Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...girl who had been caught breaking school rules by smoking in the lavatory. The girl denied she had been smoking in the lavatory or that she ever smoked. Choplick figured that the contents of her purse would show whether she was lying. They did. The purse contained cigarettes, marijuana and some notes suggesting that she was selling pot to other students. Choplick called the police...
...continued some work on behalf of the organization as First Lady. Yet for the past two years, that cause has been eclipsed by a more aggressive, hard-edged campaign intended to discourage drug use among young people. Her advisers encouraged the shift in emphasis: speaking out against marijuana and narcotics use in the schools, they felt, would have greater urgency and political appeal. The serious-minded displays of the First Lady's social consciousness have been shaped mainly by Rosebush and Wrobleski as part of an overall effort to make her appear more caring, less frivolous. The timing and destinations...
...apparently unaware that such devices are little more than short-range radio transmitters whose signals can sometimes be picked up by ordinary radio receivers. During the next month, the police say, they recorded more than 100 hours of incriminating conversations by DeLaurier about the sale of cocaine and marijuana. Then they arrested DeLaurier, his wife and 22 other people on drug charges. DeLaurier objected to the use of the tapes, and his trial has been postponed pending the outcome of an appeal to the Rhode Island Supreme Court. DeLaurier argues that the monitoring of his phone was an illegal invasion...
...useful nowadays in Bogotá. U.S. and Colombian authorities believe the bombing was the work not of leftist, anti-U.S. terrorists, but of a powerful Colombian drug mafia intent on discouraging recent efforts by the two governments to curb the country's multibillion-dollar cocaine and marijuana industry. In response to a U.S.-Colombian move to extradite 78 Colombian dealers to face charges in the U.S., unnamed drug barons three weeks ago threatened to kill five Americans for every Colombian extradited. Colombian police believe that the prime target of last week's attack was U.S. Ambassador Lewis...
Meanwhile, Colombia confiscated 33.5 tons of cocaine in the first eight months of this year, an amount worth $7 billion at the retail level and representing nearly a third of estimated U.S. consumption of the drug. Authorities have also burned 1,953 tons of marijuana, arrested 2,648 presumed drug traffickers, closed down 147 cocaine laboratories and grounded 173 planes used to carry drugs...