Slog - Comments on This Week on Drugs http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/this_week_on_drugs_32 The Final Days of Summer: Gentle breezes, warm nights, and the roar of helicopters over quiet mountain communities in Eastern Washington. It's harvest time. Local police departments team up with the DEA and National Guard in the sky to identify marijuana by its telltale hue, yielding tens of thousands of pot plants and hundreds of arrests. It's like shooting fish in a barrel, really—pot is Washington’s second-largest cash crop, after apples. Despite seemingly enormous returns, the helicopter strafes are mostly an air show. Nary a dent is made in the pot market, as Dan points out. Pot is still readily... Copyright 2008 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:37:12 -0800 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:10:51 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Bison "even if each plant fetched an unrealistic $1,500"

What's so unrealistic about that? Yields per plant are huge for outdoor operations. The last one that I umm heard about netted well over a pound per plant and sold for nearly $2k per pound.

]]> Bison http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/this_week_on_drugs_32#c794636 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/this_week_on_drugs_32#c794636 News Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:51:22 -0800 Comment by COMTE .” Marijuana growers are “violent criminal terrorists” who wouldn’t hesitate to help other terrorists get into the country with the aim of causing mass casualties,"

Right, because as EVERYONE KNOWS, the first objective of marijuana growers is to kill as many of their customers as possible.

Idiot.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/this_week_on_drugs_32#c794641 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/this_week_on_drugs_32#c794641 News Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:54:35 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Yet again, this is why we need to replace these ineffective Republicants.

I remember when we exported MJ. But now most of our hard drugs come from Afghanistan ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/this_week_on_drugs_32#c794647 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/this_week_on_drugs_32#c794647 News Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:59:02 -0800 Comment by Dominic Holden It's certainly possible, Bison @ 1 (in fact, I gave them the benefit of the doubt). But most growers don't average a pound per plant or sell outdoor weed at top dollar. Lots of outdoor plants end up kinda scraggly, and the plants that do grow large outdoors tend to produce shitty weed that's sold for less.

]]> Dominic Holden http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/this_week_on_drugs_32#c794660 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/this_week_on_drugs_32#c794660 News Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:08:22 -0800 Comment by Dianna I am so sick of this crap! Wasted money, time and lives.

Any journalist who questions the legitimacy of the drug war will win a hug from me.

]]> Dianna http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/this_week_on_drugs_32#c794664 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/this_week_on_drugs_32#c794664 News Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:10:51 -0800