Pot Plants Held for Ransom
• GinnThe note read “Thanks for the grow! You want them back? Call for the price … We’ll talk.”
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Drug War
Effort vs. drug smugglers stirs cries of injustice
• Arizona RepublicNo fear. The mantra of Mexican drug smugglers bringing marijuana into the US. No fear of arrest or prosecution. The worst-kept secret on the border for years was US authorities wouldn't prosecute cases involving less than 500 pounds of marijuana.
Breckenridge Resort in Colorado Welcomes Stoners!
• Telegraph.co.uk via Rense.comBreckenridge, a ski resort in Colorado popular with British holidaymakers, now allows people to smoke marijuana without fear of arrest.
Sentence barring medical marijuana use upheld
• San Francisco ChronicleA judge who wanted a gun-toting youth to clean up his act was acting within his power by forbidding him to use the medical marijuana he took for migraine headaches as part of a probation sentence that kept him out of prison, a state appeals court in
Charities Criticize Online Fund-Raising Contest by Chase
• NY TimesChase Bank throws a contest to award money to 100 charities, but when the votes create winners among 2 pro-drug and a anti-abortion group Chase changes the rules.
The raw (and ugly) truth about the war on drugs
•Here’s the raw, blunt truth about the war on drugs. Drugs are declared legal or illegal based primarily on who benefits from their manufacture, distribution and sale.
Colombia to Chavez: Maybe 'spy plane' was Santa
• APColombia's defense chief joked Monday that Venezuelan troops might have mistaken Santa's sleigh for a spy plane, dismissing accusations by President Hugo Chavez about drones flying over Venezuela. Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of viol
Strange New Twist in Scandal Involving Rogue Philadelphia PD Narcotics Unit
• ReasonA rogue Philadelphia narcotics unit headed up by Officer Cujdik was shaking down immigrant bodegas across the city. Cujdik's thugs would come into stores armed with search warrants for selling otherwise innocuous items like small plastic bags
Will Wisconsin legalize medical marijuana?
• Smirking ChimpAn honest reading of the Constitution with an original understanding of the Founders and Ratifiers makes it quite clear that the federal government has no constitutional authority to override state laws on marijuana.
Dude, they're putting pot in more than brownies
• APAny slacker living over his parents' garage can make pot brownies. Gourmet chefs are taking the art of cooking with marijuana to a higher level. In Denver, a new medical-marijuana shop called Ganja Gourmet serves cannabis-infused specialties such
The Legalizing Pot Debate (Marc Victor on FOX - Video)
• FOX NewsThe debate on legalizing pot -- are police wasting our time and tax money by investigating certain cases? Or do you back them up for enforcing the law no matter the circumstances? Keith Yaskin has more on one 56-year-old man's case in court -- you
US drug war crackdown misses the money
• APEvery day, criminals shove proceeds from US drug sales and transfer it to Mexico. It adds up to $25 billion a year. A highly touted US Treasury Dept. program aimed at starving Mexican drug cartels of cash is currently blocking just $3 million
Trail of Afghanistan's drug money exposed
• Asia TimesAs US President Barack Obama and his advisors debated future troop levels for Afghanistan - which resulted in the decision to send an additional 30,000 troops - a new report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) muddied the water on one
Vote moves D.C. closer to medical marijuana
• Washington PostThe U.S. Senate passed a bill Sunday that clears the way for the District government to allow medical marijuana use and to spend local tax dollars to help low-income women pay for abortions. It also continues needle-exchange programs in a bid to limi
Prisoner at center of ‘KopBusters’ campaign may soon be freed
• RawStory.comThe woman at the epicenter of a Texas filmmaker's crusade against allegedly corrupt police may soon be freed thanks to a federal judge's decision to vacate her sentence.
Guilty plea by ex-ICE agent shocks many
• Arizona RepublicHis plea makes Cramer one of the highest-ranking ICE officials to admit to or be convicted of corruption and it raises questions about the ability of Mexican drug cartels to reach the upper echelons of U.S. law enforcement.
L.A. Agrees to Limit Medical-Marijuana Dispensaries
• Wall Steet JournalThe LA City Council delayed a vote on a much-anticipated medical marijuana ordinance, asking planning officials to return with information on how many dispensaries could be closed because they are near homes, schools and public gathering sites.
Drug cartels no longer want US dollars
• GuardianInternational drug cartels have abandoned the US dollar for high denomination euros to launder millions in illegal profits, Europol has revealed. The gangs no longer use $100 bills because €500 notes – the largest denomination of euro – take up less
Cigarette smuggling rises in Canada
• Global PostSome years ago, in the heyday of cigarette smuggling, I found myself in a speedboat bouncing on the St. Lawrence River at 65 mph, heading to the Akwesasne Indian reserve that straddles the Canada-U.S. border. Behind the wheel was a young French Canad
Euros become currency of drug cartels
• GuardianInternational drug cartels have abandoned the US dollar for high denomination euros to launder millions in illegal profits. Europol has revealed. The gangs no longer use $100 because 500 euro notes - the largest denomination of euro
Drugmakers, FDA move to curb painkiller abuse
• APPharmaceutical executives laid out plans to prevent the misuse of prescription painkillers, under pressure from regulators trying to stop hundreds of fatal overdoses each year. [bad news for chronic pain sufferers and their doctors]
Convicted Felon Meth Salesman Inadvertently Sends Text Message to Drug Task Force
• GinnAnother Drug Selling 101 Tip: Don't text a drug task force agent that you're selling meth.
CBP Inspector Searches For Legitimacy (video)
• Checkpoint USAAdditionally, an inspector is observed attempting to open and search a private cargo container in a private conveyance absent consent from the driver or probable cause. This action violates limitations imposed on internal checkpoint operations by the
Nullification at Work: Marijuana Law Advances in New Jersey
• Tenth Amendment CenterThis movement is not about waiting for Federal judges or Federal politicians to give us permission to exercise our rights – it’s about exercising our rights whether they want us to or not.
Failed War on Drugs: Bad Chicago Drug Cops Busted
• Mondo FrazierFour cops from an "elite" anti-drug task force are busted for shaking down drug dealers--in one case, withholding insulin from a man until he revealed where his "drug money" stash was.
Marijuana school opens in Michigan
• United Press InternationalDETROIT, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A 24-year-old aspiring businessman says he's teaching Michigan residents how to grow medical marijuana at his new "Med Grow Cannabis College."
Los Angeles gets tough on medical marijuana shops
• ReutersLicensed Californian collectives that adhere to the rules say legitimate operations like theirs are being sucked into a sweep against what local prosecutors deem rogue pot shops. "We are low-hanging fruit for the cops," said the manager of a West
BUY AMERICAN POT: A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM THE AMGA
• Reason.tvWhat kind of message would an honest American Marijuana Growers Association have for us? "Thank you for your support of marijuana prohibition and buy American pot!"
The Fall of Mexico
• The Atlantic / Philip CaputoIn the almost three years since President Felipe Calderón launched a war on drug cartels, border towns in Mexico have turned into halls of mirrors where no one knows who is on which side or what chance remark could get you murdered.
CONNECTING THE DOTS
War on Drugs: Store Bought Pills vs. Grow Your Own Meds
Frosty Wooldridge“Once upon a time in America a citizen had complete freedom, along with the personal responsibility, to discover and use anything they believed might help them with a medical problem,” said Officer Howard Wooldridge.
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