TEMECULA, CA – The parents of a 17-year-old special needs student arrested in an undercover police operation announced today they are suing the school district that authorized the operation. The student, who suffers from a range of disabilities, was falsely befriended by a police officer who repeatedly asked the boy to provide him drugs. After […]
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SOURCE: Parents of Autistic Teen Entrapped by Cops Sue School District by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
. . . . . READ MORECARACAS, VENEZUELA – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro warned last week this his government will shoot down planes using Venezuelan air space to smuggle drugs. The National Assembly passed a law allowing for such actions in May, but it did not go into effect until this month. “Let drug traffickers know that starting today any plane that […]
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. . . . . READ MOREVANCOUVER, BC – Law enforcement-based efforts criminalizing the possession of illicit substances have largely failed to reduce drug production, potency, or access, according to an assessment of global drug interdiction efforts published online this week by the British Medical Journal. Investigators from Canada and the United States reviewed government data to assess the long-term, global impact of enforcement-based supply reduction intervention […]
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SOURCE: Study: Illicit Drugs Cheaper and More Prevalent Despite Increased Legal Sanctions by Paul Armentano
. . . . . READ MOREWASHINGTON, D.C. — Marijuana arrests continued at near record levels in 2012, and the vast majority of them were for simple possession. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual Uniform Crime Report, an estimated 749,824 arrests were made nationwide for marijuana, more than 87% of which were for possession. This is a slight decrease […]
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SOURCE: FBI Study Shows Record High Marijuana Arrests Continue Despite Changing Attitudes by Marijuana Policy Project
. . . . . READ MOREEDINBURG, TX – A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper who opened fire from a helicopter on a fleeing pickup carrying what he thought was a drug load near the US-Mexico border, killing two Guatemalan immigrants, will not face criminal charges. A grand jury in Edinburg declined Tuesday to indict him in the deaths. Hidalgo County prosecutors […]
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. . . . . READ MOREPrivate plane pilots, especially those traveling to or through states with relaxed marijuana laws, are being subjected to warrantless searches by state and federal law enforcement, the Toledo Blade reported Monday. The newspaper reported that the Aircraft Owners’ and Pilots’ Association, which represents small plane owners and operators across the country, said it had received dozens of […]
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. . . . . READ MOREHANAHAN, SC – A Summerville, South Carolina man was shot and killed by police after allegedly engaging them with gunfire as he fled a traffic stop turned pot bust. Travis Miller, 22, becomes the 26th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year. According to WCSC-TV, citing police sources, the incident began […]
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. . . . . READ MORELOS ANGELES, CA — A federal judge Tuesday awarded $3 million to the family of an 18-year-old Los Angeles honors student who was gunned down by undercover DEA agents in a parking garage in 2010. But the judge also ruled the officers were not negligent in their actions. Zachary Champommier died when he drove into a Studio […]
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. . . . . READ MOREOAKLAND, CA — On the heels of Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s endorsement of medical cannabis, and Eric Holder’s speech advocating reform of the War on Drugs, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency has informed security and armored car services that they can no longer render services to state-legal cannabis providers, including the country’s largest model cannabis dispensary, […]
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SOURCE: Feds Force Security and Armored Car Companies to Stop Servicing the Cannabis Industry by Press Release
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