Arjan Roskam was arrested yesterday at the Green House Coffeeshop in Amsterdam during the High Times Cannabis Cup. Roskam is a long-time supporter of the event. His company, Green House Seeds, has won many Cups over the years for best marijuana strains.

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The youngest child of reggae legend Bob Marley will spend seven years on probation for growing marijuana in her Philadelphia-area home.

A Chester County judge offered 29-year-old Makeda Jahnesta Marley a choice: a shorter prison term or a long stint on probation. She opted for the latter and risks being jailed if she violates her probation terms.

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The irony of the occasion would surely not have been lost on John Lennon.

The site of the Beatle's infamous 1968 drugs bust, 34 Montagu Place in Marylebone, London, is now marked as a site of cultural importance, another important stopping-off point for any Beatles fan who wants to see all the places in Liverpool, London and elsewhere in the UK where the famous four truly became fab.

The building, whose basement flat has a rather remarkable amount of history attached, now sports a shiny blue plaque from English Heritage, proclaiming Lennon's residency there in 1968 with his partner Yoko Ono.

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Proposition 19, the California initiative that would legalize marijuana, got a boost Thursday from several Hollywood celebrities who announced they were throwing their support behind the measure.

Rock singer Melissa Etheridge joined actors Danny Glover and Hal Sparks, former LAPD Deputy Chief Steve Downing, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and activist Sarah Lovering at a news conference at Cafe Was in Hollywood to announce their support for Proposition 19.

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Rock singer Melissa Etheridge says she used medicinal marijuana while recovering from breast cancer and supports California’s Proposition 19, the November ballot initiative that would legalize pot.

Etheridge said as she underwent chemotherapy she was given a choice of using 10 drugs with various side effects or a "natural solution."

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Keith Richards wants to "road-test" any new drugs that are invented.

The Rolling Stones rocker - who admits to have using numerous illegal substances over the years, including heroin and cocaine - doesn't take drugs anymore, but he would if something new came on the market.

He said: "I've given up everything now - which is a trip in itself.

"I'm just waiting for them to invent something more interesting, ha ha. I'm all ready to road-test it, when they do."

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A Houston rapper and his brother were caught with more than $4 million worth of marijuana late Thursday, according to investigators with the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office.
Bernard Theriot, 36, was busted at his home in the 4500 block of Creek Point Lane in Missouri City.
Bryan Theriot, also known as Tow Down, was arrested at his home in the 3400 block of Chambers Circle.
Undercover officers with the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office raided Bernard Theriot's home and said they found 850 plants weighing about 5,000 pounds.
"Water pumps, timers, artificial lighting equipment. The entire second story of the house had been professionally constructed by plumbers and electricians," said Rodney Glendening with the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office.
The pot plants were being grown on the second story of the house which was "specially designed to manufacture the marijuana," according to investigators.
Bernard and Bryan Theriot are being held without bond on charges of possession and delivery of marijuana.
Bryan Theriot is also charged with possession of cocaine and hydrocodone.
Tow Down and his brother were arrested in 2008 for allegedly growing pot inside a home in Sienna Plantation.
"There's no fear and there's no respect," said Glendening.
That time, the pot was at Bryan's house.
"He had an elaborate large-scale operation in his house. It was the entire second floor of his residence," said Glendening. "What they merely did was move it from one house to his brother's house."
Both brothers were out on bond on the 2008 charges when they were busted again in 2010

A veteran CBS Radio News correspondent was arrested early Saturday on drug charges after police searched his Northwest Washington home and found marijuana plants growing in his yard, police said.

Officers arrested Howard Arenstein, 60, and his wife, Orly Katz, 57, at their home in the 3500 block of T Street and charged them with possession with intent to distribute marijuana, police said.

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