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Short-term cannabis use does not seem to
adversely affect CD4+ cell counts or viral loads in HIV -infected patients,
according to a report published in the August 19th issue of the Annals of
Internal Medicine... t-g.com/ ... 22:49:54Police say they found marijuana in a car stopped for
speeding Thursday night on North Main Street. A "roach" was detected in an ash
tray and seeds with a small amount of marijuana between the car's seats by drug
dog... [absurd!] indystar.com/ ... 12:11:29Indianapolis metropolitan police seized 75
marijuana plants Thursday and arrested a 28-year-old man they say was growing
and selling the drug in an Eastside house... 22 full-grown and 53 immature
marijuana plants and other evidence, including a high-powered grow light...
found [prohibition victim] sitting in a van near the home where, police said,
he was preparing to smoke marijuana "blunt" when he saw the detectives approach
his home. kpho.com/ ... 12:10:32PHOENIX -- The Border Patrol
made a major pot bust south of Tucson... A trash truck was carrying a lot more
than garbage -- almost 13,000 pounds of pot... Agents were able to stop more
than $10.3 million worth [according to the BULL$#!+ prohibitionist
propaganda machine] of marijuana from hitting the streets... policeone.com/ ... 12:09:23NOGALES, Ariz. - U.S. Border
Patrol agents seized 1,100 pounds of marijuana worth about
[absurdly-inflated prohibition-supported] $879,000... 45 miles east of
Wellton... Agents responded to an activated ground sensor and discovered
vehicle tracks leading to an unoccupied gray 2006 Ford F-250... naplesnews.com/ ... 00:12:08Investigators from the Collier
County Sheriff’s Office seized [grossly-inflated
prohibition-supported] $202,000 worth of marijuana Thursday morning after
receiving a tip that a Golden Gate Estates home was being used as a grow
house... 202 marijuana plants that weighed more than 86 pounds and $20,000
worth of equipment used to grow the marijuana... [AND REMEMBER... these are
just the ones they catch! Everyone who wants to smoke can still get it! REPEAL!
REPEAL! REPEEEEAAALLLLL! STOP THE MADNESS!] heraldsun.com/ ... 00:10:23The Durham Police Department's Interstate
Criminal Enforcement (ICE) team recovered 43 pounds of marijuana during two
traffic stops this week... stopped a 2007 Chrysler on Interstate 85... found 30
pounds of marijuana, with a [grossly inflated prohibition-supported]
street value of approximately $30,000... stopped a Nissan Xterra on I-85... 13
pounds of marijuana, with a [grossly inflated prohibition-supported]
street value of approximately $13,000... kfoxtv.com/ ... 00:09:05U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers made the biggest
marijuana bust at an El Paso port of entry in years... two large finds at the
Bridge of the Americas Thursday... Both involved false compartments in
tractor-trailers and they happened about 20-minutes apart... 430 lbs. of
marijuana in the rear of a trailer.... discovered 4,700 lbs. of marijuana by
drilling into the wall... This week alone, 12,000 lbs. of marijuana have been
confiscated. At this time last year, that number was only at 2,500 lbs...
[AND REMEMBER! This is just what they're catching, tip of the
iceberg....] 
A snake and his owners were
reunited this week after the missing reptile was found in the glove compartment
of a rented car... 4-foot red-tailed boa constrictor... disappeared two weeks
ago after his owners left him in the car while they went into an east side
video rental store... reuters.com/ ... 11:48:53U.S.
officials said on Friday that melamine, a chemical found in fertilizers in Asia
and which should not be in pet food in any amounts, has been detected in the
wheat gluten used by Canada-based Menu Foods... Marijuana. Legalize marijuana
and tax it... Thinking differently about marijuana is hardly new to Oregon...
Really, the question is not whether marijuana should be legalized. The question
is how it should be legalized... I call upon the Oregon
Legislature and Gov. Kulongoski to adopt a new law establishing the Oregon
Marijuana Legalization Commission... Oregonians, kill the double
standard. Let common sense prevail. Let the people decide. Get government off
marijuana smokers’ backs and into their pockets. The potential revenue
stream looks nothing less beautiful than amber, no, emerald, waves of leaves.
