British granny escapes jail over cannabis crop
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A 68-year-old British woman who cooks with cannabis to ease her depression, aches and pains walked free from court Wednesday after being convicted of growing and possessing the drug.
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Pete Doherty was handed a suspended four-month jail sentence Friday for a series of drug and driving offenses.
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Calls for upgrading of cannabis to class B drug as home secretary says she has yet to make a decision
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Heiress transferred back to all-woman facility to complete sentence for violating probation.
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British soul singer Amy Winehouse has been summoned to a court in Norway to explain why she was caught in possession of marijuana in October, Norwegian and British media reported.
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A mother-of-two is due to be sentenced for stealing from two men after spiking their drinks with a date-rape drug.
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A mother-of-seven who lived in a council house "palace" funded by crime is jailed for six months.
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LOS ANGELES -- A Fresno County, Calif., man is facing years in prison after pleading guilty to illegally growing marijuana and failing to report thousands of dollars in income.
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A woman who swindled up to Â£100,000 from men she met through lonely-hearts adverts avoids jail.
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Heiress regains her freedom after jail time for violating probation on driving ban.
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A Montana mother who allowed her 18-month-old baby daughter to inhale from a marijuana water pipe on several occasions was properly convicted, but should not have to spend five years in jail, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday.
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Rock star Pete Doherty has escaped a jail sentence, despite flouting the terms of his court-imposed drug treatment programme by being caught with heroin and crack cocaine.
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A 68-year-old woman faces jail after being found guilty Wednesday of growing and possessing cannabis which she said was for medicinal purposes.
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Two British teenage girls were sentenced Wednesday to nine months in jail for trying to smuggle cocaine out of Ghana in laptop bags, government officials said.
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A LAPTOP owner sent her computer for repair - and got another one back that gave instructions on how to set up a drug farm.   Stacey Knox, 27, from Newcastle, said: "There were more than 100 pictures of every different kind of cannabis and guides on how to avoid being caught by the police.
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A British court sentenced a woman to five years in prison for using the "date rape" sedative Rohypnol to drug and then rob wealthy men after picking them up in London bars.
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Singer Pete Doherty escaped jail on Friday despite admitting a string of drug and driving offences.