrests, but the Holy Smoke bust is already a symbolic blow to the Nelson area's burgeoning marijuana community. The area and the nearby Slocan Valley are notorious pot-growing zones -- while hard numbers are hard to come by, one indication of the size of the local industry is the four marijuana grow equipment shops in Nelson. The Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area has two.

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I am trying to promote the blog because I believe we should all have a higher profile in the (inter)national discussion on how society should be better self-organized. But in promoting the blog I am promoting myself, as well. It is hard sometimes to see what is self-serving from what is purely in the desire to tell the truth, even when they are both the same.

I would want very much for your words to be spread to the largest audience who can hear and understand them. I want to be having this conversation with you all the time, and learning from you, but at the same time I want to be discussing these things on my blog for others to find and link to and respond. CNews feels to me like a comfortable nest and a home, Cannablog feels more like my office, what I am responsible for and not just a guest.

I guess what I'd really like is if all of us had our own blogs and all of us were linking to one another and to CNews and to the rest of the world. I know that Pete Guither and Thehim are out here too but I don't know them as well as I know you and the people who are regulars here.

How can I keep pushing myself forward without bringing my friends along? How can I do that without feeling like I pursued success over family and more important things? But if I don't do that, how can I feed my own family?

Fortunately, the jury is still out on the upcoming generation. It really depends on what you mean by 'do for our country.'

I see a whole lot of brand new cars driving bumper to bumper on what used to be rural highways that now resemble L.A. freeways without the lanes, and it's mostly my/our generation that's driving them.

The C.E.O.s that decided to perpetuate capitalistic rape and pillage upon the earth, are our generation. The politicians, generals, and other 'respected' persons of stature and 'authority' are our generation.

Our generation definitely broke some ground, laid some important groundwork (currently still rejected by the mainstream), but that was/is only a minority. The majority are just like any other generation with their own human concerns which get in the way of such things as global awareness.

I'd be glad to have my opinion be proved wrong, but I don't think I'm gonna live that long. So if I'm proved wrong after I die, engrave it on my stone (if my family is fortunate enough to be able to afford one); "He was wrong."

Ask not what you country can do for you but WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY.

We tried but money and making more of it was what became the focus.

Seeds are important, and any natural-style grower (not hydro under lights, with chemical, and concentrated organic fertilizer for growth and flowering) always had 2 or 3 'seed' plants a ways off from their main gardens -to perpetuate the strain. The seeding of herb is more of an art than just cloning, and goes back as far as cannabis cultivation itself.

The fears of 'contaminating' medicinal, or 'smoking' herb by growing hemp are relatively unfounded. Yes, wind can carry pollen a long ways, but usually would only pollinate a few plants, rendering a few seeds which wouldn't really affect the potency of the bud. You just don't grow those seeds.

Bush, and Republicans;

If any one thinks that any kind of accountability is going to be seen in that camp are in for a huge disappointment -in my opinion-. History proves it. They are all in an exclusive club called Wealth and Power, and the Democrats belong to it too.

They tend to throw individuals to the mob, to satisfy the need for some kind of retribution, but the core of the power has never ever been touched. They've got plenty of eager young wolves jockeying for position, so if they have to kick one of their own, they don't feel too much pain.

Impeachment sounds real nice, but if it could or did happen that would mean that this was actually a democratic representative people-run governement, which it most decidedly IS NOT.

Tried for war crimes? Don't make me laugh. Sorry for the cynicism, but I have no faith left for liars, thieves, war-mongers, wealth hoarders, capitalistic swine, and elitists. Which are all proscribed traits necessary to succeed in politics, finance, and society in general.

And that leads to 'christians.'

Though there are many good folks in the world who sincerely attempt ot live the precepts, teachings, and examples as demonstrated by Yashua ben Yoseph (called 'jesus' by the Romans) the institution of xtianity is no better than our government. In fact the unholy matrimony between the church and state has been revealed in all it's disgusting putrescence in the current political regime, put in power by lies, subterfuge, and the apparent rampant ignorance in a substantial portion of the xtian church.

The cores are rotten. The fruit is poison. Choose not to swallow if you dare, if you can.

The biggest gateway to addiction is our school system which by monetary mandate from the fed, is forced to adapt curriculum with a saturated content of useless skills (to have the appearance of some actual substance) and accentuated focus on consumerism, cowed servitude to the "rule of law", and moral ignorance mislabeled as 'liberty.'

The generation that could be called to fight in this war (The wars never really stopped you know) may appear to not be 'in the streets' but there is good reason.

