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HE’S OVERWEIGHT AND has a birth defect that left him a bit hunchbacked.
Quasi Modo (above) is a 10-year-old pit bull-Dutch shepherd mix who was leading the World’s Ugliest Dog contest, with nearly 10,000 votes by today.
Resembling a hyena or Tasmanian devil, he can unsettle some people, but he makes up for it with a bubbly personality, his biography says.
Quasi Modo was far ahead of No. 2 Morris, a mutt who looks a little like a pig with a spiky haircut and has garnered more than 5,000 votes.
The two are among 27 dogs vying for the title of homeliest hound, which has been given to a pooch in the small California coastal town of Petaluma for decades.
Dogs have arrived from as far as Florida, Idaho, Nevada and Arizona to compete in a contest that applauds imperfections.
The winner will receive $1,500 tonight at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds.
Several of the competitors have been rescued from shelters, puppy mills or abusive homes.
This year features a new “spirit award,” honouring a dog and owner who have overcome obstacles or are providing service to the community.
Contains reporting by the Associated Press.
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Makes sense, young fellas have been passing lumps of turf off as hash for decades
@Fenster: haha very good
Bord na Schmoka
@Frank Discussion: Bord na Juana diversify more like…
@Frank Discussion: Bord Na Stoner
People will grow there own thanks no need for another cartel ripping the people off
Makes sense. Border na Móna is running out of peat. Saves the Gardai running around arresting growers, and keeps Big Pharma’s nose out. Let us, the taxpayers, benefit for once. Grow loads and become an exporter. It would ease the trials and tribulations we’re going to suffer after the b*lls up of Brexit. Get on with it now and stop twittering about *the future*.
Grow your own dope….. plant a FG td
@Gasher: That’s so funny
Whole new meaning to a bale of briquettes!
Open tender. Imagine the cost the state will incur to set this up, pensions, etc. Also, a private company can be taxed.
Best idea I’ve heard in years
Bord na Stóna
Clearly he has no idea and just thinks you can grow this on the bogs of Ireland.
The reality is a bit more scientific.
@paul kelly: The plant can grow in this country if altered enough and given enough help.
@Mr Snrub: Yes and penicillin can grow on orange peel, but to make medicinal canabis is a lot more complicated.
The state owning entire industries where it’s possible to have them open to private companies is not a good idea, and not the place we should be starting. It’s only politics that stand between the country has proper legislation to allow for cultivation, we don’t need to shoehorn it in as a state scheme. Medical patients should be allowed to grow their own. There’s no need to be putting further financial burden on people who are sick.
Bud na Mona
A good idea from an Irish politician. We should have him stuffed.
Theres Going to be a shortage of skins in the midlands…….
They have no idea what they are on about. Why does cannabis grow in the tropics?? Not cabbage???
@Mike Rugby Nuts: I don’t know much about it but would it not be good for hemp. They might be just the group to try Large scale hemp production for building materials and to replace a lot of plastic.
@Mike Rugby Nuts:
With 80,000 hectares and continuing global warming, BNM’s future looks bright on many fronts for the long-term. eg solar energy farms, large-scale medical marijuana production.
In the short-term, a few large greenhouses would suffice to supply all of Ireland’s medical marijuana requirements.
Mr. Canny should roll this idea along, for it’s a brilliant one. A Government Minister finally thinking outside the box!
@Rory J Leonard: Yes, it seems like a brilliant idea, and what a difference it would make to the hundreds laid off.
@Rory J Leonard: If they were that interested in the Carbon issue these bogs would be restored. The likes of windfarms are just a greedy grab for susidy money that is driving up all our energy bills with very little environmental benefit
@Mike Rugby Nuts: no cannabis grows pretty much all over the world – its’ a common misconception that it needs extreme temperatures. The idea of planting it in a bog though I don’t know about that … seems like this is more driven by jobs than it is by product quality but they do say the need to do tests first though so props to them for that at least.
I hear it’s pretty bog stand stuff…
Smoking !
so this is what’s holding up the industry
The state owning entire industries where it’s possible to have them open to private companies is not a good idea, and not the place we should be starting. It’s only politics that stand between the country has proper legislation to allow for cultivation, we don’t need to shoehorn it in as a state scheme. Medical patients should be allowed to grow their own. There’s no need to be putting further financial burden on people who are sick.
I can’t wait to see the day that Ireland will free the shackles and allow medicinal cannabis to be sold, it will help millions of people, but will the big pharma companies allow this to happen?
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