Outgoing Philippine National Police (PNP) Region 8 director Chief Supt. Rey L. Lañada, prior to his turnover of the Police Region Office 8 reign to incoming PNP regional director Chief Supt. Arnold R. Revilla, turned over anew to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) another 111.5 bricks of suspected cocaine during rites for the drugs held at Camp Ruperto Kangleon, Palo, Leyte on August 4, 2010.

mb.com.ph

He's been at the center of the discussions and controversies surrounding illegal immigration enforcement in Arizona for quite a while.

On the day parts of Arizona's immigration law, SB 1070, went into effect, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is in the news for another reason: there's a price on his head - allegedly offered by a Mexican drug cartel.

The audio message in Spanish is a bit garbled, but the text is clear.

It's offering $1 million for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's head and $10,000 for anyone who wants to join the Mexican cartel.

myfoxphoenix.com

Wer über Mexikos Drogenmafia berichtet, lebt gefährlich: Journalisten werden bedroht, entführt, ermordet. Die Kartelle wollen auch die Öffentlichkeit kontrollieren. Aus Angst haben einige lokale Medien ihre Berichterstattung eingestellt. Wer nicht spurt, muss mit dem Schlimmsten rechnen.

Hamburg - Valentín Valdés wurde gefoltert. Er wurde misshandelt, weil er über die Verbrechen der Drogenhändler berichtete. Mit zusammengebundenen Beinen fand die Polizei seine Leiche in einem Motel, mehrmals war auf Valdés geschossen worden. Neben seinem Körper lag ein Zettel: "Dies wird denen passieren, die nicht verstehen. Diese Botschaft ist für alle."

spiegel.de

Powerful drug cartels are increasingly using gruesome videos of executions and interrogations to intimidate their rivals, police and an already terrified public in Mexico's vicious drug war.

The drug gangs, battling for control of lucrative smuggling routes into the United States, have long attached handwritten notes to victims they dump in public as a way to scare rival gangs and pesky state officials.

reuters.com

Ah, the Tea Party: Righteous in its condemnation of government largess. Resolute in its opposition of taxes and president Obama. Representative of the silent majority. Heavily divided when it comes to ... pot smoking.

That's right: While the right-leaning Tea Party might seem unified in its rejection of centrism in the GOP and in its embrace of the rural Republican (a la Palin), the Atlantic's Chris Good argued Wednesday that marijuana is the one issue that could split this bunch.

laweekly.com

An unlikely coalition that includes student activists, police officers, and a former Reagan associate deputy attorney general has launched a national campaign to mobilize 2010 and 2012 voters in support of marijuana legalization.

The "Just Say Now" campaign -- a joint effort between the Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and the progressive blog Firedoglake -- aims to end what they describe as the federal government's failed war on marijuana.

"It's a moral issue," Jane Hamsher, founder of Firedoglake, said in a conference call yesterday. "It's been a policy failure at every level."

firstread.msnbc.msn.com

The California Legislative Analyst's Office's recently published critique of Proposition 19, the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010, provides needed clarity to the ongoing debate regarding marijuana policy and offers a swift rebuttal to the doomsday scenarios touted by many of the measure's opponents.

According to the Legislative Analyst's Office, the immediate effect of the measure would be to allow adults age 21 and older to possess and grow limited amounts of marijuana in the privacy of their own home. The agency estimates that halting the prosecution of these minor marijuana offenses would save state and local governments "several tens of millions of dollars annually," and enable law enforcement to reprioritize resources toward other criminal activities.

mercurynews.com

Unter Berücksichtigung der Zeitzonen wird sie zukünftig immer ab 16:19 MESZ (mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit) eingetrommelt und um 16:20 mit einem dafür speziell komponierten Sound untermalt. Ein oktavanaloger THC-Gong eröffnet die Ceremony und zur meditativen THC-Schwingung werden gleichzeitig Bilder unserer Lieblingspflanze gezeigt.

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