Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night shift at the General Motors plant in Wentzville, Mo., was busy putting together Buick Park Avenues and Oldsmobile Regency 98s when ten policemen quietly entered the factory. Making their way along the assembly line, the officers clapped handcuffs on twelve workers. They had allegedly sold cocaine, hashish, marijuana and LSD with an estimated street value of $250,000 to two young undercover agents who had been hired by GM to pose as assembly-line workers...
...cars and vans converged on their remote oil-pumping station in Piru, Calif., and discharged a cordon of private security officers and drug-sniffing dogs to search the grounds. No drugs were found, but six workers were later suspended when urine tests demanded by the company showed traces of marijuana. The six were reinstated only after they agreed to submit to urinalysis regularly in the future...
...self-proclaimed "money-hungry" freshmen say they failed to make it past the first telephone interview. One admits that she had never taken any drugs other than alcohol and marijuana, and was rejected outright. The other claims to have experimented with several hard drugs, and was told, "I'm sorry, but we're looking for people with considerable experience in one area...
Nixon, 57, who sits in Biloxi as chief judge of the Southern District of Mississippi, was accused of accepting lucrative oil and gas royalties in return for helping persuade state authorities to drop marijuana-smuggling charges against his friend's son. The jury in Hattiesburg, where the case was transferred, found the judge innocent of accepting an illegal gift and of one perjury charge, but guilty of lying to a grand jury when he denied having anything to do with the drug case or discussing it with the prosecuting attorney. Nixon faces a maximum ten-year prison sentence...
Coleman worked with Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann who then headed the department's criminal division on formulating drug enforcement policy. Heymannn was in favor of "decriminalizing the marijuana laws" because he felt the department was devoting too much money to "arrest and prosecute small drug peddlers," says Coleman...