Marijuana cultivation in Mexico increased 35 percent in 2008 and continues to grow, even as authorities there push forward with a large offensive against drug cartels that smuggle the product into the United States, according to a State Department report released this week.

The 2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), is a yearly report that assess anti-drug efforts around the world. The part of the report dealing with Mexico is illuminating because most of the illegal drugs in the United States are transported and smuggled through there.

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Scotland is the drug crime capital of the world, according to a United Nations report.

The study found Scottish junkies and dealers committed more offences per head of population that any other nation.

Scotland was top with 656 drug offences per 100,000 - followed by Iran with 619, Spain (573) and the U.S. (497).

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Täter klauen nur die Triebe

Nach gründlicher Recherche gehen die Ermittler davon aus, dass in Oberode keine Pflanzenliebhaber am Werk waren. Der oder die Täter haben es auf die jungen Triebe der Hortensien abgesehen, um sie wahrscheinlich zu trocknen und zu rauchen.

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Triebtäter im Blumenbeet [2004]
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Since 1974 HIGH TIMES has been tracking strains and prices at home and abroad. While the magazine has changed a great deal since the mid-‘70s, THMQ has remained a constant and become the source of information on the marijuana market. This was possible thanks to the thousands of readers over the years who’ve sent us the straight dope about their local smoke. Now it’s time to kick back, light up, and enjoy a very special THMQ featuring 35 years of pot in America (condensed).

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DENVER Inside the green neon sign, which is shaped like a marijuana leaf, is a red cross. The cross serves the fiction that most transactions in the store -- which is what it really is -- involve medicine.

washingtonpost.com

Meddy Willemsen ist wegen Drogenhandels und Mitgliedschaft in einer kriminellen Vereinigung angeklagt, weil er deutlich mehr Cannabis in seinen Räumen lagerte statt der staatlich erlaubten 500 Gramm.

Im Juni 2007 und im Mai 2008 hatte die Polizei in seinem Coffee-Shop "Checkpoint" und angrenzenden Gebäuden insgesamt 230 Kilogramm Cannabis gefunden. Der Prozess müsse die Frage klären, ob damit die Grundlagen der staatlichen Toleranzpolitik verletzt worden seien, sagte Staatsanwältin Saskia Meeuwis zum Prozessauftakt im südniederländischen Middelburg.

dnews.de

Police Chief Carmen Smith says he knows three things about suspected drug trafficker Artemio Corona: He's from Mexico, prefers a Glock .40-caliber handgun, and is quite possibly growing marijuana on the Indian reservation that Mr. Smith patrols.

Last year, Mr. Smith's detectives identified Mr. Corona as the alleged mastermind behind several large marijuana plantations on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in central Oregon. These "grows," as police call them, had a harvest of 12,000 adult plants, with an estimated street value of $10 million. Five suspects were arrested and pleaded guilty to federal trafficking charges. But their alleged boss, Mr. Corona, who has not been indicted, remains a "person of interest" to federal authorities and hasn't been found.

wsj.com