it's probably that strain that is worst than cocaine......

Much ado about nothing
(Shakespeare)

the best thing about this release is the guy's name; Lord James Douglas.

Well this guy looks like he would be great PLD material.

I HAVE JUST BROKEN THE CODE!!!!!!! Have you notice that these arrests in POP, have taken place after Grease Monkey's visit?. No doubt, the Calie is at it again, kudos to Valerio the informant, JOB WELL DONE.......... Help us rid ourselves of all of these foreign outlaws.

Ridiculous to put this poor guy in prison over a few recreational or medicinal plants, while the big smugglers laugh at the authorities.

Another scape goat (Front), this poor old fellow probably fail to pay his weekly/monthly allowance to the local thugs and pissed them off. So now he will pay.......

get a life...let the man smoke his herb.....the most corrupt country in the world and this is what they do ...pick on an old man smoking weed....worthless dominican goverment...i feel sorry for the dominican people-god bless all of you

When did they arrest espn chris berman , let him go he has to telecast sunday NFL Live.

"detected by DNCD agents, who found plants which had grown as high as one foot"

I smell a rat here,

Just give me the light and pass the dro! Pot head.

Too Bad He is Not a Spaniard Lie-onel might have lent him $36,000,000 dollars to build a Narco Tower!

Dude your ass is grass!! Or it was.... You never puff puff and pass in the dr! Someone is always waiting to take your weed! Never let people get high on your own supply! Don't you know the lyrics!! Next time, if there is a next time.. put a tarp on your roof!!

"while the big smugglers laugh at the authorities."
"fail to pay his weekly/monthly allowance to the local thugs and pissed them off."
"get a life...let the man smoke his herb"

Good comments by all..

liked the
"Lie-onel might have lent him $36,000,000 dollars to build a Narco Tower!" hahahahahha

Is that BASTA?

From the pic it looks like this is his medicine

No, Basta is a Haitian with a little bit more color than Mr Canada.

No, Basta is a Haitian with a little bit more color than Mr Canada.== what losers the dominicans are; stupid! That color is from riding my V MAX with out a helmet. Any way go back a bit and for sure your tree sits squarely in Africa.

Big effing deal. His neighbors must have thought long and hard to come up with such original nicknames.

Big effing deal. His neighbors must have thought long and hard to come up with such original nicknames.

I know this guy. We call him the Toker.

So they can find a few little marijuana plants on a roof, but it takes them days to find a crashed aircraft full of cocaine?

Scape goat!!!!this man does not pose any harm to anybody........cheap, old, retired dude trying to die happy!!!

ingle24,

You sure that's not Cuban dreamkiller fronting with a fake Canadian ID?

Look at his picture..pot is all he has left..let him go.

He looks like uncle Fester...............who often appeared happy to suffer from a severe migraine that can only be relieved by putting his head in a screw press and tightening it to levels that normal people would not be able to withstand. Other times, he seems to do it for mere fun.

Give the man a break. Yes he was growing pot plants on top of his roof, but he did not inhale..........

josean
Ingle 23 not 24, what are you smoking?

Same thing you were when you endorsed Saint Danilo!

Guys!!!
jajajajajajajajaj....old dude is just a "scape goat" did not pay his dues!!!!!

I wonder what will happen to the confiscated evidence - it will be burned?

Roy why do I feel like this guy would look like someone right at home in your family portrait after a day of mining!

Yes Roy, it will be rolled, burned and Passed around lol...and the rest sell back to the streets

They'd grown as much as a FOOT?!?!?!?!? OMG!!!! We may have to break out the nail clippers to cut these bad boys plants down - lest they become triffids!

This means one of three things: He was growing pigmy plants, or the officials are easily impressed, or he's a really lousy farmer.

Just look at him. Is he evil incarnate? Is he a threat to social fabric? Is he the kingpin of The Great White North cartel? No..............

He's a lover, and he's a sinner. He gets his lovin' on the run.
He's a joker, he's a smoker, he's a midnite toker. He sure don't want to hurt no one.

Lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time.


Yours Truly

Lord What's Next

Where did you learn about mining Josean - a "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" cartoon?

Mr B
++++
At a foot high, those plants would not have developed worthwhile heads. 30 one-foot plants is hardly a commercial crop. In my home state if Victoria it is perfectly legal to grow up to 12 plants for personal use.

No I did not have the "privilege" of a SUPERIOR European/Austrailian education!

Following the link I gave you to the Dominican Barrick Gold website would be a good start. You may not be beyond redemption.

Curlando- The toker , I like that one.

Sounds like inside information to capture another dangerous Canadian. Several large drug smuggling gangs are in Sosua and lots of crime but we never hear about them taken down

Big deal, reminds me of some cops here in Canada. Picking on the little guys to justify their existence.

"Following the link I gave you to the Dominican Barrick Gold website would be a good start. You may not be beyond redemption."


That’s just a little too subjective and self-serving wouldn’t you say Roy?

