Beautiful BC – Narco-Province – YouTube HB
Beautiful BC – Narco-Province – YouTube HB – British Columbia is a Narco Province! BC Bud is a generic term for several varieties of potent cannabis grown in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The term has almost become a brand name, especially in California, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho and Washington, to where most of the province’s cannabis is exported. The United States Drug Enforcement Administration considers BC production to be a major problem, given the porous United States-Canada border. • British Columbia’s top commodity is Marijuana. *Source: Skelton, C. (2001, July 7). BC’s top commodity: Marijuana. The Vancouver Sun. billion Marijuana .7 billion Construction .6 billion Logging and forest products .7 billion Mining .4 billion Manufacturing .1 billion Agriculture There may be an unseen force that has been sustaining growth and holding up the real estate market — and, indeed, the economy — in British Columbia through the current global downturn. Researchers claim that the marijuana growth industry employs between 90000 — 150000 people in the province directly. The Economist pegged the drug trade in BC (with Vancouver as its distribution hub) at greater than Billion per year. This includes the importation of heroin and cocaine (which frequently serves as a form of payment for the receipt of BC pot) by more than 130 gangs, who vie for control of distribution and importation on the streets of Greater Vancouver daily, resulting in a record-breaking murder spree. BC has been the primary source …
Post-election analysis: healthcare and pharmaceutical/medical device regulation
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At this juncture, the breakdown of State-based and Federally-facilitated Exchanges is still uncertain, but the number of Federally-facilitated Exchanges may be significant. To date, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued little …
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Medical pot next gold rush
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The researchers also pointed to data from Washington state, which recently held a successful referendum to legalize pot. The data suggests the same number of pot smokers in that state could bring in $ 2.5 billion in taxes over five years in a regulated …
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Theater Listings for Nov. 23-29
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6) The last time the director Bartlett Sher dipped into the Clifford Odets canon for Lincoln Center Theater, the result was the soul-stirring 2006 revival of “Awake and Sing!” With this 75th-anniversary production of the Odets classic about a talented …
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