Cannabis debacle latest in long line
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- Cannabis debacle latest in long line
- SJSU Medpot: Stop the Cal State Universities from Arresting Medical…
- Hydroponic pot bust yields 40 pounds
- Police nab one of two drug suspects.
- August 25th Action to Protest SJSU Police Arresting Patients, Seizing…
- Radio Host Raymond Whitfield; Started Groups for Youth, Inmates
Cannabis debacle latest in long line
highbeam.com – Aug 13, 2006
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SJSU Medpot: Stop the Cal State Universities from Arresting Medical…
Bay Area Indymedia – Aug 13, 2006
Stop the ignorance, protest the intolerance!
Hello from City Council candidate and medical marijuana activist Jim Lohse (Santa Clara County), Let me tell you about the first time I was ever arrested and handcuffed in my entire 38 years. I am the President of the Silicon Valley Cannabis Patients Union. Our Secretary, Christine "Tina" Flora, is a disabled homeless medical marijuana patient. She normally sleeps in a park in San Jose. She got into a domestic dispute and left that park.
Hydroponic pot bust yields 40 pounds
Charlotte Sun-Herald – Aug 13, 2006
Narcotics officers reportedly seized $170,000 worth of marijuana in a Port Charlotte garage Friday. 65 pounds of marijuana was found in the garage at 1105 Congress St. , according to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office. Responding to a tip, officials searched the home reportedly belonging to Abel Perez Suarez, 33, and found hydroponics equipment, growing lights, water lines and 57 marijuana plants hanging from twine to dry… Narcotics officers reportedly seized $170,000 worth of marijuana in a Port Charlotte garage Friday. 65 pounds of marijuana was found in the garage at 1105 Congress St. , according to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office. Responding to a tip, officials searched the home reportedly belonging to Abel Perez Suarez, 33, and found hydroponics equipment, growing lights, water lines and 57 marijuana plants hanging from twine to dry. “Due to the high quality of hydroponics-grown marijuana, the street value would be around $4,000 a pound here, and the total for all the marijuana confiscated today would be around $170,000,” said Mark Bala, a lieutenant with the CCSO Narcotics Unit. He noted that in a major city, the value could rise to $7,000 a pound.
Police nab one of two drug suspects.
Free with registration – News & Observer – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 13, 2006
| News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) (August, 2006). 13–DURHAM — Police searching for two men suspected of dealing drugs turned up a half-pound of marijuana and a suspicious cache of other goods: $3,000 in cash, a stolen. 38-caliber revolver,.
August 25th Action to Protest SJSU Police Arresting Patients, Seizing…
Bay Area Indymedia – Aug 13, 2006
Jum Lohse of the Silicon Valley Cannabis Patients Union reports that “First our homeless group member Christine Flora was rousted on campus and her medical marijuana was seized! She still made it work work that day after they arrested her and held her in a holding cell until 4:30am. ” She was searched by a male officer. “Then Chuck and I protested, I laid a bag of weed out with bags of oregano… Jum Lohse of the Silicon Valley Cannabis Patients Union reports that “First our homeless group member Christine Flora was rousted on campus and her medical marijuana was seized! She still made it work work that day after they arrested her and held her in a holding cell until 4:30am. ” She was searched by a male officer. “Then Chuck and I protested, I laid a bag of weed out with bags of oregano.
Radio Host Raymond Whitfield; Started Groups for Youth, Inmates
Washington Post – Aug 13, 2006
, and grew up in New York. “I started smoking reefers [marijuana cigarettes] when I was about 12 in Brooklyn,” he told The Washington Post in 1988. “It was something to do. I later dropped out of school, because I couldn’t see any clear connection between going to school and what I could do with it afterward. There were no role models to show me. My role models were numbers runners and gamblers, so I started hustling… My role models were numbers runners and gamblers, so I started hustling. I was introduced to heroin at about 17. “A multiple substance abuser — marijuana, alcohol, heroin — he robbed liquor stores and sold drugs to support his habits. “I was a good seller, but I was a bad manager of money,” he recalled in an oral history, privately published in 1999. Arrested for the first time at age 25, he spent the next 15 years in and out of New York prisons. He added cocaine to his list of substances in the late 1960s. “I was making thousands of dollars a day,” he told The Post.