Yeah, I know again what many of you are thinking. I don’t even use the
stuff! I use other drugs, you know, the kind whose trade organization flies a
state’s lawmakers to Hawaii and then pumps them full of their deadly
product to assure it remains socially accepted and lightly taxed... english.vietnamnet.vn/ ...
12:12:50Marijuana
fields of thousands of square meters have been found in provinces around the
northern city of Hanoi... found a 1,000 sq.m marijuana field in Tho Xuan
Commune... "Straight beds of marijuana are surrounded by banana, maize trees
and only several meters from residential areas. This is the first time I saw
criminals who dared to grow marijuana in such a public manner..." According to
police, marijuana is planted for years without being detected because local
people don’t know what a marijuana tree is. The owner of a marijuana field
said that they were medicinal plants because marijuana looks like artemesia, an
herbal tree... 
Army Master Sgt. Sean
M. Thomas, 33, of Harrisburg, Pa., died March 27 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his
unit came in contact with enemy forces using indirect fire during combat
operations. Thomas was assigned to the 28th Division Support Command,
Harrisburg, Pa. defenselink.mil/ ... 13:21:18Marine Staff Sgt.
Marcus A. Golczynski, 30, of Lewisburg, Tenn., died March 27 from wounds
received while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq.
Golczynski was assigned to Marine Forces Reserve's 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine
Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Nashville, Tenn. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:53:09Army
Spc. Sean K. McDonald, 21, of Rosemount, Minn., died Mar 25 in Baghdad,
Iraq, of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his
vehicle. McDonald was assigned to the 9th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Brigade
Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Wiesbaden, Germany. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:52:47Army
Sgt. Curtis J. Forshey, 22, of Hollidaysburg, Pa., died Mar. 27 in
Homburg, Germany, of a non-combat related illness. Forshey was assigned to the
129th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 101st Sustainment Brigade, 101st
Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky. An
Alamance County daycare is closed after police found guns and marijuana inside
while children were present... officers immediately smelled marijuana in the
home, and after they asked, owner... handed them four ounces of marijuana...
Officers also found handguns, rifles and rounds of ammunition, along with
iguana, rabbits ahd other animals running through the house... [day care
operators severely unclear on the concept! Even repeal won't help this kind of
folk.] foxnews.com/ ... 13:18:42Some 960 pounds of marijuana
was found hidden inside concrete pillars in the back of a tractor-trailer at
the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales... U.S. Customs and Border Protection
officers said they pulled the truck over Wednesday afternoon for secondary
inspection due to the nervous behavior [yeah,
sure] of the 32-year-old Mexican driver and suspicions about the cargo's
destination in Colorado... thetandd.com/ ... 01:10:21ST. MATTHEWS – Three people were
arrested Wednesday after the U.S. Postal Service delivered 50 pounds of
marijuana to a Calhoun County residence in what officials are calling a
controlled mail delivery. Calhoun County Sheriff Thomas Summers said his
deputies, along with U.S. Postal Service agents, intercepted the parcel
containing two plastic containers filled with marijuana. "This is yet another
major blow that we have dealt the people who choose to deal drugs in our
county," Summers said... nbc11.com/ ... 01:09:53OAKLAND, Calif. -- Authorities
seized a dozen guns, flak jackets and more than $250,000 in marijuana during a
raid of an alleged drug dealer's compound guarded by pit bulls and surveillance
cameras... [33yo] arrested Tuesday after police said they found 148 marijuana
plants growing in his house. Officers also discovered assault rifles, sawed-off
shotguns, high powered rifles and other firearms in nearly every room,
including a bathroom.... "It was like an armed camp...." nashuatelegraph.com/ ...
01:08:56CONCORD
– A legislative move that would have allowed the chronically ill to use
marijuana for a "medically debilitating" condition came up just nine votes shy
of clearing the House of Representatives on Wednesday... sfgate.com/ ... 01:08:30DIAMOND BAR,
Calif...Authorities on Wednesday seized nearly $10 million worth of marijuana
being grown inside a four-bedroom home that was being used as a pot
greenhouse... more than 1,800 plants in every part of the house along with
lights, an irrigation system and other equipment used to cultivate marijuana...
