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Wanna Grow Some Weed? 
Posted by FoM on April 19, 2000 at 09:57:45 PT
It's Not That Hard To Find Out How!
Source: National Post
Now that it's spring, I've decided to get active in something that gets me closer to nature. But first, I needed some reading material. "Do you have High Times?" I asked the man behind the counter in a College Street magazine store. "You know, the magazine about growing pot?" 
It was sold out. But under "Hobbies," in between a magazine about tattooing and another about turkey hunting, was Cannabis Culture, a Vancouver-based magazine. Let's be honest. If you don't smoke dope, you know someone who does. And at the very least, you've heard radio advertisements for stores like Homegrown Hydroponics on Q107, which sells everything from growing lamps to nutrient pumps. I'm sorry, there just can't be that many tomato growers in Toronto who listen to hard rock music. I spent Friday night flipping through Cannabis Culture, which has features on pot politics in New Zealand, smoking in Amsterdam and pictures of happy people standing in front of their pot gardens. There's even a crossword puzzle titled Pot Puzzler. Advertisers, including The Friendly Stranger, a Cannabis culture shop on Queen Street West, advertise such things as exotic pipes and home mushroom kits. What interested me most in Cannabis Culture was the first eight pages, which listed hundreds of different seeds you can order through the mail. There's also a number to call if you have questions. "I don't get it. Is this legal?" I asked the man who answered the phone in Vancouver. "No, it's not, but we really don't care." I told him I would call back after some study. The Blue Haven Seed "is a very productive plant. Bred for its euphoric anti-anxiety high. It produces a comfortable, enjoyable, yet powerful experience." I was also intrigued by the blueberry seed, which has a "very fruity aroma and tastes of blueberry. Notable euphoric high of the highest quality and very long lasting." Cultivation of marijuana is illegal in Canada, but records of purchases are destroyed if you buy seeds in the mail, says the magazine publisher. The magazine also lists these handy security tips: "Do not send by Fed Ex, send a money order. Do not order right to your grow house. It's wise to have them sent to your non-growing friend's house or to a post office box. Do not send your full name or address. Initials are enough." Next, I needed supplies. I headed to a hydroponics store on Gerrard. The woman, smoking a cigarette behind the counter, explained that hydroponics is a very expensive hobby to start, but once I do, I could feed a family of four with my garden. "Ah, no, I want to grow weed." "We don't even talk about that here. I'm 65 years old, and I'm not going to jail," she responded. Instead, I asked someone who grows marijuana in his basement at home for advice. "It takes years to get really good at it. There are unbelievable amounts of information to learn," he says. "I love hobbies though and I love to fiddle with things. There's also something gratifying about a plant that grows so quickly and can look so healthy. I have seen these plants grow to six feet in just over a month." The cost saving is also an advantage, he says. "A simple 400-watt light has the capability of producing more than a half a pound every two months," he promised. My friend also likes the interaction that the hobby provides. "It's wise to check plants every couple of days. And, it's nice to talk to them and pass along good karma."By Rebecca Eckler, National Post Published: Wednesday, April 19, 2000Copyright © Southam Inc. Related Articles & Web Sites:Cannabis Culturehttp://www.cannabisculture.com/High Times Magazinehttp://www.hightimes.com/Emery's Visit Rekindles City Lights Past Nostalgiahttp://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread5420.shtmlCannabisNews Articles On Marc Emery, Cannabis Culture & High Times Magazine:http://google.com/search?lc=&num=10&q=cannabisnews+hightimes+site:cannabisnews.comhttp://google.com/search?lc=&num=10&q=cannabisnews+Marc+Emery+site:cannabisnews.comhttp://google.com/search?lc=&num=10&q=cannabisnews+cannabis+culture++site:cannabisnews.com 
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Comment #6 posted by kaptinemo on April 20, 2000 at 16:55:30 PT:
