The War On Drugs Is A Joke Here's Proof

[naga_sadu]

I'd rather think he did as ugly as any, if not worst. Full civil war during his regime, he just helped to destroy Afghanistan a little more. Also was the head of KHAD, afghan marxist secret police, which suppressed thousands of political oponents.

I haven't been to Afghanistan during the 80s but I'm basing around what many Afghan ppls. have told me here. Mostly taxi drivers. Esp. in Delhi, there are quite a few Afghan cabbies near old khan market. The aggregate consensus seemed to be that during Marxist rule, the basic amneties of life such as TB shots, schooling, airlines, road transport, electricity etc. was there. There was no practical restriction of movement. The progressive governments which have taken Afghanistan, starting from the Taliban have destroyed infra or neglected it. Medical services vanished. Skilled labour was almost sliced. There was no infra. And now, there is a war and clowns such as Hamid Karzai have taken seat.

People of Hamid Karzai's caliber would just showcase some scenes of struggle in some newsmedia, cry for international help, get the aid, and waste it on crap such as drug wars, crop subsititution programmes, building cellphone towers etc. etc. In short, they're pakka elitists + rotate money w/ MNC elites.

The dudes I've talked to say that Najibulla was not the most kind hearted soul to stalk Afghan lands but they seem to favour him heavily over Karzai and the Taliban. When I ask why, they simply say that because at least some bare infra was there. Example you still had a well established water works which gave free access to clean water. You could immunise your child w/ tetinis shots etc w/o probs etc. Next time you hop into Delhi, go to old khan market and talk to a few Afghan cabbies. And yes- most of them smoke... But I have 0 personal experience in Afghanistan, tho.

Hmmm, not really. opium production was curbed only for one single year during taleban regime, and not that much. And in many places (mostly Shinwari people), they actually paid the farmers for them not to grow poppies. THe year after it rose to more than 4000tons if I remember.
Taleban made LOADS of money thanks to opium/heroin production, lots ! They used to apply the traditionnal tax system called ochor. farmers give thre parts of the crops, one is given back to the village for elderly and disabled people, 2 they keep. But for opium was different, as theywere getting 12.5% of the crop for them. It was the resold to heroin laboratories. Tax on heroin was about 70$ per kilo. for transport, 250$ per kilo. All in all, about 75 million $ per year for the whole country.

Very well said! Exactly that, and the farmers who've had their crops burnt were the ones who weren't paying the cut to the local Taliban commanders. It's always backsheesh. Be it Kullu or be it in Jalalabad. Wow, at least we all share something in common....

My criticism of the Soviet Union was directed at its tendency to behave like any other imperialist power on the world area

I beg to disagree. But I will agree that they did do some pretty unnecessary shit in world affairs. But their conduct in Asia was FAR superior to the conduct of NATO powers. Countries that were under their tutelage were by no means "rich"- as in having a few multistory malls w/ 10000 neon lights, decorated roads, Bentley cars, Emporio Armani botiques etc.

But life in the societies which chose the USSR was alot better, qualitatively. As in there was no garbage. Look at Laos. Just read the article on Laos which Gypsy Nirvana showed. When Laos was still a Socialist Republic there was no such bogus crocodile shit going on like what's happening today. Laos is heading down the crapper, in terms of sanity. And yes, in Laos when it was still Socialist, you didn't have fancy looking hospitals, but the traditional medicines were widely used. Laos was an agro society and so didn't industrialise much, but the Soviets didn't impose Moscovich style industrialisation on them. So they could use natural resources freely. They had a free land use act. Look at it now...

Their new "corporate" partners insist on giving them aid and then get back the fucking money with compound interest by making them waste it on shit like a drugs war. Under corporate pressure (for the so called bogus "foreign direct investment") the free land use act is also scrapped and now many medical practicioneers who use traditional medicine to treat the sick have also been forced to wrap under this bullshit new "medical quality regulation" act (dont remember the name exactly) which is nothing but a way to shut these guys down to make way for alopathy supplying pharmaceutical MNCs.

They then put some 2-3 good looking "hospitals" and "medical shops" in cities such as Vientenne and they say thru the media that they're contributing to the development of Laos. This is bullshit. MNC money only gets rotated between the MNC and the local elite. The "world class" hospitals constructed under corporate help are for the most part redundant to 99% of the population. The ones living in the villages far off can't get to it because of geographical distance. Even for the ones living in the city where it's being built, the prices will be outside the wallet of a common man/ gal. Of course, the parlamentarians who approve the MNC entry get huge backsheesh.

