Well actually marijuana and cannabis as you all most probably know are the same thing but we have I brought up this topic? It is quite interesting to see just who uses the word marijuana and who calls it predominanlty cannabis and to test this we are going to use Google news as an indicator.
A simple search for news on the word cannabis brings up all the entries from the UK and a news search for the term marijuana brings up all entries from the USA. So although cannabis has various names each name seems to have a popular use in different countries.
I was just looking at some other marijuana sites I have and cam across a pretty interesting video on cannabis and the has trade in Morocco. Outside of US California this must be the next biggest hub for naturally grown marijuana. This video looks at the cultivation of marijuana and the main production of hash including interactive interviews with local Moroccan marijuana growers.
Its not just your little farm guys producing mj but you also get a nerve gripping insight into what a criminals field of marijuana looks like for enterprise level production of the plant.
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It seems like everyone is feeling the pinch from this horrid economic recession and while there are many who are taking the hit some are also using their entrepreneurial skills to survive. If you ar being hit hard financially then there is only so much you can do, like go out less, spend less on luxuries but what if you want to not reduce your standard of living? Some may turn to prostitution, sex trade or as you guessed it growing marijuana!
It is no wonder that the USA state of California is looking at legalizing and taxing marijuana simply because there is money in it and many people are looking at growing mj to beat the recession. The USA cannabis erradiction programe has already chopped and burnt cannabis this year with the street value of $12 billion and maybe these numbers are even making you think about it.
So how is there such as sudden boom amongst non-cartel crime members to start growing marijuana plants? Well firstly the goverments plans to reduce the amount of marijuana coming in from Mexico’s border is successful and therefore creating a gap in the market for people to make a business on their own home turf. Also the ability to obtain cannabis seeds and grow the cannabis plants is very easy with each plant being worth almost $2000 the required effort to make big money is small. This lucrative business is catching the eyes of non-crime groups and now amateur growers are cultivating up-to 80 plants close to their homes in states like California to help them profit from marijuana gains and get through these bad times.
It seems like although the government contantly talks about the negative things about marijuana, it clearly has positive outcomes for the cleaver marijuana entrepreneurs of America.
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Enough respect to Snoop Dogg who is busting hot lyrics in Amsterdam and then shows his appreciation for marijuana by asking for a big cannabis plant to be brought onto stage – “Give me that tree!”
When the marijuana plant is on stage he freestyles his rap lyrics while the crowd join in as backing chorus singers to “Give me that tree”
This video is seriously Sticky Icky – must have been a Cannabis Cup winner, anyone know?
If you remember previously we had done a small article based on the Jon Gettman’s 2006 report that showed how marijuana is the number one cash crop in California USA. What about on an international level?
The BBC have highlighted key facts from the UN agencies latest World Drug Report 2009 and these go to show that cannabis is the most grown plants, the most used and most seized in the world!
So although you may have thought that cannabis is commonly used at a local level it is infact predominantly used in USA, Canada and Europe more than Cocaine. These facts probably reflect how easy it is to grow cannabis and because of its low harmful effects on humans compared to Cocaine, Heroin and Opium it is far more accepted and used.
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“Getting drugs in Hounslow is as easy as ringing for a pizza” is the headline from the Hounslow Chronicle news paper that did a coverage on a cannabis user. The user, John, describes his journey back from the 1970′s smoking cannabis at the age of 13 all the way until now where he explains that getting drugs such as marijuana is just so easy.
John although initially a cannabis user became addicted to harder drugs and drink and only when he started his own business as a hairdresser did have have the means to have drug shopping spree’s and even cultivate cannabis in his own house. However this rock ‘n’ roll life style that he had created soon all ended when he had an overdose on cocaine and had to call the ambulance to his house where they found his whole house full of cannabis plants. This landed him an 18 month jail sentence and had to get treated for his addictions.
He now has come forward to discuss his life story with drugs and concludes that in Hounslow it is easy to get hold of drugs such as cannabis as it is to order a pizza and hopes that we all need to become open about such issues to help solve spiralling issues like John had.
John certainly hits the nail on the head by saying that more needs to be talked about and it should not dilute the good qualities that marijuana can bring. Are we seeing some sort of trend here and it all points to the fact the Hounslow is becoming a cannabis capital here in the UK?
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