Originally published in Welsh, in 2008, ‘Operation Julie’ by Lyn Ebenezer looks at what is arguably the most famous UK police drug operation in history. This English edition was published in 2010 and has the novel advantage of being the first book exclusively on Operation Julie not to be written by one of the policeman involved. However, as we shall see, this is still a collection of threads that are primarily woven together by the police operation itself.

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Although George Michael has assured his fans that he has been “treated with kindness” since he was imprisoned for driving under the influence of drugs, Howard Marks, the former drug dealer, who is the inspiration for the film Mr Nice, wonders if a custodial sentence was sensible.

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Cannabis consumers have always needed and pined for an effective tool that would tell us where the best cannabis can be found, what is the potency and price (and pricing trends).

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«Medi-Cone» - ein Gewächshaus und ein Werk für die Produktion von Cannabis in Marin County. Die Mitarbeiter der Firma «United Food & Commercial Workers Union» produzieren Marihuana-Zigaretten, die Nachfrage nach medizinischem Marihuana in Kalifornien zu erfüllen.

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It's no secret that weed is a big agricultural business, so it's only natural that it's made it to the next stop on its way to a full capitalist makeover: mass production.

The video below is an exclusive look at what could be the country's first official cannabis factory, a 60,000 sq. ft. facility in Oakland that would house 30,000 plants and could produce $50 million of cannabis per year. Part of a proposal by Gropech, a non-profit that promises to create hundreds of union jobs and reinvest profits in the Bay Area if given a permit by the Oakland City Council, the facility would supply medical dispensaries across the state in an attempt to bring transparency to the growing process. "The laws in California were sort of backward because they addressed retail sales before wholesale production," said Derek Peterson, co-founder of Gropech. "It would be like if you built a bunch of liquor stores, and only afterward built distilleries."

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The Hydroponic and Growing Expo in Los Angeles is the largest indoor gardening event in North America. A hydroponic growing system allows gardeners to grow plants indoors all year round, without the need for soil or natural sunlight.

Even though a lot of very talented people from different industries converge for the Hydroponic Expo, the attendees are divided into two clear groups: those who genuinely care about the sustainability of indoor gardening, and those who just want to grow some sticky icky.

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A Northern California town named, WEED, has long used it’s name to poke fun of itself. Weed, California, is indeed located just above the famed, “emerald triangle” of California, an area long known for growing some of the States best marijuana. You can buy a t-shirt at a local store of this sleepy little town in the Northern-most part of the state that say “I Love Weed”, and a local brewery has a tongue in cheek motto on their bottle caps that say, “Try Legal Weed”.

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My wife has said basically the same thing on more than one occasion while reading my articles in HIGH TIMES. I am thrilled that more genres of marijuana websites and magazines are coming out – it’s not a slam on the existing ones, with their buds-n-bewbs flavor, it’s just a natural expansion of the business.

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