This is daylight robbery. While the Soviets had their black spots in history, by and large they didn't blatantly cheat their allies this way- especially the poorer ones. And they didn't bully their allies (except for Hungary and Afghanistan).

For example, India gets its LPG from Quatar. The price is skyhigh due to shippng + distance. The easiest bet would be to construct a pipeline connecting Iran to India via Pakistan. All of our governments agreed but 2-3 NATO powers bullied our governments out of it. To compound matters, they established a base of operation in Afghanistan and hinted on numerous times that the pipeline a "legitimate target" in case of a war w/ Iran.

In essence the NATO powers involved are denying cheap gas for over 2 billion people. The needs of 2 billion people are a legitimate cause for a pipeline. If NATO has a problem w/ Iran, let NATO not do business with them. The tendency to dictate what their allies should do is equal to treating them like slaves. In the same time, NATO powers do trade w/ 2 enemies all the time. For example, the NATO powers do trade with India as well as with Pakistan, but neither government raised this as an issue at any given point.

The USSR never did any sort of that garbage. We had a military alliance w/ them and we still bought harriers from the UK and Sepecat Jaguars from France. We didn't join the warsaw pact, we formed our own bloc- NAM- which an Eastern European country (Yugoslavia) joined and a Soviet ally (Nasser's Egypt) joined. The Soviets never objected. And our economic plan was very different to what the Soviets had in mind. But this never raised even a hair of objection...

And lastly, I'd like to touch on the drug war, considering this is the topic. The Soviets never pushed a drug war on Laos. The Socialist government in Laos coulda easily drawn up an excuse for the drug war. That the anticommunist movement was racking up $$$ thru drugs. But they never did. And left the people alone, which by today's standards seems to be a saintly virtue in world affairs.

Neither did the Soviets push a drug on India. And neither did they on Cambodia and Vietnam. NATO powers does this all the time. True, there are some forward thinkers within NATO but they usually, more often than not, end up taking the back seat. The closer a country gets to the major NATO powers, the crappier everything (including the drug scene) becomes for the majority. And you start seeing retarded crackheads such as Thaksin Shinawatra becoming heads of states...

In short, the Soviet conduct was better not because the Soviet people were better than NATO people, but because their economic system wasn't run under corporate capitalism aka. elitism.

We start to approach a concensus here; that a fundamental reading of the Quran only serves those who manipulate the Muslim communities with religion.

I'm glad we reached a consensus. The same thing was done to tarnish Christianity's image during the inquisition period. Except that today, we have means for global communications- thru forums like these. We should (at least in my opinion) use such tools, which have been generously given to us free of cost, to bridge rifts rather than increasing rifts between people. Because the bridge destroyers are only out there to look out for themselfs and couldn't care a rat's ass about me or you...or anyone else for that matter.

 

[PazVerdeRadical]

Asking the opinions of an Iman at the "official" Islamic Mosques of the world only has the artificial value that determined religious institutions which are economical and political elites have given to their own dogma. It has no value at all to the religious life, not in Islam or any other religion or science; institutions have no authority regarding thought, it is a human right for us to be able to experience free thinking fully.

Anyway, Cannabis was used in Islam before any modern day Iman can say anything about it, all evidence contradicts him, so he would be wrong. so who cares what a wrong man says? not i

Naga, sobriety? thank Jah i found some bud!

peace

 

[mriko]

We start to approach a concensus here; that a fundamental reading of the Quran only serves those who manipulate the Muslim communities with religion.

Serves also those who want to manipulate western judeo-christian masses to make people freak about Islam. The "western" interpretation of Qur'an is very biaised and rarely looks beyond what's written.

Irie !

 

[Rosy Cheeks]

It works both ways mriko, there's about as much ignorance and prejudice in the western world concerning Islam as there is in the Muslim world about Jews and Christians. That ignorance can only be fought with knowledge, not war.

 

[naga_sadu]

Asking the opinions of an Iman at the "official" Islamic Mosques of the world only has the artificial value that determined religious institutions which are economical and political elites have given to their own dogma. It has no value at all to the religious life, not in Islam or any other religion or science; institutions have no authority regarding thought, it is a human right for us to be able to experience free thinking fully.

Anyway, Cannabis was used in Islam before any modern day Iman can say anything about it, all evidence contradicts him, so he would be wrong. so who cares what a wrong man says? not i

Naga, sobriety? thank Jah i found some bud!

peace

Hey'ya man, great to know you have herbs. My situation here is pretty good too hope u didn't think I was dry or anything (and hopefully i never will be).

