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Urban farming is usually thought of as a niche business for high-end food produce. In Chicago, it has taken on a new meaning. Police in a helicopter stumbled upon what may be the largest outdoor pot farm in the city’s history. Planted in rows and spread over an area the size of two football fields, as many as 1,500 plants averaging 6 feet tall were growing amidst heavy brush in an industrial area on the city’s South Side. “This would not be visible from the street,” said Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy at a press conference today. “It’s surrounded by...

DENVER – The campaign plane carrying Ann Romney, the wife of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, made an emergency landing in Denver around 2:25 Friday afternoon, the campaign reported via Twitter. Andrea Saul, the campaign’s press secretary, tweeted: “.@AnnDRomney plane makes emergency landing in CO. All okay. Thank goodness.” Another tweet from the campaign’s Ryan Williams described the plane as “filled with smoke.”

Barry The Dope Dealer; one reason Obama's school files are SEALED. Barry was quite the accomplished marijuana addicted enthusiast back in high school and college. Excerpts from David Maraniss' Barack Obama: The Story "Barry the Dope dealer" with the elaborate drug culture surrounding the president when he attended Punahou School in Honolulu and Occidental College in Los Angeles . He definitely inhaled, a hell of a lot of smoke. 1. The Choom Gang A self-selected group of boys at Punahou School who loved basketball and good times called themselves the Choom Gang. Choom is a verb, meaning "to smoke marijuana."...

Once again leave it these Taiwanese animators to laugh at the American dope-smoking President. So check out the Choomer in Chief with his Choomer friends and their Choom Wagon.Obama and marijuana: 'POT-US' dope-smoking daze revealed

While Libertarians point to innovative 'choom gang' pioneer Barry Obama's towering hypocrisy in continuing to persecute the war on drugs and close medical marijuana dispensaries, others say it's not hypocritical to outgrow youthful indiscretions and then favor prohibition as a mature adult- all I want to know is 'when did he actually quit?' The Left loves to paint his pothead past as irrelevant ancient history, but since we can't even get anything resembling a legitimate birth certificate or even college transcript out of this secretive charlatan (yet again) and all we ever hear is BS when asking straightforward questions re. his enduring ciggy habit... what's...