Record Pot Busts in 2005
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Police arrested more people for marijuana violations in 2005 than any previous year. But they arrested far fewer for heroin, cocaine or violent crimes. In Bodyhack.
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The Canadian Addiction Survey reports that 14 per cent of respondents used cannabis in the last year, up from 7.4 per cent in 1994.
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Leon Nunn stepped out his front door one recent afternoon only to be waved back by a squadron of drug agents using a battering ram on a neighbor's home. The half-million-dollar home in the quiet subdivision was found to be stuffed with high-grade marijuana plants, growing in soil-free trays under bright lights.
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Opium production in Afghanistan, which provides more than 90 percent of the world's heroin, broke all records in 2006, reaching a historic high despite ongoing U.S.-sponsored eradication efforts, the Bush administration reported yesterday.
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Afghanistan's heroin-producing poppy crop set another record this season, despite intensified eradication efforts, the American ambassador said Tuesday.
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MONTREAL (CP) - A provincewide sweep of marijuana fields has netted police more than 60,000 pot plants and 71 arrests.
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A tip to law enforcement last year that a Miami Beach doctor&#39;s checking account was unusually bloated led to the arrest of the state&#39;s largest prescriber of the painkiller OxyContin
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By Melissa Vargas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  May 30--FORT WORTH -- Two teenagers captured on video coaxing two Watauga preschoolers to smoke marijuana were indicted by a Tarrant County grand jury Friday, public records show.
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One of the largest-ever series of drug raids is carried out on properties in London and home counties
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Bumper cannabis crops  -  and tighter border controls  -  are creating a looming internal drug problem for the country
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Dozens of people accused of working for a Mexican drug cartel were arrested Wednesday in a multistate bust that has netted more than $45 million in cash and tons of cocaine, heroin and marijuana, federal officials said.
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OTTAWA - The number of Canadians using marijuana appears to have doubled over the last decade, according to the first major study of drug and alcohol use in the country in 10 years.
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By Shabina S. Khatri, Detroit Free Press  Sep. 10--Four years ago, curiosity about marijuana brought an Idaho teenager named Nick to a popular online drug encyclopedia.
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OTTAWA (CP) - A major new study suggests marijuana use in Canada has doubled over the last decade. The Canadian Addiction Survey reports that 14 per cent of respondents used cannabis in the last year, up from 7.4 per cent in 1994.
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A record 7 million people &#151; or one in every 32 American adults &#151; were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department. Of those, 2,193,798 were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent over the previous year.
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U.S. growers produce nearly $35 billion (18 billion pounds) worth of marijuana annually, making the illegal drug the country's largest cash crop, bigger than corn and wheat combined, an advocate of medical marijuana use said in a study released on Monday.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A middle-aged New Zealand woman rang police to report a theft of cannabis plants she had been growing at her North Island home, local media reported.