Doing as they have done many places in the world today, namely let it be legal to grow a certain amount for own use, would give the police more officers to fight the REAL crime - But this is a way for the police (and up) to milk some money from this Canadian.
If the States let all the prisoners go, who are incarcerated just for possession of grass, they would have plenty of room for real criminals.
One foot high plants???? Who ratted that one out to the police? If they had waited, till the plants were big enough for harvesting, I could understand it, but these plants were worthless.
Legalize it - do like the Dutch - and use the money to pay the police a decent salery, so they don't have to make their money by hazzling an old man, who likes to smoke a joint - Who is he hurting??
It would be better, if they used some more energy on the cocaine traffic and the many illigal weapons floating around in the country - that would be safer for all!

Poor guy had little seedlings for heavens sake. 30 seedlings biggest reaching 1 foot. What a joke. No wonder this place has been a drug haven in the last 9 years. They make headlines with this crap!

true friend,

Did you clear you extremely liberal position with your choice for US president, Mitt Rotmney, the "severe" conservative who doesn't even drink coffee!

And they still haven't arrested Armando and Leonel for Art Tarlow's murder???????????

Finally, some good pot in RD. I was sick of buying that lousy brown pot from Haiti. I always wondered why nobody grew good pot in RD, but now lots of people are doing it in Sosua and Cabarete. And you better pay the police and local mafia, or you're going down.

... and the military, business elite, and politicians continue to direct the coke trade (and probably meth, soon). in the country - dealing with the Sinaloas in Santiago, the Hell's Angels in Cabarete, and on and on - WITH IMPUNITY.

I heard Josean was the guy who ratted out the poor little Canadian cancer patient.....no shame

Like looking in the mirror eh Cubanito!

Josean - as I have no part in the American election, not being American, why should I clear my opinion with Romney (or Obama) on this ? -
It is time for the different countries, where smoking still is illigal, to accept, that this natural plant helps a lot of sick people, and they should be allowed to use it, without hazzles - and this is the only recreational "drug" where no chemicals has been used - as it is with everything else!
Someone told me:"They won't legalize it, because then people will stop drinking rum, as getting high on grass is cheaper, than getting drunk"! Could that be the reason for all the countries, that still forbid this plant???? Loss of taxes from the alcohol????

truefriend,

Most countries have decriminalized it, which is very different from legalizing it. If they do legalize it, be assured it will be taxed, commercialized and chemicals added to make it burn faster.

Note that the Dominican Republic wants to sue the Australian Government for introducing plain-packaging laws to reduce the shelf-appeal of cigarettes.

For all, but especially Dready -

youtube.com/watch?v=ip5e9NUvX6A

truefriend,

I just thought that since you are leading the "Danish Committee for Mitt Romney" here at DT per your comments on another article, you might cost him some votes by endorsing the legalization of marijuana.

Dimwit Rot-mney who you endorsed to become president of the United States, does not support decriminalizing of marijuana but does supports people who think abortion should be criminalized; believe in legitimate rape and forcing women to bring to term pregnancies caused by rape or incest, including the nut he picked for Vice President, Paul Ryan!

thanks, Roy. love it!

I see all the druggies checked in on this one....poor little Canadian cancwer patient needed some herb so he could eat ....instead the man comes to kick his ass

Nice Roy.. thanks. hahahhaha

Like someone else said, much ado about nothing!
Sure, I used to smoke a little pot, 30 years ago in Canada.
It is not addicting, it just makes the day a little nicer!
Let the poor old fellow go home & finish growing the stuff!
They were what, a few weeks growth?

How outrageous!!! He was growing 30 plants in 27 pots!! Everyone knows its one plant per pot!!!!

junglemonkey,
THC inhibits one's ability to count or be logical.

They nailed the head right on the hit!

Roy, are you really from Australia?
What are the laws there regarding pot?
Here in the DR, they are quite severe.
In Canada, quite lenient.
Actually, I know several successful accountants that smoke the stuff quite often.
Can you, in your infinite wisdom explain that?

They must be the guys leonel used

Dominican justice; apprehend an inocent man, while an international thug (DK) REMAINS at large.

Tomas,
The laws vary a little from state to state. Trafficking and selling marijuana is illegal. Smoking it is not. Growing up to 12 plants for your own consumption is also allowed. Driving under the influence of THC (and a number of other drugs including alcohol) is also illegal. My state of Victoria was the first in the world to introduce random drug-testing of drivers.
Recently an Australian smoked 2 joints and put the clip on U-tube. He used a page from the Bible for one, and a page from the Koran for the other, for comparison. You can imagine the reaction - classic!

In Australia it depends who you are. A lawyer's son, who bribes the police can deal STOLEN dope at a private school and the police let him off completely; the lawyer is involved in lots of deals with police involving payoffs from wealthy clients. Now if you have not got money or the "status" of a lawyer you can be convicted for having one gram on you. It is often used as a form of blackmail in Australia ie. involving "deals" or threats from police.Seems most teenagers will have smoked it it is so common I hear.(Lawyers freely snort cocaine at their lunches in Australia ,as do the judges, before going on to prosecute people in the afternoon or next morning).

Oh I think dope smokers would love to hear they can grow 12 plants! (as if).

