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Yes, two cast members of TLC's "All-American Muslim" were busted while crossing the Canadian border. The border officer caught the pair with nine grams of "the chronic" (a.k.a. "cannabis," "giggle weed," "ganja," "dope," "wacky tobacky," "grass," "indo," "the herb," "Mary Jane," etc.). Wow. If this was another desperate attempt to show us that Muslims really are "just like everyone else" . . . Genius! Apparently, it is notoriously easy to get a "medical marijuana" card in Michigan. However, can anyone who watched "All-American Muslim" point to anyone on the show who displayed any symptoms that would require a sack of...

Cuban Cigar Sales Fall Again ... and Faster Posted Feb 24th 2010 1:50PM by Tom Johansmeyer Cuban cigar sales are off yet again, and there's plenty of blame to go around. Global economic conditions have constrained consumer spending, and smoking bans worldwide have made it harder to find a place to light up. The quality issue can't be ignored, as well, with many cigar smokers finding that a Cuban cigar just isn't what it used to be. Habanos S.A., the government-run company behind the Cuban cigar industry, has reported a substantial decline in sales for the second year in a...

US tightens ban on Cuban cigars WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s administration has tightened a ban on Americans importing Cuban cigars. "There is now an across-the-board ban on the importation of Cuban-origin cigars," said a notice released this week by the Treasury Department (news - web sites)'s Office of Foreign Assets Control. Previously, the rules allowed Americans licensed to travel to Cuba to bring back to the United States up to 100 dollars' worth of Cuban goods, including cigars. That loophole was closed in the latest regulations. The anti-Cuban cigar rules were already...

TOURISTS, DON’T FALL FOR IT! War on fake cigars • Customs on the alert BY MICHEL PORCHERON-Special for Granma International- ON the other side of the world, when you acquire a pair of counterfeit Nikes at a low price, a Lacoste T-Shirt or Cartier watch, you know that you are buying an imitation. The “deal” between the buyer and seller is clear and not a deception. You are a labels’ freak, but lack the money to buy, for example, an authentic Louis Vuitton suitcase. In Cuba, when you buy cheaply priced counterfeit habanos, you really don’t know what you’ve acquired....

HAVANA (AP) -- A Cuban cigar maker has shattered his own record for the world's longest cigar by rolling a 45-foot-long stogie, the Guinness Book of World Records said. It took Jose Castelar Cairo five days to manufacture the cigar - a feat that far surpassed his 35-foot cigar that set the record in 2000. The latest and greatest cigar was rolled in November, but only recently certified by Guinness. Castelar proudly displayed both Guinness certificates on Thursday. Castelar's first milestone was a 9-foot cigar he and his buddies rolled in 1999 as a way to attract passing tourists. "We...

MIAMI (AFP) - Tearful relatives of jailed Cuban dissidents issued an emotional plea for tough sanctions against President Fidel Castro's communist government and said they were heading to Europe to press their case. Larry Klayman, the head of Judicial Watch, the conservative legal watchdog group organizing the trip, called outright for the US military to oust Castro, saying the Cuban leader was "more of a threat than Saddam Hussein." Klayman and the exiled Cubans spoke at a news conference in Miami to outline details of a nine-country tour next week aimed at pressing European countries to impose economic sanctions against...