CINCINNATI... An ordinance
that allows sentences of up to 30 days in jail for possession of small amounts
of marijuana is responsible for removing 62 guns from the streets in the past
year, and that alone is reason enough to extend the law, police say...
[HOW unclear on the concept can you BE?] "It's like a
no-brainer..." [said] Police Chief Thomas Streicher Jr... [Got that
right!] About 50 people attended a hearing of council's law and public
safety committee to voice their objection to the ordinance. Several disputed
police statistics that violent crime has been reduced because of the ordinance.
They cited the record number of homicides in the city in 2006 and promised to
make the ordinance a campaign issue in the next council election. "We will
unseat anybody who votes for this ordinance..." cbc.ca/ ... 12:35:09A medical marijuana activist
in Calgary was sentenced Tuesday to four months in jail for trafficking in
marijuana, but the judge ruled that corrections officials must make sure he has
access to the drug while behind bars... 
A woman with three
crocodiles strapped to her waist was stopped at the Gaza-Egypt border crossing
after guards noticed that she looked "strangely fat..." "Even though she was
veiled and covered, even with so many clothes on there was something
strange..." reuters.com/ ... 14:59:57Global
drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline faces a court case on Tuesday for misleading
advertising after two 14-year-olds found its popular blackcurrant drink Ribena
contained almost no vitamin C... advertising claims that "the blackcurrants in
Ribena have four times the vitamin C of oranges" in 2004... The Nebraska State Patrol
Headquarters Troop-Lincoln, Sunday, March 25, 2007, seized 950 pounds of
marijuana during a routine traffic stop along Interstate 80... license plate
violation... 950.2 lbs of marijuana... wdbj7.com/ ... 15:27:35VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. Virginia
Beach police say they have seized more than two-thousand marijuana plants in a
barn used for growing the illegal drugs -- the largest seizure of a pot-growing
operation in the city's history... wlos.com/ ... 15:27:09JERUSALEM... A pro-marijuana
party in Israel is advising its religious supporters to abstain during
Passover... The Green Leaf party says cannabis is among the substances Jews are
forbidden to consume during the week-long festival that begins Monday...
A
powerful spring storm unleashed dozens of tornadoes over the past two days in
the central Plains states... A tornado near Oklahoma City left two people in
critical condition, damaged a dozen homes, knocked down high voltage power
lines and pushed vehicles off the highway like toys... Tornadoes or high winds
are believed to have killed at least four people in three states, including a
woman who was flung into a tree by a twister that witnesses said was as wide as
two football fields... At least 65 tornadoes were reported in Oklahoma, Texas,
Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska by late Wednesday... The outbreak might not be
over, however... "Today's threat will be found from Texas into Oklahoma and
Arkansas, while the rest of the Plains will be dealing with major flooding
issues, as another 3-5 inches of rain is likely to fall from midday today into
the later part of Saturday..." Vance and Barbra Woodbury were killed Wednesday
when a twister blew apart their home near the Panhandle community of Elmwood
[Okla]. "We set off the tornado sirens, but they live too far out to hear
them," said Dixie Parker, Beaver County's emergency management director. "The
house was just flattened, the out buildings are gone. All that's left is
debris..." 
Cells from a pig transplanted
into a diabetic man from New Zealand are still producing insulin nearly 10
years later, prompting a biotechnology company to plan research to see if
others could benefit... 
A deadly species of
jellyfish, translucent and the size of a thumbnail, is spreading along
Australia’s coastline as a result of global warming, scientists warned
today... Irukandji jellyfish are among the world’s most toxic creatures
– all but impossible to detect in the water but packing a potentially
lethal punch belying their tiny size... marine biologists have now found them
off Queensland’s Fraser Island — a popular tourist spot about 400
miles south of their previously assumed range. Their discovery has halted
production of a Hollywood film, Fool’s Gold, starring Kate Hudson and
Matthew McConaughey, who were originally due to be filmed swimming in the
sea... 
DARWIN, Australia... An
environmental group said Tuesday it had captured 
Democratic presidential
hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Monday to create a universal health care
system if elected, saying she "learned a lot" during the failed health care
effort of her husband's presidency... [She will later unveil her
"5-year-plan" for top-down control of the economy, and her plan to unify all
media news under the Prada news agency...]