Iowa lawmakers consider medical marijuana bill
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- Iowa lawmakers consider medical marijuana bill
- Police: 2 Silver Spring Men Caught With 92 Pounds of Marijuana
- Inside a cannabis factory
- Men tape marijuana to bodies at San Diego border
- The trials and triumphs of Marijuana Pepsi Jackson
- White House to nominate Kerlikowske as drug czar
Iowa lawmakers consider medical marijuana bill
Chicago Tribune
Supporters of a measure legalizing medical marijuana urged asubcommittee of the Senate Human Relations Committee to change thelaw. “My days are constant pain” said Lisa Jackson ofCrawfordsville. “I want my life back.
Police: 2 Silver Spring Men Caught With 92 Pounds of Marijuana
Washington Post
html”"headline”: “Police: 2 Silver Spring Men Caught With 92 Pounds of Marijuana”"reporter”: “”"abstract”: “LINCLN Neb. — Two men from Maryland were jailed in Nebraska after a state trooper found 92 pounds of marijuana in their car during an Interstate 80 traffic stop.
Inside a cannabis factory
BBC News
getEmpEmbeddedParams(“emp_7934657″);AdvertisementA big increase over the past five years in the number of “cannabis factories” discovered by police has been revealed in figures obtained by BBC News. During an operation in Cambridgeshire last week police officers raided two houses and arrested three men on suspicion of cultivating cannabis. The BBC’s Phil Mackie went to a ‘factory’ and heard this account from an undercover drugs intelligence officer about the cannabis production facility.
Men tape marijuana to bodies at San Diego border
San Jose Mercury News
Customs and Border Protection said today that San Diego inspectors apprehended 157 pedestrians crossing from Mexico with drugs under their clothing from August through February. That’s nearly seven times the 23 arrests during the same period a year earlier. CBP says smugglers typically tape packets of marijuana over their torsos. That’s not a new technique but it’s getting more popular at least in San Diego. Authorities seized nearly 300 pounds of marijuana from under pedestrians’ clothes during the last six months. CBP said all but 16 of the 157 arrested were male. ne of every four males arrested was under 18 years old.
The trials and triumphs of Marijuana Pepsi Jackson
USA Today
All of her achievement came despite that smoky carbonated name. And partly because of it. No one named Marijuana Pepsi gets lost in the crowd. "Everybody I meet says this: You’re nothing like I thought you’d be" she (told Stingl).
White House to nominate Kerlikowske as drug czar
Seattle Times
In the weeks after his name surfaced as a front-runner for the position Kerlikowske has remained publicly silent on the prospect of leaving Seattle. However The Post said concerns over the nomination surfaced recently when Kerlikowske’s son from a previous marriage Jeffrey Kerlikowske was arrested last week for a parole violation in Broward County Fla. The younger Kerlikowske has a criminal record that includes arrests for marijuana possession and distribution and was released from prison for battery in March 2008 according to the Florida Department of Corrections. In his remarks accepting the nomination Kerlikowske is expected to reference his family struggles with drug abuse The Washington Post reported. “ur nation’s drug problem is one of human suffering” according to his prepared remarks. “As a police officer but also in my own family I have experienced firsthand the devastating effects that drugs can have on our youth our families and our communities. Kerlikowske who was appointed Seattle chief in 2000 by then-Mayor Paul Schell had worked the previous two years as deputy director of the Justice Department’s community-oriented policing division during the Clinton administration.
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