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LAYTONVILLE, MENDOCINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 11: A participants rolls a joint in anticipation of the best joint contest on December 11, 2010 in Area 101 (name after nearby Highway 101), a new age center where the 7th annual Emerauld Cup is being held. The joint contest was cancelled when organizers realized the prospective judges were too high. The Oscars of the marijuana world, the Emerald Cup bestows honors on the best medecinal marijuana grown outside (indoor marijuana is not accepted) in the region known as the Emerald Triangle (Mendocino, Humbold and Trinity County), reputed to be the best in the world. 110 growers presented 136 strands, judged on four criterias: appearance, taste, aroma, and potency. A thousand participants attended the festival. Located about four hours north of San Francisco in deeply fotested areas, and bestowed with perfect growing conditions, the Emerald Triangle has become the marijuana capital of the U.S.. Made legal by the Compassionate Use Act, the Emerald Triangle's medecinal marijuana culture generates over 14 billion dollars annualy, about two third of the counties' revenue (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images).
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LAYTONVILLE, MENDOCINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 11: A participants rolls a joint in anticipation of the best joint contest on December 11, 2010 in Area 101 (name after nearby Highway 101), a new age center where the 7th annual Emerauld Cup is being held. The joint contest was cancelled when organizers realized the prospective judges were too high. The Oscars of the marijuana world, the Emerald Cup bestows honors on the best medecinal marijuana grown outside (indoor marijuana is not accepted) in the region known as the Emerald Triangle (Mendocino, Humbold and Trinity County), reputed to be the best in the world. 110 growers presented 136 strands, judged on four criterias: appearance, taste, aroma, and potency. A thousand participants attended the festival. Located about four hours north of San Francisco in deeply fotested areas, and bestowed with perfect growing conditions, the Emerald Triangle has become the marijuana capital of the U.S.. Made legal by the Compassionate Use Act, the Emerald Triangle's medecinal marijuana culture generates over 14 billion dollars annualy, about two third of the counties' revenue (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images).

Eleven students were suspended from Sardis Secondary in Chilliwack Monday after admitting to smoking marijuana on a school trip.

The teens, who were on an overnight soccer trip to Surrey last month when the pot smoking and curfew transgression occurred, admitted to their actions Monday, and were promptly suspended by the school's principal for the rest of the term, CTV News reports.

Twelve students were accused of smoking pot, but one denied taking part and escaped punishment, News 1130 reports. The father of one of the suspended 11, Derrick Middleton, lodged a complaint with the school district that the punishment was heavy-handed, and had his son's suspension revoked after arguing for something more akin to restorative justice.

“Most of them, this is a first offence," he told the broadcaster. "Basically they just threw the book at them.”

District superintendant Evelyn Novak told CBC that following protestations from the parents of those students involved, a review of policy was needed, but that a policy change would not necessarily take place.

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