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Chicago Cops Find Massive Pot Field

Think two football fields of plants worth $10M

(Newser) - In Chicago, where skyscrapers are as likely to sprout up as anything a farmer might plant, someone decided there was just enough room to grow something a little more organic: Marijuana. Just days before the crop on a chunk of land the size of two football fields would have been...

Cops: Suspect Tried to Eat Marijuana Plant

Not surprisingly, Jeremiah Carmody ended up in jail

(Newser) - Perhaps it was a case of the munchies: Police in northeastern Pennsylvania say an alleged pot dealer tried to destroy evidence by eating a marijuana plant. According to local media, 33-year-old Jeremiah Carmody faces several drug-related charges following events yesterday in Scranton, when police say they went to his house...

Drug Traffickers Love Oregon's Lenient Medical Marijuana Laws

'Oregonian' investigation: It's an easy way to make a lot of money

(Newser) - Medical marijuana became legal in Oregon 14 years ago, and since then it's become a booming source of profits for illicit traffickers, reports the Oregonian . The newspaper's investigation found that the traffickers easily exploit the pot program thanks to "scant state oversight and Oregon's exceptionally generous...

Quitting Pot Can Cause Withdrawal, Too


 Quitting Pot 
 Can Cause 
 Withdrawal, Too 
study says
Sep 27, 2012 2:03 PM CDT

Quitting Pot Can Cause Withdrawal, Too

Study rejects notion drug isn't addictive

(Newser) - Heard that pot isn't addictive? Not so, says a new study: Quitting can lead to withdrawal symptoms "very similar to what people experience with tobacco," says one of the study's authors. "It makes you irritable. It makes you restless. It makes it hard to sleep....

Barney Frank: Pot Brownie 'Made Me Sleepy'

Frank calls decriminalizing marijuana a 'personal freedom' issue

(Newser) - While speaking out in favor of decriminalizing marijuana on CNN yesterday, Rep. Barney Frank admitting to having tried pot, although not smoking it. "I did have a brownie once," said Frank. "It made me sleepy." For most of the interview, Frank framed it as a "...

Sheriff's Rep to Fiona Apple: 'Shut Up and Sing'

Suggests that hash arrest made singer more famous

(Newser) - Fiona Apple's hash arrest just got dramatic: At a concert two days after she was busted, Apple called out four people involved in the arrest, Rolling Stone reports; TMZ speculates she was talking about police officers who allegedly mistreated her. Now a spokesperson for the Sheriff's Department...

Fiona Apple Jailed on Hashish Charges

Singer spends the night behind bars in Texas

(Newser) - Fiona Apple didn't learn Willie Nelson's lesson. The singer-songwriter had to spend the night in jail in Sierra Blanca, Texas, because an inspection of her tour bus yesterday turned up what police say was a "tiny amount of pot and hash," reports AP . The problem is...

Elderly Farmer Accidentally Grows Field of Pot


 Elderly Farmer 
 Accidentally 
 Grows Field 
 of Pot 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Sep 9, 2012 9:01 AM CDT

Elderly Farmer Accidentally Grows Field of Pot

The culprit: Bird food with hemp seeds, he says

(Newser) - Want to keep the drug police off your property? Don't sow your land with birdseed. That's what a 74-year-old German farmer says he did—and the bird food contained hemp seeds, resulting in an accidental 10-foot-high cannabis crop, Der Spiegel reports. He explained that he wanted to grow...

&#39;Starsky&#39; to Fight Pot Arrest
 'Starsky' to Fight Pot Arrest 
Aug 31, 2012 6:07 PM CDT

'Starsky' to Fight Pot Arrest

Paul Michael Glaser says it was legally prescribed marijuana

(Newser) - The actor who played California cop David Starsky on TV's Starsky & Hutch in the 1970s plans to fight pot-possession charges in Ohio. Paul Michael Glaser got arrested at a hotel in Bowling Green when police answered a complaint about someone smoking marijuana near an elevator, reports the local...

