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New Way Found Nebraska Agrees To Enhance Medical Marijuana To Allow Pro- Effects Of Body's Resolution Now In Marijuana License Own Marijuana Florida Legislature Plates Ex-NYPD Detective: Police Plant Drugs On Innocent People news, views, rumor and humor. Edited by Steve Elliott By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ in News Comments (15) Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 12:07 pm Send tips to Follow Toke Subscribe to Toke of the of the Town our RSS Town on Twitter feed Share 25 retweet Like 652 10 StumbleUpon 458 digg Former NYPD Detective Testifies That Police Regularly Plant Drugs On Most...

Innocent People To Meet Arrest Recent Viewed Commented Quotas Tell City Council: Don't Ban Medical Marijuana In Los Angeles... Some members of the Los Angeles City Council want to ban A former NYPD narcotics detective testified on medical marijuana patients' cooperatives and collectives outright. Here's how you can tell the L.A. City Council to live up to the Wednesday that he regularly saw police plant promises they made to legal patients and the community over the years.... drugs on innocent people as a way to meet arrest New Database Can Identify Marijuana Strains Through quotas. Stephen Anderson is testifying under DNA... !A new marijuana DNA database can tell if a particular batch of cooperation with prosecutors after he was busted cannabis is one of more than 25 types that have been genetically mapped by a forensic botanist in Connecticut. This DNA analysis is for planting cocaine on four men in a bar in meant to benefit cops and federal agents, not cannabis patients or breeders.... Queens. Petition Circulating To Legalize Marijuana In Missouri... A petition now circulating in Missouri would place a constitutional hating it magazine amendment on the November 2012 ballot to legalize marijuana for "It was something I was seeing a lot of, whether it people 21 and older. The "Show-Me Cannabis Initiative" calls for a repeal of marijuana prohibition in the state.... was from supervisors or undercovers and even investigators," Anderson said. Dutch To Find Illegal Cannabis Plots From Space Via Satellite... !With the coming to power of a right-wing government, the Anderson worked in the Queens and Brooklyn South narcotics squads and was called to the stand at Detective Netherlands is less and less cool about cannabis. Dutch police and local governments plan to work with the European Space Agency to Jason Arbeeny's bench trial to show that illegal conduct such as planting drugs on innocent people wasn't find illegal marijuana plots hidden in fields of corn and asparagus by using satellite data.... limited to a single squad, reports John Marzuli at Rude Bwoy Blog. Two Years Tokin': Toke of the Town Born On This Day In 2009... !Two years ago today -- actually two years ago tonight, at 7:08 p.m. - !"One of the consequences of the is that - fingers trembling with excitement, I hit the "Post" button for the police officers are pressured to make large numbers of first-ever story on Toke of the Town. ... arrests, and it's easy for some of the less honest cops to plant evidence on innocent people," said gabriel sayegh of the Alliance. "The drug war inevitably leads to Categories crooked policing -- and quotas further incentivize such Culture (632) practices." Dispensaries (568) Global (258) The NYPD has also come under heat for arresting more Growing (305) than 50,000 people last year for low-level marijuana Legislation (836) offenses -- 86 percent of whom are black and Latino -- making marijuana possession the number one offense in Medical (824) the city. News (1618) RudeBwoy Blog Products (228) Former NYPD narcotics detective Stephen Anderson: "It was something I was seeing a lot of" Most of these arrests are the result of illegal searches by the NYPD, as part of its controversial stop-and-frisk practices. Marijuana was decriminalized in New York state in 1977 -- and that law is still on the books. Smoking Archive marijuana in public or having marijuana visible in public, however, remains a crime. By month

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If a person pulls marijuana from their pocket or bag, it is CelebStoner then "open to public view." The police then arrest the Chronic City Archives OPN News person. gabriel sayegh, : "The drug war inevitably The Daily Smoker leads to crooked policing" Da Sticky Icky Last month, in a rare admission of NYPD wrongdoing, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly ordered all officers to Dope Smoker: Celebrating Cannabis stop charging people with misdemeanor marijuana violations based on improper searches. The new policy DoseNation comes on the heels of a 2011 report released by DPA highlighting the enormous costs of marijuana arrests in Drug Policy Alliance Network New York and a public pressure campaign by advocacy groups and elected officials. Drug War Chronicles Drug War Facts "Whether the issue is planting drugs (like this instance) or falsely charging people for having marijuana in public Drug WarRant view (as is the case with the majority of marijuana arrests in NYC) the drug war corrupts police, ruins lives, and destroys trust between law enforcement and the communities that they serve," sayegh (who uses all lower-case Erowid: Humans and Psychoactives letters in his name) said. Firedoglake Hail Mary Jane Tags: dirty cops, new york city, nypd Hemp.org Hemp Beach TV More links from around the web! High: The True Tale of American Marijuana High Times HowsItGoinEh.com: A Compassionate Online Community Just Say Now Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) Like and 5 others liked this. 2 Add New Comment Marijuana: The Forbidden Medicine Matt Mernagh: Marijuana Activism in Canada Logout Norma Jean Almodovar MikeCann.net 2 comments 12 likes received Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Narco Polo: Defending Recreational Drug Use National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) No More Drug War NORML Blog November Coalition Post as Norma Jean Almodovar Outlaw Anodyne: A Blog On Drugs Pencil Method: Medical Marijuana News Showing 15 comments The Pothead Pundit Sort by Oldest first Reality Catcher

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