Yea, you're 100% right here man. I seriously question the "official" stances of any Imam Rabbi or Priest especially nowadays. For example here, the Imams have racked up a needless controversy that Muslim children shouldn't sing national songs during Republic Day because the songs pay ode to the earth and paying ode is interpretted as worship. The reason they did this was to get some media attention and desperately save their dwindling popularity, nothing more.

This is ridiculous. I'm sure other "official" sources have done the same thing pretty much. Like the Salem witch hunt. That was pretty ridiculous too, but it won full approval of the clergy and the official stance was that burning people suspected of witchcraft alive is in accordance w/ christian law. That was a load of shit too. And for a while, I believe that dudes who claimed that the world was round (versus flat) were deemed insane...

Again spot on post, Paz! Smoke a fatty bro!!!

Others were for cash crops such as tea, asparagus, galanga, spice, coffee as well as cattle banks loans for several hundred families.

This statement caught my eye. The crops which they're giving as substitutions are all doing really crappily in the global market. Especially tea and coffee. Sri Lanka, Darjeeling and to some extent Kerela are major players in the tea biz. Last fiscal year, Munar had the record number of tea estate closures, due to world prices. The industries in both tea and coffee have almost reached economies of scale which pretty much shuts out small scalers out of existance.

The so called "aid" is just setting up the scenes for a physical "conquest." The same crap was done in the Philippines during Ferdinand Ramos' time. The tactic? Flood large segments of the population w/ crop substitution progs w/ crops whose industries are approaching economies of scale, knowing very well that industries approaching economies of scale won't be suitable for small scalers. Then, while the farmers scratch their heads in panic, figuring out what the fuck is going on (these guys I'm sure don't have access to info on world markets), the "aid givers" as well as the local large scalers suddenly see the "gravity of the problem" and attribute it to something vague such as "the inefficiency of the previous socialist corruption" or "some bureaucratic or infrastructure inefficiency." Then, they hold some bogus press meetings and arrange for a series of land purchases for peanut prices in some so called "settlement." The small scalers then end up flocking to the cities and living among garbage dumps, literally. And this is called "aid"....outright garbage. Here's a classic pictorial example as a result of this in the Philippines:



Way to go! I think both visitors as well as locals will start missing the ol' pre-capitalist Laos real soon. Damn, I really miss the days when there was a non capitalist superpower for developing countries to turn to...

 

[Guest]

yeh, from my limited knowledge of these things, I was under the impression that most heroin produced in Central Asia is consumed there and in Europe, as Mriko said

in London I am fairly sure it is the Turks who bring most of it in - but this is purely from hearsay and from living a while on Cally Road (Caledonian Rd, running north from King's Cross)

in Northern Thailand these days I don't think much poppy is grown -

the impression I built up over the while I lived there is that Burma is where most heroin is produced

and, as the above articles and post said, I think the poppy in Laos is mostly destined for domestic consumption as opium

a friend and I, a few years back - fools that we were - wandered out to a fairly remote poppy village in Northern Laos (in the Golden Triangle region)

I'm not sure there was much cash floating around, not least the guys there were carrying some extremely antiquated rifles - the sort of thing that looks like it would be possible to loose off a shot every couple of minutes or so at best

they were smoking from lumps of opium that looked the size of tennis balls

interstingly, the girls had old French francs and centimes on their headresses etc.

regarding Northern Thailand again -
it is "ya bah" (crazy medicine - methamphetamine) that is destroying the communites there these days
if you spend any time in the area north of Chiang Mai, you will see the younger generations are getting fried on yaba every day of the week, driving around on bikes all hours of the night in the fields etc.

similar problems exist in any town or village between the North and Bangkok as far as I have seen
one of the big problems is the associated violence

still, only once the economic conditions that create these disfunctional communities are addressed, and once prohibition is finally knocked on the head, will the situation improve...

I'm not holding my breath...

... it gets in the way of smoking...

edit: yeh, it was reported in the UK that the Taliban stockpiled opium etc. during their "crackdown", and cashed in afterwards

edit edit: when Marx called religion "the opium of the people" it was not intended as an insult - opium was considered more akin to aspirin in the UK at that point in history - lol (cf. temperance movements and opium cordial etc etc.)

edit edit edit: in terms of the broader sweep of history one can say very generally that the many of the cultures which adopted Islam - in Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa - were "smoking" cultures, and nomadic at that

likewise the opposition within the Islamic world to alcohol cold be seen to pre-date Islam itself, and is part and parcel of an opposition said nomadic cultures had to the "drinking" cultures of settled agrarian societies, and the cities etc. that developed out of them

a picture that is ridiculously generalised and vague, but there is something to it...

