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Growing Cannabis Isn’t a Mystery
Posted by CN Staff on April 09, 2007 at 10:15:52 PT
By Rick Collins, The Patriot Ledger
Source: Patriot Ledger
Massachusetts -- Do your marijuana plants have mildew problems? Are you curious about optimal lighting wattage or carbon dioxide concentrations for growing a premium cannabis crop?The answers, and many others, can be easily found by browsing the magazine racks and horticultural shelves at local bookstores. Two popular Braintree bookstores, Borders and Barnes & Noble, sell detailed blueprints for starting home marijuana gardens, - including full-sized glossy pictures of growing plants and advertisements offering a variety of seeds and equipment.
At Borders, books with titles such as ‘‘The Cannabible’’ and ‘‘The Marijuana Growers Guide’’ can be found on the same shelf with bonsai tree care manuals.Marijuana is illegal to possess, grow or sell, but the First Amendment protects the sale of books and magazines dedicated to growing it.‘‘It’s disturbing that those magazines are out there and that they sell them and have a customer base for them,’’ Braintree Deputy Police Chief Russell Jenkins said. ‘‘I assume they’re on the shelf because they do make sales.’’Braintree police broke up an alleged marijuana growing operation in a local home last month, and on Friday the remains of an indoor pot farm were discovered in Weymouth.In the past, police have busted South Shore shops that sold glass pipes and bongs under state laws prohibiting possession of drug paraphernalia. But there is no similar ban on periodicals.‘‘I don’t think there’s anything we can do about it,’’ Jenkins said.Anne Roman, a spokeswoman for Borders, said the company sells a broad spectrum of books and magazines based on customer interest.‘‘We believe in and support their right to choose what to read,’’ she said. ‘‘Just as we have books and magazines on (growing marijuana), we also have books on drug prevention.’’Buttonwood Books in Cohasset does not sell marijuana growing manuals and owner Betsey Detwiler says she has no plans to start.‘‘Being in a small community where I know a lot of the customers’ mothers and grandmothers, I feel I have somewhat of a responsibility for what the kids are reading,’’ she said.The recent discoveries of indoor pot farms in Braintree and Weymouth by police are evidence that not every green thumb and bag of potting soil on the South Shore is being used to grow begonias and azaleas.On Thursday, the owner of an East Weymouth apartment called police after two tenants moved out and left behind 20 drying marijuana plants and the remnants of an indoor-growing operation.And a Braintree couple faces drug charges after police found 367 growing marijuana plants and dozens of harvested plants in the basement of an Elm Street home.Despite the recent seizures of marijuana plants, police do not consider homegrown marijuana a major problem.‘‘It’s not that prevalent in Massachusetts,’’ State Trooper Tom Murphy said.However, according to marijuana advocates, an increasing share of the drug is being grown domestically by small-time users and large-volume dealers.Dan Skye, a senior editor with High Times Magazine, compared the horticultural mindset of smokers growing their own to that of amateur chefs raising tomatoes.‘‘In every community, people are growing their own,’’ he said. ‘‘People have a great affinity for this plant.’’Bill Downing, a director with the Mass Cannabis Reform Coalition, said plenty of pot is being grown outdoors as well.‘‘If you live outside the urban areas, there’s plenty of good, open farm land out there,’’ he said.Complete Title: Growing Cannabis Isn’t a Mystery: At Area Bookstores, Info Right Next to Latest PotboilersSource: Patriot Ledger, The (MA)Author: Rick Collins, The Patriot Ledger Published: Monday, April 09, 2007Copyright: 2007 The Patriot LedgerContact: editpage ledger.comWebsite: http://ledger.southofboston.com/MassCannhttp://www.masscann.org/CannabisNews -- Cannabis Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml
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Comment #10 posted by John Tyler on April 09, 2007 at 18:00:43 PT
Mary Jane
Kirsten Dunst’s character’s name in Spiderman is Mary Jane. Spiderman loves Mary Jane.
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Comment #9 posted by BGreen on April 09, 2007 at 13:46:11 PT
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
Despite the recent seizures of marijuana plants, police do not consider homegrown marijuana a major problem.‘‘It’s not that prevalent in Massachusetts,’’ State Trooper Tom Murphy said.Wanna bet?The Reverend Bud Green
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Comment #8 posted by Dankhank on April 09, 2007 at 12:40:05 PT
thanks EJ
gonna grow some garlic ... :-)
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Comment #7 posted by E_Johnson on April 09, 2007 at 12:38:52 PT
Hooray for small scale horticulture
I am an amateur chef, and I grow my own garlic, my own lemons, my own tomatoes and my own rosemary.Garlic is really good when it's young and green, like a scallion, before it forms cloves and makes the bulb. Green garlic soup -- mmmmm.You can't buy green garlic in the store. But growing it is easy. Just buy a bulb of garlic from the market and plant the individual cloves in a sunny place with good drainage.
