NEWS: Operators of Overgrow.com Arrested according to various credible sources...

Overgrow.com website operators arrested according to Cannabis Culture article, and also according to Gypsy on Icmag:

http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4638.html

Cannabisworld.com and Overgrow.com Seized By Police
by Marc Emery (03 Feb, 2006) Overgrow.com, Cannabisworld.com, Heaven's Stairway Seed Company, and Eurohemp.com Shut Down and Servers Seized by Canadian Police

When the world's largest websites for cannabis growers and enthusiasts disappeared from the web on Monday, January 30, it was thought to be a server problem.

As the week dragged on, tens of thousands of members, seed company sponsors, growers and fans worried there might be more than mere 'server' problems as Richard Calrisian (a pseudonym) had not made any statements in any web based media about any 'technical' problems.

Now it appears Heaven's Stairway Seeds (hempqc.com), Cannabisworld.com, Overgrow.com, Eurohemp.com have been shut down and the owners arrested in Canada; all their web properties seized, including the physical servers that held massive databases on thousands of growers, and tens of thousands of photographs of cannabis plants. Seed companies by the dozens used both Overgrow.com and Cannabisworld.com as a main trading ground. Over 40 seed companies had customer service interactive forums on these sites.

All the information held on those servers is now in the hands of police. It is not known what charges have been laid nor against whom. That police have not boasted about this seizure means the investigation is continuing, before any affected parties can react.

Cannabis Culture began receiving emails on Wednesday saying Richard Calrisian and his wife had been arrested along with four employees, but this could not be corroborated.

On the website www.icmag.com, seed merchant Gypsy Nirvana, operating from England where cannabis seeds are legal, posted this news late Friday:

â??It is with great sadness that I bring you the news that RC and HS, OG and CW have been taken down by the authorities in Canada.....

...I have it from a bonofide source that it happened on monday and RC's computers/servers have most probably been siezed, they spent 2 days going thru his house and removed alot of stuff ...

His wife and some members of his family were also taken into custody and it's possible that she may be released tommorrow on bail... There has not been a peep in the media about this so there could be a reason why it was not advertised by LEO......BE WARNED! not to try and log on to Overgrow or Cannaworld for now since most certainly the security of that site has been compromised and if it comes back up without me first hearing from RC then it is NOT being run by him.....think about it!

...This could bring up some real security issues with many Overgrow/Cannabisworld members.........be warned guys and do what you need to do to make it safer for all of you.......duck and cover if needs be....

....Yours Faithfully...

Gypsy Nirvanaâ?�

As soon as we find out more information about whatâ??s happened, we will provide updates here or in the Cannabis Culture forums [see link added below]. Overgrow.com website members are welcome to converge here to find out more and reconnect.

http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/ubbthreads.php

For people who only visited, who at most casually posted, there is very little risk of anything "bad" happening.

However, people who were personally actively involved (talking via PM, email, etc) with others there should consider taking the necessary precautions to forestall any possible future problems; to protect their privacy.

Ron

thats really bad. they have all this information of all these people. It wouldnt surprise me if they abused this...

The people who need to be most concerned are those who actively communicated extensively with others privately there via PM, email, etc.

Most people who simply visited, and at most casually posted there, have relatively little to worry about.

Ron

OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH wow my high jsut went down!!!!!!!!!!!!! Know way no way that is just fucking wrong FCUK YOU PIGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuck fuck fuck not only does this hurt but I was a very active user! I do noT grow but shold I still be worry!!!!!!!!!

Ron... I'm not one to worry.... but could this pose a risk to cannabis.com and or it's members?

Fuck fuck fuck not only does this hurt but I was a very active user! I do noT grow but shold I still be worry!!!!!!!!![/QUOTE]

Not overly worried.

From all reports, it appears the operators of Overgrow.com were arrested for some other, yet unknown (likely growing), reasons, and that Overgrow.com was collatoral damage.

