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.