Police find marijuana plants in Kane forest preserve

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- Police find marijuana plants in Kane forest preserve
- Medical marijuana: What will the guidelines be?
- Medical marijuana advocates plead with supervisors to drop federal …
- PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY Council Bans Sale of Single Cigars in Bid …
- Cops seize 350 lbs. of marijuana

Police find marijuana plants in Kane forest preserve
St. Charles Sun, IL 
Farm, which is next to the preserve, and was purchased by the Forest Preserve District in 1996. One of the owners of the farm is Michael Kenyon, now a County Board member, a Forest Preserve commissioner and the chairman of the Kane County Republican organization. Kenyon said that old marijuana plants cropping up on farms or on former farm fields is a common situation, because farmers years ago grew hemp as a cash crop. It was prized for its fiber in making rope and was commonly grown during World War II. Kenyon said on his farm, that area was once used for cattle grazing, which means the cows probably ate the weeds, which allowed the hemp plants to grow back. Gilloffo’s report said Forest Preserve and South Elgin police took the 200, 10-foot-high plants to a nearby animal crematorium and incinerated them.

Medical marijuana: What will the guidelines be?
Times-Standard, CA 
The council will vote on amending the guidelines, which aim to regulate how dispensaries operate in hopes of curbing Proposition 215 abuse, and add them to the recently adopted land use codes. The guidelines — which will apply to all areas of Arcata except those that remain in the coastal zone, which is located mainly in the bottoms as well as south G Street — will go into effect in about a month, according to senior planner Joe Mateer. The guidelines cover everything from the definition of medical marijuana terms to how medical marijuana can legally be cultivated in a residence. It will also cover the permitting of cooperatives or collectives.

Medical marijuana advocates plead with supervisors to drop federal …
San Bernardino Sun, CA 
Forty of California’s 58 counties are distributing marijuana cards. “It’s about the responsibility of government to protect its citizens. ” said Barbara MacKenzie, a representative of Shelter From the Storm. Lanny Swerdlow, a medical marijuana advocate, hopes the supervisors will consider dropping a planned appeal to the U.

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY Council Bans Sale of Single Cigars in Bid …
Washington Post, United States 
Dachille said many young people smoke cigars for the tobacco, but they can also be easily hollowed out and filled with marijuana. She said requiring that cigars be sold in packs of five will raise their price enough to deter some young people, who will also balk at having to keep and store the packs. "If we can prevent children in.
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Cops seize 350 lbs. of marijuana
Edison Sentinel, NJ 
of marijuana BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Edison police seized about 350 pounds of marijuana, valued at $1. 5 million, shipped to an Edison warehouse from Cincinnati, Ohio, resulting in the arrests of two men on Nov. According to a statement released by the police department, detectives acted on information from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and quickly went to the warehouse on Clearview Avenue. There, authorities waited for the suspects to claim the illicit cargo — large plastic bins of marijuana — before rushing on to the scene and arresting the pair as they were loading the shipment into a 2005 Ford Taurus wagon.

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