Namkha

 

[Guest]

Hi namkha,

The reference time for Kuhn Sah was early 80's. He's allegedly been in a Burmese prison for a number of years now, assuming that he's still alive, though reports stated that it was a fairly nice arrangement, by Burmese standards. He was an elderly gentleman, even back when he was moving and shaking in N. Thailand.

By 'yabba,' I assume that you're talking about their local reference to 'crank' or meth. It's big biz there now, from what I understand, with much of it allegedly coming out of Laos.

The U.N. food crop substitute programs, and the pressures of prohibition (especially U.S. and U.N.-generated) took a toll on a place that first had a fair amount of both poppy and cannabis production, transitioning to more poppies, then a decrease altogether, with economic stress increasing the whole time. A Thai friend was in N. Thailand wirthin the last 8-10 years, and still managed to find villages in the north where he could lay on a mat in a hut and smoke the long pipe.

But the Thai gov. now doesn't screw around with dope; they're killing folks there over it.

Both the U.N. substitute strawberry and potato crop programs dismally failed in the 80s. I don't know if they ever actually succeeded with any others since that time.

moose eater

 

[Guest]

hiya,

yeh - just to be clear, I was talking about the last couple of years in Thailand, post 2004

I am fairly sure most "ya bah" / yabba is produced in Burma
no doubt also Laos, and Thailand itself, and even Southern China (I hear) - in the form of domestic "labs" ("bathtubs")
but the Wa and Shan in Burma are I think the bug guns, to the best of my knowledge

yes, no doubt it is still possible to find small scale opium plots in Northern Thailand - I know a guy who taught there a while back and was given opium as a payment, in the assumption he would want to consume it himself... which he did lol

edit: sorry fella I think I was editing my post while you were typing your reply

 

[Guest]

>>>a guy who taught there a while back and was given opium as a payment<<<

Not the worst wages a fellow could work for, I imagine. I've been paid with less.... ;^>)

moose eater

 

[naga_sadu]

a guy who taught there a while back and was given opium as a payment

Do those dudes need an extra teacher??? ?? ?

 

[PazVerdeRadical]

Naga, i would never think such a horrible thing about anyone: that they don't have herbals! that's just mean thinking
Puffing live i hope everyone,
peace.

 

[naga_sadu]

Naga, i would never think such a horrible thing about anyone: that they don't have herbals! that's just mean thinking
Puffing live i hope everyone,
peace.

Sorry for the misunderstanding man. We should collectively pull thru these dark ages and hopefully we'll be around when common sense is restored in world affairs, especially w/ naturally grown produce which brings people joy...

 

[Guest]

One creamy rich, blackish, temple ball to go, please. Yes, the kind that stretches like chewing gum when you pull a small piece off, if it's not too much trouble... Thanks... ;^>)

It would bring me as much joy as a small child bathing in liquid chocolate... with a straw for a snorkel. ;^>)

Seemingly a non-sequetor, I know. But it seemed to fit in reply to the last part of your most recent post, naga. ;^>)

moose eater

 

[Guest]

Nepalese Temple Balls...

... a non-sequitur?

... impossible

yeh, so would all the people talking about "The War on Drugs" please try to keep on track and stop going off on tangents

really, some people...

 

[Guest]

Sorry namkha.

First there was all that talking about poppies. Then there was that talk of Afghani hash. Somewhrre in there it turned to Thailand and the poppies, with implicit haze references on the horizon. Then there was all that crop substitution thing, with stawberries and potatoes.

All of a sudden I was drooling on my keyboard like I was 90 years old, with numb lips, unable to sense that I was salivating....

And the next thing I knew, an image of a shiny black ball of elastic hashish amidst beautiful green mountains popped into my mind completely uninvited... and against my will.

There's simply no other way to explain it .... I think that I'm the victim of some sort of cult's pavlovian conditioning. Someone save me!!!! ;^>)

There isn't anything here to eat, is there?? I feel kinda' hungry for some reason....

moose eater

 

[naga_sadu]

There's no harm in a few little diversions every now and then and get some breathers from the amount of lunacy and mayhem these so called "leaders" and "official sources" go 'bouts causing, without breath everyday.

