How Law Enforcement Uses Drug Money To Fight Crime In Oakland County, drug forfeiture funds have been used to buy Taser stun guns (above) in addition to a mobile command post (below). In Wayne County, Dearborn police used $40,000 of their drug forfeiture cash to start a drug court. Chesterfield Township Police Chief Steve Robbins hopes to use $5,000 in drug forfeiture funds for drug-testing kits to be sold at cost to the public. Somewhere in the Michigan prison system, there may be an inmate whose illegal drug profits will be spent in January by the Chesterfield Township police. [continues 853 words]
Marijuana Backers Join Adopt-A-Highway Program to Clean Up 2-Mile Stretch in Macomb ROSEVILLE -- Michigan's Adopt-A-Highway program has a new partner: the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Signs went up last month on the median of Gratiot at 12 Mile and 14 Mile roads announcing that the pro-pot organization's Macomb County chapter will work for free to pick up litter on that two-mile stretch of road. Donna Paridee, a New Baltimore homemaker and mother of three, said her chapter's cleanup campaign is, in part, an effort to counter the stereotype that NORML is made up solely of pot-smoking burnouts who live to get high. "We are your neighbors. We have jobs and families like everyone else." [continues 152 words]
ROSEVILLE -- Michigan's Adopt-A-Highway program has a new partner: the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Signs went up last month on the median of Gratiot Avenue at 12 Mile and 14 Mile roads announcing that the pro-pot organization's Macomb County chapter will work for free to pick up litter on that two-mile stretch of road. Donna Paridee, a New Baltimore homemaker and mother of three, said her chapter's cleanup campaign is, in part, an effort to counter the stereotype that NORML is made up solely of pot-smoking burnouts who live to get high. [continues 90 words]
