Moroccan maritime police seized some 2.7 tonnes of cannabis resin bound for Europe off the north African country's Mediterranean coast, local authorities announced Saturday.

Two powerboats carrying the drugs were intercepted on Friday by coast guards of the royal police in the region of Nador, authorities said.

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Authorities in Humboldt County have been especially busy this week in finding marijuana gardens.

Sheriff's officials say during a series of raids between Monday and Thursday, deputies and officers from other agencies discovered more than 60,000 marijuana plants.

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Biloxi police arrested a Baton Rouge man Thursday night for possessing close to 300 pounds of spice.

Police stopped Hasan Zaben, 31, on Interstate 10 for careless driving. That's when an officer noticed a small amount of Spice in plain view. During a search of the vehicle, officers said they found about 300 pounds of spice packaged under several names.

wlbt.com

4:20 statt Spice

Corruption among Mexican police is fueling violence in Mexico, a top U.S. official said Friday at the 7th Annual Border Security Conference.

Gil Kerlikowske, head of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy, was one of the speakers at the conference at the University of Texas at El Paso.

elpasotimes.com

Police in Mexico say members of a drug cartel blocked off at least 13 major roads in Monterrey on Saturday.

Drivers were dragged out of their vehicles by armed men and their cars used to cut off the roads in the north-eastern city.

The blockade happened after a shootout between the Mexican army and alleged members of a drug cartel, in which four people were killed.

bbc.co.uk

An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can't get elsewhere - an inside view of their country's raging drug war.

Operating from behind a thick curtain of computer security, Blog del Narco in less than six months has become Mexico's go-to Internet site at a time when mainstream media are feeling pressure and threats to stay away from the story.

Many postings, including warnings and a beheading, appear to come directly from drug traffickers. Others depict crime scenes accessible only to military or police.

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GIVE MEXICAN President Felipe Calder?n credit for honesty as well as courage. Last week he presided over a three-day public conference to assess the results of nearly four years of war against Mexico's drug cartels. Most of the facts were grim:

-- According to the chief of the national intelligence service, 28,000 people have died violently since Mr. Calder?n deployed the Mexican army against the drug gangs in December 2006. That number represents an increase of 3,000 over the death toll the government reported earlier this summer.

washingtonpost.com

Die Stuttgarter Staatsanwaltschaft geht nach Informationen des SPIEGEL einer Anzeige nach, derzufolge der Waffenhersteller Heckler & Koch gezielt illegal Gewehre in mexikanische Unruheprovinzen lieferte. Das Unternehmen nennt den Vorwurf absurd.

Der Oberndorfer Waffenhersteller Heckler & Koch soll ab 2006 illegal G36-Gewehre in mexikanische Unruheprovinzen geliefert haben. "Es laufen Ermittlungen gegen Verantwortliche der Firma", bestätigt ein Sprecher der Staatsanwaltschaft Stuttgart, derzeit werde die Genehmigungslage geprüft. Das Zollkriminalamt wurde ebenfalls eingeschaltet.

spiegel.de