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Once again, it’s Kush in the top pot spot for the month. Perennial runners-up Diesel and Purps were also well represented in April, and after a two-month absence, Haze returned to the list of most-submitted strains this month. Meanwhile, White Widow cracked the top five for the first time in 2010 (last appearance: November 2009).

hightimes.com

Sonica Devi, 22, a final year student at Derby University, developed a new method of forensic analysis to help police find tiny traces of drugs.

She put her method, which makes detection of the drug possible even at a million millionth of a gram, to the test on samples taken from telephone boxes across Derby.

telegraph.co.uk

The Mexican Navy has seized 2.4 tonnes of cocaine stashed in a fishing boat intercepted in the Pacific waters.

The navy acted on a tip from the US intelligence that drugs might be aboard the Mexican-flagged vessel.

calcuttatube.com

Los Angeles city prosecutors are sending letters to 439 medical marijuana dispensaries warning them that they must shut down by June 7, when an ordinance to control pot shops will finally take effect after years of debate and delay.

Frank Mateljan, spokesman for the city attorney’s office, said the Police Department and city building inspectors compiled the list of illegal dispensaries. “We’re not saying we have them all,” he said. “This is the initial blanketing of locations that we are aware of at this time.”

latimes.com
policelink.monster.com
Map: Marijuana dispensaries told to close

UK's Liberal Democrats, polling higher than ever in the lead-up to a federal election, want to remove criminal penalties for cannabis possession and allow Dutch-style cannabis cafés.

Internal party policy documents leaked to the UK's Daily Mail suggest permitting possession, social supply to adults and cultivation for personal use. The release of the documents follows an internal party vote to make it "no longer a crime for the occupier or manager of premises to permit someone to use cannabis on those premises."

cannabisculture.com
old zack

Ein Mann aus Troisdorf soll geholfen haben, Kokain nach Europa zu schmuggeln, um es auf dem lettischen Markt zu verkaufen. Am Dienstag (04.05.10) spricht das Landgericht Bonn das Urteil gegen ihn und zwei Komplizen. Es könnte milde ausfallen - dank eines Deals.

wdr.de

For much of his life, Richard Lee needed neither liberation nor a cause.

The Oakland medical pot entrepreneur, who spent $1.3 million to qualify this November's initiative to make recreational pot use legal in California, once lived for thundering his Harley-Davidson motorcycle down Texas highways.

His father, Bob Lee, said his son used to ride to a Houston airport, climb into an ultralight airplane and soar above the rice fields, "playing tag with the seagulls."

sacbee.com
ukiahdailyjournal.com
miamiherald.com
whyprohibition.ca

The Guardia Civil has intercepted three young men and recovered two tons of hashish in Estepona.
The drugs were being transported on a seven metre long boat, which has now been impounded along with two vehicles.

typicallyspanish.com