For over 20 years the only pot I could buy in RD was that brown, seeds and stick pot from Haiti. For the last 5 years most of the ex-pat smokers in Sosua/Cabarete grow and sell the good stuff - Diesels, Kushes, Hazes, etc., luckily. This Canadian didn't pay the right person initially, and will now have to pay a lot more. BEWARE of ex-pats in this area. They are extremely jealous of each other, who has and gets what, jobs, money, houses, cars, drugs, etc., and they turn each other in to the police to get back at somebody. It's likely that this happened here, something like he refused to front somebody a quarter ounce until payday, and they got back at him. Ex-pats are friends to nobody.

wilfred
Where do you get your BS?

Thanks Roy, but you forgot the explanation for your statement about the effects.

@Roystone" In the rest of Australia, any cannabis offence is a criminal offence. If someone is charged with possession of cannabis in these areas and found guilty, they could receive a large fine or jail time and will have a criminal record.'

The above is for most state you smart arse. Other states seem slightly more lenient. Keep the filthy mouth shut you ignoramus.

@jasfalon; yes many countries the police may overlook cannabis use or growing but step out of line what out and yes nasty people will use it against you.

Oh Snouts in the Trough is a great book my friend sent me re the wheeling and dealing in the great land of oz and lawyers and their cocaine. Been a while since I paid a visit there

Max number of plants in Oz 2; seems Mr Stone either has delusions or needs new glasses.Prick

Yes Wilfred. Mr. Stone does seem a little strange.
Maybe it is his last name?

Now who is 10-13 years old?

No "d" at the end, Tomas.
Did you drop your "h"?

" Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 - SECT 72C
Defence to prosecution for offences involving cultivation

72C. Defence to prosecution for offences involving cultivation

It is a good defence to a prosecution for an offence against section 72, 72A
or 72B involving the cultivation of a narcotic plant if the person charged
with the offence adduces evidence which satisfies the court on the balance of
probabilities that, having regard to all the circumstances (including his or
her conduct) in which the matter alleged to constitute the offence arose or
preparatory to the alleged commission of the offence, he or she did not know
or suspect and could not reasonably have been expected to have known or
suspected that the narcotic plant was a narcotic plant."

I highly acceptable defense in Wilfred's case, I'm sure.

Yes, of course I did Roy.
Now, the answer is....
(to my question regarding the accountants,, if you remember.)

Tomas... when was the last time you saw an accountant actually add up numbers in the head??
They are called spreadsheets or a calculator.....You put the numbers in and it adds them up..
I would rather a pot smoking accountant than a drunk one... plus some pot smokers become very fastidious when stoned..

All studies have shown to some degree short term memory loss as an affect of marijuana use...
I think???
mmm not sure?? but I think I read it some where???

Laws change with governments in respect to growing in OZ.. One year it 12 plants or X kg for personal use, the next it's 6 etc etc.....
You get caught with one baggy and your done for selling... Selling is the line in the sand but even that changes when the libs get control....

Growers are more afraid of others stealing the crop than getting busted by the cops...

True on the stealing of plants.
I believe it takes as much brain cells to punch in #'s at the speed they do, which is incredibly fast, as it does to add in the head.
That's what I learned yesterday, I think!

I would love to see the legislation for 12 plants. I have a friend in Coffs Harbour NSW who would love 12 plants for his wife's disease but a stern word of warning. I have heard there is a a very dangerous form of cannabis grown hydroponically that is leading to psychosis. My daughter's friend was beaten after her husband went psychotic on it. Being an old man I am not up with the lingo for this stuff. It is alleged chemicals are used in the production and I get conflicting information about it.

Yes dope is non addictive and studies show it does improve concentration but short term memory loss. The hemp oil is allegedly curing cancers but yet to be convinced.seems risky in younger teenagers?

The hydroponic story is enough to not let me touch it with a barge pole.

Love any feedback on this as I am rather ignorant of it's effects on one and concern for my kids and friend's kids (oh grandkids now too)

Oh hope to do a visit soon again so hope the weather improves and no hurricanes,

The active narcotic in marijuana is tetra hydro canibinol or THC. It is shown to have some medicinal benefits for some conditions, but also has detrimental side-effects, especially with prolonged use. The other problem is, the main way of indulging is through inhalation of the smoke, which may be less addictive than nicotine, and contain fewer carcinogens than tobacco, but is still harmful, especially if mixed with tobacco, a very common practice.
I doubt if growing it hydroponically would make much difference to its toxicity. It is arguably less harmful than alcohol or tobacco, however it is unlikely anyone quits these by taking up marijuana.

All in all it is still less HARMFUL than Barrick Gold!

Walk into a coffeeshop in Amsterdam, and the atmosphere is cool and quiet. Walk into a bar in Sosua or Cabarete, and the atmosphere is obnoxious and loud.
Alcohol bars are for morons.
RoyStone, you don't know what you're talking about.

Well I think RoyStone's comments are the most mature on here. Thanks mate.

Wilfy you sound like you have done more drugs than the Kennedy Famiily......Si o No ?

But not more than George Bush jr. before he found Jesus and lost Jack Daniels!

PS

However, he would have a long way to go to catch up to Rush Limbaugh!

Pot is the least of the problems in "the sewer."