In other good weed news:
[www.coffeeshopsamsterdam.com]

There is good news for all the cannabis connoisseurs who like to visit Amsterdam and enjoy the wide variety of weed and hash that is available from the Dutch capital's many coffeeshops. The Dutch Tolerance Policy, that provides the legislation under which the Dutch coffeeshops can operate, will be renewed from 1st July 2011 and will be valid until June 30th 2015.

This means that the feared 'Weedpass', a card only available to Dutch citizens that would factually ban foreigners from buying marijuana at coffeeshops, can only be implemented through local legislation. Since City Councils like Amsterdam do not want the Weedpass scheme and local politicians such as the Mayor of Haarlem have said they do not want it either, it means it will not be possible to implement for at least 4 years during which visitors from abroad can still freely and openly buy hash and weed from Dutch coffeeshops.

Weeding?

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Feb 17^th, 2012 at 10:02am:


This bird was stoned... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxEUW3pQX6A

mojoman wrote on Feb 16^th, 2012 at 6:28pm:

"about 22 pounds"?  Howe about "exactly 10 kilograms"?

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Feb 18^th, 2012 at 4:40pm:


http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/airline-business/2008/06/beat-air-rage-smoke-a...

Bingo wrote on Feb 18^th, 2012 at 4:58pm:



hi flyin bird

http://youtu.be/2BD91mkLOUg

mojoman wrote on Feb 18^th, 2012 at 7:16pm:

That bird ain't singing no more.

Thanks EG. I was at those Alpine shows, it rained, no, it poured everyday. When we left, no one had one article of dry clothing.

We did keep the  dry 

4/16 is just as important as 4/20 ....... http://vimeo.com/32725435    

Willie Nelson to unveil his own statue in Austin at 4:20 p.m. on 4/20

Published: Friday, April 20, 2012, 12:32 PM     Updated: Friday, April 20, 2012, 12:38 PM
By The Associated Press

Country music legend Willie Nelson was expected to help unveil an 8-foot statue of himself in downtown Austin, Texas, on Friday, which happens to be a national day of protest for the legalization of marijuana.


AP FILE PHOTOSinger-songwriter Willie Nelson will help unveil an 8-foot statue of himself in Austin, Texas, on Friday, April 20.

The privately funded monument near the new Moody Theater shows Nelson in a relaxed, standing pose and holding his guitar to the side, as if in conversation. Philadelphia sculptor Clete Shields said the leaning pose and heroic scale are intended to show Nelson’s openness and whimsical side while honoring his tremendous influence on music and the city.

“We wanted to get a timeless Willie, an ageless Willie,” Shields said.

Nelson is a 10-time Grammy Award-winning musician who has sold more than 40 million copies of 105 albums in a career built on not conforming to country music norms. Nelson fused country music with jazz and rock in the early 1970s to create the “outlaw country” movement in Austin and helped give the city a reputation as a music city. His first major hit came when Patsy Cline recorded his song “Crazy” in 1961.

Nelson was also a founder of the Farm Aid movement to help family farmers and has appeared in 37 films and television shows, ranging from a starring role in the 1982 western “Barbarosa” to making a cameo in the 1998 Dave Chappelle stoner comedy “Half Baked.”

The unveiling takes place on April 20, or 4/20, which is slang for smoking marijuana and a day pro-legalization forces have used for annual gatherings to demonstrate in support of the cause. Nelson is a well-known advocate of legalizing marijuana and has been arrested several times for possessing it.

But the group that raised money for the statue and gave it to the city said the date of the unveiling is just a coincidence.

The Willie Monument is the third statue put up by Capital Area Statues Inc., a group of prominent Texas writers, film producers and musicians. One of the others honors three Texas writers and is located at Barton Springs. and the other honors the woman who fired a cannon to prevent the removal of the state archives from Austin. Capital Area Statues was formed to add more statues in Austin’s public places and raises money for them by selling scale models of the work.

Lawrence Wright, one of the group’s founders, said April 20 was chosen because Nelson was scheduled to perform at a tribute to Johnny Cash in Austin that night, not because of the counterculture significance.

“We didn’t know anything about it; it seems everyone else knew the story on this,” Wright said, laughing, adding that he doesn’t think Nelson was doing it intentionally either. But he said the group decided to embrace the city’s unofficial motto of “Keep Austin Weird” and take the additional step of arranging for the unveiling to take place at 4:20 p.m. to add to the symbolism.

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2012/04/willie_nelson_to_unveil_his_ow.html

SCL?


Thousands of pounds of pot worth $3.6 million found floating off Calif. coast

Harbor Patrol officers found nearly 8,000 pounds worth of marijuana floating off the coast of Orange County, Calif., on Sunday, according to reports.

The marijuana found south of Los Angeles was packed in around 160 bales and had an estimated street value of $3.6 million, border patrol agents told CBS Los Angeles.

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"Shortly before noon on Sunday, May 20, maritime law enforcement authorities received a tip about suspicious bales floating in the water off the coast of Orange County, near Dana Point," border patrol agent supervisor Michael Jimenez said in a statement.

The haul reportedly totaled 7,263 pounds.

Marijuana grows openly in California towns, not just for medicinal purposes

Coast guard petty officer Seth Johnson told the Orange County Register that the bales were first reported by a boater who saw them floating around 15 miles offshore.

Three Harbor Patrol ships and a Coast Guard cutter were sent to recover the marijuana from the water.

The incident was out of the ordinary, Jimenez told the Register.


"At other events, they've dumped the bales to get rid of weight if they're being chased," he said. "Generally in these cases we're aware they're being dumped. What's more unusual is that the bales were floating with no boat in sight."

No suspects or vessel have been identified in connection to an ongoing investigation, the Register reported.


Law enforcement authorities say drug traffickers are hiding behind California's medical marijuana laws, established in 1996 to help people manage nausea and pain associated with serious illnesses, and distributing the drug illegally. Current TV's Adam Yamaguchi reports in this Rock Center online exclusive netcast