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- Virginia Tech: COLUMN: Marijuana smokers shouldn’t be labeled as…
- Cops seize P12.6m marijuana
- Man faces drug charges after girlfriend shot at home.
- Jury to hear pot case
- High-tech cameras find drug factories.
- Lee men arrested on drug charges after car stop
- Trucking firm fined over fatal smash

Virginia Tech: COLUMN: Marijuana smokers shouldn’t be labeled as…
Free with registration – America's Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 24, 2006
| The America’s Intelligence Wire (March, 2006). I am in favor of the complete lega… I am in favor of the complete legalization of marijuana, since I believe that anything less is just an absurdity. My main point is this: according to the government-funded Monitoring the Future study, one third of college students (almost 6 million people) have smoked marijuana in the last year. So if the marijuana prohibitionists are to be believed, all of these students are criminals. Though the anti-legalization Republicans don’t say so, that implies that they think that one in three Virginia Tech students is a criminal. The College Republicans think that they can somehow justify that. They speak of marijuana as if it is some sort of plague on.

Cops seize P12.6m marijuana
Manila Standard Today – Mar 24, 2006
PDEA regional director Bernardo Borrinaga said narcotics agents have
been surveilling Viduya in Kalinga for some time but could not arrest
him because of the presence of communist rebels in the area. The suspect
is allegedly a fugitive who bolted the Benguet Provincial Jail, where
he was serving a sentence for frustrated rape. The day before, lawmen found a box filled with 20 kilos of marijuana
at the roadside in Barangay Lacnog in Tabuk, Kalinga. The narcotics
is believed to be worth P500,000. The police are still hunting down
the person who left the box. The third operation was at Barangay Buyagan in La Trinidad, Benguet,
where a homeowner complained to police that a boarder left marijuana
bricks inside a room in their house around 6:30 a… Cordillera regional police director Chief Supt. Raul Gonzales said
these seizures will significantly reduce the volume of drugs being supplied
to other areas in the country. While Gonzales admitted that there are still several marijuana plantations
in the region, these are only enough to supply local consumption. Gonzales, on the other hand, disputed impressions that the country
is exporting the illegal plant, saying there has been no seizure of
marijuana from the Philippines in foreign countries.

Man faces drug charges after girlfriend shot at home.
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 24, 2006
| Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) (March, 2006). 24–A Bolingbrook man was charged Thursday with possession of cocaine and marijuana after police a day earlier found drugs in the home of a woman who was shot in the head… 24–A Bolingbrook man was charged Thursday with possession of cocaine and marijuana after police a day earlier found drugs in the home of a woman who was shot in the head. Waranoski, 23, was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance with.

Jury to hear pot case
Rocky Mountain News – Mar 24, 2006
“We view this case as a gross, gross misuse of tax-payer dollars,”said La Goy’s attorney, Brian Vicente, said outside court afterward. Hestressed that as many as three patrol cars and five police officersresponded to a Capitol Hill apartment on the evening of March 3 afterLa Goy was found to have less than a gram of marijuana while policewere making a probation check on a friend of La Goy’s. Vicente, who heads the marijuana legalization group SensibleColorado, said the Denver police and city attorneys’ continuedprosecution of pot possession flouts the will of voters who in Novemberpassed Initiative 100, which ostensibly made it legal under local lawfor individuals 21 or old to privately possess under 1 ounce ofmarijuana. City authorities maintain that they’ve long prosecuted 95 percentof possession cases under the state law and that the home rule citycannot unilaterally impose local ordinances that are weaker than statelaw. La Goy’s trial date has not been scheduled. © Rocky Mountain News.

High-tech cameras find drug factories.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 24, 2006
–> COPYRIGHT 2006 Financial Times Ltd. (From Western Daily Press) Thermal imaging cameras supplied to the Metropolitan Police by a Westcountry firm have proved an instant success – by uncovering secret cannabis factories. The hand-held equipment detects the extreme heat created by lighting systems used in the intensive rearing of marijuana plants. Properties where cannabis.

Lee men arrested on drug charges after car stop
Naples Daily News – Naples Daily News (subscription) – Mar 24, 2006
for a broken tag light. Deputies had been watching the car before it entered onto Interstate 75, authorities said. While talking to the occupants of the car, a deputy noticed what appeared to be marijuana inside the vehicle. Deputies also smelled an odor similar to marijuana coming from the vehicle. The three occupants — Davis, George and a woman who wasn’t arrested – exited the vehicle while deputies conducted a search. Davis brushed flakes of marijuana off his shirt as he got out of the car, the Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies found two scales, five Xanax pills and a 12-gauge shotgun with five shells inside.

Trucking firm fined over fatal smash
NEWS.com.au – Mar 24, 2006
Affected by cannabis and fatigue, Brett Leo Foster ignored road signs to slow down and ploughed into a line of cars, killing four people waiting at roadworks on the Murray Valley Highway, 10km east of Yarrawonga on October 15, 2001. Foster, from Canberra, was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years jail, with a minimum of six years and six months after pleading guilty to four counts of culpable driving in December, 2003. His former employer Allbulk Landscape Supplies was today fined $130,000 for two breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, relating to the accident, by the County Court at Shepparton. The Canberra-based company had pleaded guilty to failing to provide and maintain a safe working environment and failing to ensure non-employees were not exposed to health and safety risks. The court heard Foster’s driving had been affected by cannabis he had ingested shortly before the accident… His former employer Allbulk Landscape Supplies was today fined $130,000 for two breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, relating to the accident, by the County Court at Shepparton. The Canberra-based company had pleaded guilty to failing to provide and maintain a safe working environment and failing to ensure non-employees were not exposed to health and safety risks. The court heard Foster’s driving had been affected by cannabis he had ingested shortly before the accident. He had also covered 1195km, mainly around New South Wales over the 24 hours prior to the accident and had not had any sleep over this time. Foster, who joined the company two weeks before the accident, stated that he regularly falsified his log book and felt pressured to do so to retain his job, the court was told. Other employees gave evidence that they worked in excess of the legal time allowances – which require them to have at least 10 hours rest over 24 hours – and this was expected of them. Judge Frank Shelton said he was satisfied the director of the company, David Wallace, was aware that Foster was driving in excess of the legal driving limits, despite his lawyer saying he denied this.

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