Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 26, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press August pages 1324 did daughter of Czar Heather Bishop to take a Tempo the Quality of Manitoba grown Marl Juana is said to be inferior to that of Many imported varieties but High prices Are stimulating local Manitoban grow their own by Andy Blicq the rising Price of illicit drugs and recent Media coverage of successful marijuana cultivation elsewhere has stimulated the growing of pot in Man grow Youron projects Are not dramatically out of proportion but there on the says Rick Cole of the ramp drug Intelli gence i expect 10 to 15 persons to be charged with Possession of grown material during the next Sev eral he depending on marijuana Sells anywhere from to an ounce on the Street in Cole says the drug generally comes from the United states and the marijuana grown Here is less potent than the imported varieties and produces a bitter he cultivation is definitely going the Quality is not Worth the books help but a Winnipeg who did not want to be named for fear of pros ecu says Hes had a lot of compliments from friends about the Mari Juana he grows in his it has taken him three years to perfect his growing technique and prod uce a Quality the keys to his he Are books which give details on growing people Are asking exorbitant prices for pot these says an other inflation has hit Mari the grower says he cultivates plants for his own use and for his i just like to live quietly and grow my pot and not bother them the to the grower says he knows of other people who have had Garden plots of pot in areas of Rural but locally grown pot contains less than one per cent of the plants Active delta9tetrahydro Cann Binol the most potent imported varieties May contain eight per cent of the Active Cole some dealers mix poor Quality local marijuana with better Quality Cali fornia pot to maximize the he some Manitoban have resorted to producing Weed a Tarry sub stance Rich in through a distilling the Oil is most Rural cultivation is done 40 to 80 Kilometres from Winnipeg and most growers Are producing marijuana for their own the ramp frequently finds illicit plants and gardens in and around Winnipeg and its not uncommon for in Rural areas to stumble on and report a Well hid Den Garden a person growing marijuana in his or her Home is not Likely to be charged with says the ramp says no one has charged with cultivation Here in re cent most Amateur growers nabbed by the police Are charged either with Possession or with pos session for the purpose Traffick police indicate that people caught in Possession of dozens of plants Are generally charged with Possession for the purpose of proving a cultivation charge is very hard and requires specific says Suther land of the 1 dont theres a major moneymaking scheme in he the narcotic control act prohibits cultivation of poppy or Mari 1 Juana except when special Permis Sion is a narcotic control act conviction for cultivation carries a maximum penalty of seven years in the maximum penalty for Possession for the purpose of trafficking is life in people charged with Possession for the purpose of trafficking generally face a jail sentence of several a first offence for simple Possession these Days frequently re sults in a conditional this leaves the offender with a record of arrest but no record of some people have been known to grow pot in their gardens to keep bugs says in cases of innocent the plants Are seized but the Gardener int he the ramp Here Doest have the same problems faced by its counter part in British Columbia where com Mercial pot growing operations the annual marijuana Harvest has begun on Lasqueti police recently seized 650 plants there and Laid staff Ron Nicholas of the Parksville ramp detachment on Vancouver Island says anti pot opera which involve a truck and police began last plants seized after Aerial spot Ting ranged from 75 pm to metres in cultivation is some thing that happens every says Clarke superintendent of the Winnipeg police vice de he Esti inmates City police come across cultivation about twice a week in the course of their i Vestiga marijuana pays the mortgage a Winnipeg couple has taken up gardening to Cut Down on House hold but they Arent balancing the Bud get by growing lettuce and Toma a carefully cultivated crop of Juana plants grows in two Small rooms in the basement of their comfortable the both pot say they just became tired and scared of rubbing shoulders with dope it was real scary the last couple of years we were one partner adding that spending to for an ounce of marijuana was just too before we started growing we were spending about a month on were saving a sum equal to our each year were saving More and about a year ago they began producing enough marijuana to meet their needs and they now know the Superior Quality pot there smoking is fresh and untainted by with a measure of the indoor Gardener opens the door to the larger of the two brightly lighted rooms where the plants Are the Walls Are lined with tinfoil to reflect the Light from fixtures equipped with hot and cold Neon a mechanical freshener keeps air circulating in the larger an ounce a Plant at Little he nets an ounce of marijuana from each male Plant and about two ounces of sin Semilla from the female also is the potent Bud of the female which becomes Sticky with resin As it he grows 10 plants at a time which he says yield about 15 ounces of marijuana Over five but at any Given time he never has More than one or two ounces in his possess the plants spend about two months in the smaller room before they Are moved to the larger one where they at about the same new plants Are introduced into the Small room under the i grow them for three months with 20 hours of Light a then i lower the Light to 12 hours a Day and they Start to the marijuana is dried on screens in a handmade he says the first marijuana he grew was of poor it took two years to perfect the process and to gather information on growing techniques before he produced marijuana of a Quality similar to that available on the Street in the drug is for their personal use the couple both have been smoking it for More than a decade and see nothing wrong with what there we both have we dont owe any Money except our the male partner hour a Day and growing the Plant has become his he locks the Back door and shuts the basement door before step Ping Down into his i spend about an hour a Day Down its a really enjoyable there is an element of risk in having marijuana growing in your in sure if we were busted we would just set them up he adding he looks Forward to the Day pot is Legal and government i dont feel in doing anything really wrong or the female partner some visitors at the House might be a Little concerned if they knew there was marijuana growing in the base but their friends Arent All our drug smoking friends still like he and theres sure lots of she backs tool games provided for police White the police Are killing time waiting to go on stage at the Arena saturday they will be provided with video games in the dressing according to night out entertain ments Bruce the local pro Moter for the it would be Tough to have games available for the Road Crew Rathbone says the group has a support staff of 55 most groups bring about equipment and staff fill four Choice for dance fans dance fans will have to choose be tween two opening nights this season when the National Ballet of Canada brings Don Quixote to the Centennial concert Hall on right across the Street in the Ware House Winnipeg contemporary dancers will be opening its sea Zhivago does album Winnipeg own Johnny Zhivago has finally committed itself to via a 15 minute Long Micro album on the vengeance phonographic society the first single by the band Singer Zal key Board player Rob Bass guitarist Glen Izon and drummer Kenneth Scott Malcolm was recorded and mixed at daemon studios in Winnipeg Over March and april of this Saper wrote three of the it must be love and new while Filep penned looking at kiss me Kate held Over More Rainbow kiss me is proving so successful that its held Over for one says Jack rainbows executive the current production is outselling the first the pirates of pen that also was held Over and set a Box office record for the outdoor director takes the part what does a director do when one of his actors takes a fast trip to new York he Steps in and plays the part him at least that Jack Roberts Solu Roberts cast himself As Standin for Sam Moses As one of the two gang in Rainbow stages kiss me Kate wednesday and thurs Day while Moses flew to new York to appear with Robin Willians in Paul Mazursky Moscow on the Hud Roberts last stage role at Rainbow was also As a gangster when he appeared As big Julie in the 1980 product Ion of Guys and tickets Are going fast the bilingualism Issue May have polarized some Manitoba but at least some people can have a laugh with Andre president of francophone 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