Swaziland's Cannabis Gold

[Agent11]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23445677

I thought this video was interesting. Tiny land locked monarchy in southern Africa were grandmothers care for grandchildren who lost their parents to aids by illegally growing a potent type of marijuana named swazi gold.

 

[ericlp]

Are you fucking high????? This shit looks like mexican dirt weed.

Not sure what your point is... If you have one... AK47 and white widow or purple crush looks way better than this. Nothing beats hydro indoor cultivation. This shit looks like it's growing under banana trees with partial sun.

 

[Agent11]

The quality of the weed isn't the main part of the story.

 

[Jhhnn]

Are you fucking high????? This shit looks like mexican dirt weed.

Not sure what your point is... If you have one... AK47 and white widow or purple crush looks way better than this. Nothing beats hydro indoor cultivation. This shit looks like it's growing under banana trees with partial sun.

Landrace African sativas have an entirely different look to them than modern European & American indoor cultivars. How it looks doesn't matter nearly as much as how it smokes. In that regard, smoke from Southern Africa is regarded as some of the best and is often used as a building block for hybridization. Swazi is closely related to Transkei, Durban, Malawi & other cultivars of the region.

The specimens in the vid are somewhat immature, with selected buds being harvested early to maintain family income. Early harvest of sativa varieties provides a cerebral, even electrifying high quite different from the stupefying shit most American tokers seem to like.

Granny's customers will be glad to get it.

 

[kage69]

lol damn Jhhnn

 

[Thebobo]

Hol e fuk

 

[justoh]

Kyk hier nou, my bru, vra enige iemand, hulle sal vir jou se, " swazi is die shit"

 

[momeNt]

People should not resort to illegal activities in order to keep their families afloat. I'm sure this is what the Chicago Outfit felt they were doing too. A robust set of social services and safety nets could help Swaziland stay out of illegal and black market activities which put everybody in danger.

 

[boochi]

African weed is some shitty ass shit.

 

[bshole]

I have to wonder if a few key words in this thread have triggered automatic DEA tracking.

Jhnnn, can you get high without fear of federal prosecution? I know the state isn't going after pot in Colorado but are the feds?

Eight former U.S. drug chiefs warned the federal government Tuesday that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's new laws legalizing recreational marijuana use, and a United Nations agency also urged challenges to the measures it says violate international treaties.

The former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs criticized Barack Obama's administration for moving too slowly to file a lawsuit that would force the states to rescind the legislation. Marijuana is illegal under federal law.

"My fear is that the Justice Department will do what they are doing now: do nothing and say nothing," former DEA administrator Peter Bensinger told The Associated Press in an interview Monday. "If they don't act now, these laws will be fully implemented in a matter of months."

Bensinger, who lives in the Chicago area, said if the federal government doesn't immediately sue the states it'll risk creating "a domino effect" in which other states legalize marijuana too.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/dea-marijuana_n_2810347.html

 

[justoh]

lulz. oh yeah. they're watching. One might wonder whether the people involved in the illicit drug trade have influence over the federal government. One might ask, rhetorically, "why else would the administration be doubling down on the drug war?" and say, "wtf dude, they must either be involved in the trade themselves or else under some kind of sinister coercion, and not from the UN."

But I want to make it clear that I don't believe any of the above. The feds hat n kak gedagte.

 

[futurefields]

Marijewanna is bad mmmkay?

 

[werepossum]

Between this and the Reed Ceremony, Swaziland is now officially the greatest nation in the world for male stoners.

 

[woolfe9998]

I have to wonder if a few key words in this thread have triggered automatic DEA tracking.

Jhnnn, can you get high without fear of federal prosecution? I know the state isn't going after pot in Colorado but are the feds?



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/dea-marijuana_n_2810347.html

The federal government doesn't have the resources to prosecute individual users. They're interested in smugglers and high level traffickers and growers. Nothing in this thread is a red flag that anyone here is involved in any of that. The federal government isn't interested in whether anyone on P&N smokes pot. It's way beneath their radar screen. However, please do keep up the typical anti-government paranoia that seems to find its way in every thread these days.

 

[futurefields]

They just shut down 5 medical shops in Wa today

 

[bshole]

However, please do keep up the typical anti-government paranoia that seems to find its way in every thread these days.

Yep that non-oppressive federal government of ours spread some much needed freedom today. I am sure the voters of Washington are much appreciative of how their collective vote is viewed by the freedom loving feds....

In a series of coordinated raids, federal agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raided marijuana dispensaries in Washington State on Wednesday, despite the fact the state legalized the substance last November.

DEA spokeswoman Jodie Underwood confirmed the operation to The Associated Press and said all search warrants had been executed by Wednesday evening. Underwood did not go into detail about the raids.

Local television station KIRO 7 reported that the raids followed a two-year investigation by the federal agency, and the station listed four of the dispensaries visited by the DEA.

Bayside employee Casey Lee told another local station, KING 5 News, that around seven vehicles participated in the raid on Bayside Wednesday morning, confiscating documents and around $2,500 worth of medical marijuana.

"It's humiliating," Lee told KING 5.
Leif O'Leary, a medical marijuana patient at the also-raided Seattle Cross dispensary, told KING 5 he didn't understand why federal law enforcement would be concerned with his small-town supplier.