Teens: Smoke Pot Now, See IQ Take Hit Later
Teens: Smoke Pot Now,
See IQ Take Hit Later
study says
Aug 27, 2012 3:26 PM CDT

Teens: Smoke Pot Now, See IQ Take Hit Later

Effect only apparent in those who used frequently before age 18

(Newser) - If you're going to smoke pot frequently, you might want to hold off until you're at least 18. A new study finds that teens who are regular marijuana users may end up with a long-term drop in their IQ—but the trend was only spotted in those who...

DEA Digs Up $1B Worth of Pot Plants

2 month operation results in death of 578K plants

(Newser) - Drought may be upon us, but the government is tearing up green crops all the same. The DEA and forest authorities have dug up more than 578,000 cannabis plants in the western US since July 1, as part of a two-month operation that saw 14 people arrested in California....

Busted: Huge Pot Farm in Old Rome Subway

Raid yields $3.7M worth of marijuana

(Newser) - Mussolini probably never saw this one coming. An old metro tunnel in Rome built on the fascist leader's orders during the 1930s was covertly operating as a cannabis farm, reports Reuters . Police, using that most ancient detective device—their noses—caught the scent of marijuana just outside its entrance....

Denver Snuffing Out Marijuana Billboards

Pot sign-spinners annoy city council

(Newser) - The medical marijuana market in Denver is a little too competitive for the city council's liking. The council has voted 13-0 to ban the psychedelic billboards, sidewalk sign-twirlers, windshield leaflets, and other methods of outdoor advertising used by the city's many marijuana dispensaries, reports the Denver Post . Radio,...

Pot Will Be Legal, And Soon
 Pot Will Be Legal, and Soon 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Jul 29, 2012 11:02 AM CDT

Pot Will Be Legal, and Soon

Julian Brookes thinks Colorado, or some other state, will take the leap

(Newser) - This November, three states will vote on whether to legalize marijuana for old-fashioned "getting-high purposes." Colorado is the best bet—one poll has the public behind the bill by a 61-27 margin—but Oregon and/or Washington might as well, and even if all of them chicken out, Julian...

LA City Council Votes to Ban Marijuana Shops

Dispensaries will be ordered to shut down immediately

(Newser) - Los Angeles pot shops are about to go up in a puff of smoke. The LA City Council has voted unanimously to ban all marijuana dispensaries. The ban will go into effect 30 days after Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signs the law, which he intends to do. As many as 900...

World's Biggest Pot-Head Countries

Polite little Palau is surprisingly blunt

(Newser) - What sort of ranking gives its top spots to Palau, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam, and puts the US at No. 7? The list of the world's top countries for marijuana use, reports Business Insider , based on the UN's latest World Drug Report . Palau dominated the rankings,...

Chicago Cops Won't Arrest You Over a Little Weed

But you'll get still get a ticket under new marijuana policy

(Newser) - Expect to smell some celebratory puffs in Chicago. The city council voted today to approve a policy allowing police to ticket, rather than arrest, anyone found with 15 grams of marijuana or less, NBC Chicago reports. The policy, which is backed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel among others, passed by a...

GOP Opposition Snuffs Out NY Pot Proposal

Cuomo plan fails despite backing of Bloomberg, NYPD

(Newser) - Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to reduce "stop and frisk" arrests by downgrading public possession of marijuana from a misdemeanor to a violation has gone up in smoke—at least for now. Cuomo has declared the plan, which was supported by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD...

US Navy Hauls in 10 Tons of Pot
 US Navy Hauls in 10 Tons of Pot 
Jun 20, 2012 1:30 AM CDT

US Navy Hauls in 10 Tons of Pot

Smugglers dump load when spotted off Mexican coast

(Newser) - Smugglers dumped at least 10 tons of marijuana in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico after they were spotted by troops on an aircraft carrier, reports the San Diego Union-Tribune . Starboard lookouts on the USS Nimitz carrier watched two suspicious boats as sailors started dumping black plastic bags...

RI Becomes 15th State to Decriminalize Pot

Possession of under an ounce to become civil violation

(Newser) - Good news for Rhode Island tokers: A bill decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana has been signed into law by Gov. Lincoln Chafee, reports the Providence Journal . The law makes possession of less than an ounce of marijuana a civil violation with a $150 fine, although three violations in 18 months...

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