Tag: drug arrests

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February 4, 2013
02/04/2013
Marijuana Postal Service Scheme Busted

Marijuana Postal Service Scheme Busted

Investigators discovered and busted a scheme that used the U.S. Postal Service to mail marijuana from Fort Collins, CO to places in Tennessee and West Virginia. Despite...
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January 22, 2013
01/22/2013
Man Who Worked on Marijuana Farm as Teenager Gets 5 Years

Man Who Worked on Marijuana Farm as Teenager Gets 5 Years

Nathaniel Harshman, now only 20 years old, has been sentenced to 5 years for working on a 477-plant marijuana grow operation in Alaska in 2011. This is...
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January 21, 2013
01/21/2013
2 Louisiana High School Coaches Face Drug Charges

2 Louisiana High School Coaches Face Drug Charges

After receiving an anonymous tip stating that there were cars parked in the local high school parking lot containing drugs, the St. Landry Parish (Louisiana) Sheriff’s Office...
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January 21, 2013
01/21/2013
MT Medical Marijuana Grower Convicted in Federal Court

MT Medical Marijuana Grower Convicted in Federal Court

Former Univ. of Montana quarterback Jason Washington is the latest casualty in the Obama Administration’s war on medical marijuana. Missoula, MT — Montana medical marijuana patient, cultivator and former...
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January 15, 2013
01/15/2013
British MPs Call for Drug Decriminalization

British MPs Call for Drug Decriminalization

The use of drugs should be decriminalized, with the least harmful substances regulated and sold in shops, a group of British parliamentarians said in a report released...
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January 7, 2013
01/07/2013
Recreational MJ Sales in CO is Still Illegal – and Dangerous

Recreational MJ Sales in CO is Still Illegal – and Dangerous

Amendment 64 has already legalized possession and use of marijuana for all adults. Many people have gone further, assuming that selling marijuana is no longer going to...
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January 7, 2013
01/07/2013
Obama Administration Throwing Medical Marijuana Patients Into Federal Prison at Unprecedented Rate

Obama Administration Throwing Medical Marijuana Patients Into Federal Prison at Unprecedented Rate

This month will see a number of patients sentenced, sent to prison despite compliance with state medical marijuana laws. Fallout from the Obama Administration’s aggressive federal enforcement...
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December 26, 2012
12/26/2012
2012: The Year In Review — NORML’s Top 10 Events That Shaped Marijuana Policy

2012: The Year In Review — NORML’s Top 10 Events That Shaped Marijuana Policy

#1 Colorado and Washington Vote To Legalize Marijuana Voters in Colorado and Washington made history by approving ballot measures allowing for the personal possession and consumption of cannabis by...
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December 21, 2012
12/21/2012
Marijuana Laws Enforced, Poor Hit Hardest

Marijuana Laws Enforced, Poor Hit Hardest

An opponent of legalization says it would exacerbate inequality in the United States. But he fails to account for the impact of jail time on inequality under...
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December 21, 2012
12/21/2012
US Law Enforcement Seeking To Use Drones For Domestic Policing

US Law Enforcement Seeking To Use Drones For Domestic Policing

012 Electronic Freedom Foundation board member and drug policy reform activist John Gilmore memo: EFF.ORG (where I’m on the board) filed a Freedom of Information request to FAA about...
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December 21, 2012
12/21/2012
The Top Ten Drug Policy Stories of 2012

The Top Ten Drug Policy Stories of 2012

012, 11:21am In some ways, 2012 has been a year of dramatic, exciting change in drug policy, as the edifice of global drug prohibition appears to crumble...
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December 18, 2012
12/18/2012
US Has 330,000 Drug Offenders in Prison

US Has 330,000 Drug Offenders in Prison

04:55pm The number of people in prison in America declined last year for the second year in a row, according to a new report from the Bureau...
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December 17, 2012
12/17/2012
Help Needed: Release Five Lifetime Marijuana Prisoners

Help Needed: Release Five Lifetime Marijuana Prisoners

Cannabis Prohibition is ending in America (and likely soon around the world too). It is not going to end without prolonged legal, political and regulatory battles. This...
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December 3, 2012
12/03/2012
Spottedcrow Flies Free

Spottedcrow Flies Free

by Sabrina Fendrick, NORML Women’s Alliance, November 30, 2012 Patricia Spottedcrow, an Oklahoma woman who was sentenced to 12 years for selling $31 worth of pot, with...
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November 30, 2012
11/30/2012
California Marijuana Decriminalization Drops Youth Crime Rate to Record Low: Study

California Marijuana Decriminalization Drops Youth Crime Rate to Record Low: Study

A new study “California Youth Crime Plunges to All-Time Low” shows between 2010 and 2011, California experienced a drastic 20 percent decrease in juvenile crime, a level...
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November 27, 2012
11/27/2012
Two of the Largest American Newspapers Opine in Favor of Allowing States to Legalize Marijuana

Two of the Largest American Newspapers Opine in Favor of Allowing States to Legalize Marijuana

In the wake of the historic votes for marijuana law reform on November 6th, there has been a renewed focus on the topic and a shift in...
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November 26, 2012
11/26/2012
Study: Those Arrested for Minor Pot Offenses Unlikely to Subsequently Commit Violent Crimes

Study: Those Arrested for Minor Pot Offenses Unlikely to Subsequently Commit Violent Crimes

Arresting and prosecuting low-level marijuana offenders in New York City has little or no impact on law enforcement efforts to reduce violent crime, according to a study...
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November 20, 2012
11/20/2012
Prosecutors in Colorado, Washington Dismiss Even More Marijuana Cases

Prosecutors in Colorado, Washington Dismiss Even More Marijuana Cases

Prosecutors throughout Colorado and Washington state continue to dismiss hundreds of pending misdemeanor marijuana possession cases. On Thursday, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey and City Attorney Doug Friednash announced that they...
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November 16, 2012
11/16/2012
Voters Legalize Marijuana, States Dismiss Hundreds of Pending Marijuana Cases

Voters Legalize Marijuana, States Dismiss Hundreds of Pending Marijuana Cases

Many wondered just what the exact effects of passing a marijuana legalization law would be. Some speculated no good would come of passing a state law while...
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November 15, 2012
11/15/2012
Boulder DA Stops Marijuana Possession Prosecutions

Boulder DA Stops Marijuana Possession Prosecutions

05:10pm The district attorney in Colorado’s Boulder County announced Wednesday he will dismiss all pending small-time marijuana and paraphernalia possession cases, saying that given overwhelming support...
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