Marijuana sellers in Colorado could have to wear photo badges, and patients could have new limits on changing their primary dispensaries if tough, new rules are adopted next year.

The changes were contained in a 99-page list of draft rules posted online Thursday by Colorado regulators crafting the nation's most extensive rules for commercial marijuana sales.

The state revenue department is expected to adopt the new rules early next year and does not need approval by lawmakers.

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A family is accused of running a $1 million "designer marijuana" operation from their home in an unincorporated area near Tinley Park.

John Gecan, 52, his wife Darlene, 52, their son Christopher, 27, and another relative, James Osmolski, 22, were charged after police busted the pot growing operation in the 7,000-square-foot home in the 5300 block of West 175th Street, according to Cook County Sheriff's officials.

 

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Seven people have been arrested after nearly 11 tons of marijuana was found packed into six railroad cars from Mexico in what could be the largest pot seizure in the Chicago area.

........ The warehouse raid came after Customs agents in Eagle Pass, Texas came across a Union Pacific train bound for Chicago Heights carrying about 21,800 pounds of suspected marijuana, the office said.

The agents "observed a number of large bundled packages, referred to as 'super sacks,' in six cars on the train, the office said.

The agents opened one of the sacks and saw "13 cubic bundles, which were encrusted in a thick layer of fine red masonry pigment dust." Tests showed the packages all contained marijuana, the U.S. attorney's office said.

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Nearly $12.5 million worth of marijuana was seized by U.S. Border Patrol agents over a six-day span that began last Friday and ended Wednesday, according to a news release sent by the agency.

Agents confiscated nearly eight tons of marijuana in multiple, unrelated incidents throughout the Rio Grande Valley, the release said.

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In einem Surfbrett hat der Zoll am Flughafen Leipzig drei Kilogramm Kokain entdeckt. Das Rauschgift im Straßenverkaufswert von rund 180.000 Euro war im Bügel versteckt, wie die Zollfahnder am Donnerstag in Dresden mitteilten.

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Prosecutors in Georgia say they have seized 700,000 tabs of Ecstasy and have charged a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent along with 13 others in what they say was a large-scale drug trafficking scheme.

U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said Thursday authorities seized the Ecstasy worth more than $2.8 million at a house in Chamblee in northeast Atlanta.

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When gangsters kill a police officer - or even three of them - it rarely makes news in this violent border city.

What's worse, hardly anyone seems to mourn fallen cops.

When officers are gunned down, as they have been 65 times so far this year in this city alone, and 475 times across the nation just through October, many citizens think it's because they're crooked or mixed up with drug cartels.

So, on a recent day, the fate of municipal police Officers Pedro Ramos, Mayra Ibarra and Osvaldo Rodriguez as they sat in a parked police pickup caused little stir in these parts, and wasn't worthy of a front-page article in either major newspaper.

The officers were patrolling in the San Felipe del Real district of this city of 1.3 million people. They pulled up to an elementary school, and a fourth officer hopped out to get a signature on a log to show that the cops had made their rounds.

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