Thousands of Marijuana Plants Burned in Pursat, Cambodia

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Colorado, Washington State and Alaska have made weed legal, but its still against federal law. Some very interesting court cases will happen in the near future, as in state rights vs federal laws. (we had a civil war over states rights vs fed law.)

In my field of work (ships) we had surprise drug testing all the time. There was no second chance as the US Coast Guard says you lose you merchant mariners car/license the first time. Alaska/Washington both have state owned/run ferry systems so the first person the federal government pops will probably be a big test case.

In America, anti-drug enforcement is big business. The DEA and others that make their money from the war-on-drugs aren't going to give up that big pile of money without a fight. The US federal government hands out hundreds of millions to foreign countries to be part of the war-on-drugs and sends in the DEA thugs to teach their brand of enforcement.
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Check out the new series on tv( available on torrents)


"High profits" about a shop selling weed on main street in Colorado
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phuketrichard wrote:Check out the new series on tv( available on torrents)

"High profits" about a shop selling weed on main street in Colorado
Yeah thats a good show so far. How long before organized, armed thugs bust in some pot shops, with all their piles of cash on hand, and murder everyone in sight with automatic weapons before making off with the "safe"? (they can not use the banking system due to federal drug laws conflicting with the local legalization of pot). It can't be long now.
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not sure why there not using Bitcoins for payment
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phuketrichard wrote:not sure why there not using Bitcoins for payment
Agreed. Only one shop in Washington takes bitcoin.
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MekongMouse wrote:
phuketrichard wrote:not sure why there not using Bitcoins for payment
Agreed. Only one shop in Washington takes bitcoin.
Obama has a shop now?
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vladimir wrote:
MekongMouse wrote:
phuketrichard wrote:not sure why there not using Bitcoins for payment
Agreed. Only one shop in Washington takes bitcoin.
Obama has a shop now?
Hah! Maybe after he retires he'll get the choom gang back together.
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Samouth wrote:I really don't know about this. Can you tell me more about this?
The Cambodian narcotics law was partially written by the American government, more specifically the UNDCP and Departments of State and Justice. When the UN came in to clean up the country, so to say, after the civil war, the narcotics law was one of the laws that they wrote, together with laws to counter money laundering and friends.

For the Americans, it is a part of the war on drugs[1] which began in 1971 under president Nixon. One of the many reasons why the war on drugs began was to silence (imprison) mainly students that were protesting the Vietnam war in America.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs

The Americans wrote the laws banning, amongst other substances, cannabis, in Cambodia. The DEA is highly active not only in Cambodia but in the whole region.

These laws were purchased by the Americans, pure and simply. Nobody in the Khmer culture had any problem with cannabis until the Americans threatened to stop providing the country aid and ban import and export, like they did with Cuba. Cannabis has been integrated in Khmer culture for hundreds of years. It's considered a spice. Cambodian politicians of course wanted the foreign aid to come in, and even more did they want to trade with America, so they're playing along nicely with the theatre. America is the puppet master in the theatre.

Meanwhile, America is legalizing cannabis. It began with proposition 19 year 2010 in California[2] when 46.5% voted to legalize cannabis. Since then more states have voted to legalize cannabis, and their economies are booming. Alaska, Colorado and Washington have already legalized cannabis[3]. It is only a matter of time before cannabis is legal in the whole country. This is also how the prohibition started; slowly, state by state. In the meantime the very same country continues blackmailing Cambodia into a meaningless prohibition.

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californi ... %282010%29
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_ ... ted_States

More info
Outward cooperation by Cambodian police officials with the Drug Enforcement
Agency (DEA) however is excellent.
Senior Government officials consistently
responded to U.S. requests to make available persons wanted on U.S. arrest
warrants, including in narcotics cases. The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC)
has established a National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) and a special
drug enforcement unit in the Ministry of Interior, however; the effectiveness of
these bodies has been limited by a lack of resources and training, corruption at
various levels of the RGC, the country's geographical location adjacent to major
narcotics producing areas, and involvement by some elements of the Royal
Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) and the national police in narcotics trafficking.
While there were several high profile arrests of narcotics traffickers in 1998,
including one of two American citizens and another of an active-duty RCAF
officer, the number of arrests and seizures fell off from 1997 levels. Cambodia
is taking steps to become a party to the 1988 UN Drug Convention.
In December 1996, the national assembly passed a comprehensive counter-narcotics law which was drafted with UNDCP assistance and advice and reviewed by the Departments of State and Justice.
International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, 1998 http://www.state.gov/1997-2001-NOPDFS/g ... bodia.html
The Royal Government of Cambodia conducted joint operations with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and enacted an amended drug law in a joint effort with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to strengthen penalties and eliminate procedural loopholes in the previous law. Counternarcotics authorities also cooperated closely with other regional counterparts to improve Cambodian law enforcement’s capacity to disrupt and reduce international narcotics trafficking. The United States provided maritime law enforcement training to Cambodian authorities both within Cambodia and the United States. Cambodia also took part in the U.S.-led Gulf of Thailand Initiative, an ongoing aritime law enforcement capacity building initiative involving Southeast Asian states.
United States Department of State, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Page 117 http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/204265.pdf
Further, the DEA Bangkok Country Office has regional drug-related responsibilities in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
http://bangkok.usembassy.gov/embassy/dea.html
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Glad there is some sort of quality control in Cambodia. That weed looks skanky.

Excelent post above.^ Thanks.
Here's a quick video adding canabis' history, and that of its control in the United States.

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juansweetpotato wrote:Glad there is some sort of quality control in Cambodia. That weed looks skanky.
You can't really tell from the pics. The plants aren't aren't finished growing.
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