While their parents were out in the world 'earning their wages' their kids were being taught crap, BS, and that selfish 'I-me-mine' attitudes were not only 'acceptable' but cool!

"Sensational" news is stinky stuff and I don't see the value in it and I don't want to waste my time with it.

All predators that kill and brutalize need to be stopped.

THE WAY OUT...

GOP candidate says 9/11 attacks were a hoax: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060824/NEWS01/108240131/-1/business

Jones And Marrs To Expose 'Terror Conspiracy' At Dallas Conference: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/240806terrorconspiracy.htm

Popular Mechanics "9/11 Myths" Debunker Cancels Radio Debate: http://prisonplanet.com/articles/August2006/240806Debunker.htm

Another 9/11 Coverup in the Making? http://www.alternet.org/story/40693

That's why an economic collapse, which could be blamed on another "terror attack", could make joining the military the only option for many. With one stone, the neo-cons could possibly get their wars with Iran and Syria,tens of thousands of fresh soldiers and a new mandate to dismantle,once and for all, what remains of that pesky document which we call the U.S. Constitution.

'I Believe The Dollar Is Doomed' - By Richard Russell: http://rense.com/general73/russe.htm

Was British terror plot a load of crap? http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=21261

Two 'terror plot' suspects freed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5276878.stm

Did Insiders Milk Terror Plot For Criminal Trading? http://prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/240806criminaltrading.htm

Those who support the war(s) should enlist immediately...

Group: Bush can reinstate the draft, or lose the Iraq War: http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Group_Bush_can_reinstate_draft_or_0823.html

Is the Next Step a Draft? (interesting comments!) http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/08/is_the_next_ste.html

Please be safe and I pray no one becomes a victim of the "Heavily Exposed" PNAC agenda. Hosting another 9-11 Truth showing this weekend.

Dear God: Please stop all wars.

Thank you for Cannabis.

Seeds really ruin the final yield. If you're growing for medicine, seeds can be a catastrophe.

Christ God Our Father; the Ecologician,

Created this place.

This is no accident.

We are told to beware of certain people...

And now the ones doing much of the killing from this end are doing the killing in the name of Our Father's son.

Christ.

One who claims Christ, is not supposed to kill. That is supposed to be for those who do not have Christ.

Those who say they have Christ and kill DO NOT HAVE CHRIST, BUT SAY THEY DO.

They are lost; do not follow them.

2 Thessalonians 2 Man of Lawlessness

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=60&chapter=2&version=49

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Jude 1 (The one and only before Revelation)

The Warnings of History to the Ungodly

...

3 Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.

4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

... CONT.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=72&chapter=1&version=49

999

Every week it seems there is a new medical problem that cannabis helps... If this continues they will be hard pressed to stop the superplant from showing its face!!!

They (the so called Christian conservative right) absalutely must stop cannabis.

Cannabis exposes them.

999

999

If things get any more out of their control, the people (that THEY wish to control) may try to see if the LEAVES of the TREE OF LIFE / KANEH BOSM / CANNABIS really can heal the nations.

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Revelation 22 - The River and the Tree of Life

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=73&chapter=22&version=49

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Who remembers the bumper sticker:

THE MORAL MAJORITY IS NEITHER

???

Yeah,

BUDSNAXZ

Yeah

mayan.

999

True 911'ers

Get Your hands on that video newsclip of the monkey (is He really even a hu-man?) speaking on the 5:00pm news; 911 DAY.

Not your grandpa's America...

By R.B. Warford, LWW Today

Remember those close calls on election night? Howard Dean does too. So does Al Gore. Check out our U.S. computer voting system in action.

Are there computer programs that can be used to secretly fix elections?

Yes.

How do you know that to be the case?

Because in October of 2000, I wrote a prototype for Congressman Tom Feeney [R-FL]...

It would rig an election?

It would flip the vote, 51-49. Whoever you wanted it to go to and whichever race you wanted to win.

And would that program that you designed, be something that elections officials... could detect?

They'd never see it.

Evan Derkacz is a New York-based writer and contributor to AlterNet.

© 2006 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.

This mind boggling government will pull off a bigger explosion than 911 to keep the monkey in the presidents seat!

They have a holy war and don't see it the way Christ God Our Father sees it.

Our Main Man said to love one another and that includes the concept that it is better to be killed than to kill.

Like it or not; that is the Biblical reality and whether or not You accept it... it is important that people realize the ones pushing this killing machine claims to be Christian.

Yet kill one another; instead.

Think about it.

So called Christians (DISOBEDIENT CHRISTIANS) that kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people to get what they want.

