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* Mexican cartels generate bulk of revenue from marijuana
* Marijuana seizures in California soar 300 pct in 4 years
* Mexican growers forced to compete with higher quality
By Mica Rosenberg
Reuters
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Europe’s highest court ruled Thursday that a Dutch town had the right to refuse marijuana to foreigners, a decision that could curb drug tourism in the Netherlands....
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We’ve feared the worst, some of us said ‘no it could never happen’, we prayed for a happy outcome, but now we must face facts: legal marijuana has...
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High in demand that is.
This election season is just awful, for those who bother to vote: between insane, Islamophobic, homophobic, anti-masturbation Tea Party...
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Mexican officials have identified 13 people killed Sunday night in a Tijuana drug rehabilitation center, the state-run news agency said Monday.
Four heavily armed men...
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Mexican soldiers and police officials have seized a whopping 105 tons of marijuana in the border city of Tijuana, the largest drug bust in the Latin American nation in...
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Press Release from US Customs and Border Protection
Sepember 21, 2010:
Agents assigned to the Ajo Station in the Tucson Sector seized more than 2,800 pounds of...
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An Ohio mother has been accused of teaching her 2-year-old daughter to smoke marijuana after prosecutors said she e-mailed to friends a video of the child puffing on a...
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Times are good for the dope growers of the western Sierra Madre. The army eradication squads that once hacked at the illicit marijuana fields have been diverted by the...
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Detectives raiding the two large cannabis fields in Western Canada were surprised to discover at least 14 tame, and seemingly docile, black bears wandering around the...
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Wearing a pressed shirt and tie, banging away on his laptop, law professor Alejandro Madrazo Lajous doesn’t come across as an activist for legalizing marijuana.
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The City Council gave final approval Tuesday to a plan that makes Oakland the first city in the country to authorize large-scale industrial pot cultivation.
The city...
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By his own admission, President Barack Obama was a frequent user of marijuana in his youth and cocaine when he could afford it. Obama admitted to illegal drug use in a...
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Uganda police are investigating after a marijuana plantation was uncovered in the garden of a convent.
A regional police chief told the BBC that plants covering one...
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Several times a week, drug smugglers somewhere along Mexico’s border with the United States strap themselves into low-flying ultralight aircraft and take off with...
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A 94-year old Mexican woman was arrested for attempting to cross into the United States with 4.7 kilograms of marijuana hidden under her clothes, reported the Bureau of...
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The laws against their products just make them rich. The threat of being killed or imprisoned just gives them a rush. Their reputation for ruthlessness just gets them...
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These days, it seems like everyone is talking in earnest about marijuana legalization, once dismissed as little more than a Cheech and Chong pipe dream. Indeed, a new...
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This year and the preceding marked the worst financial crisis in American history. Some countries, like Britain, actually saw a bank run. Trillions has been lost and...
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At most colleges, marijuana is very much an extracurricular matter. But at Med Grow Cannabis College, marijuana is the curriculum: the history, the horticulture and the...
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A new study shows just how much of a no-brainer it is for politicians for legalize marijuana use. The American “War on Drugs” has been futile and...
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Some dude outside my supermarket just asked me to sign a petition to legalize marijuana. Apparently he was so high that he forgot he’s in California, where pot is...
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Brazilian police on Wednesday announced the capture of 648 kg of marijuana in the southern state of Parana.
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These are heady times for advocates of legalized marijuana in California — and only in small part because of the newly relaxed approach of the federal government...
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With the Obama administration’s decision not to prosecute medicinal marijuana dealers and users, even though they violate federal law, the country is...
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A man who told officers he was a medical marijuana provider has been arrested for allegedly standing naked in a Colorado highway, pounding on passing cars and spitting...
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At the time, Mom’s question caught me by surprise: “Have you ever tried marijuana?” she asked, sloshing her coffee around in a mug as we stood...
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The supreme court in Argentina has ruled that it is unconstitutional to punish people for using marijuana for personal consumption.
The decision follows a case of five...
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I recently saw a public service announcement part of the “above the influence” anti-drug campaign. It consisted of several teenagers candidly talking about...
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Time magazine has dug up an old photo circa 1980 of a college Freshman Occidental University Barack Obama. The photo will be featured in Time magazine’s...
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A 51-year-old woman was charged with assault, reckless endangerment and tampering with evidence after she allegedly served a marijuana-tainted ginger cake to her real...
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The 1,800-square-mile Sequoia National Forest that is popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels is also home to some of the most intensely polluted pockets of...
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Brazilian police seized 8 tons of marijuana Friday morning in Sao Jose das Palmeiras, in southern Parana state near the Paraguayan border
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Marijuana may be something of a wonder drug — though perhaps not in the way you might think.
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Medicinal marijuana helps relieve neuropathic pain in people with HIV, says a University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine study.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A 73-year-old Dutch man was astonished to learn from police that the begonias he had lovingly tended on his doorstep concealed a secret marijuana...
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Marijuana-like substances made by the skin are necessary for a healthy complexion, a new study concludes.
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Long-term heavy use of marijuana may cause two important brain structures to shrink, Australian researchers said on Monday.Brain scans showed the hippocampus and...
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This hemp crop is for industrial fibre. Please leave alone.
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This undated photo provided by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety shows a seized spinach can filled with marijuana. Police with the New Mexico Motor Transportation Division found 1,200 pounds of pot packed in cans labeled as spinach during a stop.
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