Killing Highlights Risk of Selling Marijuana, Even Legally
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Some legal experts say the murder of a marijuana advocate could lead to a reconsideration of how medical marijuana is administered.
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When criminals need guns, they have plenty of options in a country with nearly 100,000 licensed gun stores. But drug dealers and other crooks don't shop just anywhere. They have their favorites.
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"You can only buy and sell them with cash. When money is being carried around you need to have protection, so guns became instrumental in protecting and in threatening people."  The 11-year-old's murder may have been linked to the fatal shooting of a gang leader a year earlier AT ABOUT 8pm on Wednesday August 23 last year, Liam Smith, a teenager with short cropped hair and piercing ... via Times Online
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HOGBACK, New Mexico  - A brutal triple slaying in this remote corner of the vast Navajo reservation brought home what experts have seen coming for years: an explosion in crime on tribal lands linked to the cheap, potent and highly addictive stimulant methamphetamine.
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WASHINGTON - At the Supreme Court Monday, the issue was medical marijuana -- and whether the federal government can stop patients from using it, even if a state&#39;s law says it&#39;s legal.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 29, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- An apparently skeptical Supreme Court of the United States heard argument Monday on whether state laws allowing the medical use of marijuana should survive despite a federal law that
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SILVERBELL, Ariz. -- Among the statuesque saguaro cactuses in the desert south of this old mining town lies the remnant of a crime scene that federal authorities say signals a troubling and escalated level of violence associated with the human smuggling trade.
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For many years, many people who smoked marijuana defended their actions, claiming that the substance is non-addictive and virtually harmless.
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SAGINAW, Mich. - Police said they caught an 8-year-old trying to sell marijuana to other children at a counseling center. Police were called to the Westlund Child Guidance Clinic after another boy told a teacher the 8-year-old had tried to sell pot to him.
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Young people who take cannabis frequently are at greater risk of developing psychotic mental illness including hallucinations, paranoia, hearing voices and a persecution complex.
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Two drug dealers - one from Wisconsin and one from Maine - are at the center of a legal dispute that has brought the federal criminal justice system to a near standstill.
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A synthetic version of the active  ingredient in marijuana, a legal treatment for nausea in cancer  patients undergoing chemotherapy, also helps symptoms like  pain, anxiety and depression, according to research presented  on Friday.
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THE NEWS: The Supreme Court considered whether state medical marijuana laws might be abused by people who aren't really sick, as the court heard arguments Monday on whether the federal government can prosecute patients who smoke pot. Justices will rule before next summer.
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SALLISAW, Okla. - Talk about your killer weed. Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers found 610 pounds of marijuana hidden in caskets being hauled in a truck stopped near this eastern Oklahoma town.  The driver, Timothy G.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A top American clinical researcher in the field of drug addiction warned Tuesday that decriminalizing marijuana could lead to increased abuse of the drug.
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A report on law enforcement violations of the rights of medical marijuana patients in California was released Monday, August 16. The three-month study found local and state law enforcement is routinely seizing the marijuana to which California patients ...
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LAZARAT, Albania  - Cannabis plants lay stacked up   like Christmas trees around a police station near this remote   Albanian village, a humbling sight for growers who two years   ago took pot-shots at an Italian police helicopter.