HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Type: text/html RCMP Close Montreal Marijuana Seed Vendor
Pubdate: Wed, 01 Mar 2006
Source: Windsor Star (CN ON)
Copyright: 2006 The Windsor Star
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/windsor/windsorstar/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/501
Author: Star News Services
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)

RCMP CLOSE MONTREAL MARIJUANA SEED VENDOR

MONTREAL - An Internet company that sells marijuana seeds has gone 
over like a lead zeppelin with the RCMP.

Although the Montreal-based company Heaven's Stairway has operated 
brazenly since 1998 and is currently listed on Quebec's business 
registry, the RCMP announced Tuesday it has shut it down.

The RCMP described the large-scale bust as the first of its kind in 
Canada. Besides evoking Led Zeppelin's signature song for its name 
the company also sold seeds with quirky labels like Crippy Bud and 
Deep Blue Rush.

Company owner Richard Baghdadlian, 38, and six others have been 
charged with importing and trafficking in marijuana and conspiracy to 
do the same.
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