Ex-suspects want police to pay for dead marijuana plants
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- Ex-suspects want police to pay for dead marijuana plants
- Medical pot patient convicted of growing marijuana
- Marijuana heist in Laytonville interrupted
- Ferndale marijuana proposal ‘wrong message,’ activist says
- Police seize 69 marijuana plants in Saranac
- 2m of cannabis seized in factory raid
- Pot arrests at record high in US last year, FBI says
Ex-suspects want police to pay for dead marijuana plants
Los Angeles Times, CA
After the case against the Colorado couple fell apart, they were given back their seized property — which had gone unmaintained in a police evidence room. By DeeDee Correll, Special to The Times September 21, 2008 DENVER — When the Fort Collins police arrested James and Lisa Masters and carted away their 39 marijuana plants, they put the plants where they normally put confiscated property involved in alleged crimes: the evidence room. And there they sat, without a grow lamp, water or pruning.
Medical pot patient convicted of growing marijuana
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Medical pot patient convicted of growing marijuana. — Despite having a doctor’s authorization for medical marijuana under state law, a Kitsap County man has been convicted of growing pot.
Marijuana heist in Laytonville interrupted
Ukiah Daily Journal, CA
Richie Weaver, of Laytonville, told the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office he interrupted the thieves as they tried to make off with his marijuana plants, a sheriff’s report stated. There was no information available at press time to indicate whether or not Weaver had a medical reason for having the marijuana. Similar to some of those arrested in the Covelo raids earlier in the week, the eight suspects arrested Friday told deputies they came to the area after learning about the county’s marijuana-growing reputation. “Detectives discovered the suspects learned of the abundance of easily accessible growing marijuana in Mendocino County from reading “High Times,” a magazine published about marijuana and distributed to the public,” a portion of the report stated.
Ferndale marijuana proposal ‘wrong message,’ activist says
Mirror, MI
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Police seize 69 marijuana plants in Saranac
Plattsburgh Press Republican, NY
Police seize 69 marijuana plants in Saranac By RYAN HUTCHINS Contributing Writer. By Robert Barron CNHI News Service –>SARANAC — Police seized some 69 marijuana plants and more than a pound of the drug here Friday. Clinton County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Tracy J. Lashway, 36, and charged him with unlawful growing of marijuana for allegedly maintaining the operation at his rented home. “It came through an informant and we did a fly-by,” Deputy Nicholas J.
2m of cannabis seized in factory raid
News Shopper, UK
The 20,000 square foot factory premises in Old Street, off Lee High Road, contained 2,500 mature cannabis plants and had been rewired to bypass the electricity supply. The doors had also been modified with wires to give an early warning of a raid. Officers from Lee Green and Lewisham safer neighbour teams searched the three storey factory premises under warrant on Thursday (September 18). On the 7,000 square foot second floor officers found 2,500 mature cannabis plants and recovered equipment and fertiliser used for growing and harvesting cannabis.
Pot arrests at record high in US last year, FBI says
Houston Chronicle, United States
html WASHINGTON — Marijuana arrests in the United States rose 5 percent last year to a record 872,721, according to the FBI. Marijuana arrests now comprise 47. 5 percent of national drug arrests, up from 43. 9 percent in 2006, the FBI said. The 2007 total was more than 43,000 above the previous year’s 829,627 marijuana arrests.