Mexico City - Police found 17 bodies stuffed in cars or dumped on streets in garbage bags across Mexico on Monday in the latest wave of violence apparently triggered by warring drug gangs. Federal investigators say the Sinaloa cartel is fighting a bloody turf war with the Gulf Cartel and their army of enforcers known as the Zetas over billion-dollar drug trafficking routes to the United States. According to a tally kept by Mexico City daily El Universal there have been more than 700 drug slayings since January. [end]
1,500-Per-Cent Profit On Legal Pot: Records OTTAWA - The federal government charges patients 15 times more for certified medical marijuana than it pays to buy the weed in bulk from its official supplier, newly released documents show. Critics say it's unconscionable to charge that high a markup to some of the country's sickest citizens, who have little income and are often cut off from their medical marijuana supply when they can't pay their government dope bills. [continues 331 words]
OTTAWA - The federal government charges patients 15 times more for certified medical marijuana than it pays to buy the weed in bulk from its official supplier, newly released documents show. Critics say it's unconscionable to charge that high a markup to some of the country's sickest citizens, who have little income and are often cut off from their medical marijuana supply when they can't pay their government dope bills. [end]
SPRINGFIELD -- During his 30 years as a Presbyterian pastor, the Rev. Bob Hillenbrand said, he encountered a number of folks whose treatment could have been enhanced by medical marijuana. Hillenbrand, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Rockford, recently joined an effort to allow those with debilitating medical conditions to legally possess the drug in Illinois. "I think there's a lot of ignorance about this," he said Monday. "I'm certainly not an expert myself, but I have heard quite a number of doctors say -- and I happen to agree with them -- that treatment like this might very well be in order." [continues 86 words]
Third Of Registered Users Cut Off, In Hock To Ottawa OTTAWA - The federal government charges patients 15 times more for certified medical marijuana than it pays to buy the weed in bulk from its official supplier, newly released documents show. Critics say it's unconscionable to charge that high a markup to some of the country's sickest citizens, who have little income and are often cut off from their medical marijuana supply when they can't pay their government dope bills. [continues 369 words]
Government Charging 1,500 Per Cent Markup OTTAWA - The federal government charges patients 15 times more for certified medical marijuana than it pays to buy the weed in bulk from its official supplier, newly released documents show. Critics say it's unconscionable to charge that high a markup to some of the country's sickest citizens, who have little income and are often cut off from their medical marijuana supply when they can't pay their government dope bills. Records obtained under the Access to Information Act show that Health Canada pays $328.75 for each kilogram of bulk medical marijuana produced by Prairie Plant Systems Inc. [continues 220 words]
OTTAWA - The federal government charges patients 15 times more for certified medical marijuana than it pays to buy the weed in bulk from its official supplier, newly released documents show. Critics say it's unconscionable to charge that high a markup to some of the country's sickest citizens, who have little income and are often cut off from their medical marijuana supply when they can't pay their government dope bills. Records obtained under the Access to Information Act show that Health Canada pays $328.75 for each kilogram of bulk medical marijuana produced by Prairie Plant Systems Inc. [continues 83 words]
Hamilton police were likely being watched on computer monitors when they shut down the largest grow operation in the city's history last month. Apart from the $12 million in marijuana spread among 49 apartments in three east end apartment buildings, plus thousands of dollars of grow op equipment, police say they found TV cameras in six units. Police say it's the first time they have found this in tackling the burgeoning grow op industry. "We've gone through grow ops where they've been booby trapped and they've had issues and alarms there that would have triggered someone was there, but this is the first time we've actually seen video cameras that were on site and directed to another source to let someone know someone was in their grow op," Deputy Chief Ken Leendertse told reporters yesterday after he made a brief presentation on the bust to the police services board. [continues 314 words]
Military, AG Target Drug Corruption In Border State MEXICO CITY -- Mexican soldiers detained more than 100 police officers Monday in the Texas border state of Nuevo Leon, and authorities said the officers would be held in custody and investigated for allegedly helping drug traffickers. The joint operation between the army and state attorney general's office targeted allegedly corrupt police in a dozen towns, and also in the state security ministry and the state police, authorities said in a statement. The officers were identified as a result of recent information obtained in the town of Marin, and more arrests in additional towns could be in the offing as a result of the ongoing investigation, the statement said. [continues 251 words]
The girl was going to try meth -- just once. Then steal -- just once. Then sleep with someone for the drug -- just once. But it was the last scene of the advertisement, one of four television ads that will air across the state starting today, that really caught 14-year-old Kayla Newnam's attention. The girl's younger sister decided to try the drug, too. "I'd never want my brother to end up like that. That would be horrible. And I'd never want to end up like that," Kayla said. "The scare tactic is working." [continues 265 words]
10 Arizona Counties Banding Together To Combat Meth Use A blond girl getting ready for a night out recoils in terror as she sees an image of herself as a bruised, bleeding addict huddled on the shower floor. An agitated boy runs through a laundry facility, attacking people and demanding money, when he encounters his former self and screams, "This wasn't supposed to happen!" These are just some of the graphic images that are part of an ad campaign hitting the airwaves, billboards and newspapers today to show the real-life horrors of methamphetamine use. advertisement [continues 777 words]
Editor: Re: 'Saltair pot bust nets 60 plants' (The Chronicle, April 10). Ladysmith RCMP Cpl. Rob Graves stated the net street value of 60 plants seized in the arrest was approximately $70,000. Such a claim leads me to two obvious conclusions. 1) Corporal Graves and his "Green Team" task force from the Nanaimo RCMP have been smoking the proceeds of [drug busts] to derive such a net worth from 60 plants, as they seem to believe one plant has a street value of more than $1,000 dollars. [continues 297 words]
We've all seen the images and heard the testimony of ailing Americans who gain relief from their chronic pain or discomfort by smoking marijuana -- who, in fact, have no other remedy at their disposal. People can't help chuckling over pictures of grandmoms and granddads smoking a "j" -- Cheech and Chong they're not. But of course there's nothing funny about these sufferers' need for medical marijuana -- for marijuana that has been prescribed for them by a doctor -- or the federal government's unmerciful threat to prosecute users even in states where it is not against the law. [continues 315 words]
