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...flowing open bar and an equal number of guys and girls (a ratio I never thought I'd see again). But more than flowing beer, the party demonstrated one of the reasons Harvard is such a great place--its diversity. The Red Party exemplified the term "melting pot...
...Mounties have focused instead on breaking up the organized-crime groups that have broken into the business. Gangs ranging from outlaw bikers to Latin American and Asian gangs are moving into B.C. pot cultivation--and also into lucrative cross-border smuggling and distribution. The Mounties have been busting more and more large-scale operations, often located in warehouse-size buildings, with strings of light bulbs as bright as stadium lights and computer-controlled hydroponic systems for fertilizing and watering several hundred plants. The smugglers move the stuff on every conceivable conveyance--over back roads in four-wheel-drive vehicles, through...
...caught with hundreds of plants, usually get off without jail time. They face fines and seizure of equipment but are typically back in business within weeks. Canada doesn't have U.S.-style mandatory sentencing laws for drug offenses. Law-enforcement officials say most Canadian judges don't view pot cultivation as a serious crime. Says Corporal John Dykstra of the Mounties: "People in the marijuana-growing business want to do business on our side of the border because the risk...
Known as "B.C. Bud," this pot is finding a lucrative market among U.S. users of recreational drugs. A pound of dried B.C. Bud--whose active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, accounts for up to 30% of its weight--sells for about $8,000 in New York City. The more common marijuana from Mexico, with a THC content of about 5%, sells for as little...
REEFER MADNESS Tune in, aging hippies. Middle-aged and elderly marijuana users may increase their risk of a heart attack fivefold in the first hour after lighting up. The danger--like the high--seems to subside by the second hour. Pot raises the heart rate by about 40 beats a minute, scientists say, and this is especially problematic for folks with undiagnosed coronary disease. For someone in good physical shape, marijuana is about twice as risky...