Leaders think 50 years ahead. Politicians think about racking up a couple of million more dollars the next day, till the end of their terms. Salesmen only think of the profit and loss statement at the end of each transaction. Visionaries think of etching a permanent name in the industry.

Prob today is we have way too many politicians and way few leaders on the administrative side and too many salesmen and too few visionaries in the economic/ business side.

What really bugs me to see that lots of skilled people in oratory/ communications skills of today choose to take advantage of all this chaos, violence and mayhem instead of getting the message out to the public on how to end it.

 

[Guest]

lol man, we could talk about carpet weaving for all I care



and like I say, Nepalese Temple Balls are relevant to everything as far as I'm concerned


currently I am on a rug over Kashmir, surrounded by naked Dakinis

oh, another bowl, don't mind if I do

 

[naga_sadu]

Anyway, I'm not a big fan of carpet weaving but I thought I'd share this article, it's quite old tho...

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/3/7/212349.shtml

Here are some excerps:

"When we fight drugs, we fight the war on terror," President Bush explained on Feb. 12 as he announced an increase in the budget for the war on drugs.

See how GW interconnects the two...

The two are so intertwined that perhaps the real question is "How can we win a war on terrorism if we can't win a war on drugs?"

The players are the same in both games. Drug trafficking is a significant source of terrorist financing. The root of several terrorist groups is narcotics trafficking, and vice versa.

Drug trafficking, with annual revenues at $500+ billion, is one of the major components of organized crime.

Another component is the sale of illegal goods and arms, most of which go to terrorists and terrorist regimes.

A third component is organized crime's role as an intermediary in helping terrorist groups and rogue nations acquire weapons of mass destruction.

It is not just that terrorism feeds off drug trafficking. Rather, terrorism, drug trafficking and organized crime are one big happy family.

Originally, these were independent operations that emerged in different regions and grew in an evolutionary manner. This is not the nature of these operations today.

This is because in the latter half of the last century, various states (mainly Communist states that were inherently criminal and terrorist in nature) recognized the potential of these operations as revolutionary weapons.

Now, it's the terrorists, drugs and those evil communists...!

They do not compete with each other, but cooperate synergistically. The three have become so intertwined that war on any one of the three means war on all.

Shit...as in "let's rip off more money from the public and fund more extravagant stays to Las Vegas on the taxpayers' accounts" is more like it.

It is well known that China has been one of the biggest supporters of Middle East terrorists and rogue regimes seeking to acquire long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction.

Shit now it's those drugs, those terrorists, those evil communists...and now, the Chinese!!!

Under Khrushchev's direction, the Soviets quickly dropped the "revolutionary war" moniker and henceforth referred to the activity as wars of "national liberation" to reflect a new deception, that these were only national liberation movements and not internationally stimulated revolutionary war operations, which is what they really were.

Concurrent with this change, three new strategic intelligence operations (that is, ones of strategic importance) were adopted: international narcotics trafficking (to undermine the society and weaken its leaders), international organized crime (to corrupt the politicians and financial institutions) and international terrorism (to destabilize the countries and create revolutionary situations).

So...apparently the evil Soviets started supplying the world w/ mad drugs to turn people into Bolshevik loving zombies. This is starting to smell like dinosaur shit to me...

In drug trafficking, by 1965 the Soviets (assisted by their East European satellite intelligence services) had multiple indigenous drug production and distribution operations around the world, but most important in almost every Latin American country and half of the Caribbean Islands.

By 1968, the KGB estimated that the Soviets controlled over 37 percent of the drug trafficking into the United States. The growth in cocaine trafficking, beginning in 1967, was almost 90 percent the result of Soviet operations set up in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia between 1963 and 1966. Venezuela was a major organizing and money laundering center.

In terrorism, the Soviets recruited, organized and trained terrorist groups around the world, from Japan and Indonesia to Cuba and Latin America, but particularly those in the Middle East Middle East.

The Soviets trained the Al Qaeda and Hamas? I didn't know that!

Just pisses me off to see these fucknut war on drugs endorsers bringing up completely unrelated issues. The only reason why drug $$$ is so high and is pushed underground is becasue of forced fucking illegalisation drives imposed on the world by these very same right wing conservative greedy wrinkled dog fucks.

I won't be surprised when these same idiots start asking the congress for a 300 trillion dollar loan to fight off space ships from Uranus airdropping tonnes of drugs across the world.

Just goes to show how ridiculous official sources can get.

