by Bruce Mirken California state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) today announced the introduction of legislation to tax and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcoholic...
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Farmers in Punjab have taken to growing fruit crops like pomegranates instead of conventional crops like wheat and cotton.
Climatic conditions in Punjab are suitable for growing fruits, especially in the southwest region where Kinnow is grown extensively.
Gurvinder Singh,...
Could growing fresh vegetables help save crumbling inner cities around the world and tackle hunger? Putting in the spade-work at one of the charity's gardens That is the ambitious aim of a charity called Urban Farming, which has...
The cooperation between northern mountainous Lao cai Province and Aquitaine, the largest south-western region of France, has yielded initial results."In 2004, 53 botanical species that Aquitaine provided to Lao...
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Ninety per cent of Canada's marijuana is said to come from BC and Quebec, and the THC level is getting stronger each year. Should we be scared? Proud? Disgusted? Awkward?"OTTAWA -- The...
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""WWF-Indonesia calls on all stakeholders in the oil palm business sector to make their commitment to and implement the sustainability principles formulated by RSPO in real terms and they are expected to continuously strengthen the Fifth Roundtable in Kuala Lumpur," Mubariq...
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Afghani's, impoverished ,living in a decades war torn country see cash and survival in an illicit crop. Western Nations shovelling Token payments of Hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to try and get...
"Morocco, which has slashed cannabis cultivation by nearly half over the past four years, hopes to eradicate the main remaining area of cultivation in the northern Rif mountains by opening up the region and introducing substitute crops.
The eradication programme encourages...
"Our government controls the drug trade in places outside the US,
they bring it in, and they push it in poor areas while promoting
artists that teach how to flip the coke into crack (just takes baking
soda and a...
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" Afghanistan has hit record levels — up by more than 40 percent from 2005 — despite hundreds of millions in counternarcotics money, Western officials told The Associated Press. The increase could have...
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"Canadian soldiers are dying for U.S. ambitions of stomping out the illegal opium trade in Afghanistan, a report from a French drug policy think-tank charges. The Senlis Council said on Wednesday that...
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