Pot Gardens Expanding In the Emerald Triangle
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- Pot Gardens Expanding In the Emerald Triangle
- Irvin: pipe belonged to friend, not brother
- Garage ads generate billboard law debate
- A Stark County grand jury has issued indictments in the following…
- Jamaica Gleaner News – Ganja and crime – Sunday | November 27, 2005
- School drug case nets pair
Pot Gardens Expanding In the Emerald Triangle
Washington Post – Nov 27, 2005
They are also, increasingly, the refuge of gun-toting drug cartels growing large tracts of marijuana. Authorities seized 1. 1 million marijuana plants during this year’s fall harvest, nearly twice as many as last year, itself a record. Almost three-quarters of the marijuana seized was grown on public land… Authorities seized 1. 1 million marijuana plants during this year’s fall harvest, nearly twice as many as last year, itself a record. Almost three-quarters of the marijuana seized was grown on public land.
Irvin: pipe belonged to friend, not brother
ESPN – Nov 27, 2005
I certainly don’t want any problems with the police. Plastic baggies with marijuana residue were found in a Versacesunglasses case along with the pipe. Irvin said he found the itemson the friend after patting him down when he arrived at his housein Carrollton, Texas. Irvin appeared on ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown, and ESPNspokesman Josh Krulewitz said the network expects Irvin to be onthe air for his next assignment Sunday. “Michael has told us the same thing he has told the media. Hehas indicated he wants to confer with his advisers, and we willcontinue to have conversations with Michael,” Krulewitz said.
Garage ads generate billboard law debate
Honolulu Star-Bulletin – Nov 27, 2005
What they don’t want, clearly, are billboards anywhere. While happy the city removed the one sign outside the Municipal Building garage, “We wish they’d go ahead and remove all signs,” Loy said. Medical marijuanaRegarding the answer to someone wanting to obtain the names of physicians who prescribe medical marijuana (. 21): Pamela Lichty, president of the Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii, said she wanted to correct a “couple of inaccuracies. It’s not a matter whether a physician is “allowed to prescribe” marijuana, as we stated, but whether he or she is willing to do so, Lichty said.
A Stark County grand jury has issued indictments in the following…
Canton Repository – Canton Repository (subscription) – Nov 27, 2005
SW, possession of cocaine. Bain, 19, no permanent address, trafficking in drugs, trafficking in marijuana, possession of drugs and possession of marijuana. , Alliance, possession of cocaine and six counts of trafficking in cocaine.
Jamaica Gleaner News – Ganja and crime – Sunday | November 27, 2005
Jamaica Gleaner – Nov 27, 2005
Winston De La Haye, director of the detoxification unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies and president of the Psychiatry Association of Jamaica, who believes that the use of ganja may well be a major contributing cause to the level of crime and violence in the society. De La Haye points out that marijuana contains tetrahydro cannabinol which has been proven to exacerbate aggressive behaviour… Winston De La Haye, director of the detoxification unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies and president of the Psychiatry Association of Jamaica, who believes that the use of ganja may well be a major contributing cause to the level of crime and violence in the society. De La Haye points out that marijuana contains tetrahydro cannabinol which has been proven to exacerbate aggressive behaviour. If this is so, and given the wide use of ganja in Jamaica, the doctor’s warning certainly deserves serious consideration and further objective assessment. He contends that the drug can drive a person mad and, with understandable prudence, asks: Why take a chance?We note that Professor Fred Hickling, another respected expert, while not disagreeing with Dr. De La Haye’s bottom line warning about the dangers of using the drug, defuses the argument by listing a number of other social causes of violence such as poverty and despair, a position that can readily be conceded without in any way detracting from what might be a significant breakthrough in lessening the degree of violence in Jamaica. Other causes of violence there may well be, but if smoking ganja is like throwing gasolene on smouldering coals, the unequivocal condemnation of its use may be worth trying, backed up with a strong public education campaign to bring home to the populace, especially the youngsters, that by smoking ganja, they may be playing with fire in more ways than one.
School drug case nets pair
Berkshire Eagle, The – Berkshire Eagle – Nov 27, 2005
, 20, of Great Barrington was accused of raping a teenage girl at a Lenox motel. Jose Ramos, 22, of Lee, who authorities say is an illegal alien, was accused of that crime. Also, in the same story, Alexandra Brenner, 18, of Great Barrington, had her case continued without a guilty finding until March for possession of marijuana. Eagle archives had misstated that she had pleaded guilty and to one count of distribution of marijuana. PITTSFIELD — Two men snared in a controversial Great Barrington school-zone drug sting last year appeared before Berkshire Superior Court Judge Daniel A. One was sentenced to five years in jail and the other pleaded guilty to a charge of heroin possession.