"You can't tell me there isn't [sic] bigger fish to fry, especially now that recreational marijuana is legal [in Washington]," O'Leary said. "It is just to me inconceivable that this is still happening."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...-dispensaries-washington-state_n_3653071.html


Seriously Wolfe? They don't go after small fry? $2500 of pot and they bring in a SWAT team? You want any rice with that crow?

 

[woolfe9998]

Yep that non-oppressive federal government of ours spread some much needed freedom today. I am sure the voters of Washington are much appreciative of how their collective vote is viewed by the freedom loving feds....





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...-dispensaries-washington-state_n_3653071.html

Read what I wrote in my post again please. Nothing you cited here refutes my statement. Nothing in this thread is a red flag for anything of interest to the federal government. The feds aren't interested in busting individual users, and no comment here suggests that anyone is a grower, trafficker or runs a dispensary.

 

[justoh]

I think you guys are being unfair to woolfe. All he said was that the federal govt doesn't have the resources to do it, not that they aren't doing it anyway on borrowed money.

 

[momeNt]

The federal government doesn't have the resources to prosecute individual users. They're interested in smugglers and high level traffickers and growers. Nothing in this thread is a red flag that anyone here is involved in any of that. The federal government isn't interested in whether anyone on P&N smokes pot. It's way beneath their radar screen. However, please do keep up the typical anti-government paranoia that seems to find its way in every thread these days.

Yea but what about when certain state governments buy into the technology that the DEA has to bolster their prison populations? The DEA and NSA probably wouldn't mind some sort of leasing of their capabilities in order to help states fight crime on their own? Just pay the feds for the use of their robust backbone?

 

[werepossum]

The federal government doesn't have the resources to prosecute individual users. They're interested in smugglers and high level traffickers and growers. Nothing in this thread is a red flag that anyone here is involved in any of that. The federal government isn't interested in whether anyone on P&N smokes pot. It's way beneath their radar screen. However, please do keep up the typical anti-government paranoia that seems to find its way in every thread these days.

Maybe not, but that doesn't make all the collected data go away and if they want you for another reason, they can use that. Remember, Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion.

I think you guys are being unfair to woolfe. All he said was that the federal govt doesn't have the resources to do it, not that they aren't doing it anyway on borrowed money.

 

[woolfe9998]

Yea but what about when certain state governments buy into the technology that the DEA has to bolster their prison populations? The DEA and NSA probably wouldn't mind some sort of leasing of their capabilities in order to help states fight crime on their own? Just pay the feds for the use of their robust backbone?

Anything is theoretically possible. My problem with this claimed concern is, however, as follows. If so many people really think the government is monitoring every thread, why are these same people offering one criticism after another of that self-same government, right where they claim to be concerned that they're being monitored?

Most of this paranoia is just feigned. It's another way of taking a crack at the government boogeyman rather than a serious concern. And in this case, it's inserted into a thread having nothing to do with the US government. I'm fairly certain that neither the federal nor state governments give a rip about cannabis in Swazliland, or about whatever some P&N yahoos have to say about it.

 

[woolfe9998]

Maybe not, but that doesn't make all the collected data go away and if they want you for another reason, they can use that. Remember, Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion.

Yeah, it's all possible.

By the way, if the DEA is listening - I OCCASIONALLY USE MARIJUANA. Please come and get me.

So now you'll know when I disappear that this admission must be why.

 

[justoh]

Yeah, it's all possible.

By the way, if the DEA is listening - I OCCASIONALLY USE MARIJUANA. Please come and get me.

So now you'll know when I disappear that this admission must be why.

Didn't you say you were a lawyer or something? No weed question on your bar app?

Also, i don't think anyone was seriously suggesting they'd be monitoring p&n forums.

And even if the us govt isn't directly prosecuting individuals for using, they're trying to coerce states into doing just that. What's the difference? Why is that ok?

 

[woolfe9998]

Didn't you say you were a lawyer or something? No weed question on your bar app?

Also, i don't think anyone was seriously suggesting they'd be monitoring p&n forums.

And even if the us govt isn't directly prosecuting individuals for using, they're trying to coerce states into doing just that. What's the difference? Why is that ok?

Nothing about it is OK. I oppose criminalizing marijuana, period. And I have opposed it since the 1980's when supporting legalization was a fringe opinion. I am addressing the point about supposed concerns over thread monitoring.

The Bar doesn't concern itself with possession of small amounts of weed. It's an infraction here, not even a misdemeanor.

Alright, gotta go. There's some creepy looking guys in dark suits outside my door.

 

[Fern]

Landrace African sativas have an entirely different look to them than modern European & American indoor cultivars. How it looks doesn't matter nearly as much as how it smokes. In that regard, smoke from Southern Africa is regarded as some of the best and is often used as a building block for hybridization. Swazi is closely related to Transkei, Durban, Malawi & other cultivars of the region.

The specimens in the vid are somewhat immature, with selected buds being harvested early to maintain family income. Early harvest of sativa varieties provides a cerebral, even electrifying high quite different from the stupefying shit most American tokers seem to like.

Granny's customers will be glad to get it.

Impressive :thumbsup:

Fern