Swazi Gold set to ease growing poverty
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- Swazi Gold set to ease growing poverty
- Police Blotter 17-year-old faces marijuana charge
- Kentucky police set marijuana eradication record
- Three Workers Are Charged In Bust at Charles Pizza Hut
- Drug, DUI dispostions for June and July 2006
Swazi Gold set to ease growing poverty
Independent Online – Nov 26, 2006
The government is set to allow small-scale production of hemp to see if it has the potential to become an economically viable crop. “In hemp we have an alternative to cotton, which has let us down badly over the past few years. It has been because of marijuana that we have found it difficult to talk about hemp, but that is changing, and we are beginning to shape public opinion to its benefits,” said Lufto Dlamini, the Swazi Minister for Enterprise and Employment. But I expect it will be given the go-ahead to grow for research purposes, and if that proves successful then we will see,” he said. ‘People are getting the idea that hemp can be used for purposes other than smoking’Falling global prices for sugar and cotton, Swaziland’s traditional crops, have led to dagga becoming “Swazi Gold” for many of the country’s population, most of whom live on less than R7.
Police Blotter 17-year-old faces marijuana charge
Online Athens – Online Athens (subscription) – Nov 26, 2006
–> 17-year-old faces marijuana charge | | Story updated at 2:18 PM on Sunday, November 26, 2006 An Athens teen was arrested on drug charges early Saturday morning during a traffic stop. Police pulled over David Clayton Phillips, 17, of Christa Lane because he had a broken tail light, according to a police report. An officer smelled marijuana in the car, so he searched the car with a drug dog and found a pipe and several small baggies filled with marijuana, according to the report. Phillips was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a park and other drug and traffic charges. Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on 112606… Police pulled over David Clayton Phillips, 17, of Christa Lane because he had a broken tail light, according to a police report. An officer smelled marijuana in the car, so he searched the car with a drug dog and found a pipe and several small baggies filled with marijuana, according to the report. Phillips was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a park and other drug and traffic charges. Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on 112606.
Kentucky police set marijuana eradication record
WBIR-TV – Nov 26, 2006
Police cut and burned more than 500,000 plants this year, up by nearly 50,000 from 2005 and the most since 1995. Arrests also were up: 475 in 2006 compared with 452 in 2005. And if each plant they destroyed would have produced one pound of pot with an estimated worth of $2,000, that would mean $1 billion was prevented from entering the illegal drug market. Kentucky State Police Lieutenant Ed Shemelya says the US Drug Enforcement Administration brought in several helicopters and an airplane for six weeks during the summer, creating more opportunity for airborne spotters to find pot patches… And if each plant they destroyed would have produced one pound of pot with an estimated worth of $2,000, that would mean $1 billion was prevented from entering the illegal drug market. Kentucky State Police Lieutenant Ed Shemelya says the US Drug Enforcement Administration brought in several helicopters and an airplane for six weeks during the summer, creating more opportunity for airborne spotters to find pot patches. Shemelya leads the marijuana-eradication program for the state police. Last year, the DEA ranked Kentucky second behind California in the number of plants eradicated. By another estimate, the 68 counties in eastern Kentucky, East Tennessee and West Virginia that make up the Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area have less than one percent of the nation’s population, but accounted for 25% of the plants eradicated in 2003. Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press
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Three Workers Are Charged In Bust at Charles Pizza Hut
Washington Post – Nov 26, 2006
Looking further, officers found the breadsticks box in an oven hood above Jackson’s work area, authorities said. All three employees were arrested. Police said the workers admitted they knew that marijuana was being sold at the restaurant for an “extended period of time. “The three men were charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana, distribution of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. On Friday afternoon, an employee who answered the phone at the Bryans Road Pizza Hut declined to comment. Chris Fuller, a spokesman for the Pizza Hut chain, based in Dallas, said: “We are working with the Charles County authorities. “He confirmed that the three men worked at the restaurant but declined to talk about their employment status.
Drug, DUI dispostions for June and July 2006
Hagerstown Morning Herald – Nov 26, 2006
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Angela Gail Humphreys, 22, of 522 Lynnhaven Drive, No. 2, Hagerstown – driving under the influence of alcohol; six months probation before judgment, two additional years of probation, $200 fine. (Beachley)
Douglas Ryan Wolfe, 29, of 331 Chartridge Drive, Hagerstown – possession of marijuana; 60-day suspended sentence, 18 months probation, $100 fine. (Beachley)
Ray Travis Smith, 38, of 6148 Rawley Pike, Hinton, Va. – possession of marijuana; six-month suspended sentence, 18 months probation, $150 fine. (Beachley)
David Wrobleski, 42, of 110 S… (McDowell)
Mark Alan Bryan Jr. , 19, of 40 Wakefield Road, Hagerstown – conspiracy to distribute cocaine; 18 months in prison, three years probation. (Boone)
Carroll Antonio Hatcher, 47, Washington County Detention Center, 500 Western Maryland Parkway, Hagerstown – possession with intent to distribute cocaine; seven years in prison, three years probation. (McDowell)
Chris Edward Dodson, 49, of 47 Postal Drive, Apt. 0, Falling Waters, W. – driving under the influence of alcohol; 18 months probation, $200 fine.