US WA: Perry Tech Students Face New Test – A Drug Test
Snelgrove, Erin @ December 31, 1969 # No Comment Yet
Yakima Herald-Republic, 06 Sep 2010 – YAKIMA, Wash. — A graduate of Perry Technical Institute’s instrumentation program can land a job at an oil refinery earning as much $92,000 a year with overtime. But with such pay comes tremendous responsibility. One small mistake in calibrating pressure or temperature can cost lives, said Tony Nirk, who heads the Instrumentation & Industrial Automation Technology Department.
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US FL: Column: Obama Could Help Stop Mexico’s Bloodshed
Oppenheimer, Andres @ December 31, 1969 # No Comment Yet
Miami Herald, 04 Sep 2010 – MEXICO CITY — Here’s an interesting detail about the much-publicized recent arrest of Mexico’s top drug baron Edgar Valdez Villarreal, better known as "La Barbie" — he was caught with a U.S.-made M-16 semiautomatic rifle and other sophisticated arms that Mexican officials suspect were smuggled from the United States. In Mexico, U.S. arms smuggling is a big issue. President Felipe CalderA3n said during a visit to Washington in May that of all the guns and assault rifles seized in Mexico over the past three years, "more than 80 percent of those we have been able to trace came from the United States."
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US CA: Indoor Marijuana Grows In Rentals Put Landlords
Squires, Jennifer @ December 31, 1969 # No Comment Yet
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 06 Sep 2010 – SANTA CRUZ — Jon Castaline, a middle-aged disabled handyman, was looking for a place to store his tools and his medicinal marijuana plants. The rental units Jill Escher oversees on Beach Hill were perfect. While the one-car garage below a motel-turned-apartment complex didn’t have electricity or water, Castaline was allowed to install one power outlet so he could put up a light and do his handyman work in the storage area. For $145 a month, it was hard to beat.
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CN AB: Alderman Lauds Cop Strategy
Gandia, Renato @ December 31, 1969 # No Comment Yet
The Calgary Sun, 06 Sep 2010 – The past successes of a provincial policing group in fighting organized crime are proof unified efforts can bring gangs to their knees, says a Calgary alderman. Ald. Diane Colley-Urquhart, who sits on the board of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT), said the co-ordinated policing model is the way of the future because it works so effectively.
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US: Web: Can California’s Legalization Battle Kick-Start a Movement for Change?
McNally, Terrence @ December 31, 1969 # No Comment Yet
AlterNet, 06 Sep 2010 – Prohibition has failed — again. Drug prohibition has proven remarkably ineffective, costly and counter-productive. 500,000 people are behind bars today for violating a drug law – and hundreds of thousands more are incarcerated for other prohibition-related violations. There is a smarter approach usually called harm reduction. Reducing the number of people who use drugs is not nearly as important as reducing the death, disease, crime, and suffering associated with both drug misuse and failed policies of prohibition. Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and executive director of the DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE, the leading organizations in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs, grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights. He received his BA, JD, and PhD from Harvard, and a Master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. He authored COPS ACROSS BORDERS and co-authored POLICING THE GLOBE: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations.
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US MI: The Village of Holly Considering Medical Marijuana Ordinance
Manty, Trina @ December 31, 1969 # No Comment Yet
Flint Journal, 06 Sep 2010 – HOLLY, Michigan — The village of Holly is considering a zoning ordinance for medical marijuana facilities. The measure would allow businesses to seek permits from the village allowing them to produce and dispense medical marijuana.
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US MI: Co-Owner: Marijuana Clinic Still Operating
Kowalski, Steve @ December 31, 1969 # No Comment Yet
South Oakland Eccentric, 06 Sep 2010 – FERNDALE – Nine defendants charged in last month’s medical marijuana bust in Ferndale will face a pre-exam conference at 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 20, before Judge Joseph Longo, according to a spokeswoman in 43rd District Court in Ferndale. The exam set for last Thursday was adjourned. The co-owners of a medical marijuana facility on Hilton Road were among nine arraigned Aug. 27 in Hazel Park, the other jurisdiction of 43rd District Court, on felony charges, including allegations of conspiracy and the illegal manufacture and delivery of marijuana. The charges followed an Aug. 25 raid by deputies from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office.
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Australia: Column: Time to Start Thinking Again on Drug Laws
Davidson, Kenneth @ December 31, 1969 # No Comment Yet
The Age, 06 Sep 2010 – Huge Profits Ensure That New Traffickers Are Always Ready to Fill Any Gaps. THE report by The Age and Four Corners on a major drugs bust (code-named Operation Hoffman) by state police forces under the direction of the Australian Crime Commission was a cracking story. A fascinating cast of goodies and baddies was set against the background of a global drugs distribution chain, which was broken by following the money trail.
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US FL: Meth Lab Effects Linger
Carlson, Morgan @ December 31, 1969 # No Comment Yet
Jackson County Floridan, 05 Sep 2010 – But There Is No Monitoring, No Regulation Marianna resident Beverly Conrad opened her newspaper last Sunday to discover one of her rental properties on the front page. The night before, a shake and bake methamphetamine lab exploded in the front bedroom of the house on 4368 Lee Road, just outside of Marianna.
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US OR: Scio Not First Mid-valley District To Drug-Test
Moody, Jennifer @ December 31, 1969 # No Comment Yet
Albany Democrat-Herald, 05 Sep 2010 – BROWNSVILLE – While Scio students sign up for the first time for random drug testing, the Central Linn School District is continuing its own student testing policy, now in its 13th year. A Democrat-Herald story last week incorrectly named Scio as the first district in Linn County to start randomly testing student athletes and other extracurricular activity participants for drug use. Central Linn holds that distinction, having begun its program in 1997.
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