I repeat: I calls 'em as I sees 'em
'It's true that intolerance is alive and well in our society, I just don't think it's as bad as some people make it out to be.'Evidently you never heard of the 'Good 'Ol Boys" gatherings that some Federal and State police officers, rankers all, used to have every year. They'd get together and party, issue each other 'nigger hunting licenses', burn blacks in effigy, and generally sound off like a chapter of the KKK. And that was only 9 years ago. They got a lot of unwanted media exposure a few years back, some wrists were slapped, and that was that. And these were - and some of them still *are* - supposed to be impartially policing our society?'Does anyone here really think the police like arresting potheads?' A few weeks ago, in an article FoM pasted for us here, a cop let slip in an a interview that they most certainly *do* like to bust us - because we don't put up a fight. We aren't dangerous like drunks, who are likely to try to run them over or bust a bottle over their heads. Hell yes, they *like* busting us... we're easy prey.'Comparing McCzar and his people to Nazi's is an insult to all the people that got gassed.' On the contrary, sir: They are exactly at the same phase of development that the Nazis had reached just prior to achieving total political power. (It is interesting to note what happened to the police forces in Germany shortly after the rise of Hitler; they became silent witnesses to all manner of barbarities inflicted upon the Jews and other 'undesirables', and in the end, willing participants in those same barbarities. Whether it was turning a blind eye to a bunch of Brown Shirts beating a Jew to death in an alley, or pointing out the homes of Jews and political dissidents, the police felt that they were only 'doing their jobs'. A phrase heard over and over again at Nuremburg. But it was too late for far too many.) DrugWarriors have killed innocent people and literally gotten away with murder. So did the Nazis. DrugWarriors are stealing from us via forfeiture, enriching themselves over and above what they take from us in taxes to pay for their little war. Jugend did. (The Nazis stole *everything* from their targets just before their final 'deportation' to 'settlement camps'.)DrugWarriors are trying to turn our children into snitches for them with their DARE program - the same way the HitlerJugend did. I could go on for a lot longer, sir, but I hope you get the point. The comparison is indeed relevent. So, I ask you, sir, do you honestly believe that the DrugWarriors would not happily do to you what they have done to others with impunity? It is interesting to note that there were people as far back as 1927 who knew the danger that Nazism represented; some were quite vocal about their fears. They were dismissed as being alarmists. Some of those who did the pooh-poohing wound up in the very camps they derided as being impossible because the German people would never sink to such a level as that.Americans have this wonderful, incredible naivete that can be easily summed up in four words spoken with the self-assurance of an ingenue child: It can't happen here! But history is littered with the corpses of nations that said exactly that. No nation is safe from it's own home-grown, wannabe Nazis. No nation. America included.
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Comment #5 posted by Symmetric on April 20, 2000 at 11:30:17 PT:
I agree to a certain extent, but..
It's true that intolerance is alive and well in our society, I just don't think it's as bad as some people make it out to be. I'm not going after anyone in particular I just don't think we are going to win this debate by comparing anyone to Hitler. Does anyone here really think the police like arresting potheads? The real enemy is not your average peace officer. Comparing McCzar and his people to Nazi's is an insult to all the people that got gassed. It's taking USA longer than the rest of the world to realize that the war against drugs is a joke but perhaps that just means they have a higher population of bigots in the USA than other countries. It's easy to demonize your enemies any way you can, but the war on drugs is just a symptom of larger class war which has nothing at all to do with nazism.
