Haggard to Sing Smoke-Free
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- Haggard to Sing Smoke-Free
- DMX reaches plea deal on raft of charges
- Deputies reportedly seize nearly a kilogram of marijuana
- LETTER: Change the tone on marijuana
Haggard to Sing Smoke-Free
New York Times United States
In a special twist Mr. Haggard 71 said that for the first time in his life he would perform without having first smoked tobacco or marijuana. Notwithstanding a jab at pot smokers in his 1969 hit “kie From Muskogee” Mr. Haggard has long indulged a marijuana habit of his own. Having now put it aside he said he expects to work harder in 2009.
DMX reaches plea deal on raft of charges
San Jose Mercury News USA
In May sheriff’s deputies and a SWAT team went to his home again to serve arrest and search warrants on the earlier drug and animal cruelty charges. DMX briefly barricaded himself in his bedroom before surrendering. Deputies said they found marijuana in his house. Bacon Sedgwick among Ponzi scheme victimsCall it six degrees of Bernard Madoff. Kevin Bacon and wife Kyra Sedgwick are among the many victims of the massive Ponzi scheme run by the disgraced New York money manager. Bacon”s publicist Allen Eichhorn confirmed Tuesday that the couple had investments with Madoff. He wouldn”t say how much money Bacon and Sedgwick might have lost.
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Deputies reportedly seize nearly a kilogram of marijuana
cala FL
CALA Marion County sheriff’s deputies reported recovering close to a kilogram of marijuana and arrested three people Tuesday in separate drug cases in Dunnellon and Salt Springs. Rick Alan VanPelt 42 was charged with possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana according to reports. Keaolewa Cody Deforest-Hopkins 23 was charged with possession of cannabis with intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia. And Raymond David Mains 39 was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. In the VanPelt case deputies were looking for the man’s stepson 18-year-old Sean Sturges in connection with vehicle burglaries. Deputy Joseph Tussey saw VanPelt in a vehicle in the 15600 block of Southwest 105th Avenue and asked about Sturges. The deputy reportedly noticed a white plastic grocery bag at VanPelt’s feet on the driver’s side floorboard.
LETTER: Change the tone on marijuana
South Coast Today MA
30) I couldn’t help but think that the tone of the writing being negative towards marijuana was out of place. After all the split in the vote was definitive suggesting that people of different ages and occupations wish to “change the conversation” about marijuana as a dentist put it to me. The conversation that got marijuana illegal was a fearful one. Seventy-odd years after Harry Anslinger testified before Congress we know it was also a scientifically baseless one.