Washington marijuana harvest sets dubious record

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Washington marijuana harvest sets dubious record

Submitted by The Fire Inside on Wed, 02/15/2006 - 10:49pm.

I'm actually shocked no government has pushed for regulation (similar to liquor in Washington state) in which they would have a monopoly on the product.

You're telling me the politicians in Olympia (and D.C., for that matter) don't notice this? Yeah, right.

Seattle PI:

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Law enforcement officers harvested a dubious record last year: enough marijuana plants to rank the illegal weed as Washington state's No. 8 agricultural commodity, edging sweet cherries in value.
The 135,323 marijuana plants seized in 2005 were estimated to be worth $270 million - a record amount that places the crop among the state's top 10 agricultural commodities, based on the most recent statistics available.

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135,000 plants? We're like li

Submitted by eelcozy on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 6:22am.

135,000 plants? We're like little Amsterdam or something.

And that's just what is seize

Submitted by The Fire Inside on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 6:52am.

And that's just what is seized.

We all have been very fortuna

Submitted by will_is_ok on Thu, 02/16/2006 - 1:56pm.

We all have been very fortunate to have access to such a vast array of fine cannabis. To those of us with high standards of quality olympia serves as a pot-head oasis. Cannabis should be smoked in such massive quantitys that the expanding smoke causes birds to rain down like cats. If it were legal I would smoke one pound of the finest organic herb every week and I would blow smoke at babys to get them high because its funny.

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