The winner of the award for Perfect Description of the Reason Behind Marijuana Prohibition and the Nazi Holocaust and Every Other Historical Barbarism goes to Toronto narc Paul McIntyre speaking last week on CTV news about the nightly raids on pot gardeners: “We’re paid to go out every night to keep arresting these guys.”

Washington state is facing some tough decisions on which taxes to raise or which services to cut. Yet residents should be extremely frustrated by Attorney General Rob McKenna’s push to extradite a Canadian activist to Seattle, where residents will have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to prosecute and imprison him, money which could be better spent on teachers or keeping taxes low.

I recently had a conversation with a marijuana activist leader working the Washington DC beat. He complained to me that people where I live, Northern California, have unrealistic expectations regarding marijuana law change. He said that we shouldn’t expect any major changes during the first part of the Obama administration, he has too many other, more timely problems and can’t afford to to use too much political capital- we should just wait, be patient.
Grow

Hydroponic cultivation—the growing of plants without soil—is a science as ancient as the fabled Hanging Gardens of Babylon and as modern as a future NASA mission to Mars.

Marijuana remains illegal even though public attitudes are clearly changing on this topic. It is illegal even though 100 million Americans have smoked it and suffered little if any negative side effects.
Hemp

100 Mile area farmers are on the cutting edge of local diversification. They’re working with industrial hemp, a crop that was grown for thousands of years before the government banned it.
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