The Crop Report: Dispatches from the Pot Belt.

[Algorem]

The Crop Report : Paranoid growers, outnumbered cops, guardsnakes: Dispatches from the Pot Belt.

Story & photos by Joshua Greene Thursday, April 07, 2005

http://www.freetimes.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2504

THE OLD MAN'S STORY begins in a cabin in the deepest hills of Eastern Kentucky.


Perry County Deputy Sparkmandrives up a "holler" to visit some pot growers.

“The state police,” he says, emphasizing the pole , “come up the road on his four-wheeler. I could hear him coming from a long, long way. He comes up and I'm sitting on the porch and he says to me, ‘Could I buy a glass of water?' He was so thirsty, said he was ‘terrified' driving up these hollers, looking for pot.”

The storyteller is a Bearcat of a man, with beady and watchful blue eyes, and clad in denim overalls and a leather biker vest and cap. It's in the wee hours of the night, and he's drunk and flying on exotic painkillers. “I said, ‘I got water and I got ice-cold beer.'”

Because bootlegging is a common crime in Eastern Kentucky, the old man said he couldn't sell the beer to the man but he'd gladly give him one. The old criminal and the state trooper spend the next hour chugging beers and telling tales.

“He drank two beers and asked where he could piss at. I told him around the back and he went on the other side where I had my pot plants, four of them, every bit of six feet tall. He went over there and pissed on my purdiest pot plant, 'n' either he didn't know what he was looking for, or he was scared.”

On another occasion, the Bearcat was not so lucky...

[da_chimperor]

1. Great article, it's long but worth the read IMO. n/t

[firefox]

2. Very informative article and reality based

The article is about pot eradication in Kentucky where the soil and poverty will not yield to the stupidity of cannabis prohibition. The article mentions guard snakes where growers tie up a poisonous snake by the tail.

It was a very good article.

[ixion]

3. the eradication of a naturally-occuring plant is logical.

'nuff said. ;-)

[Algorem]

4. reefer badness

marijuana ruined this man's life.sure he's a movie/tv star,millionaire,successful family man,etc.,but it made govenment jackasses railroad him into prison to make an example out of him



A chastened Chong still can stir the pot

Sunday, April 10, 2005

COMEDY

A chastened Chong still can stir the pot
Sunday, April 10, 2005
Chuck Yarborough
Plain Dealer Reporter

...Chong has to be feeling pretty good about his career prospects nowadays, with guest-starring roles on "That '70s Show" and a new Cheech & Chong movie in the works. But two years ago, a career other than one making license plates might have seemed only a pipe dream - you'll pardon the expression.

Chong was among those caught up in a nationwide investigation of drug-paraphernalia distributors. Chong pleaded guilty to selling bongs - glass water pipes - over the Internet. Judge Arthur J. Schwab rejected Chong's pleas for leniency and sentenced the comedian to nine months in prison, fined him $20,000 and ordered the seizure of more than $100,000 in cash and merchandise.

Prison not too bad,

but it's no cakewalk...

[cap]

5. if you got some clean Dems

you could win here.