Laughing Buddha Nursery of Metarie, Louisiana is DEA FRONT

[Akornpatch]

Narc! Beware!!!

(24 Apr, 2007)

The Laughing Buddha Nursey in the New Orleans suburb of Metarie, Louisiana assists the DEA in entrapping its customers.

The Laughing Buddha Nursery owner Grant Estrada wasn't laughing when Marc Emery called him up and said " Grant Estrada, I'm doing an article on how you are co-operating with DEA and informing on your clients and assisting in the prosecution of your clients. Are you co-operating with DEA, setting up your clients and accepting blood money to do this? "

Grant Estrada replied, " I can't talk about that now " and very nervously hung up the phone.

Grant Estrada is most definitely a narc of the worst sort and has set up one, and probably is in the process of setting up many more, growers of the herb.

Google The Laughing Buddha Nursery in Metarie, Louisiana, and you don't get any clue Estrada and his DEA-front store are in the day to day business of narking out customers to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The store owner and snitch
Laughing Buddha Nursery
4516 Clearview Pkwy
Metarie, LA
Phone: (504) 887-4336 (ask for Grant)

You see he sells orchids, helped out after Hurricane Katrina, but mysteriously, there is no Google reference to the fact, established in a Baton Rouge, Louisiana court earlier this year, that GRANT ESTRADA accepted $6,000 from DEA in order to inform on his hydroponic store clients, specifically one JUAN LOPEZ, who bought thousands of dollars of equipment at Estrada's store, with Estrada's urging. In fact, Estrada told his customer Lopez at Laughing Buddha (whew, those DEA guys and their sense of humor) , that he would even sell the marijuana if Lopez would grow it.

After spending $15,000 on building a marijuana grow room with Estrada's enthusiastic encouragement and assistance, DEA raided Lopez in February of 2005. At his trial, DEA did not disclose that it was paying Estrada to do exactly what he did, encourage and entrap growers or would be growers.

Now, a new judge may order a new trial for Juan Lopez, who was sentenced to five to twenty years in jail and has been incarcerated since July 2005. The DEA-FRONT Laughing Buddha hydroponics store owner Grant Estrada actually convinced Lopez to get into the business, and provided the actual marijuana plant cuttings to Lopez, and promised to find a buyer for those plants.

While Lopez languishes in jail for being gullible, Estrada is doing fine selling out growers as of the time Marc called him for his comments on April 24, 2007.

Prosecutors fought to hide the blood money informant payments to Estrada. During the trial, Judge James Brady refused to let Lopez' attorney put Grant Estrada - informant - on the stand, claiming it would be "irrelevent."

To confirm this story, research articles by Penny Brown Roberts for the Metarie Advocate.

My advice is for Louisiana activists to put this store out of business immediately by picketing the LAUGHING BUDDHA NURSERY at 4516 Clearview Parkway in Metarie, just outside of New Orleans. Signs with " LAUGHING BUDDHA IS A DEA FRONT" or "GRANT ESTRADA - DEA SNITCH" .

Put this bastard out of business. Remember Juan Lopez could spend most of his life in jail. Make sure GRANT ESTRADA can never harm another gardener ever again.

If you want to help Juan Lopez win a retrial for entrapment, you can contact his lawyer, John Di Giulio, at 225-383-0078 or by email at john@johndiGiulio.com

[Medical Marijuana]

I hope Estrada has a good insurance policy!

[Crypto]

A snitch for the alphabet boys.......thats just wrong.
looks like he needs to find another way tool for the man!!!

[Janjaweed]

i wonder how many hydro store owners have been asked to do this by the DEA,
and how many have accepted the deal?

id be suprised if this is an isolated case...

[Racefan]

Weird story! Very weird. It says that nothing comes up on google if you search and how the DEA did NOT disclose that they paid this estrada person yet I'm suppose to google a single person for collaberation? Where's the news storys about this event? Seems to me if it were true there would be news about it all over the stoner network and not just this one instance.
I hate snitches but I hate those who cry snitch when there isn't one there even worse. i think i'll keep my eyes and ears open and keep this story in mind but I don't know if I believe it or not. My verdict isn't in yet.

[420]

akorn, where did you get this info from?

[420]

thanks for the source confirmation w99illie!

[FloridaBud]

I called using *67 and Grant answered, I asked him about co-operating with the DEA and being a snitch, he said "you shouldn't believe everything you read" Then he hung up, what a snitch!! I hate ppl who are narcs.

[WaVancouver]

May Grant get cancer of the balls...

Only once have I not used cash in a hydro store and once i realized that out of habit, i handed him my card, it was already too late and it was swiped and the receipt printing. I had bought a 250watt HPS and for weeks afterward, I was paranoid that the DEA was going to bust through my door, lol.