Who is sam skunkman

Surprisingly, they were allowed to leave, occasionally taking walks around the block. But where could they could go in the long-term when they spoke no English and frequently feared reprisals on their families back home? Proof of this can be seen in the fact that, once liberated by police and put into care, many would escape and return to the gangs by choice. The gangs also had no problem killing Vietnamese: in , many years after asserting dominance, low-level dealers named Khach Nguyen and Phac Tran were sent to an exchange with British criminals and got robbed in the process.

When they returned to their bosses — without cash or weed — they were accused of faking the robbery and brought to Surrey, where Nguyen was slowly beaten to death. The level of exploitation around ghosts — bearing in mind they were regularly held for years — eventually led to the NSPCC calling the product they grew not skunk, but, more aptly, "blood cannabis". By , these places were everywhere, with police claiming literally tens of thousands around the UK.

Seizures of cannabis went up sixfold that year — one day in September, 14 grow-ops were shut down in the London borough of Newham alone — but the farms were very hard to police; cops often had to rely on fires breaking out due to dodgy electrics, or on someone smelling the weed as they passed. In came Operation Keymer, the Met's first widespread attempt at stopping the Vietnamese.

The operation was considered a success, bagging 28, plants, but by the gangs were largely unaffected: houses were raided that year, followed by in I ask Simon Harding what the gangs' presence in the UK was before growing cannabis. Skunk had taken over, and it appeared there was nothing anyone could do — except legalise it and take control of production, but that was never going to happen with a Labour government baring their teeth at Tory accusations of weakness.

So it was in that they went in the opposite direction, with Home Secretary Jacqui Smith reclassifying cannabis from a class C to a class B drug. Surprisingly, much of her reasoning wasn't based on gangs, but on the "uncertainty, at the least" over its impact on young people's mental health.

The supposed link between cannabis and psychosis has existed for decades, utilised by governments throughout the world to curb use. From this phenomena the term "Reefer Madness" was born, named after a American propaganda film whose teenage characters commit manslaughter, rape and suicide after smoking weed. Though the severity of any mental illness shouldn't be diminished, in the facts still don't support the hypothesis that cannabis causes psychosis — even the high-THC skunk currently available in Britain.

A careful reading of the scientific literature will reveal that a certain section of society — those vulnerable to both substance abuse and mental illnesses — are likelier to use cannabis and experience psychosis, but not because one triggers the other.

The real problem, clinically, is how does a doctor reach the decision about whether a diagnosis of cannabis-induced psychosis should be given?

How recently should you have used cannabis, and for how long? It's not an exact science — we don't have the same level of sophisticated tests that we use to diagnose something like diabetes. It's complicated, but as Professors Charles Ksir and Carl Hart write in relation to their critical review on the subject, "We are concerned that a misunderstanding of the relation between cannabis use and psychotic behaviour leads to an oversimplification of the complex developmental nature of substance use and mental disorders.

In other words: simplifying the issue in order to push policy or write a scary headline probably doesn't do justice to those suffering.

Today — unless you're weed nerd — almost all cannabis in the UK is considered skunk, with average THC levels of between 10 to 20 percent.

Furthermore, the UK growing industry continues to thrive, evolving in new ways every year to outwit police. In the past, growers would use every inch of a house; now, they frequently leave the front room untouched, with a television on inside, to avoid suspicion. There have also been raids that show growers are branching out beyond residential buildings : an old Barclays bank in Grimsby, an abandoned GP surgery in Harlow, or — in February — a disused nuclear bunker in Wiltshire.

Recent reports identify that over 60 percent of those involved in the industry are now white British — but guess who still tends to the plants? Vietnamese ghosts. To this day there has never been a single successful prosecution of anyone on counts of trafficking, and many ghosts occupy UK prisons, despite having been forced into their work. I haven't seen evidence of a partnership, but because these boys are known and good at what they do, even the others will use Vietnamese growers because of their expertise.

Of course, not everyone's recruiting from the Vietnamese gangs. In Birmingham, for example, a trend has emerged that's come to be known as "groppers", or "granny growers", which is exactly what it sounds like. Using hydroponic and high intensity lighting equipment, a number of elderly women — capitalising on the fact that police are unlikely to suspect them of any criminal activity — have set up grow-ops in their homes and the spare rooms in their friends' council houses, and claiming a large share of the local cannabis market in the process.

D evidence locker never to be seen again. Fast Fwd-when joining the medical movement in Michigan in i thought i was ready to grow again- however i was disappointed by what i saw in the medical dispensaries and online as far as Genetics go……. Hi Steve my attention was drawn back here by a email exchange with Watson today , Yes indeed I am talking about Fat Mike Taylor rich to Clarify David only introduced me to Fat Mike and had nothing to do with what went on down south.

David denies what I have said Fat Mike has led many the man to his slaughter prison cell or financial ruin , he waits until everyone is in jail and or dead in exile etc and cleans up. The only reason I made it out was a loyal friend with connections called me and got me on a flight I made it out 3 hours before everything went to hell.

He was trying to recruit replacements within a few weeks of everyone going down , each time its like lottery for him financially and he feds get a win also.

He latches onto anyone with any success in the Cannabis business in recent years he latched onto some other young breeders in Amsterdam , LOL he tried to send them down south to but a close friend in the UK talked them out of going down that path.

He put up some obfuscations and used the phrase LEO. According to my research almost all involved in this great story have dirt on the plug. One more, the other less. My current knowledge is depressing; I assume that two parallel dirty stories hit each other head-on. A third dirty story is the knocking out of money by publishing partly true events.