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Comment #6 posted by FoM on April 09, 2007 at 11:39:42 PT
Hollywood News Brief
Dunst: 'The World Would Be Better If Everyone Smoked Weed'***By WennMonday, April 09, 2007 HOLLYWOOD - Hollywood film star Kirsten Dunst is a fan of marijuana and believes the world would be a better place if "everyone smoked weed." The Spider-Man 3 star admits to smoking marijuana and trying other drugs. Dunst, 24, says, "I drink moderately, I've tried drugs. I do like weed. I have a different outlook on marijuana than America does. "My best friend Sasha's dad was Carl Sagan, the astronomer. He was the biggest pot smoker in the world and he was a genius. "I've never been a major smoker, but I think America's view on weed is ridiculous. I mean, are you kidding me? If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place. "I'm not talking about being stoned all day, though. I think if it's not used properly, it can hamper your creativity and close you up inside." COPYRIGHT: 2007 WORLD ENTERTAINMENT NEWS NETWORK LTD. http://www.hollywood.com/news/Scrubs_Sarcastic_Dr_Cox_Weds_in_Malibu/3678593
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Comment #5 posted by Had Enough on April 09, 2007 at 11:16:25 PT
Maybe the kids are listening to this
KCDX: commercial free radioKCDX: Five years of non-stop rock. "There is no discipline at KCDX, where the song choices are as chaotic as a schoolyard at recess... The signal, which started broadcasting throughout central Arizona and much of Phoenix in 2002, played an eclectic mix that included hits by Huey 
Lewis and the News and an obscure 1971 tune about cannibalism by the Buoys. There were no commercials, no DJs, no way the station made money."
posted by rkent (29 comments total) Long story short, from the L.A. Times story: guy makes millions buying and selling radio stations. Uploads all of his CDs to a massive digital server out in the desert, presses "shuffle," and uses an old license to broadcast it to anyone and everyone at the cost of about $200,000 per year. Fans, wanting to know what the deal is, take progressively invasive steps to the point where he's considering quitting.
posted by rkent at 11:44 AM on May 1The website says they listen to "real listener's opinion" but I bet you ten bucks that it's just an ipod plugged into a broadcast antenna. Or whatever the professional equivalent of an ipod is.
posted by blacklite at 12:41 PM on May 1***********************Been listening for about a week. A few duds but some real good stuff also. Commercial Free too….Scroll down a little till you get to:MP3 streamWMP streamhttp://www.metafilter.com/51311/KCDX-commercial-free-radio
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Comment #4 posted by museman on April 09, 2007 at 10:56:19 PT
what are the kids reading these days
‘‘Being in a small community where I know a lot of the customers’ mothers and grandmothers, I feel I have somewhat of a responsibility for what the kids are reading,’’ What? Between youtube, myspace, TV, and blogs, -with the occaisional forced assignment in their English classes- you mean to tell me that the 'kids' are ctually reading books?Does anyone really think that those walking bundles of hormones are eagerly standing in line to buy and study a book about the art of cannabis cultivation? Why would they do that when you can download all the info you want right from your own home?The prohibs are always using the 'kids' as an excuse for fascism, and ultimate control of their parents.But of course, the fact that a lot of 'the kids' are over there in Afghanistahn, and Iraq, dying, and having to commit murder in the name of George Bush, probably doesn't come to the minds of people of this ilk.
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Comment #3 posted by Had Enough on April 09, 2007 at 10:51:54 PT
Instead of Betsy Ross
We get this“Buttonwood Books in Cohasset does not sell marijuana growing manuals and owner Betsey Detwiler says she has no plans to start. 
‘‘Being in a small community where I know a lot of the customers’ mothers and grandmothers, I feel I have somewhat of a responsibility for what the kids are reading,’’ she said.”Over & Over, again
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Comment #2 posted by Had Enough on April 09, 2007 at 10:46:32 PT
Ahh Yes
The return of the book burners.or… have they ever left?…
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on April 09, 2007 at 10:30:46 PT
Press Release From The Marijuana Policy Project
Medical Marijuana Laws Don't Increase Teen Marijuana Use, Study Showshttp://tinyurl.com/2vwey4
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