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PEACE

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Second,

People should have access to cannabis that does what they want it to do; that it was meant to do,

THAT HAS SEEDS.

Not sex starved cannabis.

tho your question of what the ideal solution might be is valid, a couple of things

only a small portion of illegally grown pot is sold to legitimate medicinal users; most is grown for outrageous profit only, and thus most medicinal users must pay black market prices as a consequence

whether it be sold for either medicine or fun; if pot were able to be grown in a legal commercial fashion it would be worth about $2 per Lb of un-manicured buds

$2 legal v. about $6000 black market makes it hard to see most so called medical growers as selfless heros

Aloha

So what I'm saying is it would have to be so big and so incontrovertable that it would swing the public back in line to support them -- and the 9/11 truth movement has spread pretty widely already to the point that a large number of people know something was up with that one. Is there a sale still possible to be made and can they do it and cover their tracks so well that nobody will catch their fingers on the trigger?

Peace all

Marine call-up greeted with anger, suspicion: http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5316208&nav=2aKD

Many in the 9/11 truth movement and the neo-cons alike are predicting another "terror attack" before the mid-terms. Just who will execute it is the only difference in their predictions.

Most folks in the military,brass on down, know that 9/11 was an inside job. Add on to that their contempt for Rumsfeld and what he has done to the military and you have the ingredients for a military coup. Our generals know that if there is another attack we will be in the middle of WWIII. I doubt if they're too anxious to fight it, especially if it's based on a false flag attack.

Of course, there's no reason, except the ever present obvious one, that the qualities of "hemp" plants couldn't be bred into "marijuana" plants and vice versa, given as that is how the two varieties were created to begin with.

But I think kona is right that the increased flower production bred into recent sativa/indica crosses may be a boon to seed production.

Herer notes that Thomas Jefferson actually participated in the smuggling of quality hemp seeds out of China, in violation of their laws, so one can imagine that there was a reason for such efforts.

medicinal plants tend to be shorter

the trick with hemp fiber is the length of the fiber; the taller the plant the longer the fiber thus the greater the yeald of fiber

the fiber in shorter plants is just as strong obviously just shorter

so medicinal plants could be harvested for fiber as well as medicine just the amount of fiber produced would be less per acre than the tall low thc sativa hemp plants

if the goal were seeds for food then medicinal plants might have a greater poundage of harvest than the spindily hemp plant grown close together and thus with less flowers per plant to produce seed; one would need to experiment with differing growing techniques to determin which would have the greater seed yeald

Aloha

I am not against the 'so called' illegal growing of pot

I AM against proffiteering, and loosing our rights to the gain of the black market

if illegal growers were to give even as little as 10% of their profit to the effort to legalize this herb, it would have been legal a couple of decades ago

Aloha

every ounce illegally sold is sold at a too high price

the cost is our rights and our freedom

Aloha

the folks in medicinal growing areas would suffer from low thc rather than the hemp becoming more potent

the males in hemp farming are allowed to grow along side the females, thus outdoor sinsimilla [sp?] med pot plants would become seeded with a low thc cross rather than the other way around

the seeds would ruin the buds and the next generation will have much lower thc levels

large scale hemp farming is the most effective way to combat large scale mobster outdoor pot farms

Nothing would make me happier, Mayan, but seriously, what do you base that prediction on? Trials that would put them there would last a lot longer than that alone. And it's almost September and there isn't even any real inertia that I can see that would put any of them there. The impeachment movement is stalled as far as I can tell. Where do you get that kind of optimism regarding this subject? Do you know something I don't know?

Lieberman and Murkowski down in flames! The writing is now on the wall and very,very clear. WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!!! The neo-cons desperately need their "October surprise" as soon as possible but it is already too late for them. They will all be in prison by the end of the year.

THE WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN...

U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst Targeted For Suggesting New Independent 9/11 Investigation: http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=2006082210535566

NM 9/11 Truth Political Tour Thursday 10AM: http://www.911blogger.com/v2/node/2225

Alex Jones' TERRORSTORM: Dallas premiere - Aug. 26th: http://www.infowars.com/terrorstorm/dallas/

9/11 Litmus Test Debuts: http://911courage.org/linked_docs/bb_01.html

August 23, 2006

SWANNANOA — To be blunt, it’s not the type of free publicity a college is looking for: No. 1 in the “reefer madness” category.

Warren Wilson College took top ranking in that category, which gauges how widely used marijuana is on campus, in the Princeton Review book, “Best 361 Colleges,” on sale today.

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