Posted on 02/28/2006 12:52:02 PM PST by proud_yank
RCMP officers in Montreal have dismantled an international operation that they allege was selling marijuana seeds over the internet.
INDEPTH: Marijuana
Investigators claim they seized 200,000 seeds, enough to run 500 grow operations if planted and nurtured correctly.
That many plants would have the potential to generate about 42 million joints, reporters were told as police displayed the seized material Tuesday.
See-through envelopes each held half a dozen tiny khaki seeds, and carried labels displaying names such as Thai Tingler. Police also showed stacks of high-denomination bills, some bars of gold, several computers and a black T-shirt printed with the URL cannabisworld.com.
Sgt.-Maj. André Potvin said the bust will have an impact around the world because the group allegedly operated throughout North America, the United Kingdom and other regions.
Police say buyers ordered seeds through six separate websites, and the company allegedly sent them out by mail.
Seven people face a total of 49 charges as a result of the investigation, which began in November 2004.
Marijuana activists like Marc-Boris Saint-Maurice, founder of the Marijuana Party, said they'll be watching the court case carefully.
"There is the impression that seeds are legal in Canada," he said. "This case is unprecedented, so I guess that the upcoming court case is going to be important to try and figure out the actual legal status of seeds."
The RCMP say there's nothing to figure out. Selling cannabis seeds is illegal in Canada, and anyone caught doing it will be arrested.
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Boy, talk about counting your chickens!
I feel safer now.
Wow man! Bummer. :)
I feel so much safer now.
The Canucks should make up their minds. They tax marijuana seed sales.
So are they talking party cigars or pinners?
These are the same folks who leave big clumps of dirt on the roots when they weight plants.
With a street value of 87 trillion dollars!!!
A least half of them would be male plants. Most consider males unsmokable.
"So are they talking party cigars or pinners?"
Doesn't matter. Two seeds could produce the same results over time, provided one of the plants turns out to be male and the other female.
Kind of a silly estimate when talking about living things that reproduce.
Doesn't everybody like a little Thai Tingle?????
Or, they could have been used to produce another 10,000,000 seeds which, in turn, could produce 2 billion joints ...
200,000 seeds is what, about one 14x14x20 box full .. not exactly the bust of the century.
Bong Bong Bong we have a winner.........
Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter, seized his seeds and sneezed.
Seized seeds could have produced 42 million joints: RCMP
Yeah, marijuana will disappear now.
6 million people saved from turning into bats.
Gosh, they didn't state what the correct method of nurturing is, did they? Just curious for scientific reasons only...
Wow! Seeds are illegal! Wonder what will be illegal next?
How about HAMBURGERS!
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