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Here we have a slideshow put together by Forbes magazine showing us their take on “The Most Exotic Brands of Weed.”

While at first we were cautiously reluctant to embrace a story like this from Forbes, we got to looking and it ain’t half-bad. Some of the strains they’ve chosen have even graced the pages of tFS, like OG Kush and Sour Diesel.

Still, what do we say Forbes sticks with their “World’s Richest People” lists and leaves the strain reviews to the experts.

[via Forbes]

Since we’re already on the subject, here is one more photoset of another large cocaine bust.

In Colombia, a place not known for its traffic safety, a ton of cocaine was discovered after the truck transporting it crashed. It must be a nice day for police officers to have 2,000+ pounds of coke just fall into your lap like that.

You know that heads were rolling in someone’s bodega after a screw up of that proportion.

See more pictures after the jump…

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The day of and the days leading up to 4/20 typically create their own bounty of both pro and anti-marijuana press. This weekend was, however, a definite change of pace.

Cocaine news flooded the airwaves when the largest bust in maritime history was discovered.

Off the shores of Panama, the Coast Guard discovered about ~30,000 pounds of cocaine heading north on a 330-foot ship. When officers boarded the ship, they discovered the shipments hidden in two containers. This bust alone had a street value close to $450 million.

Earlier in the month, two other sea-based busts took place. One where a Coast Guard cutter chased down a speedboat with 2,000 pounds worth of yeyo. Another when 900 pounds of coke was found on an Ecuadorian fishing vessel. They were caught trying to offload the goods onto speedboats off the coast of Mexico.

Overall, a bad weekend for Tony Montana and crew.

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All over the country, grow houses are garnering more widespread public attention than ever before.

A recent explosion of high-end, indoor grow ops have been raided and shut down by various law enforcement agencies across the US.

Some may say this proves the growing trend that well-financed drug rings are using expensive, innocuous locations to produce mass quantities of marijuana. Perhaps. Or, maybe the police are just now starting to catch on?

News stories published left and right are aimed at not only informing the public, but also at making them unwitting tools of the police.

Each article has pushed the angle of danger and suspicion - evil marijuana growers lurking in the shadows under honest, hard-working citizens very noses.

The AP has even released this amazingly helpful list of how to spot a “marijuana farm”:

• There are guard dogs, “Keep Out” signs or other security.
• Electrical outlets may be rigged to divert power from neighboring homes.
• The windows are often covered and the blinds drawn. There may be excessive condensation around the windows.
• The houses are largely unoccupied. People stop by periodically to mow the lawn or do other chores, then leave.
• In winter, after a snowfall, the house may be the lone home on the block with no snow on the roof. (Heat from the lights often melts the snow.)

According to this criteria, everyone who lives in Beverly Hills is operating a massive indoor pot factory. I need to call the police right now!

Even though I am making light of this situation, the use of paranoia through mass media is a very effective self-policing tactic. I’m sure that tip lines all the way from Georgia to California are ringing off the hook, and that’s just the way the narcs want it to be.

For more pics of various busted grow ops, read on.

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Since we showed everyone how Macedonia gets down when it comes to destroying narcotics, we might as well keep the trend going.

This photoset shows police in Peru burning large amounts of various illegal drugs. To be exact, over 5 tons of cocaine, marijuana, opium and heroin.

This batch covers the last 4 months of Peru’s law enforcement efforts.

More pictures after the jump.

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Ever wonder how Eastern European authorities destroy large amounts of seized narcotics? Me neither.

Just in case you’re still interested, here’s a quick photoset from Macedonia involving tons of drugs, a steel mill and temperatures hot enough to melt the Terminator 1000.

So what exactly was destroyed? Only 150 kilos of hashish, 250 kilos of marijuana, 80 kilos of heroin, 30,000 ecstasy pills and 16 kilos of cocaine worth a street value of almost 4 million Euro.

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Recently, Wired published an image gallery of some of the many vaporizer products out on the market today. Needless to say, their expertise doesn’t lie and cover this segment of the industry, so don’t expect complete, in-depth reviews. We’ll provide those.

Instead of summing up the intro + captions, I’ll use Wired’s exact words:

Herbal enthusiasts — otherwise known as potheads — are putting a high-tech spin on the age-old practice of getting high as a kite. Tokers are turning to specialized devices that vaporize marijuana rather than burning it. The vaporizers get hot enough to extract all the plant’s psychotropic chemicals, but not hot enough to actually combust. The smoker gets a hit of sweet, sticky vapor — and an allegedly healthier high, since the carcinogens and solid particles get left behind, that’s especially attractive to users of medicinal marijuana.

More pictures after the jump…

[via Wired]

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Our friends over at Celeb Stoner were able to locate some detailed pictures of Gonzaga basketball player Josh Heytvelt’s drug arrest.

Turns out that he’s using the old ‘that ain’t mine‘ defense. Yea, I frequently find 33 grams of mushrooms randomly placed in my backpack with no knowledge of how they got there. What a coincidence.

Looks like he was planning on having a lot of fun, which has now turned into a lot of problems. Too bad he’s a member of a nationally watched basketball team, or else this would go completely under the radar.

See all the pics after the jump.

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At the end of 2006 and continuing into this year, certain Latin American governments have launched a heavy offensive against drug cartels. The most publicized of these was Mexico’s various efforts, including the use of it’s army to eradicate grow operations in extremely rural areas.

Columbia is another country pushing forward with anti-trafficking operations. The picture above is of police guarding more than two tons of marijuana that was confiscated near the border of Venezuela.

So here’s my question, are the red-packaged bricks individual size and the giant white one’s a valu-pack?

[AP Photo/Leonardo Munoz]

With the LA dispensary raids still fresh in memory, I was able to locate a photoset of the protests that followed.

Medical marijuana patients brought signs and pill bottles to the downtown Federal Building on Monday, January 22nd. Even West Hollywood officials, where the majority of the raids took place, were disappointed that the DEA chose to execute search warrants instead of contact them directly.

More than 500 people demonstrated outside the federal building and later walked to the City Hall to thank the mayor for his support of patients rights so far. Let’s hope the protest has a lasting effect and will discourage the DEA from making a repeat visit anytime soon.

Two more pics after the jump.

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