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Justice Says It Won’t Go After Medical Marijuana Users
A collective sigh of relief — or was that the long exhale of bong hits? — no doubt followed Monday’s announcement from Attorney General Eric Holder Jr
Power vacuum fuels vicious drug war
A young man with tattoos covering one arm rolls hundreds of marijuana joints in the half-light of a shack, perched on a hillside in a Medellin slum. A 9mm pistol and a .38 revolver lie on his work bench.
Mexican Drug Cartels Find a Lucrative New Home in California State Parks
The damage they do to society is well-known, but drug traffickers, it turns out, also aren’t the most environmentally-minded campers. Law enforcement officials say that a wildfire now raging in Santa Barbara’s Los Padres National park, burning more than 136 square miles, was sparked by a cooking fire started by the hirelings of a Mexican drug cartel which was growing thousands of marijuana plants in the remote canyons. Far from an isolated incident, the Los Padres fire, according to law enforcement agents, highlights an alarming trend: the invasion of California wilderness and parklands by armed Mexican drug cartels
Government runs nation’s only legal pot garden
Here, in what could be called the Fort Knox of dope, Mahmoud ElSohly waits patiently as an assistant unlocks the stainless steel door to a climate-controlled vault. Once inside, under the gaze of security cameras and a blinking motion sensor, another scientist pries open the lid of a large cardboard barrel, opens a large plastic bag and digs his hand into the vat of meticulously manicured marijuana. We are in the Coy W
Could smoking pot raise testicular cancer risk?
Do men who frequently smoke pot have a higher risk of testicular cancer than those who do not?
George Obama Arrested
Obama’s Kenyan relative arrested on drug duty NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan drug squad say the half member of President Barack Obama has been arrested for possession of marijuana. Area law enforcement agency principal Joshua Omokulongolo said George Obama was picked up Saturday and was being held at the Huruma riot police post in the […]