 

[naga_sadu]

However, common sense seems to be slowly gaining ground worldwide. Here's a 2004 report from Russia. Dunno if it has been posted here @ ICmag.

Under a new law that came into effect this week, drug users can possess a greatly increased amount of an illegal substance—for instance, 20 grams of marijuana or 1.5 grams of cocaine—without the risk of being thrown in jail.

The law has been criticized by the Federal Anti-Drug Service, which says it hampers the battle against drugs, but praised by those who work to rehabilitate drug addicts, who predict more addicts will now seek help.

President Vladimir Putin signed an amendment to the Criminal Code in December stipulating that possession of no more than 10 times the amount of a “single dose” would now be considered an administrative infraction rather than a criminal offense. Punishment would be a fine of no more than 40,000 rubles ($1,380) or community service.

It then took five months to hammer out what would be considered the single dose of various drugs.

Ten times the amount of a single dose, as set in the government resolution that came into effect Wednesday, is 20 grams of marijuana, 5 grams of hashish, mescaline or opium, 1.5 grams of cocaine, 1 gram of heroin or methamphetamine, and 0.003 grams of LSD.

Anyone caught in possession of these amounts or less cannot legally be detained, a spokeswoman for the Moscow branch of the Federal Anti-Drug Service said. Instead, a report will be filed and the fine will be determined by a court.

This is a major change. Under the old standards, someone caught with 0.1 grams of marijuana, for instance, could be punished by incarceration.

Foreigners, even those with deep pockets, should still take the new law seriously, however. Yelena Zhigayeva, a lawyer at the Moscow law firm Haarmann Hemmelrath & Partner, said that by law foreigners who violate Russian drug laws, even if it is only an administrative infraction, can be expelled from the country or denied re-entry.

Alexander Mikhailov, deputy head of the Federal Anti-Drug Service, was indignant about the resolution.

“The heroin dose is normal for a chronic drug user, but for a regular person it’s nonetheless a dose of potassium cyanide,” Mikhailov was quoted as saying in Kommersant on Thursday. “We were categorically against it, but the Justice Ministry simply went crazy chasing its European standards.

“Now drug addicts have the right to run around with their pockets full of marijuana, and we can’t even detain them.”

A spokesman for the Federal Anti-Drug Service was more diplomatic. “It’s the law, and we are required to abide by it and enforce it,” he said by telephone.

The amounts for single doses were recommended by a group formed by the State Duma’s Legislative Committee that included representatives from the Health, Justice and Interior ministries, the FSB and several NGOs.

Lev Levinson, head of New Drug Policy, an advocacy group for drug law reform, was the coordinator of the group. “This is a brave, humane law,” Levinson said. “Now that police will stop persecuting users, they can start focusing on real threats like large-scale drug trafficking.”

Vitaly Zhumagaliyev, head of the Moscow bureau of Harm Reduction, which works to rehabilitate drug addicts, said the new law will provide a boost to his organization’s activities.

Source:
http://www.thehempire.com/index.php/cannabis/news/2391

And here's another bit of interesting news which highlights hypocrasy in today's "humanitarian" value systems adopted by the "official" sources:

A pensioner who is believed to be Britain's oldest convicted drug dealer was jailed for 18 months yesterday after a court heard that he had more than 400 cannabis plants in his greenhouse.

George Axton, 70, was found guilty of cultivating and conspiracy to supply the drug at an earlier trial and was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court yesterday. The court heard that the drugs were worth £150,000.

Axton, who runs a care home for young adults in Fordingbridge, Hants, was in court with Richard Kershaw, 29, who was sentenced to 15 months and Gavin Harries, 30, who helped tend the crop and was jailed for a year. Both were convicted of the same charges as Axton.

David Stone, 32, admitted cultivating cannabis and possession of the Class C drug and was jailed for 18 m

Source:
http://www.thehempire.com/index.php/cannabis/news/70_year_old_cannabis_grower_jailed

While at the same time, monsters who've committed grave human rights violations such as Agosto Pinochet are sitting pretty in a comfortable villa instead of deservingly rotting in a jail cell because of "old age" considerations. Bah....!

But at least, despite the increasing hypocrasy on all these war on terror/ drugs etc., we can still see shards of common sense, as in Russia in 2004. Hopefully they didn't repeal that law.

 

[Guest]

hehe I considered myself a bit of a fiend, but 2gs of bud in a spliff, let alone a single bong hit...

they've gotta be doing chillums in the Kremlin!

Boom Shankar!!!

lol