Take note Jimmy Choo. Mexican drug smugglers may have come up with the latest trend in shoe design. After U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents on patrol in New Mexico noticed "discrepancies on the sandy desert landscape," they discovered seven men, in possession of 215 pounds of marijuana valued at $172,000, attempting to illegally sneak into the country.

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A single joint smoked by Amir Varick Amma cost him an additional 5 years in prison, and taxpayers roughly $250,000.

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An Australian man has gone on trial in Bali charged with drug offences that could see him jailed for up to 20 years.

Perth man Robert Paul McJannett, 48, was arrested at Denpasar airport on December 28 last year, after 1.7 grams of marijuana allegedly was found in his luggage.

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The larger of the two seizures occurred at World Trade Bridge when CBP officers processed a 1997 International tractor hauling a 1997 Trailmobile trailer driven by a 36-year-old Mexican national from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico carrying a commercial shipment of auto parts. CBP officers referred the manifested shipment of 20 cartons of auto parts for an X-ray scan that resulted in an anomaly detected within the trailer. A closer inspection of the trailer led CBP officers to the discovery of 362 bundles of marijuana co-mingled with the shipment. The bulk load of marijuana weighed a total of 10,661 pounds and is valued at $10.6 million.

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10 tausend Büsche von Cannabis, 150 kg getrocknete Pflanzen-und 40 kg pro kg Pakete bereit, die Drogen verkaufen Polizei fand in einem kleinen Dorf in der Nähe von Posen.

Die Polizei sagte, die Wunde ist die größte Cannabis-Plantage in Polen unter dem Dach.

Das Gebäude, das speziell für diese Art der Landwirtschaft, eine Fläche von etwa 1000 Quadratmetern gesichert 10 tausend Büsche von Cannabis in verschiedenen Stadien der Entwicklung angepasst werden - vom Setzling bis zur 1,5 Meter hohen Sträuchern.

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Wie eine englische Zeitung meldet, versucht die Drogenfahndung der Nordenglischen Grafschaft Lancashire, Marihuana-Anbauern durch ungewöhnliche Einkäufe in Baumärkten auf die Schliche zu kommen. Wer zum Beispiel große Mengen Dünger im Winter kauft, muss dort künftig mit Polizeibesuch rechnen.

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Die Richter sahen es als erwiesen an, dass der Kneipenbesitzer gegen Drogengesetze verstoßen hat. Das Gericht legte eine eher symbolische Haftstrafe von 16 Wochen fest, die gleich mit der Untersuchungshaft verrechnet wurde.

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Even in this freewheeling land of tolerated soft drugs, the Checkpoint marijuana bar went too far. A Dutch judge fined it euro 10 million ($13.34 million) on Thursday for overstepping the rarely enforced limit on how much weed can be held in stock, in what as seen as a test case in a growing effort to rein in drug tourism.

At the height of its popularity, the euphemistically called "coffee shop" in the southern town of Terneuzen close to the Belgian border sold drugs to 3,000 people a day - many of them crossing specifically to buy marijuana and hashish.

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