More than $5 million worth of pot, $500,000 worth of cocaine and $70,000 in cash were seized following a drug bust on Chicago's Southwest Side.

Officers from the Chicago Police Narcotics Section got a tip of illegal drug activity near 77th and Kilbourn.

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Mexican federal prosecutors say troops who raided a house of a major kingpin killed in a gunbattle with soldiers found $7 million in cash.

A statement from the federal Attorney General's Office says soldiers also found jewelry, luxury watches, guns, two hand grenades and three expensive cars in the house where Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel was killed Thursday.

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Sinaloa drug cartel: Leader's death may cause fight for power
old zack

This is the image greeting travellers at the border. Behind the barbed wire snaking up the hillside, the huge portraits of Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei dominate the valley.

This is the border between Iran and Turkey.

The Esendere crossing, one of just a handful of official transit points between the two countries, is in a dusty valley high up in the mountains.

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Drugs kill, and you should just say no. Suzanne Dyer knows this as well as anyone: her son, Chris, died last year from a seizure caused by the "legal high" GBL, after a milder form of the same compound, GHB, was banned. In Our Drugs War, the documentary-maker Angus Macqueen followed Suzanne to her son's grave, where she sat trailing her fingers along the base of the headstone commemorating his 24 years of life. "I say that I love him," she said, her voice nearly breaking. "I'll say to him sometimes that it'll be all right, and I know he's in a better place. And that we miss him. 'Cos we do miss him. So much. I'm sorry he's dead and I'm sorry he suffered so much."

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Why do we so wilfully cover up the failure of the war on drugs?
We will never win war on drugs top cops admit
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Eine Mehrheit der Deutschen ist führ eine liberalere gesetzliche Regelung zu Cannabis. Nur eine Minderheit von 40% spricht sich für eine Beibehaltung oder Verschärfung des derzeitigen strafrechtlichen Verbots aus. Das ergab eine aktuelle EMNID-Umfrage, die der Deutsche Hanf Verband in Auftrag gegeben hatte

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The campaign to pass Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization initiative, had just $62,000 in cash to spend at the end of June, according to a campaign finance report filed today, an amount far short of what would be needed to run a significant television campaign.

Opponents of the measure had less than $19,000 in cash at the end of June.

latimes.com

Medical marijuana users may not have the option of taking a spoonful of sugar with their medicine if a new Senate bill makes it through the House.

Last Thursday, the Senate passed a bill that would double the penalties for people who sell drug-infused sweets.

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A city in California has spelled out how much it intends to charge business's who wish to set up as medical marijuana growing operations, and its asking for a thumping $211,000 US dollars in city permit fees alone.

cannazine.co.uk