Ron

Fuck Fuck Fuck
I wish i had printed some of those faqs now.
Any chance of this happening here.

doh must have missed the post by Ron.
Sorry to much crop testing lol (to early still a few more weeks i think).

WOAH!

I'm sad soo sad

Ron, is it possible for you to make all the open threads about overgrow all redirect to this thread? I just noticed theres a few different threads about over grow and thought that would really help people get the best info( this thread) if it was like that. i don't know if you can do that but i really think it might help some people figure out whats really happening.:thumbsup: :rasta:

Wow and I Live in Canada,...wow this is really messed up. Where in canada did this all happen, and this news is not even on the actual news stations yet? This is just so messed up...

wow that sucks man

yea that does suck i was never a member but i often browsed

We should keep this one bumped up to the top! Any idea on how long Heavens Stairway kept records for? For some reason I though they disposed of shipment records rather quickly after orders were sent. :confused:

holy shit

They can arrest and seize all they want. That wont stop shit. Theres billions of seeds and plants (growing wild) all over the world. They can never stop this cannabis thang so they might as well stop it. All they are doing when doing shit like this is just slowing some growers down until they can find another reliable source. But I feel terribly really, really fuckin sad for what happened. The police are just assholes and dont understand shit but a dick up the ass (fuck the police).

so, no threat here?

You would think that with all the pedophiles in this country that this much effort could be put into a program to catch them instead.Sad,sad.

This is not looking good at all folks, in fact, very bad.
What the L's happening in Canada, the government up ther letting the dea merge with the mounites or something ? Man this sucks !!! I hope it's not a forecast of things to come !!
I almost bought some seeds from Heavens Stairway too !!
I have a friend who had just ordered from Marc Emery when that "bust" went down, and he was freaked out for a couple of months.
I was a member of both sites too, although I signed up last summer and had never been that active on either of the sites.
And Shelbay, you actually think they care as much about protecting our children as making some big "show" bust of a huge site; it makes them "appear" that they're doing 'something'; no one knows what, but to the idiots in the general public, it looks like real progress in the "War on Drugs"; right :) !
I'm only glad that I've ordered all my seeds since last summer, and except for one order in December with Rhino, have had no dealings in Canada lately.
I hope everyone heeds Ron's words and stays the flock away from those sites!

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This is not looking good at all folks, in fact, very bad.
What the L's happening in Canada, the government up ther letting the dea merge with the mounites or something ? Man this sucks !!! I hope it's not a forecast of things to come !!
I almost bought some seeds from Heavens Stairway too !!
I have a friend who had just ordered from Marc Emery when that "bust" went down, and he was freaked out for a couple of months.
I was a member of both sites too, although I signed up last summer and had never been that active on either of the sites.
And Shelbay, you actually think they care as much about protecting our children as making some big "show" bust of a huge site; it makes them "appear" that they're doing 'something'; no one knows what, but to the idiots in the general public, it looks like real progress in the "War on Drugs"; right :) !
I'm only glad that I've ordered all my seeds since last summer, and except for one order in December with Rhino, have had no dealings in Canada lately.
I hope everyone heeds Ron's words and stays the flock away from those sites!

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I never even knew about those sites until I read all of this about them on here. I just think more might be going on than we know...such as outside activities affecting the " work place"? I have been reading the news here but nothing about the net really except a HUGE snowballing investigation into myspace.com...never heard of that one until I saw the story on it. Could someone in simple terms tell me why if cannabis is legal in Canada for medicinal use..then why all of this? Must not be ONLY cannabis maybe?

Uh oh....This is very bad news
I sent an order to HS a week before this went down, I think I might be in trouble.
What happened to Emery's orders that were being processed at the time of his arrest?

