Murray-bound marijuana load adds to arrests: Three men are detained…
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- Murray-bound marijuana load adds to arrests: Three men are detained…
- Pot rivals apples as Washington’s biggest cash crop.
- Key break in pot house case
- A failed drug war
- Retired narcotics officer tells public how to hoodwink drugs police
- Man rejects plea deal in pot case.
Murray-bound marijuana load adds to arrests: Three men are detained…
Free with registration – Paducah Sun – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 23, 2006
– After they accepted delivery of more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana worth about $6. 5 million, three Mexican men living in western Kentucky were arreste.
Pot rivals apples as Washington’s biggest cash crop.
Free with registration – Seattle Times – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 23, 2006
It’s among the top three cash crops in 30 states, Gettman said. He said Washington is the nation’s fifth-largest producer, behind California, Tennessee, Kentucky and Hawaii. Nationally, domestic marijuana production has.
Key break in pot house case
Stockton Record – Dec 23, 2006
com: Key break in pot house case. Copyright 1997-2004 Omniture, Inc… The owners are under investigation but have not been charged. Yu’s co-defendants are awaiting trial on charges of manufacturing marijuana. Twiss said Yu “did not have a leadership role” in the marijuana operations but was seen at the pot houses four times in July and August. Federal drug agents have repeatedly said they suspect a San Francisco-based organized crime syndicate is responsible for all 41 indoor marijuana-growing operations. However, Twiss said he knows of no organized gang connection for Yu or the other alleged growers named in his case. “These are five individuals, none of whom have any significant prior offenses. I can’t draw any inferences,” Twiss said.
A failed drug war
Roanoke Times – Dec 23, 2006
, is a retired police chief and a member of the board of directors of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition located in Syracuse, N. The recent bust of a marijuana and psilocybin growing operation in Blacksburg by the New River Regional Drug Task Force implies success to many people. “Another dealer in dangerous drugs off the street,” some will say. But there are others, even those within the law enforcement community, who dissent and say that this low-level bust has really accomplished nothing and is but another insignificant bump in the perpetual war on drugs. Former President Richard Nixon declared a war on marijuana in 1971. Marijuana is still here, the war is still here… “Another dealer in dangerous drugs off the street,” some will say. But there are others, even those within the law enforcement community, who dissent and say that this low-level bust has really accomplished nothing and is but another insignificant bump in the perpetual war on drugs. Former President Richard Nixon declared a war on marijuana in 1971. Marijuana is still here, the war is still here. Have we accomplished anything? No. In Western states, law enforcement has been engulfed by a bumper crop of marijuana being grown on our public lands, including our national parks.
Retired narcotics officer tells public how to hoodwink drugs police
Guardian Unlimited – Dec 23, 2006
If anyone knows the dos and don’ts of getting busted, it is Barry Cooper. Mr Cooper, who made more than 800 drug arrests in his time with the Permian Basin drug task force, plans to begin selling the DVD on Tuesday. It is, he says, directed solely at marijuana dealers, not at dealers of harder drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamine. He told his local newspaper, the Tyler Morning Telegraph, he was following his conscience because he believed the war on drugs, specifically marijuana, was counter-productive. “I know I won’t be accepted by my peers here in East Texas, but in other areas of the country I will be celebrated,” he told the paper. “When I was raiding houses and destroying families, my conscience was telling me it was wrong, but my need for power, fame and peer acceptance overshadowed my good conscience. “So far Mr Cooper is being coy about the details of the tips he gives out, revealing only in a three-minute promotional video that he goes into such crucial issues as whether coffee grounds really work as decoys, how to avoid narcotics profiling and how to “fool canines every time”.
Man rejects plea deal in pot case.
Free with registration – Appeal-Democrat – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 23, 2006
| Appeal-Democrat (Marysville, CA) (December, 2006). 23–A 47-year-old Sacramento man accused of tending a multimillion dollar marijuana field in the Yuba County foothills turned down a plea offer Friday and asked for another j.