Holmes, 28, set up three foil-lined tents each containing marijuana plants cultivated under a battery of halogen lamps.

The powerful lights sent the temperature in his home soaring to more than 100°F (38°C), an inquest heard.

thesun.co.uk

Flucht aus dem Drogengefängnis: In Vietnam haben fast 600 Rauschgiftabhängige das Sicherheitspersonal einer Entzugseinrichtung überwältigt und das Reha-Zentrum verlassen. Nach 400 von ihnen wird noch immer gesucht.

spiegel.de

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers (CBP) at the Lukeville port of entry have seized over $5 million worth of marijuana totaling almost 600 pounds since Friday from failed drug smuggling attempts.

borderfirereport.net

Mexican police have detained a woman said to be the wife of drug trafficker Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, in the government's latest push to track down the country's most wanted man.

Griselda Lopez and one of Guzman's daughters were taken into custody after a raid by police and soldiers on a house in Guzman's home state of Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico on Wednesday, Riodoce, a Sinaloan newspaper, said on its website.

Mexican law enforcement said anti-drug units searched seven homes seizing safes, jewels and luxury cars in the Sinaloan capital of Culiacan on Wednesday.

reuters.com

Hundreds of police and federal agents raided a public housing complex Tuesday and arrested more than three dozen people allegedly involved in selling an estimated $65 million worth of drugs.

Authorities rounded up 39 of the 70 suspects being sought for being in a gang that sold heroin, crack, cocaine, marijuana and prescription drugs to people in the northern coastal city of Carolina and nearby areas, police said.

policelink.monster.com

Garri R. wollte angeblich heilen - doch seine Drogentherapie brachte zwei Menschen den Tod. Jetzt verurteilte das Berliner Landgericht den 51-jährigen Arzt zu einer Haftstrafe von vier Jahren und neun Monaten. Als Mediziner darf er in Deutschland nie wieder praktizieren.

Seit sieben Monaten sitzt Garri R. in Untersuchungshaft, in den vergangenen acht Wochen musste er sich wegen Körperverletzung mit Todesfolge sowie fünffacher Körperverletzung vor dem Berliner Landgericht verantworten

spiegel.de

The Brooks County Sheriff's Department has a marijuana problem. They've got 200,000 pounds of pot, and they're complaining that it would be too expensive to destroy it.

"This is a problem that doesn't seem to be going away and anything we can get to help us to dispose of these cases once they're done and to get ready for the next one that are coming in would be a great help," said Deputy Daniel Davila.

whyprohibition.ca

A firebomb was tossed through the front door of a medical-marijuana shop early today as the Billings, Mont., City Council gets set to vote on a moratorium on the rapidly growing business, the Billings Gazette reports.

The words "Not In Our Town" were spray-painted on the windows of the building housing the Montana Therapeutics store, the newspaper says.

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