Wild Albanian cannabis growers humbled by crackdown
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Cannabis plants lay stacked up  like Christmas trees around a police station near this remote  Albanian village, a humbling sight for growers who two years  ago took pot-shots at an Italian police helicopter.
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NÃ© contadini nÃ© persone legate alla criminalitÃ : spesso i coltivatori sono studentiTanti cominciano per uso personale poi capiscono che la marijuana puÃ² essere un affare                                          Cannabis, l'oro verde del Sud L'autoproduzione diventa business                                                                                  di SALVO PALAZZOLO
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SAN ANTONIO, Angola -- As Antonio Cambanda dug into the dry, red dirt before him, he had the look of an unusually intense and wary gardener. He clipped weeds, softened the soil with water, and then, with a short-handled shovel, delicately scraped.
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Two Israelis who thought moving from the coastal city of Tel Aviv to Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank would provide a smokescreen for their cannabis-growing operation will have to think again.
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HELENA, Mont., Jan. 3 -- Montana's Department of Corrections is facing stiff resistance to a proposal to prohibit all people on parole or probation from obtaining medical marijuana.
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By Angel Riggs and Michael Overall, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 13--OKLAHOMA CITY -- Aggravated farmers seem ready to put down their guns now that environmentalists have taken steps to protect crops from wild elk, officials said Monday.
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OURE CASSONI, Chad - Before the Janjaweed militia drove Armani Tinjany and her tribe off their farmland in western Sudan, before she had to wait in line for food rations in this refugee camp in the desert, she was a high school agriculture ...
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Ahmed Nour Abdi sighs heavily when asked to describe his futile attempts at mediation, a customary practice among elders in the restive Ogaden region of Ethiopia.
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Denmark's authorities are growing intolerant of a legendary center of love, peace and marijuana, living cheap on some of Copenhagen's best real estate
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Environmentalists, sportsmen and investors wrestle over parcels sold off by timber companies that have fallen on hard times.
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LHOONG, Indonesia  - As a rebel fighter, Marjuni Ibrahim hid out in Aceh's jungle. These days he leads "guerrilla tours" taking visitors with a taste for extreme hiking and an interest in Aceh's turbulent past over the same terrain.
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Weeds sometimes hide fertile fields of growth.
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Albanians and Serbs united in uncertainty as province prepares to go it alone
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Most  afternoons in Yemen, the men gather for social occasions and political discussions. They chew the fresh leaves of a plant called khat. The leaves are a mild stimulant and the men store them in their cheeks as they talk. Though they may be armed with machine guns,  Kalashnikov rifles and crescent-shaped swords, there is never any fighting at these events. The purpose is to bond, negotiate power relationships, share information, make policy decisions and explore solutions to particularly divisive issues. These are called "khat chews."
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Impatient pot-heads, high enough to think they can force the legalization of marijuana, are ruining a relaxed relationship with police by brazenly buying and selling weed in a downtown cafe, says one legalization activist.
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Cannabis plants with a street value of up to Â£3m are seized during raids across the west of Scotland.
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Officials blame the increase in cultivation on the resurgence of Taliban rebels in the south, the countryÂs prime opium growing region.