Its lega in Canada because the liberal party has been in control past 10 years, but recently as you have seen, they have been voted out by the Canadian Voters, but back to subject, ill look into why they have been arrested, it may have something to do with a big smuggling bust coming out of Canada in the us past few days

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Originally Posted by Shelbay

I never even knew about those sites until I read all of this about them on here. I just think more might be going on than we know...such as outside activities affecting the " work place"? I have been reading the news here but nothing about the net really except a HUGE snowballing investigation into myspace.com...never heard of that one until I saw the story on it. Could someone in simple terms tell me why if cannabis is legal in Canada for medicinal use..then why all of this? Must not be ONLY cannabis maybe?

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Although Ron stated it was something else...The answer is they are getting popped for shipping seeds across the border...Now I am not saying that is why OG went down...I was just answering 'your' Q...lw

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Originally Posted by skunkydelight

so, no threat here?

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Well if you ask me thats obvious...I mean come on....cannabis.com ??? Thats like the simpliest marijuana site guessing URL ever! If the Police wanted to shut this site down I think that would've happened a long time ago lol....Damn I'm too high to talk straight rofl :stoned:.

that is very sad news
fucking police suck
i never ordered from canada but overgrow was my favorite site for strain guides, grow info and all
iam pissed off

thats sum fucking shit news mate there was a so much good shit on them boards teaches u absolutely everyway to grow nice weed
and i would be fucking shitting myself rite now if i was a big poster on them boards

Very shocking, very. I was once a member there but I left quite some time ago and came here. Sad news indeed. :(

I wonder if Dr Greenthumb may be on their hit list? So far his site is still up and running.

i had tried to go there like tuesday to look for something.... =/ i wondered why it wasn't working.

This is very sad indeed. I doubt this was about the website. However, now they have it.

Which is never good. :(

<3 Tasha

damn that sucks bigtime. Its weird that every major political party in Canada wants to have some form of decriminalization for cannabis yet these things continue to happen.

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Originally Posted by dopesmoker

damn that sucks bigtime. Its weird that every major political party in Canada wants to have some form of decriminalization for cannabis yet these things continue to happen.

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That's not true, the conservatives, who just won, are very hard-lined against it. they're really out to "stop those dope fiends", so I wonder if this has anything to do with them winning. personally I wish the NDP would win, at least they'd legalize it.

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That's not true, the conservatives, who just won, are very hard-lined against it. they're really out to "stop those dope fiends", so I wonder if this has anything to do with them winning. personally I wish the NDP would win, at least they'd legalize it.

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what would be amazing is if the government would just admit that there is nothing wrong with cannabis. I hate it when they are too stubborn to admit things like that

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what would be amazing is if the government would just admit that there is nothing wrong with cannabis. I hate it when they are too stubborn to admit things like that

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the governemnt is beyond corrupt... i'm tellin you people read "the Introduction to the order of the skull and bones" it will change you're life and explain so much... after reading the book, it will all make sense as to why shit is the way it is...

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Originally Posted by pabloescobar209

the governemnt is beyond corrupt... i'm tellin you people read "the Introduction to the order of the skull and bones" it will change you're life and explain so much... after reading the book, it will all make sense as to why shit is the way it is...

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how much is this book? and where can i find it?

how to get rid of any postings of ourselves and boy, isn't life sometimes ridiculous?

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Originally Posted by dopesmoker

how much is this book? and where can i find it?

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You can get it at Amazon.com. Here's the link...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097...lance&n=283155

thnx for th heads up n the alert!++...that suks all the asses in the world!!...and then some...i jus got a email from RC on monday morning,thanking me for holiday cheers,said he just got bak in town,later that day,was wen they got raided.that sam night alot of helicopers were circling my house,i steped out side with my glow in the dark mask....to observe spotlight aiming at mes,i just got behind the trees....!!..dont com here fukers..nowthing to see here!...i thik they were finally gone fter a coulpe hrs??...cocksukers....we live out in the woods,and dont ever see anything liki saw that night..chillian....flyhighand staylow...and be safe...word...peace my brothers.../buthead....