Archive for the ‘Law Enforcement’ Category
Urinalysis Tests And Marijuana Use
On September 19, 2008 in Courts, Instruction, Law Enforcement
Military Court Martial Lawyer Michael Waddington discusses Urinalysis Tests and marijuana Use
BBC Reporter Gets High on Burning Crops
On September 11, 2008 in Drug War, Humor, In The News, Law Enforcement, Video
Louisiana Lawmen Play Fast And Loose with the Constitution
On August 29, 2008 in Civil Rights, Drug War, In The News, Law Enforcement
In its 2000 decision in Indianapolis v. Edmond, the US Supreme Court held that efforts to attack the drug trade by holding a checkpoint to look for drugs was a violation of the Fourth Amendment’s protection of the right to be free from unwarranted searches and seizures. In the years since then, a handful of departments across the county, usually in the South, have brazenly trumpeted their resort to drug checkpoints. Read the rest of this entry »
Feds Score Another Conviction Against a California Medical Marijuana Dispensary Operator
On August 15, 2008 in Courts, Law Enforcement, Legalization, Medical Marijuana
In a trial that garnered national attention because of the conflict between state and federal marijuana laws, a federal jury in Los Angeles Tuesday convicted the owner of a Morro Bay medical marijuana dispensary on five counts of violating federal drug laws. As was the case in previous federal prosecutions, the defense was not allowed to mount a medical marijuana defense or even mention the words “medical marijuana” during the course of the trial.
Charles Lynch, 46, operator of Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers in San Luis Obispo County, faces a minimum of five years in prison and as many as 85 years after being found guilty of distributing more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, some of it to people considered minors under federal law. Read the rest of this entry »
Bolivia to Fund Own Anti-Drug Unit, Wants to Reduce ‘U.S. Influence’
On August 15, 2008 in Drug War, Government, Law Enforcement, World
The Bolivian government will fund an anti-drug unit for the first time next year in a bid to reduce foreign involvement in its fight against the cocaine trade. The primary foreign country involved in Bolivian anti-drug matters is the United States, although it currently gets some added from the European Union, too.
Bolivia is the world’s number three coca and cocaine producer, behind Colombia and Peru, and has a government sympathetic to coca growers. But it has insisted it is combating the diversion of coca into the illicit cocaine market under the slogan “zero cocaine, not zero coca.” Read the rest of this entry »