Are you aware that Charles came into the cannabis scene out of a racist community that preached white power? Or that the enormous grow op in Mexico Charles got involved with ended up with everyone but Charles dead? By the way, I have never personally met any of the persons I write about here. In my opinion, the decisive period for absolute commercialization, with all its positive and rapidly increasing negative consequences, is relatively easy to isolate:.

And what was there first? Hen or egg? In the meantime, I no longer know what I can believe. The swiftly woven network seems to be the turning point of hemp culture. I believe. Gee wizz Steve I though you were above this kind of crap, you would not be surprised if I was a spook?

A spook that started the worlds very first seed comapany, has worked for Cannabis legalization for 50 years, tax and regulate has been my mantra, for decades, not to mention my work bringing Cannabis back into mainsteram medicine, as well as all the work I did for industrial hemp to bring it back into the mainstream as well as help get hemp cultivation legalized in half a dozen countries.

Also my close relationship with RCC, do you also think he is a spook? Ask Todd about me and RCC, it is sad you think this. How would you feel if I started telling everyone that I think you and High Times were running lacky dogs of the DEA or some other spook organization, and was now using your Abakus journal as a vehicle to collect info on the Colorado Cannabis scene?

I do not believe it in the slighest, but how would you feel? Get the idea???? HG Quote end;. In fact I met with him in California this past Sunday. I asked him about a business I want to start related to legality coming to Oregon, but I also asked about Sam Watson etc.

I went down the rabbit hole and am back in school at 52 having taking bio chem just this spring. To the point. I just spent an hour on Face Book messaging with Joe Pietro.

I confronted him on several claims he made including what I know to be outright lies regarding my friend Tom Alexander. All Joe Pietro would do besides bring up a few facts and mostly BS anecdotes he believes, is change the point I was making and reiterate to buy his book. It is all about money for him regardless of some truth. I think Joe is in denial and or lying blatantly. Cannabis Sativa is historically located at a crucial crossroads; Examples include GW Pharma, Monsanto, Bayer, CRISPR-Cas9, automated and or feminized strains and so cheerfully on … This historical development can be pursued relatively well on the Internet and printed magazines nowadays.

Despite reading hundreds of websites as well as 4,20 meters of printed publications, I would like to know, what exactly happened. The problem is in my opinion: Only who was there, knows exactly. I boldly describe my assumption: The final act of the drama did not begin when D. Watson came to the Netherlands, but already more or less shortly before!

A single Internet post, which was spread almost inflationary in various forums under various user names, managed to pull Mr. Watson very deep in the dirt; Yes, of course, this gentleman fabricated quite a lot of nonsense, although he had the status quo in mind even then, I doubt it. Ultimately, it stiffened on a fertilizer manufacturer today as the linchpin. Of course there are these affidavits, but even then I suspect a degree of twofoldness …. Who exactly belonged to the Green Team around Wernard Bruining?

Who was Michael Taylor? Who was Michael Rich? Is Big Mike the same as Fat Mickey? Who were the founding members of Maripharm? Who are the persons of unknown name in the affidavit of Mr. Cogo from ? Since I do not have at all the resources and contacts for the lucid elucidation of the darkness around some very honorable figures, I have to surrender with a heavy heart to this topic; Although my noxious opinion, a lot of issues are to be clarified.

Even sufficiently existing honest memoirs will hardly be available, too large in recent months have become the memory gaps of history. The origin of the Dutch part of the story probably dates back to and around The first intimate Dutch-American flirtations appear between actors and genes. But I can not afford Wurm to drill at such monuments.

In worldwide forums sooner or later administrative intervention is intervened; Even if avatars seem to be real players, the truth remains dependent on perspective.

For me insignificant Furz go three dozen years of life with the widest possible research on cannabis Sativa to an end. My conclusion after a story of months of dark green-brown stem-seed-leaves-flower-bushes exported throughout the world in the s to Monsanto in the s: A shame that nobody and no one has the balls to confess color when who and where how exactly did the gene cart drive in the dirt? Did you? This puts him at odds with the sellouts who try to subvert the effort at ending prohibition using the lame excuse of medical necessity.

Who does not have some pain, some problem, something? So what? Cannabis is a simple plant, a weed, and its control by government is just wrong.

What started as a corporate terrorist action to tax cannabis out of existence by Morgan banks and Dupont Chemicals to capitalize the patents for synthetic fiber — which are running out and the reason laws are being eased has been replaced with extreme disinformation about a simple weed.

All this obscuring the fact that government, particularly one under the original US Constitution, has no right making a plant illegal. Joe Petri campaigns for the end of prohibition, he, and we, fight for the same thing. Others want to allow continued government control over what we can and cant do with plants — by letting government control the plant under their medical system. This allows a joke to be made of medical marijuana in so far as you only need to find your doctor Feelgood and get a paper to buy it.

But it leaves the control of a plant under the government. Sam the Skunkman? Well, I have not had any personal contact with this gentleman and the contact here is the most I have had.

Maybe he was too much in Amsterdam and not in the world of global marketing? Mostly I have seen him pushing the mud bags, the worst rip off in Cannabis history. Trying to sell bags and more bags to ignorant stoners, sort of an easy job. The case Sam the Skunkman makes on my blog to lambaste Petri is weak at best. Calling him a snitch when it is he who should be wary of such labels.

Skunkman has spent his time in trying to corner the coming legal cannabis market by getting on the top of the government distribution.

One must have some kind of connection to get to this level and that is why Sam the Skunkman has problems with credibility.