What is it about Bolton?
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/12948341.Hamster_rescued_from_huge_cannabis_farm___now_he_needs_a_name_and_a_home/
The South Bolton tentacle of Greater Manchester Police has scored itself a bit of net kudos with a Facebook appeal for a "forgetful horticulturist" to come forward and claim 37 "mislaid" marijuana plants. The appeal on the GMP Bolton Facebook page, with photo of the mislaid cannabis plants The potted pot plants were dumped …
Cops in the next town over, Chorley, can't tell the difference between a blind pensioner shuffling away from them with a white stick and a maniac samurai running wild with a sword. So they tasered him in the back.
The cop is still on the streets upholding law and order in his own special way, having been sent on an "awareness" course.
You couldn't make it up.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2589819/A-policeman-shoot-blind-man-away-Fury-Taser-attack-victim-blundering-officer-mistook-white-stick-samurai-sword-let-order-APOLOGISE.html
If they're also smoking the stuff, they could well be dumb enough to think they can get it back.
After all, stupider things have happened.
After all, stupider things have happened.
yeah, like using the word "stupider" and before you cry foul, the fact it may be on some urban chav dictionary does not mean its use is valid.
More stupid would have been the correct statement.
It's like "texted", another word that should be banished.
"After all, stupider things have happened."
Heard about a traffic accident where police attended and were taking notes. One officer lifts his nose, takes a sniff and says "what's that smell?". His partner agreed.
Cue a local who had come out of his house to witness said traffic accident, and alerts the officers to the fact that it was his pot plantation that was doing it, the ventelation fans push the inside air outside where it smells. With the officers looking curious (no-one could be THAT stupid), he offers them a tour of his setup. Being the courtious types, both do the "tour", then promptly thank the guy by asking him to accompany them to their vehicle. He eagerly obliged. (second hand story from a close friend who had seen it unfold).
There ARE stupid criminals out there, they've even made compilation shows about them.
I don't know why, but I up-voted 'jake'. Not because i think all plod are clueless, but because of the circumstances in which they work can make them appear that way. Also, I'm fairly bored of down-voting him.
A removed example: A bent accountant who commits millions of £$ of fraud will be far better incentivised than any official set to prosecute them. They will have spent years of experience and months of planning to commit a crime that the investigating officer might ojnly have weeks to look at - that is, if they even know there has been a crime to begin with.
Plod in America is getting worryingly devious, though.
Quite a few police stations in the USA are running campaigns aimed at the local drug dealers, inviting them to tattle on their competitors in the drugs trade, in order to reduce the local competition with their products. As there is no honour amongst criminals, a cycle of tit-for-tat informing is soon set up, with the local plod being the net beneficiaries of all of this.
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depends. The psychoactive part of the plant is concentrated in the trichomes, which appear on the flowering tops. These are tiny hairs, which have a sac with the resin atop.
If a plant is fertilized, then all the energy goes into producing seeds, rather than trichomes.
(There is no accepted consensus as to the evolutionary reasons for this feature. Given the Himalayan origins of Cannabis species, it has been suggested it's a protection from UV light).
Therefore, drug producers try very hard to prevent their female plants getting fertilized - they try and keep them without seed. And Spanish for "Without Seed" is "Sinsemilla".
However, some people also like to breed their own strains of cannabis. For this (obviously) male pollen (and therefore plants) are needed. Once the pollen has been gathered, the plant has no use.
The fact that I know all of this show what an utter farce the past 44 years have been.
Incidentally, it's fucking anti social to dump any waste material. But even worse when it's something which could have easily been composted. If I caught the culprits, I'd give them a pass on the drugs, but cut their balls off with a rusty razor.
there is a difference.
If *I* were King for a day, I would completely re-evaluate criminal jurisprudence and decide punishment on what the proven act demonstrates about the guilty. Which really does mandate the death penalty for littering :
1) It shows total disrespect for other peoples living space
2) It shows total disrespect for the fact that ultimately we all live - and drink - off the land. Someone who litters is metaphorically (or maybe literally) pissing in our breakfasts.
3) It shows that the offender can't see themselves as part of society.
Feminised seeds have been available for a long time. As have automatic plants which don't require specific photoperiods, you give them 20 hours of light a day, they grow and flower and then you harvest em. But you cant clone em. Less yield but less hassle.
Clones are the way forward though and a cutting from a feminised plant will always yield feminine clones.
Also, it is genetically preferable to grow normal seeds and then take the females from that lot.
5 seeds should render you at least 1 or 2 females.
Once you have one good female, you are sorted for ever..
Apparently.
My understanding is that some female plants can change the gender of some of their flowers when they haven't been pollinated (ie when they are being grown for use by humans), and the seeds produced from those are "femanised" in that they are much more likely to give a female than a male.
Personally I prefer to plant a dozen or so seeds, then weed out (hur hur) the males later on, so whatever grows is happy with the medium I'm growing them in. You can go to seed banks and pay a small fortune, but I'm cheap and just fish them out of the mid price weed from the local coffee shop or bodega.
Now if I could only work out a way to stop the damn cats from chewing on the buds I'll be sorted....
My understanding is that some female plants can change the gender of some of their flowers when they haven't been pollinated
If they do, they weren't "female" plants, but hermaphrodites that were expressing female traits over male.
A true female plant, is a true female plant. Cuttings and clones will always be female.
It's all to do with F1/F2 hybridization.
As a previous poster suggested, for an "illegal" substance, there is an awful lot known about cannabis. In PhD. depth.
If you hold back anything, I'll kill ya. If you bend the truth or I think you're bending the truth, I'll kill ya. If you forget anything I'll kill ya. In fact, you're gonna have to work very hard to stay alive, Nick. Now do you understand everything I've said? Because if you don't, I'll kill ya. Now, Mr. Bubble-and-Squeak, you may enlighten me.
I wonder why don't they work from cuttings.
I have been told it is easier to work with clones, as they all grow at almost the same speed and don't need so many adjustments with the lamps.
Anon.. as in the UK it is illegal (stupid), unless you grow tomatos instead...
"Anon.. as in the UK it is illegal (stupid), unless you grow tomatos instead..."
Heard from a guy I used to work with, his cousin was a heavy pot smoker, and curious, tried smoking tomato leaves. Said he "wasn't the same" after that. Probably forgot to wash off the bug poison.
See? Pot really is a gateway drug, leading to the real heavy stuff like tomatoes.
I'll bet he was never the same. Tomatoes are a member of the Nightshade family, and their leaves have some "Interesting" alkalies in them.
Durham police seem to have been promoting an enlightened approach to the 'drugs problem' for a couple of years now. Maybe their Bolton colleagues are in agreement.
One of the difficulties with such an approach is in knowing where to draw the line. Perhaps three dozen plants is the suggested maximum for 'personals'. Or maybe it's a reminder not to be 'blatant' in smoking in public places.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/592920/Police-go-ahead-grow-own-cannabis-live-up-North
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/28/time-end-war-drugs-uk-police-chief
From personal experience as a student in Bolton, I can say the police showed quite a relaxed attitude in general to a bit of weed being smoked, sometimes we even had off duty ones at parties.
Funnily enough the only time we did get in trouble was when someone picked a daffodil from a council planted area, that apparently needed a black maria, a van full of cops, two dog teams and a squad car, with us all being slammed into the side of the van and verbally abused.