... " is the street name given to cocaine that has been processed from cocaine hydrochloride to a ready-to-use free base for smoking. Rather than requiring the more volatile method of processing cocaine-using ether, crack cocaine is processed with ammonia or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and water and heated to remove the hydrochloride, thus producing a form of cocaine that can ... are produced there, both from cocaine base imported from Peru and Bolivia and from locally grown coca. There was a 28 percent increase in the amount of potentially harvestable coca plants in Colombia in 1998. T...

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... to other programs such public education. Industrial hemp could also create revenue as well, for one acre of hemp a farmer can earn up to 600 dollars, and one hemp paper processing plant could potentially create 800 full-time jobs (Ecological Agriculture Project, 1996). American consumers are eager to buy products that are not only biodegradable, and recyclable, but also invest back ... almost everything a tree does. Nature gave the world Cannabis Sativa L. (hemp). Hemp can be cultivated in almost any climate zone, as it is drought and high UV radiation resistant. Hemp plants can grow up...

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... to other programs such public education. Industrial hemp could also create revenue as well, for one acre of hemp a farmer can earn up to 600 dollars, and one hemp paper processing plant could potentially create 800 full-time jobs (Ecological Agriculture Project, 1996). American consumers are eager to buy products that are not only biodegradable, and recyclable, but also invest back ... almost everything a tree does. Nature gave the world Cannabis Sativa L. (hemp). Hemp can be cultivated in almost any climate zone, as it is drought and high UV radiation resistant. Hemp plants can grow up...

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... , was not attacked. The DEA soon realized that they needed to crack down on the cartels. In 1982 the DEA went to Colombia to eradicate fields of marijuana and coca plants. These fields were located and burned. The hard part now, was finding the labs used to turn the coca leaves into cocaine. These labs were in very remote locations, to ... surveillance. The DEA suspected that the cocaine labs were very large, but the Colombians kept eluding them. Finally the DEA was able to track down the chemicals used in the processing of cocaine to one of the labs, and the DEA scored their first major...

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... , was not attacked. The DEA soon realized that they needed to crack down on the cartels. In 1982 the DEA went to Colombia to eradicate fields of marijuana and coca plants. These fields were located and burned. The hard part now, was finding the labs used to turn the coca leaves into cocaine. These labs were in very remote locations, to ... surveillance. The DEA suspected that the cocaine labs were very large, but the Colombians kept eluding them. Finally the DEA was able to track down the chemicals used in the processing of cocaine to one of the labs, and the DEA scored their first major...

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... , was not attacked.The DEA soon realized that they needed to crack down on the cartels. In 1982 the DEA went to Colombia to eradicate fields of marijuana and coca plants. These fields were located and burned. The hard part now, was finding the labs used to turn the coca leaves into cocaine. These labs were in very remote locations, to ... surveillance. The DEA suspected that the cocaine labs were very large, but the Colombians kept eluding them.Finally the DEA was able to track down the chemicals used in the processing of cocaine to one of the labs, and the DEA scored their first major b...

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... new medical cures, cleaner and more efficient industry, and reduced marijuana usage. Marijuana, as most people commonly know it, is really a plant called hemp, or "cannabis sativa". There are other plants called hemp, but cannabis hemp is the most useful of these plants. "Hemp" is any durable plant used since prehistory for many purposes. Cannabis is the most durable of the hemp ... plants, and it produces the toughest cloth, named "canvass". The cannabis plant also produces three other very important products that other plants do not; these can be made into some usable form: seed, stem...

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... pods are long and thin and turn red as they mature in a warm environment. In cooler environments, the buds may be slightly purple. Sativa plants smell sweet and fruity and the smoke is generally quite mild. (Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia) For thousands of years, the plant cannabis sativa, otherwise known ... presumably for its fiber. The fact has been argued that Washington was also concerned to increase the medicinal or intoxicating potency of his marijuana plants. The argument depends on a curious tradition, which may or may not be sound, that the quality or quantity of marijuana r...

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... in Hawaii and California). Beginning in 1982 the Drug Enforcement Administration turned increased attention to marijuana farms in the United States, and there was a shift to the indoor growing of plants specially developed for small size and high yield. After over a decade of decreasing use, marijuana smoking began an upward trend once more in the early 1990s, especially among teenagers, but ... , Cannabis sativa, and C. indica. Hashish, called charas in India, is the most potent grade of cannabis and is obtained from cultivated plants grown in hot, moist climates. Marijuana , a cheaper ...

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... even written on hemp paper. This plant was also widely used to make sails and rigging for ships. However, during the 1930's, the plant's favor began to fall as petrochemical plants lobbied for the plant to become illegal in order to reduce competition (Conrow 8), and despite objections from the American Medical Association and the pharmaceutical industry, the cultivation and consumption of ... would be to let doctors prescribe it," said Imler. Working with a relatively same idea, another group called the Citizens for Medical Marijuana dedicate themselves to helping people grow their own...

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... reported by police agencies to Statistics Canada occurred in the province of British Columbia (Statistic Canada, 2004). Furthermore, in 2001, major Canadian law enforcement agencies seized close to 1.4 million marijuana plants, a six-fold increase since 1993 (Statistic Canada, 2004). Based on the seizures and average yield per plant, the current annual production is estimated to be about 800 tones (Statistics Canada ... within our borders. Today, most law enforcement experts agree that over half of the marijuana is now grown domestically (RCMP). In 2001, the police departments around Ca...

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... use as severely as large scale traffickers. For instance, medical marijuana user William Foster of Oklahoma was sentenced to 93 years in jail in January 1997 for growing 10 marijuana plants and 56 clones. Foster maintains that he grew to alleviate the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. Foster's plight is not an isolated event; marijuana laws in six states permit marijuana importers ... less is punishable by a fine up to $10,000 and one year in prison, the same penalty as for possessing small amounts of heroin and cocaine. Cultivation of 100 marijuana plants or more carries a mandatory prison...

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... ;safer." (Battle & Pinkston, 2013) agrees, "If marijuana is legalized, the marijuana producers will be under the eye of the law, and what they grow will be solely marijuana plants. Users buying marijuana from a legal producer will not fear it being laced with any such chemicals. Thus, it will be much safer if marijuana is legalized." Specifically, where the ... ...

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A Blaze New World Tulsa, Oklahoma, Will Foster was arrested for growing several marijuana plants on his property. He insisted that the marijuana was for personal use because of his arthritis pains. To reduce jail time, Foster was willing to plead guilty but his offered ... ...

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... body's fat tissue, evidence of marijuana may be demonstrated through urine assay testing up to 1 month after discontinuing the drug. Hashish is a resinous substance, taken from the tops of female plants, which contains the highest concentration of THC These type of drugs causes mood changes and changes in your mental capacity to function normal as they bring on a state of euphoria ... ...

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... doubt experience rapid growth and create many much needed jobs. It is illogical to ban marijuana and industrial hemp because they have so many positive uses. There aren't many other plants that serve so many uses. Industrial hemp has several industrial purposes, marijuana can be used as medicine, and can also provide a temporary escape from the agonizing mechanical routine of life ... ...

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... source of income for our government. My plan would also legalize the cultivation of hemp, a variation of the commonly smoked strain of marijuana that will not produce a high because the plants cross-pollinate. The benefits of these are countless. Currently our nation's farmers are struggling severely because of less demand of most crops as a result of genetically enhanced crops and receive ... ...

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