Papa Zoom: hahahaha....long time no see my friend :)

I thought so...it is 18months since I have been in here;;;sorry crosseyed to use your name to check LOL....Pappa Zoom...a newbie in here? seems to be the same people...where is AD?

crosseyed: ,

now this is what I like to see.A Man that speak his mind and also tells the truth.

Iamon lyme: ah so :) thanks, under-con-stumble now.

I have looked everywhere. What is Pharicidic?

hahaha thank you both of you.

too many posts to read, did I miss anything?

Iamon lyme: you are dead right here LamonLyme:) Those that don't/won't work think it is their god given right to be given free handouts from the government. Most of them have never worked a day in there lives and always have their hands out for freebies.

Bwild: it is hard to inject oneself into a conversation on here isn't it? Ive tried, but keep getting ignored, so I just read the crap others have written.

hahaha you had better have another drink and start crying, can't see anything :(

Us english have saved the aussies again. Hackers are dangerous:) and (V) you have been caught hahaha, naughty, naughty

(V): what a silly thing to say "or to just 'grab' more attention to themselves." I would have thought it was the other way round. The paid members drawing attention to themselves. You sure can see that in here.

Iamon lyme: oh how clever :) I didn't see that "I am only me" well done :)

Iamon lyme: oops,sorry LamonLyme. corrected spelling. It would be nice if we could go back and correct our mistakes on these boards :(

@sigh@ wish I had enough money to put in that LemonLime. (V) is lucky to have enough to put in there.

but they are interesting really even if it is aload of rubbish.

Silvery Moon: they do bicker a lot and reading back - waaaay back others have been told off for doing the same thing. These two must be special.

Oh boy, look at this
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2012/07/man-sentenced-to-30-days-in-jail-for-collecting-rainwater-on-his-property-2444266.html

poor man.

I was dissapointed with the opening ceremony:( London is a bedlam at the moment hahahaha, I should have stayed home.

Artful Dodger: haha@one too many :)

anybody coming to London for the Olympics? We have been asked to walk to work to save the transport system hahaha.

Iamon lyme: has something been deleted? conversation doesn't make sense:(

Iamon lyme: lovely pics etc

Iamon lyme: loving your pics....so funny

The Col: I didn't tell the teacher anything----?? I was sent a personal message from someone who I don't even know, to keep on subject and dont be personal.

I sent a message back to her/him asking what was wrong but didn't get an answer. ----no worries.

Artfull Dodger love your links :)

I didn't think you could make personal remarks to each other in here. There are a lot of personal remarks that I can see.

And how can you keep on topic when there are so many topics going on at once?

Or have I just changed it again hohohoho

Iamon lyme: ah, the old latin LOL..."Let the buyer beware" - in other words - read the fine print.

The Col: my prerogative :) being a woman that is.

why am I the only one being picked up on "clever?" when both ArtfulDodger and LamonLyme both thought it was clever also.

Iamon lyme: that is so clever....

Iamon lyme: thank you LamonLyme....a case of someone not reading the appropriate statements properly :)

Iamon lyme: well 5bil is a mere drop in the ocean in comparison to those numbers. Perhaps that (V) has it wrong.

I always thought a NEWT was a kind of amphibious animal/fish

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Drug Trafficking By Henry Pierson Curtis

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October 18, 2009
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Grow-house raids in residential neighborhoods — happening regularly these days in Florida — often yield an illegal crop worth millions.

Super Pot.

Once a mildly inebriating plant, cannabis's potency has increased steadily since first studied by the University of Mississippi Marijuana Project in the 1970s.

Back then, the average marijuana sample contained less than 1 percent THC. That jumped to 3.2percent in 1992 and then to 8.8 percent by 2006, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

But marijuana cultivated in Florida regularly tests twice as strong as the national average, the result of years of genetic tweaking by Miami-based Cuban drug rings.

Raised in grow houses as clean as high-school science labs, the pot seized so far this year has contained 20 percent THC on average, according to the federal Drug Enforcement Administration in Miami.

"I don't know what they're teaching them in Cuba, but they know what they're doing," Polk County sheriff's Lt. Steven Ward said. "This is the best marijuana I've ever seen."

Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the chemical known as THC, is what gives marijuana its high. Plants seized elsewhere in the United States contain 10 percent on average, according to the DEA.


27% THC stuns MBI
When high-tech grow houses spread from Miami to Georgia from 2005 to 2007, drug agents say, marijuana samples began breaking old standards for potency.

"Twenty-seven percent!" said Agent Billy Powell of the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation in Orlando, who seized 366 pounds of that strength pot from a grower near Orlando International Airport in 2007. "That's the highest I've ever heard of."

Pedro Tomas, the Cuban-born defendant in that case, told officers he learned how to grow marijuana by reading magazines at a local 7-Eleven store. Saying he didn't think raising pot for personal use was illegal, Tomas claimed he intended to smoke all 366 pounds himself.

"He said that with kind of a smirk on his face," Powell said.

In September, Tomas, 37, was sentenced in Orange County Court to 28 months in state prison.

Mahmoud ElSohly, a pharmacist in charge of the Marijuana Project, told The New York Times last year that illegal-pot growers have been using the same techniques to grow stronger cannabis that agronomists deploy to produce better-quality fruits, vegetables and other plants.

The Marijuana Project, a University of Mississippi research facility, is the only federally approved cannabis plantation in the U.S. Its laboratory tracks pot's chemistry and grows plants for researchers.

"They have been doing genetic selection for years," ElSohly said in December. "You can see the potency keeps going up."


Strong pot riskier?
What that means is debated endlessly.

Law enforcement and drug-treatment experts say significantly stronger pot poses known as well as suspected health dangers.

"The first thing to keep focused on is that marijuana at any potency is not a benign drug," said David Rosenbloom, president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, who compared marijuana consumption to alcohol abuse. "I'm not talking about a kid who smoked one joint and went on with his life."

Marijuana's negative side effects include anxiety, hallucinations, panic reactions and physical impairment, such as with driving a car, which likely increases at higher THC levels, he said.

"I'm saying it's probable because of there hasn't been a lot of formal research," Rosenbloom said. "There's no reason to believe there will be any difference in outcome other than intensification."

Advocates for legalizing marijuana say stronger pot reflects market demand and simply means smokers can consume less to get its euphoric kick.

"The bottom line is there's more of a connoisseur market now than in the 1970s," said Keith Stroup, founder and legal counsel of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

Henry Pierson Curtis can be reached at 407-420-5257 or hcurtis@orlandosentinel.com.
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