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<title>Slog - Comments on Can the Local Media Ask the Basic Questions About Pot Busts?</title>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q</link>
<description>I just skipped a press conference because I had to run home before going to my other job. The DEA and local police are vaunting their recent raids of marijuana grow houses. If the coverage is anything like previous pot-enforcement coverage, this will be a crack-down, clean-sweep victory for police prevailing over the scourge of drugs. As I write this, reporters are racing to summarize the story, with the answers to the questions they asked: What happened? When did it happen? Who was involved? Where did it all go down? But did reporters for Seattle’s mainstream news outlets ask the...</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:58:24 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by max solomon</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>no, we cannot question the basic premise of drug laws or drug raids. thanks for asking, though!</p>]]></description>
<author>max solomon</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1004875</link>
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<category>Drugs</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:08:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by ecce homo</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>So you ran home to toke a little herb before you ran off to work at the Gob Shop, and missed the conference.</p>

<p>How completely predictable.</p>]]></description>
<author>ecce homo</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1004883</link>
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<category>Drugs</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:13:23 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by lime joy</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@2: Silly homo, the Gob Shop closed a while ago.</p>]]></description>
<author>lime joy</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1004891</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:23:01 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by lime joy</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Note to Stranger: please put Mr. Holden on staff so's he can focus on the news instead of running to his other job.</p>]]></description>
<author>lime joy</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1004896</link>
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<category>Drugs</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:29:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by COMTE</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p><em>So does arresting pot growers change the availability or abuse-rates of pot?</em></p>

<p>Not according to the people I know.  At worst it appears to delay customer delivery by a day or two, as mid-level dealers redirect procurement and distributon, but that's about the only measureably adverse effect.</p>

<p>Sometimes I think a lot of these indoor grow-ops are simply set up with the expectation they'll be busted, as a way to keep teh cops preoccupied, thus allowing the major operations to proceed undisturbed.</p>]]></description>
<author>COMTE</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1004902</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1004902</guid>
<category>Drugs</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:36:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by max solomon</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@5: that's pretty fucked up for the folks that get to go to jail running interference for the volume dealers. i hope they're compensated well.</p>]]></description>
<author>max solomon</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1004925</link>
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<category>Drugs</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:53:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Will in Seattle</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>We have always been at war with Oceania.</p>

<p>Ignore the MJ Tax Stamps on display at the Pot Museum in Vancouver BC from the USA ...</p>]]></description>
<author>Will in Seattle</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1004944</link>
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<category>Drugs</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:12:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by COMTE</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@6:</p>

<p>The thing is, according to other recent press coverage on this issue, it appears the folks getting busted are all part of a fairly tightly connected Vietnamese cartel that's grown up around these parts the past few years, and that it was their rather blatantly large transactions at a particular southend grow-shop that got them all in-dutch.  </p>

<p>Also, from the sounds of things, the cops have a pretty comprehensive list of people at all levels of the organization, so they appear to be casting a much wider net than just the poor schmucks stuck tending the plants or transporting the finished product.</p>

<p>It would further appear that the smarter, more experienced local operators know better than to leave such an obvious paper-trail, and therefore are generally avoiding exactly these kinds of high-profile busts.</p>]]></description>
<author>COMTE</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1004952</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1004952</guid>
<category>Drugs</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:23:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by ecce homo</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Ask Dominic</p>

<p>The Gob Shop moved to Market St. a few years ago.  </p>

<p>206-784-7168<br />
2220 Nw Market St Ste 101<br />
Seattle, WA 98107</p>]]></description>
<author>ecce homo</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1004991</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1004991</guid>
<category>Drugs</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:57:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by CP</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I think people should take very small, canvas totes when they go to see their dealer, rather than throwing away all of those Ziploc bags.</p>]]></description>
<author>CP</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1005057</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1005057</guid>
<category>Drugs</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:33:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by jonesin&apos;</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@8   Similar thing happened a couple of weeks ago in MN.  Funny thing is the SE Asian dude running the grow house pulls into the driveway and entered the house WHILE the cops were busting the place, AND the local media were covering said bust.</p>]]></description>
<author>jonesin&apos;</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1005093</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1005093</guid>
<category>Drugs</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:55:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by tomcat98109</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Another pot-growing bust. Another Dominic screed. Zzzzzzzzzzz...</p>]]></description>
<author>tomcat98109</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1005154</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1005154</guid>
<category>Drugs</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:51:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by lime joy</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Silly homo, where'd you get that info? The internet? The Market St. location's closed too.</p>]]></description>
<author>lime joy</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1005217</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1005217</guid>
<category>Drugs</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:07:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by David Tatelman</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Yes, Gob Shoppe, RIP, not here anymore.  And I'm pretty sure Dominic never worked there!</p>

<p><br />
</p>]]></description>
<author>David Tatelman</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1005365</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1005365</guid>
<category>Drugs</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:58:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by free lunch</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>The question I didn't see asked or answered: How was it that the greenhouse supply shop owners were arrested? Is it illegal to sell greenhouse supplies? </p>]]></description>
<author>free lunch</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1005388</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/can_the_local_media_ask_the_five_basic_q#c1005388</guid>
<category>Drugs</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:14:40 -0800</pubDate>
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