Man jailed for producing cannabis
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- Man jailed for producing cannabis
- I-80 traffic stop nets 216 pounds of marijuana
- Haitians nabbed in marijuana busts
- Case highlights medical-pot dilemma
- Riding high: the number of medical marijuana outlets spikes, creating…
Man jailed for producing cannabis
BBC News – Jan 29, 2007
The electricity supply had been diverted to bypass the meter. Another property in Hailsham was subsequently searched. Hoath was charged with two counts of producing cannabis, two of possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply, two of abstracting electricity and one of using criminal property.
I-80 traffic stop nets 216 pounds of marijuana
Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Jan 29, 2007
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I-80 traffic stop nets 216 pounds of marijuana
Monday, January 29, 2007
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A traffic stop along Interstate 80 led state police, with the help of a drug-sniffing dog, to discover 13 bales of marijuana in the trunk. Police arrested the car’s occupants, Eloy Salomon Sanchez, 33, of Webster City, Iowa, and Theresa Petra Romero, 36, of Tucson, Ariz. , and seized 216 pounds of marijuana. The two are charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia, possession with intent to deliver and criminal conspiracy. They were being held in the Jefferson County Jail after failing to post bail.
Haitians nabbed in marijuana busts
Jamaica Gleaner – Jan 29, 2007
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Jamaica police have arrested three Haitians in connection with two large marijuana busts in the western parish of Westmoreland and the central parish of Clarendon. Members of the anti-crime task force, Operation Kingfish, said the arrests on Thursday have sparked fresh concerns about the growing guns-for-drugs trade between Jamaica and Haiti. In the first operation which took place in the community of Orange Hill, Westmoreland, two Haitians were detained after law enforcement authorities discovered a one-acre marijuana field. Spokesman for Operation Kingfish, Inspector Steve Brown, said a police team also went to Clarendon where a large quantity of ganja was seized and another Haitian arrested. “The fact that these Haitians are getting involved in criminal activities, we will be asking the authorities to take a serious look at the status of these Haitians who are in Jamaica.
Case highlights medical-pot dilemma
Seattle Times – Jan 29, 2007
District Court, said Jeff Eig, a spokesman for the federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). In that instance, Sarich could be in serious trouble, because federal courts don’t recognize the state’s Medical Marijuana Act, approved by voters in 1998. Washington is among 11 states with some form of legalized marijuana use for certain medical patients, including those under treatment for cancer, intractable pain, glaucoma and seizures. “There’s no such thing as medical marijuana,” Eig said, flatly discounting such laws. If federal prosecutors decline to take the case, investigators could offer it to Snohomish County prosecutors, who would look at Sarich’s case in light of the state law. But that’s tricky, too, because state law doesn’t address the question of how medical-marijuana users may legally obtain their pot, or define how many plants each person may possess. Instead, it states that each person — or that person’s caretaker — may possess a 60-day supply, which isn’t defined… Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, who helped create the state medical-marijuana initiative, said she plans to introduce a bill this session to clarify patients’ rights to obtain and grow marijuana and to better define “caretaker. ” Today, she was scheduled to meet with state prosecutors, police and sheriffs associations to seek support and consensus for her proposal. Marijuana leaves contain usable amounts of THC, the drug’s active ingredient, only when the plants are in their flower or bud stages, Sarich said, adding that none of his seized plants were in bud. The West Sound Narcotics Enforcement Team (WestNET), serving Kitsap and Mason counties on the Olympic Peninsula, says Sarich drew attention when he and a former associate, John Worthington of Renton, filed declarations in a federal case against another alleged marijuana grower. A team detective — Roy Alloway, a Kitsap County Sheriff’s deputy — persuaded a Kitsap County judge to grant a search warrant for Sarich’s home by portraying that unnamed alleged grower, a Vashon Island man, as a major drug distributor who operated across state lines. Alloway wrote, in the court document, that Worthington had threatened legal action against WestNET for allegedly using state funds to enforce federal marijuana laws. That combination of factors led Alloway to investigate the pair, he wrote.
Riding high: the number of medical marijuana outlets spikes, creating…
Free with registration – Los Angeles Business Journal – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 29, 2007
| Los Angeles Business Journal (January, 2007). In the last two years the number of marijuana dispensaries in the county has ball.