Anti-marijuana drive in forests in California
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The Bush administration has launched a campaign to eradicate thousands of acres of illegal marijuana plants from California's national forests, the U.S. Forest Service said on Thursday.
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California plans to sue the Bush administration over its plans to expand significantly the amount of logging allowed in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the state&#39;s Democratic attorney general said on Friday.
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Federal agents trailed Sparky Rose as he drove a Porsche Carrera convertible to his medical marijuana clinic. Under California law, clinics are supposed to dispense marijuana just to seriously ill people and clinic owners are to get only "reasonable compensation." But to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the sports car suggested that Rose might be pocketing big money from his purportedly nonprofit clinic, New Remedies Cooperative.
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By Sophia Kazmi, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep. 7--ALAMEDA COUNTY -- The Alameda County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday destroyed 1,500 marijuana plants discovered this week in the hills between Pleasanton and Fremont.
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The 22,740 marijuana plants discovered growing in and around Point Reyes National Seashore in California was a huge seizure and a huge environmental mess.
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By PAUL J. WEBER BIG SANDY, Texas - Barry Cooper sells a DVD on how to stash pot in your car without getting caught. This fall he will release a second one on how to keep police from raiding your home for marijuana.
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A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld an 2002 injunction barring three California marijuana clubs from giving the drug to medical patients with a prescription. The ruling by judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with the Justice Department, which first sued the dispensaries in 1998 to stop sales of medical marijuana to patients with a doctorâs approval, as allowed under a California law approved by voters in 1996. The law has been at the heart of a series of legal battles over state and federal drug laws, which categorize marijuana as illegal. The ruling was likely the last legal recourse for the clubs. In 2001, the United States Supreme Court heard the case and ruled against the California cooperatives.
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SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - A grandmother found with a trunkful of marijuana was convicted of drug running in what prosecutors said was an attempt to earn cash for a bingo habit.
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THE FEDERAL government&#39;s crusade against users of &quot;medical marijuana,&quot; even in states that allow sick people to have the drug, is obnoxious.
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By Scott Marshall, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep.
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Nonviolent drug offenders who were diverted to rehabilitation programs under Proposition 36 had higher rates of rearrest than those who remained in the criminal-justice system, a UCLA study released today says.
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California plans to sue the Bush administration over its plans to expand significantly the amount of logging allowed in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the state's Democratic attorney general said on Friday.
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By JOHN ARNOLD Journal Staff Writer  Santa Fe National Forest acting supervisor Martin Chavez has rejected an appeal by environmentalists who are fighting a controversial forest-thinning project near Las Vegas, N.M.
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California has become the first state to reward landowners for leaving forests standing to help control global warming, under a program adopted this week by the California Climate Action Registry.
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Italian mountaintop cervine dopefest Italian police busted two would-be marijuana cultivators after "unusually frisky" deer alerted the authorities as to the presence of their mountaintop dope plantation, UPI reports.â¦
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Southern states join in the marijuana battle to protect states' rights
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The grass may be greener on the inside for inmates at Japan&#39;s Abashiri Prison, where marijuana shoots have been sprouting in the exercise yard.