Worker Arrested For Selling “Extra Meat” Weed At Subway How The NYPD Gets Away With Illegal Marijuana Arrests BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — Mississippi Department of Transportation law enforcement officers say a tractor-trailer they stopped this week was hauling about $7 million worth of marijuana. The Sun Herald reports the MDOT announced Thursday they stopped […]
Hundreds of New York parents are entangled in child neglect cases after being found with or admitting to using small amounts of marijuana. Despite the fact that these parents face little or no criminal charges, New York’s child welfare agency is pursuing these incidents and in some cases taking children from their homes. In one […]
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams estimates that the city has saved an estimated $2 million since his office decided to prosecute certain marijuana possession cases as a summary offense, rather than misdemeanors. Williams instituted the Small Amount of Marijuana (SAM) program in June 2010, which allows offenders with less than 30 grams of marijuana topay […]
MIAMI-Elizabeth Hunt was arrested in South Florida for selling marijuana out of the Subway restaurant she worked for. The New York Daily News reports: Cops said customers who wanted their subs with a side of green would say the password while ordering and then drop $10 into Hunt’s tip jar. “The ‘extra meat’ was a […]
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against a Kentucky man who was arrested after police burst into his apartment without a search warrant because they smelled marijuana and feared he was trying to get rid of incriminating evidence. Voting 8-1, the justices reversed a Kentucky Supreme Court ruling that threw out the evidence […]
ABOTTABAD, PAKISTAN-According to reports, marijuana plants were found on the outside of Bin Laden’s compound where he was killed. The New York Daily News reports: Reporters at Bin Laden’s million-dollar hideout discovered small plots of marijuana growing in the deserted lots on the compound’s perimeter. The dope plants were planted on three sides of the […]
NEW YORK-It is a known fact that while African Americans and white Americans use marijuana at the same statistical rate, African Americans are arrested for marijuana use at a much higher rate. Despite the fact that New York City is 60% white, white people only amount to 10% of all NYC marijuana arrests. WNYC has […]
EAST HAVEN, Conn. — The minority leader of the Rhode Island House, who recently dismissed debate over the decriminalization of marijuana as not worthy of legislators’ time, is facing pot-possession charges in Connecticut. Robert Watson, a Republican from East Greenwich, was stopped at a police checkpoint Friday and charged with possession of marijuana and drug […]
WOBURN, MA – Chanequa N. Campbell, the Harvard student who was implicated in the 2009 murder of Justin Cosby on Harvard campus has testified against Jabrai Copney, the boyfriend of her friend, Brittany Smith, who is accused of killing Cosby in a drug deal gone bad, has admitted to selling cocaine and marijuana while at […]
Atlanta — Rapper Gucci Mane, real name Radrick Davis, was arrested at the home of rapper, Waka Flocka, real name, Juaquin James. TMZ is reporting that weapons and marijuana have been found on the premises and that prostitution may be involved. Waka Flocka’s mom, Debra Antney told TMZ that the police were looking for evidence […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Californians heeded warnings of legal chaos and other dangers and rejected a ballot measure Tuesday that would have made their state the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use. The spirited campaign over Proposition 19 pitted the state’s political and law enforcement establishment against determined activists seeking to end the prohibition of […]
WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — The youngest child of reggae legend Bob Marley will spend seven years on probation for growing marijuana in her Philadelphia-area home. A Chester County judge offered 29-year-old Makeda Jahnesta Marley a choice: a shorter prison term or a long stint on probation. She opted for the latter and risks being […]