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Comment #4 posted by kaptinemo on April 19, 2000 at 19:12:49 PT:
I calls 'em as I sees 'em
Symetric, with all due respect, most of the people on this site have *not* had to face the Feds. They have not faced having been questioned by them with all the aplomb of cats smilingly homing in on the (in their eyes) rats. They have not faced having them lean on your boss to get you fired. They have not had them asking their neighbors questions about their 'subjects' lifestyles, and not so subtly hinting by the nature of their questions you're 'up to no good'. They have not faced financial ruin and loss of health beenfits through unemployment. Most have not faced the sneering, gun wielding sorts who are practically peeing their pants in anticipation because they want to (as we used to say in the Army) 'git me some!' (That's kill a pothead, folks)Nazism isn't always the rifle bullet, or the gas chamber. It doesn't always wear brown or black shirts, jackboots, eagle-and swastikas, trenchcoats, and lug Schmeissers around to hose down the errant Jew or other 'undesirable'. Nazism is also the insinuation made by 'authorities' that you cannot defend yourself from. It is also the pressure to strip you of your rights by fear of imprisonment... unless you snitch. It is the surveillance which is insultingly obvious. It is the phone call which, when answered, is long enough for you to know that the caller really had no intention of speaking to you, then hangs up. Again and again and again.Whether they give the straight arm fascist salute or place their hands over their hearts when a flag passes by, if they work for an organization which does these things, they're Nazis. When they take a shepherd kid's life without due process, and don't even get a rap on the knuckles for being such naughty boys (wink, wink) they are Nazis. When they try to trick you out of your rights as a citizen and try to intimidate you in the process, they are Nazis. When they attack you in your home on the false premise of illicit drugs being present (told to them by a drunken and unreliable snitch, no less), they are Nazis. WHEN THEY LOBBY CONGRESS FOR LAWS THAT REDUCE YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS TO BETTER ENABLE THEIR UN-CONSTITUTIONAL ACTS, THEY ARE NAZIS!Just how plain does it have to be? Usenet may shy away from the subject, by I won't, because I've suffered at the hands of these truly neo-Nazis, and know them for what they are. They made my life hell, and I was far from being a major player in their investigation. But when they were finished with bigger fish, they spent a whole year and half,searching out small fry like me. Just to f--- me over, and smile while they do it.Brown shirt, black shirt... or Brookes Brother 3 piece suit. No matter how you dress them up, they're still Nazis.
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Comment #3 posted by dddd on April 19, 2000 at 18:07:54 PT
I agree
Symmetric. I must agree that this particular comment thing was quite strange,and perhaps a bit too far on the esoteric side. My intention was not to offend anyone,and if you thought I was somehow out of bounds,I apologize. I hope you are not suggesting that I deserve to be excommunicated under this"Godwins law" thing. I have gained a certain amount of notoriety for my abstract and offbeat expoundings,but I am only here to bring positive vibrations. sincerely...dddd
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Comment #2 posted by Symmetric on April 19, 2000 at 16:03:43 PT:
we could learn something from usenet
dddd I think you need a toke really really bad :)Has anyone here ever heard of Godwin's Law? From the Jargon file: [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups.Just food for thought, personally I enjoyed the article - it's exacally what the methamphetamine anti-proliferation act is trying to prevent.
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Comment #1 posted by dddd on April 19, 2000 at 12:34:12 PT
gardening
It all sounds so fun and frilly in this article,,but what about when the neanderthal,zero tolerance,hard nosed neo-natzi storm trooper brigade turns the front door of your peaceful abode into splinters,and you find your old ass behind bars somewhere in the american gulag,and all of a sudden,your butt is no longer just used for going to the bathroom,and the nightmare from hell is what you are praying is a bad dream,until you wake up and realize that your own government has locked you up for planting several seeds,in some dirt,and you realize that this is the same government that you donated enough in taxes to pay for a tire on that brand new chopper that was given to this trustworthy Colombian politician to defoliate,and terrorize his countryman with... yea,,I'd love to be free enough to have my own garden,but I dont think Henry Hyde would be there for me,as they turn my ranch into a new DARE center,and they train"no knock"SWAT teams in my barn,and I manage to catch a glimpse of my new SUV,thru the small opening of my cell,it is now the "DARE mobile",full of guys in reflector sunglasses,smiling and waving. I sometimes think back on why it was that our forefathers decided to come here in the first place,oops,gotta go,my 320 lb.cellmate says it's time to take a shower.....all I can say,is be careful if you plant any seeds,that ol' boy uncle Sam,is no longer on our side
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